>For example, in English we have a "shortcut," but I can't readily think of the opposite unless I use the German word "Umweg."
The opposite of shortcut is a longcut. Maybe not standard English, but certainly easy enough to come up with on your own and easily understood by whomever you are talking to. And a web search comes up with the following: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=longcut
I don't think this release makes much difference at all. There will be very few extra exploits as a result, and Cisco won't lose any money from it either as nobody will incorporate the code into their products anyway.
I don't see any reason to produce contact less credit cards. The technology should just be built into cell phones. Cell phones can be the only electronic gadget that anybody needs to carry around. It can be used as a pda, cell phone, clock, gps, credit card, camera, gameboy, remote control etc. It's just a matter of time for some of them.
This is a bunch of baloney. There are no computers that can break 128 bit encryption that fast. There was an article that had a supercomputer generating all the possible hashes that crypt() can produce for common unix passwords in 80 minutes, but that is not nearly the same thing.
I think this law is draconian. It should not be illegal to send all spam. It should only be illegal to send the truly annoying spam that is offensive, trying to scam you, or sell you something that you shouldn't have, or that there is a very small chance that you would want.
Although spam is annoying, just like junk mail, it serves a valid purpose, i.e. letting you know about something that you would not otherwise know about, and could possibly interest you.
It is interesting to note that Microsoft in a previous article said that they had no intention of porting Office to Linux right now, but being that they have ported it to OS X most of the work has already been done.
I am not convinced it the GPL is legally binding anywhere. Even if it is, it is mostly irrelevant. Most breaches of the GPL are impossible to detect, and those that are detected are resolved not primarily because of legal issues, but because of public relations.
What is wrong with a heavy laptop. Of course calling it a laptop is perhaps exaggerating, but it is a very portable desktop. It is much too difficult to move desktop computers around. The only company who makes easy to move desktops is Apple.
Now, perhaps the features they included are not quite what they should be, but the idea is sound. I don't know why desktop computers have to be so big. Does everybody really need to be able to expand their machines? Just include all of the most common accessories in the unit and then almost nobody will ever want to expand.
The music labels do add value. The thing that makes a song popular is not that it is good, it is because it is promoted. Of course not every promoted song becomes popular, but as a general rule, a song must be both promoted and decent in order to become popular. Being a good song only gets a very small minority of songs popular.
If we got rid of marketing, then it would perhaps be a good thing, but it would drastically change the face of music. Everybody would be looking for different songs, or would not know which songs to look for, whereas now everybody looks for only the most popular songs.
I found many flaws in his logic, and disagreed with much of what he said, and he too makes many statements without supporting them, but that does not take away from the fact that he pokes legitimate holes into the arguments of RMS - Holes which are ignored on a regular basis on Slashdot.
You can only buy third party parts for well known car-makers. If Ford had a monopoly or a near monopoly, all inexpensive ready made car parts would only fit Ford cars. If you want your own car, then you have to roll your own parts.
Similarly, you are forced to use gas as the fuel for your car, because it is available everywhere, and that is because cars have standardized on gasoline as the fuel. Any other fuel you want to use has to be compatible with the engines designed to run on gasoline.
If you want to power your car with coal or electricity, you're out of luck. As a matter of fact that is one of the reasons we don't have electric cars nowadays. It wouldn't be so hard for gas stations to stock batteries, and switch out your depleted battery for a recharged one.
This is not exactly on topic, but I wanted to hang this post somewhere.
When are you going to start a server where anybody can sign up to host their own complete slashdot forum. You know everybody could have a completely independent version of the slash code that they could customize to their heart's content.
I suppose Andover would share ad revenues with the maintainer of the slash sites. Big source of revenue for Andover.
Microsoft has chosen to address a certain segment of the market. Their goal is to get the largest return on their investment in that market. They also want to have mostly happy customers in the market they are addressing.
I think most customers of Microsoft are mostly happy. There are serious problems with all of Microsoft's products, but in most cases those problems are more acceptable than the problems with the alternatives.
Linux has strengths in areas where Microsoft has weaknesses, but for most people those strengths do not currently outweigh its weaknesses where Microsoft has strengths.
They never will entirely. Linux will gain more and more market share, but will never put Microsoft out of business.
Currently Microsoft has no reason to support Linux because it can make more money by not supporting Linux. People are still willing to forgo the advantages of Linux for the advantages of Windows.
In the future, Linux will probably overcome most of those advantages so that most people would switch to Linux, except for one important fact. Microsoft is moving at the same time as Linux.
Microsoft is fully prepared to give away its operating system for free, not because it wants to, but because it will have no choice eventually.
But Microsoft will attempt to hold on to the operating system as long as it can. By including Internet Explorer in the system it has gained a stay of execution for Windows.
Linux with Netscape is currently not nearly as acceptable an option for most people as Windows with IE is.
In the future Linux might catch up. If/when it does, Microsoft can jump onto the Linux bandwagon along with everyone else.
Microsoft has been multiplatform since forever. Wine will work just as effectively for Microsoft as it has for Corel. Better in fact, because Microsoft will be able to convert parts of Windows to be compilable under Linux.
As soon as they find that they are losing market share by not providing their software on Linux they will provide it.
They still have operating systems over and above that.
Microsoft Office is also an operating system. You write programs for it etc.
Visual C++, Visual Basic, etc. can also be moved.
We are moving in that direction in any case. Even if Microsoft never ports anything, Linux will work seamlessly with Windows. There are many solutions which allow Windows to run under Linux and Linux to run under Windows. Most of them currently have severe tradeoffs, but it won't stay that way.
Microsoft Windows might eventually have to be almost given away, but Microsoft will still have control over a large segment of the market.
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>For example, in English we have a "shortcut," but I can't readily think of the opposite unless I use the German word "Umweg."
The opposite of shortcut is a longcut. Maybe not standard English, but certainly easy enough to come up with on your own and easily understood by whomever you are talking to. And a web search comes up with the following: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=longcut
I thought that was very funny. I was sure you were pointing to a custom made kindle cover.
I have to comment on your sig:
LOAD "SIG",8,1
LOADING...
READY.
RUN
You do realize that if it's ,1 then you probably don't need run. Yeah, I'm usually behind on reading Slasdot.
Try the foxmarks plugin.
Yup. It's low. No question about it. I came late on the scene. I couldn't believe that Slashdot was around for so long and I hadn't heard about it.
The Time-Warner guys never like the AOL guys and AOL swallowed a company too bigger than it could handle. Time-Warner is just getting rid of them.
I don't think this release makes much difference at all. There will be very few extra exploits as a result, and Cisco won't lose any money from it either as nobody will incorporate the code into their products anyway.
I don't see any reason to produce contact less credit cards. The technology should just be built into cell phones. Cell phones can be the only electronic gadget that anybody needs to carry around. It can be used as a pda, cell phone, clock, gps, credit card, camera, gameboy, remote control etc. It's just a matter of time for some of them.
This is a bunch of baloney. There are no computers that can break 128 bit encryption that fast. There was an article that had a supercomputer generating all the possible hashes that crypt() can produce for common unix passwords in 80 minutes, but that is not nearly the same thing.
I think this law is draconian. It should not be illegal to send all spam. It should only be illegal to send the truly annoying spam that is offensive, trying to scam you, or sell you something that you shouldn't have, or that there is a very small chance that you would want.
Although spam is annoying, just like junk mail, it serves a valid purpose, i.e. letting you know about something that you would not otherwise know about, and could possibly interest you.
I like your sig. It reminds me of mine. :)
Congratulations. You win the contest.
It is interesting to note that Microsoft in a previous article said that they had no intention of porting Office to Linux right now, but being that they have ported it to OS X most of the work has already been done.
I am not convinced it the GPL is legally binding anywhere. Even if it is, it is mostly irrelevant. Most breaches of the GPL are impossible to detect, and those that are detected are resolved not primarily because of legal issues, but because of public relations.
What is wrong with a heavy laptop. Of course calling it a laptop is perhaps exaggerating, but it is a very portable desktop. It is much too difficult to move desktop computers around. The only company who makes easy to move desktops is Apple.
Now, perhaps the features they included are not quite what they should be, but the idea is sound. I don't know why desktop computers have to be so big. Does everybody really need to be able to expand their machines? Just include all of the most common accessories in the unit and then almost nobody will ever want to expand.
The music labels do add value. The thing that makes a song popular is not that it is good, it is because it is promoted. Of course not every promoted song becomes popular, but as a general rule, a song must be both promoted and decent in order to become popular. Being a good song only gets a very small minority of songs popular.
If we got rid of marketing, then it would perhaps be a good thing, but it would drastically change the face of music. Everybody would be looking for different songs, or would not know which songs to look for, whereas now everybody looks for only the most popular songs.
--SolidGold
--SolidGold
Similarly, you are forced to use gas as the fuel for your car, because it is available everywhere, and that is because cars have standardized on gasoline as the fuel. Any other fuel you want to use has to be compatible with the engines designed to run on gasoline.
If you want to power your car with coal or electricity, you're out of luck. As a matter of fact that is one of the reasons we don't have electric cars nowadays. It wouldn't be so hard for gas stations to stock batteries, and switch out your depleted battery for a recharged one.
--SolidGold
--SolidGold
When are you going to start a server where anybody can sign up to host their own complete slashdot forum. You know everybody could have a completely independent version of the slash code that they could customize to their heart's content.
I suppose Andover would share ad revenues with the maintainer of the slash sites. Big source of revenue for Andover.
--SolidGold
--SolidGold
I think most customers of Microsoft are mostly happy. There are serious problems with all of Microsoft's products, but in most cases those problems are more acceptable than the problems with the alternatives.
Linux has strengths in areas where Microsoft has weaknesses, but for most people those strengths do not currently outweigh its weaknesses where Microsoft has strengths.
They never will entirely. Linux will gain more and more market share, but will never put Microsoft out of business.
Currently Microsoft has no reason to support Linux because it can make more money by not supporting Linux. People are still willing to forgo the advantages of Linux for the advantages of Windows.
In the future, Linux will probably overcome most of those advantages so that most people would switch to Linux, except for one important fact. Microsoft is moving at the same time as Linux.
Microsoft is fully prepared to give away its operating system for free, not because it wants to, but because it will have no choice eventually.
But Microsoft will attempt to hold on to the operating system as long as it can. By including Internet Explorer in the system it has gained a stay of execution for Windows.
Linux with Netscape is currently not nearly as acceptable an option for most people as Windows with IE is.
In the future Linux might catch up. If/when it does, Microsoft can jump onto the Linux bandwagon along with everyone else.
Microsoft has been multiplatform since forever. Wine will work just as effectively for Microsoft as it has for Corel. Better in fact, because Microsoft will be able to convert parts of Windows to be compilable under Linux.
As soon as they find that they are losing market share by not providing their software on Linux they will provide it.
They still have operating systems over and above that.
Microsoft Office is also an operating system. You write programs for it etc.
Visual C++, Visual Basic, etc. can also be moved.
We are moving in that direction in any case. Even if Microsoft never ports anything, Linux will work seamlessly with Windows. There are many solutions which allow Windows to run under Linux and Linux to run under Windows. Most of them currently have severe tradeoffs, but it won't stay that way.
Microsoft Windows might eventually have to be almost given away, but Microsoft will still have control over a large segment of the market.
--SolidGold
The requirement that you send a copy of the source or of its location should be quite trivial for any software developer to comply with.
--SolidGold