Remember the days when IE was innovative and new. When they added all that javascript and activeX stuff, before all the malware came out. Remember back then? Do yah?
Me neither, but I feel IE could be a lot better if microsoft would ever update it sometime this century. When was the last release again? IE 6 was 2000 right. I think the last service pack was 2001. It's 2004 now people!!! Whatever love MS had for IE before now they've just neglected it. Leaving the poor browser alone at nights to raise the brat malware children, while MicroSoft parties the night away with floosies like Longhorn and XAML! IE should divorce, dump the kids with bill and start a new life!! ehem.
In shot, if ever you wanted an example of an inefficient monopoly stifling innovation, look no further than IE6.
I completely agree. To hear (read) some of the talk around the web, you'd swear Doom3 was the second coming. As always with this type of hype, when it come out people's jaws will drop, they'll sing its praises and buy it by the truckload.
Then after a few months, a few patches and a few million frags, peole will turn around and say, "It's good, but I suppose it's not what I expected."
Unscrupulous types will drive around the suburbs with bluetooth transmitters on the top of honda civics and old hiaces, broadcasting viagra apps into our phones while we eat.
E-marketers will place transmitters everywhere, including bins, bus seats and on signs in the middle of the desert so our phones never stop telling us about products that improve our lives.
We will all begin to recieve mysterious bills for calls we made to a premium rate talking clock number while we were asleep.
Our phones will broadcast our every move and spoken word to marketing agencies, who will happily charge us for a map of the route we took to work that morning, or for telling how good our eloqution is.
Bluetooth porn spam will being blaring out of everyones mobile the minute that slightly dazed looking yuppie walks into the room with his brand new phone that he uses for browsing on the net and email and chat and buying stuff and everything!!!
This situation(commencing next week) will continue without pause, until, faced with users mass binning their mobiles, symbian forcefully create their own virus to patch the phone on the fly as no-one , apart from geeks, will have bothered to delete the patch.
You doubt me!?! You doubt my powers of foresight?!!
So do I, but I'm sticking with my series 40 phone just in case.
This isn't the eighties you know. The banks have computers as well now. Day trading was a fancy get rich quick scheme that reduced the real value of a lot of shares. If you want to make money patent online day trading or something. You can do it regardless of any prior art here
Seriously, I challenge someone out there to make a distro where a user need never resort to the command line interface or a terminal of any kind.
I guess something like....Windows really...
If you ask Aunt Tillie to type rpm -ivvf lovelyrpm-withnoguitoinstall-2.3-5.rpm
she will, legitimatly I think, return to windows. She's a busy person with no time to appreciate the finer points of red hat package management.(Or why up2date keeps crashing)
P.S. This does not say that you must get rid of the command line altogether mind. Even XP still has the command prompt, hidden away somewhere.
Not a good idea.
Eventually he'd get bored and start giving out names like "megagalaxusprimord", "hypertron" , "honeyiloveyoupleasedontleave" , "ihatethisjob", "imastar" and "uranus" .
Not to worry though! You can name your very own star here. Just don't come back to me when the aliens find out what you named their mother (earth)
Ahhh. Front Mission 3! How do I love thee........not enough to spend another 50hrs finishing the emma senario. What a HUGE game.
And Vandal Hearts! Dear sweet Vandal hearts! You were the greatest! But why was the Vandalier class so crappy looking. And what was up with that sequel!! No wait! It's not you fault!
I guess the lesson here is that no game is perfect. You've just got to look for the ones that are least flawed.
Aparently these moons occupy two of the most chaotic orbits in the solar system so it's no surprize that they should end up on the front page of slashdot.
Ultimatly all PCs will have to move to multi-processor systems ala G4,G5, so OpenBSD was just making a locical progression that Linux made back in the 2.0 kernel was it? I'm hoping more multiprocessor machines will come out in the future.
Dispel my ignorence please.
Does windows have SMP/NUMA support yet?
Is it economically more feasable to build a multi- (not so great)processor machine rather than a powerful single CPU?
Thanking (kissing upto) you in advance for the answers.
I would have thought that cars accounted for most enviormental pollution, and that the blackout would have forced more to drive, hence more pollution.
But I guess I was just wrong.
I would never have thought that power plants accounted for so much of out pollution. Considering then, that the problem is centrallised, shouldn't we be looking into some way of filtering pollution at the plants rather that cleaning up our SUVs.
Slashdot Mirror
Be nice!
Remember the days when IE was innovative and new. When they added all that javascript and activeX stuff, before all the malware came out. Remember back then? Do yah?
Me neither, but I feel IE could be a lot better if microsoft would ever update it sometime this century. When was the last release again? IE 6 was 2000 right. I think the last service pack was 2001. It's 2004 now people!!! Whatever love MS had for IE before now they've just neglected it. Leaving the poor browser alone at nights to raise the brat malware children, while MicroSoft parties the night away with floosies like Longhorn and XAML! IE should divorce, dump the kids with bill and start a new life!!
ehem.
In shot, if ever you wanted an example of an inefficient monopoly stifling innovation, look no further than IE6.
I've just remembered to ask!!
Is this going to fix the Firewire issue?
I've got Fedora Core 2.
yum update kernel*
should install 2.6.7 right?
I'd much prefer to use an auto installer, I'm not ready for the full shebang yet.
Enlighten me here.
How is a full compile of the kernel done and how long would it take on a 3GHz,756RAM computer?
I completely agree. To hear (read) some of the talk around the web, you'd swear Doom3 was the second coming. As always with this type of hype, when it come out people's jaws will drop, they'll sing its praises and buy it by the truckload.
:E
Then after a few months, a few patches and a few million frags, peole will turn around and say, "It's good, but I suppose it's not what I expected."
I Have Spoken.
Well I guess it's back to IP addresses for us!!!
....
I'll be at 127.0.0.1 until this blows over.
Unscrupulous types will drive around the suburbs with bluetooth transmitters on the top of honda civics and old hiaces, broadcasting viagra apps into our phones while we eat.
E-marketers will place transmitters everywhere, including bins, bus seats and on signs in the middle of the desert so our phones never stop telling us about products that improve our lives.
We will all begin to recieve mysterious bills for calls we made to a premium rate talking clock number while we were asleep.
Our phones will broadcast our every move and spoken word to marketing agencies, who will happily charge us for a map of the route we took to work that morning, or for telling how good our
eloqution is.
Bluetooth porn spam will being blaring out of everyones mobile the minute that slightly dazed looking yuppie walks into the room with his brand new phone that he uses for browsing on the net and email and chat and buying stuff and everything!!!
This situation(commencing next week) will continue without pause, until, faced with users mass binning their mobiles, symbian forcefully create their own virus to patch the phone on the fly as no-one , apart from geeks, will have bothered to delete the patch.
You doubt me!?! You doubt my powers of foresight?!!
So do I, but I'm sticking with my series 40 phone just in case.
What about the rest of us!!!
Must we wallow forever in the sinful pleasures of bearshare and kazaa?
Save us oh Jobby one!
"a collaborative guide, one that was written and kept up to date by the people who used it, in real time, might be a neat idea. "
And now we have it. It's called Wikipedia!
Maybe someone should use a spambot to mass mail every net user in China encouraging them to rise up on a specified date.
Spam may end up being useful. The irony alone is compelling
Wasn't the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy updated via the SubEtha-SenseONet?
Day trading?! Day trading?!!!
This isn't the eighties you know. The banks have computers as well now. Day trading was a fancy get rich quick scheme that reduced the real value of a lot of shares. If you want to make money patent online day trading or something. You can do it regardless of any prior art here
Considering the bloat on some modern day OSes that isn't actually all that bad
No more command line.
What's That! Blasphemy!! BaSH him to Death!!!
Seriously, I challenge someone out there to make a distro where a user need never resort to the command line interface or a terminal of any kind.
I guess something like....Windows really...
If you ask Aunt Tillie to type
rpm -ivvf lovelyrpm-withnoguitoinstall-2.3-5.rpm
she will, legitimatly I think, return to windows. She's a busy person with no time to appreciate the finer points of red hat package management.(Or why up2date keeps crashing)
P.S.
This does not say that you must get rid of the command line altogether mind. Even XP still has the command prompt, hidden away somewhere.
And It's a Gmail account filled with spam.... ....God help us!
Look I'm sure the NT is just a misnomer. they couldn't be running the system on NT servers... ...I mean...Oh God....
Dublin, Ireland. Pop 1.3m
Free Hotspots: 0
Commercial Hotspots: ~10
Come to Ireland! Escape microwave cancer!
Oh wait..
Ireland pop ~4m. Mobile phones ~3.5m
... It's ok. remember, not many people know about this yet. ...... ......
Oh God! How to I update Fedora Core 2!!!!
Well this is what I think of your discussion.... ...I think it's awful and I don't care much for it at all good sir!
Seriously though, only C could crah the linux kernel
Not a good idea.
Eventually he'd get bored and start giving out names like "megagalaxusprimord", "hypertron" , "honeyiloveyoupleasedontleave" , "ihatethisjob", "imastar" and "uranus" .
Not to worry though! You can name your very own star here. Just don't come back to me when the aliens find out what you named their mother (earth)
Brave Sir.
I salute you!
Ahhh. Front Mission 3! How do I love thee.... ....not enough to spend another 50hrs finishing the emma senario. What a HUGE game.
And Vandal Hearts! Dear sweet Vandal hearts! You were the greatest! But why was the Vandalier class so crappy looking. And what was up with that sequel!! No wait! It's not you fault!
I guess the lesson here is that no game is perfect. You've just got to look for the ones that are least flawed.
Aparently these moons occupy two of the most chaotic orbits in the solar system so it's no surprize that they should end up on the front page of slashdot.
Maybe BSD users are like the lurkers on /. and usenet.
......
They are millions of them, but they don't talk much.
Maybe they're....watching us right now!!
Ultimatly all PCs will have to move to multi-processor systems ala G4,G5, so OpenBSD was just making a locical progression that Linux made back in the 2.0 kernel was it? I'm hoping more multiprocessor machines will come out in the future.
Dispel my ignorence please.
Does windows have SMP/NUMA support yet?
Is it economically more feasable to build a multi- (not so great)processor machine rather than a powerful single CPU?
Thanking (kissing upto) you in advance for the answers.
I would have thought that cars accounted for most enviormental pollution, and that the blackout would have forced more to drive, hence more pollution.
But I guess I was just wrong.
I would never have thought that power plants accounted for so much of out pollution. Considering then, that the problem is centrallised, shouldn't we be looking into some way of filtering pollution at the plants rather that cleaning up our SUVs.