India's space programme that have helped, and are helping, the Indian people (satellite education, improved weather forecasting and cyclone alerts, remote sensing and crop monitoring, etc...)
You missed the main thrust of my comment. I said that because India's infrastructure was struggling to handle the country's growth and that growth was accentuating social problems (rural/urban, rich/poor), the money would be better spent rectifying these so India's economic progress had some stability behind it. Your comment strikes me as short-sighted; India may end up with some opportunities in new industries (such as the ones you suggested), but if their infrastructure has such fundamental problems and is already overstretched, India's products will become as unreliable as its infrastructure.
6 comments and already half of them are whining about why can't India spend money on education and hospitals
I said it was an obvious point, didn't I?
So the USA and Europe have no poor people, no uneducated people, no sick people who can't afford healthcare?
The situation in a rapidly growing economy like India or China is completely incomparable to that of established economies in Europe or that of the U.S. It's also very stupid to suggest that India's hundreds of millions of poor is a roughly equal burden to that of wealthy Western countries' lower classes.
I think there is one main point, that this is to gloss over deep-set issues and divides and create a sense of unity between all Indians: rich and poor, Hindu and Muslim. The goal is, I guess, distraction. Britain used WWI to do exactly the same thing (distract from social/economic divides and the Irish situation). Sad to compare space exploration to a war, but the Cold War proved that they are both "dick-waving contests". Perhaps India's government expects waves of nationalism to carry them some extra legitimacy and also hopes that a show of Indian strength will boost foreign investor confidence. I suspect people will see it for what it is - a show, sheen applied over real issues, and a waste of money.
Why, why? Poverty in rural India is an enormous problem and a socio-economic gulf is emerging between city-dwellers and the rural population. Improved irrigation is desperately needed in those areas, and after that we can start talking about electricity and phone services. This is a massive problem. Additionally, infrastructure in the cities also needs very serious work - some IT firms have their own generators because the grid is too unreliable. Essentially, India is struggling to support its growth. This space mission is quite simply money spent on Indian pride that can only matter to so many considering the direness of the circumstances mentioned above.
These questions lack the sort of rigor I expect from Slashdot. I suspect more than a few people didn't actually email them. Here are some questions that need to be asked of the candidates:
- Deficit
The U.S. deficit stands at a record $477 billion. How would your Administration curb the deficit? Is there any way to cut spending without hurting homeland security, the Iraq situation, education or social security?
- Intellectual property
What is your policy on the INDUCE Act and extensions to copyright law? What is your attitude toward the preservation of Fair Use provisions in copyright law? How much power should organizations like the RIAA and MPAA be given to enforce copyright?
- Iraq situation
President Bush, how do you justify the war in Iraq knowing that before the war Saddam Hussein did not possess WMD and had no ties to al-Qaeda, and that parts of Iraq are now under the control of terrorists? How can you claim to be fighting a relentless war on terrorism when you have designated areas of Iraq as no-go zones for U.S. troops? To both candidates: in light of the CIA's recent predictions, what is your plan to avert a civil war in Iraq or defeat the insurgency? How do you plan to fight the insurgency without offending Iraqis and contributing to the cycle of violence?
- War on terror
Do you foresee an end to the war on terror? Will legislation like the USA PATRIOT Act and other suspensions of civil rights continue indefinitely?
- War on terror
Over $200 billion has been spent in Iraq and airline security has undergone tightening while port security and chemical plant security remain in large part unimproved since 9/11. What are your plans regarding this? How would your Administration protect the homeland?
- Religion
What is the role of religion in decision-making in the presidency?
For the first time in history, this presidential election will make use of electronic voting machines to track more than half of all votes cast nationwide. Diebold is the largest manufacturer of these machines.
The Diebold machines have been proven insecure by numerous security analysts, and contain numerous security flaws. For example, it has been shown that anyone can change the electronic vote tallies by simply writing and executing a five-line computer script.
William W. O'Dell, CEO of Diebold and one of the largest Republican campaign contributors in the state of Ohio, has stated publicly that he will do "everything he can" to get George W. Bush re-elected.
My question is this: While there are clearly several advantages to electronic voting, do you believe that these problems could compromise the integrity of the 2004 election?
Senator Kerry, How do you reconcile the strict environmental guidelines established by the Kyoto Protocols - which you have spoken in favor of - with the creation and continuation of high tech - and therefore high energy consumption - industries?
From a music-supply perspective, which I don't think anyone has taken yet, the best music store would deal directly with artists, giving them more revenue, more freedom (straight to the market without needing to sustain an outdated business model) and would allow prices to drop from 99c (again, because there would be no need to sustain the labels). Essentially, if there are only going to be a few major online music stores, the role of the labels in distribution is no longer important as distribution is no longer a complicated task (previously it involved thousands of stores). Artists could negotiate with a few stores themselves.
On the other hand, there are problems with this approach that would need to be ironed out. At the moment, online music stores take the music that is already successful as measured by traditional charts. If online music became the primary distribution method for artists - that is, for their debut they go straight to iTunes - and the success of the artists is not measured by their success on the traditional charts, this would become more difficult. Without the labels, the music stores would have problems filtering good music from the bad. If iTunes was just saturated with new music, consumers would be overwhelmed and I expect very little of it would get exposure. That rather than actual distribution is the only role online music stores need to depend on a music industry middle-man for.
Yes because Ireland's economy is closely coupled with that of the South Pacific Islands.
Did I say that Ireland's economy would be hurt? No. I said that they were restricting the functionality of their phone network, which they are. I can't say that there are a lot of "make random uninformed replies" to actual comments idiots around because, in fact, your somewhat alone in your stupidity.
karma whores My karma is already maxed out, moron.
I think it's sad that to stop scammers Ireland has to deliberately stunt its telecommunications infrastructure. This will help stop the scams themselves and their profitability, but scamming will continue to hurt Ireland.
So what's going to stop owners of those numbers in foreign countries to send an email requesting that their number is whitelisted?
Remember that there's a step between request and approval. Ireland is clearly serious about this.
I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spied some land. I yelled for Captain Arab - I have yuh understand - who came running to the deck, said, "Boys, forget the whale! Look on over yonder, cut the engines, change the sail, haul on the bowline!" We sang that melody like all tough sailors do when they are far away at sea.
"I think I'll call it America," I said as we hit land. I took a deep breath; I fell down, I could not stand. Captain Arab, he started, writing up some deeds: he said, "Let's set up a fort and start buying the place with beads." Just then this cop comes down the street, crazy as a loon, he throw us all in jail for carryin' harpoons.
Ah me I busted out, don't even ask me how. I went to get some help - I walked by a Guernsey cow who directed me down to the Bowery slums where people carried signs around saying, "Ban the bums." I jumped right into line sayin', "I hope that I'm not late," when I realized I hadn't eaten for five days straight.
I went into a restaurant lookin' for the cook - I told them I was the editor of a famous etiquette book. The waitress he was handsome; he wore a powder blue cape. I ordered some suzette, I said, "Could you please make that crepe." Just then the whole kitchen exploded from boilin' fat - food was flying everywhere and I left without my hat.
Now, I didn't mean to be nosy but I went into a bank to get some bail for Arab and all the boys back in the tank. They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants. They threw me in the alley when up comes this girl from France who invited me to her house: I went, but she had a friend who knocked me out and robbed my boots and I was on the street again.
Well, I rapped upon a house with the U.S. flag upon display: I said, "Could you help me out I got some friends down the way." The man says, "Get out of here - I'll tear you limb from limb." I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too." He said, "You're not Him. Get out of here before I break your bones. I ain't your pop." I decided to have him arrested and I went looking for a cop.
I ran right outside and I hopped inside a cab. I went out the other door; this Englishman said, "Fab," as he saw me leap a hot dog stand and a chariot that stood parked across from a building advertising brotherhood. I ran right through the front door, like a hobo sailor does, but it was just a funeral parlor and the man asked me who I was.
I repeated that my friends were all in jail, with a sigh. He gave me his card; he said, "Call me if they die." I shook his hand and said goodbye; ran out to the street when a bowling ball came down the road and knocked me off my feet. A pay phone was ringing - it just about blew my mind when I picked it up and said hello this foot came through the line.
Well, by this time I was fed up at tryin' to make a stab, at bringin' back any help for my friends and Captain Arab. I decided to flip a coin, like either heads or tails would let me know if I should go back to ship or back to jail. So I hocked my sailor suit and I got a coin to flip; it came up tails. It rhymed with sails so I made it back to the ship.
Well, I got back and took the parkin' ticket off the mast; I was ripping it to shreds when this coastguard boat went past. They asked me my name and I said, "Captain Kidd." They believed me but they wanted to know what exactly that I did. I said for the Pope of Eruke I was employed. They let me go right away; they were very paranoid.
Well, the last I heard of Arab: he was stuck on a whale that was married to the deputy Sheriff of the jail. But the funniest thing was when I was leavin' the bay: I saw three ships a-sailin', they were all heading my way. I asked the captain what his name was and how come he didn't drive a truck. He said his name was Columbus and I just said, "Good luck."
Unemployed script kiddie? Try cracking. In the end, the only things potential employers remember from the headlines are your name and your apparent security expertise. I think this well and truly proves that any publicity is good publicity.
Would I hire a cracker/hacker if I were in the market? No. There are equally skilled or more skilled (unemployed) programmers or security guys whose ethics and loyalty I can depend on.
And will SpamAssassin's effectiveness erode as spammers adopt smarter methods in response? Escalation is not a long-term solution to any arms race or conflict. We can continue to fight spam, but the only way we will decisively defeat it is by acknowledging it as a social problem and legislating against it, with an common sense certainty and determination no one in Western goverments seems to be providing.
It is no different than when people used to make copies of tapes back in the 80's and early 90's. Explain to me how it was different back then from today? Not only would people copy tapes for friends, but they would copy music off the radio.
This is too stupid for words. It happens/happened != proof that it is legal. If the fact that people do something precludes it from being illegal, no one could ever do anything illegal. Whether or not copying copyrighted material in this way is legal or illegal is complicated, but the ignorance of your comment isn't.
I knew of stations in the 80's that played music without a DJ talking during the start of the song so people could make copies. And you are going to tell me that today I can't copy what I OWN???
I'm really sick of hearing this. Remarkable as it no doubt is, after spending $15 on a CD, you have not purchased the copyright of an album. You have also not purchased a license that allows you to endlessly copy and redistribute. These are the rights of the copyright holder and those who the copyright holder licenses these rights to. To lapse into familiar words, all you own is an instance of the music. You own the physical disk. You do NOT own the music: the song is owned by a publishing company (e.g. Northern Songs) and the recording is owned by the record company (e.g. EMI).
It's like how some people have speculated Google will be, thanks to Froogle, Gmail, Gbrowser and co.
"Hey Sergey can you look at - " "Schmidt, for Gmail, do you - " "Just a moment, for Froogle, these - " "About the browser privacy policy, how ambigu - " "Can I get some damn coff - "
The whole firm immobilized.
I wonder how Yahoo! has managed all these years to still provide such a quality set of services despite its obvious lack of concerted focus.
There appears to be a chicken and egg problem in deploying IPv6; ISP's serving endusers don't want to do it yet because there isn't any need for it from their clients, Hosting companies don't do it yet because there isn't any demand yet either from clients... Thus, we made this gateway, which allows users who do have IPv6 to get to all the content in the IPv4 world. If you don't have IPv6 connectivity (yet) you can of course try the SixXS Tunnel Broker.
This is essentially the same observation and the same solution except that it focuses on getting ISPs (clients) to support IPv6 rather than servers.
Watch out. IBM might own your thoughts. Make sure you don't think about Yoper at work.
Just to be safe, don't think at work at all. If you didn't catch the parent's comment, it was a reference to this travesty. In this case, offtopic + insightful = funny.
If I'm out of change, it's probably easier to go home and get some than walk deep into a Nevada desert for a free call. A good idea but some more thought could have gone into it, in my opinion.
Andrew Sullivan is a conservative journalist who often writes for TIME. His gay rights stance is also notable (he's a homosexual himself). Here is the correct link to his site.
There's a fucking header with your fucking user name and a link to your fucking personal page where your fucking name can be listed if you want to.
Yeah, totally... except on yours. It would have been helpful if you provided your fucking name at the end of your fucking Slashdot messages so we know who the fuck you are next time we fucking see you. Fuck?
I wonder if they believe that they can eventually drive notebook sales upward to the point that they outsell Intel more often than a handful of times a year?
The article says that AMD's desktop successes are partially a result of Intel's tendency to emphasize notebooks. If "they" (Intel, I hope you mean) drive notebook sales upward, and assuming that damages desktop sales, Intel's sales would increase because of their notebook dominance and AMD's would decrease because of their desktop interests. Overall the desktop market would shrink (or grow less), while AMD's share of it might grow marginally as a result of the notebook market distracting Intel from pushing its desktop CPUs as aggressively. We might then have more "AMD Desktops Outsell Intel" stories, but it would definitely not be good news for AMD.
Of course. It's absurdly stupid of media companies to think they can actually contain piracy. After all, there only needs to be one determined person to make a copy and release it. Their only real success, generally speaking, is to make legitimately purchased media more encumbered and piracy more appealing.
On the other hand, look at it from a different perspective. If this stops non-perseverent people copying movies for their friends, in the eyes of the entertainment industry, isn't it worth it? That's the sort of success media companies expect inconvenience to bring.
Obviously, it's a terribly arrogant business model: very much like the Democrats after 2000 blaming Nader - that people's votes didn't need to be earned by the Democrats, that the left were merely obligated to spend them on Gore if other options were removed. Rather than giving anyone any real reason to actually buy movies, the entertainment industry scapegoat piracy and do nothing to actually woo buyers back. Voters, buyers; piracy, Nader. Very apt, actually.
Certainly, but obstructive enough to inconvenience everyone and deter many. That's always been the point of DRM, and it will probably be a complete success here.
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Gotcha. It needs a ???.
1. Go to Space
2. Land on the Moon
3. ???
4. Profit!
Hooray for planning
India's space programme that have helped, and are helping, the Indian people (satellite education, improved weather forecasting and cyclone alerts, remote sensing and crop monitoring, etc...)
You missed the main thrust of my comment. I said that because India's infrastructure was struggling to handle the country's growth and that growth was accentuating social problems (rural/urban, rich/poor), the money would be better spent rectifying these so India's economic progress had some stability behind it. Your comment strikes me as short-sighted; India may end up with some opportunities in new industries (such as the ones you suggested), but if their infrastructure has such fundamental problems and is already overstretched, India's products will become as unreliable as its infrastructure.
6 comments and already half of them are whining about why can't India spend money on education and hospitals
I said it was an obvious point, didn't I?
So the USA and Europe have no poor people, no uneducated people, no sick people who can't afford healthcare?
The situation in a rapidly growing economy like India or China is completely incomparable to that of established economies in Europe or that of the U.S. It's also very stupid to suggest that India's hundreds of millions of poor is a roughly equal burden to that of wealthy Western countries' lower classes.
I think there is one main point, that this is to gloss over deep-set issues and divides and create a sense of unity between all Indians: rich and poor, Hindu and Muslim. The goal is, I guess, distraction. Britain used WWI to do exactly the same thing (distract from social/economic divides and the Irish situation). Sad to compare space exploration to a war, but the Cold War proved that they are both "dick-waving contests". Perhaps India's government expects waves of nationalism to carry them some extra legitimacy and also hopes that a show of Indian strength will boost foreign investor confidence. I suspect people will see it for what it is - a show, sheen applied over real issues, and a waste of money.
Why, why? Poverty in rural India is an enormous problem and a socio-economic gulf is emerging between city-dwellers and the rural population. Improved irrigation is desperately needed in those areas, and after that we can start talking about electricity and phone services. This is a massive problem. Additionally, infrastructure in the cities also needs very serious work - some IT firms have their own generators because the grid is too unreliable. Essentially, India is struggling to support its growth. This space mission is quite simply money spent on Indian pride that can only matter to so many considering the direness of the circumstances mentioned above.
These questions lack the sort of rigor I expect from Slashdot. I suspect more than a few people didn't actually email them. Here are some questions that need to be asked of the candidates:
- Deficit
The U.S. deficit stands at a record $477 billion. How would your Administration curb the deficit? Is there any way to cut spending without hurting homeland security, the Iraq situation, education or social security?
- Intellectual property
What is your policy on the INDUCE Act and extensions to copyright law? What is your attitude toward the preservation of Fair Use provisions in copyright law? How much power should organizations like the RIAA and MPAA be given to enforce copyright?
- Iraq situation
President Bush, how do you justify the war in Iraq knowing that before the war Saddam Hussein did not possess WMD and had no ties to al-Qaeda, and that parts of Iraq are now under the control of terrorists? How can you claim to be fighting a relentless war on terrorism when you have designated areas of Iraq as no-go zones for U.S. troops? To both candidates: in light of the CIA's recent predictions, what is your plan to avert a civil war in Iraq or defeat the insurgency? How do you plan to fight the insurgency without offending Iraqis and contributing to the cycle of violence?
- War on terror
Do you foresee an end to the war on terror? Will legislation like the USA PATRIOT Act and other suspensions of civil rights continue indefinitely?
- War on terror
Over $200 billion has been spent in Iraq and airline security has undergone tightening while port security and chemical plant security remain in large part unimproved since 9/11. What are your plans regarding this? How would your Administration protect the homeland?
- Religion
What is the role of religion in decision-making in the presidency?
- Electronic voting
(by bort27)
Dear President Bush and Senator Kerry,
For the first time in history, this presidential election will make use of electronic voting machines to track more than half of all votes cast nationwide. Diebold is the largest manufacturer of these machines.
The Diebold machines have been proven insecure by numerous security analysts, and contain numerous security flaws. For example, it has been shown that anyone can change the electronic vote tallies by simply writing and executing a five-line computer script.
William W. O'Dell, CEO of Diebold and one of the largest Republican campaign contributors in the state of Ohio, has stated publicly that he will do "everything he can" to get George W. Bush re-elected.
My question is this: While there are clearly several advantages to electronic voting, do you believe that these problems could compromise the integrity of the 2004 election?
- Kyoto by caseydk
Senator Kerry, How do you reconcile the strict environmental guidelines established by the Kyoto Protocols - which you have spoken in favor of - with the creation and continuation of high tech - and therefore high energy consumption - industries?
From a music-supply perspective, which I don't think anyone has taken yet, the best music store would deal directly with artists, giving them more revenue, more freedom (straight to the market without needing to sustain an outdated business model) and would allow prices to drop from 99c (again, because there would be no need to sustain the labels). Essentially, if there are only going to be a few major online music stores, the role of the labels in distribution is no longer important as distribution is no longer a complicated task (previously it involved thousands of stores). Artists could negotiate with a few stores themselves.
On the other hand, there are problems with this approach that would need to be ironed out. At the moment, online music stores take the music that is already successful as measured by traditional charts. If online music became the primary distribution method for artists - that is, for their debut they go straight to iTunes - and the success of the artists is not measured by their success on the traditional charts, this would become more difficult. Without the labels, the music stores would have problems filtering good music from the bad. If iTunes was just saturated with new music, consumers would be overwhelmed and I expect very little of it would get exposure. That rather than actual distribution is the only role online music stores need to depend on a music industry middle-man for.
Yes because Ireland's economy is closely coupled with that of the South Pacific Islands.
Did I say that Ireland's economy would be hurt? No. I said that they were restricting the functionality of their phone network, which they are. I can't say that there are a lot of "make random uninformed replies" to actual comments idiots around because, in fact, your somewhat alone in your stupidity.
karma whores
My karma is already maxed out, moron.
I think it's sad that to stop scammers Ireland has to deliberately stunt its telecommunications infrastructure. This will help stop the scams themselves and their profitability, but scamming will continue to hurt Ireland.
So what's going to stop owners of those numbers in foreign countries to send an email requesting that their number is whitelisted?
Remember that there's a step between request and approval. Ireland is clearly serious about this.
I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spied some land. I yelled for Captain Arab - I have yuh understand - who came running to the deck, said, "Boys, forget the whale! Look on over yonder, cut the engines, change the sail, haul on the bowline!" We sang that melody like all tough sailors do when they are far away at sea.
"I think I'll call it America," I said as we hit land. I took a deep breath; I fell down, I could not stand. Captain Arab, he started, writing up some deeds: he said, "Let's set up a fort and start buying the place with beads." Just then this cop comes down the street, crazy as a loon, he throw us all in jail for carryin' harpoons.
Ah me I busted out, don't even ask me how. I went to get some help - I walked by a Guernsey cow who directed me down to the Bowery slums where people carried signs around saying, "Ban the bums." I jumped right into line sayin', "I hope that I'm not late," when I realized I hadn't eaten for five days straight.
I went into a restaurant lookin' for the cook - I told them I was the editor of a famous etiquette book. The waitress he was handsome; he wore a powder blue cape. I ordered some suzette, I said, "Could you please make that crepe." Just then the whole kitchen exploded from boilin' fat - food was flying everywhere and I left without my hat.
Now, I didn't mean to be nosy but I went into a bank to get some bail for Arab and all the boys back in the tank. They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants. They threw me in the alley when up comes this girl from France who invited me to her house: I went, but she had a friend who knocked me out and robbed my boots and I was on the street again.
Well, I rapped upon a house with the U.S. flag upon display: I said, "Could you help me out I got some friends down the way." The man says, "Get out of here - I'll tear you limb from limb." I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too." He said, "You're not Him. Get out of here before I break your bones. I ain't your pop." I decided to have him arrested and I went looking for a cop.
I ran right outside and I hopped inside a cab. I went out the other door; this Englishman said, "Fab," as he saw me leap a hot dog stand and a chariot that stood parked across from a building advertising brotherhood. I ran right through the front door, like a hobo sailor does, but it was just a funeral parlor and the man asked me who I was.
I repeated that my friends were all in jail, with a sigh. He gave me his card; he said, "Call me if they die." I shook his hand and said goodbye; ran out to the street when a bowling ball came down the road and knocked me off my feet. A pay phone was ringing - it just about blew my mind when I picked it up and said hello this foot came through the line. Well, by this time I was fed up at tryin' to make a stab, at bringin' back any help for my friends and Captain Arab. I decided to flip a coin, like either heads or tails would let me know if I should go back to ship or back to jail. So I hocked my sailor suit and I got a coin to flip; it came up tails. It rhymed with sails so I made it back to the ship.
Well, I got back and took the parkin' ticket off the mast; I was ripping it to shreds when this coastguard boat went past. They asked me my name and I said, "Captain Kidd." They believed me but they wanted to know what exactly that I did. I said for the Pope of Eruke I was employed. They let me go right away; they were very paranoid.
Well, the last I heard of Arab: he was stuck on a whale that was married to the deputy Sheriff of the jail. But the funniest thing was when I was leavin' the bay: I saw three ships a-sailin', they were all heading my way. I asked the captain what his name was and how come he didn't drive a truck. He said his name was Columbus and I just said, "Good luck."
Does karma burn green?
Unemployed script kiddie? Try cracking. In the end, the only things potential employers remember from the headlines are your name and your apparent security expertise. I think this well and truly proves that any publicity is good publicity.
Would I hire a cracker/hacker if I were in the market? No. There are equally skilled or more skilled (unemployed) programmers or security guys whose ethics and loyalty I can depend on.
And will SpamAssassin's effectiveness erode as spammers adopt smarter methods in response? Escalation is not a long-term solution to any arms race or conflict. We can continue to fight spam, but the only way we will decisively defeat it is by acknowledging it as a social problem and legislating against it, with an common sense certainty and determination no one in Western goverments seems to be providing.
It is no different than when people used to make copies of tapes back in the 80's and early 90's. Explain to me how it was different back then from today? Not only would people copy tapes for friends, but they would copy music off the radio.
This is too stupid for words. It happens/happened != proof that it is legal. If the fact that people do something precludes it from being illegal, no one could ever do anything illegal. Whether or not copying copyrighted material in this way is legal or illegal is complicated, but the ignorance of your comment isn't.
I knew of stations in the 80's that played music without a DJ talking during the start of the song so people could make copies. And you are going to tell me that today I can't copy what I OWN???
I'm really sick of hearing this. Remarkable as it no doubt is, after spending $15 on a CD, you have not purchased the copyright of an album. You have also not purchased a license that allows you to endlessly copy and redistribute. These are the rights of the copyright holder and those who the copyright holder licenses these rights to. To lapse into familiar words, all you own is an instance of the music. You own the physical disk. You do NOT own the music: the song is owned by a publishing company (e.g. Northern Songs) and the recording is owned by the record company (e.g. EMI).
It's like how some people have speculated Google will be, thanks to Froogle, Gmail, Gbrowser and co.
"Hey Sergey can you look at - "
"Schmidt, for Gmail, do you - "
"Just a moment, for Froogle, these - "
"About the browser privacy policy, how ambigu - "
"Can I get some damn coff - "
The whole firm immobilized.
I wonder how Yahoo! has managed all these years to still provide such a quality set of services despite its obvious lack of concerted focus.
From there:"
Why does this service exist?
There appears to be a chicken and egg problem in deploying IPv6; ISP's serving endusers don't want to do it yet because there isn't any need for it from their clients, Hosting companies don't do it yet because there isn't any demand yet either from clients... Thus, we made this gateway, which allows users who do have IPv6 to get to all the content in the IPv4 world. If you don't have IPv6 connectivity (yet) you can of course try the SixXS Tunnel Broker.
This is essentially the same observation and the same solution except that it focuses on getting ISPs (clients) to support IPv6 rather than servers.
Could't think of anything for "R" eh?
I don't think he could think of anything for "P", either. Maybe trolling's more difficult than it seems... Nah.
Watch out. IBM might own your thoughts. Make sure you don't think about Yoper at work.
Just to be safe, don't think at work at all. If you didn't catch the parent's comment, it was a reference to this travesty. In this case, offtopic + insightful = funny.
If I'm out of change, it's probably easier to go home and get some than walk deep into a Nevada desert for a free call. A good idea but some more thought could have gone into it, in my opinion.
Andrew Sullivan is a conservative journalist who often writes for TIME. His gay rights stance is also notable (he's a homosexual himself). Here is the correct link to his site.
Time to get tough...This is a good start
Yeah, and this will finish them off. I mean, we need to get tough, after all.
I misread that as "Segway" and saw "It needs Windows XP". Then I thought, "Oh, God, we've reached new levels of pointless bloat!"
There's a fucking header with your fucking user name and a link to your fucking personal page where your fucking name can be listed if you want to.
Yeah, totally... except on yours. It would have been helpful if you provided your fucking name at the end of your fucking Slashdot messages so we know who the fuck you are next time we fucking see you. Fuck?
I wonder if they believe that they can eventually drive notebook sales upward to the point that they outsell Intel more often than a handful of times a year?
The article says that AMD's desktop successes are partially a result of Intel's tendency to emphasize notebooks. If "they" (Intel, I hope you mean) drive notebook sales upward, and assuming that damages desktop sales, Intel's sales would increase because of their notebook dominance and AMD's would decrease because of their desktop interests. Overall the desktop market would shrink (or grow less), while AMD's share of it might grow marginally as a result of the notebook market distracting Intel from pushing its desktop CPUs as aggressively. We might then have more "AMD Desktops Outsell Intel" stories, but it would definitely not be good news for AMD.
But as long as only one isn't deterred
Of course. It's absurdly stupid of media companies to think they can actually contain piracy. After all, there only needs to be one determined person to make a copy and release it. Their only real success, generally speaking, is to make legitimately purchased media more encumbered and piracy more appealing.
On the other hand, look at it from a different perspective. If this stops non-perseverent people copying movies for their friends, in the eyes of the entertainment industry, isn't it worth it? That's the sort of success media companies expect inconvenience to bring.
Obviously, it's a terribly arrogant business model: very much like the Democrats after 2000 blaming Nader - that people's votes didn't need to be earned by the Democrats, that the left were merely obligated to spend them on Gore if other options were removed. Rather than giving anyone any real reason to actually buy movies, the entertainment industry scapegoat piracy and do nothing to actually woo buyers back. Voters, buyers; piracy, Nader. Very apt, actually.
Yet another waste of resources that could of gone in to making the technology better
Don't forget the roughly equal amount of effort that will go into cracking it.
Easily Circumvented
Certainly, but obstructive enough to inconvenience everyone and deter many. That's always been the point of DRM, and it will probably be a complete success here.