Sometimes being a control freak is good. Sure, Google looks great today, but what will be their policies tomorrow? I have no expectation that Google will be any different tomorrow, but I also have no certainty that they won't change. The only way I can make sure my data will always be handled in a way that follows my/my organizations policies is if I host that data myself.
Ok.. It's buggy. Have you submitted bug reports? Doesn't do any good to gripe about the rain if you're not willing to do something about it.
There is such a thing as users wanting products that just work. Open Source does need participation from the community, but this is not just a strength - it is also a weakness. It isn't reasonable to expect that every user of a product should participate in the testing and development of that product. Products that are intended to be used by a broad user base should be stable products and should not require the end user to have to provide input for product development. Clicking "yes, submit error report" is one thing - having to go out of the way to file an error report is another. So long as the open source community continues to respond to complaints by saying, "You should file a bug report!" or "You should develop a patch!" - so long as this sort of thing takes place, Open Source products will lose. It's completely the wrong attitude for developers to have.
Come now, this is silly paranoia. If you don't buy MS stuff anyway, then this has no effect on you. Just ignore it! But the article/summary are themselves silly. Microsoft has put particular requirements on licensing Vista for ANY kind of virtualization. It has nothing to do with Macs. If you virtualize Vista under Windows, you're still supposed to use higher editions. This is the first I've heard anyone claim some kind of conspiracy theory connecting this to a Mac.
Call me a cynic but I don't buy it. First, do enough people pay that close attention to classifieds that a school would be swamped by people wanting a car? Second, where do you live that people are dumb enough to think such a car can be purchased for $12,500? So to read your story interpretively, 5 phone calls and 1 guy that happened to walk by the car and said, "Hey, nice car."
If I steal from someone, I've shown a clear disregard for the law. If I'm caught, I'll be punished. If someone steals from me, they've shown a clear disregard for the law and will also be punished. The justice department will uphold the law on my behalf even if I've already shown my own disregard for the law as applies to me. I don't know much about prior US dealings with the WTO, but I do believe laws should be upheld even on behalf of imperfect citizens. Whether or not the US is a perfect citizen of the WTO really is not relevant. Whether or not China has broken trade agreements is relevant.
"Weapons-grade lasers (i.e. lasers that do damage themselves) are with todays technology not really an issue. To create damage comparable to conventional methods of kaboom, you'd have to haul around a LOT more material and those pieces also tend to be a LOT more expensive. War is a cost/gain game, so don't expect to see any laser weapons too soon on the battlefields of the world."
I didn't RTFA (hey, this is slashdot) but from the summary it sounds like a truly effective cloak of this sort is still some time away. A truly effective laser weapon is also still some time away. But it sounds like each of those will eventually make an appearance. Might not be a bad idea to consider laser weapons an issue so that when they do make an appearance we just might have something that can protect from them. I assume this is what military R&D is all about, come up with ways to defeat not-yet-existing systems so that when they exist we won't have to play catch-up.
A guy at my school is one of those who lost his job. He's working on his master's degree and has worked at Circuit City part time for 8 years now to work his way through school. The "American Dream" thing from the submitter is pretty silly, his job had nothing to do with the "American Dream" - it was just a way (a good way) for him to work through school. But despite his hard work and good work, the company has fired him. Sure, he can get a job elsewhere (and is now looking around) but he isn't looking to make a career, he's working his way through school. Obviously Circuit City isn't in business to help him get through school, but nonetheless I can understand his own frustration that now, despite his history with the company, he will have this new concern and pressure of having to find a new job then get adjusted to the job. Just something to get him through school, but the whole process of looking for a job adds stress that wasn't there before. I can understand his frustration with them.
I like to imagine big brother so that I can feel significant with the idea that someone finds me interesting enough to watch, but if no one is watching me, I'll pretend they are anyway. Then I'll join some big cause that opposes this monster and I'll feel like I'm part of something important, even though I'm really just wasting my time rather than being part of things that really are important.
For a couple days, half of people will get upset over the abuse of power and invasion of privacy and misuse of government
This despite the fact that there was no abuse of power or invasion of privacy or misuse of government?
while the other half excuse and justify it with comments like...
How about comments like - "I appreciate the police going to the effort of doing good police work in legal ways to keep people safe. I'm glad they don't just wait until after crime happens but somehow work to prevent crime before it can happen. I wish there were more of this sort of thing - legal, ethical investigation in scenarios that might invite crime."
You really don't see a problem with...
No, I don't. None whatsoever. As was mentioned, this was just good police work.
How about those cops a couple years ago
A reference on this could be helpful, I don't recall anything about that.
I understand you adore big brother
Nice. If someone disagrees with you, automatically lump him into a strong negative stereotype rather than consider that he may actually have a point. This has nothing to do with some elusive "big brother" boogey monster, this is about good police work performed in perfectly legal ways. No invasion of privacy (remember - public meetings), no entrapment, no instigation.
suspend to disk = hibernate, suspend to ram = sleep. Sleep uses the battery, hibernate doesn't. Granted sleep mode doesn't use much, but it isn't altogether negligible. If you don't want to use any power while moving around, hibernate is the way to go. Perhaps that's his scenario.
Please be very careful. I know you posted anonymously but that may not be enough. The Spitzoid People that control NASA from their home in the Garbotyl Nebula don't take kindly to earthlings catching on to their plots and plans. Please be careful. If you see any moving trash cans tomorrow, take cover - that's their covert agents!
Offhand, I think that China and America are still in a bit of a space race to get to the moon and control some of the prime real estate.
What would count as prime real estate on the moon? The only things that come to mind are perhaps some earth-facing location for spy telescopes (could anything like that be effective?) or space-facing locations for potential future launch points, and I don't imagine those types of region will be in short supply.
As far as I know, there are no real in-demand resources on the moon so it's not like they'll all be fighting over the gold.
Competition got the ball rolling. Keep in mind the Space Race was all about competition between the US and the USSR. It got us into space and on the moon. When the competition was over, things slowed down. How long did it take to get a man on the moon once the program was started? How long has it taken to get this far on the ISS? The one was born under competition, the other under cooperation.
We could go back further and look at the exploration of the Americas and other places to see what effect competition can have on exploration.
If the language is hard to digest, how will you know what the license is doing? You'll still need someone else out there interpreting it for you. If we didn't all know what the GPL was, you wouldn't know that it helped you unless you dug through the text on your own.
It did strike me as odd that there is no print button by default, but it's easy enough to add. Top left of the window, next to the Windows logo, there is a "quick access toolbar" - click the little drop arrow on that and you can select some things to add or remove from that toolbar. The print button is one of those things. I think MS should have had it on by default, but it was easy enough to find.
For most sane people, however, they are quite interested in escaping the Microsoft upgrade trap, and escaping reliance on a single vendor to supply any and all software products.
The vast majority of sane people would have no idea what you are talking about. A small minority of people would know what you are saying and would agree with you. Many people who know what you are saying disagree with you because (to use myself as an example) I don't particularly mind being "trapped" in an OS and/or office system (currently I'm running Vista/Office 2007) that I consider superior. It may not always be superior, Linux is making progress and Apple is doing some interesting things, but I don't foresee a great change in the wind anytime soon. As it is, if I do someday decide to switch to a more open product, I feel pretty confident that between other products ability to read old formats, and Office's ability to save in different formats, I shouldn't have any real difficulty working with my files.
I would tend to think this wouldn't work. Slashdot is not an independent news source but refers people to other sources, many of which are not themselves news sources but are personal blogs.
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Sometimes being a control freak is good. Sure, Google looks great today, but what will be their policies tomorrow? I have no expectation that Google will be any different tomorrow, but I also have no certainty that they won't change. The only way I can make sure my data will always be handled in a way that follows my/my organizations policies is if I host that data myself.
Ok.. It's buggy. Have you submitted bug reports? Doesn't do any good to gripe about the rain if you're not willing to do something about it.
There is such a thing as users wanting products that just work. Open Source does need participation from the community, but this is not just a strength - it is also a weakness. It isn't reasonable to expect that every user of a product should participate in the testing and development of that product. Products that are intended to be used by a broad user base should be stable products and should not require the end user to have to provide input for product development. Clicking "yes, submit error report" is one thing - having to go out of the way to file an error report is another. So long as the open source community continues to respond to complaints by saying, "You should file a bug report!" or "You should develop a patch!" - so long as this sort of thing takes place, Open Source products will lose. It's completely the wrong attitude for developers to have.
Come now, this is silly paranoia. If you don't buy MS stuff anyway, then this has no effect on you. Just ignore it! But the article/summary are themselves silly. Microsoft has put particular requirements on licensing Vista for ANY kind of virtualization. It has nothing to do with Macs. If you virtualize Vista under Windows, you're still supposed to use higher editions. This is the first I've heard anyone claim some kind of conspiracy theory connecting this to a Mac.
Thanks for the post, I misunderstood a few things about the WTO. Time to go do some reading. :)
Call me a cynic but I don't buy it. First, do enough people pay that close attention to classifieds that a school would be swamped by people wanting a car? Second, where do you live that people are dumb enough to think such a car can be purchased for $12,500? So to read your story interpretively, 5 phone calls and 1 guy that happened to walk by the car and said, "Hey, nice car."
If I steal from someone, I've shown a clear disregard for the law. If I'm caught, I'll be punished. If someone steals from me, they've shown a clear disregard for the law and will also be punished. The justice department will uphold the law on my behalf even if I've already shown my own disregard for the law as applies to me. I don't know much about prior US dealings with the WTO, but I do believe laws should be upheld even on behalf of imperfect citizens. Whether or not the US is a perfect citizen of the WTO really is not relevant. Whether or not China has broken trade agreements is relevant.
"Weapons-grade lasers (i.e. lasers that do damage themselves) are with todays technology not really an issue. To create damage comparable to conventional methods of kaboom, you'd have to haul around a LOT more material and those pieces also tend to be a LOT more expensive. War is a cost/gain game, so don't expect to see any laser weapons too soon on the battlefields of the world."
I didn't RTFA (hey, this is slashdot) but from the summary it sounds like a truly effective cloak of this sort is still some time away. A truly effective laser weapon is also still some time away. But it sounds like each of those will eventually make an appearance. Might not be a bad idea to consider laser weapons an issue so that when they do make an appearance we just might have something that can protect from them. I assume this is what military R&D is all about, come up with ways to defeat not-yet-existing systems so that when they exist we won't have to play catch-up.
some of that tainted dog food, I'm sure.
If this is happiness and humor the world must be a lot worse off than I thought. I for one will be glad to see April 1 pass.
A guy at my school is one of those who lost his job. He's working on his master's degree and has worked at Circuit City part time for 8 years now to work his way through school. The "American Dream" thing from the submitter is pretty silly, his job had nothing to do with the "American Dream" - it was just a way (a good way) for him to work through school. But despite his hard work and good work, the company has fired him. Sure, he can get a job elsewhere (and is now looking around) but he isn't looking to make a career, he's working his way through school. Obviously Circuit City isn't in business to help him get through school, but nonetheless I can understand his own frustration that now, despite his history with the company, he will have this new concern and pressure of having to find a new job then get adjusted to the job. Just something to get him through school, but the whole process of looking for a job adds stress that wasn't there before. I can understand his frustration with them.
I like to imagine big brother so that I can feel significant with the idea that someone finds me interesting enough to watch, but if no one is watching me, I'll pretend they are anyway. Then I'll join some big cause that opposes this monster and I'll feel like I'm part of something important, even though I'm really just wasting my time rather than being part of things that really are important.
Yes, yes - NY police officers perform good police work, and this makes Republicans evil.
For a couple days, half of people will get upset over the abuse of power and invasion of privacy and misuse of government
This despite the fact that there was no abuse of power or invasion of privacy or misuse of government?
while the other half excuse and justify it with comments like...
How about comments like - "I appreciate the police going to the effort of doing good police work in legal ways to keep people safe. I'm glad they don't just wait until after crime happens but somehow work to prevent crime before it can happen. I wish there were more of this sort of thing - legal, ethical investigation in scenarios that might invite crime."
You really don't see a problem with...
No, I don't. None whatsoever. As was mentioned, this was just good police work.
How about those cops a couple years ago
A reference on this could be helpful, I don't recall anything about that.
I understand you adore big brother
Nice. If someone disagrees with you, automatically lump him into a strong negative stereotype rather than consider that he may actually have a point. This has nothing to do with some elusive "big brother" boogey monster, this is about good police work performed in perfectly legal ways. No invasion of privacy (remember - public meetings), no entrapment, no instigation.
suspend to disk = hibernate, suspend to ram = sleep. Sleep uses the battery, hibernate doesn't. Granted sleep mode doesn't use much, but it isn't altogether negligible. If you don't want to use any power while moving around, hibernate is the way to go. Perhaps that's his scenario.
I'm very glad to know that your personal computing habits are to be considered the forced norm for all users.
Please be very careful. I know you posted anonymously but that may not be enough. The Spitzoid People that control NASA from their home in the Garbotyl Nebula don't take kindly to earthlings catching on to their plots and plans. Please be careful. If you see any moving trash cans tomorrow, take cover - that's their covert agents!
Offhand, I think that China and America are still in a bit of a space race to get to the moon and control some of the prime real estate.
What would count as prime real estate on the moon? The only things that come to mind are perhaps some earth-facing location for spy telescopes (could anything like that be effective?) or space-facing locations for potential future launch points, and I don't imagine those types of region will be in short supply.
As far as I know, there are no real in-demand resources on the moon so it's not like they'll all be fighting over the gold.
Competition got the ball rolling. Keep in mind the Space Race was all about competition between the US and the USSR. It got us into space and on the moon. When the competition was over, things slowed down. How long did it take to get a man on the moon once the program was started? How long has it taken to get this far on the ISS? The one was born under competition, the other under cooperation. We could go back further and look at the exploration of the Americas and other places to see what effect competition can have on exploration.
If the language is hard to digest, how will you know what the license is doing? You'll still need someone else out there interpreting it for you. If we didn't all know what the GPL was, you wouldn't know that it helped you unless you dug through the text on your own.
It did strike me as odd that there is no print button by default, but it's easy enough to add. Top left of the window, next to the Windows logo, there is a "quick access toolbar" - click the little drop arrow on that and you can select some things to add or remove from that toolbar. The print button is one of those things. I think MS should have had it on by default, but it was easy enough to find.
For most sane people, however, they are quite interested in escaping the Microsoft upgrade trap, and escaping reliance on a single vendor to supply any and all software products.
The vast majority of sane people would have no idea what you are talking about. A small minority of people would know what you are saying and would agree with you. Many people who know what you are saying disagree with you because (to use myself as an example) I don't particularly mind being "trapped" in an OS and/or office system (currently I'm running Vista/Office 2007) that I consider superior. It may not always be superior, Linux is making progress and Apple is doing some interesting things, but I don't foresee a great change in the wind anytime soon. As it is, if I do someday decide to switch to a more open product, I feel pretty confident that between other products ability to read old formats, and Office's ability to save in different formats, I shouldn't have any real difficulty working with my files.
And as we all know, scientists never make mistakes...
Perhaps I'm just getting dumber.
This is the real slashdot effect.
I would tend to think this wouldn't work. Slashdot is not an independent news source but refers people to other sources, many of which are not themselves news sources but are personal blogs.