..perhaps, but I'll know for sure when the high volume of chinese spam ceases its seemingly unending deluge into my inbox.
Until then, I have my reservations.
Corporate speak is basically the same type of "Rah-Rah" speech you here at Amway/Mary Kay/etc conventions.
That's for damned sure! I attended the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston last week and - unlike previous years - it was actually quite a challenge to find anyone willing (or able) to speak in any real detail. Indeed, the reason for such a phenomenon was quite clear: the exposition floor was crawling with company representatives from PR and Marketing, and knowledgeble technicians were, on the whole, those attendees asking the questions. The technical aspect (i.e. the real, worthwhile content) of the exposition has been contaminated with nothing but "corporate speak." **
Technical information and performance can be distilled through a proper treatment of words to be well understood by those unacquainted with the details. However, language becomes a barrier for efficient communication when forced into a mode of artificial superficiality and generalization.
This is a message to the business world: Do away with the idiocies of corporate marketing dialogue and provide the information required by interested parties, and you will win more customers than otherwise. Please.
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**An example: Early tuesday, just after Intel had finished getting situated, a friend and I sat down for what must have been one of their first presentations. The speaker was clearly an articulate man with many years in one of Intel's engineering divisions -- who had, of course, been elevated to management or marketing. However, while you might think that such experience would be invaluable to present a product, the result was anything but a lucid presentation of Intel's latest and greatest. Visibly uncomfortable, the rep rambled along, spouting an alphabet soup of acronyms intended to convey the latest Intel strategy to provide integrated products in all business areas, from storage and servers to office equipment and web presence. Fifteeen minutes later when the presentation concluded, I still didn't know what the hell he was trying to say other than 'we are planning to make things easier for businesses by making everything work smoothly together.'
Adblock may handle most everything else, but it is still lacking in its ability to handle {Macromedia|Adobe} flash.
The solution is FlashBlock, and it works incredibly well. Not only does it make browsing faster, it reduces the bright flashing 'bunch bush to win $10' ads to whitespace -- tis much easier on the eyes.
For those rare occasions where you actually want to see the flash, just click on the play button that adblock substitutes for the embedded swf.
Now, I must preface this with the disclaimer that I myself prefer operating systems other than Windows. However, this is not an attempt to flame; by all means use what works best for you.
With that said, did anyone actually read the entirety of the article?
To be fair to Microsoft, this article was more than slightly misleading - and for that matter, contains little information relevant to its headline. The only mention about rewriting two thirds of Vista's codebase is in the headline and in the subheading that directly follows it. Whether informed by "an insider at Microsoft" or otherwise, there is simply not enough solid information to comment upon, let alone fill an entire slashdot thread with baseless conjecture.
We're all hoping for an improved operating system from Microsoft. God knows it would make my job many magnitudes easier without having to deal with the joys of insecure machines.
But please, withhold judgement until we receive a finished product.
Can someone tell me what the actuall differences are between the major linux distro's? Really, how could Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Fedora Core be all that different from each other? Wouldn't the developers just take the best parts out of the other distro's?
They could indeed borrow things from other distos, and they do. It's the entire point of collaborative software. However, each distrobution has its own particular style and way of doing things; ultimately, it comes down to user preference in most cases. For example, Slackware is your rock solid, never-fail distribution for servers and tinkerers; Ubuntu is your user friendly, easy-to-use distribution with great support for mom and pop; SuSE and RHEL are for corporate machines requiring easy administration and solid integration with existing technologies; Gentoo and LFS are for those intereeted in learning about the core of the system (and for masochists with lots of time).
It all boils down to preference and application. Successful approaches are shared for the good of all.
While I'm not a fan of Microsoft Exchange, there's no denying that it works. With that said, I require its use at work, yet I spend most of my days using my linux machine. And that Exchange web interface is just godawful.
So I am wondering: What exchange compatible applications are Slashdotters using in linux?
It's been established for some time that capitalism is the best economic system (thus far) for providing growth and prosperity.
No, capitalism is inherently unstable, and that's been known since the heyday of Keynes and Marx and the other economic theorists. Just pick up any economics history book.
The issue is this. Capitalism thrives in an open market, with seeminly limitless exponential growth, and then plateaus often without warning. Think of it as a bacterium introduced to an otherwise sterile, nutrient rich agar plate. It will grow unchecked until it reaches the bounds of the dish, at which time population growth reverses due to a limited food supply.
Big Business in the US sees this slowing of growth, and its actions against it manifest as monopoly, price gouging, sneaky underhanded business deals, etc. The system by design corrupts itself in the free market. And you wonder why we have problems.
I was born and live in the US, read world news, am routinely disgusted with the actions of my government, and yet I knew ENIAC was far from the first digital computer. Yet, Americans are not ignorant through and through, you know. The difference between myself and the bulk of my compatriots? I read, I avoid the american news networks and print media for international news, and steer clear of that myopic belief that the US = the world. There's still hope.
The LRO, from TFA, is the opening volley of spacecraft in response to President George W. Bush's multi-billion dollar Vision for Space Exploration that he outlined in January 2004.
Now, thats curious. The other NASA article we saw today made me reflect upon the sad reality of NASA funding. From THAT article, we have the following information regarding its purse:
$6.234 billion for space operations, such as the shuttle and the International
Space Station
$5.330 billion for science
$3.978 billion for exploration systems, including the development of the shuttle's replacement, the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV)
$0.724 billion for aeronautics research
And another quote:
The science programme, which Griffin called one of the nation's "crown jewels", increases by just 1.5% compared to 2006. Furthermore, science will receive annual increases of just 1.0% from 2008 to 2011, according to the budget request.
Such slow growth is down to NASA removing $2 billion from the science budget over the next five years to help cover projected cost overruns of $3 billion to $5 billion to fly the shuttles safely until they are retired in 2010.
Now, "crown jewel" NASA has been and can be; however, at the moment, it is a poor belittled child forced to do too much with too little. Bush proclaimed that the US shall return to the moon and regain its prestige in the international space community. Fine. But what irks me is that his words seem now, in retrospect, as political posturing carrying little weight. What progress can NASA truly be expected to make without enough funding? Sure, theres the national deficit, and NASA is a massive bureaucracy in and of itself that could do with a little less dead wood. But when you consider the costs of Apollo and Gemnini in today's dollars, the comparison between what IS being done and what COULD be done is a telling one.
While, Winamp was indeed improved between versions 3 and 5, I still prefer the 2.x series and XMMS for their no-nonsense approach to music. After all, its the music we care about.
The reasons for winamp's decline are many, but if you watch the developments at Winamp's Nullsoft, it gives you quite a few clues. Winamp's creator Justin Frankel is no longer affiliated with Nullsoft, and if you track the developments leading to his departure, its quite clear why winamp has suffered as well. When Nullsoft was bought by AOL in 1999, big-corporate philosophies took over and the informal nature of Nullsoft was destroyed. Coincident with this was the bloating of a once great media player. C|NET has an article about Nullsoft and Frankel's departure with some good outside references.
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A Singing Plant. A Daring Hero. A Sweet Girl. A Demented Dentist. A nerdish florist finds romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
See? Even nerdish florists get a shot at cross pollination. There is hope yet for us all.
It's pretty brilliant. What it does is where there's a bank
transaction, and the interests are computed in the thousands a day in
fractions of a cent, which it usually rounds off. What this does is it
takes those remainders and puts it into your account.
Is there any chance that the ESA wants a contract with NASA for transporting payloads? Or, similarly, does the ESA in their own understandable self interest wish to prevent Russia from gaining that contract with its Kliper? Surely if the Russian space program was making money on a NASA contract, one of those benefactors allowing it to happen at all -- the ESA -- wouldn't exactly enjoy not receiving a piece of the pie.
With [Borneo's] current deforestation rate of 1.3 million hectares per year - an area equivalent to about one third of the size of Switzerland - only peat and montane forests would survive in the coming years.
Maintaining a system is all about context; some environments favor Linux, others Windows.
I've built many many systems for many people; servers, desktops, multimedia backends, you name it. I personally use linux/unix, but the OS installed upon each of the machines I build is by no means limited by my personal preference. Dr. Thompson makes a wonderful point here. In computing as in life, different situations merit different approaches.
I really wish all of the microsoft-, bsd-, and linux-zealots would realize this. To each, his own.
I have an ancient powerbook 500, running an equally ancient build of debian. Its used as an nfs share and as an ssh frontend to a router's console port. It has an uptime measured in years. Luggable?..sure, Undying? Oh yes.
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Does anyone remember the MindDrive being marketed by The Other 90%??
Given the utter lack of information at their website, here's an archived link from CNN.
Ah the beginnings of the first tech bubble..
..perhaps, but I'll know for sure when the high volume of chinese spam ceases its seemingly unending deluge into my inbox. Until then, I have my reservations.
Corporate speak is basically the same type of "Rah-Rah" speech you here at Amway/Mary Kay/etc conventions.
That's for damned sure! I attended the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston last week and - unlike previous years - it was actually quite a challenge to find anyone willing (or able) to speak in any real detail. Indeed, the reason for such a phenomenon was quite clear: the exposition floor was crawling with company representatives from PR and Marketing, and knowledgeble technicians were, on the whole, those attendees asking the questions. The technical aspect (i.e. the real, worthwhile content) of the exposition has been contaminated with nothing but "corporate speak." **Technical information and performance can be distilled through a proper treatment of words to be well understood by those unacquainted with the details. However, language becomes a barrier for efficient communication when forced into a mode of artificial superficiality and generalization.
This is a message to the business world: Do away with the idiocies of corporate marketing dialogue and provide the information required by interested parties, and you will win more customers than otherwise. Please.
**An example: Early tuesday, just after Intel had finished getting situated, a friend and I sat down for what must have been one of their first presentations. The speaker was clearly an articulate man with many years in one of Intel's engineering divisions -- who had, of course, been elevated to management or marketing. However, while you might think that such experience would be invaluable to present a product, the result was anything but a lucid presentation of Intel's latest and greatest. Visibly uncomfortable, the rep rambled along, spouting an alphabet soup of acronyms intended to convey the latest Intel strategy to provide integrated products in all business areas, from storage and servers to office equipment and web presence. Fifteeen minutes later when the presentation concluded, I still didn't know what the hell he was trying to say other than 'we are planning to make things easier for businesses by making everything work smoothly together.'
Because one ad-blocker ISNT enough. See the devel page for adblock. The stuff in development (and not totally refined - I've tried it) is what flashblock handles with ease. When the next generation of adblock is released, I'll be more than happy to use it exclusively. But until then, I'll use both side by side.
Adblock may handle most everything else, but it is still lacking in its ability to handle {Macromedia|Adobe} flash.
The solution is FlashBlock, and it works incredibly well. Not only does it make browsing faster, it reduces the bright flashing 'bunch bush to win $10' ads to whitespace -- tis much easier on the eyes.
For those rare occasions where you actually want to see the flash, just click on the play button that adblock substitutes for the embedded swf.
Now, I must preface this with the disclaimer that I myself prefer operating systems other than Windows. However, this is not an attempt to flame; by all means use what works best for you.
With that said, did anyone actually read the entirety of the article?
To be fair to Microsoft, this article was more than slightly misleading - and for that matter, contains little information relevant to its headline. The only mention about rewriting two thirds of Vista's codebase is in the headline and in the subheading that directly follows it. Whether informed by "an insider at Microsoft" or otherwise, there is simply not enough solid information to comment upon, let alone fill an entire slashdot thread with baseless conjecture.
We're all hoping for an improved operating system from Microsoft. God knows it would make my job many magnitudes easier without having to deal with the joys of insecure machines.
But please, withhold judgement until we receive a finished product.
You pay more for a 3mb line..
...than most people outside of the US pay for a line 10 times thats speed.
Hmm. I read that as "Cicerobot is 1.5-meter high and is equipped with heels".
Sounds like Maria from Metropolis or maybe Dot Matrix from Spaceballs.
You know it's been a long day when..
They could indeed borrow things from other distos, and they do. It's the entire point of collaborative software. However, each distrobution has its own particular style and way of doing things; ultimately, it comes down to user preference in most cases. For example, Slackware is your rock solid, never-fail distribution for servers and tinkerers; Ubuntu is your user friendly, easy-to-use distribution with great support for mom and pop; SuSE and RHEL are for corporate machines requiring easy administration and solid integration with existing technologies; Gentoo and LFS are for those intereeted in learning about the core of the system (and for masochists with lots of time).
It all boils down to preference and application. Successful approaches are shared for the good of all.
While I'm not a fan of Microsoft Exchange, there's no denying that it works. With that said, I require its use at work, yet I spend most of my days using my linux machine. And that Exchange web interface is just godawful.
So I am wondering: What exchange compatible applications are Slashdotters using in linux?
No, capitalism is inherently unstable, and that's been known since the heyday of Keynes and Marx and the other economic theorists. Just pick up any economics history book.
The issue is this. Capitalism thrives in an open market, with seeminly limitless exponential growth, and then plateaus often without warning. Think of it as a bacterium introduced to an otherwise sterile, nutrient rich agar plate. It will grow unchecked until it reaches the bounds of the dish, at which time population growth reverses due to a limited food supply.
Big Business in the US sees this slowing of growth, and its actions against it manifest as monopoly, price gouging, sneaky underhanded business deals, etc. The system by design corrupts itself in the free market. And you wonder why we have problems.
I was born and live in the US, read world news, am routinely disgusted with the actions of my government, and yet I knew ENIAC was far from the first digital computer. Yet, Americans are not ignorant through and through, you know. The difference between myself and the bulk of my compatriots? I read, I avoid the american news networks and print media for international news, and steer clear of that myopic belief that the US = the world. There's still hope.
..as Microsoft pushes the XML Reference Schema throught the same process.
thought + through = throught != a well perused article summary.
Earthquakes are pretty weak and rare Yeah you're right, they are pretty rare on the moon.
While, Winamp was indeed improved between versions 3 and 5, I still prefer the 2.x series and XMMS for their no-nonsense approach to music. After all, its the music we care about. The reasons for winamp's decline are many, but if you watch the developments at Winamp's Nullsoft, it gives you quite a few clues. Winamp's creator Justin Frankel is no longer affiliated with Nullsoft, and if you track the developments leading to his departure, its quite clear why winamp has suffered as well. When Nullsoft was bought by AOL in 1999, big-corporate philosophies took over and the informal nature of Nullsoft was destroyed. Coincident with this was the bloating of a once great media player. C|NET has an article about Nullsoft and Frankel's departure with some good outside references.
click:
Sourceforge download mirrors
..i LIKE to drive. Sometimes helpful systems that assume control take all the fun out of things.
I run linux on my Zipit Wireless Messenger, on a cluster of twenty old ibm thin clients, my laptop, and two servers -- and of course my old dead pet badger.
Windows CANNOT claim the same flexibility. WindowsCE may [may] come close, but for a truly minimal footprint, you're forced back to DOS.
Regarding aging equpiment, the situation is simply put: linux makes old hardware useful again.
A Singing Plant. A Daring Hero. A Sweet Girl. A Demented Dentist. A nerdish florist finds romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
See? Even nerdish florists get a shot at cross pollination. There is hope yet for us all.
It's pretty brilliant. What it does is where there's a bank transaction, and the interests are computed in the thousands a day in fractions of a cent, which it usually rounds off. What this does is it takes those remainders and puts it into your account.
Regarding a very recent slashdot post:
Is there any chance that the ESA wants a contract with NASA for transporting payloads? Or, similarly, does the ESA in their own understandable self interest wish to prevent Russia from gaining that contract with its Kliper? Surely if the Russian space program was making money on a NASA contract, one of those benefactors allowing it to happen at all -- the ESA -- wouldn't exactly enjoy not receiving a piece of the pie.
With [Borneo's] current deforestation rate of 1.3 million hectares per year - an area equivalent to about one third of the size of Switzerland - only peat and montane forests would survive in the coming years.
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...and that's a lot of land - per year.
[From WWF report via http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/media/2005/news_2
1.3 million hectares = 3,212,369.96 acres
Makes you wonder what else has been trampled underfoot undiscovered.
Maintaining a system is all about context; some environments favor Linux, others Windows.
I've built many many systems for many people; servers, desktops, multimedia backends, you name it. I personally use linux/unix, but the OS installed upon each of the machines I build is by no means limited by my personal preference. Dr. Thompson makes a wonderful point here. In computing as in life, different situations merit different approaches.
I really wish all of the microsoft-, bsd-, and linux-zealots would realize this. To each, his own.
I have an ancient powerbook 500, running an equally ancient build of debian. Its used as an nfs share and as an ssh frontend to a router's console port. It has an uptime measured in years. Luggable? ..sure, Undying? Oh yes.