I think that possibly it's just that the creator is a poor photographer. The shots of the laptop on the page are very unflattering because of lighting, etc.
It shouldn't be that surprising that someone who can do really nice work with wood hasn't got the same skills with a digital camera.
What's with all the 'props' lined up around the laptop in some of those shots. It looks a little pretentious in a few instances.
maybe it's time to start regulating/banning all operating systems until they pass some networking security standard.
Hmm, that would be interesting. All Operating System binaries or code would have to be signed and distributed through some 'certified authority'. Random hackers who pull something together and/or tweak the kernel without authorization from said authorities would be jailed.
The CPU vendors are already doing a 'sort and grade' operation, when they label processors. Have been for years. When the yield from the fab is lower-grade, the dies get packaged and labelled as lower-speed parts.
Then the Overclockers come in and ramp the speed back up, and claim 'the faster chips are a ripoff' and complain that 'Windows is always crashing.'
At some companies, the support desk just has a button on the phone to transfer the complaining customer to sales. *ring* "Yes, you want to buy one of the newer, supported fribbitzes?"
Why are 'simple life forms' considered inferior to 'highly organized' lifeforms. It sounds like a trip from order to chaos to me.
Actually, it sounds very anthropomorphic. 'Man: the highest evolved' and all that. Very hierarchical reasoning, very similar to a lot of religious theories.
Dairy Dogs would not be economically feasible, as dogs are rather high carnivores. You would have to feed them expensive meat, so the conversion to milk would be uneconomical. Goats, on the other hand, will eat and digest about anything. We've been thinking about a goat or two in the field behind our house. I don't know if they would be dairy goats, though.
Who cares that there is a direct link between extraordinary talent and "weird" behaviour. Who cares that these strange individuals might actually be, well, actually just *nice* people.
From remote observation, i.e. reading the things Knuth writes on his home page, i.e. the way he vacations, etc., he sounds like a remarkably nice person, and somebody very well grounded and happy in his world.
I guess I'd expect the kind of comments and banter about Knuth that I'm seeing here on Slashdot. Glad I'm not here that much these days.
Given that 99.95% of OpenBSD installations are for firewalls. ..
Which points out a fairly serious issue. People should know the platform they are using for a firewall. Not just 'trust' the people who produce it. For that reason, it's safer to know and properly install a BSD that you're using in other ways, i.e. since I use Desktop NetBSD, I would be more secure running a locked down (the default now) NetBSD firewall, rather than something I'm not actively using in any other fashion on my network.
Using OpenBSD 'because it is so secure' is a fad-like thing to do. And if 99.95% of the installs are people who only use it that way, it speaks to future problems. And 'clueful' Windoze users who slap an OpenBSD on the front (without knowing much at all about it) are playing it rather dangerously.
Yes, although in the acronym RAID, the R stands for Redundant. And part of the rationale for a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives is that the redundancy reduces the need for expensive drives.
I was going to make a comment about 'They charge for the CD, don't they? And they don't allow free distribution of the Official ISO.' and end with something about how they've decided not to be a 'donation cup' operation. But your approach makes sense.
(I've 'paid' too, in that I bought the Official CD for version 2.5 direct from openbsd.org. Don't use OpenBSD anymore, tho.)
The new General Attorney is the very same man that wrote in a memorandum that the Geneva Convention is obsolete when it come to "the war on terror".
Anybody who understands the historical context of the Geneva Convention would agree that it is obsolete. Read the bloody document, then come back and participate in the discussion.
People who don't grasp even *that* are hopeless. It must be recognized and we must move on to decide what is acceptable.
So Apple is legally entitled to go out on a witchhunt, after whomever they can fish out and harass.
They truly HAVE been taken over by the lawyers. Another nail in the coffin of Apple Computer. Another reason for hackers to keep Apple stuff at bargepoles length away.
To find out these things. It's not as if there isn't sufficeint evidence to presume that someone has broken an NDA, is it?
Indeed. And there's evidence that somebody in your county has been producing methamphetamines. Surely you won't mind the police having a walk through your cellar and that of all your neighbors, will you?
The government is simply upholding a contract between two parties.
So, the governent is 'upholding a contract' between Apple Computer and some mysterious person who may be six or seven layers down a rumor mill. By roping up and dragging into court as many layers as they can drill through.
Sorry. The government isn't a contract-for-hire Witchhunt.
If so, the law pretty clearly implies that *anyone* receiving that information is tainted.
'Tainted' in exactly what way? Can Apple hire goons to weld them into a big steel shipping container to prevent them from telling Apple's not-a-secret-anymore to anybody they choose?
Sorry. Apple needs to police their ranks better. It's as simple as that, no matter how many judges they can afford.
The fact that wrongdoing was involved (and here I hesitate to characterize the act as criminal, as opposed to civil, being as I am not familiar with CA contract law) is empirically demonstrated by the fact that the only way that the information in question could have been released is if someone under prior restriction (as in an NDA) revealed it to the journalists involved.
You are absolutely and completely WRONG.
The info may have arrived from a second hand, third hand, fifteen hand source. It's entirely possible the blogger does not KNOW who at Apple was the original leak source.
Without said proof, no culpability can be established.
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I think that possibly it's just that the creator is a poor photographer. The shots of the laptop on the page are very unflattering because of lighting, etc.
It shouldn't be that surprising that someone who can do really nice work with wood hasn't got the same skills with a digital camera.
What's with all the 'props' lined up around the laptop in some of those shots. It looks a little pretentious in a few instances.
Okay. Who can port NetBSD to the 'development hardware' first?
maybe it's time to start regulating/banning all operating systems until they pass some networking security standard.
Hmm, that would be interesting. All Operating System binaries or code would have to be signed and distributed through some 'certified authority'. Random hackers who pull something together and/or tweak the kernel without authorization from said authorities would be jailed.
You've got one hell of an idea there, bucko.
The CPU vendors are already doing a 'sort and grade' operation, when they label processors. Have been for years. When the yield from the fab is lower-grade, the dies get packaged and labelled as lower-speed parts.
Then the Overclockers come in and ramp the speed back up, and claim 'the faster chips are a ripoff' and complain that 'Windows is always crashing.'
they lessen the future load on their support desk
At some companies, the support desk just has a button on the phone to transfer the complaining customer to sales. *ring* "Yes, you want to buy one of the newer, supported fribbitzes?"
Not saying it's good, or bad.
So you are saying fidelity in a marriage is 'accurate reproduction'??
Well, actually it is.
Why are 'simple life forms' considered inferior to 'highly organized' lifeforms. It sounds like a trip from order to chaos to me.
Actually, it sounds very anthropomorphic. 'Man: the highest evolved' and all that. Very hierarchical reasoning, very similar to a lot of religious theories.
Dairy Dogs would not be economically feasible, as dogs are rather high carnivores. You would have to feed them expensive meat, so the conversion to milk would be uneconomical. Goats, on the other hand, will eat and digest about anything. We've been thinking about a goat or two in the field behind our house. I don't know if they would be dairy goats, though.
Who cares that there is a direct link between extraordinary talent and "weird" behaviour. Who cares that these strange individuals might actually be, well, actually just *nice* people.
From remote observation, i.e. reading the things Knuth writes on his home page, i.e. the way he vacations, etc., he sounds like a remarkably nice person, and somebody very well grounded and happy in his world.
I guess I'd expect the kind of comments and banter about Knuth that I'm seeing here on Slashdot. Glad I'm not here that much these days.
Given that 99.95% of OpenBSD installations are for firewalls. . .
Which points out a fairly serious issue. People should know the platform they are using for a firewall. Not just 'trust' the people who produce it. For that reason, it's safer to know and properly install a BSD that you're using in other ways, i.e. since I use Desktop NetBSD, I would be more secure running a locked down (the default now) NetBSD firewall, rather than something I'm not actively using in any other fashion on my network.
Using OpenBSD 'because it is so secure' is a fad-like thing to do. And if 99.95% of the installs are people who only use it that way, it speaks to future problems. And 'clueful' Windoze users who slap an OpenBSD on the front (without knowing much at all about it) are playing it rather dangerously.
doesn't give you the right to throw all human rights over board.
'All' is a very expensive word, and I do not think you meant to use it the way you did.
Think about it.
Yes, although in the acronym RAID, the R stands for Redundant. And part of the rationale for a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives is that the redundancy reduces the need for expensive drives.
I was going to make a comment about 'They charge for the CD, don't they? And they don't allow free distribution of the Official ISO.' and end with something about how they've decided not to be a 'donation cup' operation. But your approach makes sense.
(I've 'paid' too, in that I bought the Official CD for version 2.5 direct from openbsd.org. Don't use OpenBSD anymore, tho.)
This is all just a game for you?
You are the one who just tipped your hand, dude.
But, back to the matter being discussed:
Linus has always, clearly, made people aware of the fact that his 'World Domination' statements are meant as humor.
The man doesn't care if Linux 'achives world domination' and has hinted he feels sorry for people that fanatical.
The new General Attorney is the very same man that wrote in a memorandum that the Geneva Convention is obsolete when it come to "the war on terror".
Anybody who understands the historical context of the Geneva Convention would agree that it is obsolete. Read the bloody document, then come back and participate in the discussion.
People who don't grasp even *that* are hopeless. It must be recognized and we must move on to decide what is acceptable.
Cite a credible source. What the linked article cites may be the case.
Second source, please? The NYT is no longer credible.
Right. Said offer must be made to buyers of the product. I.e. someone has to buy the phone, then 'speak up' about the offer.
The manufacturer does NOT have to expend a lot of resources advertising said availability.
But in today's net-connected world, one would think word would spread pretty fast.
That's a real shame.
Uh, what's with the sarcasm? Sometimes Apple customers start to seem a little like scientologists.
What is Microsoft doing all this time?
Counting their money.
Oh! And ignoring Apple.
"I know you are, but what am I?"
So Apple is legally entitled to go out on a witchhunt, after whomever they can fish out and harass.
They truly HAVE been taken over by the lawyers. Another nail in the coffin of Apple Computer. Another reason for hackers to keep Apple stuff at bargepoles length away.
To find out these things. It's not as if there isn't sufficeint evidence to presume that someone has broken an NDA, is it?
Indeed. And there's evidence that somebody in your county has been producing methamphetamines. Surely you won't mind the police having a walk through your cellar and that of all your neighbors, will you?
The government is simply upholding a contract between two parties.
So, the governent is 'upholding a contract' between Apple Computer and some mysterious person who may be six or seven layers down a rumor mill. By roping up and dragging into court as many layers as they can drill through.
Sorry. The government isn't a contract-for-hire Witchhunt.
If so, the law pretty clearly implies that *anyone* receiving that information is tainted.
'Tainted' in exactly what way? Can Apple hire goons to weld them into a big steel shipping container to prevent them from telling Apple's not-a-secret-anymore to anybody they choose?
Sorry. Apple needs to police their ranks better. It's as simple as that, no matter how many judges they can afford.
The fact that wrongdoing was involved (and here I hesitate to characterize the act as criminal, as opposed to civil, being as I am not familiar with CA contract law) is empirically demonstrated by the fact that the only way that the information in question could have been released is if someone under prior restriction (as in an NDA) revealed it to the journalists involved.
You are absolutely and completely WRONG.
The info may have arrived from a second hand, third hand, fifteen hand source. It's entirely possible the blogger does not KNOW who at Apple was the original leak source.
Without said proof, no culpability can be established.