He was handing out free xboxes in college before landing as an intern in Microsoft in 1994, That's the year that windows 95 was launched, I definitely do not remember seeing or hearing about xboxes at that time of the year.
And worser, this is extreme shorthandedness of the telcos. They've been false marketing broad band connections for years. Where they have a 1mbps speed, the telcos consistently say that they provide 5mpbs (with the fineprints about bandwidth sharing, actual dedicated availability buried inside). All this is fine when the customer uses the connection for light speed surfing, and for 3 or 4 hours a day - the telcos can absorb the end user expectations without any degradation of performance.
But at some point of time reality has to sink in. If people start using the connections in the ways they were promised, ISPs will feel the heat, and a sudden lack of bandwidth. All this FUD should be directed back at them, they should get to fix the problems caused by them. Asking for more funding is a lame excuse - they should not provide something which they don't have in the first place.
It is HIGHER security than usual root login because you now have to know the username and password of a user that has sudo access, not just the password of root
You don't need the root password at all for the login. In fact no one knows it. It's either not set while the system is built, or is a random scrambled password.
I haven't seen spam on the rise, but virus are aplenty on public places. Now, I am not even sure whether they are viruses, all I know is that at the railway station or bus stop, I get on an average 1 symbian installer per 5 minutes. I don't know what they are - they may just be some cute programs, but the random names suggest a not-so-good intention. (what would you say about 10sFEW24n.sys ?)
I think now that most windows exploits have been discovered, and used to the full extent possible, the hackers are moving to greener pastures. Either way, I run an exotic OS on a not-so-popular phone, so I happily accept everything that comes my way, knowing that security by obscurity works for me.
I am a sysadmin, and I've seen super weight systems taxed to the extreme. The best servers don't boast of the fastest clock speed; they have the best i/o buses, tight integration of the hardware and software, and more importantly, reliability. These are the reasons I've seen that amd makes a better choice than Intel. Intel is all about FUD, increasing the clock speed at any cost and in general, very unreliable systems that act strangely when pushed under heavy processor load.
I'd choose AMD over intel anyday - i've liked their strategies always, and in the server arena they are the best x86 player. But the bottom line still remains, sun's sparc line,ibm's ppc one and hp's rule. They have been in the business for quite some time, and they frankly know what they are doing.
Intel, its not late to figure out the economics. Corporations choose the best machine for the job while running their servers. No one chooses cheap when they are shopping for their new database server. The big bucks are in the hell expensive servers, and not in the mom-and-pop line. You can sell 1,00,000 cheap servers instead of 1000 expensive ones. But the margins are higher ony in the latter.
I equally hate DRM just as much as anyone else here, but the whole argument looks flawed. Customers buy the ipod because they like it, not because any evil government forced it upon them. They buy the songs from the apple store because they find it convenient - not because there is a decree stopping them from visiting allofmp3 and downloading whatever they like.
Log story short, this drm lock is chosen by the customers because they see a perceived benefit in it. Its just the same as going the windows or the OSX route - they get a locked down system and they use it because they like it better than a open or free system. If any, the governments should be targeting to change the mindset of the people. The boycotts should be called by the actual users. Anything else is against the rules of the open market.
BTW, the whole issue reminds me of the binary modules in the linux kernel episode.
For the record I haven't bought a single DRMed file and won't for the rest of my life. But I stand by apple here, they built the ecosystem and they should get to choose the rules by which they operate it. Its the same with Microsoft's monopoly, and I don't see any government asking them to open up the windows source.
my bad. I guess expansys changes their pages every now and then. The phone is a gigabyte g-cam. Its a monster in size, but it has a decent battery size, plus amazing features.
I guess they put too much into it because they are an unknown name in the mobile industry. If you are not afraid to expermiment, I'd recommend this one.
I have a 5 MP camera phone as I write this. Things are starting to get better in the phone area, so much that I guess 5 - 10 years later, we might see the promised ubiquitous all in one device. It isn't perfect today, but for non-professional use, a camera phone is more than what the majority requires.
If you want to build an industry then build it yourself like we did.
I doubt whether any country would like to do that. America built itself by forcing the blacks into slavery. The country grew because the natives were pushed, killed and forced to work under them. Throughout history, there's livid examples of how America waged wars for their own prosperity. Heck, don't tell me that the Iraq war was for the betterment of humanity - it was only a way to get an American foothold into the land and start capitalizing on it.
You can't convert a wasteland, something hitherto unknown to mankind to the most advanced country within 300 years; not without making a lot of people suffer. The same goes for Britain - an island which is a speck on the globe cannot rise to be the world's richest nation (this was 80-90 years ago) without colonizing half the world, and oppressing their basic rights.
Face it, there's no pain without any gain. In this day and era, you cannot repeat that kind of history. So when everyone is at the same level, a lot of other factors apply. One of which is the wages, and competetiveness. Face it, you are a human and so is the indian half a world away. If you can't perform at the same level as he does, I dont see a reason why the employer should choose you. Face it, your standard of level, your cost of living and your definition of basic nessicities are bloated when compared to him. That automatically makes him more competitive.
(If this is going to be modded as a troll, go ahead)
Microsoft had had a very bad name in the security industry for a long time. Here is a product that uses a lot of them, windows MS SQL etc.. (I am still to RTFA). Why do they think that any company will be ready to use their product, especially when SugarCRM, another free product have been getting rave reviews.
What advantages can Microsoft offer that the grand daddies in the industry do not? I see this as a total failure. They are here for the heck of it, and CRM is the big companies is tightly integrated with the entire manufacturing/sales wing and that arena is dominiated by Oracle Apps, SAP, Peoplesoft^W Oracle.
and that (choosing qt over gtk+), pray tell, what would have accomplished?
The availability of Qt apps for one. This is where the Zaurus won - they had an amazing line of software developers ready to develop for the platform. Plus most Qt/desktop apps can be ported easily - it is either just a recompile or minor changes to the source code.
I'm not aware of benchmarks showing incredibly blazing speeds of qt over gtk+ on the embedded platform.
Maybe not, but gtk has never been the choice inside the embedded platform. Part of it is due to Trollteh being a company - they were among the first to capitalize on the embedded band wagon. An additional plus is that the development is from a central source - not a Nokia ported gtk here, 's development tree there etc... These issues can bolster the confidence in the development community by a huge extent.
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With a Nintendo Wii, its fine. But when its someone else's wii ... :-x
I dont think you are running this on linux that uses gnu coreutils - chances are
1. *BSD/Solaris/whatever
2. ulibc based embedded system.
does it run linux?
You are forgetting the biggest innovations of Microsoft - Clippy, and UAC!
Don't worry, this month will change that.
He was handing out free xboxes in college before landing as an intern in Microsoft in 1994, That's the year that windows 95 was launched, I definitely do not remember seeing or hearing about xboxes at that time of the year.
And worser, this is extreme shorthandedness of the telcos. They've been false marketing broad band connections for years. Where they have a 1mbps speed, the telcos consistently say that they provide 5mpbs (with the fineprints about bandwidth sharing, actual dedicated availability buried inside). All this is fine when the customer uses the connection for light speed surfing, and for 3 or 4 hours a day - the telcos can absorb the end user expectations without any degradation of performance.
But at some point of time reality has to sink in. If people start using the connections in the ways they were promised, ISPs will feel the heat, and a sudden lack of bandwidth. All this FUD should be directed back at them, they should get to fix the problems caused by them. Asking for more funding is a lame excuse - they should not provide something which they don't have in the first place.
You don't need the root password at all for the login. In fact no one knows it. It's either not set while the system is built, or is a random scrambled password.
I haven't seen spam on the rise, but virus are aplenty on public places. Now, I am not even sure whether they are viruses, all I know is that at the railway station or bus stop, I get on an average 1 symbian installer per 5 minutes. I don't know what they are - they may just be some cute programs, but the random names suggest a not-so-good intention. (what would you say about 10sFEW24n.sys ?)
I think now that most windows exploits have been discovered, and used to the full extent possible, the hackers are moving to greener pastures. Either way, I run an exotic OS on a not-so-popular phone, so I happily accept everything that comes my way, knowing that security by obscurity works for me.
I am a sysadmin, and I've seen super weight systems taxed to the extreme. The best servers don't boast of the fastest clock speed; they have the best i/o buses, tight integration of the hardware and software, and more importantly, reliability. These are the reasons I've seen that amd makes a better choice than Intel. Intel is all about FUD, increasing the clock speed at any cost and in general, very unreliable systems that act strangely when pushed under heavy processor load.
I'd choose AMD over intel anyday - i've liked their strategies always, and in the server arena they are the best x86 player. But the bottom line still remains, sun's sparc line,ibm's ppc one and hp's rule. They have been in the business for quite some time, and they frankly know what they are doing.
Intel, its not late to figure out the economics. Corporations choose the best machine for the job while running their servers. No one chooses cheap when they are shopping for their new database server. The big bucks are in the hell expensive servers, and not in the mom-and-pop line. You can sell 1,00,000 cheap servers instead of 1000 expensive ones. But the margins are higher ony in the latter.
In Soviet Korea, the ActiveX uses you!
I equally hate DRM just as much as anyone else here, but the whole argument looks flawed. Customers buy the ipod because they like it, not because any evil government forced it upon them. They buy the songs from the apple store because they find it convenient - not because there is a decree stopping them from visiting allofmp3 and downloading whatever they like.
Log story short, this drm lock is chosen by the customers because they see a perceived benefit in it. Its just the same as going the windows or the OSX route - they get a locked down system and they use it because they like it better than a open or free system. If any, the governments should be targeting to change the mindset of the people. The boycotts should be called by the actual users. Anything else is against the rules of the open market.
BTW, the whole issue reminds me of the binary modules in the linux kernel episode.
For the record I haven't bought a single DRMed file and won't for the rest of my life. But I stand by apple here, they built the ecosystem and they should get to choose the rules by which they operate it. Its the same with Microsoft's monopoly, and I don't see any government asking them to open up the windows source.
Don't you know that we have an intelligent army of slashdot moderators? Start karma proaching and hop on aboard.
my bad. I guess expansys changes their pages every now and then. The phone is a gigabyte g-cam. Its a monster in size, but it has a decent battery size, plus amazing features.
I guess they put too much into it because they are an unknown name in the mobile industry. If you are not afraid to expermiment, I'd recommend this one.
I know that Adobe India accepts doc and *refuses* pdfs. Seriously, I too thought wtf and didn't bother to go for the interview
I have a 5 MP camera phone as I write this. Things are starting to get better in the phone area, so much that I guess 5 - 10 years later, we might see the promised ubiquitous all in one device. It isn't perfect today, but for non-professional use, a camera phone is more than what the majority requires.
So when do we get the Revenge of the iClones?
So. does Chuck Norris need it?
I doubt whether any country would like to do that. America built itself by forcing the blacks into slavery. The country grew because the natives were pushed, killed and forced to work under them. Throughout history, there's livid examples of how America waged wars for their own prosperity. Heck, don't tell me that the Iraq war was for the betterment of humanity - it was only a way to get an American foothold into the land and start capitalizing on it.
You can't convert a wasteland, something hitherto unknown to mankind to the most advanced country within 300 years; not without making a lot of people suffer. The same goes for Britain - an island which is a speck on the globe cannot rise to be the world's richest nation (this was 80-90 years ago) without colonizing half the world, and oppressing their basic rights.
Face it, there's no pain without any gain. In this day and era, you cannot repeat that kind of history. So when everyone is at the same level, a lot of other factors apply. One of which is the wages, and competetiveness. Face it, you are a human and so is the indian half a world away. If you can't perform at the same level as he does, I dont see a reason why the employer should choose you. Face it, your standard of level, your cost of living and your definition of basic nessicities are bloated when compared to him. That automatically makes him more competitive.
(If this is going to be modded as a troll, go ahead)
Microsoft had had a very bad name in the security industry for a long time. Here is a product that uses a lot of them, windows MS SQL etc.. (I am still to RTFA). Why do they think that any company will be ready to use their product, especially when SugarCRM, another free product have been getting rave reviews. What advantages can Microsoft offer that the grand daddies in the industry do not? I see this as a total failure. They are here for the heck of it, and CRM is the big companies is tightly integrated with the entire manufacturing/sales wing and that arena is dominiated by Oracle Apps, SAP, Peoplesoft^W Oracle.
The availability of Qt apps for one. This is where the Zaurus won - they had an amazing line of software developers ready to develop for the platform. Plus most Qt/desktop apps can be ported easily - it is either just a recompile or minor changes to the source code.
Maybe not, but gtk has never been the choice inside the embedded platform. Part of it is due to Trollteh being a company - they were among the first to capitalize on the embedded band wagon. An additional plus is that the development is from a central source - not a Nokia ported gtk here, 's development tree there etc... These issues can bolster the confidence in the development community by a huge extent.