Landesk is a tool, nay, a suite of tools, of impressive breadth and depth. It's also impressively flaky and even borders on the zany.
I'd have been more impressed with TFA if it was more than just a list of apps, you can get that much from a few hours with the Google.
Also keep in mind that Bush coming to power may well have saved MS's bacon, given that they pretty much got their hand slapped after loosing an antitrust suit.
And now who's going to be in power after the 2008 elections? I have a feeling that MS may think they have to make their move (although with the American legal system being what it is nothing much is going to happen until way, way into the next administration.
Interesting times... I'm looking forward to this. The fact that their strategy seems pretty much unchanged from the SCO sock-puppet disaster does not bode well for them.
...actually i'll buy two, they can keep one, and then I'll give the first one back after I've played with it a little. I'll bet that's a deal that any hardened geek would find reasonable.
If it starts to rain you can stand under a tree, right? And then when the leaves get wet and you start gettin dribbled on you can just go to a different tree, right?
Actually, you can't; all the trees and all the telcos are going to exhibit the same conditions at the same time. The issues here are too important to be left to the famously invisible hand of the market, which has no interest in the needs of society... looking out for those needs is the government's job.
It's kind of sad that this issue is being decided by lobbying paid for by commercial interests, I'd like to think that at some distant point of US history our representatives actually worked for the citizens (silly me).
The Federal Government in the US is a semi-RIAA supported body. Senators and Congressmen are supported by the RIAA and the like and make laws on their behalf.
There was a time that 'voters' were involved with the process however in modern times our elected representatives are elected based on their stand on sex, terrorism, and religion.
Yes. It's the difference between accidentally buying a pallet of junk at an auction by waving your hand at the wrong time, and buying a pallet of junk at a surplus store by pointing to it and saying "I want to buy it".
Excuse me, but that's a fairly brilliant way of putting it. If you haven't patented it, may I borrow it?:-)
The NY Times has already dropped off the radar as far as the search engines are concerned by it's policy of taking archived materials off-line. Any paper that charges for content will also disappear from Google & Co., if not directly, by blocking them, then by alienating people who follow search links to their site and then telling them they can't see the article unless they pay up.
Maybe they can reach a compromise like some sites are doing now (by allowing one free visit) but news sites in particular need to realize that success in these internets depends on search engines.
Too bad CERN doesn't put up a server at the addresses in Berners-Lee's announcement... it would be really cool to be able to go back in time and pull down an historical document from a link in another historical document.
I'm confused... I've put the contents of a DVD on an external 2.5" hard drive and been able to watch it on my notebook using USB 1.1.
OK it' was compressed by the ripping software to some degree, I guess, but the result was still way better than TV quality (and indeed to my eye it looked pretty much like the original DVD).
What am I missing here?
Faz
Dude, you've been listening to too many Bush speeches.
Actually I suspect that Bin Laden wants us to take our capitalism elsewhere... he probably doesn't long for the good old fashioned Imperialism (yes, that kind, with the capitol "I") of yesteryear, either.
Ain't gonna happen, of course, but you can't kill a guy for trying. (Joke).
Microsoft's monopoly position in PC (and increasingly server) operating systems (actually, operating system) gives them the ability to dictate what other companies can and cannot do... I think moving to Linux gives IBM the ability to make their own business decisions again.
I personally like to think it's PAYBACK TIME for the OS/2 debacle (I seem to recall that MS dictated a limit on how many computers they could sell with OS/2 installed if they wanted to keep their license to sell Windows, or some other craziness). But I don't think big companies do things like that.
Of course, here we have SCO doing crazy things... so who knows?
If it'll work mounted right near your eye I'll bet it'll work some distance away; you wouldn't even need to have the glasses on to get adds, they could just beam them into your eyes as you walk by.
That would be AMAZINGLY annoying.
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Landesk is a tool, nay, a suite of tools, of impressive breadth and depth. It's also impressively flaky and even borders on the zany. I'd have been more impressed with TFA if it was more than just a list of apps, you can get that much from a few hours with the Google.
Also keep in mind that Bush coming to power may well have saved MS's bacon, given that they pretty much got their hand slapped after loosing an antitrust suit. And now who's going to be in power after the 2008 elections? I have a feeling that MS may think they have to make their move (although with the American legal system being what it is nothing much is going to happen until way, way into the next administration. Interesting times... I'm looking forward to this. The fact that their strategy seems pretty much unchanged from the SCO sock-puppet disaster does not bode well for them.
...actually i'll buy two, they can keep one, and then I'll give the first one back after I've played with it a little. I'll bet that's a deal that any hardened geek would find reasonable.
"Although OS X features a robust implementation of IPFW (Internet Protocol FireWall), it was not enabled."
So they take a secure machine and start services to make it less secure, but they can't be bothered to turn on the firewall?
Odd...
What the hell took you so long?
Um, this Case character was trying to peddle 8megs of RAM, as I recall, somehow I think his status as a criminal mastermind is a tad overrated.
Faz
If you don't like it, switch to another service.
If it starts to rain you can stand under a tree, right? And then when the leaves get wet and you start gettin dribbled on you can just go to a different tree, right?
Actually, you can't; all the trees and all the telcos are going to exhibit the same conditions at the same time. The issues here are too important to be left to the famously invisible hand of the market, which has no interest in the needs of society... looking out for those needs is the government's job.
It's kind of sad that this issue is being decided by lobbying paid for by commercial interests, I'd like to think that at some distant point of US history our representatives actually worked for the citizens (silly me).
Faz
The Federal Government in the US is a semi-RIAA supported body. Senators and Congressmen are supported by the RIAA and the like and make laws on their behalf.
There was a time that 'voters' were involved with the process however in modern times our elected representatives are elected based on their stand on sex, terrorism, and religion.
I believe the museum in Washington is the National museum... the Darwin exhibit is in the American museum, in New York City.
Faz
Faz
The NY Times has already dropped off the radar as far as the search engines are concerned by it's policy of taking archived materials off-line. Any paper that charges for content will also disappear from Google & Co., if not directly, by blocking them, then by alienating people who follow search links to their site and then telling them they can't see the article unless they pay up.
Maybe they can reach a compromise like some sites are doing now (by allowing one free visit) but news sites in particular need to realize that success in these internets depends on search engines.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ca tegory=91359&item=7136392683&rd=1/
Too bad CERN doesn't put up a server at the addresses in Berners-Lee's announcement... it would be really cool to be able to go back in time and pull down an historical document from a link in another historical document.
Brain cells is the most likely explanation.
So you can get a DVD quality picture with 8Mbps or a vastly lower quality TV picture for 300Mbps. Dang, wish I had those brain cells!!!
Faz
I'm confused... I've put the contents of a DVD on an external 2.5" hard drive and been able to watch it on my notebook using USB 1.1. OK it' was compressed by the ripping software to some degree, I guess, but the result was still way better than TV quality (and indeed to my eye it looked pretty much like the original DVD). What am I missing here? Faz
Um, you forgot SCO. Oh, wait, they're not real Linux, are they?
Faz
Dude, you've been listening to too many Bush speeches.
Actually I suspect that Bin Laden wants us to take our capitalism elsewhere... he probably doesn't long for the good old fashioned Imperialism (yes, that kind, with the capitol "I") of yesteryear, either.
Ain't gonna happen, of course, but you can't kill a guy for trying. (Joke).
Faz
Microsoft's monopoly position in PC (and increasingly server) operating systems (actually, operating system) gives them the ability to dictate what other companies can and cannot do... I think moving to Linux gives IBM the ability to make their own business decisions again.
I personally like to think it's PAYBACK TIME for the OS/2 debacle (I seem to recall that MS dictated a limit on how many computers they could sell with OS/2 installed if they wanted to keep their license to sell Windows, or some other craziness). But I don't think big companies do things like that.
Of course, here we have SCO doing crazy things... so who knows?
Faz
Thank you for your insights.
Faz
Seems to me that the book has gotten a lot of free advertising, at least with the Slashdot crowd. It's almost as if... as if...
Nah, couldn't be.
Faz
How about calling up Homeland Security and telling them that Sal is a terrorist! I'm sure you could come up with a bunch of people who'd back you
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You deserve a '5' for this!!! I demand a recount!
If it'll work mounted right near your eye I'll bet it'll work some distance away; you wouldn't even need to have the glasses on to get adds, they could just beam them into your eyes as you walk by. That would be AMAZINGLY annoying.
Oh, great, this is marketing at it's worst. I suppose we're going to have to sit through a commercial every time we type in a URL!?!?!
Somebody outta do something.
Faz
My sister is a nurse and I'm proud to say that I know a number of the people who did the arresting on the Columbia HCA raids...
Faz