The schools make kickbacks by forcing their students to use Windows software.
As long as education is a racket, this kind of crap will continue. It's the same with sports - college athletics are supported by the non-athletes. Many of the business schools out there have cutting edge workstations so their students can run Office, while the computer science people make due with older machines. God forbid you walk into a computer lab in the English department at your average school - it's like traveling back in time to 1998.
How does this cure the problem? These cable breaks are IMHO deliberate, and have been done to install high bandwidth tapping devices probably by us, but possible by the Israelis, Chinese, French, or Brits.
But, if the route's down, wouldn't another route be tried?
After all, that's the original purpose of the Internet - to route around points of failure if possible.
The scenario you mention of course happens all the time, but if a massive link goes down somewhere on the other side of the world, and mDNS can't deal with that, then that seems like a bug that needs to be fixed in mDNS, not a problem with the network itself. Of course, your latency may be higher and your connection may have less bandwidth, if you can't route around congestion, but it's better than trying to send your packets through India when the link doesn't exist.
I guess your ignorant statement could be excused, as you clearly just fell off the turnip truck from bumpkinville.
Thoses of us who have not been on mars, in a cave, with our eyes shut and our fingers in our ears know that Microsoft's "upgrades" are really extremely incremental. What were the major differences between NT > 2K > XP > Vista? I tell you, there weren't a whole bunch that really matter. Windows 7 will likely be no different.
This is Slashdot, not the Wikipedia. Please feel free to google "ad block" if you don't believe me - there are literally hundreds of solutions, and many major browsers include the ability to block ads out of the box.
"Those who don't are making a clear and conscious choice, one which should be respected. You do not have some inalienable right to view their content."
They don't have to put their content up on the web. And, yes, I believe until somebody attempts to secure their page, that I have the right look at it in any manner I choose.
Like the recent US bailouts? The House and the Senate switchboards were so jammed, that they BROKE for some folks. Several elected officials, in both bodies, said they heard from more people on this issue, than on all other issues CUMULATIVELY, and that the resounding desire of the people was "no bailouts!!!"
What did they do? They voted for the bailouts anyway. The elected officials in the USA (and Australia it seems) are not ignorant of what their constituents want. They simply are willing to ignore them and do what their real employers - the lobbyists - want them to do.
After all, what are the people going to do? They're too fat to revolt, and they seem to have bought the lie that third parties are un-electable. So, they'll gripe about it for a while, but soon that boot crushing their throat won't really even be noticed.
"Those whose job was to re-invent the wheel, and re-write from scratch a new application to compete with a existing one, their pay should be driven to 0."
Unless they are reinventing an especially crappy, low performance wheel that was designed an a different era. Then they should have their salaries increased tenfold, as compensation for the service of relieving the rest of our species from using a horrible turn of a piece of software.
We (also in Portland) have been testing every available SSD lately. We have quite a few hanging around the office.
All I can say, is that whereas they all say "SSD" the performance differences between most models indicate to me that they are indeed using widely different technical solutions. Some read slowly, write quickly. Most read quickly and write a bit slower. Some are insanely sensitive to the block size of the filesystem. Some aren't. Behind the SATA cable and the firmware in the device that tells your computer "Hei there guise I'm a drive" we really don't know jack about SSD design, or tricks or shortcuts being taken by their manufacturers.
We're sticking with the automotive grade hard drives for now.
You're living in fantasy land if you believe the Chinese aren't spying on us to the best of their ability. Yes, this includes network sweeps and all kinds of other shit that you can see, right in your own logfiles! You can read about it in the paper if you wish.
I don't think the poster was saying "All people of Chinese heritage including people who are genetically Chinese but were adopted by American parents are evil!" He was saying "The People's Republic of China is spying on us."
Get a grip, man. Save yourself the effort and relax. The Chinese, Israeli, Canadian, French, and Mexican states are all spying on us all the time. We spy on them too. States are like pigs at a trough, always jockeying for position among each other. Sometimes they bite each other. I hear there are a few people who manage to make obscene amounts of money all the while.
Were the Rockefellers or Morgans or Chases or Vanderbilts or the Fords ever eating meatloaf because they had to stretch their meat ration?
I encountered this with Apple. I was on their forum a few times, making rational complaints that they didn't support a certain professional camera's RAW files (Epson R-D1). Within hours, the post would be deleted. The first time I thought it was a glitch. After that I knew they were fucking with me.
I don't think people who can't bother to color correct the self portrait they have on their website need to be criticizing people's writing style. Nice try though.
I wouldn't say that Linux is "just like" the Mac. From 1994 until 2000 I used Linux to a greater or lesser degree. I also occasionally used BeOS and always had a Windows partition around for gaming. In 2000 I switched to using FreeBSD and that was an upgrade in my opinion. In 2002 I got a Powerbook G4 and never looked back. Until this year, when I got the Mac Pro (finally replacing the Powerbook after 6 years!) I didn't use anything else, except a bit of gaming on the Windows Media Center my wife won at the state fair. I recently installed Ubuntu in Parallels, and noticed that it's decent, but X.org still has some serious shortcomings.
Color profiles still are not implemented in any meaningful way for starters, which for me is huge. Audio is nowhere near Apple's standards. I use Audio Units Lab quite frequently, and there is no real analog on Linux that I can get worked out straight. Quartz composer also has no rival on Linux. These are just fairly basic features that you get free with the OS. The argument that programming for the Mac is easier than anything else out there except maybe Smalltalk could be brought up. Additionally, I have plugged in a whole bunch of peripherals from heaven knows where, and they have all worked with no drivers or configuration needed.
I really still miss the/proc filesystem, though there are some similar features with the Mac. Also Apple for some reason neglected to take the jail facility from FreeBSD which blows my mind. OS X is not perfect, but Linux still has a long way to go and will never be "just like" OS X.
We don't require it to survive. We require it to maintain our current populations, but people out in the country would be able to survive. Heck, I just got back from a month long road trip and self powered homes are no longer just for the rich. Some states even pay you to install wind, solar, and other small scale home based power generators.
So, I agree, there may be chaos in the cities, where many people can't even cook and don't possess wilderness survival skills or tools, like guns, ammo, fishing gear, etc but I know places that'll carry on - they have biodiesel plants that run off corn cobs in many parts of the country. Horses too.
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The schools make kickbacks by forcing their students to use Windows software.
As long as education is a racket, this kind of crap will continue. It's the same with sports - college athletics are supported by the non-athletes. Many of the business schools out there have cutting edge workstations so their students can run Office, while the computer science people make due with older machines. God forbid you walk into a computer lab in the English department at your average school - it's like traveling back in time to 1998.
School's just a business like any other now.
How does this cure the problem? These cable breaks are IMHO deliberate, and have been done to install high bandwidth tapping devices probably by us, but possible by the Israelis, Chinese, French, or Brits.
But, if the route's down, wouldn't another route be tried?
After all, that's the original purpose of the Internet - to route around points of failure if possible.
The scenario you mention of course happens all the time, but if a massive link goes down somewhere on the other side of the world, and mDNS can't deal with that, then that seems like a bug that needs to be fixed in mDNS, not a problem with the network itself. Of course, your latency may be higher and your connection may have less bandwidth, if you can't route around congestion, but it's better than trying to send your packets through India when the link doesn't exist.
Legions is the spiritual successor to Tribes, and it's free. Try it out by heading over to instantaction.com - it runs in your browser!
Hate post?
I guess your ignorant statement could be excused, as you clearly just fell off the turnip truck from bumpkinville.
Thoses of us who have not been on mars, in a cave, with our eyes shut and our fingers in our ears know that Microsoft's "upgrades" are really extremely incremental. What were the major differences between NT > 2K > XP > Vista? I tell you, there weren't a whole bunch that really matter. Windows 7 will likely be no different.
"Citation please?"
This is Slashdot, not the Wikipedia. Please feel free to google "ad block" if you don't believe me - there are literally hundreds of solutions, and many major browsers include the ability to block ads out of the box.
"Those who don't are making a clear and conscious choice, one which should be respected. You do not have some inalienable right to view their content."
They don't have to put their content up on the web. And, yes, I believe until somebody attempts to secure their page, that I have the right look at it in any manner I choose.
Actually, I start at 1. And, everybody I know blocks inline ads. I help people block Google Adwords as well, because they annoy me.
Get a real business model.
Like the recent US bailouts? The House and the Senate switchboards were so jammed, that they BROKE for some folks. Several elected officials, in both bodies, said they heard from more people on this issue, than on all other issues CUMULATIVELY, and that the resounding desire of the people was "no bailouts!!!"
What did they do? They voted for the bailouts anyway. The elected officials in the USA (and Australia it seems) are not ignorant of what their constituents want. They simply are willing to ignore them and do what their real employers - the lobbyists - want them to do.
After all, what are the people going to do? They're too fat to revolt, and they seem to have bought the lie that third parties are un-electable. So, they'll gripe about it for a while, but soon that boot crushing their throat won't really even be noticed.
This is already all taken care of in OS X, which the iPhone runs a subset of.
This has more to do with Apple just deciding things for its users, than anything technical.
"Those whose job was to re-invent the wheel, and re-write from scratch a new application to compete with a existing one, their pay should be driven to 0."
Unless they are reinventing an especially crappy, low performance wheel that was designed an a different era. Then they should have their salaries increased tenfold, as compensation for the service of relieving the rest of our species from using a horrible turn of a piece of software.
Re-inventing the wheel isn't always unnecessary.
Ads don't keep websites free. They generate a bit of money for the owners of the website.
Websites were around before banner ads. They survive even now, despite the fact that just about everybody blocks ads.
You're the same kind of person who claims that watching TV but going to take a whiz during commercials is stealing.
We (also in Portland) have been testing every available SSD lately. We have quite a few hanging around the office.
All I can say, is that whereas they all say "SSD" the performance differences between most models indicate to me that they are indeed using widely different technical solutions. Some read slowly, write quickly. Most read quickly and write a bit slower. Some are insanely sensitive to the block size of the filesystem. Some aren't. Behind the SATA cable and the firmware in the device that tells your computer "Hei there guise I'm a drive" we really don't know jack about SSD design, or tricks or shortcuts being taken by their manufacturers.
We're sticking with the automotive grade hard drives for now.
So, it doesn't fragment?
This is big news. You should call up Bill Gates and let him know he doesn't have to defrag anything at Microsoft any more.
Baaaaaah.
It only took them like 3 years!
You're living in fantasy land if you believe the Chinese aren't spying on us to the best of their ability. Yes, this includes network sweeps and all kinds of other shit that you can see, right in your own logfiles! You can read about it in the paper if you wish.
I don't think the poster was saying "All people of Chinese heritage including people who are genetically Chinese but were adopted by American parents are evil!" He was saying "The People's Republic of China is spying on us."
Get a grip, man. Save yourself the effort and relax. The Chinese, Israeli, Canadian, French, and Mexican states are all spying on us all the time. We spy on them too. States are like pigs at a trough, always jockeying for position among each other. Sometimes they bite each other. I hear there are a few people who manage to make obscene amounts of money all the while.
Were the Rockefellers or Morgans or Chases or Vanderbilts or the Fords ever eating meatloaf because they had to stretch their meat ration?
Some dummy hooks a Wifi router up in his office, is sometimes what does it.
Believe it or not, the Democrats have historically been the War Party.
I encountered this with Apple. I was on their forum a few times, making rational complaints that they didn't support a certain professional camera's RAW files (Epson R-D1). Within hours, the post would be deleted. The first time I thought it was a glitch. After that I knew they were fucking with me.
I don't live in a Windows-centric world. I elect to opt out of that boneheaded mess.
It's Infoworld. What do you expect? They are a Windows-centric publication.
Do people really believe that GHz matters any more?
What is this, Wikipedia?
Go research it for yourself.
I don't think people who can't bother to color correct the self portrait they have on their website need to be criticizing people's writing style. Nice try though.
Or do you have hepatitis?
I wouldn't say that Linux is "just like" the Mac. From 1994 until 2000 I used Linux to a greater or lesser degree. I also occasionally used BeOS and always had a Windows partition around for gaming. In 2000 I switched to using FreeBSD and that was an upgrade in my opinion. In 2002 I got a Powerbook G4 and never looked back. Until this year, when I got the Mac Pro (finally replacing the Powerbook after 6 years!) I didn't use anything else, except a bit of gaming on the Windows Media Center my wife won at the state fair. I recently installed Ubuntu in Parallels, and noticed that it's decent, but X.org still has some serious shortcomings.
Color profiles still are not implemented in any meaningful way for starters, which for me is huge. Audio is nowhere near Apple's standards. I use Audio Units Lab quite frequently, and there is no real analog on Linux that I can get worked out straight. Quartz composer also has no rival on Linux. These are just fairly basic features that you get free with the OS. The argument that programming for the Mac is easier than anything else out there except maybe Smalltalk could be brought up. Additionally, I have plugged in a whole bunch of peripherals from heaven knows where, and they have all worked with no drivers or configuration needed.
I really still miss the /proc filesystem, though there are some similar features with the Mac. Also Apple for some reason neglected to take the jail facility from FreeBSD which blows my mind. OS X is not perfect, but Linux still has a long way to go and will never be "just like" OS X.
We don't require it to survive. We require it to maintain our current populations, but people out in the country would be able to survive. Heck, I just got back from a month long road trip and self powered homes are no longer just for the rich. Some states even pay you to install wind, solar, and other small scale home based power generators.
So, I agree, there may be chaos in the cities, where many people can't even cook and don't possess wilderness survival skills or tools, like guns, ammo, fishing gear, etc but I know places that'll carry on - they have biodiesel plants that run off corn cobs in many parts of the country. Horses too.