Here are some pictures I took yesterday at Linuxworld, hanging around the Slashdot booth. Slightly better quality than the livecam... and they have captions to boot.
Is anyone else disturbed by this conglomeration of power? Andover has already bought most of the good Linux sites. VA Linux is busy sucking up the others, as well as other random companies. If Red Hat merges with VA someday, won't all our eggs be in one basket?
Yes, BSD's big lure was women in tight outfits who you could get your picture taken with. You shoulda seen the girl in the red LATEX outfit. Yowzers...
And add in a wireless modem while you're at it. Then it works fast in a known environment like your home, but works passably everywhere. Would be sweet. If they could get it under a grand, I'd buy it.
You seem to be arguing that a given reduction in costs to a retailer should result in the same reduction in the price to the consumer. That doesn't really make sense though. What incentive do they have to reduce the costs that way? If the consumer is willing to pay for the product, Dell can charge whatever they wish for it. Especially since they are one of the only major brands that provide Linux laptops -- that's why this is NEWS in the first place. Since the supply of Linux laptops is low, and the demand is presumably high, the retail price should actually be higher than that of a windows laptop, where the supply is quite high, and the demand is lower.
They said the weather sucked too much, so the blimp wasn't flying. They never said exactly what it was instead, but I assume it was a helicopter (although they did say something about an ultra-light(!))
So basically, you don't like football, and you didn't watch the superbowl. Wow, that's a big sacrifice on your part. That's like a man boycotting make-up. Maybe if you actually cared about the game, you're refusal to watch it due to the commercialism and they hype would mean something.
6 hours of photoshop? that sounds like work. watching the superbowl is fun, in contrast. your roommates ended up seeing a capital football game, you ended up with a few changed bytes on a hard drive. I guess some people have different priorities, eh?
ah yes, the Bud dog. I think that one will get lost in the static because it was SO early. it was the first commercial after the start of the game, right? Maybe that's a bad place...
yeah, A-B makes budweiser though, so same difference. I just thought it was sappy -- I was waiting for a punch-line that didn't come. I don't have any problems w/ the horses tho, the one where they were playing football out on a ranch was definitely a classic.
This was a true classic. Also kinda interesting was the one w/ Christopher Reeves.
The budweiser one w/ the horse was pretty incomprehensible. Also the "who can spend the most money looking cheap" contest among the dot coms was pretty worthless. But gee, I'm glad E*Trade is actually boasting about how they waste my commision money.
"The point is that with Dialpad.com and such you can call people and talk to them on their regular phone from your computer. " - The AC who was moderated into oblivion below.
Dialpad is accessing the university network on the request of a member of that university. So they aren't freeloading bandwidth any more than a web server that a student accesses. Bytes are bytes.
Security by obscurity is a valid solution in certain situtations...
For instance, for where you are forbidden to hide something in the first place. Like these court documents. What was MS going to do, encrypt them with their key, and then place them into evidence? Talk about pissing off a judge. So the only way to use any kind of security was by hiding it out in the open, which is what stenography is.
Just spouting "Security by Obscurity" as the sole reason for something being a bad idea is quite simplistic.
This is a good one that most libraries seem to have. Basically, like it says, ALL of Asimov's Robot short stories bundled together in one volume. I remember it being a good read. It's also somewhat newer than most librarie's copies of I,Robot, and therefore in much better shape.
Good call on this one. For some reason it's one of the Asimov stories that really stuck with me. It's too bad that the movie (apparently, I haven't seen it) wasn't quite up to snuff.
photoshop is in the path. myimage.png is in the current directory.
Both of which are very often untrue. Actually finding where the photoshop binary is located is not a newbie task. Neither is altering the path.
As far as that "open with" BS... You could just drag the icon for the myimage.png to the icon for the photoshop program. That's the proper way to use a gui. And probably even easier than typing your command line.
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...maybe now that dumbass who posted it on every other thread for the last few days will shut the hell up. Why exactly did you have so much invested in this particular story, Mr. AC? I mean, it's not THAT big a deal.
Especially since it's not exactly unexpected or undercovered. Past slashdot stories on this theme...
"Sun to release Solaris source code" by HeUnique on Friday October 01 "Solaris to be Community Licensed" by sengan on Thursday February 25 "Sun plans open source Solaris?" by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 12 "Solaris 7 available for $10" by sengan on Tuesday October 27 "Solaris 2.6 free" by Hemos on Monday August 10
Good thinking, but I really doubt that would work. Usually you pay for the rights to use the standards, while agreeing to quite a few restrictions on that use. For instance, keeping the information secret. Otherwise, you're correct, Red Hat could create an open source version and EVERYONE would have access to it. Including those who would have paid, such as Xing and Apple. Which would make no sense for the DVD Consortium.
Aha, the looped GPF. I hate that bastard. The funny thing is that I only get it with Netscape on my 2 machines. I guess everyone has different problems...
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Here are some pictures I took yesterday at Linuxworld, hanging around the Slashdot booth. Slightly better quality than the livecam... and they have captions to boot.
http://www.smackfu.com/linuxworld
Yeah, mergers tend to make one go up and the other down. Guess you bet on the wrong one... :)
Is anyone else disturbed by this conglomeration of power? Andover has already bought most of the good Linux sites. VA Linux is busy sucking up the others, as well as other random companies. If Red Hat merges with VA someday, won't all our eggs be in one basket?
Yes, BSD's big lure was women in tight outfits who you could get your picture taken with. You shoulda seen the girl in the red LATEX outfit. Yowzers...
And yes, when the microphone was passed around, there were quite a few "First Post" comments.
Doh!
And add in a wireless modem while you're at it. Then it works fast in a known environment like your home, but works passably everywhere. Would be sweet. If they could get it under a grand, I'd buy it.
Geez, didn't any of you guys take economics?
You seem to be arguing that a given reduction in costs to a retailer should result in the same reduction in the price to the consumer. That doesn't really make sense though. What incentive do they have to reduce the costs that way? If the consumer is willing to pay for the product, Dell can charge whatever they wish for it. Especially since they are one of the only major brands that provide Linux laptops -- that's why this is NEWS in the first place. Since the supply of Linux laptops is low, and the demand is presumably high, the retail price should actually be higher than that of a windows laptop, where the supply is quite high, and the demand is lower.
Also here's a link to the Inspiron page at Dell:
http://commerce.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.asp? order_code=890139&customer_id=04&keycode=6W300
Didn't you listen to the commentary? :)
They said the weather sucked too much, so the blimp wasn't flying. They never said exactly what it was instead, but I assume it was a helicopter (although they did say something about an ultra-light(!))
So basically, you don't like football, and you didn't watch the superbowl. Wow, that's a big sacrifice on your part. That's like a man boycotting make-up. Maybe if you actually cared about the game, you're refusal to watch it due to the commercialism and they hype would mean something.
6 hours of photoshop? that sounds like work. watching the superbowl is fun, in contrast. your roommates ended up seeing a capital football game, you ended up with a few changed bytes on a hard drive. I guess some people have different priorities, eh?
ah yes, the Bud dog. I think that one will get lost in the static because it was SO early. it was the first commercial after the start of the game, right? Maybe that's a bad place...
yeah, A-B makes budweiser though, so same difference. I just thought it was sappy -- I was waiting for a punch-line that didn't come. I don't have any problems w/ the horses tho, the one where they were playing football out on a ranch was definitely a classic.
they have quicktimes of all the commercials up.
This was a true classic. Also kinda interesting was the one w/ Christopher Reeves.
The budweiser one w/ the horse was pretty incomprehensible. Also the "who can spend the most money looking cheap" contest among the dot coms was pretty worthless. But gee, I'm glad E*Trade is actually boasting about how they waste my commision money.
"The point is that with Dialpad.com and such you can call people and talk to them on their regular phone from your computer. " - The AC who was moderated into oblivion below.
Are you nuts???
Dialpad is accessing the university network on the request of a member of that university. So they aren't freeloading bandwidth any more than a web server that a student accesses. Bytes are bytes.
Here's their thinking:
X = Bandwidth now
Y = Bandwidth once they block dialpad
X - Y = Bandwidth due to dialpad
Pretty simplistic, but a lot of decisions are based on numbers determined by methods faultier than these.
Security by obscurity is a valid solution in certain situtations...
For instance, for where you are forbidden to hide something in the first place. Like these court documents. What was MS going to do, encrypt them with their key, and then place them into evidence? Talk about pissing off a judge. So the only way to use any kind of security was by hiding it out in the open, which is what stenography is.
Just spouting "Security by Obscurity" as the sole reason for something being a bad idea is quite simplistic.
This is a good one that most libraries seem to have. Basically, like it says, ALL of Asimov's Robot short stories bundled together in one volume. I remember it being a good read. It's also somewhat newer than most librarie's copies of I,Robot, and therefore in much better shape.
Good call on this one. For some reason it's one of the Asimov stories that really stuck with me. It's too bad that the movie (apparently, I haven't seen it) wasn't quite up to snuff.
"Type: $photoshop myimage.png"
Which will work IF:
photoshop is in the path.
myimage.png is in the current directory.
Both of which are very often untrue. Actually finding where the photoshop binary is located is not a newbie task. Neither is altering the path.
As far as that "open with" BS... You could just drag the icon for the myimage.png to the icon for the photoshop program. That's the proper way to use a gui. And probably even easier than typing your command line.
...maybe now that dumbass who posted it on every other thread for the last few days will shut the hell up. Why exactly did you have so much invested in this particular story, Mr. AC? I mean, it's not THAT big a deal.
Especially since it's not exactly unexpected or undercovered. Past slashdot stories on this theme...
"Sun to release Solaris source code" by HeUnique on Friday October 01
"Solaris to be Community Licensed" by sengan on Thursday February 25
"Sun plans open source Solaris?" by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 12
"Solaris 7 available for $10" by sengan on Tuesday October 27
"Solaris 2.6 free" by Hemos on Monday August 10
See a pattern there?
Good thinking, but I really doubt that would work. Usually you pay for the rights to use the standards, while agreeing to quite a few restrictions on that use. For instance, keeping the information secret. Otherwise, you're correct, Red Hat could create an open source version and EVERYONE would have access to it. Including those who would have paid, such as Xing and Apple. Which would make no sense for the DVD Consortium.
Thanks for the link to the source. Now nicely mirrored on my site.
Aha, the looped GPF. I hate that bastard. The funny thing is that I only get it with Netscape on my 2 machines. I guess everyone has different problems...