...it will hopefully free lots of people who have been falsely accused of crimes they didn't commit.
It works the opposite way: when you claim there's a false positive, you'll get even less people to believe you, since now "we're 15% more accurate!".
It's just like the lie detector, or monitoring your internet logs for looking up "teen" in google.
Imagine if police could arrest you if your horoscope was certain you'll kill someone today and put you in jail. Crime "discoverability" will certainly raise when the chart heads are making their little statistics in the end of the year.
* Quality and reliability: These products may cost you less in the long run. I couldn't begin to say how many hours I've wasted tracking down stupid issues in every Microsoft environment I've ever used, from Visual Basic 3 to today's Visual Studio.NET
* Support: I would guess that most of these licenses come with some kind of support contract.
* Relative obscurity: If you have hundreds of thousands of customers, you can afford to spread the load between them. When you only have a few thousands, you need more money per customer to support the same level of development.
Of course, these are all hypothetical and general. YMMV.
You know, I'm not the kinda guy who'll split your post in pieces and reply eagerly to every piece. But let's just do it for the hell of it!
These products may cost you less in the long run.
I agree this is the case, but my doctor says the chances of me living more than 500-600 years is highly unrealistic. After mild depression and consulting my psychologist, we agreed that a business can't survive on vaporware-like hopes that it'll be very cheap in the distant future, but right now it's a shitload o' money.
I would guess that most of these licenses come with some kind of support contract.
I guess that explains the "commercial support" banners right? What was the point of restating the obvious?
If you have hundreds of thousands of customers, you can afford to spread the load between them. When you only have a few thousands, you need more money per customer to support the same level of development.
Your'e basically saying OSS is a niche which only snobs can afford for completely snob reasons. The rest of us buy commodity goods at commodity prices.
The $140 (for XP Pro) is the cost of the OS without other software. Red Hat comes with a compiler suite and a lot of other useful items, so the direct comparison of the costs of the packages is not really a valid measure.
That's a freaking coincidence, yesterday I got CentOS for free and it comes with all this too! It's almost as if someone took the source of RedHat for free and recompiled it! Oops I said RedHat and CentOS in the same universe...!! Trademark infringement, trademark infringement!...
There's two ways. Either I go buy it from the shop, or, I take it free from the ocean.
"Shops are evil corporation that want me to pay for something that's freely available", I thought, so I turned on the engine and to the ocean I go.
I arrive at the ocean, you see, and noone prevents any access to me, to it. It's totally open, I can go in and do what I need to do: and it's free. That's cool, right?
So I tried swimming around and catching fish, like the gurus do, but I caught nothing, so I tried to see how enterprise do it.
They say, they buy a boat and crew.
Screw that, I want fish supper, I don't need all that extra expenses and all that extra fish. But, I wanna go the ocean way, so after some time I went & bought boat and crew and went to fish.
In a shop, 3 kg of fish would be like 10-15 bucks. My open ocean method costed me more like $100'000 bucks, but at least I get to pick exactly what fish I want, from the free fish.
Except it wasn't that free after all. Now I have all this fish stinking up my backyard, kids are crying, and wife wants divorce. and I have a huge mortgage to pay for the boat.
You know? I tried really hard to use the free fish, but the bottom line is, next time I'm going to the shop.
IE and Windows Explorer are being seperated in Vista, and the address bar will be disappearing from the latter in favour of breadcrumb navigation.
You can still type addresses manually in Windows Explorer (clicking on anything but an array in the breadcrumb turns it into a text field).
You're right there's more separation, but it's only superficial. I was never a fan of the idea that IE being tied into the OS adds to it being insecure, so I bet it changes anything.
We saw it in the "war against terrorism" and we see it in the "war against piracy".
We're at a point where we have way too many false positives (this includes not only improperly flagged people, but also the extra hassle of activating, phone support etc. etc. etc.).
When this happens, there's either outrage pending (why I don't see this coming though: people are afraid and/or ignorant in both cases), or smoother reform from competition.
Just one thing is certain: this situation is NOT sustainable. Expect big changes in the next 3-4 years.
Let me guess: they are using it to find more about outer space aliens in tabloids right? Comic book inspired intelligence, here we go!
If I owned a major foreign press publisher, I'd insert threatening keywords just for the fun of it.
"The new album features folk elements and features cameos from lots of famous local stars.. Hey USA: boo!!! hehehe... The debut of the album is expected later this year, and will be aired live on Channel 6. Long live Bin Laden!!"
What a bunch of clowns! If you need software for all this, what are all those lazy assholes in CIA/FBI doing anyway?
Anyway: let's hope the "terrorists" start publishing their plans in popular newspapers, or we're all lost!
I do believe this has raised the bar for silliness in Slashdot posts.
Oh who do I thank! My family, my sister, and my wife and children for all the help throughout the years. Raising this bar would also be impossible without the kind editors of Slashdot who provide us with excellent articles every day.
I do hope to raise the bar again, but even if I don't, I'll cherish this day for the rest of my life!
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See if they can find the chair-throwing gene...
I sure they find that gene that gets people stuck repeating same old jokes for years, although they are not funny.
Well I hate to break it to you but wind "slows down" when it passes through a windmill. The more people in a neighbourhood have one, the less the power produced per household. And this is even the least problem.
A "backyard" is supposedly near lots of houses, trees and what not. Wind will just lose most of its power even before reaching the windmill. Notice how windmills are set up in big plant: there's nothing but grass on the ground. Noone is building cities below.
Imagine your neighbour: "stop stealing my wind you greedy bastard!"
While you're arguing, I'll be enjoying my solar-cell powered home theater just nearby.
But that's my point. If there's a second motherboard (no matter the size) and a 2nd battery for it, it's still part of "the laptop". If the laptop is off, it means all its components should be off.
Oh sorry I didn't know you're after a bitchfest, I would've brought my heavy dictionary so we can be pedantic together on what "turned off laptop" means.
Stephen Totilo, over at MTV Games, has up an article talking with David Chase, the creator of hit HBO show The Sopranos. Mr. Chase believes firmly in the creative and dramatic potential of television, but isn't so sure that videogames can mean all that much.
Oh wow, old guy X doesn't believe new technology Y is as good as the good old days! That's so shocking! What a great coincidence that we age and die, so new generations with more open thinking replace us.
Honestly: the guy may be talented, it doesn't mean he's adaptive. So deal with it.
And those that said it can't work with your laptop off: that's the whole point. Or you think I'm gonna spin my laptop all the time to see both displays?
Yes, the aux display has standalone electronics, it wastes very little power, and it can sync with Vista and work with the laptop off. Only when you need to access the HDD (like, listen to mp3-s) the laptop powers up when you use the aux display.
What kinda geeks are you, waiting for my sorry ass to explain all of this to you!
The number of Americans will surpass 300 million this month, a milestone that raises environmental impact questions for the only major industrial nation whose population is increasing substantially. The US census buereau says the 300 million mark will be reached 39 years after US population topped 200 million and 91 years after it exceeded 100 million.
Don't worry, the World War III is coming and will quickly solve this issue.
forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States.
Last time I looked for it US was still on Earth! But who cares, let's delve into curious, if pointless, analogies.
Did you know that if I print my hard drive on paper as hexadecimal Arial 14pt, the stack will reach the moon?
The number of connections possible in my brain are more than the atoms in the universe! Of course most of us in practise sport a lot less connections, since apparently atoms are in defficit.
At least, with IPv6, every atom on *earth* can have their own IP!
So why shouldn't I be able to choose how my traffic is allocated, whether by QOS at my own firewall (assuming they actually deliver the bandwidth they promise, which they often don't), or by QOS at the ISP that I can control (or at least disable) through a web interface? If there's fear of abuse, simply limit the amount of bandwidth that you can send at high priority.
Think about it and you'll realize the fallacy of your logic. If you allow the user to route anything as high priority, and limit the high priority bandwidth, you get precisely what we have now.
With consumer connections it's not "your bandwidth" to start with. It's shared, so the QoS should be based on the importance of the traffic as determined by generic protocols, usage patterns etc.
For example, voip has high priority, 911 calls: highest.
Binary downloads from ftp/http: medium or low
small files from websites: burstable, large files: lower priority.
etc.
I realize it's not perfect, and I don't want such prioritization cast upon me. But it's just required so we can move on. Right now the telecoms and ISP are very fragile if there's a "boom" of high bandwidth content, like happens with p2p downloads.
Sure, the "interweb tubes" won't explode like they warn us, but still the telecoms might not work properly in the near future. I'd rather have the essential services guaranteed and less emergent ones with lower priority.
And by further into the article, I mean the first sentence of the "Original article". So, to recap, this story misses the update (which indicates that this is now a non-issue), and is reporting on something that started several months ago. Bravo:)
I wonder how many Slashdotters thought this when they see the editors screw up: "damn it, if you can run a blog with that much nonsense and be successfull, I can run one too!" and parted on their way to glory.
1. isp limits availability of site X 2. people complain to site X 3. X blows the horns that it's in fact isp's fault and everybody should contact the isp and nag 'em 4. people nag isp 5. isp caves in and removes the limit
when the objective reason for the bad service is not in the provider and people are told this, they'll understand. They can still read and comprehend written text.
so, what now: pro-neutrality or anti-neutrality? The truth is in the middle as always.
as the Internet grows, we'll definitely see some more intelligent traffic allocation to allow for more varied scenarios to be implemented directly on the Internet,versus specialized networks.
but blackmailing sites to pay every single ISP out there and their own hosting provider: it simply won't fly.
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Imagine how many people of that star sign would be killing people if the horoscope was right.
Yup, arresting all those people in advance would be such a win for crime discoverability and prevention.
...it will hopefully free lots of people who have been falsely accused of crimes they didn't commit.
It works the opposite way: when you claim there's a false positive, you'll get even less people to believe you, since now "we're 15% more accurate!".
It's just like the lie detector, or monitoring your internet logs for looking up "teen" in google.
Imagine if police could arrest you if your horoscope was certain you'll kill someone today and put you in jail. Crime "discoverability" will certainly raise when the chart heads are making their little statistics in the end of the year.
The model is buy low and sell high. Economics 101
.. pick A, for the hell of it.
Their side is obvious. But I can't understand the companies which given two choices A and B:
A. RedHat: shitload o' money, crappy support, and a linux distro.
B. CentOS: free, no crappy support (hey IRC and Google are still there), and a linux distro.
Three reasons come to mind:
* Quality and reliability: These products may cost you less in the long run. I couldn't begin to say how many hours I've wasted tracking down stupid issues in every Microsoft environment I've ever used, from Visual Basic 3 to today's Visual Studio.NET
* Support: I would guess that most of these licenses come with some kind of support contract.
* Relative obscurity: If you have hundreds of thousands of customers, you can afford to spread the load between them. When you only have a few thousands, you need more money per customer to support the same level of development.
Of course, these are all hypothetical and general. YMMV.
You know, I'm not the kinda guy who'll split your post in pieces and reply eagerly to every piece. But let's just do it for the hell of it!
These products may cost you less in the long run.
I agree this is the case, but my doctor says the chances of me living more than 500-600 years is highly unrealistic. After mild depression and consulting my psychologist, we agreed that a business can't survive on vaporware-like hopes that it'll be very cheap in the distant future, but right now it's a shitload o' money.
I would guess that most of these licenses come with some kind of support contract.
I guess that explains the "commercial support" banners right? What was the point of restating the obvious?
If you have hundreds of thousands of customers, you can afford to spread the load between them. When you only have a few thousands, you need more money per customer to support the same level of development.
Your'e basically saying OSS is a niche which only snobs can afford for completely snob reasons. The rest of us buy commodity goods at commodity prices.
This is directly a book example.
The $140 (for XP Pro) is the cost of the OS without other software. Red Hat comes with a compiler suite and a lot of other useful items, so the direct comparison of the costs of the packages is not really a valid measure.
That's a freaking coincidence, yesterday I got CentOS for free and it comes with all this too!
It's almost as if someone took the source of RedHat for free and recompiled it!
Oops I said RedHat and CentOS in the same universe...!! Trademark infringement, trademark infringement!...
So: I wanted to eat some fish.
There's two ways. Either I go buy it from the shop, or, I take it free from the ocean.
"Shops are evil corporation that want me to pay for something that's freely available", I thought, so I turned on the engine and to the ocean I go.
I arrive at the ocean, you see, and noone prevents any access to me, to it. It's totally open, I can go in and do what I need to do: and it's free. That's cool, right?
So I tried swimming around and catching fish, like the gurus do, but I caught nothing, so I tried to see how enterprise do it.
They say, they buy a boat and crew.
Screw that, I want fish supper, I don't need all that extra expenses and all that extra fish. But, I wanna go the ocean way, so after some time I went & bought boat and crew and went to fish.
In a shop, 3 kg of fish would be like 10-15 bucks.
My open ocean method costed me more like $100'000 bucks, but at least I get to pick exactly what fish I want, from the free fish.
Except it wasn't that free after all. Now I have all this fish stinking up my backyard, kids are crying, and wife wants divorce. and I have a huge mortgage to pay for the boat.
You know? I tried really hard to use the free fish, but the bottom line is, next time I'm going to the shop.
I'll be glad if theys top calling information transportation via light entaglement "teleportation".
We all know what we expect from an article talking about teleportation, and it definitely doesn't involve crypted conversation technologies.
IE and Windows Explorer are being seperated in Vista, and the address bar will be disappearing from the latter in favour of breadcrumb navigation.
You can still type addresses manually in Windows Explorer (clicking on anything but an array in the breadcrumb turns it into a text field).
You're right there's more separation, but it's only superficial. I was never a fan of the idea that IE being tied into the OS adds to it being insecure, so I bet it changes anything.
We saw it in the "war against terrorism" and we see it in the "war against piracy".
We're at a point where we have way too many false positives (this includes not only improperly flagged people, but also the extra hassle of activating, phone support etc. etc. etc.).
When this happens, there's either outrage pending (why I don't see this coming though: people are afraid and/or ignorant in both cases), or smoother reform from competition.
Just one thing is certain: this situation is NOT sustainable. Expect big changes in the next 3-4 years.
Let me guess: they are using it to find more about outer space aliens in tabloids right?
Comic book inspired intelligence, here we go!
If I owned a major foreign press publisher, I'd insert threatening keywords just for the fun of it.
"The new album features folk elements and features cameos from lots of famous local stars.. Hey USA: boo!!! hehehe... The debut of the album is expected later this year, and will be aired live on Channel 6. Long live Bin Laden!!"
What a bunch of clowns! If you need software for all this, what are all those lazy assholes in CIA/FBI doing anyway?
Anyway: let's hope the "terrorists" start publishing their plans in popular newspapers, or we're all lost!
I do believe this has raised the bar for silliness in Slashdot posts.
Oh who do I thank! My family, my sister, and my wife and children for all the help throughout the years.
Raising this bar would also be impossible without the kind editors of Slashdot who provide us with excellent articles every day.
I do hope to raise the bar again, but even if I don't, I'll cherish this day for the rest of my life!
See if they can find the chair-throwing gene...
I sure they find that gene that gets people stuck repeating same old jokes for years, although they are not funny.
Oh noes!!! Teh wind is slowed down by teh windmills just like putting up a curtain will slow down light!! Get real.
I'm being told to get real, by a guy who compares the physics of photon particles and movement of air.
I've seen everything now.
Well I hate to break it to you but wind "slows down" when it passes through a windmill. The more people in a neighbourhood have one, the less the power produced per household. And this is even the least problem.
A "backyard" is supposedly near lots of houses, trees and what not. Wind will just lose most of its power even before reaching the windmill. Notice how windmills are set up in big plant: there's nothing but grass on the ground. Noone is building cities below.
Imagine your neighbour: "stop stealing my wind you greedy bastard!"
While you're arguing, I'll be enjoying my solar-cell powered home theater just nearby.
But that's my point. If there's a second motherboard (no matter the size) and a 2nd battery for it, it's still part of "the laptop". If the laptop is off, it means all its components should be off.
Oh sorry I didn't know you're after a bitchfest, I would've brought my heavy dictionary so we can be pedantic together on what "turned off laptop" means.
Stephen Totilo, over at MTV Games, has up an article talking with David Chase, the creator of hit HBO show The Sopranos. Mr. Chase believes firmly in the creative and dramatic potential of television, but isn't so sure that videogames can mean all that much.
Oh wow, old guy X doesn't believe new technology Y is as good as the good old days!
That's so shocking! What a great coincidence that we age and die, so new generations with more open thinking replace us.
Honestly: the guy may be talented, it doesn't mean he's adaptive. So deal with it.
Unless that second display is driven by a second motherboard, I don't see how it can do all that while the laptop is "switched off".
Unless the author thinks that "closed lid = computer is turned off".
Way to go brainiac. But it does in fact have a (very little) second board that is powered independently indeed.
If demos gone awry caused stock slide we'd have witnessed the top companies have negative stock values by now (wouldn't that be cool, huh?).
This is not a "twin screen" laptop your title-inventing fact-bending fact-manglers!
This is an "aux" display which is part of the native Vista featureset, and FAR from being the first laptop manifactures with this facility.
There you go
And those that said it can't work with your laptop off: that's the whole point. Or you think I'm gonna spin my laptop all the time to see both displays?
Yes, the aux display has standalone electronics, it wastes very little power, and it can sync with Vista and work with the laptop off. Only when you need to access the HDD (like, listen to mp3-s) the laptop powers up when you use the aux display.
What kinda geeks are you, waiting for my sorry ass to explain all of this to you!
Wow, you are a such a fag.
Oh wow Jimbo, you can say *** and it doesn't bleep you out!
The number of Americans will surpass 300 million this month, a milestone that raises environmental impact questions for the only major industrial nation whose population is increasing substantially. The US census buereau says the 300 million mark will be reached 39 years after US population topped 200 million and 91 years after it exceeded 100 million.
Don't worry, the World War III is coming and will quickly solve this issue.
forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States.
Last time I looked for it US was still on Earth! But who cares, let's delve into curious, if pointless, analogies.
Did you know that if I print my hard drive on paper as hexadecimal Arial 14pt, the stack will reach the moon?
The number of connections possible in my brain are more than the atoms in the universe! Of course most of us in practise sport a lot less connections, since apparently atoms are in defficit.
At least, with IPv6, every atom on *earth* can have their own IP!
So why shouldn't I be able to choose how my traffic is allocated, whether by QOS at my own firewall (assuming they actually deliver the bandwidth they promise, which they often don't), or by QOS at the ISP that I can control (or at least disable) through a web interface? If there's fear of abuse, simply limit the amount of bandwidth that you can send at high priority.
Think about it and you'll realize the fallacy of your logic. If you allow the user to route anything as high priority, and limit the high priority bandwidth, you get precisely what we have now.
With consumer connections it's not "your bandwidth" to start with. It's shared, so the QoS should be based on the importance of the traffic as determined by generic protocols, usage patterns etc.
For example, voip has high priority, 911 calls: highest.
Binary downloads from ftp/http: medium or low
small files from websites: burstable, large files: lower priority.
etc.
I realize it's not perfect, and I don't want such prioritization cast upon me. But it's just required so we can move on. Right now the telecoms and ISP are very fragile if there's a "boom" of high bandwidth content, like happens with p2p downloads.
Sure, the "interweb tubes" won't explode like they warn us, but still the telecoms might not work properly in the near future. I'd rather have the essential services guaranteed and less emergent ones with lower priority.
And by further into the article, I mean the first sentence of the "Original article". So, to recap, this story misses the update (which indicates that this is now a non-issue), and is reporting on something that started several months ago. Bravo :)
I wonder how many Slashdotters thought this when they see the editors screw up: "damn it, if you can run a blog with that much nonsense and be successfull, I can run one too!" and parted on their way to glory.
See how things work out:
1. isp limits availability of site X
2. people complain to site X
3. X blows the horns that it's in fact isp's fault and everybody should contact the isp and nag 'em
4. people nag isp
5. isp caves in and removes the limit
when the objective reason for the bad service is not in the provider and people are told this, they'll understand. They can still read and comprehend written text.
so, what now: pro-neutrality or anti-neutrality? The truth is in the middle as always.
as the Internet grows, we'll definitely see some more intelligent traffic allocation to allow for more varied scenarios to be implemented directly on the Internet,versus specialized networks.
but blackmailing sites to pay every single ISP out there and their own hosting provider: it simply won't fly.
watch them fail again and again.