That sucks! That's why the techs should strive to be BOFHs and tell the business people how things work. If the techs know more than the business people, tell them "it can't be done" without massive amounts of hardware/software changes. That means mucho cash investments, hopefully its over anything the RIAA can try and threaten us with. A hit to the pocketbook will make them re-think thier policies.
I hate those shit groups too, but if a bunch of preppy teenaged kids want to waste thier money on that then so be it. That's what capitalism is. When the government steps in to take control and tell me what I can and can't buy, that's communism plain and simple.
No one is giving Exxon mobile a map and couple oil riggs. If thier drilling affects people other than those who decide to buy the products they make, then the government can control how they act. Exxon still puts up the capital to build those oil rigs, they still hire the engineers to find that oil. The government doesn't say Exxon can't sell gas, but some other company can do they? Exxon dumped how many gallons of oil into a pristine wilderness? Maybe they should inovate and figure out a new way to ship oil. Oh, wait they improved thier design and made ships with double hulls. Sound familiar?
No one forces people to use Windows. I can get any distro of Linux and BSD online and there's probably 4 or 5 versions at Best Buy.
It's great that your copy of Redgat 7.1 supports that Hp printer. What about my Xerox M750? How about all the Canon Bubble jet printers that I have to fix every 6 months in my family? Hardware support is not as good under Linux as it is for Windows. I know that's not always Linux's fault, but the average user doesn't want to mess with finding the correct drivers or editing some obscure text file.
I agree that MS probably wont be broken up, that's the best thing that the government can do if they really want to hurt MS.
Here we go,
How can 'innovation' be un-ethical? What is XP doing that is so bad for users. I've seen a number of articles about some, rather minor, things that MS is doing to allow oem system integraters greater control over what the interface looks like and what apps are actually pre-configured. Have you seen the different themes that XP supports?
Why should the government be the entity that decides what does and doesn't get used. When Linux is as easy to use as Windows, people will flock to it for all the right reasons. I for one can't find anything that Windows does that Linux can't do better, except when it comes to absolute ease of use. You can't do everything with a Windows GUI, however the average person doesn't want to mess with anything when they're using their computers. Until you can have things **just work**, Linux will never be in the mainstream.
I firmly believe that the public should be in control of what's popular and what's not. Government regulation is NOT the answer to netscape, et al's problems.
That's never going to happen. IE is integrated into every part of the OS for a reason.
It's not like Netscape is still around and in good enough shape for that whole browser thing to matter anyway.
Some type of sanctions would be better than splitting up the company. How many companies that rely on MS software would suddenly migrate everything over to something else if it was? If a company uses Windows and also uses some other MS software they would just be buying the same thing from 2 companies that happen to work together. Then you'd have 2 companies that are incredibly huge and strong instead of one.
I hate how they recommend making it look like they're just going to replace you. (the managers replace the programmers) What the hell kind of work environment is that? I've worked at places where my job security was about nill and everyone wasn't working hard, they were trying to make it look like they were working hard so they didn't get fired. That's a bad way to run a business.
The article also recommends hiring smart, not brilliant, people. Those brilliant people end up changing the world, I'd like one of them working for me if I ever get into a managment position. Just think what one of those brilliant people could do for your company or your project for that matter. Most things aren't earth shattering, but you can change the way a lot of people do thier work. Someone like Gates might have outright taken a lot of things from Apple, but his relentless persuit of what he wanted made him the richest man on earth. Where would we be if he had just done eveything IBM told him to do. There'd be no linux revolution, becuase the home PC would never have taken off in the first place.
That's actually a good idea. Once copanies and such see that thier top secret "meeting at lunch" e-mails are online they'll all start requireing it to be used at work. Joe Blow will say, "hey we use that at work, I better do that at home too"
You are assuming a 13 year old boy has the same mental campacity of an adult. If you fire an adult from his job, he gets mad and goes home and maybe even gets drunk. Then they move on. You tell a kid that he is out of school and his whole life (which he has a lot of in front of him) will be ruined by jail time....
What do you expect from someone who had so much potential?
the latest and greatest video cards are already limited by the memory latencies between the card and the AG port. That's why memory speeds (5.5 vs 5ns on the GF2) have become so important to enthusiasts and manufacturers. There are quite a few cases where running at lower resolutions can max out the data bandwidth of a card. That's why framerates top out around 150fps (depending on the application of course) Adding more latency to an already maxed out system is not the answer for anyone who wants high frame-rates. (gamers)
Here in MN some (read: almost nobody) can get 640K up and down. I live less than a mile (I can see it from my house) from an optic fiber line, probably DS3 or greater and I can't even get ISDN.
OK so we know that the RIAA is just a group looking to make another buck off me, the consumer. What can we do to either
a) get the government to step in and force them (with a larger iron fist) to start providing an actual service for everything they are charging us for.
b) get some better support out there for independent record companies not affiliated with the RIAA?
Students should be competing (and tested) for intillectual competence, not thier physical prowess or ability to shoot down thier classmates.
Since when is natural selection dictated by anything besides that? We are human, our large human brains allow us to step out from the "circle of life" and take matters into our own hands. Without intelligence, our species wouldn't last a day if natural selection just ran it's course. Tools got us out of the trees and allowed us to succeed in a way separate from fight or flight.
What makes you think that just letting kids rule themselves would help anything? I don't think these 'taddle-tale' programs are worth much of anything, but you can honestly expect people to just R-E-S-P-E-C-T eachother in high school.
Letting kids rule themselves would only get the geeks beatup and the jocks would get dumber and dumber. How many of the football players would rule socially and end up beeing nothing after school?
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Where are you going to find a competitor in Minnesota? Frontier serves some southern part of the state, that is all. Even if you did go to a competitor, they still rely on Qworst for the line. Do you know something I don't?
If you had a good ISP, like visi.com for example, you'd know that there was scheduled maintanance today. The 30 minutes went to 90, imagine that.
USWest sucked big time, Qwest sucks the same but pretends to care. I still cannot get DSL in Eagan.
I'm noticing two very different angles here. For some people money is the obvious ruler of who they work for. I make a measly $10/hour in a support position, but I'm just starting college.
I'd bet that people who make enough money to play with are the ones who want the perks. Of course if someone is getting a third of what they're worth they might be looking around, but that's a bit extreme. For me, right now I don't want perks, I want money.
Those who have the money want perks and special stuff. When your pay has basically plateaued, you start to notice the little things that make your job nicer.
I have also worked jobs where I can make $15/hour but the people are so bad (boses etc) that I might think about staying there for say...$100 and hour.
Every canidate I've heard (rep; dem; green; reform; etc) has said he/she will cut my taxes in thier term.
How do you plan on cutting back special or un-needed programs so the cost of government is reduced. What means will you use to decide what gets the ax? Do you believe you can give back power to the sates and the people but still maintain good social programs?
They said you'd have to wait for the 760 chipset in the beginning of the whole Athlon thing. Maybe you should do some research before "asking slashdot"
Sop
That driving prices down is exactly why they don't just release stuff right away. Companies need to keep thier profits up and releasing this tech wouldn't do much to drive prices down unless IBm could offer an x86 compatible CPU at roughly the same cost, etc.
Another problem would be IBM would have a proprietary production design and "closed-source" is evil (around here anyway)
Well jesus christ, since when do we need a reason to go looking for information?
I mean we still don't know what (if any) atmosphere exists around pluto. Knowing the material composition would tell us more about where Pluto actually came from, like was it formed at the same time as the rest of the solar system or was it just a BIG comet...
Why do we study any of the planets, why do we look for bones in the ground that are a few million years old? We know Dinosaurs exitst, I guess for some people that's enough infomation.
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That sucks! That's why the techs should strive to be BOFHs and tell the business people how things work. If the techs know more than the business people, tell them "it can't be done" without massive amounts of hardware/software changes. That means mucho cash investments, hopefully its over anything the RIAA can try and threaten us with. A hit to the pocketbook will make them re-think thier policies.
I agree, and I try to do that with all the hardware I buy. The printer was not my choice, but it's still a nice printer. (sorta) sopwath
I hate those shit groups too, but if a bunch of preppy teenaged kids want to waste thier money on that then so be it. That's what capitalism is. When the government steps in to take control and tell me what I can and can't buy, that's communism plain and simple.
No one is giving Exxon mobile a map and couple oil riggs. If thier drilling affects people other than those who decide to buy the products they make, then the government can control how they act. Exxon still puts up the capital to build those oil rigs, they still hire the engineers to find that oil. The government doesn't say Exxon can't sell gas, but some other company can do they? Exxon dumped how many gallons of oil into a pristine wilderness? Maybe they should inovate and figure out a new way to ship oil. Oh, wait they improved thier design and made ships with double hulls. Sound familiar?
No one forces people to use Windows. I can get any distro of Linux and BSD online and there's probably 4 or 5 versions at Best Buy.
sopwath
It's great that your copy of Redgat 7.1 supports that Hp printer. What about my Xerox M750? How about all the Canon Bubble jet printers that I have to fix every 6 months in my family? Hardware support is not as good under Linux as it is for Windows. I know that's not always Linux's fault, but the average user doesn't want to mess with finding the correct drivers or editing some obscure text file.
sopwath
I'm gonna loose all kinds of karma for this...
I agree that MS probably wont be broken up, that's the best thing that the government can do if they really want to hurt MS.
Here we go,
How can 'innovation' be un-ethical? What is XP doing that is so bad for users. I've seen a number of articles about some, rather minor, things that MS is doing to allow oem system integraters greater control over what the interface looks like and what apps are actually pre-configured. Have you seen the different themes that XP supports?
Why should the government be the entity that decides what does and doesn't get used. When Linux is as easy to use as Windows, people will flock to it for all the right reasons. I for one can't find anything that Windows does that Linux can't do better, except when it comes to absolute ease of use. You can't do everything with a Windows GUI, however the average person doesn't want to mess with anything when they're using their computers. Until you can have things **just work**, Linux will never be in the mainstream.
I firmly believe that the public should be in control of what's popular and what's not. Government regulation is NOT the answer to netscape, et al's problems.
If it ain't broke...
sopwath
That's never going to happen. IE is integrated into every part of the OS for a reason.
It's not like Netscape is still around and in good enough shape for that whole browser thing to matter anyway.
Some type of sanctions would be better than splitting up the company. How many companies that rely on MS software would suddenly migrate everything over to something else if it was? If a company uses Windows and also uses some other MS software they would just be buying the same thing from 2 companies that happen to work together. Then you'd have 2 companies that are incredibly huge and strong instead of one.
sopwath
You know they'll have an official RIAA testing machine that just happens to play the newer disks flawlessly.
In Minnesota that's obstructing your view. Unless it's really small and on the windshield, you could get a ticket.
I've never seen anyone get a ticket for that.
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The article also recommends hiring smart, not brilliant, people. Those brilliant people end up changing the world, I'd like one of them working for me if I ever get into a managment position. Just think what one of those brilliant people could do for your company or your project for that matter. Most things aren't earth shattering, but you can change the way a lot of people do thier work. Someone like Gates might have outright taken a lot of things from Apple, but his relentless persuit of what he wanted made him the richest man on earth. Where would we be if he had just done eveything IBM told him to do. There'd be no linux revolution, becuase the home PC would never have taken off in the first place.
sopwath
blah and then I didn't even log in. Man, I'm tired out.
How legal would that be?
sopwath
What do you expect from someone who had so much potential?
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Qwest==faggot
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Students should be competing (and tested) for intillectual competence, not thier physical prowess or ability to shoot down thier classmates.
Since when is natural selection dictated by anything besides that? We are human, our large human brains allow us to step out from the "circle of life" and take matters into our own hands. Without intelligence, our species wouldn't last a day if natural selection just ran it's course. Tools got us out of the trees and allowed us to succeed in a way separate from fight or flight.
What makes you think that just letting kids rule themselves would help anything? I don't think these 'taddle-tale' programs are worth much of anything, but you can honestly expect people to just R-E-S-P-E-C-T eachother in high school.
Letting kids rule themselves would only get the geeks beatup and the jocks would get dumber and dumber. How many of the football players would rule socially and end up beeing nothing after school?
sopwath
If you had a good ISP, like visi.com for example, you'd know that there was scheduled maintanance today. The 30 minutes went to 90, imagine that.
USWest sucked big time, Qwest sucks the same but pretends to care. I still cannot get DSL in Eagan.
sopwath
Does anyone have any other info on this? This is one time I can actually support M$, at least they can do some things right.
sopwath
I'd bet that people who make enough money to play with are the ones who want the perks. Of course if someone is getting a third of what they're worth they might be looking around, but that's a bit extreme. For me, right now I don't want perks, I want money.
Those who have the money want perks and special stuff. When your pay has basically plateaued, you start to notice the little things that make your job nicer.
I have also worked jobs where I can make $15/hour but the people are so bad (boses etc) that I might think about staying there for say...$100 and hour.
sopwath
How do you plan on cutting back special or un-needed programs so the cost of government is reduced. What means will you use to decide what gets the ax? Do you believe you can give back power to the sates and the people but still maintain good social programs?
They said you'd have to wait for the 760 chipset in the beginning of the whole Athlon thing. Maybe you should do some research before "asking slashdot" Sop
Another problem would be IBM would have a proprietary production design and "closed-source" is evil (around here anyway)
It sucks, but that's capitalism.
I mean we still don't know what (if any) atmosphere exists around pluto. Knowing the material composition would tell us more about where Pluto actually came from, like was it formed at the same time as the rest of the solar system or was it just a BIG comet...
Why do we study any of the planets, why do we look for bones in the ground that are a few million years old? We know Dinosaurs exitst, I guess for some people that's enough infomation.
can you really put a price on such a godly monitor? I mean yeah it's $300K, but jesus christ would be drooling over that.