Am I the only person who has noticed that while computers claim to get faster, software seems to get slower?
I recall seeing amazing programs running in 16k of RAM on a 2Mhz Z80. What happened to the brilliant software designers of that era? They're sure not working on today's platforms.
I tend to believe that the drive for more memory and faster CPUs is primarily the result of the decline of quality software development. Moore's law is only of interest as long as the current crop of developers use hardware as an excuse to be lazy and uncreative.
If software ingenuity progressed anywhere near the rate of hardware, we would have infallible voice and character recognition, true A.I. and the concept of computer crashes and security problems would be a thing of the past. These goals are absolutely nowhere less practical than the hardware predictions of Moore. So what happened? Monopolization in the software arena wiped out innovation? And isn't this really why we need faster computers? And do we really need faster computers? I don't think so. We need better software.
This is a classic example of what may be a valuable application without an accessible interface. You may have some good ideas but the initial presentation of the system and its value and functionality is somewhat uncertain. You can have the best idea in the world, but if you can't present this idea in what's typically coined as an "elevator pitch" you will fail.
I hit the site. I couldn't tell what to do. I generally like the idea of ranking and sharing bookmarks but I couldn't tell how your technology or system had anything to do with it.
Someone else will come along. Maybe with a less capable system, but with a better way of translating and explaining the value of such an application and they will trump you. Sometimes if you're too engrossed into the technical details you can screw yourself over. Either you will adapt quickly, or someone else will take your idea and make it more marketable, but what I see right now won't work.
After reading all this it seems that Slashdot and Ziff Davis have been punked by a sleazy group trying to hawk "Linux litigation insurance" by spreading FUD over MS's encroaching patent processes. The actual patent is nothing like IPv6 in the first place.
Since the Utah Attorney General is in charge of making up this restricted site list, it's obviously a big cover to allow him to surf porn sites on company time.
Maybe the governor wants to save bandwidth for drug company spam? After all, Utah has the highest consumption of Prozac among its populace in the entire nation. I'm sure all that net porn is obviously to blame, but I can't imagine with so many ADHD kids in the state that they could even sit still long enough to download porn.
I don't understand why anyone in this community really cares that much about this mess in the first place. Since the iPod and other popular players support non-DRM formats like MP3, there's really no reason to give a damn. I don't use Apple's goofy formats or any other DRM-enabled format. I don't use iTunes music store. Most of the best music is freely available from independent bands that aren't whores for Clear Channel.
If I want to buy music, I buy the physical CD, which is still a better deal than using iTunes and I get a higher quality product with more content and less restrictions. I can rip the CD to non-DRM formats and bypass all this BS. So why should anybody really care? It seems like a no-brainer to merely avoid proprietary and restrictive technologies in the first place. iTunes isn't worth the effort to crack if you ask me.
Scrabble is a registered trademark owned in the United States and Canada by Hasbro, Inc., and in Great Britain and everywhere else in the world, by J.W. Spear & Sons PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel.
Selchow & Righter, listed as the US owner on many of your boards, was bought -- in good health -- in 1986 by Coleco, which shortly went into bankruptcy due to the collapse of the market for their Cabbage Patch dolls. Coleco also led itself to bankruptcy in 1987 by losing a fortune on the Adam home computer flop, and the unexpected (to them) slowdown in Trivial Pursuit sales. (Trivial Pursuit was marketed in the US by Selchow & Righter). Scrabble was sold off to Milton Bradley, which was in turn gobbled up by Hasbro. Hasbro since has transferred Scrabble to its Parker Brothers division, itself a fierce Milton Bradley competitor before its absorption.
In North America, Hasbro needs it to appear that the public thinks that the term Scrabble refers to any game or related product Hasbro cares to label that way, while the popular board game is "Scrabble Crossword Game." Most people -- including Hasbro's own publication before their lawyers clamped down -- use the term Scrabble to refer to the game itself. To most, it is "the crossword game Scrabble" (although the "crossword game" part is far from almost everyone's mind), rather than "the Scrabble Crossword Game."
The magazine Financial World (July 8, 1996, p. 65) estimated the value of the Scrabble brand to Hasbro as $76 million, and 1995 sales under that brand at $39 million.
Before eBay, there was a contingent of lonely, fat housewives and weirdos that collected tons of goofy, worthless crap that nobody cared or knew about. After eBay, this contingent of social malcontents has found a place on the net where they can let their obsessive pathology run wild. If you don't believe me, look at eBay's forums and see all the ADD/bipolar people complaining their their treasure hunt game is rigged. If you think Slashdotters are antisocial nerds, you have no idea... eBay locals make AOL people look like the M.I.T. graduation class.
Remember folks, this is the site that gave us the virgin mary grilled cheese sandwich. Of course it's populated by a bunch of loonies who are desperately looking to get their 15 minutes of fame and move out of their trailers. Why is Slashdot giving these people any publicity? Every other day someone is threatening a class action against eBay because they got negative feedback over the 18-century electric can opener they sold being claimed as bogus.
I post a message on areas of my site before switching into SSL mode that explains that the error message is indicative that I didn't pay into the "SSL Mafia" who want to extort money from me, not because I'm less secure, but because I won't pay them. It works well.
Get OpenSSL and roll your own, any time, any platform... always been that way... and this is news? Some script-kiddy-turned-public-relations-director figured this out? Good for j00. As for everyone else, nothing to see here that we don't already know.
You can have it both ways. If I know slashdotters, many would purchase the DVD (I know two people who did after getting the torrent that would have never seen the movie in the first place). I wasn't necessarily assuming it wasn't meant to be widely distributed anyway, since the torrent links are from a site prominently featured on Noam Chomsky's official web site, and he is a substantive part of the movie.
Besides, it would be hypocritical of me to not put the torrent links up, given the suject matter.
Consumers have a choice. They don't have to buy products that are engineered to prematurely become unuseable. Slashdot ran a similar story not too long ago about Monsanto offering seeds that were only useable for crops for a single season. If you want to become a subscriber/minion for a corporation, then you patronize their shit and their controlling schemes. Or you don't.
I urge EVERYONE to make sure they see the movie The Corporation and everything is put in proper perspective. (Torrent 1, Torrent 2.)
This doesn't seem to be the first time that there is no version number change for Firefox, yet there appears to be different versions with differences, identified as v1.0. What gives? Is there a way of upgrading? Or do you just re-install the lastest (same) version?
You've made your point well. I tend to agree with you and previously it wasn't obvious to me. Google has acted very responsibly in their efforts, but they continue to garner more market share. Who is to say that if they are controlled by some corporate interest they may not fundamentally change their approach? This is definitely an issue worth considering.
As a shareholder of eBay it occurred to me the other day that Google could theoretically leverage their dominance online to encroach into the auction marketplace. I found this to be a scary proposition. I hope that Google recognizes that in the long run it is best for them to focus on specific areas and not do what other corporations have done, which is leverage their market share to break into new areas, whore themselves out, and shut down competition. So far Google hasn't really done this, but I agree you are right in being skeptical.
Gates: Once someone has purchased Windows they don't bring me any turnover again for a while. I only again earn something when I convince the customer that my product has become much better and more exciting and that its new acquisition is worth the cost.
Or you could simply announce you're no longer supporting the product, application or platform and force the customer to upgrade in order to obtain the seemingly never-ending array of bug fixes...
SPIEGEL: In a few hours a Windows virus can travel across the world like an epidemic...
Gates:... above all because of our global popularity.
Huh?
Unix is the dominant OS for most servers on the Internet, not Windows. Apache is the most popular web server globally. How come viruses aren't spreading via these mediums? Hey Bill, press F1 and see if you get a clue.
Let's make a decision and then wait and see whether it's socially-acceptable, and if not, get rid of it. That will make the world a better place.
Then again, maybe this story is for the secret agents spread across the planet who check Slashdot for the latest tech advancements they can use in their job...
Why is this tripe getting green-lighted on Slashdot?
I've said for years that this was going on. After all, most things you find on IRC are really MIT experimental Bots created to research human interaction and psychology. How else could you explain the utter lack of intelligence on most IRC servers?
Do an IPwhois on the players and see what country they're from. Then it should be obvious.
I'm not bothered by this. I never had any faith in ICANN in the first place. They seem to be good for nothing except taking expensive vacations.
More importantly than the crap ICANN spews is your choice of a registrar. At least once a month, I end up in a wrestling match over a client-domain that is being held hostage by a fly-by-night, cheapie registrar. The latest happened about two weeks ago where this dumbass registrar decided to deactivate domains a month before they were set to expire if they weren't renewed. ICANN has done nothing to crack down on unethical registrar behavior. They're good for NOTHING.
Choose a solid registrar that has a good track record. My choice is Dotster, but even NSI is better than most of the crap registrars out there. Friends don't let friends get held hostage by $4.95 domain registrars.
Why does he even need to be replaced? Save some taxpayer money and don't fill the job. After all, he eradicated all crime and terror. By his own admission: 'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.'
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Am I the only person who has noticed that while computers claim to get faster, software seems to get slower?
I recall seeing amazing programs running in 16k of RAM on a 2Mhz Z80. What happened to the brilliant software designers of that era? They're sure not working on today's platforms.
I tend to believe that the drive for more memory and faster CPUs is primarily the result of the decline of quality software development. Moore's law is only of interest as long as the current crop of developers use hardware as an excuse to be lazy and uncreative.
If software ingenuity progressed anywhere near the rate of hardware, we would have infallible voice and character recognition, true A.I. and the concept of computer crashes and security problems would be a thing of the past. These goals are absolutely nowhere less practical than the hardware predictions of Moore. So what happened? Monopolization in the software arena wiped out innovation? And isn't this really why we need faster computers? And do we really need faster computers? I don't think so. We need better software.
This is a classic example of what may be a valuable application without an accessible interface. You may have some good ideas but the initial presentation of the system and its value and functionality is somewhat uncertain. You can have the best idea in the world, but if you can't present this idea in what's typically coined as an "elevator pitch" you will fail.
I hit the site. I couldn't tell what to do. I generally like the idea of ranking and sharing bookmarks but I couldn't tell how your technology or system had anything to do with it.
Someone else will come along. Maybe with a less capable system, but with a better way of translating and explaining the value of such an application and they will trump you. Sometimes if you're too engrossed into the technical details you can screw yourself over. Either you will adapt quickly, or someone else will take your idea and make it more marketable, but what I see right now won't work.
After reading all this it seems that Slashdot and Ziff Davis have been punked by a sleazy group trying to hawk "Linux litigation insurance" by spreading FUD over MS's encroaching patent processes. The actual patent is nothing like IPv6 in the first place.
yes, I believe the figures mainly apply to children.. Utah has the highest rate of children on these types of drugs.
Since the Utah Attorney General is in charge of making up this restricted site list, it's obviously a big cover to allow him to surf porn sites on company time.
Maybe the governor wants to save bandwidth for drug company spam? After all, Utah has the highest consumption of Prozac among its populace in the entire nation. I'm sure all that net porn is obviously to blame, but I can't imagine with so many ADHD kids in the state that they could even sit still long enough to download porn.
I don't understand why anyone in this community really cares that much about this mess in the first place. Since the iPod and other popular players support non-DRM formats like MP3, there's really no reason to give a damn. I don't use Apple's goofy formats or any other DRM-enabled format. I don't use iTunes music store. Most of the best music is freely available from independent bands that aren't whores for Clear Channel.
If I want to buy music, I buy the physical CD, which is still a better deal than using iTunes and I get a higher quality product with more content and less restrictions. I can rip the CD to non-DRM formats and bypass all this BS. So why should anybody really care? It seems like a no-brainer to merely avoid proprietary and restrictive technologies in the first place. iTunes isn't worth the effort to crack if you ask me.
Scrabble is a registered trademark owned in the United States and Canada by Hasbro, Inc., and in Great Britain and everywhere else in the world, by J.W. Spear & Sons PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel.
Selchow & Righter, listed as the US owner on many of your boards, was bought -- in good health -- in 1986 by Coleco, which shortly went into bankruptcy due to the collapse of the market for their Cabbage Patch dolls. Coleco also led itself to bankruptcy in 1987 by losing a fortune on the Adam home computer flop, and the unexpected (to them) slowdown in Trivial Pursuit sales. (Trivial Pursuit was marketed in the US by Selchow & Righter). Scrabble was sold off to Milton Bradley, which was in turn gobbled up by Hasbro. Hasbro since has transferred Scrabble to its Parker Brothers division, itself a fierce Milton Bradley competitor before its absorption.
In North America, Hasbro needs it to appear that the public thinks that the term Scrabble refers to any game or related product Hasbro cares to label that way, while the popular board game is "Scrabble Crossword Game." Most people -- including Hasbro's own publication before their lawyers clamped down -- use the term Scrabble to refer to the game itself. To most, it is "the crossword game Scrabble" (although the "crossword game" part is far from almost everyone's mind), rather than "the Scrabble Crossword Game."
The magazine Financial World (July 8, 1996, p. 65) estimated the value of the Scrabble brand to Hasbro as $76 million, and 1995 sales under that brand at $39 million.
Before eBay, there was a contingent of lonely, fat housewives and weirdos that collected tons of goofy, worthless crap that nobody cared or knew about. After eBay, this contingent of social malcontents has found a place on the net where they can let their obsessive pathology run wild. If you don't believe me, look at eBay's forums and see all the ADD/bipolar people complaining their their treasure hunt game is rigged. If you think Slashdotters are antisocial nerds, you have no idea... eBay locals make AOL people look like the M.I.T. graduation class.
Remember folks, this is the site that gave us the virgin mary grilled cheese sandwich. Of course it's populated by a bunch of loonies who are desperately looking to get their 15 minutes of fame and move out of their trailers. Why is Slashdot giving these people any publicity? Every other day someone is threatening a class action against eBay because they got negative feedback over the 18-century electric can opener they sold being claimed as bogus.
Troll...
On a side note, the CBS web site is sponsored by WalMartFacts.com. Surely another sign of the of "liberal media" right?
I post a message on areas of my site before switching into SSL mode that explains that the error message is indicative that I didn't pay into the "SSL Mafia" who want to extort money from me, not because I'm less secure, but because I won't pay them. It works well.
Score another major issue that was instigated by the New Media (bloggers).
Get OpenSSL and roll your own, any time, any platform... always been that way... and this is news? Some script-kiddy-turned-public-relations-director figured this out? Good for j00. As for everyone else, nothing to see here that we don't already know.
You can have it both ways. If I know slashdotters, many would purchase the DVD (I know two people who did after getting the torrent that would have never seen the movie in the first place). I wasn't necessarily assuming it wasn't meant to be widely distributed anyway, since the torrent links are from a site prominently featured on Noam Chomsky's official web site, and he is a substantive part of the movie.
Besides, it would be hypocritical of me to not put the torrent links up, given the suject matter.
Consumers have a choice. They don't have to buy products that are engineered to prematurely become unuseable. Slashdot ran a similar story not too long ago about Monsanto offering seeds that were only useable for crops for a single season. If you want to become a subscriber/minion for a corporation, then you patronize their shit and their controlling schemes. Or you don't.
I urge EVERYONE to make sure they see the movie The Corporation and everything is put in proper perspective. (Torrent 1, Torrent 2.)
This doesn't seem to be the first time that there is no version number change for Firefox, yet there appears to be different versions with differences, identified as v1.0. What gives? Is there a way of upgrading? Or do you just re-install the lastest (same) version?
You've made your point well. I tend to agree with you and previously it wasn't obvious to me. Google has acted very responsibly in their efforts, but they continue to garner more market share. Who is to say that if they are controlled by some corporate interest they may not fundamentally change their approach? This is definitely an issue worth considering.
As a shareholder of eBay it occurred to me the other day that Google could theoretically leverage their dominance online to encroach into the auction marketplace. I found this to be a scary proposition. I hope that Google recognizes that in the long run it is best for them to focus on specific areas and not do what other corporations have done, which is leverage their market share to break into new areas, whore themselves out, and shut down competition. So far Google hasn't really done this, but I agree you are right in being skeptical.
Why do bears shit in the woods...
./ get greenlighted...
Why did GW Bush invade Iraq...
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Gates: Once someone has purchased Windows they don't bring me any turnover again for a while. I only again earn something when I convince the customer that my product has become much better and more exciting and that its new acquisition is worth the cost.
Or you could simply announce you're no longer supporting the product, application or platform and force the customer to upgrade in order to obtain the seemingly never-ending array of bug fixes...
Huh?
Unix is the dominant OS for most servers on the Internet, not Windows. Apache is the most popular web server globally. How come viruses aren't spreading via these mediums? Hey Bill, press F1 and see if you get a clue.
I can't wait.
What's next? How about disposable pets?
Let's make a decision and then wait and see whether it's socially-acceptable, and if not, get rid of it. That will make the world a better place.
Then again, maybe this story is for the secret agents spread across the planet who check Slashdot for the latest tech advancements they can use in their job...
Why is this tripe getting green-lighted on Slashdot?
Bots don't write tell-all books when they're fired for questioning the lunacy of their boss's agenda.
I've said for years that this was going on. After all, most things you find on IRC are really MIT experimental Bots created to research human interaction and psychology. How else could you explain the utter lack of intelligence on most IRC servers?
Do an IPwhois on the players and see what country they're from. Then it should be obvious.
I'm not bothered by this. I never had any faith in ICANN in the first place. They seem to be good for nothing except taking expensive vacations.
More importantly than the crap ICANN spews is your choice of a registrar. At least once a month, I end up in a wrestling match over a client-domain that is being held hostage by a fly-by-night, cheapie registrar. The latest happened about two weeks ago where this dumbass registrar decided to deactivate domains a month before they were set to expire if they weren't renewed. ICANN has done nothing to crack down on unethical registrar behavior. They're good for NOTHING.
Choose a solid registrar that has a good track record. My choice is Dotster, but even NSI is better than most of the crap registrars out there. Friends don't let friends get held hostage by $4.95 domain registrars.
Why does he even need to be replaced? Save some taxpayer money and don't fill the job. After all, he eradicated all crime and terror. By his own admission: 'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.'