You missed out the 'Google Star.' Apparently, many Star Wars fans are upset at the fact that the Death Star is fairly inefficent, and are posting on many websites whining that Google should make a Death Star of it's own. That, along with an instant messenger.
I agree. Google have the right idea with banning words like 'democracy' in China, who needs that kind of information? I bet she wouldn't have been suspended if they had viewed gun sites or sites with extreme violence on her shift.
Agreed. If you've got something big to plan, you don't use an unsecured public medium (criminals and terrrorists have learnt that it's possible to track down your position from a mobile phone call. A Chechen leader was assasinated in this way, and it's how the Madrid bombers were traced).
How does the FCC think it will be able to tap an 128-bit RSA-encrypted private protocol? It can't, and the overwhelming majority of phone taps will be of law-abiding citizens. But that's the way the world works. Just look at DRM
In short, terrorists/criminals/enemies of the state aren't stupid.
The fact is that IBM is a little more open-source friendly than Linux, and IBM may gain a better image in the open-source community if it's seen donating more code towards it.
There's no way we can stop this utter madness then? You mean the best we can do is just limit the damage?
Anyhow, there are software patents in America IIRC, and the end of the world hasn't happened there (Ignorance +5 probably:)), although it is definitely an software economy that favors big over small businesses.
We haven't actually achieved nuclear fusion yet? Sonoluminescence fusion appeared to be a failure when independently tested, and cold fusion was a resounding failure. Or is there some new method of nuclear fusion that I haven't yet heard about?
I agree. From what I see, other MP3 players seem to be technically better. Either they have more hard-drive space for a better price, or they're more reliable (the iPod battery runs out after a certain amount of time I heard once).
People are mostly buying iPods these days just to be in with the crowd, whereas the techie consumer (often pronounced 'slashdotter') would go for a more open mp3 player that supported more formats and was more flexible. For example, iPod music has to be uploaded through a closed-source program that only runs on Windows 2000/XP (i.e. where does this leave Windows 98/ME users?), and most other mp3 players can function as a USB storage device.
Although a point for the iPod is that it has a strong following. There's many more accessories for it, and surely that's a selling point. You can also run Linux on it of course:)
And Microsoft loves to change features and the layout in it as often as most of us blink. However, weren't they going to 'open up' the format for the next Office release?
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You missed out the 'Google Star.' Apparently, many Star Wars fans are upset at the fact that the Death Star is fairly inefficent, and are posting on many websites whining that Google should make a Death Star of it's own. That, along with an instant messenger.
I agree. Google have the right idea with banning words like 'democracy' in China, who needs that kind of information? I bet she wouldn't have been suspended if they had viewed gun sites or sites with extreme violence on her shift.
Agreed. If you've got something big to plan, you don't use an unsecured public medium (criminals and terrrorists have learnt that it's possible to track down your position from a mobile phone call. A Chechen leader was assasinated in this way, and it's how the Madrid bombers were traced).
How does the FCC think it will be able to tap an 128-bit RSA-encrypted private protocol? It can't, and the overwhelming majority of phone taps will be of law-abiding citizens. But that's the way the world works. Just look at DRM
In short, terrorists/criminals/enemies of the state aren't stupid.
"the performance is simply amazing"
I doubt that, it's taking an age just to load it's website! Quite ironic for a company that prides itself on a fast interactive web application ;)
This has been around for a year or two, it's not revolutionary.
I can just see the headline tommorow, "Google searches the web for words" :)
Aye, it's the same number of lines if you decompiled a Visual BASIC 'Hello World' project to C :)
The fact is that IBM is a little more open-source friendly than Linux, and IBM may gain a better image in the open-source community if it's seen donating more code towards it.
Indeed, are there actually any other desktop CPU arch's apart from x86 these days?
Just like your average Slashdotter at a party :) Just replace 'Gordon Freeman' with 'anyone'.
I don't think the citizens of Europe actually have a say. It's very undemocratic.
There's no way we can stop this utter madness then? You mean the best we can do is just limit the damage?
Anyhow, there are software patents in America IIRC, and the end of the world hasn't happened there (Ignorance +5 probably :)), although it is definitely an software economy that favors big over small businesses.
Not as bad as typing 'rm -rf /' instead of 'rm -rf ~' though :)
In Korea, only old peop...wait, this is Japan! Wow! :)
RMS is not going to come to your house wearing jackboots and demand you use GCC.
If you're really going shock people, he would be wearing a dress with a silver tiara.
Actually, I think the whole of Slashdot will have RMS-induced nightmares for weeks to come now.
*shudders
I was talking about the abacus.
I'm guessing you were developing Windows 3.1 software?
The 50000 usage limit on that tool would run out pretty quickly :)
Ah, but then you would password the BIOS screen so you couldn't boot from CD unless you knew it.
But the sky seems pretty cloudly in the Matix films, so solar power wouldn't really work :)
They've released a song?! Don't they remember the dancing bits of Hitachi and how unbelivably mindblowingly cheesy that was?
*shudders*
We haven't actually achieved nuclear fusion yet? Sonoluminescence fusion appeared to be a failure when independently tested, and cold fusion was a resounding failure. Or is there some new method of nuclear fusion that I haven't yet heard about?
Surely there will be later revisions to the OASIS OpenDocument format if glaring errors like that are there? It's not a static process I assume.
I agree. From what I see, other MP3 players seem to be technically better. Either they have more hard-drive space for a better price, or they're more reliable (the iPod battery runs out after a certain amount of time I heard once).
People are mostly buying iPods these days just to be in with the crowd, whereas the techie consumer (often pronounced 'slashdotter') would go for a more open mp3 player that supported more formats and was more flexible. For example, iPod music has to be uploaded through a closed-source program that only runs on Windows 2000/XP (i.e. where does this leave Windows 98/ME users?), and most other mp3 players can function as a USB storage device.
Although a point for the iPod is that it has a strong following. There's many more accessories for it, and surely that's a selling point. You can also run Linux on it of course :)
And Microsoft loves to change features and the layout in it as often as most of us blink. However, weren't they going to 'open up' the format for the next Office release?
The OASIS OpenDocument format is sooo 20th century man!