It seems to me that Sun has never gotten very serious about putting out Free Software for x86, not only because they can't make any money off it, but also because it cuts into the profits from their products that they can make money off of. Can somebody please explain to me exactly what Sun's incentive is to engage in a price war with Linux? Other than pure spite, there seems to be no rational reason for them to do this.
Possible uses for this product include advertising, entertainment facilities, design prototyping, teleconferencing etc. Strange, they seem to be avoiding mentioning the most obvious application... porn!
As pointed out in the article, yes, both Google and Yahoo! are lying about the total number of entries. However, Yahoo is exagerating much more than Google is... short of getting full access to do a complete audit on their databases, I can't think of a way to validate either companies claims.
Google only reports "about 4,820,000" entries for Britney Spears, while Yahoo reports "about 67,100,000" entries! This makes Yahoo more than 12 times better than google! Yeah, my methodology is completely fucked up... but then, so is the NCSA's!
Just as a proof of concept, would somebody please start sending out millions of "fake" spam messages, all with links to every one of SCO's web pages? Thanks!
No modern Windows is derived from a single user operating system. You don't know what you are talking about, lookup Windows NT. If you're insisting that no version of Windows was derived from DOS, then perhaps it is you who does not know what you're talking about! Or pehaps you simply don't understand the meaning of the phrase "derived from".
The problem with single user is with support for remote applications, e.g. running a thin client...
Wow. Just wow. The depth of your knowledge of Windows platform is astounding. I was pointing out a potential problem with using BeOS as a server. The depth of your ignorance is astounding. And if you think all versions of NT were "multiuser from the ground up", then why did Citrix have to go through great contortions to make multiple concurrent users work? Perhaps you should study the history of Windows a bit more before you criticize others' opinions... and stop trying so hard to be an asshole, it doesn't become you.
WTF? It's "morally wrong" to try to figure out how things actually work, then tell other people? So science is morally wrong then, we should just beleive what are leaders tell us, and never question anything? Well, at least you and Al Queda agree on something! Man, people making assinine statements like that about things being "morally wrong" is the best argument I've seen yet why creationism should NOT be taught in the schools... you've got it backwards; intentionally remaining ignorant is the most morally wrong thing a person can do... but that is apparently the path you have choosen.
512 bytes is a very small amount of code (it fits on a single sheet of paper!), compared to the megabytes of code contained in software like Windows, Internet Explorer or Internet Information Server. Three bugs within these 512 bytes compromised the security completely - a bunch of hackers found them within days after first looking at the code. Why hasn't Microsoft Corp. been able to do the same? Why? Uh, maybe because they simply don't give a shit?
From the article: BeOS was always a single-user operating system, and ZETA appears to be the same... That, in and of itself, is sufficient reason to completely ignore ZETA. One of my biggest complaints about Windows is that it is derived from a single user operating system, even though they have fixed almost all the resulting cruft by now. Please, please, please give me an OS that was designed from day one to support multiple users!
(The problem with single user is with support for remote applications, e.g. running a thin client server or trying to remote applications via a web server. Every client then runs in the same configuration "space", and any changes effect all other users! Unix doesn't have the problem only if you guarantee that each remote client is logged in with a unique user id.)
You're missing the point. FedEx's business model is fundamentally flawed, e.g. their competitors could conceivably put them out of business just by ordering millions of "free" boxes and never using them. But instead of fixed their flawed business model, instead they sic their lawyers on anybody with the audacity to point out a flaw in their business model. This is exactly the same kind of behavior the RIAA and MPAA are engaging in, which is what is pissing everybody off.
Of course, it also annoys me that grocery stores can't charge you the dime it costs them for each paper bag they use to bag your groceries, thereby encouraging people to recycle or even (gasp!) bring reusable canvas bags to the store with them. The principles of economics cannot be used to effectively to ensure the most efficient use of resources as long as companies continue to conspire to hide the real costs from us. (Granted, many items probably cost more to track than you could get back in revenue by tracking them.) Likewise, the internet cannot function properly until people actually have to pay for it relative to number of bits they actually transfer, since there will always be idiots who take "unlimited service" literally... Case in point: Spam would vanish overnight if spammers had to pay the actual costs of the bandwidth and disk space required to deliver the millions of messages they send out.
If you put up a web site called myford.com with a copy of the Ford logo on every page, then yes, they probably could sue you for trademark infringement. If he had simply named the site shippingcompanyfurniture.com, then FedEx should have no legal recourse. But of course he just had to use the trademarked "FedEx" in the name, and put a copy of the FedEx logo on every page.
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx. Duh. So why not charge people the actual cost of the boxes, then subtract it off the shipping fees?
While we're at it, I hear that strip clubs discriminate against disabled dancers when hiring, and supermodels discriminate against geeks when selecting sex partners! This blantant discrimination must end! I say we demand legislation now to mandate quotas for supermodels dating slashdot readers!
I realize this probably doesn't apply to most slashdotters, but some people might be leaving other people's genetic material all over the place too... so I should be fired from my job because my significant other has a predisposition to some disease? If you go around collecting DNA behind people's backs, you don't really know who it actually belongs to, do you? Next thing you know, your employer will require everybody to be screened by one of those dogs trained to sniff out prostate cancer...
Anybody who has ever used regedit.exe can tweak these values themselves. That would be, what, about 0.1% of the Windows user base? Repeat after me: "Not everybody in the world is an engineer!"
What do these gadgets currently do in Arizona or other places that never go on Daylight Saving Time in the first place? Personally, I think we should just say "screw it" and put everybody everywhere on GMT/UTC/Zulu time. Of course, as it is I still get calls at 4am from people in the GMT time zone that don't appear to be able to handle the concept of subtracting 8 hours from GMT To get PST (or 7 hours to get PDT).
It is a lot cheaper and easier to get ahold of a Linux system to analyze it's vulnerabilities than an SCO system. Or are you seriously suggesting all these hackers are going to put money in SCO's pocket by actually buying SCO operating systems in order to find holes in them?
New business model: "Our operating system is the MOST SECURE EVER!!! Want to prove us wrong? Send $999 to the following address..."
The behaviour of younger generations? I'd say we are heading towards collapse much more because of the behaviour of older generations, with their boneheaded moves like invading Iraq... doing community service is now an integral part of highschool; awareness and concern for others has replaced the selfishness and "screw you!" attitude of the 80's. Thanks to the internet, a rich diversity of interests have replaced the single-minded groupthink of previous generations... hey, just because you're not into current youth culture is no reason to knock it!
For the record, I'm 44 years old and do not approve of the current body-piercing/tattooing fad -- Not because it bothers me at all, but because I'm afraid all these kids will wake up one day 20 years from now and exclaim "What the hell was I thinking?!?" People's tastes change. I enjoy a lot of music now that I considered boring as a kid, and I play more videogames now than when I was younger. Go figure. Video games may have a positive or negative effect on kids -- it's too early to tell. I look at them as preparing kids for the data analysist/button pusher jobs they will likely have in the future.
if you are Target Inc and track each recipt in a giant database - you'll be less likely to get ripped off. Costco already does this... net result of which is you can buy things there and then take them back years later when the break, without a receipt. I'm just wondering how many times you can do this before they decide they no longer want you as a customer.
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless
beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and
impatient of restraint.
--- Hesiod, Eighth Century B.C.
The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of
today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for
parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as
if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is
foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest
and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress.
Peter the Hermit, A.D. 1274
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
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It seems to me that Sun has never gotten very serious about putting out Free Software for x86, not only because they can't make any money off it, but also because it cuts into the profits from their products that they can make money off of. Can somebody please explain to me exactly what Sun's incentive is to engage in a price war with Linux? Other than pure spite, there seems to be no rational reason for them to do this.
Possible uses for this product include advertising, entertainment facilities, design prototyping, teleconferencing etc. Strange, they seem to be avoiding mentioning the most obvious application... porn!
As pointed out in the article, yes, both Google and Yahoo! are lying about the total number of entries. However, Yahoo is exagerating much more than Google is... short of getting full access to do a complete audit on their databases, I can't think of a way to validate either companies claims.
Google only reports "about 4,820,000" entries for Britney Spears, while Yahoo reports "about 67,100,000" entries! This makes Yahoo more than 12 times better than google! Yeah, my methodology is completely fucked up... but then, so is the NCSA's!
Just as a proof of concept, would somebody please start sending out millions of "fake" spam messages, all with links to every one of SCO's web pages? Thanks!
The problem with single user is with support for remote applications, e.g. running a thin client... Wow. Just wow. The depth of your knowledge of Windows platform is astounding. I was pointing out a potential problem with using BeOS as a server. The depth of your ignorance is astounding. And if you think all versions of NT were "multiuser from the ground up", then why did Citrix have to go through great contortions to make multiple concurrent users work? Perhaps you should study the history of Windows a bit more before you criticize others' opinions... and stop trying so hard to be an asshole, it doesn't become you.
WTF? It's "morally wrong" to try to figure out how things actually work, then tell other people? So science is morally wrong then, we should just beleive what are leaders tell us, and never question anything? Well, at least you and Al Queda agree on something! Man, people making assinine statements like that about things being "morally wrong" is the best argument I've seen yet why creationism should NOT be taught in the schools... you've got it backwards; intentionally remaining ignorant is the most morally wrong thing a person can do... but that is apparently the path you have choosen.
512 bytes is a very small amount of code (it fits on a single sheet of paper!), compared to the megabytes of code contained in software like Windows, Internet Explorer or Internet Information Server. Three bugs within these 512 bytes compromised the security completely - a bunch of hackers found them within days after first looking at the code. Why hasn't Microsoft Corp. been able to do the same? Why? Uh, maybe because they simply don't give a shit?
(The problem with single user is with support for remote applications, e.g. running a thin client server or trying to remote applications via a web server. Every client then runs in the same configuration "space", and any changes effect all other users! Unix doesn't have the problem only if you guarantee that each remote client is logged in with a unique user id.)
Kernel panics are caused by putting popcorn in the toaster...
Of course, it also annoys me that grocery stores can't charge you the dime it costs them for each paper bag they use to bag your groceries, thereby encouraging people to recycle or even (gasp!) bring reusable canvas bags to the store with them. The principles of economics cannot be used to effectively to ensure the most efficient use of resources as long as companies continue to conspire to hide the real costs from us. (Granted, many items probably cost more to track than you could get back in revenue by tracking them.) Likewise, the internet cannot function properly until people actually have to pay for it relative to number of bits they actually transfer, since there will always be idiots who take "unlimited service" literally... Case in point: Spam would vanish overnight if spammers had to pay the actual costs of the bandwidth and disk space required to deliver the millions of messages they send out.
Look at the bright side... when you take them out to dinner, it costs almost nothing to feed them!
If you put up a web site called myford.com with a copy of the Ford logo on every page, then yes, they probably could sue you for trademark infringement. If he had simply named the site shippingcompanyfurniture.com, then FedEx should have no legal recourse. But of course he just had to use the trademarked "FedEx" in the name, and put a copy of the FedEx logo on every page.
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx. Duh. So why not charge people the actual cost of the boxes, then subtract it off the shipping fees?
While we're at it, I hear that strip clubs discriminate against disabled dancers when hiring, and supermodels discriminate against geeks when selecting sex partners! This blantant discrimination must end! I say we demand legislation now to mandate quotas for supermodels dating slashdot readers!
I realize this probably doesn't apply to most slashdotters, but some people might be leaving other people's genetic material all over the place too... so I should be fired from my job because my significant other has a predisposition to some disease? If you go around collecting DNA behind people's backs, you don't really know who it actually belongs to, do you? Next thing you know, your employer will require everybody to be screened by one of those dogs trained to sniff out prostate cancer...
I just want to know where they plug that puppy in when it comes time to recharge the battery...
Anybody who has ever used regedit.exe can tweak these values themselves. That would be, what, about 0.1% of the Windows user base? Repeat after me: "Not everybody in the world is an engineer!"
What do these gadgets currently do in Arizona or other places that never go on Daylight Saving Time in the first place? Personally, I think we should just say "screw it" and put everybody everywhere on GMT/UTC/Zulu time. Of course, as it is I still get calls at 4am from people in the GMT time zone that don't appear to be able to handle the concept of subtracting 8 hours from GMT To get PST (or 7 hours to get PDT).
New business model: "Our operating system is the MOST SECURE EVER!!! Want to prove us wrong? Send $999 to the following address..."
For the record, I'm 44 years old and do not approve of the current body-piercing/tattooing fad -- Not because it bothers me at all, but because I'm afraid all these kids will wake up one day 20 years from now and exclaim "What the hell was I thinking?!?" People's tastes change. I enjoy a lot of music now that I considered boring as a kid, and I play more videogames now than when I was younger. Go figure. Video games may have a positive or negative effect on kids -- it's too early to tell. I look at them as preparing kids for the data analysist/button pusher jobs they will likely have in the future.
if you are Target Inc and track each recipt in a giant database - you'll be less likely to get ripped off. Costco already does this... net result of which is you can buy things there and then take them back years later when the break, without a receipt. I'm just wondering how many times you can do this before they decide they no longer want you as a customer.
The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress. Peter the Hermit, A.D. 1274
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
Some things never change...
Now we'll have to put up with shows like Jackass: Extreme Scientist Edition and Beavis and Butthead do Particle Physics!
How many impressionable young children have been inspired to become semiconductor designers by the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics?