Wow. Nifty. I actually looked at the bug report though, and it looks like the issue is a bit deeper than firefox. It looks like it has to do with GTK. While not exactly an excuse for a bug, it at least explains why they haven't fixed it.
You are completely correct. You cannot force a population into revolution. You can promise them aid if they try, and give them incentives, but actually imposing a revolution just doesn't work. And last I checked, there were like 2 billion Chinese, so I'd say that if they really wanted to overthrow their opressive government, they could work something out.
It really is a superior design. I suspect however that it is just slightly too heavy. The winner has a much more streamlined look, while the runner up has softer look.
This is one of the most rediculous statements I've ever heard.
Rediculous is the fact that kids can, and do, have guns, drink booze, smoke cigarettes, and read (and watch) pornography. I did. Just because you SAY they can't do something, doesn't mean they won't. The point of the grandparent poster is actually insightful.
Parents need to parent as though the laws don't work, because they don't.
Sorry, I didn't mean to make this personal, but you stated, quite succinctly, one of the core fallacies with the Linux on Desktop argument. It's easy to use if you know how to use it.
What? So learning how to use something before you're required to use it doesn't make any sense to you? Imagine that same mentality in teaching... Here's the book, kid. Can't you read it? It's simple...
If you think I'm trolling, just reread the parents post. It's either sarcasm or ignorance, and I'm betting on the former.
Yeah really. Asking Slashdot users which Linux to use will produce more results than asking google.
Maybe not. Re-read the question again, and what he's really asking is what makes managers feel warm and fuzzy.
Nothing makes my managers cream in their jeans more than the words "vendor support". That alone is what drives people toward other Operating Systems (Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, Windows).
If my business was just switching to Linux, and they wanted the best, my immediate suggestion would be Redhat. It's been around for years. It's a publically traded company (which says something about it's stability), and it puts together a widely supported and recognized operating system (AS 2.1 and RHEL 3.0). In addition, it's going to run most of the proprietary database software (including Oracle and Sybase), and just about every piece of open source software you might need for running a business is included on the distro CDs.
I've been a Redhat user since 1998. I love RH 7.2, but think every free distribution since then has sucked. Which is why I have begun switching to Gentoo for my desktop. It takes awhile to compile everything, but it seems like it's gotten around dependancy hell.
In general, Redhat for business and critical systems, Gentoo for SA workstations.
Unfortunatly, this solution doesn't work, and only affords a temorary reprieve from spam. I attempted the same thing. The problem is that your email address is on a list that is never *pruned*. It's resold and redistributed again and again, and while your current spammers may have pruned you from their lists, future spammers will check the address and see it as active, and continue spamming.
As an employee for a very large ISP (the one that's dispised), I can say that Linux is going to win this one. Sun has been the primary platform for the last 5 years, and now many of those old 400mhz Sun boxes are coming off lease. Their replacments are all Linux. Why? Simple - It's disposable. The hardware, the software, everything. Once we use it up, we throw it away like a bent paperclip. Sun simply can't compete. For one thing, their prices are still insane (not Apple Hardware insane, but close). Their support, while excellent, is way too expensive. In fact, it's so expensive, that third parties offer discount Sun support. HP does. And third, their hardware underperforms.
Compare that with run of the mill dual proc 3Ghz Intel boxes, which are super fast, cheaper than a used Camry, and abundant. And Linux runs great on them.
Linux has won this contest, and this is Suns attempt at making amends to all those customers they raped for the last 10 years by overcharging for support and hardware.
AOL Broadband is not the same as AOL for Broadband. The difference is that AOL for Broadband is a $15/month service that let's users who already have a broadband connection access higher quality content.
AOL Broadband is AOL's attempt at being a DSL provider. It didn't work out. In fact, ditching it is probably a good thing.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
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But this book doesn't really look all that interesting. When I think about WiFi toys, I don't want common things that might be practical... I want toys. Something I can play with and has virtually no practical application.
For instance, I read awhile back about some guys using one of those cheap robosapiens and a bluetooth module to make a wireless robot controllable from the PC. There's a toy I wouldn't mind reading a step-by-step about.
Maybe a wifi enabled RC car. Or wifi-ing an old palm pilot that downloads slashdot news whenever it detects a wifi signal. This practical crap makes me sick.
I've played MMO's, and I haven't been impressed. I think some of the lingo speaks for itself ('grinding'). The last game I got into was Star Wars Galaxies. While technically the game was very nice, and the gameplay was decent, the game became extremely boring after only a few hours of gameplay.
I've also played games like Zelda, Occarina of Time (a classic), and the newer Zelda, Wind Waker. Both games contained a series of puzzles that needed to be solved before allowing the story to progress. It was this sense of achievement that made the games fun to play.
In MMO's, I have no sense of achievement. Obtaining the next skill level doesn't get me anywhere, it only makes me more powerful.
How will MMO's of the future fill this sense of achievement? Or do you see games progressing more towards the "Life simulator", like the Sims?
At 9 and 10, I already knew more about Macs than most people know now. Talking about computers probably isn't going to interest this class very much. Certainly by 9 and 10, they've started up a computer, connected to the internet, and solved problems their parents couldn't figure out...
That's why I suggest talking about why you're in IT. How it happened. Why you're still doing it. What you like and dislike about IT, and how it's going to change.
Actually, yes. Let's assume that 1 Hour of video compressed is 1GB. 40,000,000 hours worth of video was just confiscated. That's like recording 500 channels, 24 hours a day for 10 years. And 10 years ago, we didn't have 500 channels.
I doubt it was 40 PB. Probably 40 TB.
Consider that at current hard drive capacities, 40 PB would be 160,000 250GB drives. It wasn't 40 PB.
I have a HDTV that I bought in 2002. It has a built in HD receiver, and I thought I would save $500 on a HD receiver by getting this TV. I hooked it up, and it's great.
Now I want to add a tivo. Hmm... No video out from the TV. There's nothing. No RCA, or even COAX outs from this HD receiver. It's all routed internally. Even pulling the back cover off revealed nothing useful to "hack" into.
And now I see HDTV external turners with built in Tivo. Those are really cool, and I'd love to get one, but there's no HDTV inputs on the back of my RCA. Guess the engineers didn't think people would ever be connecting such devices to their HDTVs. I mean WTF?!?
Convergence blows. It basically locks you into something that might be obsolete in a few months (or years, if you're lucky).
I disagree. Poorly written information, or information that is biased will naturally be eliminated as people identify what it is and what purpose it has. The same is true with bloat. No one wants to read 5000 words about a war that last 3 days, when a mere sentance or two will convey the most important aspects. Diane Ravich wrote an excellent book called "The Language Police" about the state of current textbooks, and I thought, while reading it, that an open-source text book might solve many of the problems. Even if proprietary books are used in schools, having an open, unbiased version to compare against makes this a worthy project.
Killing people isn't immoral. We do it all the time. Even the President is responsible for the deaths of people in Texas simply by failing to pardon or commute the death sentance of those on death row.
We also kill people in Iraq. And Afghanistan. And everywhere else.
Don't confuse morality with order. We penalize people for commiting crimes not because it's the right thing to do, but to maintain order in our society.
When we try to do the "right" thing, bad things happen. For example, the LA Riots. It was the right thing to do to let the officers off on this charge, but it was not in the best interest of maintaining order in society. Now compare that example with the situation in Iraq. See a pattern?
Big Brother and Ma Bell in cahoots? Say it's not so!
I'd be willing to bet that after the collosal failure of the FTC site after launch that the FTC sought the hosting services of a more robust entity. AT&T probably said "IT" first.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. Nifty. I actually looked at the bug report though, and it looks like the issue is a bit deeper than firefox. It looks like it has to do with GTK. While not exactly an excuse for a bug, it at least explains why they haven't fixed it.
Rob
Plus 5 funny out of control!
You are completely correct. You cannot force a population into revolution. You can promise them aid if they try, and give them incentives, but actually imposing a revolution just doesn't work. And last I checked, there were like 2 billion Chinese, so I'd say that if they really wanted to overthrow their opressive government, they could work something out.
It really is a superior design. I suspect however that it is just slightly too heavy. The winner has a much more streamlined look, while the runner up has softer look.
Rob
This is one of the most rediculous statements I've ever heard.
Rediculous is the fact that kids can, and do, have guns, drink booze, smoke cigarettes, and read (and watch) pornography. I did. Just because you SAY they can't do something, doesn't mean they won't. The point of the grandparent poster is actually insightful.
Parents need to parent as though the laws don't work, because they don't.
"And, if you are, would it be considered entrapment?"
Entrapment is a legal term used only when the other party is a law enforcement agency, I believe.
Perhaps if the workforce in the US didn't use phrases like "sand monkeys", IT companies wouldn't be so inclined to look for good workers overseas.
Sorry, I didn't mean to make this personal, but you stated, quite succinctly, one of the core fallacies with the Linux on Desktop argument. It's easy to use if you know how to use it.
What? So learning how to use something before you're required to use it doesn't make any sense to you? Imagine that same mentality in teaching... Here's the book, kid. Can't you read it? It's simple...
If you think I'm trolling, just reread the parents post. It's either sarcasm or ignorance, and I'm betting on the former.
Yeah really. Asking Slashdot users which Linux to use will produce more results than asking google.
Maybe not. Re-read the question again, and what he's really asking is what makes managers feel warm and fuzzy.
Nothing makes my managers cream in their jeans more than the words "vendor support". That alone is what drives people toward other Operating Systems (Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, Windows).
If my business was just switching to Linux, and they wanted the best, my immediate suggestion would be Redhat. It's been around for years. It's a publically traded company (which says something about it's stability), and it puts together a widely supported and recognized operating system (AS 2.1 and RHEL 3.0). In addition, it's going to run most of the proprietary database software (including Oracle and Sybase), and just about every piece of open source software you might need for running a business is included on the distro CDs.
I've been a Redhat user since 1998. I love RH 7.2, but think every free distribution since then has sucked. Which is why I have begun switching to Gentoo for my desktop. It takes awhile to compile everything, but it seems like it's gotten around dependancy hell.
In general, Redhat for business and critical systems, Gentoo for SA workstations.
Unfortunatly, this solution doesn't work, and only affords a temorary reprieve from spam. I attempted the same thing. The problem is that your email address is on a list that is never *pruned*. It's resold and redistributed again and again, and while your current spammers may have pruned you from their lists, future spammers will check the address and see it as active, and continue spamming.
Sorry, there's no easy way out of spam.
As an employee for a very large ISP (the one that's dispised), I can say that Linux is going to win this one. Sun has been the primary platform for the last 5 years, and now many of those old 400mhz Sun boxes are coming off lease. Their replacments are all Linux. Why? Simple - It's disposable. The hardware, the software, everything. Once we use it up, we throw it away like a bent paperclip. Sun simply can't compete. For one thing, their prices are still insane (not Apple Hardware insane, but close). Their support, while excellent, is way too expensive. In fact, it's so expensive, that third parties offer discount Sun support. HP does. And third, their hardware underperforms.
Compare that with run of the mill dual proc 3Ghz Intel boxes, which are super fast, cheaper than a used Camry, and abundant. And Linux runs great on them.
Linux has won this contest, and this is Suns attempt at making amends to all those customers they raped for the last 10 years by overcharging for support and hardware.
AOL Broadband is not the same as AOL for Broadband. The difference is that AOL for Broadband is a $15/month service that let's users who already have a broadband connection access higher quality content.
AOL Broadband is AOL's attempt at being a DSL provider. It didn't work out. In fact, ditching it is probably a good thing.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
But this book doesn't really look all that interesting. When I think about WiFi toys, I don't want common things that might be practical... I want toys. Something I can play with and has virtually no practical application.
For instance, I read awhile back about some guys using one of those cheap robosapiens and a bluetooth module to make a wireless robot controllable from the PC. There's a toy I wouldn't mind reading a step-by-step about.
Maybe a wifi enabled RC car. Or wifi-ing an old palm pilot that downloads slashdot news whenever it detects a wifi signal. This practical crap makes me sick.
I've played MMO's, and I haven't been impressed. I think some of the lingo speaks for itself ('grinding'). The last game I got into was Star Wars Galaxies. While technically the game was very nice, and the gameplay was decent, the game became extremely boring after only a few hours of gameplay.
I've also played games like Zelda, Occarina of Time (a classic), and the newer Zelda, Wind Waker. Both games contained a series of puzzles that needed to be solved before allowing the story to progress. It was this sense of achievement that made the games fun to play.
In MMO's, I have no sense of achievement. Obtaining the next skill level doesn't get me anywhere, it only makes me more powerful.
How will MMO's of the future fill this sense of achievement? Or do you see games progressing more towards the "Life simulator", like the Sims?
At 9 and 10, I already knew more about Macs than most people know now. Talking about computers probably isn't going to interest this class very much. Certainly by 9 and 10, they've started up a computer, connected to the internet, and solved problems their parents couldn't figure out...
That's why I suggest talking about why you're in IT. How it happened. Why you're still doing it. What you like and dislike about IT, and how it's going to change.
Actually, yes. Let's assume that 1 Hour of video compressed is 1GB. 40,000,000 hours worth of video was just confiscated. That's like recording 500 channels, 24 hours a day for 10 years. And 10 years ago, we didn't have 500 channels.
I doubt it was 40 PB. Probably 40 TB.
Consider that at current hard drive capacities, 40 PB would be 160,000 250GB drives. It wasn't 40 PB.
I have a HDTV that I bought in 2002. It has a built in HD receiver, and I thought I would save $500 on a HD receiver by getting this TV. I hooked it up, and it's great.
Now I want to add a tivo. Hmm... No video out from the TV. There's nothing. No RCA, or even COAX outs from this HD receiver. It's all routed internally. Even pulling the back cover off revealed nothing useful to "hack" into.
And now I see HDTV external turners with built in Tivo. Those are really cool, and I'd love to get one, but there's no HDTV inputs on the back of my RCA. Guess the engineers didn't think people would ever be connecting such devices to their HDTVs. I mean WTF?!?
Convergence blows. It basically locks you into something that might be obsolete in a few months (or years, if you're lucky).
I disagree. Poorly written information, or information that is biased will naturally be eliminated as people identify what it is and what purpose it has. The same is true with bloat. No one wants to read 5000 words about a war that last 3 days, when a mere sentance or two will convey the most important aspects. Diane Ravich wrote an excellent book called "The Language Police" about the state of current textbooks, and I thought, while reading it, that an open-source text book might solve many of the problems. Even if proprietary books are used in schools, having an open, unbiased version to compare against makes this a worthy project.
Killing people isn't immoral. We do it all the time. Even the President is responsible for the deaths of people in Texas simply by failing to pardon or commute the death sentance of those on death row.
We also kill people in Iraq. And Afghanistan. And everywhere else.
Don't confuse morality with order. We penalize people for commiting crimes not because it's the right thing to do, but to maintain order in our society.
When we try to do the "right" thing, bad things happen. For example, the LA Riots. It was the right thing to do to let the officers off on this charge, but it was not in the best interest of maintaining order in society. Now compare that example with the situation in Iraq. See a pattern?
Big Brother and Ma Bell in cahoots? Say it's not so!
I'd be willing to bet that after the collosal failure of the FTC site after launch that the FTC sought the hosting services of a more robust entity. AT&T probably said "IT" first.