Why are they actively reaching out to women? They don't actively reach out to men (specifically). If women want to do it, they will come. If they don't, they won't. They are wasting their time, because nobody new will help because of this reaching out campaign. Not being sexist, but most women probably don't think that cutting code is cool, and care too much about society. Us nerds don't care if other people call us recluse, geeks, nerds, whatever. We know we make a difference. I guess women don't feel that way, and need to be acknowledged.
Damn. I just re-read that post and it sounded incredibly rude. Well, I don't mean to be, so sorry if I offend anyone. I can't think of a better way to say it.
I have a particaular objection to the title. "The Largest Object" makes it sound like we know we will never find anything bigger. With the size (infinite?) of the universe, I find that impossible to believe. A better alternative title: "Largest object known to date is 100M LY across"
Sorry to bitch and moan, but it pisses me off when people are so damn loose with the english language.
Also: How is this important? So it's big. What now?
(realizes should RTFA before someone else suggests it and makes look like fool:P)
Sorry... OK. It seems that they are taking money and prevalence in other markets as factors. So, not opinions.
I find the article title misleading. "Best Brands" are (essentially) the ones that make the most money. Now, why is this in hardware, on Slashdot? Most of them don't even seem to be tech companies...
What is their metric? How are they measuring this? Best is a subjective term, you know.
What if I think that Linux is more influental than Apache. Am I now wrong because Buisness Weekly says otherwise? I thought these were opinions. You know, use what you think is best, which is influenced by the job at hand...
If these just are opinions (or even surveys of opinions), do we need them? And, better yet, do we need them on/., where everybody has their own opinion on best stuff?
So, a patent. Wonderful. Has it occured to anyone that they might not use it? That they might not have any intention of using it? Perhaps it's just so, that if anybody tries to do it, they will have to pay royalties? Did anyone think of this before they said "stupid...never work..."?
Chairs!!111
Now that that's out of the way... we might be able to be serious
It's nice to see Microsoft easing up a bit. I think we will find that this will be the only way to possibly ensure their existence. Embrace and extend, without the extinguish, anyone?
On the other hand, they've promised many things over the years. Is this just another promise?
He is seriously one of the most egotistical people in corporate America. Somebody needs to take him down a peg. Someone like Steve Jobs or Linus Torovalds is just the person. He has this unshaking conviction that his products are the best and can't be convinced otherwise. Once upon a time this was true, but now it hurts them because they refuse to learn from their users, competitors (no, this does not mean steal, at least not intrinsically), and the changing times. Oh well, it simply hurts him, nobody more.
Crap. This does hurt other people. In fact, everybody. Damn. Well...
I agree that there seems to be some "personal conflict". The people who matter...and I could care less...delete my CVS...no use for it anymore...do not reply to this email...
Wow, is PHP really that hard to work on? Is he being threatened at gunpoint?? Seriously, why the sour grapes? Is this a hoax? Was his account hacked?
This is not a funny post. This is trying to be serious. What's going on with this guy? If he's just done and finished working on it, he could quit w/o the bitterness. Was he feeling squashed/trodden upon?
If PHP itself (no other factors) could do this to a guy, how much does it encourage other people to develop it?
You are watching it from an iPod. Which is a great idea, if it works. It saves the expense of another hard drive.
With it's external battery (~5hrs) will it also charge the iPod? Sort of a portable Dock? Yes, I know those exist, but it would be nice to have an all-in-one device.
What would be neat would be to have this as a wall plug with digital out to a TV, with an IR remote. I'd buy it (if I had an HDTV yet...)
No. This is a third-party add-on. It sounds like a good idea, but I get the feeling that we will not be seeing it in five months...
It is also interesting that it is advocating itself as freeing from DRM, as well as HD. Will we see more companies creating and selling open technologies? I hope so.
Now that I've read the comment (sorry) I'd like to answer my questions:
It does play video off a second partition-like thing, and through the dock connector. It doesn't have it's own drive.
Still, how do they define Hi-Def? Does Hi-Def really matter at such small resolutions?
I thought it was interesting that they are marketing it as a no-DRM device. I want to see how this works out, and will likely purchase one for my 4G, if it looks like it works...
Damn. Missed my first first post by seconds...
Will it play video off the drive? How will it get the video? If it has it's own drive, why does it need the iPod?
Not quite... There are (were?) big discounts to OEM's (Gateway, Dell) on licenses for Windows, assuming certain conditions were met.
For example, Gateway wanted realplayer (god, no!) as the default. However, to do so, they would lose some/all of their discount. It doesn't hurt gateway to not bundle it, and it's good for them.
I think that's the reason why the anti-trust case came up. As far as I know, they were stifling competition by "forcing" (for lack of a better term - incentivizing?) them to bundle/make default/use exclusively Internet Explorer. So, (not sure of the extent) they would lose their discount if they even bundled netscape.
None of this is aimed at the consumer. None of the problems they're addressing deal with the user.
However, what I'm really excited about is the opening of protocols they said. Stuff like easy domain login can now be focused on, and existing bugs can be removed. Nice!
Ok. We have some gold-plated cellophane. How is that a "flying robot"? Not meaning to troll, but isn't that a bit of a leap? I understand how, possibly, that would be useful. But there are other things to a wing than just flapping. There's aerodynamics, and flapping, and such. Aren't there more efficent means of flight than cellophane wings, even if they were feasible? No, I havn't RTFA but I'd be willing to guess that nobody has actually built one of these wings.
What is the reason for one of these things? Are they more energy efficent?
The only thing I can think that these would actually hold up (if they could do anything) would be something smaller than a bumblebee. What can a fly-sized robot do? And, in 50 years when we have useful ones, won't we have another means of flight?
Correct. You could fsck up the legit users, and trouble the pirates for about ~10 minutes, until there's a fix. This is much the same trouble with DRM - $labelstore only screws over legit users, pirates (not the *true* pirates, that duplicate and sell) crack the AAC/WMA file and decrypt it. It only inhibits the legit user from doing stuff with his music.
However, MS gets a lot of support from pirates. Usually, their only issue is the high cost for not much, but they (often) buy less expensive software (games), thereby supporting lock in. More people using Windows is less than *nix/OSX. If they had some theoretical means of cutting off all piracy, they would lose a signifigant amount of money. A copy of XP costs about $5, including the development cost. The point is, it really is not to their benefit for a number of reasons, on many levels
And shame on you,/. for believing it in the first place
Wow. Am I being dyslexic or have I heard this before?.
Is it somehow different? Please enlighten me. Or, is this idea universally interesting, and it's just a coincidence that they both can run CE/Linux? The other one did exactly that, as well.
Do you have any clue what you're talking about? I haven't actually written a device driver (trying to learn) but do you even know what one is? How the hell could it possibly be related to DRM? "Oh, my nVidia user-mode gfx driver is part of DRM"???
I'm not a fan of DRM by any means, just that statement is total bullshit
And, now that I've ranted about that for a couple of minutes, it's probably a troll...
Global warming? What's that? Never heard of it. NO EVIDENCE! (makes cleansing cross)
Poverty? Huh?
War? There's no war, it's just an armed conflict where 1000+ of our soldiers have died for no cause
Pollution? Fighting it? No money in it, you see. Haliburton doesn't like this "po-lut-ion" word being spread around.
Seriously though, I completely agree with you. Just this administration had repetadly demonstrated that they just don't care.
I'm not a buisness expert, but can't you uninstall anything the hell you want from windows ('cept IE, admittedly) and make an image from that disk, and image it to 50,000+ PC's you sell? Also, can you put firefox on that 1st pc, and make it the default before you make the image? They do it with Symantec/Norton Security Suite all the time. And, can't Dell write a program to present the user with choices of defaults to use? "Would you like to use Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Netscape as your default browser?" "AIM or Windows/MSN messenger or Yahoo! Messenger... or Trillian or ICQ or IRC...?"
That would be presenting the user with Too Many Choices(tm). 99% of the time, if you don't know how to install Firefox and make it the default (it freakin' asks you!), or change the default e-mail program to thunderbird (it asks!), then you don't care. And, the 1 percent that's suing only is suing because they know they don't want it, and know how to get rid of it. But they see $$. I have proof of this, too. How much other stuff does OS X stuff in to an operating system? Safari. iChat, iTunes, iWeb, f**king DVD authoring. MS doesn't include half that stuff, and the Mac folks see iLife as a feature. You have to feel sorry for Microsoft.
Don't know what this really looks like, but the Behind the Laughter episode says: "What will be come of this North Kentucky family?"
How bout' here? Haha, I gave it away! w00t
One word. Bullshit.
Ok, I happen to like Microsoft, and use 2K server. I see AD as a server, and wouldn't have purchased the OS and PC to go with it, if it was missing.
Ok, I bought the $300 office suite, because:
a) I like it
or
b) I've never heard of OO.o
? WHAT THE F**K!?!? IF YOU DONT F**King LIKE IT, DON'T F***King BUY IT! IF YOU DON'T F**KING LIKE IT, DONT F**KING USE IT!
Ok, I'm done now. All these Anti-trust things are BS pitched by companies who are losing. Sucks for you.
You expect Microsoft to put Netscape in Windows? If you want Netscape, go download it. http://www.netscape.com/ Here. Go ahead. I've never seen Microsoft stop anybody. FF doesn't just stop working on my computer, with an ominous MS popup. I thought a monopoly stopped people. If MS sucks so much, how did they get on so many PCs? If you don't like Microsoft, use Debian. It's free
People who use Microsoft products either like them, or don't care. If you don't like it, you're not using it. And if you do use it, you're stupid. Just simple. So, you don't like something and don't want to use it, don't go out and buy it, install it, choose to install it (when you're given the choice), and then complain about it, and go so far to sue (!) about it. You know, you could choose "Uninstall", right? Or do you just want money?
I just read an article about that. Crap, how long is that patent going to stand? Against Google?
Yes, this is probably redundant, but I think it makes a point, albeit mainly for that patent article. It will be interesting to see how they (the holding company) deal with Google "infringing" on their technology. As well as M$. Windows Live anyone?
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Why are they actively reaching out to women? They don't actively reach out to men (specifically). If women want to do it, they will come. If they don't, they won't. They are wasting their time, because nobody new will help because of this reaching out campaign. Not being sexist, but most women probably don't think that cutting code is cool, and care too much about society. Us nerds don't care if other people call us recluse, geeks, nerds, whatever. We know we make a difference. I guess women don't feel that way, and need to be acknowledged.
Damn. I just re-read that post and it sounded incredibly rude. Well, I don't mean to be, so sorry if I offend anyone. I can't think of a better way to say it.
Disclaimer: IANAP (psychiatrist)
Only on Slashdot could that joke be modded informative...
I have a particaular objection to the title. "The Largest Object" makes it sound like we know we will never find anything bigger. With the size (infinite?) of the universe, I find that impossible to believe. A better alternative title: "Largest object known to date is 100M LY across"
Sorry to bitch and moan, but it pisses me off when people are so damn loose with the english language.
Also: How is this important? So it's big. What now?
(realizes should RTFA before someone else suggests it and makes look like fool :P)
Sorry... OK. It seems that they are taking money and prevalence in other markets as factors. So, not opinions.
I find the article title misleading. "Best Brands" are (essentially) the ones that make the most money. Now, why is this in hardware, on Slashdot? Most of them don't even seem to be tech companies...
I must be missing something
What is their metric? How are they measuring this? Best is a subjective term, you know.
/., where everybody has their own opinion on best stuff?
What if I think that Linux is more influental than Apache. Am I now wrong because Buisness Weekly says otherwise? I thought these were opinions. You know, use what you think is best, which is influenced by the job at hand...
If these just are opinions (or even surveys of opinions), do we need them? And, better yet, do we need them on
So, a patent. Wonderful. Has it occured to anyone that they might not use it? That they might not have any intention of using it? Perhaps it's just so, that if anybody tries to do it, they will have to pay royalties? Did anyone think of this before they said "stupid...never work..."?
Chairs!!111
Now that that's out of the way... we might be able to be serious
It's nice to see Microsoft easing up a bit. I think we will find that this will be the only way to possibly ensure their existence. Embrace and extend, without the extinguish, anyone?
On the other hand, they've promised many things over the years. Is this just another promise?
He is seriously one of the most egotistical people in corporate America. Somebody needs to take him down a peg. Someone like Steve Jobs or Linus Torovalds is just the person. He has this unshaking conviction that his products are the best and can't be convinced otherwise. Once upon a time this was true, but now it hurts them because they refuse to learn from their users, competitors (no, this does not mean steal, at least not intrinsically), and the changing times. Oh well, it simply hurts him, nobody more.
Crap. This does hurt other people. In fact, everybody. Damn. Well...
I agree that there seems to be some "personal conflict". The people who matter...and I could care less...delete my CVS...no use for it anymore...do not reply to this email...
Wow, is PHP really that hard to work on? Is he being threatened at gunpoint?? Seriously, why the sour grapes? Is this a hoax? Was his account hacked?
This is not a funny post. This is trying to be serious. What's going on with this guy? If he's just done and finished working on it, he could quit w/o the bitterness. Was he feeling squashed/trodden upon?
If PHP itself (no other factors) could do this to a guy, how much does it encourage other people to develop it?
Actually, they specifically say that there's no DRM. RTFA
I'd post a quote here, but the article doesn't work for me now.
You are watching it from an iPod. Which is a great idea, if it works. It saves the expense of another hard drive.
With it's external battery (~5hrs) will it also charge the iPod? Sort of a portable Dock? Yes, I know those exist, but it would be nice to have an all-in-one device.
What would be neat would be to have this as a wall plug with digital out to a TV, with an IR remote. I'd buy it (if I had an HDTV yet...)
No. This is a third-party add-on. It sounds like a good idea, but I get the feeling that we will not be seeing it in five months...
It is also interesting that it is advocating itself as freeing from DRM, as well as HD. Will we see more companies creating and selling open technologies? I hope so.
An iPod condom, to prevent the DRM STD.
DSRTMD?
No. The iSleeve?
Now that I've read the comment (sorry) I'd like to answer my questions:
It does play video off a second partition-like thing, and through the dock connector. It doesn't have it's own drive.
Still, how do they define Hi-Def? Does Hi-Def really matter at such small resolutions?
I thought it was interesting that they are marketing it as a no-DRM device. I want to see how this works out, and will likely purchase one for my 4G, if it looks like it works...
Damn. Missed my first first post by seconds...
Will it play video off the drive? How will it get the video? If it has it's own drive, why does it need the iPod?
What is their definition of Hi-Def?
Not quite... There are (were?) big discounts to OEM's (Gateway, Dell) on licenses for Windows, assuming certain conditions were met.
For example, Gateway wanted realplayer (god, no!) as the default. However, to do so, they would lose some/all of their discount. It doesn't hurt gateway to not bundle it, and it's good for them.
I think that's the reason why the anti-trust case came up. As far as I know, they were stifling competition by "forcing" (for lack of a better term - incentivizing?) them to bundle/make default/use exclusively Internet Explorer. So, (not sure of the extent) they would lose their discount if they even bundled netscape.
None of this is aimed at the consumer. None of the problems they're addressing deal with the user.
However, what I'm really excited about is the opening of protocols they said. Stuff like easy domain login can now be focused on, and existing bugs can be removed. Nice!
Ok. We have some gold-plated cellophane. How is that a "flying robot"? Not meaning to troll, but isn't that a bit of a leap? I understand how, possibly, that would be useful. But there are other things to a wing than just flapping. There's aerodynamics, and flapping, and such. Aren't there more efficent means of flight than cellophane wings, even if they were feasible? No, I havn't RTFA but I'd be willing to guess that nobody has actually built one of these wings.
What is the reason for one of these things? Are they more energy efficent?
The only thing I can think that these would actually hold up (if they could do anything) would be something smaller than a bumblebee. What can a fly-sized robot do? And, in 50 years when we have useful ones, won't we have another means of flight?
Correct. You could fsck up the legit users, and trouble the pirates for about ~10 minutes, until there's a fix. This is much the same trouble with DRM - $labelstore only screws over legit users, pirates (not the *true* pirates, that duplicate and sell) crack the AAC/WMA file and decrypt it. It only inhibits the legit user from doing stuff with his music.
/. for believing it in the first place
However, MS gets a lot of support from pirates. Usually, their only issue is the high cost for not much, but they (often) buy less expensive software (games), thereby supporting lock in. More people using Windows is less than *nix/OSX. If they had some theoretical means of cutting off all piracy, they would lose a signifigant amount of money. A copy of XP costs about $5, including the development cost. The point is, it really is not to their benefit for a number of reasons, on many levels
And shame on you,
Wow. Am I being dyslexic or have I heard this before?.
Is it somehow different? Please enlighten me. Or, is this idea universally interesting, and it's just a coincidence that they both can run CE/Linux? The other one did exactly that, as well.
Excuse me? That's bullshit.
Do you have any clue what you're talking about? I haven't actually written a device driver (trying to learn) but do you even know what one is? How the hell could it possibly be related to DRM? "Oh, my nVidia user-mode gfx driver is part of DRM"???
I'm not a fan of DRM by any means, just that statement is total bullshit
And, now that I've ranted about that for a couple of minutes, it's probably a troll...
Damn
Global warming? What's that? Never heard of it. NO EVIDENCE! (makes cleansing cross)
Poverty? Huh?
War? There's no war, it's just an armed conflict where 1000+ of our soldiers have died for no cause
Pollution? Fighting it? No money in it, you see. Haliburton doesn't like this "po-lut-ion" word being spread around.
Seriously though, I completely agree with you. Just this administration had repetadly demonstrated that they just don't care.
I'm not a buisness expert, but can't you uninstall anything the hell you want from windows ('cept IE, admittedly) and make an image from that disk, and image it to 50,000+ PC's you sell? Also, can you put firefox on that 1st pc, and make it the default before you make the image? They do it with Symantec/Norton Security Suite all the time. And, can't Dell write a program to present the user with choices of defaults to use? "Would you like to use Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Netscape as your default browser?" "AIM or Windows/MSN messenger or Yahoo! Messenger... or Trillian or ICQ or IRC...?"
That would be presenting the user with Too Many Choices(tm). 99% of the time, if you don't know how to install Firefox and make it the default (it freakin' asks you!), or change the default e-mail program to thunderbird (it asks!), then you don't care. And, the 1 percent that's suing only is suing because they know they don't want it, and know how to get rid of it. But they see $$. I have proof of this, too. How much other stuff does OS X stuff in to an operating system? Safari. iChat, iTunes, iWeb, f**king DVD authoring. MS doesn't include half that stuff, and the Mac folks see iLife as a feature. You have to feel sorry for Microsoft.
Don't know what this really looks like, but the Behind the Laughter episode says: "What will be come of this North Kentucky family?"
How bout' here?
Haha, I gave it away! w00t
One word. Bullshit.
Ok, I happen to like Microsoft, and use 2K server. I see AD as a server, and wouldn't have purchased the OS and PC to go with it, if it was missing.
Ok, I bought the $300 office suite, because:
a) I like it
or
b) I've never heard of OO.o
? WHAT THE F**K!?!? IF YOU DONT F**King LIKE IT, DON'T F***King BUY IT! IF YOU DON'T F**KING LIKE IT, DONT F**KING USE IT! Ok, I'm done now. All these Anti-trust things are BS pitched by companies who are losing. Sucks for you.
You expect Microsoft to put Netscape in Windows? If you want Netscape, go download it. http://www.netscape.com/ Here. Go ahead. I've never seen Microsoft stop anybody. FF doesn't just stop working on my computer, with an ominous MS popup. I thought a monopoly stopped people. If MS sucks so much, how did they get on so many PCs? If you don't like Microsoft, use Debian. It's free
People who use Microsoft products either like them, or don't care. If you don't like it, you're not using it. And if you do use it, you're stupid. Just simple. So, you don't like something and don't want to use it, don't go out and buy it, install it, choose to install it (when you're given the choice), and then complain about it, and go so far to sue (!) about it. You know, you could choose "Uninstall", right? Or do you just want money?
I just read an article about that. Crap, how long is that patent going to stand? Against Google?
Yes, this is probably redundant, but I think it makes a point, albeit mainly for that patent article. It will be interesting to see how they (the holding company) deal with Google "infringing" on their technology. As well as M$. Windows Live anyone?