Why when I go to http://www.ctnews3d.com/chuk/html/guides/custom/gc ustomfluf.html which is the link in the posted article, I get an Access Forbidden warning? Just wondering...
There was an early post about a college student using Linux but having NT installed everywhere on his campus. I am also a college student and it is the same way here. There isn't 1 single Win9x machine anywhere on campus. They use NT as the client, NT as the server, and Netware, VMS/VAX, and Digital Unix for everything else. And I am at a cutting edge engineering college, so please do not pretend to bash my school. The Linux numbers are nice, but also interesting. Where are these Linux boxes? ISP's? Industry? Government? I can tell you for sure that the government runs NT and SUN. NASA uses Solaris as it MAIN OS, including the International Space Station, most industry uses a combination of SUN and NT. I am sure that it is out there, but it would be interesting, and I do mean real instances and numbers where this data is coming from. And on another note, there was a post earlier about SUN having problems when the server market collapses? Are you people on the same planet?? Solaris runs on Intel hardware very nicely, with the new Solaris 8 being extremely fast compared to Solaris 7 and much easier to use and administer. Solaris is even ready to go the instant Intel's 64 bit chip comes to market. Sun isn't stupid people and I cannot see in a million years how Linux would defeat Sun in their own market. NT maybe, but Solaris and Sun are extremely venerable. For example we have an approx. 12000 student campus and the university was required to move everything to PeopleSoft. There was a huge decision to make. Should we use NT or should we use Solaris on Sun hardware? Sun won hands down. Since PeopleSoft required an Oracle database, which was already on our UNIX system here putting everything on Sun was a no-brainer. I remember when Linux was brought up there were a few smurkes, and that was it. So, when server markets are compared it is very important to compare all markets that apply.
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Okay, let's pretend that you have actually used and studied the BeOS. Be was developed by ex-Apple employees. That's true. >2) By what I see so far, I don't see BeOS is in anyway superior to Mac OS X. especially it's GUI which was 70% copied from windows. So... actually who is superior ??.. Actually, BeOS is %100 superior in EVERY SINGLE WAY to Mac OS(Anything) except *maybe* in terms of GUI, which will change drastically once 5.0 is released. Be is written completely in C++, has EVERY buzzword on the planet including all of the favorites like preemptive and pervasive multitasking, true OO design all the way to the kernel, fully journaled FS, ability to address an INFINITE number of processors with performance increasing linearly per extra processor, etc. etc... BeOS is a very beatiful thing. It simply lacks great networking in release 4.5, but the networking has been moved into the kernel for 5.0 so that is now a mute point. I laugh at your post, honestly. Apple was scared shitless when they found out that BeOS was more powerful and advanced than anything they'd ever seen before. It simply didn't run Mac apps and therefore they didn't want it. In the BeOS bible all the information you would ever need is in there. And why doesn't Be take over the i386 world from Microsoft. What kind of a stupid question in this? It has taken almost a decade and a lot of work and effort from millions of programmers to even get Linux on the map against Microsoft. And I still can't walk into a Best Buy and purchase a computer with Linux pre-installed. So how do you think a small computer like Be is going to kill Microsoft? Yeah, BeOS could annihilate Linux in a heartbeat technologically and programming-wise, but why? And why fight Microsoft? Either case is not a win-win situation for Be. And the post was about Linux originally, I agree. But, Apple is not anybody's friend and being nice to the Linux crowd feels too much to me like the Be incident. Personally, I think that Apple is bitter at Be, not the other way around. It only made sense to go to Intel. Intel was very, very happy to have another OS run on its hardware. And did anybody hear realize that it is illegal to reverse engineer patented or otherwise items? Why would Be do something like that?
Whenever articles about the big, bad NSA pop up on./ everyone suddenly becomes a HERO OF DEMOCRACY. Yeah. Everyone here realizes that the same constitution that they so happily enjoy quoting also allows them to get off their fat asses and run for office to change things "for the better." If people here are so right and all of the people , like me for instance, in the world are wrong then why don't you do something useful about it instead of bitch and complain about such useless shit as "echelon." With more and more nuclear capable countries coming up in this new millenium do you really think the NSA or CIA or whoever really gives a half ass shit about anybody on./? No. And for your information the FBI is the one who works with militia groups, not the NSA. The NSA is military, not civilian and they do not carry out domestic duties unless there is a military reason to do so. And all of this FUD about the NSA, as so many people enjoy calling it, is simply humorous to read. And, no, the NSA does not hire people from this group to work there. Get a fucking clue people. I am senior in Mathematics and I applied to work at the NSA spring 99 semester. They are very serious. They don't give a fuck about people like you. I was asked POINT BLANK under a lie detector whether I ever had anti-government thoughts or tendencies or if I was ever part of a militia or militant group. And of course I said NO. I am an American and I believe in what my country stands for and what it does to protect itself from enemies foreign and domestic. Some of the people on this website should make any American sick to his stomach. You don't like it, vote.
I don't believe that you are making a very good point, I am sorry to say. So, let us assume that he did have a fair trial. Then it would be okay to bar him from the computer. But, since in your own personal opinion he did not have a fair trial, then obviously this is not legal and there must be a conspiracy against this man. That's interesting. And another thing that doesn't make any sense to me. This man should not be in trouble because he didn't cause any damage or loss to anyone? Okay, this makes no sense to me.If an act is illegal, it doesn't matter if it hurts anyone. And the argument about raping children and breaking into a computer. In principle, if the message I originally posted was read correctly by you, was simply another example of what happens if you break a law. There will be consequences for your actions. It doesn't matter what the crime. He's a computer hacker, car thief, rapist, drunk driver, whatever. It's all the same in the eyes of the law. That was the point and the constitution does not protect these people from losing rights as punishment for a crime. And who really gives a shit about this guy anyways. 3 years from now nobody will give a damn one way or another. Slashdot will simply be filled with pissed off people bitching about Win 2003 beta release 16 anyways.
Let's look at it this way. Is it legal for the courts to order him to not use a computer. Yes, of course it is. Let's look at an example. A man gets really drunk, drive his car down the freeway, goes over the median and kills a mother and her kids in a fatal car crash. The man immediately goes to jail for a period of time. Then, when the man is up for parole, one of the conditions of his parole is that he can never drive a car again. So, what you are trying to say is that this man should say "Fuck You, I've got Constitutional Rights to drink and drive whenever I want" and then do it again without any repercussions? Most of you people sound very foolish. This man commited a crime and therefore he gave up his rights to do certain things. Are child rapists allowed to work in schools? Hey, they've got the Constitution to say they can even if their parole says that they can't be within 1000 feet of any child. Please people.
Realistically, they can't open-source the entire OS. There will undoubtable be a ton of proprietary software not owned by Apple that will have to stay closed. But, with Linux PPC and even better BeOS, why would Apple want to open source OS X? I feel that this is just a marketing ploy to try and ride the Linux popularity wave while Apple can, since open-source or closed-source, Apple couldn't right a decent OS if it tried.
Actually, right out of the box Linux is definitely not the most secure OS in the world. Software such as OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, etc. are a far better choice when it comes to security. But, Linux is not too bad when it is made to do something very specific, mostly with code shared from other OS's.
Dear interested Slashdotters, Let's try to not laugh when reading this article. Since when would a Nobel laureate say something like (quote)
"If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
This whole article looks like one of those lameass "infomercials" I unforunately wake up too in the middle of the night when I fall asleep with the TV on. "Make a $$$$ a month making Hydrinos AT HOME..."
This is exactly what needs to happen. LongShip deserves a very meaningful "Thank You" for finally writing something that didn't sound like it spewed out of a moron like most of the stuff people post here at/.
Alright, here's what's funny about all you guys...a PC is not a gaming platform, a N64, Dreamcast, etc. is a gaming platform. The argument is funny. So, for example, I can buy a Dodge Ram V10 and drive it really, really fast, maybe over 134 MPH. The thought of that was really thrilling. Now, I can buy a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT or something and drive it really, really fast, maybe over 134MPH. Sure, they both go over 134MPH. But, the Dodge Ram is going to cost you approx. $20-30,000 extra dollars to customize it to the point where it would be safe to drive it at this high of a speed. The Mitsubishi comes that way standard, because it was made to drive fast, unlike the Dodge. This is the exact point of the argument. A PC can do games, but it was never designed, intended, or (without a shitload of extra crap) properly runs games. Now, the Dreamcast or whatever was made specifically to play games. That's it. The Dreamcast does not come with a word processor, because it was not supposed to. The hardware in a PC cannot possibly compete, at any level, which a custom 64-bit ASIC chip, like the ones found in console systems. The PC motherboard and video to RAM to CPU paths were never designed for gaming. They will never compete with a custom RISC machine designed for one specific purpose. If you want to play games, buy a console. End of argument.
Actually, the science of cryptography is not what is in question here. I study cryptography here at my university with permission of the government, and I do mean permission from the government. Because no matter how many freedom fighters there are out there, and by the number of posters on/. there are a lot of them, the other guys...you know, the ones who want to kill you or harm this country, can also get encryption material and use it against all the constitution loving freedom fighters on/. . The point is is that some intellectual property should not be allowed to be published into the public. This isn't government power crushing the poor, little citizen holding the constitution in their arms crying for freedom, this is a real matter of fact. Why doesn't the government publish the exact plans for how to create an ICBM w/mutli warheads along with the code for PGP and RSA and everything else we need to stay safe from prying eyes? Because it would harm us more than help us.
There is a poster outside of the Physics department here at my college. It is an illustration depicting a "hippie" and a "anti big government" advocate. They are walking along together, ready to go to an "anti government" rally when the hippie looks at the anti-government advocate and says " I'll meet you at the rally after I go and pick up my food stamps and my free application for subsidized housing..." The anti-government advocate looks at the hippie and says "Yeah, I'll meet you there after I pick up my free application for federally subsidized student aid and my federal grant money to go to school..." And then the cartoon ends with them at the anti-government rally. The posters on/. are exactly like the two characters depicted in the cartoon. The government is good enough to provide everything you will ever need to live, including the protected ability to post on/., and to criticize it's every move, even to the point of depicted how are lives would be better without it. And then you go and hide behind the government and feed off of it like everyone else. If laws were broken, then crimes were committed, and punishment is what should ensue. So, is this guy guilty of treason? I don't know, but somebody smarter than all of us obviously does. So, instead of saying that the FBI is "too powerful" and that "it should be checked or disbanded," maybe somebody should find out all of the facts. The FBI is the last thing on anybody's list of enemies. The number of murders that they put away each year alone based on DNA evidence is staggering. And when people do things to purposely get the FBI and DOJ in trouble is funny all in its own. Think about it.
Sure, I've got you beat...Doing my paper route this summer I scraped every penny I could. Every last penny. And now my roommate and I have some Linux boxes in our apartment, mostly for client activities. But, the real prize for delivering all those papers at 4:30am while riding my poor, little bicycle is that brand spankin new Cray T3d in my closet, as our dial up server for the Internet and to serve as a great Quake server. I didn't like FreeBSD either, I mean, hey ftp://ftp.cdrom.com can only handle 5000 users and 1TB of day everyday. I mean really, man, my Cray can handle 1T of users per day. But, my electric bill is killing me.
Actually, this wasn't so much advocacy or, as you so happily put it, "childish 'my dick is bigger than your dick'" sort of mentality. I thought the situations that people use to promote Linux are just as funny and as childish as the post I replied to it with. I actually I use Linux as much as I use anything else. And I am far from being a child. Both luck to both OS's. Thanks for your opinion.
First of all, Yeah, right. I use my Linux box as a Samba Server and run Matlab from my computer over a network to my girlfriends computer and run a full webserver at the same time that I run an NFS server at the same time that I am playing Quake II at the same time I am crunching SETI@HOME on -nice 2 at the same time I am running a full data center complete with IBM's DB2 and I am AT THE SAME TIME, believe it or not, serving as a file and print server for 1000 different people fom all over the world. The truth is, that I along with a whole ton of people have discovered how powerful, elegant, and simply stable and user-friendly BeOS really is. This OS was not meant to be a server OS, and Linux was never meant to be a consumer OS. Even Linus Torvalds himself admits that the focus of Linux is to be a successful server. Be has announced that BeOS is for consumers and prefessional media types who can properly enjoy it's power and complete multi-threading capabilities. I am a hell of a lot happier running BeOS than I was running Linux, by all accounts. And to the guy who installed Linux in under 12 minutes, I doubt anybody counts the "Bare Bones" command prompt only install as legal in this argument. BeOS actually installs the entire OS in under 15 minutes. And, as one last point, do you know how hard it is to install video capture hardware in Linux. Let's see...kernel recompile, download bttv.tar.gz file for my Brooktree generic card, download xawtv.tar.gz, try to compile both statically since I do not personally own Motif, then cry as after all of this the full screen mode locks up my computer. Okay, well at least I can have real-time audio processing on Linux. Oh, that's right, it's not supported in the kernel yet, and Linus announced that he doesn't want it in there either. Okay, so I install BeOS. 35 seconds after I install in, I open the TV app which comes preinstalled by default and I am watching TV. Then I open up the cool 3D mixer app and decide that I want to mix some music together. Works perfectly the first time. Hmmmm.....Not hard to convince me. Goodbye Linux. Good luck to the OSS movement, but Linux needs a lot of work.
Alright, Everybody seems to hate the government and everybody now seems to think that the NSA is the worst thing since AIDS. Alright, let's have every one and their mother write to their congressman to have the NSA just completely shutdown. Then every slimebag on the planet who hates the US will have absolutely nothing to fear. I mean, hey, the US won't have the slightest idea what will hit them. All the Russians, Iraqs, Cambodians, Chinese, Pakistanis, etc. will just have to go to Radio Shack, buy a digital phone and nobody can hear them. Then, they can sit right outside of the White House, plan a conspiracy against the government, kill the president, bomb and kill a ton on innocent people who have nothing to do with it, and then what are we going to say??? Any guesses...oh yeah, that's right...Where was the NSA??? Pooh hooo hooo. How come we didn't see it coming, how come nobody warned us...Pooh hoo hooo. So let's understand that the NSA is there to protect Americans from threats both foreign and domestic and there job is to spy and break codes. Let's remember, we wouldn't have won WWII without the NSA and their British counterpart...wasn't something of that nature on/. just a couple of days ago? Let's think as people and as a nation about something as important as national security before everyone goes shooting their mouths off. I wrote a letter to my senator and congressmen in support of Echelon and the NSA, and I think you should also.
It's an interesting article. Most people know that Microsoft wants to control every aspect of the market and that using proprietary server technology is in the long run going to be more effective than to do it on a browser level. Just look at their business model. They really don't have to fight, for example, Linux head on. If they can get a strong enough base of NT servers running BackOffice with enough proprietary API and such, then people will not be able to use anything on a browser level. They will be forced to use MSIE out of default in order to receive information from the servers, thereby shutting out competition and killing two birds with one stone without any additional effort. In order to win, at both the browser level and the server level, people/businesses will have to think smarter than Microsoft and plan ahead. The DOJ's victory is important, but Microsoft is as slippery as a snake and will find a way to win, no matter what direction they have to take to achieve their goal.
Alright, I am a Mathematics/Physics major at my college. All I want to know is "How many people actually understood what the article said...?" Oh, I see, only two of the hundreds of posters. That's okay, it just makes reading some of these posts funny, but sad at the same time. Alright, here's what the article is missing as far as linking Quantum theory with Standard theory. The link isn't impossible at all...If you have no clue what you are talking about. Has anybody here dealt with Chaos Theory and implications of the Riemmann Zeta function for starters. And I don't mean a search on Yahoo for a definition. Modern science cannot to this day even predict accurately, given all determinable factors what will happen during a reaction on an atomic scale. Quantum theory is based on Probalistic Physics, Relativistic or Standard Theory is based on Deterministic Physics. These two can never be the same. Many more discoveries and fundamental facts will need to be discovered and proved on related subjects such as Chaos Theory and Complex Plane/Electron orbit/energy level predictions and things which cannot be determined no matter how hard we try. The answer is out there...2050...I don't think so. And with the way the US is going with low 4 year college entrants and high 2 year college (mechanics/plumbers/etc..) on the rise, I wouldn't count on the US being any sort of factor in the near future. If you want to respond, please say something intelligent and not pathetic/flame...Thanks
A teenage girl, sneaks out of the house, goes cave exploring all on her own, and finds a hybrid human/alien skull. Hmmmm. Now, how did she hide this little gem. I can't even go home once a year without my mother going "Are you still smoking young man, I should make you eat those cigarettes..." Now, imagine what my mom would say if she suspected me with a alien/human hybrid skull hidden under my bed...Hmmmm
All three of the above replies to this message or complete garbage. Open Source software will never, ever be stable enough to produce a cardiac arrest monitor or CAT Scan machine that any normal person would want used on them. If I have a heart attack and something goes wrong, what's my doctor going to do...Post on/. or look it up in a newsgroup. No way. Personal computers are one thing to want OSS, but something as sensitive as medical equipment is something completely different. One company, one codebase, one QA department, one FDA approval, and many lives saved based on the accurate and educated decisions of a few highly qualified experts...not the collective decisions and changes from anybody, anywhere. These are the facts. Would you want a doctor who got an A or a doctor who got all C's. You can't gaurantee the A's with OSS.
You are a total moron. I am sorry that you have no respect for post doctorate professionals both in industry and those in academia. Without colleges and especially without professors using what gifts they have to advance society whether on a technological level or a social level you and I would not be having this conversation. Get out, get real, and open your eyes. These people are the foundation of what we have today. Industry is nothing without them.
I think everybody here is missing the point. When I turn on my Windows machine, I don't have to type in anything to get to my friend's computer over the Network Neighborhood. Even the guys with the BeOS boxes can get onto Network Neighborhood without having to type a whole bunch of cryptic crap and make ANY sort of directories, because with over 3000 computers on my network here at school, somebody would have to be insane to want to use Samba for this purpose. Why is it so hard to make Linux/Samba act EXACTLY like Network Neighborhood? Completely Hassle-Free.
You are on crack. I don't care how much flaming I get, but Solaris and Oracle could and can easily nail Linux to the floor. I have been running both a Linux and Intel Solaris 7 for many, many months now and Linux cannot even begin to compete with Solaris in scalability, stability, or shear power than a properly used Sun box can deliver. If they were really interested in power, why didn't they go with an IBM RS/6000 server or an IBM AS/400. These are the true database powerhouses. Fact in point.
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Why when I go to http://www.ctnews3d.com/chuk/html/guides/custom/gc ustomfluf.html which is the link in the posted article, I get an Access Forbidden warning? Just wondering...
There was an early post about a college student using Linux but having NT installed everywhere on his campus. I am also a college student and it is the same way here. There isn't 1 single Win9x machine anywhere on campus. They use NT as the client, NT as the server, and Netware, VMS/VAX, and Digital Unix for everything else. And I am at a cutting edge engineering college, so please do not pretend to bash my school.
The Linux numbers are nice, but also interesting. Where are these Linux boxes? ISP's? Industry? Government? I can tell you for sure that the government runs NT and SUN. NASA uses Solaris as it MAIN OS, including the International Space Station, most industry uses a combination of SUN and NT. I am sure that it is out there, but it would be interesting, and I do mean real instances and numbers where this data is coming from.
And on another note, there was a post earlier about SUN having problems when the server market collapses? Are you people on the same planet?? Solaris runs on Intel hardware very nicely, with the new Solaris 8 being extremely fast compared to Solaris 7 and much easier to use and administer. Solaris is even ready to go the instant Intel's 64 bit chip comes to market. Sun isn't stupid people and I cannot see in a million years how Linux would defeat Sun in their own market. NT maybe, but Solaris and Sun are extremely venerable. For example we have an approx. 12000 student campus and the university was required to move everything to PeopleSoft. There was a huge decision to make. Should we use NT or should we use Solaris on Sun hardware? Sun won hands down. Since PeopleSoft required an Oracle database, which was already on our UNIX system here putting everything on Sun was a no-brainer. I remember when Linux was brought up there were a few smurkes, and that was it. So, when server markets are compared it is very important to compare all markets that apply.
Okay, let's pretend that you have actually used and studied the BeOS. Be was developed by ex-Apple employees. That's true. ... actually who is superior ?? ..
>2) By what I see so far, I don't see BeOS is in anyway superior to Mac OS X. especially it's GUI which was 70% copied from windows. So
Actually, BeOS is %100 superior in EVERY SINGLE WAY to Mac OS(Anything) except *maybe* in terms of GUI, which will change drastically once 5.0 is released. Be is written completely in C++, has EVERY buzzword on the planet including all of the favorites like preemptive and pervasive multitasking, true OO design all the way to the kernel, fully journaled FS, ability to address an INFINITE number of processors with performance increasing linearly per extra processor, etc. etc... BeOS is a very beatiful thing. It simply lacks great networking in release 4.5, but the networking has been moved into the kernel for 5.0 so that is now a mute point. I laugh at your post, honestly. Apple was scared shitless when they found out that BeOS was more powerful and advanced than anything they'd ever seen before. It simply didn't run Mac apps and therefore they didn't want it. In the BeOS bible all the information you would ever need is in there.
And why doesn't Be take over the i386 world from Microsoft. What kind of a stupid question in this? It has taken almost a decade and a lot of work and effort from millions of programmers to even get Linux on the map against Microsoft. And I still can't walk into a Best Buy and purchase a computer with Linux pre-installed. So how do you think a small computer like Be is going to kill Microsoft? Yeah, BeOS could annihilate Linux in a heartbeat technologically and programming-wise, but why? And why fight Microsoft? Either case is not a win-win situation for Be.
And the post was about Linux originally, I agree. But, Apple is not anybody's friend and being nice to the Linux crowd feels too much to me like the Be incident. Personally, I think that Apple is bitter at Be, not the other way around. It only made sense to go to Intel. Intel was very, very happy to have another OS run on its hardware. And did anybody hear realize that it is illegal to reverse engineer patented or otherwise items? Why would Be do something like that?
Whenever articles about the big, bad NSA pop up on ./ everyone suddenly becomes a HERO OF DEMOCRACY. Yeah. Everyone here realizes that the same constitution that they so happily enjoy quoting also allows them to get off their fat asses and run for office to change things "for the better." If people here are so right and all of the people , like me for instance, in the world are wrong then why don't you do something useful about it instead of bitch and complain about such useless shit as "echelon." With more and more nuclear capable countries coming up in this new millenium do you really think the NSA or CIA or whoever really gives a half ass shit about anybody on ./? No. And for your information the FBI is the one who works with militia groups, not the NSA. The NSA is military, not civilian and they do not carry out domestic duties unless there is a military reason to do so. And all of this FUD about the NSA, as so many people enjoy calling it, is simply humorous to read. And, no, the NSA does not hire people from this group to work there. Get a fucking clue people. I am senior in Mathematics and I applied to work at the NSA spring 99 semester. They are very serious. They don't give a fuck about people like you. I was asked POINT BLANK under a lie detector whether I ever had anti-government thoughts or tendencies or if I was ever part of a militia or militant group. And of course I said NO. I am an American and I believe in what my country stands for and what it does to protect itself from enemies foreign and domestic. Some of the people on this website should make any American sick to his stomach. You don't like it, vote.
I don't believe that you are making a very good point, I am sorry to say. So, let us assume that he did have a fair trial. Then it would be okay to bar him from the computer. But, since in your own personal opinion he did not have a fair trial, then obviously this is not legal and there must be a conspiracy against this man. That's interesting. And another thing that doesn't make any sense to me. This man should not be in trouble because he didn't cause any damage or loss to anyone? Okay, this makes no sense to me.If an act is illegal, it doesn't matter if it hurts anyone. And the argument about raping children and breaking into a computer. In principle, if the message I originally posted was read correctly by you, was simply another example of what happens if you break a law. There will be consequences for your actions. It doesn't matter what the crime. He's a computer hacker, car thief, rapist, drunk driver, whatever. It's all the same in the eyes of the law. That was the point and the constitution does not protect these people from losing rights as punishment for a crime. And who really gives a shit about this guy anyways. 3 years from now nobody will give a damn one way or another. Slashdot will simply be filled with pissed off people bitching about Win 2003 beta release 16 anyways.
Let's look at it this way. Is it legal for the courts to order him to not use a computer. Yes, of course it is. Let's look at an example. A man gets really drunk, drive his car down the freeway, goes over the median and kills a mother and her kids in a fatal car crash. The man immediately goes to jail for a period of time. Then, when the man is up for parole, one of the conditions of his parole is that he can never drive a car again. So, what you are trying to say is that this man should say "Fuck You, I've got Constitutional Rights to drink and drive whenever I want" and then do it again without any repercussions? Most of you people sound very foolish. This man commited a crime and therefore he gave up his rights to do certain things. Are child rapists allowed to work in schools? Hey, they've got the Constitution to say they can even if their parole says that they can't be within 1000 feet of any child. Please people.
Realistically, they can't open-source the entire OS. There will undoubtable be a ton of proprietary software not owned by Apple that will have to stay closed. But, with Linux PPC and even better BeOS, why would Apple want to open source OS X? I feel that this is just a marketing ploy to try and ride the Linux popularity wave while Apple can, since open-source or closed-source, Apple couldn't right a decent OS if it tried.
Actually, right out of the box Linux is definitely not the most secure OS in the world. Software such as OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, etc. are a far better choice when it comes to security. But, Linux is not too bad when it is made to do something very specific, mostly with code shared from other OS's.
Dear interested Slashdotters,
Let's try to not laugh when reading this article. Since when would a Nobel laureate say something like (quote)
"If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
This whole article looks like one of those lameass "infomercials" I unforunately wake up too in the middle of the night when I fall asleep with the TV on. "Make a $$$$ a month making Hydrinos AT HOME..."
This is exactly what needs to happen. LongShip deserves a very meaningful "Thank You" for finally writing something that didn't sound like it spewed out of a moron like most of the stuff people post here at /.
Alright, here's what's funny about all you guys...a PC is not a gaming platform, a N64, Dreamcast, etc. is a gaming platform. The argument is funny. So, for example, I can buy a Dodge Ram V10 and drive it really, really fast, maybe over 134 MPH. The thought of that was really thrilling. Now, I can buy a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT or something and drive it really, really fast, maybe over 134MPH. Sure, they both go over 134MPH. But, the Dodge Ram is going to cost you approx. $20-30,000 extra dollars to customize it to the point where it would be safe to drive it at this high of a speed. The Mitsubishi comes that way standard, because it was made to drive fast, unlike the Dodge. This is the exact point of the argument. A PC can do games, but it was never designed, intended, or (without a shitload of extra crap) properly runs games. Now, the Dreamcast or whatever was made specifically to play games. That's it. The Dreamcast does not come with a word processor, because it was not supposed to. The hardware in a PC cannot possibly compete, at any level, which a custom 64-bit ASIC chip, like the ones found in console systems. The PC motherboard and video to RAM to CPU paths were never designed for gaming. They will never compete with a custom RISC machine designed for one specific purpose. If you want to play games, buy a console. End of argument.
Actually, the science of cryptography is not what is in question here. I study cryptography here at my university with permission of the government, and I do mean permission from the government. Because no matter how many freedom fighters there are out there, and by the number of posters on /. there are a lot of them, the other guys...you know, the ones who want to kill you or harm this country, can also get encryption material and use it against all the constitution loving freedom fighters on /. . The point is is that some intellectual property should not be allowed to be published into the public. This isn't government power crushing the poor, little citizen holding the constitution in their arms crying for freedom, this is a real matter of fact. Why doesn't the government publish the exact plans for how to create an ICBM w/mutli warheads along with the code for PGP and RSA and everything else we need to stay safe from prying eyes? Because it would harm us more than help us.
Obviously you missed the point of my post. Ignorance is actually in your lap, my friend.
There is a poster outside of the Physics department here at my college. It is an illustration depicting a "hippie" and a "anti big government" advocate. They are walking along together, ready to go to an "anti government" rally when the hippie looks at the anti-government advocate and says " I'll meet you at the rally after I go and pick up my food stamps and my free application for subsidized housing..." The anti-government advocate looks at the hippie and says "Yeah, I'll meet you there after I pick up my free application for federally subsidized student aid and my federal grant money to go to school..." And then the cartoon ends with them at the anti-government rally. /. are exactly like the two characters depicted in the cartoon. The government is good enough to provide everything you will ever need to live, including the protected ability to post on /., and to criticize it's every move, even to the point of depicted how are lives would be better without it. And then you go and hide behind the government and feed off of it like everyone else. If laws were broken, then crimes were committed, and punishment is what should ensue.
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So, is this guy guilty of treason? I don't know, but somebody smarter than all of us obviously does. So, instead of saying that the FBI is "too powerful" and that "it should be checked or disbanded," maybe somebody should find out all of the facts. The FBI is the last thing on anybody's list of enemies. The number of murders that they put away each year alone based on DNA evidence is staggering. And when people do things to purposely get the FBI and DOJ in trouble is funny all in its own. Think about it.
Ha,ha,ha,ha....
House~$85,000
Sun Server~$40,000-$50,000
Sure, I've got you beat...Doing my paper route this summer I scraped every penny I could. Every last penny. And now my roommate and I have some Linux boxes in our apartment, mostly for client activities. But, the real prize for delivering all those papers at 4:30am while riding my poor, little bicycle is that brand spankin new Cray T3d in my closet, as our dial up server for the Internet and to serve as a great Quake server. I didn't like FreeBSD either, I mean, hey ftp://ftp.cdrom.com can only handle 5000 users and 1TB of day everyday. I mean really, man, my Cray can handle 1T of users per day. But, my electric bill is killing me.
Actually, this wasn't so much advocacy or, as you so happily put it, "childish 'my dick is bigger than your dick'" sort of mentality. I thought the situations that people use to promote Linux are just as funny and as childish as the post I replied to it with. I actually I use Linux as much as I use anything else. And I am far from being a child. Both luck to both OS's. Thanks for your opinion.
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Yeah, right. I use my Linux box as a Samba Server and run Matlab from my computer over a network to my girlfriends computer and run a full webserver at the same time that I run an NFS server at the same time that I am playing Quake II at the same time I am crunching SETI@HOME on -nice 2 at the same time I am running a full data center complete with IBM's DB2 and I am AT THE SAME TIME, believe it or not, serving as a file and print server for 1000 different people fom all over the world.
The truth is, that I along with a whole ton of people have discovered how powerful, elegant, and simply stable and user-friendly BeOS really is. This OS was not meant to be a server OS, and Linux was never meant to be a consumer OS. Even Linus Torvalds himself admits that the focus of Linux is to be a successful server. Be has announced that BeOS is for consumers and prefessional media types who can properly enjoy it's power and complete multi-threading capabilities. I am a hell of a lot happier running BeOS than I was running Linux, by all accounts.
And to the guy who installed Linux in under 12 minutes, I doubt anybody counts the "Bare Bones" command prompt only install as legal in this argument. BeOS actually installs the entire OS in under 15 minutes.
And, as one last point, do you know how hard it is to install video capture hardware in Linux. Let's see...kernel recompile, download bttv.tar.gz file for my Brooktree generic card, download xawtv.tar.gz, try to compile both statically since I do not personally own Motif, then cry as after all of this the full screen mode locks up my computer. Okay, well at least I can have real-time audio processing on Linux. Oh, that's right, it's not supported in the kernel yet, and Linus announced that he doesn't want it in there either.
Okay, so I install BeOS. 35 seconds after I install in, I open the TV app which comes preinstalled by default and I am watching TV. Then I open up the cool 3D mixer app and decide that I want to mix some music together. Works perfectly the first time. Hmmmm.....Not hard to convince me. Goodbye Linux. Good luck to the OSS movement, but Linux needs a lot of work.
Alright, /. just a couple of days ago? Let's think as people and as a nation about something as important as national security before everyone goes shooting their mouths off. I wrote a letter to my senator and congressmen in support of Echelon and the NSA, and I think you should also.
Everybody seems to hate the government and everybody now seems to think that the NSA is the worst thing since AIDS. Alright, let's have every one and their mother write to their congressman to have the NSA just completely shutdown. Then every slimebag on the planet who hates the US will have absolutely nothing to fear. I mean, hey, the US won't have the slightest idea what will hit them. All the Russians, Iraqs, Cambodians, Chinese, Pakistanis, etc. will just have to go to Radio Shack, buy a digital phone and nobody can hear them. Then, they can sit right outside of the White House, plan a conspiracy against the government, kill the president, bomb and kill a ton on innocent people who have nothing to do with it, and then what are we going to say??? Any guesses...oh yeah, that's right...Where was the NSA??? Pooh hooo hooo. How come we didn't see it coming, how come nobody warned us...Pooh hoo hooo. So let's understand that the NSA is there to protect Americans from threats both foreign and domestic and there job is to spy and break codes.
Let's remember, we wouldn't have won WWII without the NSA and their British counterpart...wasn't something of that nature on
It's an interesting article. Most people know that Microsoft wants to control every aspect of the market and that using proprietary server technology is in the long run going to be more effective than to do it on a browser level. Just look at their business model. They really don't have to fight, for example, Linux head on. If they can get a strong enough base of NT servers running BackOffice with enough proprietary API and such, then people will not be able to use anything on a browser level. They will be forced to use MSIE out of default in order to receive information from the servers, thereby shutting out competition and killing two birds with one stone without any additional effort. In order to win, at both the browser level and the server level, people/businesses will have to think smarter than Microsoft and plan ahead. The DOJ's victory is important, but Microsoft is as slippery as a snake and will find a way to win, no matter what direction they have to take to achieve their goal.
Alright, I am a Mathematics/Physics major at my college. All I want to know is "How many people actually understood what the article said...?" Oh, I see, only two of the hundreds of posters. That's okay, it just makes reading some of these posts funny, but sad at the same time. Alright, here's what the article is missing as far as linking Quantum theory with Standard theory. The link isn't impossible at all...If you have no clue what you are talking about. Has anybody here dealt with Chaos Theory and implications of the Riemmann Zeta function for starters. And I don't mean a search on Yahoo for a definition. Modern science cannot to this day even predict accurately, given all determinable factors what will happen during a reaction on an atomic scale. Quantum theory is based on Probalistic Physics, Relativistic or Standard Theory is based on Deterministic Physics. These two can never be the same. Many more discoveries and fundamental facts will need to be discovered and proved on related subjects such as Chaos Theory and Complex Plane/Electron orbit/energy level predictions and things which cannot be determined no matter how hard we try. The answer is out there...2050...I don't think so. And with the way the US is going with low 4 year college entrants and high 2 year college (mechanics/plumbers/etc..) on the rise, I wouldn't count on the US being any sort of factor in the near future. If you want to respond, please say something intelligent and not pathetic/flame...Thanks
A teenage girl, sneaks out of the house, goes cave exploring all on her own, and finds a hybrid human/alien skull. Hmmmm. Now, how did she hide this little gem. I can't even go home once a year without my mother going "Are you still smoking young man, I should make you eat those cigarettes..." Now, imagine what my mom would say if she suspected me with a alien/human hybrid skull hidden under my bed...Hmmmm
All three of the above replies to this message or complete garbage. Open Source software will never, ever be stable enough to produce a cardiac arrest monitor or CAT Scan machine that any normal person would want used on them. If I have a heart attack and something goes wrong, what's my doctor going to do...Post on /. or look it up in a newsgroup. No way. Personal computers are one thing to want OSS, but something as sensitive as medical equipment is something completely different. One company, one codebase, one QA department, one FDA approval, and many lives saved based on the accurate and educated decisions of a few highly qualified experts...not the collective decisions and changes from anybody, anywhere. These are the facts. Would you want a doctor who got an A or a doctor who got all C's. You can't gaurantee the A's with OSS.
You are a total moron. I am sorry that you have no respect for post doctorate professionals both in industry and those in academia. Without colleges and especially without professors using what gifts they have to advance society whether on a technological level or a social level you and I would not be having this conversation. Get out, get real, and open your eyes. These people are the foundation of what we have today. Industry is nothing without them.
I think everybody here is missing the point. When I turn on my Windows machine, I don't have to type in anything to get to my friend's computer over the Network Neighborhood. Even the guys with the BeOS boxes can get onto Network Neighborhood without having to type a whole bunch of cryptic crap and make ANY sort of directories, because with over 3000 computers on my network here at school, somebody would have to be insane to want to use Samba for this purpose. Why is it so hard to make Linux/Samba act EXACTLY like Network Neighborhood? Completely Hassle-Free.
You are on crack. I don't care how much flaming I get, but Solaris and Oracle could and can easily nail Linux to the floor. I have been running both a Linux and Intel Solaris 7 for many, many months now and Linux cannot even begin to compete with Solaris in scalability, stability, or shear power than a properly used Sun box can deliver. If they were really interested in power, why didn't they go with an IBM RS/6000 server or an IBM AS/400. These are the true database powerhouses. Fact in point.