But if you examine the the amount of radio and pressure waves in our atmosphere over the last 100 million years (easily read from arctic ice core samples), and compare it to the graphs of the contemporary product cycle, you'll see that the amount of RIAA revenue has climbed exponentially since 1963. You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to cease this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.
With Watson getting up there in age, and DVD players being ubiquitous, if we ever need to steal the discovery of DNA again, we can readily clone him with ordinary household objects.
How about, expect problems and bugs with any software?
A persistant problem, none have broken this hold over any software. But this could be a very good thing. With any luck, Kiwis will attack the problem like they do any other, which is to say, honestly, brilliantly and simply. Once they've fixed everything, we can just do what they did.
Undoubtedly, the vast majority (if not all) of the machines affected were either (1) zombies bombarding our machines with annoying brute force attacks and/or (2) illegitimate/illegal installs of Windows.
Its difficult to believe Symantec would actually go and do something so incredibly helpful and effective, afa computer security is concerned.
Yes... I remember studying these climate myths in a series of Classics seminars in college. Boy, does that bring back memories... losing myself in the tomes of ancient weather... I used to pretend I was the hero, battling it out with the Charybdis on the Aegean... Or getting my men to work in concert to poke the eye of that hurricane before it gobbled us up!/sarcasm
I just wish we hadn't lost the word 'myth' because no one wants to say 'falsehood,' 'lie,' 'untruth,' 'fabrication,' or 'fiction,' anymore... just not cool enough, just doesn't carry the disdain and cockiness that the new meaning of 'myth' carries... because no lie is as much a lie as 'myth' connotates. So they think they are marketed better or are being more clever by watering down words that used to actually have real meaning, and a meaning that has nothing to do with the new one. When you think of mythology... please don't immediately assume that, because that's actually what it is, you have to think about its truth value. Whether or not a myth is true has little/nothing to do with whether it is a myth.
So... you think that if something can't be quantified, measured, looked at, poked, weighed... then it just doesn't exist? You can't prove a negative. You have no idea, scientifically or otherwise, if what you suggest is true or not. Your rhetoricals notwithstanding, your beliefs are no better than those you critcize, just a lot less popular. And it all comes down to (drum roll) your grandiouse opinion, and not what you can prove. Thanks for sharing your partisan viewpoint. However, truth be told, it is nothing less than foolish to believe that there is nothing that can exist that is beyond your comprehension.
Ridiculous, yes... but have you seen the messes those crazies who believe in Transubstantiation have made over the last couple thousand years?
Say what you will about the Catholics, their religion is based in faith, not some second rate paperback and pseudoscience. The Catholics don't charge you money to convert, and their principles are an attempt to make believers more perfect morally as individuals, and not to fill their pockets. It is not the Catholic religion that is morally corrupt, but individuals within that have been so. On the otherhand, Scientology is unscrupulously immoral, at its foundation, for their practices of charging money. They are the "false prophets" of which the Catholics are warned. Give credit where credit is due... at least they got that right.
How come, suddenly, blog posts are hitting at slashdot? The punks pull this crap at Digg, but I never thought it would happen here. What the hell is happening to this place?
I had suspicions. The whole aberation problem seemed a little too unlikely, considering how much care went into it. But that the Earth is too bright... I suppose that's when the sun is shining on it? Is it too bright on the dark side too?
But, honestly, how could I be serious? I have no earthly idea how any of that tech works. Its a paranoid hypothesis, not a statement of fact that I somehow have good knowledge of...
Thanks for not continuing to troll. You're a decent poster when you try a little explaination rather than calling everyone stupid! Yea charity!
While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows.
Right. And Windows is the expensive alternative to a functional, stable, secure operating system.
Pretty sure this is just Dell covering their ass, so as not to piss off Microsoft causing them to yank their licensing deals.
I think this is sorta like saying, effectively, that the new Dells won't ship with memory maxed out.... This doesn't preclude the consumer from maxing out memory after purchase, but Dell won't put the extra memory in there.
Just like the way DARPA (or whomever) mucked with the mirror on Hubble so they could see what I'm typing from orbit, we can expect 'extra-curricular' uses for JWST.
Burial rituals are for the living. Chances are your family will want to honor your wishes, if in doing so they will be coming to terms with your passing. Whether resources are wasted or not is incidental.
As for me? I won't need to worry about it. Death is no big deal. Been there, done that. This time, I'm going to live forever.
I am all of 165lbs of pure sysadmin meat. Yesterday, after the user and I tried ourselves, I called down to building management to have a rather large and heavy, L-shaped desk (made of spent uranium, I think) moved back from the wall an inch so I could fit a computer plug past the gap. They said they couldn't do anything without the "Internal Service Request" form. Not one for paperwork, even if it is online, 2 years ago I had delegated those duties (with my boss' concent) to the Business Manager, who seems to just love paperwork. She's out of town. So... we all wait.
thanks... I didn't realize. I'm downloading iso's now. Total pita getting to the download, but they're coming down nicely now. So... what is the point of OpenSolaris if Solaris is free?
Rational decision aimed at grabbing the loot, even if a disingenuous marketing strategy... linux is reaching full buzzword status. Not only will it help Dell sell more computers, but apparently, its going to help sell competing operating systems. But they've seem to miss the point... its ubiquitous because its free, not because its trendy.
I have to admit... her abuse of even the limited power she yields really turns me on... We are so lucky that she's so generous to share with the world even a little but of her exciting metro lifestyle.
I'm not sure its all that cool. Take the ID, Fine. Have them arrested, if you must. But is humiliation really necessary? There seems to be a little too much glee and smugness in her descriptions for me to cheer her on. She raises herself up on the backs of the... well, ok, the guilty. Still, a little judgmental for my tastes, a little too much relishing in her own moral superiority. What she needs is a little of her own medecine, but that would be difficult, and would require a troop of underagers that made it past her with out her realizing, and posting to their blogs what an idiot the person checking IDs was.
And wait just a damn second... this isn't Digg... what the hell is a post about a blog doing here!!! The internet just got a little smaller, a little dimmer, a little less interesting...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
A company is not entitled to the rights addressed the Constitution. These are for the protection of The People. Verizion can't vote, isn't part of the militia, can't be drafted into military service,... etc. etc.
Why do people immediately assume that a company is the same as an individual? Companies do not retain the rights that individuals do, and that's all there is to it.
Slashdot Mirror
But if you examine the the amount of radio and pressure waves in our atmosphere over the last 100 million years (easily read from arctic ice core samples), and compare it to the graphs of the contemporary product cycle, you'll see that the amount of RIAA revenue has climbed exponentially since 1963. You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to cease this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.
I don't find that particularly funny.
ok... shoot me
With Watson getting up there in age, and DVD players being ubiquitous, if we ever need to steal the discovery of DNA again, we can readily clone him with ordinary household objects.
A persistant problem, none have broken this hold over any software. But this could be a very good thing. With any luck, Kiwis will attack the problem like they do any other, which is to say, honestly, brilliantly and simply. Once they've fixed everything, we can just do what they did.
Undoubtedly, the vast majority (if not all) of the machines affected were either
(1) zombies bombarding our machines with annoying brute force attacks and/or
(2) illegitimate/illegal installs of Windows.
Its difficult to believe Symantec would actually go and do something so incredibly helpful and effective, afa computer security is concerned.
Yes... I remember studying these climate myths in a series of Classics seminars in college. Boy, does that bring back memories... losing myself in the tomes of ancient weather... I used to pretend I was the hero, battling it out with the Charybdis on the Aegean... Or getting my men to work in concert to poke the eye of that hurricane before it gobbled us up! /sarcasm
I just wish we hadn't lost the word 'myth' because no one wants to say 'falsehood,' 'lie,' 'untruth,' 'fabrication,' or 'fiction,' anymore... just not cool enough, just doesn't carry the disdain and cockiness that the new meaning of 'myth' carries... because no lie is as much a lie as 'myth' connotates. So they think they are marketed better or are being more clever by watering down words that used to actually have real meaning, and a meaning that has nothing to do with the new one. When you think of mythology... please don't immediately assume that, because that's actually what it is, you have to think about its truth value. Whether or not a myth is true has little/nothing to do with whether it is a myth.
Ubuntu will be bad for Dell. For the same reasons listed in TFA.
So... you think that if something can't be quantified, measured, looked at, poked, weighed... then it just doesn't exist? You can't prove a negative. You have no idea, scientifically or otherwise, if what you suggest is true or not. Your rhetoricals notwithstanding, your beliefs are no better than those you critcize, just a lot less popular. And it all comes down to (drum roll) your grandiouse opinion, and not what you can prove. Thanks for sharing your partisan viewpoint. However, truth be told, it is nothing less than foolish to believe that there is nothing that can exist that is beyond your comprehension.
Say what you will about the Catholics, their religion is based in faith, not some second rate paperback and pseudoscience. The Catholics don't charge you money to convert, and their principles are an attempt to make believers more perfect morally as individuals, and not to fill their pockets. It is not the Catholic religion that is morally corrupt, but individuals within that have been so. On the otherhand, Scientology is unscrupulously immoral, at its foundation, for their practices of charging money. They are the "false prophets" of which the Catholics are warned. Give credit where credit is due... at least they got that right.
With the World's Best Goalie, of course. Have you seen the Micro$oft team? Their bark is worse than their bite. They got no game!
How come, suddenly, blog posts are hitting at slashdot? The punks pull this crap at Digg, but I never thought it would happen here. What the hell is happening to this place?
I had suspicions. The whole aberation problem seemed a little too unlikely, considering how much care went into it. But that the Earth is too bright... I suppose that's when the sun is shining on it? Is it too bright on the dark side too?
But, honestly, how could I be serious? I have no earthly idea how any of that tech works. Its a paranoid hypothesis, not a statement of fact that I somehow have good knowledge of...
Thanks for not continuing to troll. You're a decent poster when you try a little explaination rather than calling everyone stupid! Yea charity!
If they don't, what the heck was all that .NET crap? I think it depends on location... I am certainly surrounded by the cult of Microsoft at my job.
How could I possibly be aware of that? How is it possible that YOU are aware of that? What makes you so sure? As it stands, that sounds like BS to me.
Pretty sure this is just Dell covering their ass, so as not to piss off Microsoft causing them to yank their licensing deals.
I think this is sorta like saying, effectively, that the new Dells won't ship with memory maxed out.... This doesn't preclude the consumer from maxing out memory after purchase, but Dell won't put the extra memory in there.
(crud... ignore the [ stuff in brackets ] )
Just like the way DARPA (or whomever) mucked with the mirror on Hubble so they could see what I'm typing from orbit, we can expect 'extra-curricular' uses for JWST.
Burial rituals are for the living. Chances are your family will want to honor your wishes, if in doing so they will be coming to terms with your passing. Whether resources are wasted or not is incidental.
As for me? I won't need to worry about it. Death is no big deal. Been there, done that. This time, I'm going to live forever.
I am all of 165lbs of pure sysadmin meat. Yesterday, after the user and I tried ourselves, I called down to building management to have a rather large and heavy, L-shaped desk (made of spent uranium, I think) moved back from the wall an inch so I could fit a computer plug past the gap. They said they couldn't do anything without the "Internal Service Request" form. Not one for paperwork, even if it is online, 2 years ago I had delegated those duties (with my boss' concent) to the Business Manager, who seems to just love paperwork. She's out of town. So... we all wait.
Mr. Balmer, why don't you sign in and say that?
thanks... I didn't realize. I'm downloading iso's now. Total pita getting to the download, but they're coming down nicely now. So... what is the point of OpenSolaris if Solaris is free?
Rational decision aimed at grabbing the loot, even if a disingenuous marketing strategy... linux is reaching full buzzword status. Not only will it help Dell sell more computers, but apparently, its going to help sell competing operating systems. But they've seem to miss the point... its ubiquitous because its free, not because its trendy.
I have to admit... her abuse of even the limited power she yields really turns me on... We are so lucky that she's so generous to share with the world even a little but of her exciting metro lifestyle.
I'm not sure its all that cool. ... well, ok, the guilty. Still, a little judgmental for my tastes, a little too much relishing in her own moral superiority. What she needs is a little of her own medecine, but that would be difficult, and would require a troop of underagers that made it past her with out her realizing, and posting to their blogs what an idiot the person checking IDs was.
Take the ID, Fine. Have them arrested, if you must. But is humiliation really necessary? There seems to be a little too much glee and smugness in her descriptions for me to cheer her on. She raises herself up on the backs of the
And wait just a damn second... this isn't Digg... what the hell is a post about a blog doing here!!! The internet just got a little smaller, a little dimmer, a little less interesting...
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233919&cid =19037881
Where does it mention in the Bill of Rights that a company has any rights whatsoever?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
... etc. etc.
A company is not entitled to the rights addressed the Constitution. These are for the protection of The People. Verizion can't vote, isn't part of the militia, can't be drafted into military service,
Why do people immediately assume that a company is the same as an individual? Companies do not retain the rights that individuals do, and that's all there is to it.