Read the article before you start making arbitrary comments.
The company distributes audio and video accessories to retailers across Australia. Last November it began migrating to an SAP enterprise resource planning system running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.
I'm with you man. Mod the article description as Flamebait. Just because there have been some questionable decisions and terrible mistakes committed with respect to preventing terrorists from carrying out their perverted desires... it doesn't mean that every anti-terrorist action is automatically tainted.
How about a huge backcatalog of obscure and indy films
I'll assume you meant obscure 'indie' films, not obscure 'indy' films. The idea of watching a movie where Harrison Ford is running around cracking a whip, looking for a lost amulet in Egypt while people are speaking backwards and flipping pancakes across a backdrop of some neo-cubist technicolour landscape doesn't fill me with enthusiasm.
"It seems to be a new phenomenon," he said, "obviously symptomatic of our shift away from empiricism in science to faith-based science."
His distinction is artificial, IMHO. If his comment is an attempt to tar Christianity (I think it's fair to say that this issue isn't really related to most other religions) as blind idiocy, he should have had the courage to say as much and not just imply it. Beyond that, there is no "empiricism" in science or religion that isn't ultimately based on a degree of personal faith and conviction.
ABOUT Pat-rights
"Pat" stands for PATENT, "Pat-rights" means patent rights.
Funny... I always thought "Pat" stood for PATRICK or PATRICIA. Then again, I suppose the concept of "Patrick-rights" is a fairly nonsensical one.
Early in 1995, Founder of Pat-rights, Mr. Philip H.K. TSE visualised Internet as the most promising environment for digital content distribution and began to develop ideas and technologies essential for these changes.
Midway through the 90s, Phil (which stands for PHILIP) got bored with making an honest living. He devised a cunning scheme to profit from the hard work of others by taking out patents on blatantly obvious concepts. He cleverly noticed that the net (which stands for INTERNET) was become quite a popular emerging technology, and hurried to think of obvious paradigms that would soon be naturally implemented by future net developers. (Remeber, net stands for INTERNET).
As a result of his long term efforts, several national patents are being issued. And, some of them are being infringed by Global Industrial giants.
As a result of his long term efforts, several patents on the aforementioned blatantly obvious concepts are being issued, annoying everybody from the hobbyist hack to Global Industrial giants! (Remember, the words "Global" and "Industrial" should always start with a capital, but "giants" should not.)
If every other Linux user/developer displayed the same attitude as that, a high-visibility non-techie magazine like Choice wouldn't even be considering Linux. Instead of being an elitist techno-snob, how about applauding the encouraging sign that non-Windows O/S alternatives are actually being considered by the mainstream public?
"... but because of hardware limitations the device still does not support MP3 playback."
Sounds pretty stupid to me... for many not-particularly-tech-savvy (NPTS) people, mp3 is still the compressed music format of choice, and these people will be most of Sony's market for this device.
NPTS Customer: Hey that looks cool, does it have mp3?
Salesman: No, but it has...
NPTS Customer: Ah we'll leave it - what else you got?/p?
"Microsoft has said it will remove Media Player from Window, if ordered by the EU this week."
Wow. I always thought Windows had its limitations, but apparently you can only open one window at a time with this cut-down version! Hmmm, which one to open...
Great... just what we all need: another software vendor looking to monopolise our choice with their services. I already don't like the fact that they're the only decent search engine - why should I be excited about another browser when Firefox is already doing an ample job of competing against IE? I just don't like it.
It's not the overall level of FF users that matters -- that's going to be high on a site like Engadget, low elsewhere. It's the fact that it has increased that matters.
I think you're missing the point regarding people's objections though - I think the objections are more trying to query whether or not Firefox use has increased significantly for "non-techie" users, and there's no way to tell that without sampling a site that such people are highly likely to frequent.
In other words, this article isn't _wrong_, it just didn't say anything we didn't already know.
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The company distributes audio and video accessories to retailers across Australia. Last November it began migrating to an SAP enterprise resource planning system running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.
At my work, all web-based e-mail is blocked, you insensitive clod!
I'm with you man. Mod the article description as Flamebait. Just because there have been some questionable decisions and terrible mistakes committed with respect to preventing terrorists from carrying out their perverted desires... it doesn't mean that every anti-terrorist action is automatically tainted.
Quick, someone call JC Denton!
I'll assume you meant obscure 'indie' films, not obscure 'indy' films. The idea of watching a movie where Harrison Ford is running around cracking a whip, looking for a lost amulet in Egypt while people are speaking backwards and flipping pancakes across a backdrop of some neo-cubist technicolour landscape doesn't fill me with enthusiasm.
"The only reason Windows has had mass exploits written for it is the sheer number of connected devices that are present on most networks."
It's a reason for sure, but the only reason? I think not!"It seems to be a new phenomenon," he said, "obviously symptomatic of our shift away from empiricism in science to faith-based science."
His distinction is artificial, IMHO. If his comment is an attempt to tar Christianity (I think it's fair to say that this issue isn't really related to most other religions) as blind idiocy, he should have had the courage to say as much and not just imply it. Beyond that, there is no "empiricism" in science or religion that isn't ultimately based on a degree of personal faith and conviction.ABOUT Pat-rights
"Pat" stands for PATENT, "Pat-rights" means patent rights.
Funny... I always thought "Pat" stood for PATRICK or PATRICIA. Then again, I suppose the concept of "Patrick-rights" is a fairly nonsensical one.
Early in 1995, Founder of Pat-rights, Mr. Philip H.K. TSE visualised Internet as the most promising environment for digital content distribution and began to develop ideas and technologies essential for these changes.
Midway through the 90s, Phil (which stands for PHILIP) got bored with making an honest living. He devised a cunning scheme to profit from the hard work of others by taking out patents on blatantly obvious concepts. He cleverly noticed that the net (which stands for INTERNET) was become quite a popular emerging technology, and hurried to think of obvious paradigms that would soon be naturally implemented by future net developers. (Remeber, net stands for INTERNET).As a result of his long term efforts, several national patents are being issued. And, some of them are being infringed by Global Industrial giants.
As a result of his long term efforts, several patents on the aforementioned blatantly obvious concepts are being issued, annoying everybody from the hobbyist hack to Global Industrial giants! (Remember, the words "Global" and "Industrial" should always start with a capital, but "giants" should not.)
Tose supid paent pusers!! Wen wil thy larn??
If every other Linux user/developer displayed the same attitude as that, a high-visibility non-techie magazine like Choice wouldn't even be considering Linux. Instead of being an elitist techno-snob, how about applauding the encouraging sign that non-Windows O/S alternatives are actually being considered by the mainstream public?
"Anybody running RedHat and Fedora are strongly adviced to apply this patch!"
Why can't scammers ever spell? Someone send them a copy of Strong Bad's "Rhythm 'n' Grammar", quick!
Here.
Yeah, because it's soooo hard to get hold of porn on the net these days.
To be honest, I am quite disappointed in the cognative skills of most Slashdot posters regarding this topic. :P
Yeah, that and their spelling.
0_o I've never seen those videos before. They are truly disturbing.
Sounds pretty stupid to me... for many not-particularly-tech-savvy (NPTS) people, mp3 is still the compressed music format of choice, and these people will be most of Sony's market for this device.
NPTS Customer: Hey that looks cool, does it have mp3?
Salesman: No, but it has...
NPTS Customer: Ah we'll leave it - what else you got?/p?
"Microsoft has said it will remove Media Player from Window, if ordered by the EU this week."
Wow. I always thought Windows had its limitations, but apparently you can only open one window at a time with this cut-down version! Hmmm, which one to open...
Current stats from the slyck page:
FastTrack 2,493,637 eDonkey2K 2,402,593
Eh?Great... just what we all need: another software vendor looking to monopolise our choice with their services. I already don't like the fact that they're the only decent search engine - why should I be excited about another browser when Firefox is already doing an ample job of competing against IE? I just don't like it.
Of course, we can tell what side _you_ are coming from, because your sig clearly indicates that you still run DOS.
Who knows... with all the pizzaz involved in TV presentations these days, it could be very interesting!
Perhaps the next reality show to hit will be programming based: Big Brother - H4X012 Edition (The Daemon Is Watching...)
It's not the overall level of FF users that matters -- that's going to be high on a site like Engadget, low elsewhere. It's the fact that it has increased that matters.
I think you're missing the point regarding people's objections though - I think the objections are more trying to query whether or not Firefox use has increased significantly for "non-techie" users, and there's no way to tell that without sampling a site that such people are highly likely to frequent. In other words, this article isn't _wrong_, it just didn't say anything we didn't already know.