Of course, you wouldn't of heard of either of those two unless they were successful.
If they wound up two underemployed software engineers, or some such fate, they would not be the exception to the rule/statistical measure.
Probably because some people like to be burned, thereby offering a counterexample to the assumed improbability that people like being burned, in the offered theory "People don't like being burned". The premise states the improbability of something occuring.
There are many websites which would disprove your theory. Google it, and have your wallet ready.
I would think that it may be more a scene of sociability. Some people like to be out and about, at the coffee shop, with the wifi, with the cell phone, with the $5 coffee, looking nice, adult, studious, and sophisticated.
I mean, how cool is it to be reading myspace/lj on a shiny new wireless HP (or apple) at the coffee shop?
It's the same reason that malls are clogged with kids during the summer/weekends. Who the hell else has 6 or 8 hrs straight to kill at a coffee shop, much less on the internet?
I highly recommend the Logitech MX 700. In actuality, I don't know if they make it any longer, so it may involve an Ebay search, as it did for me. Long story short, it is an excellent mouse. Unfortunately, the rechargable base is the only device which will accept the mouse signal, so my Logitech DiNovo (non bluetooth) will not detect the mouse. Mind you, I had to buy the mouse seperately, but it was well worth it, I assure. Besides, too many damn buttons on the MX 1000. The MX 700 looks great, is comfortable, long battery life, is wireless, optical, and works well.
Thank (instert diety's name) for having the common sense enought to point out, although it should go without saying, that this is the purpose regarding the institution we know as the federal government.
Even better is the careful caps and bold emphasis on the most important point of why we shouldn't have such programs, it is in no way to the benefit of the population at large, it is a way to garner support from a body of voters who are so damn scared out of their wits about getting attacked by the "terrorists" that they will sell you(anyone) and your grandmother to the FBI for saying that you don't like the current administration.
Thank you, parent poster, for having the insight I've been searching/. for, for quite some time now.
Perhaps then, you should teach your children about the two earths, the "flat" one, and the "round" one. There are people who still beleive that the earth is flat, and many people who believe the earth is round.
Or, perhaps you should teach them about the earth as the center of the galaxy or even the universe, or the sun as the center of the galaxy. I mean, there have been people who have believed both.
Just because there are oppposing/differing viewpoints mean that both are equally informed. There are people who believe that the great Satan is the master of the universe. Will you teach your children that as well? Should we teach that in the schools?
Schools are not designed to teach every parents version of morality and truth. Just FYI.
I would imagine that there is at least a small element of internal "organizations" operating underground, in some capacity. It may give those attempting to subvert governmental information filtration a greater ability to do so, or at least a faster way to do so.
Of course, I don't know many particulars of the technologies limiting access and their thresholds/backdoors. I would think that if there are going to be active monitors, as the population needing monitoring increases, so to would the number of monitors, and inside the monitoring group would be at least a small percentage of those believing that information should be more accessible then it currently is.
Absolutely, for the eye candy effect. What kind of OS worth it's salt has blocky icons, bland non neon colors, and defaults without silly happy alert sounds, dragons, penguins (WHAT??!!), and devils? Not my OS.
Oh wait, yes it does, I use win2k/SuSe. I atcually like Win2k because it doesn't cause blindness on bootup. Now, there is no grassy knoll, but it's nice "cornflower blue" default background isn't painful to look at.
Maybe no one has told MS that pirated software, at least in impoverished/less affluent countries is still of benenfit to them. Here's why:
If people are generally dependent upon MS software for their computing needs, whether it be home, office, data center, whatever, the number of people using MS are that many people not using other products. Market share, in some ways, may be far more important than revenue, at least in the long run.
Name brand familitarity is worth more then operability, at least from a consumer standpoint.
"Barbie would also be tired of Microsoft's licensing bullshit," he added.
I love a quote like this, especially from a tech guru at a major corporation. Please tell me this article is not a mock.
Maybe I should get a job at mattel. Thanks for the link.
If I didn't laugh at this, I would mod it +1 interesting.
How many young girls might be in the market to buy a computer, if for nothing else then to IM, and either wouldn't care, or wouldn't know, the difference between eye candy windows or eye candy linux. They might just be the only demographic to judge a disto based on it's "cuteness" factor.
And I promise that this is not a shameless ploy to make linux geeks attractive in the eyes of 16+ yr old girls. It would be interesting to see linux take a larger market share through the efforts of promoting itself to high school/college age chicks.
Ah, so my first assumption was correct. I remember seeing w00t! on CS back in 2000 or so, and just assumed it was an expression i.e. 3 knife kills in a row = w00t!!
Thank you for the clarification. Of course, it was a few years before I found out where AYB came from. Ugg, I am behind, sometimes.
OMG, I didn't actually know that w00t stood for something, I thought it was just a thing to say (or type). Man, I haven't been paying enought attention to Counter Strike lately.
Stranger then that, an MS page was actually helpful for something. lolzzz11!!
Well, I think that this issue falls a bit short of "total anonymity", as it is not guaranteed, as you put it, "always, everywhere, all the stinking time". I think that the framers of the constitution have put it more eloquently.
But, since you don't mind such an idea, I suppose that you may not disagree to an individual tracking tag on your ear? It's just to make sure that you are, as you put it, "...innocent, no problem.", and not doing anything illegal.
And, I suppose that you will not mind having a security camera, able to detect every band including thermal infrared, aimed at your house, your windows, and back yard, just to make sure that you aren't doing anything illegal.
I think the concern here is the "potential" for abuses. Just because you are not doing anything illegal today, doesn't mean that the same thing won't be illegal tomorrow, and when it is, luckily your DNA will be on account.
Hey, great mirror, worked like a charm, and the movie looks.....interesting. Could they have hired a lead female role without a lisp, or someone other then the comic book store manager pony tail guy? Or (and this is a stretch) attractive actors? Carrie Fisher is past her prime, but assuredly "there is another".
I would imagine it would be similar to Hyundai presenting a car called the "Civil", and having it look remarkably like the Honda Civic. So at the '06 auto shows we would see that all new "Hyundai Civil", sitting on a platform next to the "Honda Civic".
IANAL, but I believe there is something, both ethically and legally wrong, about creating a product which looks similar to the competition, when the competition's bread and butter is the appearance of the product. This ethic does not pertain to the Chrysler/Dodge/Mitsubishi cars of the 80's and 90's (different situation).
I don't know, however, how characteristic a product must look to be granted some level of protection. My KDS monitor could have a Gateway logo on it, I wouldn't know the difference.
Well, it sort of depends on what you mean by "primary systems". Do you mean target acquisition systems, communication systems, supply/order systems, personnel requsition systmes,etc.
There are many disparate systems at work, not only in the USAF, but every service. I was a communications/comp systems guy in the Navy, and worked with a system, using terminals that ran SCO Unix. We had Novell servers in charge of the supply system, we had windows 3.1 on some machines.
Now that was about 5 years ago, and the systems were old then, but not every box in the DOD runs Win2k, and assuredly not WinXp. The testing involved to bring a new patch online is rigorous at least, and very time consuming at best.
As a caveat to all this, I am still in, and we work with the Air Guard (very similar to the USAF). Not every machine is windows, I will assure you of that.
Hmmmm, base camping at work?
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...approach their work in fundamentally different ways than non-gaming workers.
Yeah, my non-gaming coworkers don't use words like n00b and h4x0r in the workplace. Similarly, I'm the only one who says that my coworkers are "camping" by the water cooler.
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Only on/. could this be modded informative. Whoever modded this informative, you're must be new here.
Yes, and early Israelites made a transatlantic voyage all the way to upstate NY, leaving the tablets for someone to find, many thousands of years later, being translated by Joseph Smith, in a language completely foreign to anyone in the region, and the tablets never to be found again.
Any religion that dictates it's morals to it's members (no freedom of choice), baptises the already deceased (obviously without concent), send it's young out to seek new members (at the "elder's" expense), and claims that the earth is only 5000 years old. Yeah, snake oil.
Unless you weren't being serious in that last sentence.
Well, please bear in mind that I'm not a mormon, and quite far removed from Utah (NY actually, close to Palmyra), and only have info from a friend that is mormon.
I was told that there is a massiah(?) or prophet, who is elected by a 13 member committee, to take the traditional leadership role of Joseph Smith.
I was in Utah about a year ago, visiting this friend. We saw some polygamists in a sushi resturant, who she quietly pointed out as such. We went to a state park, and I saw a van driven by one older man, many women who dressed similarly, and young girls wearing dresses over jeans.
I just thought it was odd, her pointing out the polygamists, as though they were wrong, when she belongs to a religion that many others would point at as being a snake oil organization. My concern is when members of any religion, in which a fundamental schism has occured, point fingers and say who is wrong and who is right. When you say "...the faction of sixteen people that moved to Tennessee had just as much validity..." don't both groups feel valid in their "adherence" to protocol/fundamentalism?
Yes, but don't these "breakoff" groups say that the LDS chuch violates some of the doctrines of Mormonism? Doesn't it become a finger pointing match between who is and isn't abiding by the "rules"?
Yes, but so are automoblie manufacturers. The similarity being that in order to use the product, you must (supposedly) submit to local/state/federal guidlines when using the product purchase/leased/rented. Also similar to gun ownership.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, if Bill Gates says it's safe to surf with IE, it's safe to surf with IE!
Now, do you want to surf or fight?
Of course, you wouldn't of heard of either of those two unless they were successful.
If they wound up two underemployed software engineers, or some such fate, they would not be the exception to the rule/statistical measure.
Probably because some people like to be burned, thereby offering a counterexample to the assumed improbability that people like being burned, in the offered theory "People don't like being burned". The premise states the improbability of something occuring.
There are many websites which would disprove your theory. Google it, and have your wallet ready.
I would think that it may be more a scene of sociability. Some people like to be out and about, at the coffee shop, with the wifi, with the cell phone, with the $5 coffee, looking nice, adult, studious, and sophisticated.
I mean, how cool is it to be reading myspace/lj on a shiny new wireless HP (or apple) at the coffee shop?
It's the same reason that malls are clogged with kids during the summer/weekends. Who the hell else has 6 or 8 hrs straight to kill at a coffee shop, much less on the internet?
And no, I'm not new here.
I highly recommend the Logitech MX 700. In actuality, I don't know if they make it any longer, so it may involve an Ebay search, as it did for me. Long story short, it is an excellent mouse. Unfortunately, the rechargable base is the only device which will accept the mouse signal, so my Logitech DiNovo (non bluetooth) will not detect the mouse. Mind you, I had to buy the mouse seperately, but it was well worth it, I assure. Besides, too many damn buttons on the MX 1000. The MX 700 looks great, is comfortable, long battery life, is wireless, optical, and works well.
THE PEOPLE DON'T WANT IT
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Thank (instert diety's name) for having the common sense enought to point out, although it should go without saying, that this is the purpose regarding the institution we know as the federal government.
Even better is the careful caps and bold emphasis on the most important point of why we shouldn't have such programs, it is in no way to the benefit of the population at large, it is a way to garner support from a body of voters who are so damn scared out of their wits about getting attacked by the "terrorists" that they will sell you(anyone) and your grandmother to the FBI for saying that you don't like the current administration.
Thank you, parent poster, for having the insight I've been searching
Perhaps then, you should teach your children about the two earths, the "flat" one, and the "round" one. There are people who still beleive that the earth is flat, and many people who believe the earth is round.
Or, perhaps you should teach them about the earth as the center of the galaxy or even the universe, or the sun as the center of the galaxy. I mean, there have been people who have believed both.
Just because there are oppposing/differing viewpoints mean that both are equally informed. There are people who believe that the great Satan is the master of the universe. Will you teach your children that as well? Should we teach that in the schools?
Schools are not designed to teach every parents version of morality and truth. Just FYI.
I would imagine that there is at least a small element of internal "organizations" operating underground, in some capacity. It may give those attempting to subvert governmental information filtration a greater ability to do so, or at least a faster way to do so.
Of course, I don't know many particulars of the technologies limiting access and their thresholds/backdoors. I would think that if there are going to be active monitors, as the population needing monitoring increases, so to would the number of monitors, and inside the monitoring group would be at least a small percentage of those believing that information should be more accessible then it currently is.
Absolutely, for the eye candy effect. What kind of OS worth it's salt has blocky icons, bland non neon colors, and defaults without silly happy alert sounds, dragons, penguins (WHAT??!!), and devils? Not my OS.
Oh wait, yes it does, I use win2k/SuSe. I atcually like Win2k because it doesn't cause blindness on bootup. Now, there is no grassy knoll, but it's nice "cornflower blue" default background isn't painful to look at.
Strange, I remember hearing that cry directed toward another George, with a "W", and were suddenly ignored.
Maybe no one has told MS that pirated software, at least in impoverished/less affluent countries is still of benenfit to them. Here's why:
If people are generally dependent upon MS software for their computing needs, whether it be home, office, data center, whatever, the number of people using MS are that many people not using other products. Market share, in some ways, may be far more important than revenue, at least in the long run.
Name brand familitarity is worth more then operability, at least from a consumer standpoint.
"Barbie would also be tired of Microsoft's licensing bullshit," he added.
I love a quote like this, especially from a tech guru at a major corporation. Please tell me this article is not a mock.
Maybe I should get a job at mattel. Thanks for the link.
If I didn't laugh at this, I would mod it +1 interesting.
How many young girls might be in the market to buy a computer, if for nothing else then to IM, and either wouldn't care, or wouldn't know, the difference between eye candy windows or eye candy linux. They might just be the only demographic to judge a disto based on it's "cuteness" factor.
And I promise that this is not a shameless ploy to make linux geeks attractive in the eyes of 16+ yr old girls. It would be interesting to see linux take a larger market share through the efforts of promoting itself to high school/college age chicks.
Ah, so my first assumption was correct. I remember seeing w00t! on CS back in 2000 or so, and just assumed it was an expression i.e. 3 knife kills in a row = w00t!!
Thank you for the clarification. Of course, it was a few years before I found out where AYB came from. Ugg, I am behind, sometimes.
OMG, I didn't actually know that w00t stood for something, I thought it was just a thing to say (or type). Man, I haven't been paying enought attention to Counter Strike lately.
Stranger then that, an MS page was actually helpful for something. lolzzz11!!
Well, I think that this issue falls a bit short of "total anonymity", as it is not guaranteed, as you put it, "always, everywhere, all the stinking time". I think that the framers of the constitution have put it more eloquently.
But, since you don't mind such an idea, I suppose that you may not disagree to an individual tracking tag on your ear? It's just to make sure that you are, as you put it, "...innocent, no problem.", and not doing anything illegal.
And, I suppose that you will not mind having a security camera, able to detect every band including thermal infrared, aimed at your house, your windows, and back yard, just to make sure that you aren't doing anything illegal.
I think the concern here is the "potential" for abuses. Just because you are not doing anything illegal today, doesn't mean that the same thing won't be illegal tomorrow, and when it is, luckily your DNA will be on account.
Hey, great mirror, worked like a charm, and the movie looks.....interesting. Could they have hired a lead female role without a lisp, or someone other then the comic book store manager pony tail guy? Or (and this is a stretch) attractive actors? Carrie Fisher is past her prime, but assuredly "there is another".
I would imagine it would be similar to Hyundai presenting a car called the "Civil", and having it look remarkably like the Honda Civic. So at the '06 auto shows we would see that all new "Hyundai Civil", sitting on a platform next to the "Honda Civic".
IANAL, but I believe there is something, both ethically and legally wrong, about creating a product which looks similar to the competition, when the competition's bread and butter is the appearance of the product. This ethic does not pertain to the Chrysler/Dodge/Mitsubishi cars of the 80's and 90's (different situation).
I don't know, however, how characteristic a product must look to be granted some level of protection. My KDS monitor could have a Gateway logo on it, I wouldn't know the difference.
Well, it sort of depends on what you mean by "primary systems". Do you mean target acquisition systems, communication systems, supply/order systems, personnel requsition systmes,etc.
There are many disparate systems at work, not only in the USAF, but every service. I was a communications/comp systems guy in the Navy, and worked with a system, using terminals that ran SCO Unix. We had Novell servers in charge of the supply system, we had windows 3.1 on some machines.
Now that was about 5 years ago, and the systems were old then, but not every box in the DOD runs Win2k, and assuredly not WinXp. The testing involved to bring a new patch online is rigorous at least, and very time consuming at best.
As a caveat to all this, I am still in, and we work with the Air Guard (very similar to the USAF). Not every machine is windows, I will assure you of that.
...approach their work in fundamentally different ways than non-gaming workers.
Yeah, my non-gaming coworkers don't use words like n00b and h4x0r in the workplace. Similarly, I'm the only one who says that my coworkers are "camping" by the water cooler.
Only on /. could this be modded informative. Whoever modded this informative, you're must be new here.
Yes, and early Israelites made a transatlantic voyage all the way to upstate NY, leaving the tablets for someone to find, many thousands of years later, being translated by Joseph Smith, in a language completely foreign to anyone in the region, and the tablets never to be found again.
Any religion that dictates it's morals to it's members (no freedom of choice), baptises the already deceased (obviously without concent), send it's young out to seek new members (at the "elder's" expense), and claims that the earth is only 5000 years old. Yeah, snake oil.
Unless you weren't being serious in that last sentence.
Well, please bear in mind that I'm not a mormon, and quite far removed from Utah (NY actually, close to Palmyra), and only have info from a friend that is mormon.
I was told that there is a massiah(?) or prophet, who is elected by a 13 member committee, to take the traditional leadership role of Joseph Smith.
I was in Utah about a year ago, visiting this friend. We saw some polygamists in a sushi resturant, who she quietly pointed out as such. We went to a state park, and I saw a van driven by one older man, many women who dressed similarly, and young girls wearing dresses over jeans.
I just thought it was odd, her pointing out the polygamists, as though they were wrong, when she belongs to a religion that many others would point at as being a snake oil organization. My concern is when members of any religion, in which a fundamental schism has occured, point fingers and say who is wrong and who is right. When you say "...the faction of sixteen people that moved to Tennessee had just as much validity..." don't both groups feel valid in their "adherence" to protocol/fundamentalism?
Yes, but don't these "breakoff" groups say that the LDS chuch violates some of the doctrines of Mormonism? Doesn't it become a finger pointing match between who is and isn't abiding by the "rules"?
Yes, but so are automoblie manufacturers. The similarity being that in order to use the product, you must (supposedly) submit to local/state/federal guidlines when using the product purchase/leased/rented. Also similar to gun ownership.