Remeber in the cold war arms race, when if the Russians had some technology the American government had to have it too (And vice versa.)? Well if we can convince our govenment that the Asains are ahead of us with OS tech, creating a "Linux gap!" Now all we have to do is convince them to move all government systems to Linux, Microsoft be damned!
Now if only they ever fixed that whole basselope-gap thing...
Explanation: Netscape and Mozilla are just too big, bloated, and annoying. Honestly, I don't give a damn if the source is open or not, I just want a web broswer with a small footprint that doesn't crash, and doesn't churn out pages in some ugly little courier looking font I can't read when I am in Linux (Yes, I know that there are simple fixes for that problem, I just don't even want to be bothered.). Konquerer kicks ass, but alas, it is tied to KDE, so Opera is my Linux browser of choice.
Of course, what really makes me feel bad is that I would LOVE to see a good IE for Linux...
Try $1200. My last employer (The now bankrupt consulting firm marchFIRST.) had 10,000 of them in a Chicago warehouse, because there was never enough money to send them out.
The real loser in this is Herman-Miller, maker of the chairs. When Herman-Miller and its vendors sold these chairs in bulk to all the dotcoms, they sold on credit with NO SECURITY. That means there is no collateral, including the chairs themselves. Now the chairs are being sold out of bankruptcy to other firms for pennies on the dollar, hampering further sales.
Supply programs that do this for all the latest viruses to the IT departments of companies with bad/lazy/not enough sysadmins. Charge them a yearly fee, and just email them a new worm that will go through their network and close all the holes behind itself once a week. Have a client that they can put on their firewall to keep it from escaping to external networks (Or just program it to stay on on local networks.).
There are companies out there that might actually pay for this.
I know all about the differences between a 500Mhz RISC chip with a massive cache versus a 1Ghz CISC chip with a tiny cache, you pretentious fuck. Just because Apple can win a few benchmarks doesn't beat mean that their chips are anywhere near as fast as Intel/AMD chips all around, especially in gaming performance, one of the most important arenas for PC performance. The G4 CPU is a great processor, it just isn't nearly great enough to justify what Apple charges for it.
Wow, that strategy of attacking Judge Jackson for running his mouth sure worked out well. It bought them just enough time to realize how stupid it was to not challenge the entire judgement, so now they get to go to a Supreme Court that doesn't tend to be very friendly to big corporations. I guess they are hoping that a few of the older justices croak and get replaced by some of Dubya's corporate cronies in time to save their butts.
Of course, at this point MS is just fighting for time. Netscape has slowly managed to die off, despite Microsoft's arguments that AOL paying too much for Netscape in the DotCom days showed that Netscape was doing fine, and AOL is continuing to hold off switching from IE to Komodo, which doesn't make MS look good. Linux companies are dropping left and right, and game companies that were once very happy to push for Linux are coming out with the fact that Linux games don't sell, pointing out that Linux isn't really a desktop competitor. On top of that, MS is starting to gain server market share once held by Sun.
So I guess Microsoft is making a last ditch effort now, trying to pull a hail Mary victory with the Supreme Court. This should be interesting.
"And stop complaining about the hardware. Give a Powermac or one of the portables a chance before knocking on it."
I'll try that around the same time Apple brings their price/performance ratio in line with X86 PCs. Apple hardware is too slow, too limited, and grossly overpriced. I'll stop complaining about their hardware when they make cheap systems based on AMD processors, and stop charging twice what they should for all the other components.
CmdrTaco on 08:36 PM August 6th, 2001
Guess that only applies to Star Wars, but not to anything really important. Good thing he isn't a REAL journalist.
Unless a CPU is going to be used for high-end gaming with pure performance in mind, buying the high-end monsters is a waste. The money is much better spent on RAM (Especially in a Windows machine.), or faster hard disks.
Even if the machine is to be used for gaming, the money is still better spent on a nice video card with a boatload of RAM, to compensate for the extreme sluggishness of a PC's system bus.
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"Vanessa del Rio??? Isn't she about 50 now?"
So? Marilyn Chambers and Ginger Lynn are coming back, so can Vanessa. I mean, really, if Vanessa Del Rio offered to give you a blowjob, would you turn her down?
No, really, I do mean it. The guy installed software that he did not have the right to install on a huge number of machines, cost his employer a small fortune by doing so, and now wants people to support him? Think about it.
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Just imagine the sort of movies people will make with these! Ron Jeremy being screwed a hundred ways by Jenna Jameson and Sylvia Saint, both wearing special bionic strength suits for cyber-sexual insanity! And then in comes Vanessa Del Rio, wearing the biggest, baddest Bionic Nurse suit ever!
Not really, no. Taco doesn't have to worry about paying the bills, because VA Linux does it for him. If you check, VA Linux also constantly loses massive amounts of money, at least some of which must be due to the massive amount of bandwitdth used by the not-profitable OSDN and Slashdot.org.
I however, have worked with numerous small web sites that have had a hard time paying the bills, and pop-up ads pay far better than any other time of advertising (Excluding hard core porn ads.).
"McOwen is being sued, and threatened with jail time, for installing the distributed.net client."
How would you like it if he installed it on every server at a company you owned, and you suddenly had to foot the bill for it? If this had happened at a small company with the client as the idle process on a large number of servers, it could have resulted in a huge financial loss that might have led to layoff. What McOwen did was horribly irresponsible, and he should have to pay back the money he cost other people!
"souless marketroids whose mothers don't love them any more."
Yeah, those horrible pieces of shit. They should all die for trying to find ways for people to actually pay their bandwidth bills, so that all those web sites you like to visit can actually afford to stay up, you arrogant, selfish piece of shit.
Last night I was in a hurry and grabbed a "dinner" from the salad bar at my local Shopper's Food Warehouse. Within hours food poisoning had set in, and I was clutching my gut and moaning in pain.
That experience led me to realize a perfect use for these; create nanotubes that destroy bacteria that cause food poisoning, and put them onto the salad bars at crappy grocery stores, dirty restaurants, etc! If they can't be put on the food, they can be injected with those air pressure guns used to innoculate masses of children in poor areas! The perfect solution to spending Friday nights getting drunk at a club and not rolling around in bed clutching one's abdomen!
Ok, this comes up in every single copyright related post, but I will reiterate it. If copyright/trademark holders allow anyone to use their copyrighted/trademarked IP, even once, without giving permission in advance, anyone else is free to use it under the law. In other words, if Lucas doesn't sue these guys, anyone else can manufacture anything he wants to and call it a lightsaber.
""AOL's actions are unprecedented and completely anti-consumer," said Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma. "AOL is paying [computer makers] to eliminate consumer choice, forcing people to select the most expensive service in the industry.""
So it was fine for Microsoft to put MSN on the desktop alone (Before they started selling the space to ISPs themselves, anyway.), but when AOL does it the whole thing is anti-competitive.
errr, hit enter too soon while filling out the post, the text I mentioned is:
The Activator was Sega's attempt at a "virtual reality" interface for the Genesis. It was a flat, octagonal piece of plastic and wires that translated the movement of someone standing inside it into movement in a game. Control was clumsy and imprecise, and after a few frustrated minutes of play, the urge to sit down and pick up a gamepad is nearly uncontrollable.
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" it also gives you an option to permanantly disable IIS..."
About time Microsoft showed people how to secure a Windows web-server! Turn off the web daemon! *sigh*
Remeber in the cold war arms race, when if the Russians had some technology the American government had to have it too (And vice versa.)? Well if we can convince our govenment that the Asains are ahead of us with OS tech, creating a "Linux gap!" Now all we have to do is convince them to move all government systems to Linux, Microsoft be damned!
Now if only they ever fixed that whole basselope-gap thing...
If you really think about it, "Star Wars" sounds sort of silly to begin with.
Opera.
Explanation: Netscape and Mozilla are just too big, bloated, and annoying. Honestly, I don't give a damn if the source is open or not, I just want a web broswer with a small footprint that doesn't crash, and doesn't churn out pages in some ugly little courier looking font I can't read when I am in Linux (Yes, I know that there are simple fixes for that problem, I just don't even want to be bothered.). Konquerer kicks ass, but alas, it is tied to KDE, so Opera is my Linux browser of choice.
Of course, what really makes me feel bad is that I would LOVE to see a good IE for Linux...
"$700 Aeron chairs."
Try $1200. My last employer (The now bankrupt consulting firm marchFIRST.) had 10,000 of them in a Chicago warehouse, because there was never enough money to send them out.
The real loser in this is Herman-Miller, maker of the chairs. When Herman-Miller and its vendors sold these chairs in bulk to all the dotcoms, they sold on credit with NO SECURITY. That means there is no collateral, including the chairs themselves. Now the chairs are being sold out of bankruptcy to other firms for pennies on the dollar, hampering further sales.
Supply programs that do this for all the latest viruses to the IT departments of companies with bad/lazy/not enough sysadmins. Charge them a yearly fee, and just email them a new worm that will go through their network and close all the holes behind itself once a week. Have a client that they can put on their firewall to keep it from escaping to external networks (Or just program it to stay on on local networks.).
There are companies out there that might actually pay for this.
I know all about the differences between a 500Mhz RISC chip with a massive cache versus a 1Ghz CISC chip with a tiny cache, you pretentious fuck. Just because Apple can win a few benchmarks doesn't beat mean that their chips are anywhere near as fast as Intel/AMD chips all around, especially in gaming performance, one of the most important arenas for PC performance. The G4 CPU is a great processor, it just isn't nearly great enough to justify what Apple charges for it.
Wow, that strategy of attacking Judge Jackson for running his mouth sure worked out well. It bought them just enough time to realize how stupid it was to not challenge the entire judgement, so now they get to go to a Supreme Court that doesn't tend to be very friendly to big corporations. I guess they are hoping that a few of the older justices croak and get replaced by some of Dubya's corporate cronies in time to save their butts.
Of course, at this point MS is just fighting for time. Netscape has slowly managed to die off, despite Microsoft's arguments that AOL paying too much for Netscape in the DotCom days showed that Netscape was doing fine, and AOL is continuing to hold off switching from IE to Komodo, which doesn't make MS look good. Linux companies are dropping left and right, and game companies that were once very happy to push for Linux are coming out with the fact that Linux games don't sell, pointing out that Linux isn't really a desktop competitor. On top of that, MS is starting to gain server market share once held by Sun.
So I guess Microsoft is making a last ditch effort now, trying to pull a hail Mary victory with the Supreme Court. This should be interesting.
"And stop complaining about the hardware. Give a Powermac or one of the portables a chance before knocking on it."
I'll try that around the same time Apple brings their price/performance ratio in line with X86 PCs. Apple hardware is too slow, too limited, and grossly overpriced. I'll stop complaining about their hardware when they make cheap systems based on AMD processors, and stop charging twice what they should for all the other components.
"I'll pass judgement after I see it."
CmdrTaco on 08:36 PM August 6th, 2001
Guess that only applies to Star Wars, but not to anything really important. Good thing he isn't a REAL journalist.
That has got to be the funniest Slashdot post EVER.
Unless a CPU is going to be used for high-end gaming with pure performance in mind, buying the high-end monsters is a waste. The money is much better spent on RAM (Especially in a Windows machine.), or faster hard disks.
Even if the machine is to be used for gaming, the money is still better spent on a nice video card with a boatload of RAM, to compensate for the extreme sluggishness of a PC's system bus.
BFD. Someone will be passing out a crack on efnet tomorrow.
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"Vanessa del Rio??? Isn't she about 50 now?"
So? Marilyn Chambers and Ginger Lynn are coming back, so can Vanessa. I mean, really, if Vanessa Del Rio offered to give you a blowjob, would you turn her down?
No, really, I do mean it. The guy installed software that he did not have the right to install on a huge number of machines, cost his employer a small fortune by doing so, and now wants people to support him? Think about it.
Just imagine the sort of movies people will make with these! Ron Jeremy being screwed a hundred ways by Jenna Jameson and Sylvia Saint, both wearing special bionic strength suits for cyber-sexual insanity! And then in comes Vanessa Del Rio, wearing the biggest, baddest Bionic Nurse suit ever!
Not really, no. Taco doesn't have to worry about paying the bills, because VA Linux does it for him. If you check, VA Linux also constantly loses massive amounts of money, at least some of which must be due to the massive amount of bandwitdth used by the not-profitable OSDN and Slashdot.org.
I however, have worked with numerous small web sites that have had a hard time paying the bills, and pop-up ads pay far better than any other time of advertising (Excluding hard core porn ads.).
"McOwen is being sued, and threatened with jail time, for installing the distributed.net client."
How would you like it if he installed it on every server at a company you owned, and you suddenly had to foot the bill for it? If this had happened at a small company with the client as the idle process on a large number of servers, it could have resulted in a huge financial loss that might have led to layoff. What McOwen did was horribly irresponsible, and he should have to pay back the money he cost other people!
"souless marketroids whose mothers don't love them any more."
Yeah, those horrible pieces of shit. They should all die for trying to find ways for people to actually pay their bandwidth bills, so that all those web sites you like to visit can actually afford to stay up, you arrogant, selfish piece of shit.
Normally I would, but I just got laid off and I need to stay off the weed so I can pass drug tests for new jobs...
Last night I was in a hurry and grabbed a "dinner" from the salad bar at my local Shopper's Food Warehouse. Within hours food poisoning had set in, and I was clutching my gut and moaning in pain.
That experience led me to realize a perfect use for these; create nanotubes that destroy bacteria that cause food poisoning, and put them onto the salad bars at crappy grocery stores, dirty restaurants, etc! If they can't be put on the food, they can be injected with those air pressure guns used to innoculate masses of children in poor areas! The perfect solution to spending Friday nights getting drunk at a club and not rolling around in bed clutching one's abdomen!
Ok, this comes up in every single copyright related post, but I will reiterate it. If copyright/trademark holders allow anyone to use their copyrighted/trademarked IP, even once, without giving permission in advance, anyone else is free to use it under the law. In other words, if Lucas doesn't sue these guys, anyone else can manufacture anything he wants to and call it a lightsaber.
From the mouths of babes:
""AOL's actions are unprecedented and completely anti-consumer," said Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma. "AOL is paying [computer makers] to eliminate consumer choice, forcing people to select the most expensive service in the industry.""
So it was fine for Microsoft to put MSN on the desktop alone (Before they started selling the space to ISPs themselves, anyway.), but when AOL does it the whole thing is anti-competitive.
*sigh*
errr, hit enter too soon while filling out the post, the text I mentioned is:
The Activator was Sega's attempt at a "virtual reality" interface for the Genesis. It was a flat, octagonal piece of plastic and wires that translated the movement of someone standing inside it into movement in a game. Control was clumsy and imprecise, and after a few frustrated minutes of play, the urge to sit down and pick up a gamepad is nearly uncontrollable.