Sorry to say this, but it sounds like you were removed for
being a habitual trolling attention-whore. Just the way
that you ask your questions is offensive: as if some naughty
QA monkey needs to be publically whipped. How many times
did people try to explain to you how ignorant you are of the
open source development process before they took action? Be honest.
So if person P is skeptical of claim C about entity E, then it logically follows that P thinks that E "can do no wrong"?
That sounds a like a fringe-whacko line of thought to me.
From reading the Ars Technica thread about this yesterday, I think you misunderstand the audience that raised this issue: relief workers who are trying to quickly set up cheap kiosks with donated hardware. The 'target audience' would not care, I agree...but getting a brand new Dell with a valid XP license in front of them is a lot more difficult than booting up a linux live CD with Firefox on it. It is the relief workers who are frustrated by this limitation, not the refugees.
So they were dead sure (for a while) that the right course was
freakin' Linux on Itanium, and then they realized that
of all the possible downsides of that combination, the straw that
broke the camel's back was Linux!? WTF?
The goals of Project JXTA are just as ambitious, except their approach could actually be implemented, since it is defined as a virtual network overlay that rides on top of what we currently have. The similarities between the JXTA project and the original IETF are a bit interesting too, since the JXTA protocols are being used for a fairly large defense system (15 billion dollars).
Plus the set of ideas behind the JXTA protocols are beautiful. (Everyone that I know who has absorbed the protocol specification immediately turns into a zombie advocate that can't stop thinking about the cool things that they could do.) This paper is a great place to start.
I was surprised that this article was not in the writeup since it seems at least tangential to the subject: this product claims to actually slow the propagation of worms that have no known signature...which strikes me as being one louder than detecting a virus without a signature. I realize I'm conflating worms with viruses here, but nevertheless...
Speaking as someone who started reading in the Chips & Dips days, I'm vexed by the continued presence of naive posters that
imagine that objectivity was ever a property, or intended property, of slashdot content. WTF color is the sky in your world, AC? I started reading this site because back then it was hard to find a tech news source that wasn't Just Another Bill Gates Pole Smoker, and was very upfront about it. I was refreshing then. I'll grant that it's not refreshing now, but please respect its history.
The Concorde carried 100 passengers at Mach 2, or 50 passengers per Mach...this new plane will do three times the number of passengers-per-Mach as the Concorde, which works out to a rate of advancement of 3.75 passengers-per-mach-per-year.
I just wrote that because I thought passengers-per-Mach was an amusing metric.
It is hard to imagine the vast universe of cheesy VB apps out there going to AJAX just because you might someday be able to be the first major company to jump away from the windows monopoly and thereby cut your software choices by 90%.
Yeah, whatever would a business do without proper support for worm-propagation APIs!?;-)
Your request f or a "provable" example betrays how naive you are.
There is no way that the suppression of free speech by the government would be so overt in such a politically savvy nation.
If you want to look for suppression of speech, look for those things
surrounded by the protective shield of plausible deniability, such
as the Plame affair. Or look for subtle forms of coercion, such as denying
"access to the president" to reporters that stray from the pattern
of lobbing softball questions in press conferences. Or look to
suppression by corporate proxy of people who lose their jobs for
being critical of the president during an election. Or look for
the the goverment leveraging the fear of terrorism to abridge the right to assemble in protest of world trade conferences.
you don't walk into a saloon and just start shooting up the place even if you're packing a big-ass gun.
Cool, someone who gets it. I think if the iPod/iTunes revenue stream keeps growing, it won't matter so much if a PC version of OS X starts nibbling at their hardware profits like it did back in the Power Computing days. Regardless, this time around they have an OS worth licensing. I bet there are PC vendors that would love the opportunity to bundle OS X.
And you are totally right...if Apple were planning such a move, there's no way in hell that they would announce it so far in advance. Much better to quietly write drivers at this time.
On the day that Apple announced that the next version of OSX would be called Leopard, I wrote to a friend...
One more thing...how freaking brilliant was it to save the
cat that starts with 'L' for now? You know that journalists
and editors can't resist using alliteration in their headlines,
and Apple has handed them the image of a Leopard versus a Longhorn on a platter. I bet MS will be scrambling to come up with a
new name.
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Sorry to say this, but it sounds like you were removed for being a habitual trolling attention-whore. Just the way that you ask your questions is offensive: as if some naughty QA monkey needs to be publically whipped. How many times did people try to explain to you how ignorant you are of the open source development process before they took action? Be honest.
You misread me...I was making fun of msuzio.
So if person P is skeptical of claim C about entity E, then it logically follows that P thinks that E "can do no wrong"? That sounds a like a fringe-whacko line of thought to me.
From reading the Ars Technica thread about this yesterday, I think you misunderstand the audience that raised this issue: relief workers who are trying to quickly set up cheap kiosks with donated hardware. The 'target audience' would not care, I agree...but getting a brand new Dell with a valid XP license in front of them is a lot more difficult than booting up a linux live CD with Firefox on it. It is the relief workers who are frustrated by this limitation, not the refugees.
So they were dead sure (for a while) that the right course was freakin' Linux on Itanium, and then they realized that of all the possible downsides of that combination, the straw that broke the camel's back was Linux!? WTF?
mod parent naive!
Plus the set of ideas behind the JXTA protocols are beautiful. (Everyone that I know who has absorbed the protocol specification immediately turns into a zombie advocate that can't stop thinking about the cool things that they could do.) This paper is a great place to start.
I was surprised that this article was not in the writeup since it seems at least tangential to the subject: this product claims to actually slow the propagation of worms that have no known signature...which strikes me as being one louder than detecting a virus without a signature. I realize I'm conflating worms with viruses here, but nevertheless...
Speaking as someone who started reading in the Chips & Dips days, I'm vexed by the continued presence of naive posters that imagine that objectivity was ever a property, or intended property, of slashdot content. WTF color is the sky in your world, AC? I started reading this site because back then it was hard to find a tech news source that wasn't Just Another Bill Gates Pole Smoker, and was very upfront about it. I was refreshing then. I'll grant that it's not refreshing now, but please respect its history.
I just wrote that because I thought passengers-per-Mach was an amusing metric.
Yeah, because having a quality proprietary layer on top of a great open-source foundation is so much worse than top-to-bottom proprietary crap...not.
What once half-worked on Sun Nov 3, 2002 now doesn't work at all. Doing a little searching left you with a mistaken impression.
You might try this...
find . -name \* -print | xargs grep -B 1 -A 1 opyright | grep -B 1 -A 1 oundation | less
What I find tiresome is the incessant posting about what people find tedious. And the meta-jokes about it. Puh-leeeze!
Yeah, whatever would a business do without proper support for worm-propagation APIs!? ;-)
There is a very long history of people criticizing the shuttle on slashdot and elsewhere. You probably haven't been paying attention until recently?
Well put!
Your request f or a "provable" example betrays how naive you are. There is no way that the suppression of free speech by the government would be so overt in such a politically savvy nation. If you want to look for suppression of speech, look for those things surrounded by the protective shield of plausible deniability, such as the Plame affair. Or look for subtle forms of coercion, such as denying "access to the president" to reporters that stray from the pattern of lobbing softball questions in press conferences. Or look to suppression by corporate proxy of people who lose their jobs for being critical of the president during an election. Or look for the the goverment leveraging the fear of terrorism to abridge the right to assemble in protest of world trade conferences.
Cool, someone who gets it. I think if the iPod/iTunes revenue stream keeps growing, it won't matter so much if a PC version of OS X starts nibbling at their hardware profits like it did back in the Power Computing days. Regardless, this time around they have an OS worth licensing. I bet there are PC vendors that would love the opportunity to bundle OS X.
And you are totally right...if Apple were planning such a move, there's no way in hell that they would announce it so far in advance. Much better to quietly write drivers at this time.
That is conventional wisdom, but some have observed that the PC hardware market is not as diverse as it used to be.
How about a new linux live cd called The Stark Fist of Vista Removal? see.
One more thing...how freaking brilliant was it to save the cat that starts with 'L' for now? You know that journalists and editors can't resist using alliteration in their headlines, and Apple has handed them the image of a Leopard versus a Longhorn on a platter. I bet MS will be scrambling to come up with a new name.
I think it's safe to say that I called that one.
Ok, but what we really want to know is whether or not the beleagured Microsoft can pull through. The writing is on the wall...netcraft confirms...
Dude, Ken Thompson wrote that compiler. That is the same thing as throwing hundreds of ordinary engineers at the problem.