no, no, no, that resulted in a chip on the shoulder not the brain.
Although most people make fun of it....
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...it is one of the logical steps in the integration of technology into our culture. As tech becomes more and more prominent in our lives, we can only expect to see more headlines such as this. The internet has become a useful tool for linking people over vast distances, and such headlines show off the services that this tool can provide (albeit to a rather limited audience in this case.) More and more meetings take place over the internet, e-mail replaces letters home, payments are made online, and now, we are starting to use the internet for our religious needs. Not really that far-fetched when you think about it. I, for one, would not be surprised to see things such as online birthday parties and internet weddings (if they have not already been done.)
....the first step in allowing us linux and BSD users to listen to iTunes shared music. While we can share music (and its well documented) we cannot, to the best of my knowledge, listen to others music without using iTunes. Perhaps if this is doable, somebody can make a hack to allow us to listen to shared music?
While not totally open, Apple is at least willing to share some info on the guts of its products. It has, after all, made significant contibutions to the OSS community (Safari, Darwin, etc.) It is not as open as linux, but at least (no offense) it can be used out of the box. While linux distros gets easier and easier to use every week, Mac OS X has the best combination of open, easy, and stable. While not the choice that I wanted to hear (I would have preferred linux or BSD) I think that for their requirements (low learning curve, does not put its customers under totalitarian rule, stability, etc.) Apple was the best choice.
"but for some reason Slashdotcode don't let me use" "Din't you know that Funny moderation doesn't increase your "Karma"?"
For someone who is a member of Mensa, you would think that you would at least take the time to check your post for grammatical errors...
This is not meant to be a personal attack on you, but rather a fun battle of words, mainly for my entertainment and that of others. You made an excellent point in your inital post, and I can't help but see that you hold a very strong stance on the issue of "+5 Funny" moderation.
...of making my mortage three to four inches larger while working at home for a Nigerian with financial problems who gets paid to take surverys online for a company that would like to pre-apporve me for a no-hassle Platinum card that I can use to pay for tuition at "a major university."
The following comes from http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_w orld/view/68440/1/.html
"Buried in its programming code -- and only readable after it has been decrypted -- was also the message "Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry" from the creator, Hyppoenen said."
I think that this message refers to Andy Nagle, the director of the SCOx project.
A half-baked OS designed by baked designers for consumers in all degrees of...(Crap. Here's where, had my mind worked, I would have inserted another word continuing the pun. Feel free to do so if you can.)
Although I respect Dell, I think that this may be a way of playing dirty. Picture this:
1)A Major computer vendor makes a contract with MS to sell the majority of their systems with Windows. The more systems they sell with Windows the cheaper the copies of Windows get for the vendor. The cheaper the copies of Windows get, the more money they make.
2)The vendor, one day, decides to try to knock it's Open-Source, non-MS loving customers off of their list of problems. They find the worst open-source distro (of anything) that they can find. Not bad enough not to boot the computer, but bad enough not to be feasible for day to day use.
3)They make a deal with MS that they will be able to sell X number of copies at FULL price in return for some sort of favor. MS oblidges and gives permission to the vendor to sell the non-MS systems.
4)The vendor ships low quality systems with a low quality open-source POS distro. Bill Gates chuckles and gets richer.
5) The customers who buy the systems buy them for the price (incredibly low without Windows.) Then they find that they have no easily workable OS. Since they are not enlightened, they only know of two OS's: Windows and Mac OS. Since Mac OS only runs on a Mac, they decide to get Windows.
6) They go back to the computer vendor complaining that they don't have Windows. The vendor says: "Oh, that's OK, I'll fix that." and sells them a copy of XP or 2k at the normal (non-OEM) price. To ensure repeat business, they give you a $15 discount because you just bought from them.
7) The end result? The customer thinks highly of the vendor (for healping him with his problem and giving him a discount.) The customer is dipleased with open-source software in general (because he is told that the "broken" distro he got is representative of the whole open-source world.) The vendor has killed three birds with one stone. The vendor has a good deal with MS, made more money from the customer, and hurt open-source.
Wow. I hope that if Dell is not already doing that, that they don't read/.
Not obviously. I think it's fair to say that, since geeks will be geeks (myself included), anyone with alot of knowledge about Linux probably knows a good bit about Windows. After all, most Linux hackers I know were raised on the Windows platform to begin with. Couple that "base" of knowledge with a general knowledge of computers, a bit of ASM (maybe), and internet access (to read the MS security bulletins), and you have yourself a pool of thousands of Linux/Windows hackers who are capable of such an act.
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An icepick?!?!?! That's the problem then...Ford Prefect told me to use a fish.
Kinda' puts a whole new meaning to the word "uptime", now doesn't it?
no, no, no, that resulted in a chip on the shoulder not the brain.
...it is one of the logical steps in the integration of technology into our culture. As tech becomes more and more prominent in our lives, we can only expect to see more headlines such as this. The internet has become a useful tool for linking people over vast distances, and such headlines show off the services that this tool can provide (albeit to a rather limited audience in this case.) More and more meetings take place over the internet, e-mail replaces letters home, payments are made online, and now, we are starting to use the internet for our religious needs. Not really that far-fetched when you think about it. I, for one, would not be surprised to see things such as online birthday parties and internet weddings (if they have not already been done.)
....the first step in allowing us linux and BSD users to listen to iTunes shared music. While we can share music (and its well documented) we cannot, to the best of my knowledge, listen to others music without using iTunes. Perhaps if this is doable, somebody can make a hack to allow us to listen to shared music?
While not totally open, Apple is at least willing to share some info on the guts of its products. It has, after all, made significant contibutions to the OSS community (Safari, Darwin, etc.) It is not as open as linux, but at least (no offense) it can be used out of the box. While linux distros gets easier and easier to use every week, Mac OS X has the best combination of open, easy, and stable. While not the choice that I wanted to hear (I would have preferred linux or BSD) I think that for their requirements (low learning curve, does not put its customers under totalitarian rule, stability, etc.) Apple was the best choice.
Actually Apple DID have a market share close to the iPod's........
...in about 1989-1991. After that, their dominance started dropping, and fast as MS learned to make Window suck less.
Both pissed and /. 'd
I'll give it up to a whole two months before someone makes a hack to bypass the DRM.
If only I had a funny comment to make first post with...
We fixed that one too....
It would, after all be his second time....
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...do yourself a favor, Billy, and tell Bubba to take it easy the first few times.
"but for some reason Slashdotcode don't let me use"
"Din't you know that Funny moderation doesn't increase your "Karma"?"
For someone who is a member of Mensa, you would think that you would at least take the time to check your post for grammatical errors...
This is not meant to be a personal attack on you, but rather a fun battle of words, mainly for my entertainment and that of others. You made an excellent point in your inital post, and I can't help but see that you hold a very strong stance on the issue of "+5 Funny" moderation.
Respectfully Yours,
maztuhblastah
...of making my mortage three to four inches larger while working at home for a Nigerian with financial problems who gets paid to take surverys online for a company that would like to pre-apporve me for a no-hassle Platinum card that I can use to pay for tuition at "a major university."
Ok, I'm done now...
Ironically, the entire rant aobut unproffessional conduct come from a guy with the name "Pan T. Hose." So original...
Mod me up to +5 Funny if you want to prove him wrong...
As we said, Dell's already years ahead in that department.
...on the same site...
Check out this picture.
Irony strikes again...
It's official, there is no more news in the world. Traffic button status...come on! There has got to be something more interesting then that...
Then again (clicks links to story)
Did the Oracle prophetize these events?
The Oracle did, but Oracle did not.
Yeah, but if you store them in a chip, it's much easier to find them -- provided that you don't lose the chip, of course.
Yeah, but who microwaves chips...I use salsa.
Now spam smell like its true name...
Cheap Viagra.
The following comes fromw orld/view/68440/1/.html
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_
"Buried in its programming code -- and only readable after it has been decrypted -- was also the message "Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry" from the creator, Hyppoenen said."
I think that this message refers to Andy Nagle, the director of the SCOx project.
A half-baked OS designed by baked designers for consumers in all degrees of...(Crap. Here's where, had my mind worked, I would have inserted another word continuing the pun. Feel free to do so if you can.)
Although I respect Dell, I think that this may be a way of playing dirty. Picture this:
/.
1)A Major computer vendor makes a contract with MS to sell the majority of their systems with Windows. The more systems they sell with Windows the cheaper the copies of Windows get for the vendor. The cheaper the copies of Windows get, the more money they make.
2)The vendor, one day, decides to try to knock it's Open-Source, non-MS loving customers off of their list of problems. They find the worst open-source distro (of anything) that they can find. Not bad enough not to boot the computer, but bad enough not to be feasible for day to day use.
3)They make a deal with MS that they will be able to sell X number of copies at FULL price in return for some sort of favor. MS oblidges and gives permission to the vendor to sell the non-MS systems.
4)The vendor ships low quality systems with a low quality open-source POS distro. Bill Gates chuckles and gets richer.
5) The customers who buy the systems buy them for the price (incredibly low without Windows.) Then they find that they have no easily workable OS. Since they are not enlightened, they only know of two OS's: Windows and Mac OS. Since Mac OS only runs on a Mac, they decide to get Windows.
6) They go back to the computer vendor complaining that they don't have Windows. The vendor says: "Oh, that's OK, I'll fix that." and sells them a copy of XP or 2k at the normal (non-OEM) price. To ensure repeat business, they give you a $15 discount because you just bought from them.
7) The end result? The customer thinks highly of the vendor (for healping him with his problem and giving him a discount.) The customer is dipleased with open-source software in general (because he is told that the "broken" distro he got is representative of the whole open-source world.) The vendor has killed three birds with one stone. The vendor has a good deal with MS, made more money from the customer, and hurt open-source.
Wow. I hope that if Dell is not already doing that, that they don't read
Not obviously. I think it's fair to say that, since geeks will be geeks (myself included), anyone with alot of knowledge about Linux probably knows a good bit about Windows. After all, most Linux hackers I know were raised on the Windows platform to begin with. Couple that "base" of knowledge with a general knowledge of computers, a bit of ASM (maybe), and internet access (to read the MS security bulletins), and you have yourself a pool of thousands of Linux/Windows hackers who are capable of such an act.