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Bill Gates On Energy
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Microsoft and Bill Gates are probably the two biggest problems that have plagued, and continue to plague, the consumer space. Gates has singlehandedly fucked up the patent system, created an untenable malware cluster of world-wide windows machines, killed innovation with monopolistic strongarming, dumb-down an entire generation of administrators who don't know DNS from DHCP and burdened taxpayers with egregious litigation expenses.
Bill, please. Go fuck yourself and take your empathetic humanitarion energy horseshit facade somewhere else. Like up Ballmer's ass. If you really gave a fuck, you'd be focused on creating an economy that doesn't need to sustain itself by employing a monoculture, paying extortion money, or taking part in racketeering just to stay in business.
if she is just trying it out, forget installing it.It's not worth the time and effort. Get a bootable CD distro and let her h a boot cd will be much less painfuk in the long term.ave at it. Otherwise, she's just going to be pissed when she finds out Word doesn't run,or that she can't use her multifunction printer/phone/FAX with it and want it unistalle. it's much easier to put up with a couple weeks of incessant whining about the cdrom running every time the mouse is clicked.
Linux is for hackers. The reason being, you need to have a little bit of knowledge about the underlying subsystem when things go wrong. most people don't know DNS from dhcp and that's a problem when you can't get your internets.
Microsoft has enough money to spend on court battles that many companies would rather pay the protection money than say "f#ck you". Sad, but that's the way it is. This is why monopolies are not such a good thing.
Yes, in a sense. The market is created by the needs (or rather perceived needs) of the consumer. RIM has only a wee bit of the market share right now and In order to remain relevant they will need to compete in an area dominated by two major systems (apple/android). If RIM thinks they are going to come to the table and be a game changer with their current offering, their execs are on more crack than mundie and ballmer.
RIM needs to change and they need to do it fast. What they offer needs to suck less than what's currently out there (Including their own).
The only other option is for them to dump large wads of cash into the pockets of the Kill-Android-Coalition (aka: Microsoft, Oracle, Apple) and hope for the best but they are going to be standing behind Windows phone 7.
Developers are struggling as it is to support multiple platforms (alng with the java stigma invented for the past 10 years) but it's possible to do. If RIM tries to stick to it's abhorrent, single-platform support, horrendous java development environment *nobody* is going to want to touch it. It's just too difficult to implement and support when you're not a mainstream market-share holder anymore.
Someone needs to start dropping USB sticks that physically destroy hardware when plugged in.
Admittedly, that would indeed be more entertaining to read in the news, however Schneier alludes to the core issue in that people trust that their operating sytsem will *not* punch itself in the genitals if asked.
Windows, or any other proprietary operating system, will probably never implement the needed fixes or they would have already done it. I think the open source crowd will most likely take the bull-by-the-horns first, but it does seem however that KDE and Gnome are trying to encourage the same brain-damaged idocy at present (http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3116163.0).
"ease the lengthy backlog in patent applications, clean up some of the procedures that can lead to costly litigation and put the United States under the same filing system as the rest of the industrialized world."
IOW, same absurd shit, only faster, cheaper and standardized.
I'm an audiophile, I re-rip my collection to FLAC every week to make sure I keep everything pristine.
I used to do this as well, until I found the sound quality degraded over time because of weakening in the magnetix flux on the hard disk substrate. I've found flash drives to hold audio quality far better than magnetic media however notable picosecond pauses during playback are common as the player has to skip over bad blocks of flash. It does take a trained ear to hear them so to most Slashdot music cretins, the diminished sound quality will be undetectable.
Rethinking Apps for the iPad By Christopher Mims App Developers Sticking to iPhone By Christopher Mims can the Creators of the iPhone Make Home Energy Management Sexy? Christopher Mims
It's not too difficult to plug a LAMP stack (or a windows/BSD/Solaris equiv.) into the net but the average lamer isn't going to know about hardening, updating, monitoring and troubleshooting. Amazon apparently could care less as well.
I know it's not the popular comment but it's true. Verizon and Sprint had unlimited data plans as long as they were offering ghetto phones (Android, Samsung, etc). What's the difference if you're downloading unlimited data on an iPhone or a ghetto phone? Give up? Apple gets a cut of the revenue (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/the-real-cost-of-at-ts-basic-data-plan/7362) that's why. And don't feel like you're sneaking by with Sprint. They are next to be assimilated (http://www.eldergadget.com/report-sprint-testing-iphone-4s/). I guess I'll go to T-Mob... Oh wait, that's right. We gave all our money to the monopoly and have no alternatives left. Oh well, guess I'll go back to my Tracfone.
FTFA: "It's important to note at this point that it has not been confirmed that the arrested man is suspected of being involved with LulzSec by the authorities."
Back in the late 90s, everyone was beefing up the server room with huge disk arrays, fat pipes, racks and cooling so all their remote locations could access "all the company's data" stored in one central location. It looked great on paper, but in practice, not so much. 8:15am every morning, the pipes would fil, Internet access was slow, VOIP got shitty, wifi would suck and remote offices would call the IT manager and report they could not access the file server.
This went on for a number of years until the industry did a flip-flop to local file services; NAS, RAID, WAAS whatever could speed up productivity remotely. Things improved, but then the company was flying techs all over the country to fix stupid windows problems, or be on the phone for hours walking a remote user through a server reboot.
Now, the industry is flip-flopping again. "Cloud" is just another word for centralized storage, except Amazon and Google are eating the IT departments lunch. Things will flip-flop again after a few outages cost a few companies some multi-million dollar contract. It would be nice if IT managers had the foresight to see this trend in the first place, but most of them don't.
Back in the day when we all whined that Microsoft was evil, we had *NO IDEA* what evil really was.
Not true. A lot of people cautioned on the evils of vendor lock-in, monopolies, and strong-arm business tactics back in the 90s. Problem was, the Windows crowd didn't want to hear it. Same thing, different era.
People are drama addicts. Palin's 15 minutes was just enough time to launch a whole new domain of reality TV. It's a brilliantly manufactured PR campaign. no less.
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Transmitting a TCP packet every time a character is typed seems kind of inefficient unless there is a big gain here.
Assuming it can filter out a bacterial infection in piss so will it work to make sea water drinkable?
I'll drink to that.
Microsoft and Bill Gates are probably the two biggest problems that have plagued, and continue to plague, the consumer space. Gates has singlehandedly fucked up the patent system, created an untenable malware cluster of world-wide windows machines, killed innovation with monopolistic strongarming, dumb-down an entire generation of administrators who don't know DNS from DHCP and burdened taxpayers with egregious litigation expenses.
Bill, please. Go fuck yourself and take your empathetic humanitarion energy horseshit facade somewhere else. Like up Ballmer's ass. If you really gave a fuck, you'd be focused on creating an economy that doesn't need to sustain itself by employing a monoculture, paying extortion money, or taking part in racketeering just to stay in business.
not as noisy as the dark brown storm on Uranus
if she is just trying it out, forget installing it.It's not worth the time and effort. Get a bootable CD distro and let her h a boot cd will be much less painfuk in the long term.ave at it. Otherwise, she's just going to be pissed when she finds out Word doesn't run,or that she can't use her multifunction printer/phone/FAX with it and want it unistalle. it's much easier to put up with a couple weeks of incessant whining about the cdrom running every time the mouse is clicked.
Linux is for hackers. The reason being, you need to have a little bit of knowledge about the underlying subsystem when things go wrong. most people don't know DNS from dhcp and that's a problem when you can't get your internets.
tfa doesn't mention if they are using silver nanonparticles or no but a lot of times the side effects of these wonder chemicals are worse than the malady.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091028114025.htm
Microsoft has enough money to spend on court battles that many companies would rather pay the protection money than say "f#ck you". Sad, but that's the way it is. This is why monopolies are not such a good thing.
The tighter that tolerance can be kept, the better the performance will be.
Maybe. On a camshaft. This is just a friggin cable.
Un-twist and gently hammer both ends in place. Great picture quality at a fraction of the price. Best of all it's made from recycled components.
I'm against monopoly. Why isn't everybody else?
Because the give us gadgets.
http://www.eff.org/cases/att
Yes, in a sense. The market is created by the needs (or rather perceived needs) of the consumer. RIM has only a wee bit of the market share right now and In order to remain relevant they will need to compete in an area dominated by two major systems (apple/android). If RIM thinks they are going to come to the table and be a game changer with their current offering, their execs are on more crack than mundie and ballmer.
RIM needs to change and they need to do it fast. What they offer needs to suck less than what's currently out there (Including their own).
The only other option is for them to dump large wads of cash into the pockets of the Kill-Android-Coalition (aka: Microsoft, Oracle, Apple) and hope for the best but they are going to be standing behind Windows phone 7.
Developers are struggling as it is to support multiple platforms (alng with the java stigma invented for the past 10 years) but it's possible to do. If RIM tries to stick to it's abhorrent, single-platform support, horrendous java development environment *nobody* is going to want to touch it. It's just too difficult to implement and support when you're not a mainstream market-share holder anymore.
Someone needs to start dropping USB sticks that physically destroy hardware when plugged in.
Admittedly, that would indeed be more entertaining to read in the news, however Schneier alludes to the core issue in that people trust that their operating sytsem will *not* punch itself in the genitals if asked.
Windows, or any other proprietary operating system, will probably never implement the needed fixes or they would have already done it. I think the open source crowd will most likely take the bull-by-the-horns first, but it does seem however that KDE and Gnome are trying to encourage the same brain-damaged idocy at present (http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3116163.0).
Apple camp nervous and running amok. Unable to comprehend 12% vs. 50% market share* and how it relates to service calls.
[*] - http://www.pcworld.com/article/226339/android_market_share_growth_accelerating_nielsen_finds.html
"ease the lengthy backlog in patent applications, clean up some of the procedures that can lead to costly litigation and put the United States under the same filing system as the rest of the industrialized world."
IOW, same absurd shit, only faster, cheaper and standardized.
I'm an audiophile, I re-rip my collection to FLAC every week to make sure I keep everything pristine.
I used to do this as well, until I found the sound quality degraded over time because of weakening in the magnetix flux on the hard disk substrate. I've found flash drives to hold audio quality far better than magnetic media however notable picosecond pauses during playback are common as the player has to skip over bad blocks of flash. It does take a trained ear to hear them so to most Slashdot music cretins, the diminished sound quality will be undetectable.
Rethinking Apps for the iPad By Christopher Mims
App Developers Sticking to iPhone By Christopher Mims
can the Creators of the iPhone Make Home Energy Management Sexy? Christopher Mims
No bias towards Apple there. Nope, none at all.
It's not too difficult to plug a LAMP stack (or a windows/BSD/Solaris equiv.) into the net but the average lamer isn't going to know about hardening, updating, monitoring and troubleshooting. Amazon apparently could care less as well.
I know it's not the popular comment but it's true. Verizon and Sprint had unlimited data plans as long as they were offering ghetto phones (Android, Samsung, etc). What's the difference if you're downloading unlimited data on an iPhone or a ghetto phone? Give up? Apple gets a cut of the revenue (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/the-real-cost-of-at-ts-basic-data-plan/7362) that's why. And don't feel like you're sneaking by with Sprint. They are next to be assimilated (http://www.eldergadget.com/report-sprint-testing-iphone-4s/). I guess I'll go to T-Mob... Oh wait, that's right. We gave all our money to the monopoly and have no alternatives left. Oh well, guess I'll go back to my Tracfone.
FTFA: "It's important to note at this point that it has not been confirmed that the arrested man is suspected of being involved with LulzSec by the authorities."
So wtf? Can we get it straight?
Back in the late 90s, everyone was beefing up the server room with huge disk arrays, fat pipes, racks and cooling so all their remote locations could access "all the company's data" stored in one central location. It looked great on paper, but in practice, not so much. 8:15am every morning, the pipes would fil, Internet access was slow, VOIP got shitty, wifi would suck and remote offices would call the IT manager and report they could not access the file server.
This went on for a number of years until the industry did a flip-flop to local file services; NAS, RAID, WAAS whatever could speed up productivity remotely. Things improved, but then the company was flying techs all over the country to fix stupid windows problems, or be on the phone for hours walking a remote user through a server reboot.
Now, the industry is flip-flopping again. "Cloud" is just another word for centralized storage, except Amazon and Google are eating the IT departments lunch. Things will flip-flop again after a few outages cost a few companies some multi-million dollar contract. It would be nice if IT managers had the foresight to see this trend in the first place, but most of them don't.
Back in the day when we all whined that Microsoft was evil, we had *NO IDEA* what evil really was.
Not true. A lot of people cautioned on the evils of vendor lock-in, monopolies, and strong-arm business tactics back in the 90s. Problem was, the Windows crowd didn't want to hear it. Same thing, different era.
People are drama addicts. Palin's 15 minutes was just enough time to launch a whole new domain of reality TV. It's a brilliantly manufactured PR campaign. no less.