I have to admit that it is ironic that you are complaining about domain squatters... while you also managed to post message #13 after doing a checkup on netsol.com.
Especially since you did a registeration check and not a WHOIS... it seems that you are a squatter yourself!
Here I thought it would be a ground-breaking processor in terms of x86 performance... I had my trigger finger on "SELL" for my AMD stock but happily I dind't have to!
Imagine a PIII-500 laptop by mid-year... it's already old hat! Sure, it has good batterly life, but it will only be applicable for the low end.
I seem to recall that the AMD Athlon does a similar x86-RISC translation, though it uses a tad more power than 1 watt. And doesn't the Itanium plan to do something similar as well?
Someone please explain what is so new, except for the low power consumption
Can MS really be held responsible for bluntly stupid users? It's no different from setting the root account password to blank or the company name.
What else can a company do (be it Red Hat or MS)? You need a password to set everything up and testing... I suppose there could be an alert or something that warns that the sa/root accounts are open... but that would be a threat in itself.
NASA has been looking for a cheap way to get into space, and has created a contest among the various aerospace companies to produce such a plane.
Actually, the contest is being put on by the X Prize foundation (the new Spirit of St. Louis). It's a private organization that is offering a $10M prize for the first one that can launch a re-entry vehicle for under $10M.
cDc is not a benign group of hackers as you make them out to me.
Back Orifice 2000 is a deadly program that really has no practical applications. Maybe if BO2K was password protected you could say that it was a hackers tool. But since you need a password to DEACTIVATE it... it is a crackers tool (and could rightfully be considered a virus).
Besides... I doubt that the methods used by cDc attacking MS would be any less effective against Linux. Obviously, they are not the "good guys"
... he is just trying to make more money (it is his job, after all).
He knows that people will go out and buy TPM on VHS, and then later he can release the collectors edition and re-sell to the same people.
It seemed obvious that he would do this... it's the same thing as before: I bought a "THX remastered" special edition box set that was released 6 mo. before the re-edited trilogy. They just want more of our money, and that is his right as a businessman. If you don't like it, don't buy it... it certainly won't kill you!
find another on-line bank who can provide everything I have at mbanx (on-line trading in US and Canadian funds, linked directly to my chequeing bank accounts, etc.)
Try Canada Trust... that's what I use and am very happy with them, they manage to do all the things you say above, plus other things like bill payments. And... on one page it lists the balances of my chequing account, my investment accounts, and my mastercard. Very, very convenient. And it doesn't cost much either.
Of course, there is a caveat (isn't their always?)... CT was just bought out by TD Bank and they have their own system so I am crossing my fingers that they won't screw things up too badly.
Y2K was not such a big event that your life will end because of it. I mean really, the Gregorian calendar is not the be-all end-all of life.
Put it this way: when they talk to elderly people about the passing of the year 1900, they don't ask: "What did you do that night?" No, they want to know what life was like back then. Hopefully you wouldn't really care too much about one night that really was a non-event.
I'm sure that the memories of the birth of your children, or your marriage night will far surpass anything you would get from a one-night drunken party.
Solaris isn't dead yet... there is still significant demand for it. I think that it is a good move to finally offer choice though, because Linux and Solaris are different enough that Sun can diversify their software. Now the customer can choose based on advantages/disadvantages -- Way to go, Sun
Hmmm... this troubles me. Does this mean they can break 128 easily? If so, how? It's still too tough to brute force it, isn't it?
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I didn't see it either..../. has been really bad with the MS-bashing lately. I can understand that they don't like some of their business practices... but this is too silly. First the Amiga article, now this -- what's next: Microsoft found to be cause of world poverty?
why would you be upset? The worst thing that could happen is that the companies are better able to provide you with goods or services that you actually want! Maybe I could stop getting ads for Tampon commercials...
notice it is posted under humor? Hemos isn't that stupid!
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Does Linux become less important? Will developers flee Linux for OpenWindows? Or will everyone keep on going with Linux and *BSD. My personal bet is that a lot of developers will switch over and make OpenWindows better... --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
so much time and effort to get an inferior product (Even if the sound quality is the same, you don't get the liner notes etc). Oh come on... you don't really believe that do you? Look at the success of MP3... it's lesser quality than CD, but the portability and free-ness of it made it a success. Nobody cares about the liner notes. Probably even less of a concern with videos. the BIG revenue losses isn't someone copying at home, it's commerical pirates who make 10,000's of copies, and they're not going to be affected by the lack of home gear at all. Actually, I doubt that... especially in North America where piracy laws are strong. I know of very few people who actually buy pirated CDs from large-scale manuafacturers... but I know of MANY who pooled together to buy a CD-R to copy all of their CDs and share amongst each other. If you have ever stayed in a University dorm, you know what I am talking about. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
Is it silly? I don't know about that. Why not? Because companies are out to make money, after all. If a new technology tends to threaten their existing revenues, they will fight it at all costs. Put yourself in the place of the industry... this technology could mean the end of much of their revenues. Would you really expect them to say "Well, since 25% of the population will use it for non-piracy purposes... we should let it go out there and destroy half of our business." --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
I have to admit that I love the irony of the headline over at MSNBC... RealNetworks is watching you Ah yes... scaring people away from the competition! (even though the scare is justified in this case) --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
A quick search of MSNBC reveals that there are some articles about GE, but nothing major. Like most conspiracy theories... this one is flawed. Microsoft news is MUCH MORE interesting than GE news ("ooh... a recall of dishwashers!" vs. "Microsoft sued by US government"). It makes sense. The one division of GE that gets press is NBC (duh), which is more exciting than GE Capital, or any other division. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
One thing that you might want to keep in mind that DoubleClick is not collecting information in order to terrorize the population. They very simply want to track where a particular user has been in order to better target them for ads in the future. For example (assuming doubleclick was everywhere), if I were looking at a page, they would know that I visit/. and many other tech sites. That means they would have an idea that an ad for computer software would be better targeted for me than a tampon ad. Does it HURT me to at least see ads that might be of relavance? No, of course not. Of course, there is also the argument that these web ads are the only source of revenue for a lot of these web companies. If too many people start blocking these sites... they will start charging for access, and everyone loses there. If you don't like the ads, ignore them because they don't hurt you. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
Corel has said in the past that they are working on a port of DRAW to Linux. They are probably waiting until their distro comes out before launching any apps tho. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
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I have to admit that it is ironic that you are complaining about domain squatters... while you also managed to post message #13 after doing a checkup on netsol.com.
Especially since you did a registeration check and not a WHOIS... it seems that you are a squatter yourself!
Or not... =) I like to play Sherlock Holmes.
Its up now (12:05 PST) and it looks good. Though it is very, very, very slow! What... didn't they expect to get hits?
Here I thought it would be a ground-breaking processor in terms of x86 performance... I had my trigger finger on "SELL" for my AMD stock but happily I dind't have to!
Imagine a PIII-500 laptop by mid-year... it's already old hat! Sure, it has good batterly life, but it will only be applicable for the low end.
I seem to recall that the AMD Athlon does a similar x86-RISC translation, though it uses a tad more power than 1 watt. And doesn't the Itanium plan to do something similar as well?
Someone please explain what is so new, except for the low power consumption
Can MS really be held responsible for bluntly stupid users? It's no different from setting the root account password to blank or the company name.
What else can a company do (be it Red Hat or MS)? You need a password to set everything up and testing... I suppose there could be an alert or something that warns that the sa/root accounts are open... but that would be a threat in itself.
NASA has been looking for a cheap way to get into space, and has created a contest among the various aerospace companies to produce such a plane.
Actually, the contest is being put on by the X Prize foundation (the new Spirit of St. Louis). It's a private organization that is offering a $10M prize for the first one that can launch a re-entry vehicle for under $10M.
Check it out at xprize.org
What a move eh? They are going from People-magazineish content to People Magazine content.
It will feature a special THX(TM) Anti-Gungan Feature that will allow you to eliminate Jar Jar entirely from Episode 1 each time you watch
I'd pay for that! In a heartbeat..
cDc is not a benign group of hackers as you make them out to me.
Back Orifice 2000 is a deadly program that really has no practical applications. Maybe if BO2K was password protected you could say that it was a hackers tool. But since you need a password to DEACTIVATE it... it is a crackers tool (and could rightfully be considered a virus).
Besides... I doubt that the methods used by cDc attacking MS would be any less effective against Linux. Obviously, they are not the "good guys"
... he is just trying to make more money (it is his job, after all).
He knows that people will go out and buy TPM on VHS, and then later he can release the collectors edition and re-sell to the same people.
It seemed obvious that he would do this... it's the same thing as before: I bought a "THX remastered" special edition box set that was released 6 mo. before the re-edited trilogy. They just want more of our money, and that is his right as a businessman. If you don't like it, don't buy it... it certainly won't kill you!
find another on-line bank who can provide everything I have at mbanx (on-line trading in US and Canadian funds, linked directly to my chequeing bank accounts, etc.)
Try Canada Trust... that's what I use and am very happy with them, they manage to do all the things you say above, plus other things like bill payments. And... on one page it lists the balances of my chequing account, my investment accounts, and my mastercard. Very, very convenient. And it doesn't cost much either.
Of course, there is a caveat (isn't their always?)... CT was just bought out by TD Bank and they have their own system so I am crossing my fingers that they won't screw things up too badly.
Y2K was not such a big event that your life will end because of it. I mean really, the Gregorian calendar is not the be-all end-all of life.
Put it this way: when they talk to elderly people about the passing of the year 1900, they don't ask: "What did you do that night?" No, they want to know what life was like back then. Hopefully you wouldn't really care too much about one night that really was a non-event.
I'm sure that the memories of the birth of your children, or your marriage night will far surpass anything you would get from a one-night drunken party.
Solaris isn't dead yet... there is still significant demand for it. I think that it is a good move to finally offer choice though, because Linux and Solaris are different enough that Sun can diversify their software. Now the customer can choose based on advantages/disadvantages -- Way to go, Sun
Hmmm... this troubles me. Does this mean they can break 128 easily? If so, how? It's still too tough to brute force it, isn't it?
I didn't see it either.... /. has been really bad with the MS-bashing lately. I can understand that they don't like some of their business practices... but this is too silly. First the Amiga article, now this -- what's next: Microsoft found to be cause of world poverty?
why would you be upset? The worst thing that could happen is that the companies are better able to provide you with goods or services that you actually want! Maybe I could stop getting ads for Tampon commercials...
notice it is posted under humor? Hemos isn't that stupid!
Does Linux become less important? Will developers flee Linux for OpenWindows? Or will everyone keep on going with Linux and *BSD. My personal bet is that a lot of developers will switch over and make OpenWindows better... --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
so much time and effort to get an inferior product (Even if the sound quality is the same, you don't get the liner notes etc). Oh come on... you don't really believe that do you? Look at the success of MP3... it's lesser quality than CD, but the portability and free-ness of it made it a success. Nobody cares about the liner notes. Probably even less of a concern with videos. the BIG revenue losses isn't someone copying at home, it's commerical pirates who make 10,000's of copies, and they're not going to be affected by the lack of home gear at all. Actually, I doubt that... especially in North America where piracy laws are strong. I know of very few people who actually buy pirated CDs from large-scale manuafacturers... but I know of MANY who pooled together to buy a CD-R to copy all of their CDs and share amongst each other. If you have ever stayed in a University dorm, you know what I am talking about. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
Is it silly? I don't know about that. Why not? Because companies are out to make money, after all. If a new technology tends to threaten their existing revenues, they will fight it at all costs. Put yourself in the place of the industry... this technology could mean the end of much of their revenues. Would you really expect them to say "Well, since 25% of the population will use it for non-piracy purposes... we should let it go out there and destroy half of our business." --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
I have to admit that I love the irony of the headline over at MSNBC... RealNetworks is watching you Ah yes... scaring people away from the competition! (even though the scare is justified in this case) --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
A quick search of MSNBC reveals that there are some articles about GE, but nothing major. Like most conspiracy theories... this one is flawed. Microsoft news is MUCH MORE interesting than GE news ("ooh... a recall of dishwashers!" vs. "Microsoft sued by US government"). It makes sense. The one division of GE that gets press is NBC (duh), which is more exciting than GE Capital, or any other division. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
One thing that you might want to keep in mind that DoubleClick is not collecting information in order to terrorize the population. They very simply want to track where a particular user has been in order to better target them for ads in the future. For example (assuming doubleclick was everywhere), if I were looking at a page, they would know that I visit /. and many other tech sites. That means they would have an idea that an ad for computer software would be better targeted for me than a tampon ad. Does it HURT me to at least see ads that might be of relavance? No, of course not. Of course, there is also the argument that these web ads are the only source of revenue for a lot of these web companies. If too many people start blocking these sites... they will start charging for access, and everyone loses there. If you don't like the ads, ignore them because they don't hurt you. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
Corel has said in the past that they are working on a port of DRAW to Linux. They are probably waiting until their distro comes out before launching any apps tho. --- "Progress is the God of the Machine"
Strange how far ZDnet is behind The Register. This news has been out for weeks! Though I suppose they post less unsubstantiated rumors on ZDnet!