Ahem... anybody have numbers on the longest uptime for an NT server? I'm guessing there are plenty of Unix/Linux boxes out there that never blink.
Anyway, here's a real target: The home-server market (where MS's eHome crap is headed) is still ripe for Linux. To me, that's the one real path still open for Linux to make headway in home computing. Like, where can you buy a turn-it-on-and-go Linux server/box/hub that's a no-brainer for Joe Parent to hook up at home?
Joe Parent (technology level = tv remote):
"Hi, I think I'm looking for a server---is that what you call it?---to hook all our computers together at home so we can share stuff. Do you have that?"
Tux (the salesman, not the geek):
"Oh yes, I've got just what you're looking for..."
Linux needs to be de-geeked, where the only users with root access are those who actually SELL the box. Stuff the nerd in the box -- and sell the box instead! Besides, what better way to slide onto the home desktop than by sneaking in on the server?
AOL does this exact same thing -- automatically.
I installed 6.0 for my crazy mother-in-law, and was amazed at how it took over her computer!
When you first open it, it connects to update their crap for you so you don't have to think. You don't have the option of cancelling or it'll just keep coming back.
Apparently, Microsoft wants to be as moronically simple as AOL, so it goes that they'd be doing the same shit with XP.
Fuck AOL! Fuck Microsoft! Fuck 'em all!!!
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This IS Microsoft PR... think about it:
If XP fails, now they can blame it on terrorists, and even get Uncle Sam to bail them out too!!!
Heh, just when you think those weird kernel numbers don't mean anything, you see "2.4.10" and you wonder why that unnecessary zero is hanging on the end...
So what exactly is it Linus is trying to tell us??? Like, is it "10" because it's in-between "9" and "11" -- you know, THE date?
Or has Alan Cox secretly been replaced by a 'Shell'by in Linus' bathroom???
Now that would be something interesting. And even given Russia's economically dim future, it's the one *ridiculous* thing that could actually happen.
Hey, if you think Russia can't get the money to do stuff like that anymore, you are mistaken.
There's an endless supply of rouge entities more than wealthy enough, and certainly willing enough, to purchase every old and dusty Russian rocket or jet [or warhead] that Putin decides is expendable.
Russia doesn't want or need another MIR. But considering the flippant way in which Dubya keeps yapping about missile defense systems, abolishing the START treaty, and testing nukes again [etc.] -- I'm sure Putin would love watching Dubya's reaction to such an announcement on CNN:
[Dubya scratching head] "Hell, I guess they need another one, right? That other one --the uh, MIRROR orbital-- didn't even come close to hitting the Taco Bell thing floating out in the Atlanta Ocean! [haha]"
I don't believe the government itself --whether the US, EU, UN, aliens, whoever-- will independently be able to implement any system requiring all humans to assume a numerical identity in order to be part of society. Oh no...
People will just vote for it.
Oh yeah... voting with overwhelming numbers for such a system. Voting for the convenience, the simplicity, but --most of all-- for the safety and security that such a system will promise. Just consider how the internet alone has brought many never-before-worried-about identity issues to the discussion front (like Hailstorm, etc).
The ENUM ads will be slick and well-crafted: "You are you!!! Say goodbye to identity theft, missing children, wanted fugitives, credit card fraud..." yada yada yada. Hey, check this site out yourself. It's like an early angle on the kinda sales pitch that'll be used to convince people to accept such invasive crap.
Hey... any legal-age, lethargic non-voters out there should think about how people you know who do vote would react to such a proposition --
Think about it... most of us [ahem] pay for cable, but wouldn't even think of having to pay-per-view every-freaking-thing you watch on tv.
We already have to suffer thru millions of mindless commercials with cable tv, and there's no difference with online ads... it's the same shit.
Of course there are those who want HBO [or whatever] gladly pay for the content and lack of ads, etc. But i've yet to see anything online that even remotely offers something truly unique and exclusive that i cannot find anywhere else [like HBO] that merits paying additional fees just to view it.
If you force people to pay (1) to access and then (2) to view web content, you'll see websites drying up so fast dust will be coming out of your speakers.
Why not add an "F" to your corporate name... then see how the whole industry attitude changes, as you go from being just "IBM", to "IBMF" -- International Bad Muther Fuckers!!!
A recording of Jar-Jar Binks *jibberish* (backwards)
60,000,000,000,000 watt stereo
Sun
Directions:
Make Sea-Monkeys® in Zooquarium (throw away "Ocean of Light" instructions). Play Jar-Jar Binks *jibberish* thru 60,000,000,000,000 watt stereo --full blast-- while using magnifying glass to focus sun's heat on single Sea-Monkey®. Hold focused sunlight on Sea-Monkey® until heat and sonic vibration pressure from Jar-Jar Binks *jibberish* converts Sea-Monkey® into a #4 Plasma II Sea-Monkey® Star!
Repeat with additional Sea-Monkeys® to make galaxy.
"thousands of dollars worth of equipment to replace a six-second process"
thousands of dollars of equipement?... um, most stores i go to have zon machines and are online already... and like that matters to the government anyway.
"clerks can run the...DL through a card reader and confirm that the birthday associated with that DL number matches the one on the card"
sure... but my point is the cashier can't confirm that the picture on the card --which can be altered-- is the correct photo for that DL number with a simple card swipe. An electronic paper DL would be able pull the correct photo from a database [just like a web page] to match the swiped card.
If driver's licenses were made of this stuff, they'd be tough to forge...esp if combined with smart card technology.
Imagine showing your id to buy beer, it being run thru like a credit card, and the card automatically updating its 'display' face to the cashier showing that indeed you who you say you are, and that you are old enough to buy beer. Hmm.
Online ads are an *acceptable* pest on the first visit to any site... but upon repeat visits, they should disappear, or at least be optional (a cookie-embedded "ad switch" would be nice). If you think about it, ads --by their very nature-- only provide an exit from whatever site they sit on anyway.
And, of course, this is the big difference between online advertising and ads in any other medium. When you look at, or hear, ads elsewhere, you are never required to break continuity with whatever is hosting the ads (think radio, tv, mags, etc.). But web ads don't just say "look at me"... they say "come over here instead".
I would hope that most repeat visitors return to a site because of content, not advertising (think slashdot)... so why should frequent visitors be bombarded with the same crap, hour after hour, day after day, enticing them to leave the very site giving them space?
Online advertising sucks precisely because of this constant nagging of the viewer, and the ever-present threat that site owners face with the matter-of-fact *exit* button functionality that online ads actually represent.
No matter, I like the idea of text-based ads simply for their non-intrusiveness, but would rather not see any ads period. Hey, it's just like the movies to me: you are forced to watch (and occasionally enjoy) movie previews in a theater just because it's part of the experience. But nobody ever likes watching the same stupid crap on the video you rent from blockbuster.
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Anyway, here's a real target: The home-server market (where MS's eHome crap is headed) is still ripe for Linux. To me, that's the one real path still open for Linux to make headway in home computing. Like, where can you buy a turn-it-on-and-go Linux server/box/hub that's a no-brainer for Joe Parent to hook up at home?
Linux needs to be de-geeked, where the only users with root access are those who actually SELL the box. Stuff the nerd in the box -- and sell the box instead! Besides, what better way to slide onto the home desktop than by sneaking in on the server?
Anywayz... just my 2-fxxking cents.
"Beware, I live!"
Sinistar!
Now just think... if AOL really buys RedHat, then everbody on earth will start getting FOUR FUCKING AOL CD's a week in the mail! The horror.
AOL does this exact same thing -- automatically.
I installed 6.0 for my crazy mother-in-law, and was amazed at how it took over her computer!
When you first open it, it connects to update their crap for you so you don't have to think. You don't have the option of cancelling or it'll just keep coming back.
Apparently, Microsoft wants to be as moronically simple as AOL, so it goes that they'd be doing the same shit with XP.
Fuck AOL! Fuck Microsoft! Fuck 'em all!!!
If XP fails, now they can blame it on terrorists, and even get Uncle Sam to bail them out too!!!
*Dubyonics* == "I personalibly recommendify it as the biggest high level of encryptionite that's conceivably imaginable."
So what exactly is it Linus is trying to tell us??? Like, is it "10" because it's in-between "9" and "11" -- you know, THE date?
Or has Alan Cox secretly been replaced by a 'Shell'by in Linus' bathroom???
heh... that's dubyonic for "rogue"
Hey, if you think Russia can't get the money to do stuff like that anymore, you are mistaken.
There's an endless supply of rouge entities more than wealthy enough, and certainly willing enough, to purchase every old and dusty Russian rocket or jet [or warhead] that Putin decides is expendable.
Russia doesn't want or need another MIR. But considering the flippant way in which Dubya keeps yapping about missile defense systems, abolishing the START treaty, and testing nukes again [etc.] -- I'm sure Putin would love watching Dubya's reaction to such an announcement on CNN:
[Dubya scratching head] "Hell, I guess they need another one, right? That other one --the uh, MIRROR orbital-- didn't even come close to hitting the Taco Bell thing floating out in the Atlanta Ocean! [haha]"
Heh... unfortunately no, for they will all stand outside the gates of slashdot, wailing and grinding their teeth, begging for karma.
People will just vote for it.
Oh yeah... voting with overwhelming numbers for such a system. Voting for the convenience, the simplicity, but --most of all-- for the safety and security that such a system will promise. Just consider how the internet alone has brought many never-before-worried-about identity issues to the discussion front (like Hailstorm, etc).
The ENUM ads will be slick and well-crafted: "You are you!!! Say goodbye to identity theft, missing children, wanted fugitives, credit card fraud..." yada yada yada. Hey, check this site out yourself. It's like an early angle on the kinda sales pitch that'll be used to convince people to accept such invasive crap.
Hey... any legal-age, lethargic non-voters out there should think about how people you know who do vote would react to such a proposition --
the day is coming...
"5 months in cramped quarters hurtling through the vacuum of space seems sucky on the face of it"
but is not as sucky as having 5 moderator points on slashdot, and only stories like this to moderate
neverfuckingmind
and they probably aren't even using $600 hammmers!!!
We already have to suffer thru millions of mindless commercials with cable tv, and there's no difference with online ads... it's the same shit. Of course there are those who want HBO [or whatever] gladly pay for the content and lack of ads, etc. But i've yet to see anything online that even remotely offers something truly unique and exclusive that i cannot find anywhere else [like HBO] that merits paying additional fees just to view it.
If you force people to pay (1) to access and then (2) to view web content, you'll see websites drying up so fast dust will be coming out of your speakers.
check out scripting news today and yesterday ...hmm.
man, that'd be the coolest!
Fuck that.
Directions:
Make Sea-Monkeys® in Zooquarium (throw away "Ocean of Light" instructions). Play Jar-Jar Binks *jibberish* thru 60,000,000,000,000 watt stereo -- full blast -- while using magnifying glass to focus sun's heat on single Sea-Monkey®. Hold focused sunlight on Sea-Monkey® until heat and sonic vibration pressure from Jar-Jar Binks *jibberish* converts Sea-Monkey® into a #4 Plasma II Sea-Monkey® Star!
Repeat with additional Sea-Monkeys® to make galaxy.
thousands of dollars of equipement?... um, most stores i go to have zon machines and are online already... and like that matters to the government anyway.
"clerks can run the ...DL through a card reader and confirm that the birthday associated with that DL number matches the one on the card"
sure... but my point is the cashier can't confirm that the picture on the card --which can be altered-- is the correct photo for that DL number with a simple card swipe. An electronic paper DL would be able pull the correct photo from a database [just like a web page] to match the swiped card.
supremely illogical? well, i do read slashdot...
Imagine showing your id to buy beer, it being run thru like a credit card, and the card automatically updating its 'display' face to the cashier showing that indeed you who you say you are, and that you are old enough to buy beer. Hmm.
...yeah, they're only buying them now!
And, of course, this is the big difference between online advertising and ads in any other medium. When you look at, or hear, ads elsewhere, you are never required to break continuity with whatever is hosting the ads (think radio, tv, mags, etc.). But web ads don't just say "look at me"... they say "come over here instead".
I would hope that most repeat visitors return to a site because of content, not advertising (think slashdot)... so why should frequent visitors be bombarded with the same crap, hour after hour, day after day, enticing them to leave the very site giving them space?
Online advertising sucks precisely because of this constant nagging of the viewer, and the ever-present threat that site owners face with the matter-of-fact *exit* button functionality that online ads actually represent.
No matter, I like the idea of text-based ads simply for their non-intrusiveness, but would rather not see any ads period. Hey, it's just like the movies to me: you are forced to watch (and occasionally enjoy) movie previews in a theater just because it's part of the experience. But nobody ever likes watching the same stupid crap on the video you rent from blockbuster.
maybe hard drives this size will be a first real step towards computers that *snap* on like lights...
just keep that pixie dust away from microsoft's code!!!
So quoteth Xenu, the "All your base" evil guy.
remember the evil already done by that stinking fucking stupid xbox-loving butt-breath little dog... "YUM" my ass