"Paper books are really dead -- they're gone. And they're not being killed by tablets, they're creating tablets,"
Huh? I've seen quite a few books recently. They're not gone.
"they're gone [...], they're creating tablets" The paper books are creating tablets? Is he high on drugs or is that a literal translation that makes less sense in English?
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"Based on what we've seen so far, Apple is in the lead"
Really? Based on what I've seen so far, regular television manufacturers are in the lead.
The guy that refused to pay them $75, is going to pay thousands?
From TFA:
Cranick says he told the operator he would pay whatever is necessary to have the fire put out.
His offer wasn't accepted, he said.
Perhaps he had a wad of cash inside. Perhaps he could have sold some antiques inside. Perhaps he could have sold the (saved) house to pay for half of the blank check he offered the fire department, and kept the other half. Instead, because the Fire Chief David Wilds had a stick up his butt, both parties lost out.
He offered to pay far more than the $75. He offered a blank check. They refused to come. When they did come to the scene, they ignored his pleas; didn't even respond to him. They are scum, and Chief David Wilds won't be chief for very long, methinks. Union mentality: "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do, and nothing more than that. Ever. If you try to give above your duty, you're out of the union!"
They responded because the neighbor DID pay for fire protection. Which is why they put out the fire on the neighbor's property. I'm not sure what you point is: the home owner lives outside of the town. The town can't tax him to pay for fire services. The town voluntarily allows people to pay $75/year to be included in the town's fire protection services. The home owner didn't pay. The neighbor did. Everything pretty much worked the way it was supposed to.
The owner was there and was willing to pay money. They could have asked for thousands and gotten it from him gladly. They were being evil just to be evil. Instead of saving what wealth he had (and splitting the wealth with the owner), they gleefully watched it burn.
I didn't pay my auto insurance premiums last year...
Then I got in a wreck...
Why should my insurance company pay for my accident...
Beter Car Analogy:
I didn't pay my auto insurance premiums last year...
Then I got in a wreck...
My former insurance agent was on the scene. He yelled out to everyone: "I'm dialing 911!" and he was, I watched him as I lay bleeding to unconsciousness. He dialed the nine, the one, then he came up to me, showed me he hadn't finished dialing, and proceeded to "talk" on the phone as if he was summoning aid.
They refused his $75 because on principal.
If they allowed folks to pay them the $75 AFTER the house started burning, no one would pay at all.
Then they should have charged him $750-$7500 for the night's services. But save his house and pets! Those firefighters have probably started a modern day family feud.
But 99% of the people might not notice. They could give 99% of their customers NAT'ed service, and when someone calls and complains, apologize, and offer them a unique public ip for $500 extra per month, or if they upgrade to a "business class line" that permits them to have a dedicated static, addressable IP.
Why include a "CTRL-ALT-DEL" button on the device's chassis unless you expect the software to crash on a regular basis? What's with having a mechanical button to activate a virtual onscreen keyboard?
I hate coming to the defense of Microsoft, but "CTRL-ALT-DEL" hasn't been a hard-reboot sequence since WinME. It's been used in WinNT/2K/XP/V/7 as a way to access the login prompt because IIRC it's a special sequence that only the kernel is allowed to listen for, so you can ostensibly be assured that no program other than the login prompt is accepting your username/password. A soft-keyboard version of "CTRL-ALT-DEL" would defeat that "security" purpose.
Surely thou meanest blessed telnet to port 80? We have learned to respect the ways of wget and curl, but the heretical lynx shall be spoken of with curses forever!
This line of thinking is a failure of imagination and factually incorrect when viewed from an object based OS design like NT where the CLI(PowerShell) was an achievement to harness objects at a regressed CLI level.
Translated: This line of thinking is a failure of imagination and factually incorrect when viewed from a GUI design like NT where cmd.exe was so woefully underpowered that sysadmins were using stupid DOS tricks to facilitate good loops and conditionals, piping data from one program to another, sometimes having to use temporary files. Of course there was a reason why they were trying to use cmd.exe: it was far better than using the GUI crap the OS designers wrote, where there was no way to do loops or conditionals or pipe data (although saving files and opening them in another GUI does work). Then they used vbscript, and it was good enough. The pimply faced new "sysadmins" who thought that computing was about Graphix!, not crunching numbers, decided that they wanted to become factory workers, repeatedly doing a task 10,000 times using a GUI until they were done (or contract out the creation of a GUI that would do the task to the highly venerated "programmer" class of IT society). Sysadmins who can't program in pseudocode should be fired (or not hired).
I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers.
You know, even the Windows ideal is that sysadmins should be programmers. Want to do some stuff on hundreds of windows desktops? for/f %FOO in ('type LISTofMACHINES.txt') do start "%FOO" cmd/c psexec \\%FOO -c blahbittyblah.bat ^& sleep -m 100
I bet you think that can be done in Active Directory. Sometimes it can't. Like if you're joining hundreds of recently imaged machines to AD: for/f %FOO in ('type LISTofMACHINES.txt') do start "%FOO" cmd/c netdom join %FOO ad.domain/ud:foobar/pd:password ^& sleep -m 100
I challenge any non-programmer to understand what's going on with those commands. Sure, no data structures or anything, but without even a basic understanding of programming, a loop is a scary thing; a magic tool of the devil.
I was happy to learn about wevtutil.exe on windows machines until I learned that it was considerably harder to parse info than with eventquery.vbs. Why should I have to open a GUI to form a query string, then copy/paste that into a command prompt to use wevtutil.exe?
Now, if you want to see a good book series get murdered in film, look at the Narnia movies...
No joke. The nearly incorruptible King Caspian becomes a spoiled brat willing to consider ultimate evil. I bet he slays the dragon in the upcoming movie, and Eustace is never redeemed.
Yeah, everyone kept saying that in the movies. But the weasel and Frodo sure didn't seem very powerful to me. Even the bad guy must not have been too powerful if he lost the damn thing in the first place. I kept waiting for one of the humans, fairies, or Oompa-Loompas to ask where all this supposed power WAS anyway. Seems like Mr. Powerful Ring Bearer spent most of the movies running from shit.
Centuries ago other rings of power were made that gave their wearers some magical powers. However Sauron indirectly contributed to their making and secretly made his one ring that would control the others.
Ergo, the power was in the control of the kings of men, dwarves, and elves. The elves didn't start using their rings until Sauron lost the One Ring. Anyone could have exerted this control if they knew how, and Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel certainly knew how.
You pay for movies, so you're not downloading porn and music, but you're worried about them disabling BT? In best Beavis impression : "Liar...liar...liar..."
Because no one on/. downloads Linux isos via BT. I can see why you posted anon: you knew you were being stupid. You don't seem to believe that I don't want what your media masters want me to want.
However, I am not a lawyer nor do I understand the telco business, and am thus totally ignorant in most matters (except setting up SSH), but like any Slashdot poster, feel I can wing it and contribute to the intelligence of this discussion.
I'm glad you described yourself by pretending I said something that I didn't. Too bad you think knowing how to use SSH means you're a programmer.
As soon as net neutrality hits, all innovation on the web will be crushed, and we will be at a standstill, like what happened with the railroad and auto industry once these were monopolies.
This statement doesn't make any sense. First, they're not monopolies. Second, innovation in those fields hasn't stagnated. Third, networks _are_ close to monopolies right now. Fourth, innovation is starting to be stifled on the 'net right now via those monopolies (for clarificaction, I wasn't talking about my ISP blocking SSH incoming, but instead SSH outgoing. I wasn't able to use SSH to connect to other sites.) Fifth, Net Neutrality is the cure for that stifling of innovation; the removal of monopoly abuse.
As a non-hard techie with only a cursory understanding of the issue
I'm glad you voiced you ignorance first. It puts me in "educator mode" instead of "hostile reader".
My real concern is that the proponents of network neutrality just want to be able to have unabated access to download music and movies and porn without paying for them - that there's no real "freedom" issues at hand; it's just people wanting free stuff.
This is an assumption stemming from your ignorance. I don't listen to music except via radio or Pandora (usually only once a week at most). I do own one music CD I bought from a local band, but I don't know where it is. I enjoy playing music, but listening is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. I pay to watch movies, or watch them on TV. I'm not interested in unabated access to download music and movies and porn without paying for them. I am interested in being able to ping things from home, or use traceroute to map my network path to something, SSH somewhere, and use bittorrent for legit purposes. My ISP, which has a monopoly where I live (except satellite), originally prevented SSH when I first signed up until I complained and explained I use it for work. They were also blocking my VPN connection. After a network outage within the last year where I used traceroute and ping to help them diagnose the issue, they disabled ICMP (traceroute and ping). They haven't disabled BT yet, but they probably will at some point. They should just be moving bits between me and the recipients, but they're using the fact that I can't really choose different service to strongarm me in to service that doesn't meet my needs.
Freedom of speech means putting up with soapbox preachers. They're chatty, but at least you can walk down the sidewalk. ISPs without Network Neutrality are like the police blocking off the sidewalk to prevent soapbox preachers from using the sidewalk (along with everyone else).
A trickster hero at best: One who stole fire from the gods, threw golden apples to distract Atalanta, hid under the bellies of sheep, and displayed Medusa's head a a present. There are some cultures who praise quick wit over morality. In the U.S., morality is praised over quick wit. He is not our hero. Let him go to Greece.
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That's a threat to abuse the legal system.
"Paper books are really dead -- they're gone. And they're not being killed by tablets, they're creating tablets,"
Huh? I've seen quite a few books recently. They're not gone.
"they're gone [...], they're creating tablets"
The paper books are creating tablets? Is he high on drugs or is that a literal translation that makes less sense in English?
"Based on what we've seen so far, Apple is in the lead"
Really? Based on what I've seen so far, regular television manufacturers are in the lead.
Stop expensive services and see if anyone complains. If not, you just cut waste!
Hand them an OS installation CD. Tell them how once a machine is owned, you don't know how far, so back up data and restart from scratch. Done.
The guy that refused to pay them $75, is going to pay thousands?
From TFA:
Cranick says he told the operator he would pay whatever is necessary to have the fire put out. His offer wasn't accepted, he said.
Perhaps he had a wad of cash inside. Perhaps he could have sold some antiques inside. Perhaps he could have sold the (saved) house to pay for half of the blank check he offered the fire department, and kept the other half. Instead, because the Fire Chief David Wilds had a stick up his butt, both parties lost out.
He offered to pay far more than the $75. He offered a blank check. They refused to come. When they did come to the scene, they ignored his pleas; didn't even respond to him. They are scum, and Chief David Wilds won't be chief for very long, methinks. Union mentality: "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do, and nothing more than that. Ever. If you try to give above your duty, you're out of the union!"
They responded because the neighbor DID pay for fire protection. Which is why they put out the fire on the neighbor's property. I'm not sure what you point is: the home owner lives outside of the town. The town can't tax him to pay for fire services. The town voluntarily allows people to pay $75/year to be included in the town's fire protection services. The home owner didn't pay. The neighbor did. Everything pretty much worked the way it was supposed to.
The owner was there and was willing to pay money. They could have asked for thousands and gotten it from him gladly. They were being evil just to be evil. Instead of saving what wealth he had (and splitting the wealth with the owner), they gleefully watched it burn.
I didn't pay my auto insurance premiums last year...
Then I got in a wreck...
Why should my insurance company pay for my accident...
Beter Car Analogy:
I didn't pay my auto insurance premiums last year...
Then I got in a wreck...
My former insurance agent was on the scene. He yelled out to everyone: "I'm dialing 911!" and he was, I watched him as I lay bleeding to unconsciousness. He dialed the nine, the one, then he came up to me, showed me he hadn't finished dialing, and proceeded to "talk" on the phone as if he was summoning aid.
They refused his $75 because on principal.
If they allowed folks to pay them the $75 AFTER the house started burning, no one would pay at all.
Then they should have charged him $750-$7500 for the night's services. But save his house and pets! Those firefighters have probably started a modern day family feud.
But 99% of the people might not notice. They could give 99% of their customers NAT'ed service, and when someone calls and complains, apologize, and offer them a unique public ip for $500 extra per month, or if they upgrade to a "business class line" that permits them to have a dedicated static, addressable IP.
FTFY
Why include a "CTRL-ALT-DEL" button on the device's chassis unless you expect the software to crash on a regular basis? What's with having a mechanical button to activate a virtual onscreen keyboard?
I hate coming to the defense of Microsoft, but "CTRL-ALT-DEL" hasn't been a hard-reboot sequence since WinME. It's been used in WinNT/2K/XP/V/7 as a way to access the login prompt because IIRC it's a special sequence that only the kernel is allowed to listen for, so you can ostensibly be assured that no program other than the login prompt is accepting your username/password. A soft-keyboard version of "CTRL-ALT-DEL" would defeat that "security" purpose.
I was going to say it was founded on curses, but it was too obvious. Good eye. :)
It's 2010, get a life. Comments like this were funny sometimes around 1996.
It's 2010. In 1996, PDFs weren't a potential security vulnerability.
There is no holy browser (except lynx)
Surely thou meanest blessed telnet to port 80? We have learned to respect the ways of wget and curl, but the heretical lynx shall be spoken of with curses forever!
This line of thinking is a failure of imagination and factually incorrect when viewed from an object based OS design like NT where the CLI(PowerShell) was an achievement to harness objects at a regressed CLI level.
Translated: This line of thinking is a failure of imagination and factually incorrect when viewed from a GUI design like NT where cmd.exe was so woefully underpowered that sysadmins were using stupid DOS tricks to facilitate good loops and conditionals, piping data from one program to another, sometimes having to use temporary files. Of course there was a reason why they were trying to use cmd.exe: it was far better than using the GUI crap the OS designers wrote, where there was no way to do loops or conditionals or pipe data (although saving files and opening them in another GUI does work). Then they used vbscript, and it was good enough. The pimply faced new "sysadmins" who thought that computing was about Graphix!, not crunching numbers, decided that they wanted to become factory workers, repeatedly doing a task 10,000 times using a GUI until they were done (or contract out the creation of a GUI that would do the task to the highly venerated "programmer" class of IT society). Sysadmins who can't program in pseudocode should be fired (or not hired).
Group policy where possible, little batch files on login if GP won't work, and, after that I will resort to scripting.
What makes you think batch files aren't scripting? And do you ever use GP to run startup/shutdown/logon/logoff scripts?
I'd hate to buy one of these and have my kid grow up with borked eyes.
Just don't watch the Swedish Chef and your child will be fine.
I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers.
You know, even the Windows ideal is that sysadmins should be programmers. Want to do some stuff on hundreds of windows desktops? /f %FOO in ('type LISTofMACHINES.txt') do start "%FOO" cmd /c psexec \\%FOO -c blahbittyblah.bat ^& sleep -m 100
/f %FOO in ('type LISTofMACHINES.txt') do start "%FOO" cmd /c netdom join %FOO ad.domain /ud:foobar /pd:password ^& sleep -m 100
for
I bet you think that can be done in Active Directory. Sometimes it can't. Like if you're joining hundreds of recently imaged machines to AD:
for
I challenge any non-programmer to understand what's going on with those commands. Sure, no data structures or anything, but without even a basic understanding of programming, a loop is a scary thing; a magic tool of the devil.
I was happy to learn about wevtutil.exe on windows machines until I learned that it was considerably harder to parse info than with eventquery.vbs. Why should I have to open a GUI to form a query string, then copy/paste that into a command prompt to use wevtutil.exe?
Now, if you want to see a good book series get murdered in film, look at the Narnia movies...
No joke. The nearly incorruptible King Caspian becomes a spoiled brat willing to consider ultimate evil. I bet he slays the dragon in the upcoming movie, and Eustace is never redeemed.
Yeah, everyone kept saying that in the movies. But the weasel and Frodo sure didn't seem very powerful to me. Even the bad guy must not have been too powerful if he lost the damn thing in the first place. I kept waiting for one of the humans, fairies, or Oompa-Loompas to ask where all this supposed power WAS anyway. Seems like Mr. Powerful Ring Bearer spent most of the movies running from shit.
Centuries ago other rings of power were made that gave their wearers some magical powers. However Sauron indirectly contributed to their making and secretly made his one ring that would control the others.
Ergo, the power was in the control of the kings of men, dwarves, and elves. The elves didn't start using their rings until Sauron lost the One Ring. Anyone could have exerted this control if they knew how, and Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel certainly knew how.
You pay for movies, so you're not downloading porn and music, but you're worried about them disabling BT? In best Beavis impression : "Liar...liar...liar..."
Because no one on /. downloads Linux isos via BT. I can see why you posted anon: you knew you were being stupid. You don't seem to believe that I don't want what your media masters want me to want.
However, I am not a lawyer nor do I understand the telco business, and am thus totally ignorant in most matters (except setting up SSH), but like any Slashdot poster, feel I can wing it and contribute to the intelligence of this discussion.
I'm glad you described yourself by pretending I said something that I didn't. Too bad you think knowing how to use SSH means you're a programmer.
As soon as net neutrality hits, all innovation on the web will be crushed, and we will be at a standstill, like what happened with the railroad and auto industry once these were monopolies.
This statement doesn't make any sense. First, they're not monopolies. Second, innovation in those fields hasn't stagnated. Third, networks _are_ close to monopolies right now. Fourth, innovation is starting to be stifled on the 'net right now via those monopolies (for clarificaction, I wasn't talking about my ISP blocking SSH incoming, but instead SSH outgoing. I wasn't able to use SSH to connect to other sites.) Fifth, Net Neutrality is the cure for that stifling of innovation; the removal of monopoly abuse.
As a non-hard techie with only a cursory understanding of the issue
I'm glad you voiced you ignorance first. It puts me in "educator mode" instead of "hostile reader".
My real concern is that the proponents of network neutrality just want to be able to have unabated access to download music and movies and porn without paying for them - that there's no real "freedom" issues at hand; it's just people wanting free stuff.
This is an assumption stemming from your ignorance. I don't listen to music except via radio or Pandora (usually only once a week at most). I do own one music CD I bought from a local band, but I don't know where it is. I enjoy playing music, but listening is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. I pay to watch movies, or watch them on TV. I'm not interested in unabated access to download music and movies and porn without paying for them. I am interested in being able to ping things from home, or use traceroute to map my network path to something, SSH somewhere, and use bittorrent for legit purposes. My ISP, which has a monopoly where I live (except satellite), originally prevented SSH when I first signed up until I complained and explained I use it for work. They were also blocking my VPN connection. After a network outage within the last year where I used traceroute and ping to help them diagnose the issue, they disabled ICMP (traceroute and ping). They haven't disabled BT yet, but they probably will at some point. They should just be moving bits between me and the recipients, but they're using the fact that I can't really choose different service to strongarm me in to service that doesn't meet my needs.
Freedom of speech means putting up with soapbox preachers. They're chatty, but at least you can walk down the sidewalk. ISPs without Network Neutrality are like the police blocking off the sidewalk to prevent soapbox preachers from using the sidewalk (along with everyone else).
A trickster hero at best: One who stole fire from the gods, threw golden apples to distract Atalanta, hid under the bellies of sheep, and displayed Medusa's head a a present. There are some cultures who praise quick wit over morality. In the U.S., morality is praised over quick wit. He is not our hero. Let him go to Greece.