People have been saying the same thing about printed books for year, but it hasn't come to pass.
The thing is, most of the people who say these things are the highly connected tech savvy who generally socialize with their own kind. The rest of the population is perfectly happy with newspapers.
The main problem with newspapers is than like most businesses these days,,i.their stockholders / owners demand exponential profit growth. It's not the medium that is unsustainable, it's the profit model they insist on.
But you must excuse me, I had chili for breakfast. I'm off to the bathroom with my newspaper...
By confirming that Yahoo China's service violates copyright under new Chinese laws, the Beijing court has effectively set the standard for Internet companies throughout the country.
A trendsetter! By amazing coincidence, Yahoo! China also sets the standard for companies that fold to totalitarian governments in the name of profits. I'm sure it will be no time at all before Yahoo! China takes care of this pesky issue to China's satisfaction.
$3,200,000,000 isn't chump change. This is an organized effort.
Bullshit. This is like cops telling you that the pound of Mexican Dirt Weed they busted some poor sap for last week is worth $20,000. It's like Adobe telling you they lose millions on Photoshop every year when you know dman well that none of those pirates would have bought it retail anyway. Bullshit.
My problem with Dell is finding the Linux computers for the home user or hobbyist you talk about...
Do you expect to find links to retail Linux PC sales at IBM? Sun? Of course not. They don't sell to that segment. Neither does Dell, so why would you expect links to products and services they don't sell? Dell sells Linux products targeted at commercial applications. If you want consumer Linux, go someplace else.
Johnny Nobody, owner of , a small consulting firm with offices in the US and UK... is satisfied with Dell equipment, but said the company needs to show more support for open-source applications and the Linux OS.
Dell thanks you for your input.
What is clear is that people are not happy will Dell's support for desktop deployments and smaller customers. But these are not the area that Dell is interested in. The article and many others show that Dell support for their Linux SERVER products is good. Why would a reasonable person expect Dell to support uses like Desktop and small business when that is not their Linux focus? Dell does not sell Linux for the hobby or home user, it's not realistic to expect them to support these segments of customer.
Massachusetts, Sweden, the entire European Union all have proposed or passed open format laws.
And how did that go in Massachusetts? Lot's of things get proposed. What is relevant is what gets decided. And Massachusetts did not (unfortunately) ditch Microsoft. Likewise, resolutions to "embrace" open formats are virtually worthless because they are not binding. Which of these European Union countries have kicked the Microsoft habit? Which ones, please? Exactly none.
They're facing legislation requiring that government documents be kept in open formats.
First, it's only a few governments, and those cases are not as black and white as Slashdot articles would have you believe. But even more than that, it really doesn't matter to Microsoft what one or two free-thinking European backwaters think or do, it's what the majority of Big Corporate Business does. And the reality is that Big Corporate Business loves Microsoft.
I find their use of the word 'eliminated' a bit overly dramatic.
Come one now, let's get creative here, this is Star Trek. Can't we at least use some transporter / tractor beam / lost in space / euthanasia by computer type analogy that involves some evil carnivorous alien being?
This is not meant to be a troll, though many may take it that way, but if Lucene is what Wikipedia uses, than either Lucene needs a lot of work, or Wikipedia just isn't implementing it right.
Wikipedia's search is just about one of the most unforgiving search functions on the web; unless you hit the spelling perfectly, you often simply will not find what you're looking for, and better not have any extraneous words in the search string either. Which is why I use Google to search Wikipedia...
Most crackers aren't hackers - they're just script kiddies...
You may not like it, it may hurt your ego a bit if you define yourself as a "hacker", but the truth is that "Skript Kiddies" are "hackers" too, just not very good ones.
Indeed. Why don't you open a dialog with China/Russia/Iran about whatever you observe going on at whatever military base you live nearest to. I'm sure your right to "free speech" will be respected.
And that has what to do with the issue under discussion here? I'm sorry, I don't see the connection at all.
But some scientists think that Zaitsev is not only acting out of turn by independently speaking for everyone on the entire planet but believe there are possible dangers we may unleash by announcing ourselves to the unknown darkness.
"Speaking for everyone"? He has a radio, and he's using it. This is speaking for everyone? When I toss a message in a bottle of the deck of a fraighter in the middle of the Pacific and it washes up on some tropical shore, I'm speaking for "everyone"?
This idea is a stretch. Zaitsev is more or less free to "speak" to anyone he chooses.
You only ever comment on certain types of stories, and only to defend the US government or the status quo. Can you point me to a post where you've done anything else?
That his personal opinion coincides with policies of the government is not evidence that he's a propaganda mouthpiece.
The point is more that they're changing the original positions that were claimed as fact to being positions they claim were based on what was probable.
Which is *exactly* what Wikipedia is set up to allow.
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The thing is, most of the people who say these things are the highly connected tech savvy who generally socialize with their own kind. The rest of the population is perfectly happy with newspapers.
The main problem with newspapers is than like most businesses these days, ,i.their stockholders / owners demand exponential profit growth. It's not the medium that is unsustainable, it's the profit model they insist on.
But you must excuse me, I had chili for breakfast. I'm off to the bathroom with my newspaper...
Here's an idea, what if all us Slashdetters each start a Fake Steve Jobs blog...
Always the excuses come out, but never accepting the existence of a problem most "users" know exists...
Metered bandwidth for consumer accounts is a pretty sad concept in today's market. In any part of the world.
What is clear is that people are not happy will Dell's support for desktop deployments and smaller customers. But these are not the area that Dell is interested in. The article and many others show that Dell support for their Linux SERVER products is good. Why would a reasonable person expect Dell to support uses like Desktop and small business when that is not their Linux focus? Dell does not sell Linux for the hobby or home user, it's not realistic to expect them to support these segments of customer.
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I might very well be gay. Want to find out?
The whole termonology is silly anyway.
A "cracker" is a "hacker".
This idea is a stretch. Zaitsev is more or less free to "speak" to anyone he chooses.