If, in fact, that is still true, I make it my sworn mission to set the precedent, by firing anyone under me who tries it. I can think of few greater proofs of incompetence.
But *nix geeks don't want to solve them; they want to continue to lazily assume that everybody is a Linux expert
Yes, UNIX geeks only care about unimportant stuff like making sure you can log on to your online banking service without your login going to a third party at some random location.
Let's get real. Windows is causing major harm because people don't want to think. It's the Wal-Mart syndrome. Buy from Wal-Mart, support a social disease. Sure, you can get cheap junk, but at the end of the day, that's all you've got: Cheap junk, plus you've contributed to a serious economic problem.
Most people (Americans?) seem not to realise that their actions and addiction to ignorance and pointless indulgences are shaping a fucking disastrous future.
Could anything more plainly prove that if you want access to your OWN data, you'd better not use any proprietary tool to create/store it -- especially not Microsoft.
First they'll lock you out of the O/S; then they'll lock you out of the tools.
"Nice lot of data you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it..."
I don't think ebook readers are aiming at first to replace your entire library. (Although I understand perfectly what you mean about boxes of books; I own many, and my remedy is not to move around much!) An e-book reader is "portable information" like an iPod is "portable music". And that's where the marketing difficulty may lie: Because it's just as convenient for people to carry a paperback (e.g. on a train or plane trip) as it is to carry the reader. And you don't have to worry about theft, batteries, breakage, etc.
But then there are those other categories of user, who need a portable library, which is where they should probably focus.
The marketing problem: A book is portable
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I guess I'm not the first to figure out that maybe e-books have an uphill battle to market, because a book or two is already portable. Which means that maybe the marketing effort should focus on commercial users of piles of books -- mechanics, doctors, computer technicians, etc. (When I had a service call from Sun recently, the technician was lugging around a laptop to read service manuals.)
Another WINDOWS story, but no mention in headline. If you want this to stop, go after the enabling technology. Take them to court, lock them up, or at least change to a secure alternative.
These problems are endemic to the Windows universe, yet the headline and summary give no clue. Obviously the ignorant market needs more help to make the connection between Windows and unnecessary risk.
If it had been a Linux problem, the headline would have shouted it. Let's give Windows headline credit for its main features: Insecurity and wasted time and money.
Perkins: Bitten sir. During the night.
Ainsworth: Hm. Whole leg gone eh?
Perkins: Yes.
[As they talk, the din of battle continues outside.
Screams of dying men, crackling of tents set on fire.]
Ainsworth: How's it feel?
Perkins: Stings a bit.
Ainsworth: Mmm. Well it would, wouldn't it. That's quite a bite
you've got there you know.
Perkins: Yes, real beauty isn't it?
All: Yes.
Ainsworth: Any idea how it happened?
Perkins: None at all. Complete mystery to me. Woke up just now...
one sock too many.
Pakenham-Walsh: You must have a hell of a hole in your net.
Ainsworth: Hm. We've sent for the doctor.
Perkins: Ooh, hardly worth it, is it?
Ainsworth: Oh yes... better safe than sorry.
Pakenham-Walsh: Yes, good Lord, look at this.
[He indicates a gigantic hole in the mosquito net.]
Ainsworth: By jove, that's enormous.
Pakenham-Walsh: You don't think it'll come back, do you?
Ainsworth: For more, you mean?
Pakenham-Walsh: Yes.
Ainsworth: You're right. We'd better get this stitched.
Pakenham-Walsh: Right.
Ainsworth: Hallo Doc.
Livingstone: [entering the tent with Chadwick] Morning. I came as
fast as I could. Is something up?
Ainsworth: Yes, during the night old Perkins had his leg bitten
sort of... off.
Livingstone: Ah hah!? Been in the wars have we?
Perkins: Yes.
Livingstone: Any headache, bowels all right? Well, let's have a
look at this one leg of yours then. [Looks around under sheet]
Yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... well, this is
nothing to worry about.
Perkins: Oh good.
Livingstone: There's a lot of it about, probably a virus, keep
warm, plenty of rest, and if you're playing football or
anything try and favour the other leg.
Perkins: Oh right ho.
Livingstone: Be as right as rain in a couple of days.
Perkins: Thanks for the reassurance, doc.
Livingstone: Not at all, that's what I'm here for. Any other
problems I can reassure you about?
Perkins: No I'm fine.
Livingstone: Jolly good. Well, must be off.
Perkins: So it'll just grow back then, will it?
Elderly who DO have descendants (possibly several generations) would benefit too. One of the things I've realised being on the other side of the globe from my family is how valuable the net can be (IM, Flickr, blogs) in staying connected to absent relatives updated. Wouldn't surprise me if that has a measurable effect on wellbeing of a convalescent.
There are houses and buildings all over the region where this was launched. It could have killed someone or at the very least caused property damage. Nobody would insure these guys. They're freaking dangerous.
those poor /.'d fools! Put the pics on FLICKR!-n/t
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What next? I can lose money quicker on the stock market using Google?
I could be charged with being heterosexual for the pr0n on my hard drive...
If Moglen decides that this is a violation of the GPL, the rules of the game will have changed for good,
Only if a court agrees with him. Which I, like many others, would hope for.
PJ said it best:
What exactly is the Professor going to do if he believes it violates GPL v2?
no one ever got fired for buying ... Microsoft
If, in fact, that is still true, I make it my sworn mission to set the precedent, by firing anyone under me who tries it. I can think of few greater proofs of incompetence.
But *nix geeks don't want to solve them; they want to continue to lazily assume that everybody is a Linux expert
Yes, UNIX geeks only care about unimportant stuff like making sure you can log on to your online banking service without your login going to a third party at some random location.
Let's get real. Windows is causing major harm because people don't want to think. It's the Wal-Mart syndrome. Buy from Wal-Mart, support a social disease. Sure, you can get cheap junk, but at the end of the day, that's all you've got: Cheap junk, plus you've contributed to a serious economic problem.
Most people (Americans?) seem not to realise that their actions and addiction to ignorance and pointless indulgences are shaping a fucking disastrous future.
I'm Starting to Suspect That a Dungeons and Dragons Player Named "Elgdorf the Mage" Is Abusing His Wikipedia Editorial Privileges.
Could anything more plainly prove that if you want access to your OWN data, you'd better not use any proprietary tool to create/store it -- especially not Microsoft.
First they'll lock you out of the O/S; then they'll lock you out of the tools.
"Nice lot of data you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it..."
While more overtly Orwellian, the end result is of course the same as selling tunable sets and keeping a compliant media under tight rein (US).
You probably want a filesystem tailored to Flash characteristics, such as YAFFS.
(I forgot to mention students, too.)
I don't think ebook readers are aiming at first to replace your entire library. (Although I understand perfectly what you mean about boxes of books; I own many, and my remedy is not to move around much!) An e-book reader is "portable information" like an iPod is "portable music". And that's where the marketing difficulty may lie: Because it's just as convenient for people to carry a paperback (e.g. on a train or plane trip) as it is to carry the reader. And you don't have to worry about theft, batteries, breakage, etc.
But then there are those other categories of user, who need a portable library, which is where they should probably focus.
I guess I'm not the first to figure out that maybe e-books have an uphill battle to market, because a book or two is already portable. Which means that maybe the marketing effort should focus on commercial users of piles of books -- mechanics, doctors, computer technicians, etc. (When I had a service call from Sun recently, the technician was lugging around a laptop to read service manuals.)
Due to the controversy that always surrounds anything I post, I never bother reading comments for my posts.
Oh, you have that problem too! You must be an Independent Thinker -- closest thing to a terrorist!
When will you start mentioning WINDOWS where appropriate? This problem is created and perpetuated by junk from MS.
That smell in the air this morning isn't napalm (for once) -- it's desperation among Republican lunatics.
n/t
Another WINDOWS story, but no mention in headline. If you want this to stop, go after the enabling technology. Take them to court, lock them up, or at least change to a secure alternative.
If it had been a Linux problem, the headline would have shouted it. Let's give Windows headline credit for its main features: Insecurity and wasted time and money.
Browse safely with a Mac or from Linux instead.
Perkins: Bitten sir. During the night.
Ainsworth: Hm. Whole leg gone eh?
Perkins: Yes.
[As they talk, the din of battle continues outside. Screams of dying men, crackling of tents set on fire.]
Ainsworth: How's it feel?
Perkins: Stings a bit.
Ainsworth: Mmm. Well it would, wouldn't it. That's quite a bite you've got there you know.
Perkins: Yes, real beauty isn't it?
All: Yes.
Ainsworth: Any idea how it happened?
Perkins: None at all. Complete mystery to me. Woke up just now... one sock too many.
Pakenham-Walsh: You must have a hell of a hole in your net.
Ainsworth: Hm. We've sent for the doctor.
Perkins: Ooh, hardly worth it, is it?
Ainsworth: Oh yes... better safe than sorry.
Pakenham-Walsh: Yes, good Lord, look at this.
[He indicates a gigantic hole in the mosquito net.]
Ainsworth: By jove, that's enormous.
Pakenham-Walsh: You don't think it'll come back, do you?
Ainsworth: For more, you mean?
Pakenham-Walsh: Yes.
Ainsworth: You're right. We'd better get this stitched.
Pakenham-Walsh: Right.
Ainsworth: Hallo Doc.
Livingstone: [entering the tent with Chadwick] Morning. I came as fast as I could. Is something up?
Ainsworth: Yes, during the night old Perkins had his leg bitten sort of... off.
Livingstone: Ah hah!? Been in the wars have we?
Perkins: Yes.
Livingstone: Any headache, bowels all right? Well, let's have a look at this one leg of yours then. [Looks around under sheet] Yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... well, this is nothing to worry about.
Perkins: Oh good.
Livingstone: There's a lot of it about, probably a virus, keep warm, plenty of rest, and if you're playing football or anything try and favour the other leg.
Perkins: Oh right ho.
Livingstone: Be as right as rain in a couple of days.
Perkins: Thanks for the reassurance, doc.
Livingstone: Not at all, that's what I'm here for. Any other problems I can reassure you about?
Perkins: No I'm fine.
Livingstone: Jolly good. Well, must be off.
Perkins: So it'll just grow back then, will it?
Elderly who DO have descendants (possibly several generations) would benefit too. One of the things I've realised being on the other side of the globe from my family is how valuable the net can be (IM, Flickr, blogs) in staying connected to absent relatives updated. Wouldn't surprise me if that has a measurable effect on wellbeing of a convalescent.
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There are houses and buildings all over the region where this was launched. It could have killed someone or at the very least caused property damage. Nobody would insure these guys. They're freaking dangerous.
n/t
Fifty-odd installs later, I never met a desktop, laptop or server that didn't love teh Gentoo.
The instructions have been tested by hundreds of thousands of people. They work.