...and San Francisco, plus its East Bay and Peninsula neighbors...
Not to be nitpicky, but I happen to live in Berkeley (clearly east bay neighbor) and after trying the app on my iPhone I can tell you there's no 3D here.
The last couple of companies I've worked in, have made the decision to allow us -employees- to admin. our PCs.
We are mostly semi-senior developers: we have the knowledge to make our computers perform their best, and we know what we want -and need- from them. No one else -not even support dept.- can know what service, application or tool is best for us and, being highly trained, we're the best admins. these computers could have.
-- For instance, even though we need to use Windows XP, no one uses IE --
And last (but definetely not least), this is what we *do*. Most of us could hack through the security policies if they were there. I don't think that having over a hundreed skilled developers trying to bring down your security infrastructure is the best way to go.
Whenever I start my own company (that's right, I still like to daydream), I'll make sure I hire talented, trustworthy people, and grant them admin. rights of their PCs.
PS: Note that admin. of PCs != network admin. Everyone here should appreciate the difference
Even though I agree with you, there's one thing I'd just like to add. Quoting the article: "Importing the generic drug from India will save $30 million this year and $236.8 million by 2012" May be the drug was overpriced, but $30M/year is NOTHING for a country's budget. I'm posting this comment from Argentina, and even though our economy is much weaker than Brazil's, $30M is nothing when balanced with how much more the country wastes every year. I am thinking this was more of a political decision than anything else. Brazilians support the decision, and so the Presidency gains popularity. Still, I do agree with everything you said. It'd be nice to see some cheap drugs coming from the big pharmaceutical companies. Either way they're deffinitely gonna be selling them for many years to come.
Ok, may be I'm missing something, but wouldn't a simple shut down get rid of this 'feature'?
And before you tell me how you can't shut it down without the apropriate password: Unplug / get rid of the battery. If you're stealing the notebook, why would you mind turning it off? After all, there'll be plenty of time back home to retrive the data.
In fact, a lot of effort seems to be put in stopping our regular Joe from counterfeiting hard currency. They have taken action against small time counterfeiters through this method or the hexagon (or was it a pentagon) that's printed in every 20 Dollars bill.
But the really big counterfitter, the one that's printing millions of dollars every month doesn't use HP's Laserjet. Come on guys, do you really think they're printing currency in a small time printer?
Government should be after big-time counterfiters, those settled in Colombia or North Korea. Those guys actually influence US economy.
Not John Doe who amuzes himself printing 5 bucks in his HP printer to brag with his friends.
I'd defintely use a product like this. But I'm not sure whether the software company developing it could be held responsable.
Let me explain myself. Above all, IANAL. But something that always puzzles me is the enphasys put in someone reading the EULA. I mean, sometimes, they actually make you scroll the EULA all the way to the bottom before letting you click the "I Accept" botton.
Again, I'm not a lawyer, but if so much effort is put by the Soft. companies in the fact that you read the EULA, must be to save their asses.
Why is it that by default, the focus is in the "I do NOT Accept"? So that you don't click it automatically. Why not? So that if you ever want to complain about the EULA, the soft company can argue they did everything in their power to stop you from accepting without reading it first.
What happens if you have some program like this installed? Will they be as protected as when you read it through (scroll down)? Will you be able to argue: "I didn't know you were selling my email address!"
I'm not sure, so this isn't an authoritative comment, these are just my thoughts.
Come on guys. I know most of you hate Wal-Mart. But this article isn't about how they pay low salaries, make employees work overtime or whatever your complaints are.
Let's for once be glad a move was made in the direction we want. Even if it's WalMart. If this works out, and WalMart isn't all too greedy to keep all the aditional profit to themselves, well, then prices should go down to the end customer.
I'm not trying to be a troll, but I actually like the idea of having a prosco site around here.
After all, they won't be the first to release a news portal defending their brand (see Microsft, above all), and it really can't hurt to have a little more on the other side of the story.
Well, I mean, maybe some of you slashdotters go around and read your news in several different forumbs, but I myself just stick to slashdot, Groklaw, and a few other completely Anti-SCO sites.
Sure, I can read the press releases when reported on their site, but the in depth coverage of the SCO trial, well, I follow it through Groklaw.
So, having a little more light on what Darl is saying, directly from his website, well, it really doesn't hurt anyone. At least it shouldn't, if we are so right and he is so wrong, and everything he says can be so quickly dismissed.
I'm confident hi's a dick, but I'd like a little more argument than the "I read it on an Anti-SCO site". I'd like to say: "I read his site and it's clear what a liar he is."
Only that it's the other way araund. Big companies sack the Open Source Community, ridicolously pateting things like double click, Autorun, or who know what the USPTO might bring us in the near future.
These companies are the real bandits, taking advantage of our lack of resources against their legion of lawyers...
Well, I guess this is what the whole point of the study is.
But anyway, even if you don't buy Gartner's arguments. Let me tell you mine:
I work at a major distributor right here, in Argentina (Latin America, i.e. "emerging markets").
We have an agreement with SuSE to sell their products, and study our clients behaviour close-up. Let me tell you, Gartner's statements are simply true. Most of our clients, buy their PC with Linux only to get it striped to installed their pirated Windows.
Windows SE isn't being commercialized around here (yet), but when it is, it won't make any difference either. You can get a pirated version of Windows for about $3, and being an "emerging economy", no one is willing to spare that much money in whatever version of Windows Microsoft is trying to sell.
I'm just repeiting my client's thoughts. This study definitely describes their behaviour, and the 80% number isn't that far off.
"How can a private group raise the money for a mission like this? I would think the cost would easily be in the hundreds of millions of dollars range, maybe the billion dollar range."
Please! RTFA!
It'll cost 10 million euros! Not a penny less, not a penny more.
I don't remember the exact current exchange, but I think that should be a little over 12 million US. Dollars.
"No private organization has even been to the moon, and NASA is going pretty great lengths to ensure they understand all effects and implications from staying in space a very long time."
Be careful, this has nothing to do with staying is space for a long time. They aren't sending a human, living, person.
I agree, it'll be hard to classify each and every PC so that it'll fit within a Level.
However, I can already feel the basic idea being implemented, mostly among notebooks. Take a Sony Bio: That's a high level PC, even though there are many flavours of the same Model.
I for example own a Toshiba Tecra 8000. My notebook, at the time, was being sold with different hard drive's sizes, memories, etc, but all were sold under the same Model: Tecra 8000.
In a scale of 1-10, probably all Tecra 8000 would have fit under a PC Level 6.
One last comment about this thread: The one thing I still haven't worked out how vendors could implement is the "degradation" of levels: Say I bought a level 9 in 1998, by now it would probably be a level 3. A Pentium II by then was state-of-art, and now is old stuff.
Ok, there's no point in saying these products are intended for SOHO use. Also, you should buy something according to your needs. Big deal.
I'll talk now from personal experience. I've used the 3Com device mentioned above, as well as a US.Robotics and played enough with a CNet to know what these routers work like.
Right now, I have the 3Com Broadband Router installed with a 512 DSL line, and over 15 people simultaneously using it. (Wirelessly, in fact, through an Access Point)
It works GREAT. It is installed in a small office, with fifteen users, some of them using P2P (some, behind my nose). And yet, it works great.
I am all for the broadband router. Probably you'll get more versatility with a NAT box, and find some features lacking in a router, but if you are a regular Joe trying to get as much people as possible online, the router won't let you down. May be with 253 connections it'll crash, but, talking from personal expirience, with as many as 15, it'll work great.
This service pack has been a complete failure. This is no longer about performance issues or or installation issues.
This a serious bug, and proof of what a poor work Microsoft has done with the Service Pack.
I just remember how Microsoft executives stated (can't find the link, but read it here on slashdot) a bug was never discovered that they didn't know about in beforehand, and wanna laugh. Let's hope this gets some media attention and people start migrating to other OS's. I'm sure the boys at Redmond would do a better job if they thought their product is under serious threat, because this so far is a joke.
First Off... The irony! He was watching Road Trip while driving? What a laugh!
Now, for the real comment: Who cares whether watching the DVD is a crime or not? In fact, as long as people don't get hit or cars get crashed, I couldn't care less what the driver next to me is doing. (However, watching DVDs would probably cause these kinds of accidents, so if they wanted to prohibit it, I'd be glad to hear it.).
I'd be glad to see this kind of driver put away, not because of watching a DVD per se, but for not watching the road. What he did was irresponsible, and someone paid with his life. He is, AFIK, a true criminal.
"This comes mere weeks after Slate recommended Firefox over Internet Explorer"
I don't think the fact Slate trashed IE has anything to do with the sale.
In fact, the article says Slate would still be accessible from the MSN Website, even though they would no longer hold any "property" ties with Microsoft. And what would that accomplish? Slate would be even more content-free than it already is, as it wouldn't depend on Microsoft at all, but it would still have the popularity / visibilty it enjoys being right there, in the MSN Website.
I mean, if Microsoft wanted to silence their editors, they would do anything but loose their power over the magazine. Instead, they are giving them a free ticked to say whatever they want, still enjoying the visibility they have.
I don't know why Microsoft chose to sell the magazine, but it can't be because of their trashing IE.
Just my 2c
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By being able to change from rail to road transit, the dualmode vehicle can go off rail and steer past another vehicle or obstruction on a tramway.
Wwwaaait a second... You can't be serious! You're telling me this bus-train will leave the tracks, get past another train, and the get back on the railroad?
I don't know how railroads are built over there, but where I come from you don't have roads going immediatly on the side of tracks. I mean, most times the tracks were built in the countryside, and have grass and trees all around them..
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...and San Francisco, plus its East Bay and Peninsula neighbors...
Not to be nitpicky, but I happen to live in Berkeley (clearly east bay neighbor) and after trying the app on my iPhone I can tell you there's no 3D here.
Like most slashdotters, I'm in IT.
The last couple of companies I've worked in, have made the decision to allow us -employees- to admin. our PCs. We are mostly semi-senior developers: we have the knowledge to make our computers perform their best, and we know what we want -and need- from them. No one else -not even support dept.- can know what service, application or tool is best for us and, being highly trained, we're the best admins. these computers could have.
-- For instance, even though we need to use Windows XP, no one uses IE --
And last (but definetely not least), this is what we *do*. Most of us could hack through the security policies if they were there. I don't think that having over a hundreed skilled developers trying to bring down your security infrastructure is the best way to go.
Whenever I start my own company (that's right, I still like to daydream), I'll make sure I hire talented, trustworthy people, and grant them admin. rights of their PCs.
PS: Note that admin. of PCs != network admin. Everyone here should appreciate the difference
And in view of Slashdot's 10th Aniversary, let me invite all Argentinians to read politics.slashdot.org..
As the tagline goes: Politics for Nerds. Your vote matters.
Even though I agree with you, there's one thing I'd just like to add. Quoting the article: "Importing the generic drug from India will save $30 million this year and $236.8 million by 2012"
May be the drug was overpriced, but $30M/year is NOTHING for a country's budget. I'm posting this comment from Argentina, and even though our economy is much weaker than Brazil's, $30M is nothing when balanced with how much more the country wastes every year.
I am thinking this was more of a political decision than anything else. Brazilians support the decision, and so the Presidency gains popularity.
Still, I do agree with everything you said. It'd be nice to see some cheap drugs coming from the big pharmaceutical companies. Either way they're deffinitely gonna be selling them for many years to come.
"...the merger, expected to close on July 2, is now valued at only $11 billion..."
Interesting how relative money is. Most days, $11 billion would seem like an awful lot of money to me ;)
Oh my! Are they hiring??
Let me get this straight. There's someone out there whose job is to play until the game runs out of a battery? Is he a lucky bastard or what?!
Sure, sure, go on, tell me he'll be tired someday. Whatever. When that day comes, I'll be the first to send out my resumé ;)
Ok, may be I'm missing something, but wouldn't a simple shut down get rid of this 'feature'?
And before you tell me how you can't shut it down without the apropriate password: Unplug / get rid of the battery. If you're stealing the notebook, why would you mind turning it off? After all, there'll be plenty of time back home to retrive the data.
Shold have been: "Posted by timothy on Saturday November 27, @08:11PM from the patent-system-could-use-some-learning-soft dept."
In fact, a lot of effort seems to be put in stopping our regular Joe from counterfeiting hard currency. They have taken action against small time counterfeiters through this method or the hexagon (or was it a pentagon) that's printed in every 20 Dollars bill.
But the really big counterfitter, the one that's printing millions of dollars every month doesn't use HP's Laserjet. Come on guys, do you really think they're printing currency in a small time printer?
Government should be after big-time counterfiters, those settled in Colombia or North Korea. Those guys actually influence US economy.
Not John Doe who amuzes himself printing 5 bucks in his HP printer to brag with his friends.
Let me explain myself. Above all, IANAL. But something that always puzzles me is the enphasys put in someone reading the EULA. I mean, sometimes, they actually make you scroll the EULA all the way to the bottom before letting you click the "I Accept" botton.
Again, I'm not a lawyer, but if so much effort is put by the Soft. companies in the fact that you read the EULA, must be to save their asses.
Why is it that by default, the focus is in the "I do NOT Accept"? So that you don't click it automatically. Why not? So that if you ever want to complain about the EULA, the soft company can argue they did everything in their power to stop you from accepting without reading it first.
What happens if you have some program like this installed? Will they be as protected as when you read it through (scroll down)? Will you be able to argue: "I didn't know you were selling my email address!"
I'm not sure, so this isn't an authoritative comment, these are just my thoughts.
Come on guys. I know most of you hate Wal-Mart. But this article isn't about how they pay low salaries, make employees work overtime or whatever your complaints are.
Let's for once be glad a move was made in the direction we want. Even if it's WalMart. If this works out, and WalMart isn't all too greedy to keep all the aditional profit to themselves, well, then prices should go down to the end customer.
I for one would like that.
After all, they won't be the first to release a news portal defending their brand (see Microsft, above all), and it really can't hurt to have a little more on the other side of the story.
Well, I mean, maybe some of you slashdotters go around and read your news in several different forumbs, but I myself just stick to slashdot, Groklaw, and a few other completely Anti-SCO sites.
Sure, I can read the press releases when reported on their site, but the in depth coverage of the SCO trial, well, I follow it through Groklaw.
So, having a little more light on what Darl is saying, directly from his website, well, it really doesn't hurt anyone. At least it shouldn't, if we are so right and he is so wrong, and everything he says can be so quickly dismissed.
I'm confident hi's a dick, but I'd like a little more argument than the "I read it on an Anti-SCO site". I'd like to say: "I read his site and it's clear what a liar he is."
Indeed it is the Wild West over here...
Only that it's the other way araund. Big companies sack the Open Source Community, ridicolously pateting things like double click, Autorun, or who know what the USPTO might bring us in the near future.
These companies are the real bandits, taking advantage of our lack of resources against their legion of lawyers...
Of course you should have heard about .
But anyway, this article isn't about him. Someone of our community just passed away, and we mourn him as one of us.
But anyway, even if you don't buy Gartner's arguments. Let me tell you mine:
I work at a major distributor right here, in Argentina (Latin America, i.e. "emerging markets").
We have an agreement with SuSE to sell their products, and study our clients behaviour close-up.
Let me tell you, Gartner's statements are simply true. Most of our clients, buy their PC with Linux only to get it striped to installed their pirated Windows.
Windows SE isn't being commercialized around here (yet), but when it is, it won't make any difference either. You can get a pirated version of Windows for about $3, and being an "emerging economy", no one is willing to spare that much money in whatever version of Windows Microsoft is trying to sell.
I'm just repeiting my client's thoughts. This study definitely describes their behaviour, and the 80% number isn't that far off.
"How can a private group raise the money for a mission like this? I would think the cost would easily be in the hundreds of millions of dollars range, maybe the billion dollar range."
Please! RTFA!
It'll cost 10 million euros! Not a penny less, not a penny more.
I don't remember the exact current exchange, but I think that should be a little over 12 million US. Dollars.
"No private organization has even been to the moon, and NASA is going pretty great lengths to ensure they understand all effects and implications from staying in space a very long time."
Be careful, this has nothing to do with staying is space for a long time. They aren't sending a human, living, person.
It's all right there in google's attempt at translating.
I agree, it'll be hard to classify each and every PC so that it'll fit within a Level.
However, I can already feel the basic idea being implemented, mostly among notebooks. Take a Sony Bio: That's a high level PC, even though there are many flavours of the same Model.
I for example own a Toshiba Tecra 8000. My notebook, at the time, was being sold with different hard drive's sizes, memories, etc, but all were sold under the same Model: Tecra 8000.
In a scale of 1-10, probably all Tecra 8000 would have fit under a PC Level 6.
One last comment about this thread: The one thing I still haven't worked out how vendors could implement is the "degradation" of levels: Say I bought a level 9 in 1998, by now it would probably be a level 3. A Pentium II by then was state-of-art, and now is old stuff.
Ok, there's no point in saying these products are intended for SOHO use. Also, you should buy something according to your needs. Big deal.
I'll talk now from personal experience. I've used the 3Com device mentioned above, as well as a US.Robotics and played enough with a CNet to know what these routers work like.
Right now, I have the 3Com Broadband Router installed with a 512 DSL line, and over 15 people simultaneously using it. (Wirelessly, in fact, through an Access Point)
It works GREAT. It is installed in a small office, with fifteen users, some of them using P2P (some, behind my nose). And yet, it works great.
I am all for the broadband router. Probably you'll get more versatility with a NAT box, and find some features lacking in a router, but if you are a regular Joe trying to get as much people as possible online, the router won't let you down. May be with 253 connections it'll crash, but, talking from personal expirience, with as many as 15, it'll work great.
This service pack has been a complete failure. This is no longer about performance issues or or installation issues.
This a serious bug, and proof of what a poor work Microsoft has done with the Service Pack.
I just remember how Microsoft executives stated (can't find the link, but read it here on slashdot) a bug was never discovered that they didn't know about in beforehand, and wanna laugh.
Let's hope this gets some media attention and people start migrating to other OS's. I'm sure the boys at Redmond would do a better job if they thought their product is under serious threat, because this so far is a joke.
Ok, I'll agree with that. Cheers.
First Off... The irony! He was watching Road Trip while driving? What a laugh!
Now, for the real comment: Who cares whether watching the DVD is a crime or not? In fact, as long as people don't get hit or cars get crashed, I couldn't care less what the driver next to me is doing. (However, watching DVDs would probably cause these kinds of accidents, so if they wanted to prohibit it, I'd be glad to hear it.).
I'd be glad to see this kind of driver put away, not because of watching a DVD per se, but for not watching the road. What he did was irresponsible, and someone paid with his life. He is, AFIK, a true criminal.
...what's the disappointed-of-the-USPTO glare...
Oh, wait, we (my car and me) never expected them to make any sense anyway....
"This comes mere weeks after Slate recommended Firefox over Internet Explorer"
I don't think the fact Slate trashed IE has anything to do with the sale.
In fact, the article says Slate would still be accessible from the MSN Website, even though they would no longer hold any "property" ties with Microsoft. And what would that accomplish? Slate would be even more content-free than it already is, as it wouldn't depend on Microsoft at all, but it would still have the popularity / visibilty it enjoys being right there, in the MSN Website.
I mean, if Microsoft wanted to silence their editors, they would do anything but loose their power over the magazine. Instead, they are giving them a free ticked to say whatever they want, still enjoying the visibility they have.
I don't know why Microsoft chose to sell the magazine, but it can't be because of their trashing IE.
Just my 2c
By being able to change from rail to road transit, the dualmode vehicle can go off rail and steer past another vehicle or obstruction on a tramway.
Wwwaaait a second... You can't be serious! You're telling me this bus-train will leave the tracks, get past another train, and the get back on the railroad?
I don't know how railroads are built over there, but where I come from you don't have roads going immediatly on the side of tracks. I mean, most times the tracks were built in the countryside, and have grass and trees all around them..