I commend you for not posting as an AC, but, face it, if Microsoft made GOOD things, we wouldn't be complaining about IE vulnerabilities, or blue screens, XBOXes crashing, or the latest sober worm.
Have you forgotten that there were NO THINGS such as wordperfect,Lotus-ABC or Eudora-mail viruses?
Yes, Microsoft has helped to establish somewhat a user community around computers and the internet. But that's about the ONLY good thing they've done.
Microsoft isn't inherently evil, they're a company.
Wrong. They're a MONOPOLY, and they've played dirty on EVERY CHANCE they've had. Perhaps you should read the "say no" book to realize how evil Microsoft is.
an article or two won't convince a newbie or a Joe Manager. Besides, a book might make a perfect gift for an office (pun intended) coworker, or even your boss.
If we had mandatory.xxx domains, we'd have much less teenagers accessing unwanted porn sites, because their parents would have enabled the.xxx domain blocking.
Did you know that ONLY ONE porn site can have registered THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT DOMAIN NAMES?. How do you expect us to block them all, heh?
Adding a simple filter to "*.xxx" is so simple. But thanks to your stupidity, porn is STILL uncensored and running rampant.
Thank you! Why don't you call your group "Porn for Christ", "Christians for pornography" or something?
I recall experiments being done with regenerating animals where cells of certain body parts were implanted in other areas of the body, and ended up with a hand in the middle of the arm and such.
I'm sure you have heard certain extreme cases of malformed humans, like the "elephant man", or some guy in the guiness records who had two mouths. The latter was a case of a siamese twins where one twin's body got absorbed by the other. And we could think of it as "regeneration gone awry".
I'm not really sure if we really want regeneration. Perhaps in VERY CONTROLLED circumstances, like activating regeneration in nerve cells, might help a crippled person walk again. But having someone set its regeneration gene, looks like a very dangerous thing to me.
Before, to get known by the people, an artist had to INVEST lots of money. The recording companies provided that, in exchange for a VERY HIGH return of investment.
Now, the recording companies are not able to invest in low-profile musicians, but these musicians DON'T NEED THEM TO. Because they have file sharers and Indy websites to do the work.
I don't remember if 50 years ago there were radio or TV shows dedicated to getting unknown musicians to be heard by the public, but now anyone can go to these independent websites, and spending a couple of minutes to download a song.
In other words, the "talent discovery" job of recording companies is passing to peer to peer, while the "music distribution" job can be done by the artists themselves.
So, does P2P hurt recording companies? Yes, but does that hurt the artists represented by the recording companies? Nope. (And I mean the REAL artists, not spoiled Mickey-Mouse club girls)
When^H^H^H^Hif the $sys$alleged interstellar beings come here, they'll frankly reprimand us for spending too much money on contacting them and too little on solving local problems like war, world hunger, diseases, etc etc.
Seriously, what's the point of contacting alien intelligence, if our very human nature is greedy, stupid, and self-destructive? I'm sure "they" are much better without knowing us.
Now, speaking seriously, i think this guy read too much scientology/heaven's gate/raelian propaganda.
For my thesis I researched a lot on IEEE transactions, and papers freely available from citeseer. There were a couple of papers that I had to go to the universities to research.
I was lucky to find papers on the internet regarding my research subject. But wanting to take science off the internet would be like locking knowledge from the people.
As a scientist, i'm against that move. Knowledge is for mankind, not for the rich. I'm sure journals can find alternative ways to finance themselves, i.e. paypal, having suscription fees to download very large papers, etc.
References to free software and Linux were removed from a UN document after Microsoft claimed that such software aims to 'make it impossible to make any income on software as a commercial product'
Hello, Microsoft! Welcome to the post-GPL economy, where software income is based on services!
Alright, let me jump into the complaining bandwagon.
(I'm using FF 1.07, i don't know if they got this fixed by 1.5).
If I have Slashdot (or Yahoo! mail) open on my Firefox, the flash ads keep leeching the CPU to 100%, even if the tab is _NOT_ the active one, or if Firefox is not the active application. And I was wondering why compiling my C++ app took so long
Adblocking them won't work, since they're usually in an iframe whose url always keeps changing. So I have to freaking close Firefox so I can work in peace.
A Linux user might regard this as a minor problem, forgetting that to most people, this is indeed a show-stopper.
You're absolutely right. This is the problem with the Linux developers, they got so accustomed to it that they forget about their first problems and how they solved them. It's like learning a language and forgetting about your native language.
We'd need an army of Windows Joe users trying to test Linux and reporting all the things they don't feel comfortable with. And we need to keep them fresh so they don't "lose their linux virginity", so to speak.
About those commandline shortcuts, I'd say that these should be disabled by default.
I think the submitter said it wrong...
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The Demise of IP?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
maybe he meant to say that IP hinders competition. The sentence sounds like Open source is the one hindering competition. This latter interpretation contradicts the context of the whole submission, i got a bit confused by it, too.
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I commend you for not posting as an AC, but, face it, if Microsoft made GOOD things, we wouldn't be complaining about IE vulnerabilities, or blue screens, XBOXes crashing, or the latest sober worm.
,Lotus-ABC or Eudora-mail viruses?
Have you forgotten that there were NO THINGS such as wordperfect
Yes, Microsoft has helped to establish somewhat a user community around computers and the internet. But that's about the ONLY good thing they've done.
Microsoft isn't inherently evil, they're a company.
Wrong. They're a MONOPOLY, and they've played dirty on EVERY CHANCE they've had. Perhaps you should read the "say no" book to realize how evil Microsoft is.
an article or two won't convince a newbie or a Joe Manager. Besides, a book might make a perfect gift for an office (pun intended) coworker, or even your boss.
the XBOX 360 crashes are a hardware problem, not something about the OS running on them. Yes, it means your Linux might crash on the 360 :-o
If we had mandatory .xxx domains, we'd have much less teenagers accessing unwanted porn sites, because their parents would have enabled the .xxx domain blocking.
Did you know that ONLY ONE porn site can have registered THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT DOMAIN NAMES?. How do you expect us to block them all, heh?
Adding a simple filter to "*.xxx" is so simple. But thanks to your stupidity, porn is STILL uncensored and running rampant.
Thank you! Why don't you call your group "Porn for Christ", "Christians for pornography" or something?
Morons.
Why do we have to toerate that?
Because probably Microsoft signed exclusive agreements with game makers and kids will HAVE TO BUY a Microsoft product?
Hey, was that a glitch in the matrix? I somehow feel i lived this before.
May I point out that Canvas tag is only supported in Firefox 1.5, and not the current stable release 1.0.7.
Tomorrow on Slashdot: A Firefox website did NOT get slashdotted yesterday!
I recall experiments being done with regenerating animals where cells of certain body parts were implanted in other areas of the body, and ended up with a hand in the middle of the arm and such.
I'm sure you have heard certain extreme cases of malformed humans, like the "elephant man", or some guy in the guiness records who had two mouths. The latter was a case of a siamese twins where one twin's body got absorbed by the other. And we could think of it as "regeneration gone awry".
I'm not really sure if we really want regeneration. Perhaps in VERY CONTROLLED circumstances, like activating regeneration in nerve cells, might help a crippled person walk again. But having someone set its regeneration gene, looks like a very dangerous thing to me.
Can you say "chimera"?
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Assumming the "they laugh at you" is the FUD campaigns, I could deduce we're currently experiencing the "then they fight you" stage.
Slashdot needs a "+1, Haiku" mod.
"Mod the Parent up
It is a plus one, haiku
CommanderTaco"
Before, to get known by the people, an artist had to INVEST lots of money. The recording companies provided that, in exchange for a VERY HIGH return of investment.
Now, the recording companies are not able to invest in low-profile musicians, but these musicians DON'T NEED THEM TO. Because they have file sharers and Indy websites to do the work.
I don't remember if 50 years ago there were radio or TV shows dedicated to getting unknown musicians to be heard by the public, but now anyone can go to these independent websites, and spending a couple of minutes to download a song.
In other words, the "talent discovery" job of recording companies is passing to peer to peer, while the "music distribution" job can be done by the artists themselves.
So, does P2P hurt recording companies? Yes, but does that hurt the artists represented by the recording companies? Nope. (And I mean the REAL artists, not spoiled Mickey-Mouse club girls)
Check out TFA and read one of the three "non-government organizations":
http://www.disclosureproject.org/
They're conspiracy theorists, and apparently they have followers around the world.
Let's remember that another UFO-believing group, the Church of Scientology, got famous followers like John Travolta, Tom Cruise, etc.
Cults happen.
When^H^H^H^Hif the $sys$alleged interstellar beings come here, they'll frankly reprimand us for spending too much money on contacting them and too little on solving local problems like war, world hunger, diseases, etc etc.
Seriously, what's the point of contacting alien intelligence, if our very human nature is greedy, stupid, and self-destructive? I'm sure "they" are much better without knowing us.
Now, speaking seriously, i think this guy read too much scientology/heaven's gate/raelian propaganda.
For my thesis I researched a lot on IEEE transactions, and papers freely available from citeseer. There were a couple of papers that I had to go to the universities to research.
I was lucky to find papers on the internet regarding my research subject. But wanting to take science off the internet would be like locking knowledge from the people.
As a scientist, i'm against that move. Knowledge is for mankind, not for the rich. I'm sure journals can find alternative ways to finance themselves, i.e. paypal, having suscription fees to download very large papers, etc.
References to free software and Linux were removed from a UN document after Microsoft claimed that such software aims to 'make it impossible to make any income on software as a commercial product'
Hello, Microsoft! Welcome to the post-GPL economy, where software income is based on services!
if we're experiencing a "mobile bubble" similar to the dot com?
Alright, let me jump into the complaining bandwagon.
(I'm using FF 1.07, i don't know if they got this fixed by 1.5).
If I have Slashdot (or Yahoo! mail) open on my Firefox, the flash ads keep leeching the CPU to 100%, even if the tab is _NOT_ the active one, or if Firefox is not the active application. And I was wondering why compiling my C++ app took so long
Adblocking them won't work, since they're usually in an iframe whose url always keeps changing. So I have to freaking close Firefox so I can work in peace.
Has this been fixed in 1.5?
It won't work.
everything will be wireless one day
:P
And wired all the others?
This is "stuff that matters" because...?
There are better articles out there.
I, for one, welcome our new information-finding overlord.
Sorry, you're 8 months late. Our information-finding overlord just told me.
A Linux user might regard this as a minor problem, forgetting that to most people, this is indeed a show-stopper.
You're absolutely right. This is the problem with the Linux developers, they got so accustomed to it that they forget about their first problems and how they solved them. It's like learning a language and forgetting about your native language.
We'd need an army of Windows Joe users trying to test Linux and reporting all the things they don't feel comfortable with. And we need to keep them fresh so they don't "lose their linux virginity", so to speak.
About those commandline shortcuts, I'd say that these should be disabled by default.
I give thanks for not living in a country filled with George W's, RIAA's and patent offices.
:D
Let's celebrate!
*Ducks flying tomato*
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pergatory
There's no dictionary entry for "pergatory".
maybe he meant to say that IP hinders competition. The sentence sounds like Open source is the one hindering competition. This latter interpretation contradicts the context of the whole submission, i got a bit confused by it, too.
That's interesting. *click* *click* *click*
Alright, i think i'm gonna search for "sony" on google... be back in 30 minutes.