Hey! Damn youths today! Everyone knows the internet went downhill after them animated gifs! You kids with your fancy torrents and goth music and videos coming from tubes...GET OFFA MAH LAWN!
Animated GIFs? Bah! Young whippersnappers! The Internet went downhill with the introduction of gopher!
You guys laugh now, but I'll bet you'll be interested when they start posting articles from the future.
Well, in that case, any time Slashdot mentions a tech company, I vote that the article include the company's stock price at the time of the article posting...
Now that everyone knows that HP-hired goons will go through your garbage, sit outside your house, and take pictures of you & your family...it seems everybody thinks HP is great! I look forward to Sony, Microsoft, and SCO trying this next...
Yep. Zonk's so afraid, he's posting positive news articles about HP from nearly 4 years ago and passing them off as "news for nerds"!
It just doesn't make any sense, it's like Apple is using some jedi mind trick to sell overpriced average hardware.
And of course, when they've been the most successful at this game, it's been Steve Jobs behind the wheel.
You might be trolling, but I'm not. Steve Jobs is a marketing genius. He's figured out how to sell hardware that has little to no technological advantages over many of its competitors at prices that are, on average, much higher than the competition.
Most of Symantec's team, for example, was unable to attend. "It turned out that everybody on our team was not able to make the first meeting but one guy," said Cris Paden, a Symantec spokesman.
Symantec and Microsoft have a long history of a love/hate relationship and Microsoft has put more and more things into its operating system products that have closed entire markets for Symantec (and it's predecessors).
So what if you're an alcoholic and internet addicted? Does that mean you have like 12% less freinds? I'm not asking for myself personally, but I have this friend...
Or to put it another way, it all becomes a set of probabilities. If person X has guessed the outcome of something (say, a football game) correctly 80% of the time, then you're safer betting on his predictions than you are betting on expert Y who is only correct 30% of the time.
Hmmm...seems like the outcome of a football game could be predicted correctly at least 50% of the time if the predictions were chosen at random.
You may joke, but these days anyone who questions the current pseudoscience-dogma-of-the-month tends to get modded -1 when they interject facts into the discussion, so you're not that far off.
Epiphany uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and, from my testing, loads much quicker than firefox, uses less memory and integrates with the desktop better.
Hasn't FlexLM basically done away with dongles anyways? I can't think of many modern package that doesn't support FlexLM or one of its competitors in place of dongles, and those that do generally can use the newer USB dongles which eliminates much of the stupidity of their LPT cousins.
Ooh! Even easier to crack! Watch the port for the license and vendor daemons with ethereal (or similar sniffer/analyser), figure what's getting sent back and forth, learn to fake it and you're golden!
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Has there, ever, been an incident of someone ever dying or being permanently crippled as a result of a tag-induced injury
Hey! I'm confined to wheelchair due to a freak accident involving tag, two goats and a broken jar of vaseline, you insensitive clod!!
If there weren't economic benefits, why do you think IBM, Oracle, Sun, Google and even Microsoft (yes, Microsoft!) all have their hands dipped into the OSS marketplace? In particular, IBM is betting the farm on open source.
The money to be made in open source is in integrating all the disparate components...not just what Red Hat does with Linux distros, but true systems integration. And if IBM weren't making boatloads off this model, they would've just bought out The SCO Group instead of fighting them in court all this time (yes, it's still going!)
The more important question is what can be done to either provide more secure replacements or make sure binaries can be functional without having to be trusted by the OS.
Not much considering that Linux is a monolithic architecture. 'Drivers' are just pieces of code inserted into the running kernel; kernel modules have the same privileges as the rest of the running kernel. Which means that any kernel module that can be buffer overflowed from user mode code effectively becomes a local root exploit.
The only way I can see it working is to somehow move the binary blob into userland space. Since the blob needs to talk directly to the AGPGART, I'm not sure how that would be accomplished -- maybe a module could run the nvidia module in some sort of 'virtualized' kernel space?
In other words, since it was a pre-release version, and since the judge was only shown what the Take-Two employee decided to demonstrate for him, it's hard to tell what the judge actually saw.
Please tell me that you don't really think that a judge of Friedman's calibre and experience is too stupid to know whether or not he's having the wool pulled over his eyes just because what's in front of him happens to be a video game.
The next thing you're going to tell me is that the ruling was prepared on drool-proof paper.
Thompson seems to be implying that the judge is some kind of idiot who was completely unable to interpret what he saw happening on the screen while someone else, knowledgeable in the game, was playing it for him.
Now, I've never seen the game. But based on what games I have seen/played, I can't imagine that anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ and a heartbeat would be unable to interpret what's happening on the screen. I mean, games these days have fairly realistic 3D graphics; it's like implying that one can't figure out what's going on on the screen because it's anime.
Considering IBM is making cell processor blade servers, this release further allows end-users to opprotunity to use that same hardware for production and testing purposes, and at what should be fraction of the price.
Not really. While the processors may be the same, the driver support is likely to be at least somewhat different. For instance, I rather doubt the PS3 comes equipped with IBM's ServerRAID series RAID controllers or with support for fibre channel SAN storage.
Now, living in mom's basement and not bathing regularly everyday would be.
I think I read somewhere that Linux causes that, too...
The hidden truth is that there's a large segment of *BSD, Mac OS X and Windows users so afflicted; the best we can seem to infer is that the disease is actually platform independent.
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Alternatively, setting it to 0 will put a close button only on the current tab, if you prefer.
Personally, I like the default, though.
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Animated GIFs? Bah! Young whippersnappers! The Internet went downhill with the introduction of gopher!
No, he wasn't. He was using IRIX's proprietary desktop, which had nothing to do with CDE. The IRIX desktop was lightyears ahead of anything else coming out of the *nix camp at the time. Nice object-oriented file manager, excellent support for audio, video and 3D graphics and even its own widget toolkit.
And to say that you weren't using X, you were using CDE, is as silly as saying that you aren't using X, you're using GNOME.
Well, in that case, any time Slashdot mentions a tech company, I vote that the article include the company's stock price at the time of the article posting...
(man, I'm gonna be rich!)
Uh, was that my outside voice?
Yep. Zonk's so afraid, he's posting positive news articles about HP from nearly 4 years ago and passing them off as "news for nerds"!
And of course, when they've been the most successful at this game, it's been Steve Jobs behind the wheel.
You might be trolling, but I'm not. Steve Jobs is a marketing genius. He's figured out how to sell hardware that has little to no technological advantages over many of its competitors at prices that are, on average, much higher than the competition.
Symantec and Microsoft have a long history of a love/hate relationship and Microsoft has put more and more things into its operating system products that have closed entire markets for Symantec (and it's predecessors).
That's what Slashdot is for.
Hmmm...seems like the outcome of a football game could be predicted correctly at least 50% of the time if the predictions were chosen at random.
Ooh! Just like U.S. Federal Government! Good idea!
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Epiphany uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and, from my testing, loads much quicker than firefox, uses less memory and integrates with the desktop better.
People already have.
Video pr0n.
Ooh! Even easier to crack! Watch the port for the license and vendor daemons with ethereal (or similar sniffer/analyser), figure what's getting sent back and forth, learn to fake it and you're golden!
Hey! I'm confined to wheelchair due to a freak accident involving tag, two goats and a broken jar of vaseline, you insensitive clod!!
Or the benefits to the European software economy.
If there weren't economic benefits, why do you think IBM, Oracle, Sun, Google and even Microsoft (yes, Microsoft!) all have their hands dipped into the OSS marketplace? In particular, IBM is betting the farm on open source.
The money to be made in open source is in integrating all the disparate components...not just what Red Hat does with Linux distros, but true systems integration. And if IBM weren't making boatloads off this model, they would've just bought out The SCO Group instead of fighting them in court all this time (yes, it's still going!)
Not much considering that Linux is a monolithic architecture. 'Drivers' are just pieces of code inserted into the running kernel; kernel modules have the same privileges as the rest of the running kernel. Which means that any kernel module that can be buffer overflowed from user mode code effectively becomes a local root exploit.
The only way I can see it working is to somehow move the binary blob into userland space. Since the blob needs to talk directly to the AGPGART, I'm not sure how that would be accomplished -- maybe a module could run the nvidia module in some sort of 'virtualized' kernel space?
Please tell me that you don't really think that a judge of Friedman's calibre and experience is too stupid to know whether or not he's having the wool pulled over his eyes just because what's in front of him happens to be a video game.
The next thing you're going to tell me is that the ruling was prepared on drool-proof paper.
Sure, if you just need the box to compile native code. Of course, you could always use a cross-compiler.
But if you want to do actual integration testing, you'll need the real deal.
...you don't even know what you saw?
Thompson seems to be implying that the judge is some kind of idiot who was completely unable to interpret what he saw happening on the screen while someone else, knowledgeable in the game, was playing it for him.
Now, I've never seen the game. But based on what games I have seen/played, I can't imagine that anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ and a heartbeat would be unable to interpret what's happening on the screen. I mean, games these days have fairly realistic 3D graphics; it's like implying that one can't figure out what's going on on the screen because it's anime.
Not really. While the processors may be the same, the driver support is likely to be at least somewhat different. For instance, I rather doubt the PS3 comes equipped with IBM's ServerRAID series RAID controllers or with support for fibre channel SAN storage.
I think I read somewhere that Linux causes that, too...
The hidden truth is that there's a large segment of *BSD, Mac OS X and Windows users so afflicted; the best we can seem to infer is that the disease is actually platform independent.
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