Standardisation of networks and huge expansion of market will lead to network commodotisation and things such as voice calls will loose significant revenue.
OS companies (Microsoft):
Home and office users with a standardised hardware and software requirements make generic PC and office suites a commodity.
Specialised software still has clout.
Dear Haarlem,
Haven't you heared that OSS virus software has a greater TOC than our l33t war3z? Save money now and buy our XP w4r3z, plus get a free college education at a uni of ur choice for ur loved on3z.
Yes, and Microsoft windows is written by professionals that undergoes rigorous testing...
Would you like sauce with that SP2?
Wikipedia is a very good premise, becuase it now has the name, and the momentum. The internet itself is an encyclopedia, in more literals ways than you can imagine.
How the wikipedia intentionally defines itself by its links, and the point of each article is to disseminate knowledge in a structured way.
If you compare a jaunt through wikispace and google around the web, you will soon decide that the context of the encyclopedia is useful when you are focussed on a fact finding mission.
It is like googling for a word (and pretending not to notice the dictionary.com link) or going to dictionary.com to find its meaning.
context of information. Like at #unix (nohelp!) you tend to find out less about unix than a little prance into ?unix.
I think/. should support some ueber geek friendly wiki linking, like [wiki]slashdot[/wiki]
- No women
- Super terrific carpal tunnel syndrome
- Bad eyes
- Hairy palms
The worst thing for you are those stupid stupid stupid feet on keyboard, somehow keyboard-feet-gnomes some into my office and put them up every so often, increasing the angle in stress as I type. There is an awesome paper on keyboard stress testing, which has some wierd spikey graphs showing that a 20% deviation in your wrists from the normal, for 8 hours, can completely cut off the nerve signals...
And typing numbs your finger tips...
Bad backs caused by office furniture, high cholesterol because of diet and inactivity... acute atrophy because of aforementioned a inactivity...
Stress and stomach ulcers from all the hard work^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H flame wars on/.
it scares me that I DO judge a book by its cover, but I do. all of us do.
For instance, I judge cereals by the cover, a whole new box. Now bearing in mind a box of cereals fills that quasi-intimate moment where I am still half awake, and I lovingly spoon it into my mou... oh, sorry.
You see, books have to be appealing to us, technical books have to say, read my witty and easy going words, and you will be amused and infused!
In a semi-related issue. In the new world of e-publishing, we see the internet is 99% utterly useless.
Now real-world publishing on demand is sparking a torrent of even worse writing that is, shockingly, taking itself seriously.
I am quite happy the way many OS developers have written authorative books on thier works, but in the future some enterprising scum might cloud the market place with bound copies of man pages and other scamful publishing.
Oh I forgot, you cannot say anything anti-american under the bush administration, heck they probbaly modded me down themselves! damn censorship!:-) How many FCC people are on/. modding down comments? *adjust tinfoil hat*
This is typical PHB marketting by Microsoft. This has been around for millions of years. PHB's never remember thier passwords, especially to the pr0n sites they peruse.
Bingo, keep PHB's in your palm by letting them not worry about passwords...
What a loser company... In other news Microsoft invent the internal combustion engine, wheels and leather seats, so we now all don't have to walk around without shoes!
".Net isn't shit, look, you don't even need passwords! You need passwords for linux, but not Wind0wz because it is so l33t!"
Do youself a favour and ignore that story! Oh and for those looking for enterprise level physical authentication measures, try JavaCard, many banks use this technology for thier low end workstation locks, in addition to passwords though - although the password at my local branch is 'sunny1'...
the one fingered typist almost asked my to help her tpye it, thinking the security was some feature to stop her looking at a complicated computer screen, not to keep me out of a lovely inviting way of cancelling out all my uni debt! muahahahahahhahahahahah *cough*
Would have made a better president for e-privacy and rights issues?
mmmmm.
Dear FCC,
Hahaha I don't live in the US. So, erm it'll probably be another 5 years before you pwn my computert too...
You know, the FCC are just tired of looking for thier own w4r3z and M$ paid them to copy all the l33t war3z off everyones computers so they can continue developing longhorn, and make sure all the wav files work etc etc.
Seriously, this is stupid, although, it is more like trying to get computer repair men to pay for a tv repair license, than big brother controlling our every move.
Actually it is to stop us all having freedom of hardware and software too...:-(
a msn*.* new article I deicde that a news source field in each/. story would be a good idea, and new source modding would be a great idea.
Something like:
if newsource contains [ MSN ] then [ -6 ]:-) in fairness, they are either reporting the truth, but selectively, or even worse, not reporting certain areas.
This is why/. is good, many many news sources. And news.google.com of course.
Unless they somehow sabotage world networks, all voice traffic can easily squeeze in right next to the bittorrent traffic.
Pay for VOIP? Are you mad! I hope they don;t try and neuter DSL connection in the future to stop voice calls, one day, everyone will have a compatible voice software, and I think it will be within 4 years.
I too have noticed people calling basically any small sexy multimedia like PDA an iPod...
Perhaps iPod (I = Me, Pod = thing that contains something) is a better word for handheld/palm/ipaq/pda. Where a brand presses its name to an object, like Hoover, then the world has a new word in effect.
A Vaccum Cleaner wasn't a name for the device, it was a description of it.
Anyway, nothing non-biological should be as sexy as that...
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/01/19/microsoft_ni x
And speaking of scripts, SFU includes Perl 5.6.1. There's even the full complement of standard Unix utilities, including awk, grep, sed, tr, cut, tar, cpio, less, at, cron and batch. Essential applications like bind, sendmail and ftp? Present. Even gcc, gdb, and make are in the package.
Now I did read something about how this will be totally different an integrated into longhorn.
So Microsoft are speaking out violently against open source , linux, pressing bad associations, while just writting thier code so when the world says, aha, look what it can do, they can say, hey they must have copied us!
I am pretty sure they are doing it open and above board somehow - look at unix tools for windows (windows 2000 up I think) and the links from an article to how longhorn will have this package (probably they will start going ministry of truth on this)
I can only base this on the legitimacy of the article, although unix tools for windows really is gpl stuff I think (they redist it)
You don't have to put it past them, grep the web for unix tools for windows (caontains gpl code) and look at how thier is evolving into longhorn, and how they are rewritting gpl code to include into longhorn
wierd - I don't know why, and I lost the link, but yes, call it the unixski. (re: concorde and concordeski)
Isn't the likes of 2Fast2Furious2Much2Bad2BitActing just the same thing, but with more modern cars?
I mean, most carfans thumb through books of go faster stripes, tears, lighting, speakers, and screen logos, which is like case modding, while others put nos into thier mums 1.1 VW polo and an exhaust shaped like a trumpet to amplify their mums automatic shopping trip runner.
There is a guy, a personal hero of mine, who build a floating island with sustainable habitat (ok, it grows, that is enough) out of plastic pepsi, coke and water bottles.
At the mo' he is in an idillic little water stretch that gets the odd storm/hurricane but he is contemplating making it bigger to float it out into a sea... stupid if you ask me, but this little islet is full of banana plants and windings pathways and his little hut.
This is transfers between registrars not between domain ownership.
It does help you actually if you need to move domains along swiftly.
Also many of these still use an antiquainted technology called facsimile because for some reason, this is a highly secure method of doing business, oh, and a rubber stamp helps.
If someone hijacks a domain, then it will stil be fraudulent, remember no security thorugh facsimile, I mean, obscurity.
Someone make a nice chart with who paid who what...
I have a snakeing suspiscion that the IT world, for all thier intelligence and success, are being played by sleeping agents of lawyers who deliberately steer companies to collide, and the resultant lawsuites just move money around, while the lawyers skim the cheddar off the top...
So, to draw sides:
Novell, Sun, IBM, AMD
versus
Microsoft, SCO, Intel and... erm...
Man this hurts my head, who to trust...
I noticed Novell came from nowhere (IMHO) recently exposurewise, they really built themselves up as a player (IMHO) and this linux offering is becoming the dotCom tradition now, make a any company, and you have to have your own distro! (Yeah yeah I know about novell and unix)
Maybe one day Microsoft will have thier own linux distro...
Oh, I forgot, they are buying licenses off SCO, and rewriting gnu code into longhorn (true!)
Until they realise that cape canaveral is closed for the indeterminabke future and the corn growing regions of the US are experiencing a bad winter caused by high altitude dust particles reflecting sunlight.
Oh and suddenly although sattelites work, there are no more TV ground stations beaming us up our daily sitcoms.
We can still play counterstrike on our station lans until we starve though (food will spoil/be eaten before our reserves of water from the cooling and heating and fuel systems get depleted.)
I suppose a self contained ecosystem *is* plausible...
But then you could make on of those to survive an asteroid *and* still have wind / wave power and 1g of gravity and less systems to maintain.
Plus you don't have to worry about a landing strip when the dust settles and you want to go back.
Man, you should buy one of there new fangled cdrom machines, or a deefeedeee, they are so cool, I am not sure what they have to do with computers but my friend, Alan, who is a l33t hacker, he showed me how to put them in microwaves and stuff and use them as very bad frisbees.
Are cool, I can imagine 'need for case mods: underground' where you unlock case fans, different colour light strips, catching colour drive bay doors and blanks.
You start at the beginning and pick a pink iMac and the commentator say 'oh, weak dude!'
I think EA have plans to release this next summer.
You can upgrade to over clock, bigger CPU and case fans, different colling compounds and liquid cooling systems (no2 baby!)
You then drag you cases out into the desert and then try and cool them as fast as possible. 0 to -60 in x seconds.
Then you use your l33t case modding skills to hijack trucks carrying tvs and dvds and sell them, and then have to go pink slips for a car that can load windows XP in 10 seconds, a fabled car called a 10 second car... it usually fires case screws out the back when you push it too hard...
Any other correlations between the geeky art of case modding and the chick laden sport of illegal street racing?
Slashdot Mirror
Phone companies:
Standardisation of networks and huge expansion of market will lead to network commodotisation and things such as voice calls will loose significant revenue.
OS companies (Microsoft):
Home and office users with a standardised hardware and software requirements make generic PC and office suites a commodity.
Specialised software still has clout.
Dear Haarlem,
Haven't you heared that OSS virus software has a greater TOC than our l33t war3z? Save money now and buy our XP w4r3z, plus get a free college education at a uni of ur choice for ur loved on3z.
urs,
Bill
Yes, and Microsoft windows is written by professionals that undergoes rigorous testing...
/. should support some ueber geek friendly wiki linking, like [wiki]slashdot[/wiki]
Would you like sauce with that SP2?
Wikipedia is a very good premise, becuase it now has the name, and the momentum. The internet itself is an encyclopedia, in more literals ways than you can imagine.
How the wikipedia intentionally defines itself by its links, and the point of each article is to disseminate knowledge in a structured way.
If you compare a jaunt through wikispace and google around the web, you will soon decide that the context of the encyclopedia is useful when you are focussed on a fact finding mission.
It is like googling for a word (and pretending not to notice the dictionary.com link) or going to dictionary.com to find its meaning.
context of information. Like at #unix (nohelp!) you tend to find out less about unix than a little prance into ?unix.
I think
But does pdf aversion syndrome count?
/.
The hazzards of computing:
- No women
- Super terrific carpal tunnel syndrome
- Bad eyes
- Hairy palms
The worst thing for you are those stupid stupid stupid feet on keyboard, somehow keyboard-feet-gnomes some into my office and put them up every so often, increasing the angle in stress as I type. There is an awesome paper on keyboard stress testing, which has some wierd spikey graphs showing that a 20% deviation in your wrists from the normal, for 8 hours, can completely cut off the nerve signals...
And typing numbs your finger tips...
Bad backs caused by office furniture, high cholesterol because of diet and inactivity... acute atrophy because of aforementioned a inactivity...
Stress and stomach ulcers from all the hard work^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H flame wars on
Its so much fun!
it scares me that I DO judge a book by its cover, but I do. all of us do.
For instance, I judge cereals by the cover, a whole new box. Now bearing in mind a box of cereals fills that quasi-intimate moment where I am still half awake, and I lovingly spoon it into my mou... oh, sorry.
You see, books have to be appealing to us, technical books have to say, read my witty and easy going words, and you will be amused and infused!
In a semi-related issue. In the new world of e-publishing, we see the internet is 99% utterly useless.
Now real-world publishing on demand is sparking a torrent of even worse writing that is, shockingly, taking itself seriously.
I am quite happy the way many OS developers have written authorative books on thier works, but in the future some enterprising scum might cloud the market place with bound copies of man pages and other scamful publishing.
Oh I forgot, you cannot say anything anti-american under the bush administration, heck they probbaly modded me down themselves! damn censorship! :-) How many FCC people are on /. modding down comments? *adjust tinfoil hat*
laugh.
End of passwords...
.Net...
You have to use
To coin a phrase: LOL!
This is typical PHB marketting by Microsoft. This has been around for millions of years. PHB's never remember thier passwords, especially to the pr0n sites they peruse.
Bingo, keep PHB's in your palm by letting them not worry about passwords...
What a loser company... In other news Microsoft invent the internal combustion engine, wheels and leather seats, so we now all don't have to walk around without shoes!
".Net isn't shit, look, you don't even need passwords! You need passwords for linux, but not Wind0wz because it is so l33t!"
Do youself a favour and ignore that story! Oh and for those looking for enterprise level physical authentication measures, try JavaCard, many banks use this technology for thier low end workstation locks, in addition to passwords though - although the password at my local branch is 'sunny1'...
the one fingered typist almost asked my to help her tpye it, thinking the security was some feature to stop her looking at a complicated computer screen, not to keep me out of a lovely inviting way of cancelling out all my uni debt! muahahahahahhahahahahah *cough*
I wouldn't...
Would have made a better president for e-privacy and rights issues?
:-(
:-)
mmmmm.
Dear FCC,
Hahaha I don't live in the US. So, erm it'll probably be another 5 years before you pwn my computert too...
You know, the FCC are just tired of looking for thier own w4r3z and M$ paid them to copy all the l33t war3z off everyones computers so they can continue developing longhorn, and make sure all the wav files work etc etc.
Seriously, this is stupid, although, it is more like trying to get computer repair men to pay for a tv repair license, than big brother controlling our every move.
Actually it is to stop us all having freedom of hardware and software too...
Proud not to be American (or is that lucky?)
Enlighten my bed tonight,
Yet I sleep alone,
'Cause no girls for me, a geek.
And holographs, a damn fine way to carry a sentimental reminder and material for knocking one off all in a days work.
:-)
I think these shoudl be mandatory for passports, and i am applying for a job at the passport office in case they do!
Sorry I just wanted to see a message with 'female genetalia' modded as +5 insightful !
Seriously, holographing boobs is mans greatest achivement!
a msn*.* new article I deicde that a news source field in each /. story would be a good idea, and new source modding would be a great idea.
:-) in fairness, they are either reporting the truth, but selectively, or even worse, not reporting certain areas.
/. is good, many many news sources. And news.google.com of course.
Something like:
if newsource contains [ MSN ] then [ -6 ]
This is why
...to express my suprise and dismay at this unprecedented event.
:-)
*re-reads story*
Oh, *this* counts as news?
I say companies can make a good name for themselves dealing with M$ and patches, and then use his name to consult security to companies.
but M$ will start thier own company, find thier own holes, and consult security out...
erm... shiiiiiit you know they will do this, or already have!!!
I can just imagine these guys reading a /. thread on xbox linux, and somenoe says:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these
And they think, hmm, not a bad idea!
Sorry, but this market is self deprecating.
Unless they somehow sabotage world networks, all voice traffic can easily squeeze in right next to the bittorrent traffic.
Pay for VOIP? Are you mad! I hope they don;t try and neuter DSL connection in the future to stop voice calls, one day, everyone will have a compatible voice software, and I think it will be within 4 years.
4 years telcos. Wise up.
I too have noticed people calling basically any small sexy multimedia like PDA an iPod...
Perhaps iPod (I = Me, Pod = thing that contains something) is a better word for handheld/palm/ipaq/pda. Where a brand presses its name to an object, like Hoover, then the world has a new word in effect.
A Vaccum Cleaner wasn't a name for the device, it was a description of it.
Anyway, nothing non-biological should be as sexy as that...
My axim is fine for me though!
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/01/19/microsoft_ni x
And speaking of scripts, SFU includes Perl 5.6.1. There's even the full complement of standard Unix utilities, including awk, grep, sed, tr, cut, tar, cpio, less, at, cron and batch. Essential applications like bind, sendmail and ftp? Present. Even gcc, gdb, and make are in the package.
Now I did read something about how this will be totally different an integrated into longhorn.
So Microsoft are speaking out violently against open source , linux, pressing bad associations, while just writting thier code so when the world says, aha, look what it can do, they can say, hey they must have copied us!
I am pretty sure they are doing it open and above board somehow - look at unix tools for windows (windows 2000 up I think) and the links from an article to how longhorn will have this package (probably they will start going ministry of truth on this)
I can only base this on the legitimacy of the article, although unix tools for windows really is gpl stuff I think (they redist it)
You don't have to put it past them, grep the web for unix tools for windows (caontains gpl code) and look at how thier is evolving into longhorn, and how they are rewritting gpl code to include into longhorn
wierd - I don't know why, and I lost the link, but yes, call it the unixski. (re: concorde and concordeski)
Blighters, all of them!
Isn't the likes of 2Fast2Furious2Much2Bad2BitActing just the same thing, but with more modern cars?
I mean, most carfans thumb through books of go faster stripes, tears, lighting, speakers, and screen logos, which is like case modding, while others put nos into thier mums 1.1 VW polo and an exhaust shaped like a trumpet to amplify their mums automatic shopping trip runner.
Sad really! Live the dream!
There is a guy, a personal hero of mine, who build a floating island with sustainable habitat (ok, it grows, that is enough) out of plastic pepsi, coke and water bottles.
/.?
At the mo' he is in an idillic little water stretch that gets the odd storm/hurricane but he is contemplating making it bigger to float it out into a sea... stupid if you ask me, but this little islet is full of banana plants and windings pathways and his little hut.
I wonder if he reads
This is transfers between registrars not between domain ownership.
It does help you actually if you need to move domains along swiftly.
Also many of these still use an antiquainted technology called facsimile because for some reason, this is a highly secure method of doing business, oh, and a rubber stamp helps.
If someone hijacks a domain, then it will stil be fraudulent, remember no security thorugh facsimile, I mean, obscurity.
Someone make a nice chart with who paid who what...
I have a snakeing suspiscion that the IT world, for all thier intelligence and success, are being played by sleeping agents of lawyers who deliberately steer companies to collide, and the resultant lawsuites just move money around, while the lawyers skim the cheddar off the top...
So, to draw sides:
Novell, Sun, IBM, AMD
versus
Microsoft, SCO, Intel and... erm...
Man this hurts my head, who to trust...
I noticed Novell came from nowhere (IMHO) recently exposurewise, they really built themselves up as a player (IMHO) and this linux offering is becoming the dotCom tradition now, make a any company, and you have to have your own distro! (Yeah yeah I know about novell and unix)
Maybe one day Microsoft will have thier own linux distro...
Oh, I forgot, they are buying licenses off SCO, and rewriting gnu code into longhorn (true!)
Well done those guys.
Now who hates kodak?
Until they realise that cape canaveral is closed for the indeterminabke future and the corn growing regions of the US are experiencing a bad winter caused by high altitude dust particles reflecting sunlight.
Oh and suddenly although sattelites work, there are no more TV ground stations beaming us up our daily sitcoms.
We can still play counterstrike on our station lans until we starve though (food will spoil/be eaten before our reserves of water from the cooling and heating and fuel systems get depleted.)
I suppose a self contained ecosystem *is* plausible...
But then you could make on of those to survive an asteroid *and* still have wind / wave power and 1g of gravity and less systems to maintain.
Plus you don't have to worry about a landing strip when the dust settles and you want to go back.
Man, you should buy one of there new fangled cdrom machines, or a deefeedeee, they are so cool, I am not sure what they have to do with computers but my friend, Alan, who is a l33t hacker, he showed me how to put them in microwaves and stuff and use them as very bad frisbees.
One day...
So now I know why Buzz Aldrin was grinning, it was all that viagra he was poppin' before he went on there, his pupils were dilated and everything...
:-)
I appreciate the nerd-boy comment, I really do!
The best thing about 0g sex, is there are no arguments about who is on top.
And you can pretend to be superman and louise lane... and erm... other things...
Are cool, I can imagine 'need for case mods: underground' where you unlock case fans, different colour light strips, catching colour drive bay doors and blanks.
You start at the beginning and pick a pink iMac and the commentator say 'oh, weak dude!'
I think EA have plans to release this next summer.
You can upgrade to over clock, bigger CPU and case fans, different colling compounds and liquid cooling systems (no2 baby!)
You then drag you cases out into the desert and then try and cool them as fast as possible. 0 to -60 in x seconds.
Then you use your l33t case modding skills to hijack trucks carrying tvs and dvds and sell them, and then have to go pink slips for a car that can load windows XP in 10 seconds, a fabled car called a 10 second car... it usually fires case screws out the back when you push it too hard...
Any other correlations between the geeky art of case modding and the chick laden sport of illegal street racing?