What do you do if the person doesn't have a phone number? Or if they request to be contacted in another way than the phone? Or if their kid answers the phone and drops it back at once?
I don't think it sounds like an especially good technology, no offense.
And I who was under the impression that NT/2K/XP was developed using a piece of software that M$ bought and seems to have the same ancestory as perforce does. If someone really wants to know exactly feel free to dig it up on Microsoft's pages. They have a lot of information out there.
Source safe is, and apparently will remain so, a toy that is useful for small businesses. It does what it is supposed to do, but not much more. For hard core development I personally can recommend the excellent piece of software called perforce. Heck, they even give away free licenses to free software developers. Perforce rocks!
and a big fan. Yet I would never touch outlook. They need to put in a "I don't want anything but pure text emails and NO support for anything running on its own, thank you" checkmark for me.
And, no, I would never be as dumb as to run or look at anything that comes from someone I don't know. After all, how many of you fellow pine users would save a file called big_tits.sh from an email and then happily run it? But it is a bit scary that it would be enough to look (or even recieve) at the email to get code running. Bad Microsoft, bad bad bad!
But why should only JPL do this? And why couldn't the state own more companies (preferable jointly with the people who work there, i.e. the only way to get that stock is to be hired) and run them just like any other company, just that the profit goes smack right into the state and hence lowers the tax burden.
Ok ok, our goverments are either too corrupt or to inept at doing anything useful for this to work. If the politicians actually could run a company, why wouldn't they already run companies? But then again, maybe we could get some good people in instead then.
then they better make it stable and freeze just about every API for the whole 3.x series. That is, unless they feel content to let Linux be a toy OS for computer geeks. They can do it, and it is a good thing. I hope they do, but I don't have high hopes.
But how can you be so upset about these companies/pieces of software which lives on stealing all of a sudden starts to steal themselves? You feel it is ok to download copyrighted material, but wrong to fool the amazon servers to get credit instead.
Newsflash, both are illegal and wrong. Don't use software that is made for the purpose of doing something illegal and you are safe.
What if someone doesn't want to use the retina scanner, wouldn't that look suspicious in itself? And they already know which flights I take and can register that to their hearts content. So why would I want to refuse to use the easier way of a scan?
I can't help it, but it gives me the fealing that only those who are dishonest for one reason or another would fear a system like that. I hardly think that it would make us pawns or something like that. Then go worry over the goverment instead.
So Red Hat is "Free Software", but do they care about the spirit of the whole thing? Or do they even care about the customers?
They will make sure that as many Linux users as possible has to use Red Hat. Examples of this is servers from big vendors with special hardware that is only supported if you run Red Hat (even if you can hack it into another distro that means you can kiss help from that vendor good bye, and that won't go over well with the management, for good reasons) and how Red Hat wants control over various key parts of the OS.
They have a huge investment in gnome, and not just pride. If gnome would fail on account of KDE this would mean that they have not only thrown a huge sum of money in a black hole, they also will look weak for potential buyers (and the corporate servers is what can make real money after all). If you fail big time on something as big as gnome, well, you can figure it out yourself.
So Red Hat is willing to do what they can to make sure that as many, if not all, users of Red Hat runs the software they endorse. Some of the software they don't care about and will just throw in with minor effort, so those will remain choices (vi/emacs for example).
Why shouldn't RIAA stop them? If they would have done legal business instead of spreading illegal copies of copyrighted material I don't think that RIAA would stop them.
Whine all you want, but it is justifying theft, one way or the other, to think that it is ok to have services such as Kazaa.
I hate RIAA as much as the next guy, and I am not too happy about MPAA either, but then again, I am not happy about a lot of things really, but that doesn't make me some kind of moral superhero for the people...
Who cares if your TV all of a sudden is an HDTV if the digital feed you get is of incredibly low and crappy quality? Most of what I have seen of digitalTV have horrible quality, hardly comparable to VCD.
When I get full resolution, 40Mbit/s peak MPEG2 with DTS (384kbit/s DD is crap after all) I will be happy to get an HDTV. Heck, I will run to the store and get one. But right now I don't feel like bothering to get any new channels at all since they look like crap (Comhem if you live in Sweden). I will watch VCDs and when the show is good and they release the DVDs, I will get DVDs and watch those shows.
Wasn't it Miramax Home Entertainment who release MH? I have _no_ idea if they happen to be 0wned by Disney though.
Considering how well many Disney (animated) movies are doing recently I would think that Disney should welcome Studio Ghibli since they do produce better movies these days (I still want to see Lilo & Stitch, as it looks to be the best they have done in ages, but they only show it dubbed around here, and I can't stand the dubs!).
As far as "this will turn the american people on to Anime". This is the constant dream of all !.jp anime fans. I have a hard time beliving that anime will ever be big in the states. It won't be incorperated into society in the way that american culture is spread into europe and Japan (for instance).
I am happy as long as I can get hold of the good movies on DVD so I can watch them. I am sick and tired of fansubs (the translation is just fine and all, I just don't like low quality formats, DVD is a must for me) and I will refuse to watch dubs. So I am of course looking forward to a nice DVD release of Spirited Away, preferable a HUGE special edition with tons of extras and all that. But then again, maybe that is this movie nut's dream...
This is just wishful thinking, but maybe (just maybe) they are updating the movie for a world-wide release. Same as what they did with the original Star Wars saga.
It would not be especially nice if they released with watered out colors, unclear picture and the old mono soundtrack. Full DVD quality and DTS-ES would make it more justice.
The large size quicktime one is the only one worth watching. VMA has horrible quality, and realmedia seems more like a slightly bad rand() function than a video stream.
Once again shows the need for a high quality, free, codec to be spread throughout the world.
But then again, the DVD will hopefully be out in not too long, I just hope they do put the japanese DTS-ES on it (as the dub on the trailer was enough for me, I simply don't like it).
First of all, capitalism can only happen in an ideal world, just as communism, neither has even been practised in reality.
Second of all, what is passed as capitalism and democracy does not cure powerty, take a look around, I can see tons of poor people in the western countries.
But thinking that the "rich" is the reason for poverty is taking the easy way out, just like Hitler blamed the Jews or Bin Laden and his brainwashed follows thinks that america is the reason why so many suffers in the middle east.
I have my own theories as to why the world is the way it is, but I will keep that to myself.
Totally unrelated but much more to subject, $700 million could probably build you one really neat OS. When will there be an American Cup in OSes???
This is just a guess, but I think that good old Bill *IS* having a lot of fun, regardless of his money. He loves to run Microsoft, he loves what he is doing. I would have a ball if I could make Longhorn instead of Bill.
Something tells me that he didn't do it for the money, really. As if anyone of you would say "oh shit, my company is starting to make money, I will open source everything at once and refuse to take money so I can be a cool "damn the man" guy who fights the establishment".
Funny that I haven't seen any comment on spending money on Linux. Makes me think that even if a guy had a billon bucks he wouldn't spend it on Linux ^_~
If I had a billon bucks I would have time to write my own OS, and I'll be damned if you could use it ^_~
I would never, ever, use a service like that. I would simply wait until I get to work or get home. I am sick and tired of all the banners on the web already, and I never use adware or similar. And the more you piss me off, the more I will refuse to pay you.
This is not being unnice or disregarding your idea, it is simply me being tired beyond belief of commercials as a way to do business. If you could come up with a better way to finance it I think that there can be a merit to general wireless access, but not with commercials.
Do you still belive that spreading warez is ok and that you were sacrificed, or will you speak against it and never do it again?
I am sure everyone that got caught wish that they never did get caught, the question really is if they wished that they had done something else, or that the police had target someone else instead.
Using anything but Red Hat will become harder and harder, and when the Boss says "Install Redhat or IBM won't give us support" you will do it or train your "do you want fries with that?". Just because the source might be free (mostly) doesn't mean there is a free spirit going on (or ease of use for that matter. I can recognise the reason why GNU came to be).
Why just today I looked at drivers for one of HPs RAID cards. Whoppie, they had drivers for Red Hat 7.1. Thank you very much...
There need to be a standard so that anyone can make a distribution that is supported, or Red Hat will 0wn Linux soon enough.
First of all, I have written a little software in C# and a lot more in Java. C# is a great language in its class and very useful indeed. If you hate it because of M$ say that, but don't say it is a bad language.
That taken care of, I agree with some of the posters saying that it is the concepts that are important. But I also belive that if the concepts to be understood you also have to understand what is behind it all, which includes how a CPU works, how a compiler works, how an interpred language work, and how OO really works.
I think that one should walk this tree with asm, C, BASIC, Ruby, C++/Java/C#, in parallell with the rest of the courses. Try to connect it, for example asm/C with real time and OS courses, while you have ruby for the OO courses.
What language is used should be controlled by the need, not by the industry. Ruby is a great example of an easy to use interpreted language, but also a great example of a language that is VERY object oriented. You get the point without having to figure out other unrelated concepts. Everything really is an object (5.times {|n| print n} for example).
To top off the education it is time for the industry strength languages. C++ is an incredibly powerful language for a number of reasons, but is also very complex and huge in all its quirks. C# and Java would also be good languages to teach now, and to be used as well.
I also want to point out that the choices I have made above when it comes to languages is influenced by what languages I use myself. There are many other excellent languages, so if you like to just exchange your favorite languages to what I have written above;)
First of all, stop this whole credit card business on the net. It is WAY dumb to have a stupid little code and an expiery (sp?) as the only thing identifing you.
Here is an example:
Have an ID system a la passport (preferably a company with no other interests at hand other than providing this service and high security). Now I can identify myself.
I login to shop.on.the.net and register myself (I let them know who I am), I can set what kind of news I want, and I can shop for stuff. Goodie. I choose to buy thing A, thing B, and thing Q, and I press "ORDER".
Now I have to log into my bang account, here I see that shop.on.the.net wants $XXX from me, and I say "yes I would like that". Now you have had two different systems that had to be broken before you can hack it.
Now what happens is that the order is sent to one of a few addresses that I have registered at my bank, no other addresses will be sent to. There is also a mentioning on my pages on the banks site of where it was sent.
Now, this system would not be hard to use (probably would take less time to order than for me to write this down for you), and it could probably be improved upon further, in terms of ease of use and security. And it is surely much better than a system with a stupid number and almost no control over it.
The easier it is to warez something, the more people will warez it. If you open source a mass distributed piece of software it will be garanteed to be compiled by someone and be easy to get without paying. I know that I haven't paid a cent for any linux related software, and I never will pay for it, regardless of how great the software will be.
People rather upgrade their computers, buy something for their girlfriend (or if they are a girlfriend themselves, they probably will buy something for themselves;) j/k), see a movie, buy a DVD player, anything but pay for software.
Anyone who comes up with a good way to sell software, I salute you, but I think that something extraordinary needs to take place before people will fork(money); for software. Most of us grew up beliving "it isn't really stealing" and a lot of people still hold those values. That is what has to change, not versions of software for linux. It is no easier to develop large pieces of software for linux than any other platform.
Correct me if I am wrong, but if I remember the guys at Ericsson correctly, the point of bluetooth is that it can be put into almost any piece of electronic gadget, being really small and all. Hence it should appear in just about anything you can imagine.
The problem is that it should have appeared many years ago, I have no real clue on why it has taken such an enormous amount of time to get it to market in anything interesting.
iNTEL does have their own compiler, that they sell, I guess they rather have you running their compiler than gcc.
That said, which version of gcc did you use? There seems to be vast differences between them (and certain companies seems to like 2.96.x which is NOT a valid gcc version. If gcc -v gives you the 2.96.x version, get a new gcc) and there are reports about speen increases in the 3.x series.
I was mostly curious, I really would like to see that code of yours, but I realise that you wouldn't wanna give it away. Any chance you could write some dummy code that gives the same results (as far as the P4 being slow that is)?
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What do you do if the person doesn't have a phone number? Or if they request to be contacted in another way than the phone? Or if their kid answers the phone and drops it back at once?
I don't think it sounds like an especially good technology, no offense.
And I who was under the impression that NT/2K/XP was developed using a piece of software that M$ bought and seems to have the same ancestory as perforce does. If someone really wants to know exactly feel free to dig it up on Microsoft's pages. They have a lot of information out there.
Source safe is, and apparently will remain so, a toy that is useful for small businesses. It does what it is supposed to do, but not much more. For hard core development I personally can recommend the excellent piece of software called perforce. Heck, they even give away free licenses to free software developers. Perforce rocks!
and a big fan. Yet I would never touch outlook. They need to put in a "I don't want anything but pure text emails and NO support for anything running on its own, thank you" checkmark for me.
And, no, I would never be as dumb as to run or look at anything that comes from someone I don't know. After all, how many of you fellow pine users would save a file called big_tits.sh from an email and then happily run it? But it is a bit scary that it would be enough to look (or even recieve) at the email to get code running. Bad Microsoft, bad bad bad!
But why should only JPL do this? And why couldn't the state own more companies (preferable jointly with the people who work there, i.e. the only way to get that stock is to be hired) and run them just like any other company, just that the profit goes smack right into the state and hence lowers the tax burden.
Ok ok, our goverments are either too corrupt or to inept at doing anything useful for this to work. If the politicians actually could run a company, why wouldn't they already run companies? But then again, maybe we could get some good people in instead then.
then they better make it stable and freeze just about every API for the whole 3.x series. That is, unless they feel content to let Linux be a toy OS for computer geeks. They can do it, and it is a good thing. I hope they do, but I don't have high hopes.
But how can you be so upset about these companies/pieces of software which lives on stealing all of a sudden starts to steal themselves? You feel it is ok to download copyrighted material, but wrong to fool the amazon servers to get credit instead.
Newsflash, both are illegal and wrong. Don't use software that is made for the purpose of doing something illegal and you are safe.
What if someone doesn't want to use the retina scanner, wouldn't that look suspicious in itself? And they already know which flights I take and can register that to their hearts content. So why would I want to refuse to use the easier way of a scan?
I can't help it, but it gives me the fealing that only those who are dishonest for one reason or another would fear a system like that. I hardly think that it would make us pawns or something like that. Then go worry over the goverment instead.
So Red Hat is "Free Software", but do they care about the spirit of the whole thing? Or do they even care about the customers?
They will make sure that as many Linux users as possible has to use Red Hat. Examples of this is servers from big vendors with special hardware that is only supported if you run Red Hat (even if you can hack it into another distro that means you can kiss help from that vendor good bye, and that won't go over well with the management, for good reasons) and how Red Hat wants control over various key parts of the OS.
They have a huge investment in gnome, and not just pride. If gnome would fail on account of KDE this would mean that they have not only thrown a huge sum of money in a black hole, they also will look weak for potential buyers (and the corporate servers is what can make real money after all). If you fail big time on something as big as gnome, well, you can figure it out yourself.
So Red Hat is willing to do what they can to make sure that as many, if not all, users of Red Hat runs the software they endorse. Some of the software they don't care about and will just throw in with minor effort, so those will remain choices (vi/emacs for example).
Why shouldn't RIAA stop them? If they would have done legal business instead of spreading illegal copies of copyrighted material I don't think that RIAA would stop them.
Whine all you want, but it is justifying theft, one way or the other, to think that it is ok to have services such as Kazaa.
I hate RIAA as much as the next guy, and I am not too happy about MPAA either, but then again, I am not happy about a lot of things really, but that doesn't make me some kind of moral superhero for the people...
Who cares if your TV all of a sudden is an HDTV if the digital feed you get is of incredibly low and crappy quality? Most of what I have seen of digitalTV have horrible quality, hardly comparable to VCD.
When I get full resolution, 40Mbit/s peak MPEG2 with DTS (384kbit/s DD is crap after all) I will be happy to get an HDTV. Heck, I will run to the store and get one. But right now I don't feel like bothering to get any new channels at all since they look like crap (Comhem if you live in Sweden). I will watch VCDs and when the show is good and they release the DVDs, I will get DVDs and watch those shows.
Wasn't it Miramax Home Entertainment who release MH? I have _no_ idea if they happen to be 0wned by Disney though.
Considering how well many Disney (animated) movies are doing recently I would think that Disney should welcome Studio Ghibli since they do produce better movies these days (I still want to see Lilo & Stitch, as it looks to be the best they have done in ages, but they only show it dubbed around here, and I can't stand the dubs!).
As far as "this will turn the american people on to Anime". This is the constant dream of all !.jp anime fans. I have a hard time beliving that anime will ever be big in the states. It won't be incorperated into society in the way that american culture is spread into europe and Japan (for instance).
I am happy as long as I can get hold of the good movies on DVD so I can watch them. I am sick and tired of fansubs (the translation is just fine and all, I just don't like low quality formats, DVD is a must for me) and I will refuse to watch dubs. So I am of course looking forward to a nice DVD release of Spirited Away, preferable a HUGE special edition with tons of extras and all that. But then again, maybe that is this movie nut's dream...
This is just wishful thinking, but maybe (just maybe) they are updating the movie for a world-wide release. Same as what they did with the original Star Wars saga.
It would not be especially nice if they released with watered out colors, unclear picture and the old mono soundtrack. Full DVD quality and DTS-ES would make it more justice.
The large size quicktime one is the only one worth watching. VMA has horrible quality, and realmedia seems more like a slightly bad rand() function than a video stream.
Once again shows the need for a high quality, free, codec to be spread throughout the world.
But then again, the DVD will hopefully be out in not too long, I just hope they do put the japanese DTS-ES on it (as the dub on the trailer was enough for me, I simply don't like it).
First of all, capitalism can only happen in an ideal world, just as communism, neither has even been practised in reality.
Second of all, what is passed as capitalism and democracy does not cure powerty, take a look around, I can see tons of poor people in the western countries.
But thinking that the "rich" is the reason for poverty is taking the easy way out, just like Hitler blamed the Jews or Bin Laden and his brainwashed follows thinks that america is the reason why so many suffers in the middle east.
I have my own theories as to why the world is the way it is, but I will keep that to myself.
Totally unrelated but much more to subject, $700 million could probably build you one really neat OS. When will there be an American Cup in OSes???
It seems that it blows then...
This is just a guess, but I think that good old Bill *IS* having a lot of fun, regardless of his money. He loves to run Microsoft, he loves what he is doing. I would have a ball if I could make Longhorn instead of Bill.
Something tells me that he didn't do it for the money, really. As if anyone of you would say "oh shit, my company is starting to make money, I will open source everything at once and refuse to take money so I can be a cool "damn the man" guy who fights the establishment".
Funny that I haven't seen any comment on spending money on Linux. Makes me think that even if a guy had a billon bucks he wouldn't spend it on Linux ^_~
If I had a billon bucks I would have time to write my own OS, and I'll be damned if you could use it ^_~
I would never, ever, use a service like that. I would simply wait until I get to work or get home. I am sick and tired of all the banners on the web already, and I never use adware or similar. And the more you piss me off, the more I will refuse to pay you.
This is not being unnice or disregarding your idea, it is simply me being tired beyond belief of commercials as a way to do business. If you could come up with a better way to finance it I think that there can be a merit to general wireless access, but not with commercials.
Except the personal stuff of course.
Do you still belive that spreading warez is ok and that you were sacrificed, or will you speak against it and never do it again?
I am sure everyone that got caught wish that they never did get caught, the question really is if they wished that they had done something else, or that the police had target someone else instead.
It is the big parallell processing gray mass just above shoulder height that must run real slow for you to use AOL...
Using anything but Red Hat will become harder and harder, and when the Boss says "Install Redhat or IBM won't give us support" you will do it or train your "do you want fries with that?". Just because the source might be free (mostly) doesn't mean there is a free spirit going on (or ease of use for that matter. I can recognise the reason why GNU came to be).
Why just today I looked at drivers for one of HPs RAID cards. Whoppie, they had drivers for Red Hat 7.1. Thank you very much...
There need to be a standard so that anyone can make a distribution that is supported, or Red Hat will 0wn Linux soon enough.
First of all, I have written a little software in C# and a lot more in Java. C# is a great language in its class and very useful indeed. If you hate it because of M$ say that, but don't say it is a bad language.
;)
That taken care of, I agree with some of the posters saying that it is the concepts that are important. But I also belive that if the concepts to be understood you also have to understand what is behind it all, which includes how a CPU works, how a compiler works, how an interpred language work, and how OO really works.
I think that one should walk this tree with asm, C, BASIC, Ruby, C++/Java/C#, in parallell with the rest of the courses. Try to connect it, for example asm/C with real time and OS courses, while you have ruby for the OO courses.
What language is used should be controlled by the need, not by the industry. Ruby is a great example of an easy to use interpreted language, but also a great example of a language that is VERY object oriented. You get the point without having to figure out other unrelated concepts. Everything really is an object (5.times {|n| print n} for example).
To top off the education it is time for the industry strength languages. C++ is an incredibly powerful language for a number of reasons, but is also very complex and huge in all its quirks. C# and Java would also be good languages to teach now, and to be used as well.
I also want to point out that the choices I have made above when it comes to languages is influenced by what languages I use myself. There are many other excellent languages, so if you like to just exchange your favorite languages to what I have written above
First of all, stop this whole credit card business on the net. It is WAY dumb to have a stupid little code and an expiery (sp?) as the only thing identifing you.
Here is an example:
Have an ID system a la passport (preferably a company with no other interests at hand other than providing this service and high security). Now I can identify myself.
I login to shop.on.the.net and register myself (I let them know who I am), I can set what kind of news I want, and I can shop for stuff. Goodie. I choose to buy thing A, thing B, and thing Q, and I press "ORDER".
Now I have to log into my bang account, here I see that shop.on.the.net wants $XXX from me, and I say "yes I would like that". Now you have had two different systems that had to be broken before you can hack it.
Now what happens is that the order is sent to one of a few addresses that I have registered at my bank, no other addresses will be sent to. There is also a mentioning on my pages on the banks site of where it was sent.
Now, this system would not be hard to use (probably would take less time to order than for me to write this down for you), and it could probably be improved upon further, in terms of ease of use and security. And it is surely much better than a system with a stupid number and almost no control over it.
The easier it is to warez something, the more people will warez it. If you open source a mass distributed piece of software it will be garanteed to be compiled by someone and be easy to get without paying. I know that I haven't paid a cent for any linux related software, and I never will pay for it, regardless of how great the software will be.
People rather upgrade their computers, buy something for their girlfriend (or if they are a girlfriend themselves, they probably will buy something for themselves;) j/k), see a movie, buy a DVD player, anything but pay for software.
Anyone who comes up with a good way to sell software, I salute you, but I think that something extraordinary needs to take place before people will fork(money); for software. Most of us grew up beliving "it isn't really stealing" and a lot of people still hold those values. That is what has to change, not versions of software for linux. It is no easier to develop large pieces of software for linux than any other platform.
Correct me if I am wrong, but if I remember the guys at Ericsson correctly, the point of bluetooth is that it can be put into almost any piece of electronic gadget, being really small and all. Hence it should appear in just about anything you can imagine.
The problem is that it should have appeared many years ago, I have no real clue on why it has taken such an enormous amount of time to get it to market in anything interesting.
iNTEL does have their own compiler, that they sell, I guess they rather have you running their compiler than gcc.
That said, which version of gcc did you use? There seems to be vast differences between them (and certain companies seems to like 2.96.x which is NOT a valid gcc version. If gcc -v gives you the 2.96.x version, get a new gcc) and there are reports about speen increases in the 3.x series.
I was mostly curious, I really would like to see that code of yours, but I realise that you wouldn't wanna give it away. Any chance you could write some dummy code that gives the same results (as far as the P4 being slow that is)?