Sun has a general hostility towards linux -- so this is really no surprise at all. I do business with them on a fairly regular basis during the day, and the salesmen / techs are always going out of their way to pick on linux.
Sun see's linux as a threat -- and this is why -- sun can't beat linux's price / performance ratio. Sure, Suns make better large end servers -- but the market is MOSTLY low to medium. And by that I mean, businessess who won't be ruined if their systems crash for a few hours. And theres always BSD
The biggest problem at my place of employment is instead of working on technical issues -- i get subverted teaching people stupid stuff -- how to use outlook -- how to make a powerpoint presentation -- how to get latex to distill a file... after awhile it becomes easier for the staff to ask me a question and have me show them -- then to pickup a fucking book to learn something... whats more insulting is my bad management, which has expressly forbade anyone in my lab from going to FREE training courses given by the university, which is ludicrous, because now they're paying me to teach these people while out internal network is going to hell, what they could be learning for free.
Anyone whose read an economics book would know that a market economy would simply not allow a 1000$ consumer OS. If it did cost 1000$ people would find replacement products -- stick with old os's, pirate, use be, linux, bsd, hell, you can get a ultrasparc10 with solaris 7 for 2000$
MS knows this... but when has MS payed attention to mathmatical law, let alone any kind of law?
I think the government should have to give a key to a trusted third party so the public can sue to see their porn and copies of decss... like they wanna do to us.
I was wondering when the shit was gonna hit the fan -- AOL has had their hands in way too many pies -- way too many pies they aren't profiting from directly -- ICQ (cost em ~$200M), AIM(who knows how much it costs), WinAmp (cost about ~$80M)... money for nothing and yer software for free
(PS, those dollar ammounts are from memory, so nazi's piss off)
This website is clearly designed to appeal to the mentally ill, the chronically stupid, and record industry executives.
The only people this website could fool are the same sloths who believe everything else TV and the internet has told them. These are the same people buying stock because they heard a tip on IRC, then sueing for fraud, the same people who acquitted OJ, and the same people that made oprah a millionaire...
remember the old maxim : "What the american public dosen't know, makes them the american public."
I'm in love with this idea ...
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It has all the classic elements of guy fun... An adventure, a prize, cool gadgets (gps units), hiking, shovels, and sweat blood & tears!
My only concern is that the handy gps unit for visor seems to be unavaliable!
I get e-mails from people all the time in this format -- and you have to load the attachments and pick thru the HTML to read what is usually just a scrawl from an x-g/f you didn't wanna talk to in the first place!
is that the fights often last less then 1 minute! With three fights, that gets us up to a signal to noise ratio of 1 minute of show for every 10 minutes of commercials / stupid announcers. Even if the fights lasted the whole 3 minutes, we're talking about 3 to 10 (fights to bullshit ratio). I'll sit here and immagine a cool robot fight and get alot more satisfaction out of it:)
Its simple -- amazon licensces "1-click" (which is unpatentable)... probably on a handshake or less -- to apple -- because it lends credability to amazon's rediculous pattent. In return for this, apple isn't exposed to liability (via lawsuit), and both amazon and apple recieve media attention (your reading about it right now!). Apple gets their cubes hyped, amazon gets their pattent hyped. No lawsuits, everyone is happy.
If I wanted to licensce 1-click ? My ass would be bleeding I'm sure
You can be an ok programmer without college, but a great one? never... because no "Self taught" programmer can teach himself finite math or the complex field of algorithim analysis or design -- and that is where academia excells -- in in depth courses on such things from people who have been studying it since before you were born.
Where it fails is all the bullshit you have to wade thru to get to the 3 or 4 classes that really are truely usefull:)
What really bothers me is the "victim" attitude the cuecat people seem to have. Somehow they feel its their right to profit from their business. Guess what? -- business is fraught with risk. I can think of atleast 10 problems with their business model, all of which I'm sure they understood when they decided to do this. The real question here is why couldn't all these "smart" business men come up with a better business in the first place?
BTW, I ordered 3 cuecats from their website, and am using them to catalog equiptment and data tapes. A much better idea then being a corporate marketing tool.
am I mistaken -- or does the worldforge website have a web bug on it? My adzapper proxy is refusing to display the web page in its entirity (sp?), saying only "1x1 transparent GIF"... If I'm wrong -- I appologize -- If I'm right -- is user tracking a principle that an open source project should support? Food for thought....
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get one used...alot of peple buy them and decide its not for them. Ig et alot of great cheap shit that wayh :)
I need the control over my bad drumming that sequencing offers :)
Does this mean I can finally get a set of drum triggers that dosen't have dead zones?
Sun see's linux as a threat -- and this is why -- sun can't beat linux's price / performance ratio. Sure, Suns make better large end servers -- but the market is MOSTLY low to medium. And by that I mean, businessess who won't be ruined if their systems crash for a few hours. And theres always BSD
The biggest problem at my place of employment is instead of working on technical issues -- i get subverted teaching people stupid stuff -- how to use outlook -- how to make a powerpoint presentation -- how to get latex to distill a file ... after awhile it becomes easier for the staff to ask me a question and have me show them -- then to pickup a fucking book to learn something ... whats more insulting is my bad management, which has expressly forbade anyone in my lab from going to FREE training courses given by the university, which is ludicrous, because now they're paying me to teach these people while out internal network is going to hell, what they could be learning for free.
MS knows this ... but when has MS payed attention to mathmatical law, let alone any kind of law?
I think the government should have to give a key to a trusted third party so the public can sue to see their porn and copies of decss ... like they wanna do to us.
(PS, those dollar ammounts are from memory, so nazi's piss off)
The only people this website could fool are the same sloths who believe everything else TV and the internet has told them. These are the same people buying stock because they heard a tip on IRC, then sueing for fraud, the same people who acquitted OJ, and the same people that made oprah a millionaire ...
remember the old maxim : "What the american public dosen't know, makes them the american public."
My only concern is that the handy gps unit for visor seems to be unavaliable!
Beware of software companies bearing gifts.
I get e-mails from people all the time in this format -- and you have to load the attachments and pick thru the HTML to read what is usually just a scrawl from an x-g/f you didn't wanna talk to in the first place!
Do you remember when going into business was risky?
is that the fights often last less then 1 minute! With three fights, that gets us up to a signal to noise ratio of 1 minute of show for every 10 minutes of commercials / stupid announcers. Even if the fights lasted the whole 3 minutes, we're talking about 3 to 10 (fights to bullshit ratio). I'll sit here and immagine a cool robot fight and get alot more satisfaction out of it :)
Amazing how many people would rather "ask slashdot" then just ask jeeves :) ...
If I wanted to licensce 1-click ? My ass would be bleeding I'm sure
kinda like pkzip 3.0 and Thedraw 5.0, back in the day ... they also did it with a version of NAV, and I'm sure many others
just a thought
Where it fails is all the bullshit you have to wade thru to get to the 3 or 4 classes that really are truely usefull :)
its called point - counter point bro.
BTW, I ordered 3 cuecats from their website, and am using them to catalog equiptment and data tapes. A much better idea then being a corporate marketing tool.
Try C++ Builder ... its much more recent then BC 5 which has been out in various forms since 1996 or 1997
I was really excited and expected to see motorola had improved its dragonball processors ... Then I realized this post has nothing to do with anything
am I mistaken -- or does the worldforge website have a web bug on it? My adzapper proxy is refusing to display the web page in its entirity (sp?), saying only "1x1 transparent GIF" ... If I'm wrong -- I appologize -- If I'm right -- is user tracking a principle that an open source project should support? Food for thought ....
I'd kill for one of these for solaris. Linux is a piece of cake.
FP?! Lucas is incapable of making artistic decisions because he has too much money in the thing... jar jar proved that methinks