Many people say you should take legal action if they withhold your paycheck. First off, it will cost a hell of alot more to *take legal action* than a single paychecks value. (unless you are paid something excessivly stupid amount, then you would be the moron for leaving!) All you would have to do is contact the local labor board and inform them of the situiation. Your employer would be contacted by one of their reps, and the would comply in a hurry as no employer wants the labor board breathing down their neck.
Actually there was a lot about Doom3 that was better. Just not the game overall. Visually, Doom3 outpaced them all. Repetition is a killer though. The darkness made rooms smaller so everything look the same. Architecture was a big bonus in ID games. With so much darkness, you can't see it. Damn I'm offtopic.
Anyhow, I'm excited about the movie. The darkness I'm excited about, to finally put the peices of the puzzle together should be fun be itself. Even if I hate Jar jar.
All AMD has to do to make this happen is compete in price with Intel.
From what I hear, Dell has a sweet deal with Intel to *only* sell Intel and AMD hasn't or can't match the deal in a way to make it more profitable for Dell. Dell is about the sum(cheaper, better, faster). AMD will have to ante up to knock Intel down, but then Intel has billions of dollars that AMD doesn't. If the weaker of the parties starts a war of attrition, the weaker party will die first.
I mean come on. At this point, AMD is producing a better chip. Intel's biggest problem is that Itanium turned out to be what can be considered a bust and Opteron didn't. If Dell wants to compete it will need to sell 64bit servers, and well. Itanium isn't what everyone is clamoring for.
Dell will sell AMD if only in the server market. The question is when.
Crond works, but it's old and outdated. The wheel was the meca of inventions, but I'm damn happy someone decided to create the rubber tire as a stone wheel on my car would suck!
I'm not a Mac guy. I don't even really like Steve Jobs, but this is a good thing. I'm not a Windows Server guru either, but this appears to have many similarities to the Windows Services. I'm not going to give Apple credit for the innovation of such a service, but I will give them lots of credit for bringing it to *nix.
Thanks Apple.
btw, just because I'm not a Mac guy doesn't mean I don't want a dual G5 running OS X:P
The missing point is. He claims that SCO has an arguement because someone at IBM had their eyes on Unix source and then worked on Linux source. SCO claims that IBM took works derived from Unix and put them in Linux. IBM says no, we took our own works and put them into both AIX and Linux.
Mr Murphy is saying SCO has a claim based on eyes that tell, yet it's a claim SCO already abandon this claim. My guess is because IBM has already shown that the Unix team did notwork on/with the Linux team.
My guess is that the Unix team stripped out all the code they wanted to give to Linux and then sent it to them along with API documents. (which would have been the proper way to do it.
A war of attrition (price wars) are a top cause of business failures. Read any guide to the top reasons businesses fail. A war of attrition will be listed.
Blockbuster is a fat cow. Netflix will die by the very sword they have drawn.
Offer what the others don't, and offer it at a good price. It doesn't have to be the lowest. I buy from NewEgg not because they have the best price, but because I get what I ask for and they are quick to fix it if I don't.
As long as the browser they use supports open standards so that when I choose to visit a website it works with my browser of choice. The more users of non-standards browsers the more websites do not work with my browsers of choice. (Firefox/Opera)
You seem to forget that the Airbus and Boeing for the matter get paid for the airplanes they produce. The planes arn't sold to the airlines at subsidized pricing. The goverments are only investing in the future and rightfully so. The planes still get paid for with corporate dollars not government money.
I think the misconception is that the European goverments created Airbus to compete with the American aircraft manufactures so that they were not at the mercy of the American giants. Just like when Hitler created what today is now Volkswagen. In an ever changing world, you either produce or you get left behind.
It's this way because in the FS world most applications are made because "Bob" wants it so "Bob" writes it. Commercial (proprietary) software is usually written for the masses. When several people in the FS world like what Bob's writing they all chip in and help. Most of the time the problem is that the skeleton of the application is already written with a hideous UI and/or configurating system. Bob was writing something to help himself. Not something easy to use for the masses.
Kris brings up iLife. iLife is more than just an application, it's a service. If "Bob" were to write an application like iLife, he would be required to offer services like iTunes. Well, "Bob" doesn't have financial backing to employ services like that.
My point is that when you write something like iLife, you must start from the beginning with the plan of these being used by thousands of people and you must already have the resources to develop something like this. iLife wasn't created from the Wits of one man. There was a large collaboration before any real work (and money for the matter) went into such an application.
or from consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities.'
It's not an indicator. It's an assumption based upon circumstantial evidence. Thats like someone telling the Police. Ticket that driver. He is driving a Porsche. He has that big high performance engine for one purpose only. To Speed.
The first assume is to gamble with the outcome. Gamble to much and you *will* lose.
SELinux? That was a US government project. Would you want to secure your server with software written to help kill people? If you didn't want them to use your code don't OpenSource it. Then they could say you can't use theirs, but of course that can't happen because it *is* OpenSource and you are free to use it if you like. Just like no one can tell users of SCO Unixware they can't use their OpenSource project because they want to run it on SCO Software.
The world of free software is give and take. If you give it, anyone can take it for whatever reason they see fit.
I worked for a wholesale/retail liquor store company that did about 300 million in sales a year with only about 30 total stores. They were not *BIG* but they weren't a small mom and pop business either.
They wouldn't have allowed Linux in their IT department either if I hadn't been there. I had the knowledge to do it. Even then, it only started with an email server and only because we had such trouble with our ISP's email services.
Our NOC uses dry pipe water sprinklers. The pipes are pressurized and empty. If a fire starts they do not open. It has to get hot enough to melt a release valve. If the release valve melts, then the water passes into the pipes and only then can be released by personal into the room.
We purchase our servers and PC/latops with services agreements. After 3 years we replace the servers and the desktops/laptops go until they die then we replace them also.
If something goes down (depending on what goes down) Someone comes there to repair it in 4 hours or next business day. No hardware repairs for us, no repacking and no sending back.
The biggest concern is managing users data. IMAP, and getting the users to properly manage their own data with provided tools is key. (replicating documents to home directories or just outright storing all data on home directories)
In general relativity, there is no such thing as a 'universal time' that makes clocks tick at the same rate everywhere. Instead, gravity makes clocks run at different rates in different places. A *clock* is an imperfect human made instrument to measure what we precive time as. To say that *every* clock should be exactly the same would be like saying every speedometer in every car should measure speed exactly the same no matter how much tread wear on the tires or how large the rims are. Time is absolute. It does not change. The only thing that changes is our surroundings which makes our tools of measurment deviate each time a measurment is taken. Who said the tool was correct in the first place? How can you measure prefectly measure something you cannot grasp? We only perceive time the way we do because in our envirorment we are unable to see beyond a 3-dimensional visual scope.
My thoughts on Blackholes? They do exist. Just not as *completely* described. They are as noted huge amounts of mass colapsed in on themselves. They are *not* a sigularity. (one single piece of mass) They are a ball of mass crushed down so small that their gravity is so great in that confined space that not even light (with all it's kinetic energy) can escape. (Which is why some blackholes are larger than others) Although, my hypothesis say that the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second) isn't the fastest speed obtainable. It's only the speed in which light travels. Saying that. Time is still absolute even though, if you could out run light while you could watch the same event again, it still would have already have happen as it took place in a single *space and time*.
SUSE just needs to get corporate buyers to buy them instead of RedHat. There are only (2) distros that I would implement on a mission critical machine. Novell SUSE, and RHEL. Currently I use only RHEL, but I would be willing to consider SUSE.
Now for the zeolots, I'm not saying other distros can't be used on mission critical, I'm just saying without the corporate backing of a major player... (Oracle cert for RH, NetVault cert for RH, etc) Not on my database servers...
btw, I run Fedora FC3 also, just not on mission critical. I could use anything on those machines, but I choose Fedora because it supports the latest and greatest awhile still being pretty stable on most hardware and software functions. (Dell PowerEdge servers, and postfix, mysql, apache, etc)
Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance
Wow, I'm surprised Google, Oracle, IBM, all the governments, or any large scale university that runs massive amounts of Linux arn't joining in the frey and telling everyone how crappy the product they're using is. Oh yeah, thats right. They are using it not competing with it. The difference here.
Sun has no problem biting the hand that helps feed it. Sun will follow VA. It's hardware business will die. It will be software only. Solaris will become BSD like. A great OS, but will not have the support and will likely fall behind in the OS rat race. Without SPARC Solaris will fade. A single company cannot keep Solaris running on the myriad of Intel hardware without vendor support. What company is going to support an OS that is only used as a server? (yeah, I know some people use it as a desktop, but I have no idea why) It's just like the problems Linux had/have. Nobody wanted to use the resources to make their product compatible. It will be even worse for Solaris. It's usage is dropping.
All I see is people bashing what he is saying. Well, just because you don't like what he is saying doesn't mean he is wrong.
There are standards for a reason. People break standards to create *Lock In*. Thats why MS created JScript instead of happily using JavaScript, and while sometimes unintentional all the packaging systems that now exist. (rpm, apt-get, emerge, etc) Fragmenting software installing methods. This causes more headaches for software vendors and everyone else that writes software. It's why you will see RPMs for some software and only contrib apt-get and damn near all emerge.
No one wants to standardize. They all want to be unique becaues *they* are better, or want to evoke lock in. It's Ego (be unique) or Business (create lock in) Lock in creates consistance, unique create fragmentation.
Only open source can give you the best of both, but there is a problem is... I bet you can guess what it is...
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Many people say you should take legal action if they withhold your paycheck. First off, it will cost a hell of alot more to *take legal action* than a single paychecks value. (unless you are paid something excessivly stupid amount, then you would be the moron for leaving!) All you would have to do is contact the local labor board and inform them of the situiation. Your employer would be contacted by one of their reps, and the would comply in a hurry as no employer wants the labor board breathing down their neck.
It would cost you any attorney fees either.
Actually there was a lot about Doom3 that was better. Just not the game overall. Visually, Doom3 outpaced them all. Repetition is a killer though. The darkness made rooms smaller so everything look the same. Architecture was a big bonus in ID games. With so much darkness, you can't see it. Damn I'm offtopic.
Anyhow, I'm excited about the movie. The darkness I'm excited about, to finally put the peices of the puzzle together should be fun be itself. Even if I hate Jar jar.
All AMD has to do to make this happen is compete in price with Intel.
From what I hear, Dell has a sweet deal with Intel to *only* sell Intel and AMD hasn't or can't match the deal in a way to make it more profitable for Dell. Dell is about the sum(cheaper, better, faster). AMD will have to ante up to knock Intel down, but then Intel has billions of dollars that AMD doesn't. If the weaker of the parties starts a war of attrition, the weaker party will die first.
I mean come on. At this point, AMD is producing a better chip. Intel's biggest problem is that Itanium turned out to be what can be considered a bust and Opteron didn't. If Dell wants to compete it will need to sell 64bit servers, and well. Itanium isn't what everyone is clamoring for.
Dell will sell AMD if only in the server market. The question is when.
Crond works, but it's old and outdated. The wheel was the meca of inventions, but I'm damn happy someone decided to create the rubber tire as a stone wheel on my car would suck!
:P
I'm not a Mac guy. I don't even really like Steve Jobs, but this is a good thing. I'm not a Windows Server guru either, but this appears to have many similarities to the Windows Services. I'm not going to give Apple credit for the innovation of such a service, but I will give them lots of credit for bringing it to *nix.
Thanks Apple.
btw, just because I'm not a Mac guy doesn't mean I don't want a dual G5 running OS X
No kidding. It would just speed up Sun's demise. At least if you got fat pockets, you will live at least a little longer.
Of course, if he has Sun buy back all shares, hah he could cash out his own. hah If I had Sun stock, I would be selling.
The missing point is. He claims that SCO has an arguement because someone at IBM had their eyes on Unix source and then worked on Linux source. SCO claims that IBM took works derived from Unix and put them in Linux. IBM says no, we took our own works and put them into both AIX and Linux.
Mr Murphy is saying SCO has a claim based on eyes that tell, yet it's a claim SCO already abandon this claim. My guess is because IBM has already shown that the Unix team did notwork on/with the Linux team.
My guess is that the Unix team stripped out all the code they wanted to give to Linux and then sent it to them along with API documents. (which would have been the proper way to do it.
A war of attrition (price wars) are a top cause of business failures. Read any guide to the top reasons businesses fail. A war of attrition will be listed.
Blockbuster is a fat cow. Netflix will die by the very sword they have drawn.
Offer what the others don't, and offer it at a good price. It doesn't have to be the lowest. I buy from NewEgg not because they have the best price, but because I get what I ask for and they are quick to fix it if I don't.
Why don't we ever hear of better search capabilities, instead of nearly-meaningless hardware shifts.
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November 11, 2004 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.ph
As long as the browser they use supports open standards so that when I choose to visit a website it works with my browser of choice. The more users of non-standards browsers the more websites do not work with my browsers of choice. (Firefox/Opera)
You seem to forget that the Airbus and Boeing for the matter get paid for the airplanes they produce. The planes arn't sold to the airlines at subsidized pricing. The goverments are only investing in the future and rightfully so. The planes still get paid for with corporate dollars not government money.
I think the misconception is that the European goverments created Airbus to compete with the American aircraft manufactures so that they were not at the mercy of the American giants. Just like when Hitler created what today is now Volkswagen. In an ever changing world, you either produce or you get left behind.
I use three RBLs, MAPS will never be part of my RBL list.
MAPS to me are like email zealot extremist. They try to push their weight around like digital age terrorist.
It seems that they should consider changing their name to IBSS - International Business Software Services
I've already trademarked, copyrighted, and registered the domain so shutup!
It's this way because in the FS world most applications are made because "Bob" wants it so "Bob" writes it. Commercial (proprietary) software is usually written for the masses. When several people in the FS world like what Bob's writing they all chip in and help. Most of the time the problem is that the skeleton of the application is already written with a hideous UI and/or configurating system. Bob was writing something to help himself. Not something easy to use for the masses.
Kris brings up iLife. iLife is more than just an application, it's a service. If "Bob" were to write an application like iLife, he would be required to offer services like iTunes. Well, "Bob" doesn't have financial backing to employ services like that.
My point is that when you write something like iLife, you must start from the beginning with the plan of these being used by thousands of people and you must already have the resources to develop something like this. iLife wasn't created from the Wits of one man. There was a large collaboration before any real work (and money for the matter) went into such an application.
or from consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities.'
It's not an indicator. It's an assumption based upon circumstantial evidence. Thats like someone telling the Police. Ticket that driver. He is driving a Porsche. He has that big high performance engine for one purpose only. To Speed.
The first assume is to gamble with the outcome. Gamble to much and you *will* lose.
SELinux? That was a US government project. Would you want to secure your server with software written to help kill people? If you didn't want them to use your code don't OpenSource it. Then they could say you can't use theirs, but of course that can't happen because it *is* OpenSource and you are free to use it if you like. Just like no one can tell users of SCO Unixware they can't use their OpenSource project because they want to run it on SCO Software.
The world of free software is give and take. If you give it, anyone can take it for whatever reason they see fit.
Actually yes.
I worked for a wholesale/retail liquor store company that did about 300 million in sales a year with only about 30 total stores. They were not *BIG* but they weren't a small mom and pop business either.
They wouldn't have allowed Linux in their IT department either if I hadn't been there. I had the knowledge to do it. Even then, it only started with an email server and only because we had such trouble with our ISP's email services.
Our NOC uses dry pipe water sprinklers. The pipes are pressurized and empty. If a fire starts they do not open. It has to get hot enough to melt a release valve. If the release valve melts, then the water passes into the pipes and only then can be released by personal into the room.
Just once? I have a Slip and Slide between the racks!
We purchase our servers and PC/latops with services agreements. After 3 years we replace the servers and the desktops/laptops go until they die then we replace them also.
If something goes down (depending on what goes down) Someone comes there to repair it in 4 hours or next business day. No hardware repairs for us, no repacking and no sending back.
The biggest concern is managing users data. IMAP, and getting the users to properly manage their own data with provided tools is key. (replicating documents to home directories or just outright storing all data on home directories)
In general relativity, there is no such thing as a 'universal time' that makes clocks tick at the same rate everywhere. Instead, gravity makes clocks run at different rates in different places.
A *clock* is an imperfect human made instrument to measure what we precive time as. To say that *every* clock should be exactly the same would be like saying every speedometer in every car should measure speed exactly the same no matter how much tread wear on the tires or how large the rims are. Time is absolute. It does not change. The only thing that changes is our surroundings which makes our tools of measurment deviate each time a measurment is taken. Who said the tool was correct in the first place? How can you measure prefectly measure something you cannot grasp? We only perceive time the way we do because in our envirorment we are unable to see beyond a 3-dimensional visual scope.
My thoughts on Blackholes? They do exist. Just not as *completely* described. They are as noted huge amounts of mass colapsed in on themselves. They are *not* a sigularity. (one single piece of mass) They are a ball of mass crushed down so small that their gravity is so great in that confined space that not even light (with all it's kinetic energy) can escape. (Which is why some blackholes are larger than others) Although, my hypothesis say that the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second) isn't the fastest speed obtainable. It's only the speed in which light travels. Saying that. Time is still absolute even though, if you could out run light while you could watch the same event again, it still would have already have happen as it took place in a single *space and time*.
SUSE just needs to get corporate buyers to buy them instead of RedHat. There are only (2) distros that I would implement on a mission critical machine. Novell SUSE, and RHEL. Currently I use only RHEL, but I would be willing to consider SUSE.
Now for the zeolots, I'm not saying other distros can't be used on mission critical, I'm just saying without the corporate backing of a major player... (Oracle cert for RH, NetVault cert for RH, etc) Not on my database servers...
btw, I run Fedora FC3 also, just not on mission critical. I could use anything on those machines, but I choose Fedora because it supports the latest and greatest awhile still being pretty stable on most hardware and software functions. (Dell PowerEdge servers, and postfix, mysql, apache, etc)
echo "\$0.75/hr" > /data/payroll/managment/IT/bob/payrate
Yes, but how did it taste???
PORK
Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance
Wow, I'm surprised Google, Oracle, IBM, all the governments, or any large scale university that runs massive amounts of Linux arn't joining in the frey and telling everyone how crappy the product they're using is. Oh yeah, thats right. They are using it not competing with it. The difference here.
Sun has no problem biting the hand that helps feed it. Sun will follow VA. It's hardware business will die. It will be software only. Solaris will become BSD like. A great OS, but will not have the support and will likely fall behind in the OS rat race. Without SPARC Solaris will fade. A single company cannot keep Solaris running on the myriad of Intel hardware without vendor support. What company is going to support an OS that is only used as a server? (yeah, I know some people use it as a desktop, but I have no idea why) It's just like the problems Linux had/have. Nobody wanted to use the resources to make their product compatible. It will be even worse for Solaris. It's usage is dropping.
All I see is people bashing what he is saying. Well, just because you don't like what he is saying doesn't mean he is wrong.
There are standards for a reason. People break standards to create *Lock In*. Thats why MS created JScript instead of happily using JavaScript, and while sometimes unintentional all the packaging systems that now exist. (rpm, apt-get, emerge, etc) Fragmenting software installing methods. This causes more headaches for software vendors and everyone else that writes software. It's why you will see RPMs for some software and only contrib apt-get and damn near all emerge.
No one wants to standardize. They all want to be unique becaues *they* are better, or want to evoke lock in. It's Ego (be unique) or Business (create lock in) Lock in creates consistance, unique create fragmentation.
Only open source can give you the best of both, but there is a problem is... I bet you can guess what it is...