I fail to see what possible connection this has to reality. I could dig up my old economics text book and trot out my old economics theory, but I don't have to. What possible change of the value of a good or service can take place in time scales of less than a milisecond? Computer trading systems are a fraud perpetrated by people that have a severe need of a reality check!!!
As the parent post alluded to all this serves is to make a dynamic system less stable. If the actions super rich (who else uses these devices) people didn't affect the likes of the rest of us I wouldn't care if they wanted to play these games! However, their nonsense like trading in derivatives have put the whole world monetary system in jeopardy!!!
Further, if like me you believe in the conspiracy theories of history (and if you don't then you are ignoring that conspiracies are ubiquitous in history), this may be the goal of the elites - to bring down the current ponzi scheme (the federal reserve system) so that they can reap the benefits of using the collapse to obtain real assets from the rest of us and put in place another fiat currency that lasts for another hundred years before they collapse that one too!!!
How 'bout this for a new idea? Why not distribute music that people find unique, creative, artistic and inventive - like groups and individuals did in the '60's and the '70's. Much of that music is now classic. It still sells.
I have a friend who has a son who has moved to LA to pursue the music scene (his dad and I live in Canada). He came home at Christmas and I asked how it was going. He repiled that he was getting sick of being told that he would get recorded if he sounded like someone else.
Sorry, music execs, that is not how you create music!!!
Maybe that is why your industry can't give your shit away!!! 'Cause its no good!!! Clue in!!! People will buy stuff that is different if you give them a chance to hear it! Then maybe your business won't die. Maybe thats why Trent Resnor and Nine Inch Nails are purposely not even coming to you to have you represent them!!! Maybe its because its impossible to make a decent living under one of your contracts.
Would Donovan, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Cohen, hell even the Beach Boys have had a chance in today's climate? No, and only 'cause they each had a unique sound that no exec would have "taken a risk on"!!! Well guess what!!! Music and art is about RISK!! Its about stepping into the unknown!!!
Each of these great artists would probably have been relegated to playing in the odd bar, just like my friend's son.
With what has happened in the USA, are they absolutely nuts?!!! There is no way to verify the vote if that is on line. I am canadian and I read that Ontario is floating a trial balloon about having an online vote. Electronicly assisted elections are just a way to yell, "STEAL ME!".
My experience with Compaq was that I bought Compaq after testing it with Mepis and Knoppix. Everything seemed to run at the store so I bought it. I had a hard time getting it to get the wireless running even in windows. The wireless card was a micro PCI card so I thought "lets just get a card that Linux supports". When I installed the card and booted the computer, it didn't get past the POST. There was an error message as soon as the BIOS came up saying, "Unsupported hardware detected" and it didn't even try to boot. This was only about 2 years ago. I simply won't buy a computer that mandates that I have to use hardware from the vendor. I sold it and got another computer that is completely supported. I also use every opportunity to warn poeple about such practices.
If thats the type of crap they want to pull with their hardware, I won't go anywhere near Compaq or HP!
As the subject says, if microsoft were liable for the damages that their software is vulnerable to, then this would stop on the arrival of their next patch (service pack). My guess is that there is no way that that can be made to happen without changing the law of the land. Too bad 'cause the damages are enormous. Each one of these virus/worms must cause billions of dollars of lost time and productivity.
It'd be an interesting study to see the lost time associated with the use of various MUA due to virus/worms. If, as I am sure it would, the study indicated that other MUA's led to less lost time we could use these numbers to steer CIO's away from MS.
Just an addition to what ggardner wrote; how about a preview so we can see what you are going to get so we at least have a chance to correct the formatting! I repeat! We have no idea of what you see on your end!
I live in Calgary, Alberta Canada. If you want your mind blown by a museum, visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum near Calgary at Drumheller Alberta! Other than that Calgary is about 1.5 hours from Banff.
P.S. Our beer is just great! Look for just about any micro brewry.
I would not cite Bill Gates as a great programmer. He has a liking for BASIC. The company seems to do only the bare minimum of work before releasing code. At least choose someone like James Gosling, Dennis Richie, Linux Torvalds, Alan Cox or any of a number of demonstrably great programmers.
other OS's will have a problem gaining substantial market share. I forget who it David Voies (the DOJ lawyer) before the MS vs DOJ trial and he said that the government had the wrong issue in the trial and that preloads was the smoking gun. He was right. These should have been banned along with the per-processor fee that MS has charged (known as the MS tax).
Sorry for being off topic. You will have to excuse me I have (blissfully) not had to use Windows for several years - I have made my living since I graduated from university in 1992 using Linux/UNIX. I wasn't aware that MS had something equivilent to symbolic links. What do they call them? Are they just as flexible as under unix?
The hundreds of lawsuits pending will serve as an actual penalty, far worse than any penalty that the DOJ would ever impose. These suits will hamper M$ more than even being broken up.
I graduated from the University of Lethbridge in Dec 1992. I remember Dr. Holtzman well. He was a very fair prof who made the students work for their grades.
It is a small undergraduate university and unless its grown tremendously since I left one hundred students would be a huge increase in enrollment for the department of compting science. Intro courses in math had maybe 50-60 people and my compiler construction class had only 8 people in it!
There was equal emphasis on theory and practical application. One downside was that the school could not afford any sexy hardware, but that is not as important as learning the basics in my opinion. Nor did it have a Electrical Engineering department. I would like to have learned more about hardware and that's the only difference that I notice when comparing myself to the tech people that I meet where I live now (Calgary, Alberta).
The University of Lethbridge is a particularly good place to go for a science degree because the work that is usually left to grad students at larger institutions is sometimes done by eager undergrad students. I had one friend who had his name on a paper accepted to an academic journal while he was in his forth year of chemistry.
Macleans, a national news magazine similar Time or Newsweek, rates the canadian universities each year. The University of Lethbridge rates just behind the bigger canadian universities like Waterloo, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, McGill etc.
I certainly hope you are right, but I fear that you are wrong! One of my concerns is with the power of the business lobby in both our countries (I live in Canada). When political parties on both sides are funded by business interests and therefore indebted to these interests.
It is my impression that even though many of the representatives are lawyers they have either forgotten why the sherman act was enacted, or they have corrupted to the point that they don't care about the common good of society.
Either way, I hope that there is enough pressure from groups like Ralph Nader'd or sufficient dissention by reps of concience to bring an effective settlement. Otherwise we'll have another antitrust case probably in the next adiministration.
The problem is that these install programs also use shell scripts to perform their magic. The issue here is that these install scripts must be portable. Unless you want to install a shell along with the application you must rely on the syntax of/bin/sh. IOW can you guarantee that it won't break for the real bourne shell?
Further, are the shells from HP, AIX SGI, Sun etc really 100% identical? I am have no way of knowing if the Bourne shells out there are really 100% compatible. Its been a long time since Mr. Bourne wrote this shell and I don't know if all these companies have kept the code unmodified when they distribute it in their own OS. I suspect not! It only takes one minor misinterpretation of some subtle point on the part of the shell implementer to cause a problem like this.
If someone would implement a truly Bourne compatible shell licenced under the GPL then we could have a consistent shell to write scripts for and maybe eventually weight of numbers would cause this shell to become the defacto standard. I have been thinking of doing this for some time, perhaps starting with ash.
I would suggest that the slashdot crew make a new icon for plex86 rather than using the wine icon 'cause these people may enough press in the future to deserve it.
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I fail to see what possible connection this has to reality. I could dig up my old economics text book and trot out my old economics theory, but I don't have to. What possible change of the value of a good or service can take place in time scales of less than a milisecond? Computer trading systems are a fraud perpetrated by people that have a severe need of a reality check!!!
As the parent post alluded to all this serves is to make a dynamic system less stable. If the actions super rich (who else uses these devices) people didn't affect the likes of the rest of us I wouldn't care if they wanted to play these games! However, their nonsense like trading in derivatives have put the whole world monetary system in jeopardy!!!
Further, if like me you believe in the conspiracy theories of history (and if you don't then you are ignoring that conspiracies are ubiquitous in history), this may be the goal of the elites - to bring down the current ponzi scheme (the federal reserve system) so that they can reap the benefits of using the collapse to obtain real assets from the rest of us and put in place another fiat currency that lasts for another hundred years before they collapse that one too!!!
How 'bout this for a new idea? Why not distribute music that people find unique, creative, artistic and inventive - like groups and individuals did in the '60's and the '70's. Much of that music is now classic. It still sells.
I have a friend who has a son who has moved to LA to pursue the music scene (his dad and I live in Canada). He came home at Christmas and I asked how it was going. He repiled that he was getting sick of being told that he would get recorded if he sounded like someone else.
Sorry, music execs, that is not how you create music!!!
Maybe that is why your industry can't give your shit away!!! 'Cause its no good!!! Clue in!!! People will buy stuff that is different if you give them a chance to hear it! Then maybe your business won't die. Maybe thats why Trent Resnor and Nine Inch Nails are purposely not even coming to you to have you represent them!!! Maybe its because its impossible to make a decent living under one of your contracts.
Would Donovan, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Cohen, hell even the Beach Boys have had a chance in today's climate? No, and only 'cause they each had a unique sound that no exec would have "taken a risk on"!!! Well guess what!!! Music and art is about RISK!! Its about stepping into the unknown!!!
Each of these great artists would probably have been relegated to playing in the odd bar, just like my friend's son.
Dear Mr. Gates, shove it. Your Loving - OSS Community.
With what has happened in the USA, are they absolutely nuts?!!! There is no way to verify the vote if that is on line. I am canadian and I read that Ontario is floating a trial balloon about having an online vote. Electronicly assisted elections are just a way to yell, "STEAL ME!".
My experience with Compaq was that I bought Compaq after testing it with Mepis and Knoppix. Everything seemed to run at the store so I bought it. I had a hard time getting it to get the wireless running even in windows. The wireless card was a micro PCI card so I thought "lets just get a card that Linux supports". When I installed the card and booted the computer, it didn't get past the POST. There was an error message as soon as the BIOS came up saying, "Unsupported hardware detected" and it didn't even try to boot. This was only about 2 years ago. I simply won't buy a computer that mandates that I have to use hardware from the vendor. I sold it and got another computer that is completely supported. I also use every opportunity to warn poeple about such practices.
If thats the type of crap they want to pull with their hardware, I won't go anywhere near Compaq or HP!
As the subject says, if microsoft were liable for the damages that their software is vulnerable to, then this would stop on the arrival of their next patch (service pack). My guess is that there is no way that that can be made to happen without changing the law of the land. Too bad 'cause the damages are enormous. Each one of these virus/worms must cause billions of dollars of lost time and productivity.
It'd be an interesting study to see the lost time associated with the use of various MUA due to virus/worms. If, as I am sure it would, the study indicated that other MUA's led to less lost time we could use these numbers to steer CIO's away from MS.
Just an addition to what ggardner wrote; how about a preview so we can see what you are going to get so we at least have a chance to correct the formatting! I repeat! We have no idea of what you see on your end!
I live in Calgary, Alberta Canada. If you want your mind blown by a museum, visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum near Calgary at Drumheller Alberta! Other than that Calgary is about 1.5 hours from Banff.
P.S. Our beer is just great! Look for just about any micro brewry.
Supermount is evil!!! I have not looked into the issue, but what will supermount do that automount won't.
My objection to supermount is that it requires patches to the kernel implying a non-standard kernel. Facilities like this are best done in user space!
I would not cite Bill Gates as a great programmer. He has a liking for BASIC. The company seems to do only the bare minimum of work before releasing code. At least choose someone like James Gosling, Dennis Richie, Linux Torvalds, Alan Cox or any of a number of demonstrably great programmers.
"We have to work on our reputation for security in the marketplace".
I get a real kick out of Alchin. It seems to me like Microsoft have done a lot of work on their reputation for security already!
other OS's will have a problem gaining substantial market share. I forget who it David Voies (the DOJ lawyer) before the MS vs DOJ trial and he said that the government had the wrong issue in the trial and that preloads was the smoking gun. He was right. These should have been banned along with the per-processor fee that MS has charged (known as the MS tax).
Sorry for being off topic. You will have to excuse me I have (blissfully) not had to use Windows for several years - I have made my living since I graduated from university in 1992 using Linux/UNIX. I wasn't aware that MS had something equivilent to symbolic links. What do they call them? Are they just as flexible as under unix?
The hundreds of lawsuits pending will serve as an actual penalty, far worse than any penalty that the DOJ would ever impose. These suits will hamper M$ more than even being broken up.
I graduated from the University of Lethbridge in Dec 1992. I remember Dr. Holtzman well. He was a very fair prof who made the students work for their grades.
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It is a small undergraduate university and unless its grown tremendously since I left one hundred students would be a huge increase in enrollment for the department of compting science. Intro courses in math had maybe 50-60 people and my compiler construction class had only 8 people in it!
There was equal emphasis on theory and practical application. One downside was that the school could not afford any sexy hardware, but that is not as important as learning the basics in my opinion. Nor did it have a Electrical Engineering department. I would like to have learned more about hardware and that's the only difference that I notice when comparing myself to the tech people that I meet where I live now (Calgary, Alberta).
The University of Lethbridge is a particularly good place to go for a science degree because the work that is usually left to grad students at larger institutions is sometimes done by eager undergrad students. I had one friend who had his name on a paper accepted to an academic journal while he was in his forth year of chemistry.
Macleans, a national news magazine similar Time or Newsweek, rates the canadian universities each year. The University of Lethbridge rates just behind the bigger canadian universities like Waterloo, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, McGill etc.
Makes me almost miss the place. Almost!
I know that my profs would buy you beer! That may not be as good as you were expecting though!
I certainly hope you are right, but I fear that you are wrong! One of my concerns is with the power of the business lobby in both our countries (I live in Canada). When political parties on both sides are funded by business interests and therefore indebted to these interests.
It is my impression that even though many of the representatives are lawyers they have either forgotten why the sherman act was enacted, or they have corrupted to the point that they don't care about the common good of society.
Either way, I hope that there is enough pressure from groups like Ralph Nader'd or sufficient dissention by reps of concience to bring an effective settlement. Otherwise we'll have another antitrust case probably in the next adiministration.
The problem is that these install programs also use shell scripts to perform their magic. The issue here is that these install scripts must be portable. Unless you want to install a shell along with the application you must rely on the syntax of /bin/sh. IOW can you guarantee that it won't break for the real bourne shell?
Further, are the shells from HP, AIX SGI, Sun etc really 100% identical? I am have no way of knowing if the Bourne shells out there are really 100% compatible. Its been a long time since Mr. Bourne wrote this shell and I don't know if all these companies have kept the code unmodified when they distribute it in their own OS. I suspect not! It only takes one minor misinterpretation of some subtle point on the part of the shell implementer to cause a problem like this.
If someone would implement a truly Bourne compatible shell licenced under the GPL then we could have a consistent shell to write scripts for and maybe eventually weight of numbers would cause this shell to become the defacto standard. I have been thinking of doing this for some time, perhaps starting with ash.
I would suggest that the slashdot crew make a new icon for plex86 rather than using the wine icon 'cause these people may enough press in the future to deserve it.