If people want it in Linux, they can figure out the GPL issues that are so near and dear to their heart. A port to *BSD is already happening, and it's going to be in OS X, complete with (gasp!) a GUI frontend.
"Does this mean I think Sun don't deserve the award? I've not used that tool, so I'm not in a position to say. It would have to do a lot in addition to basic analysis to earn the right to be innovative, never mind the title of "top technical innovation". If it can, that's great and can Sun kindly port it to Linux."
First of all, it does. It's a new system tracing paradigm, and that's not a word I throw around lightly. Download OpenSolaris, install it, and then see what dtrace can do before you comment on it.
Secondly, you want it in Linux? Then why don't YOU port it? Why should Sun be bothered, when not only the design document but the actual source code is already available? Years ago, that was the rallying cry of Linux boosters: "Go write it yourself if you want it." Now I'm increasingly seeing the Linux camp DEMANDING that someone else do all of their work.
I attended a lecture by Bryan Cantrill just before OpenSolaris hit the public with dtrace, zones, zfs, and persistent self-healing services. Talking to him is pretty amazing--he can make developing traces on kernel hooks an interesting and dynamic lecture topic, and then can talk about football in the next breath. Then he'll regale you (yes, I said regale) with tales of the development groups outsmarting the marketing standards board within Sun. You reaalise very quickly that he's brilliant, focussed, passionate, coherent, and genuinely likeable. He also believes in what he's doing. We need more people like him in IT, and in fact in most of the business world.
Since others are just giving the runaround, let me be the one to spell it out. From the article...
"Jörg has a different opinion about this and has repeatedly stated that the CDDL is not incompatible, interpreting a facial expression in the above-mentioned video, calling us liars and generally appearing unwilling to consider our concerns (he never replied to the parts where we explained why it is incompatible). As he has basically ignored what we have said, we have no choice but to fork. While the CDDL *may* be a free license, we never questioned if it is free or not, as it is not our place to decide this as the Debian cdrtools maintainers. However, having been approved by OSI doesn't mean it's ok for any usage, as Jörg unfortunately seems to assume. There are several OSI-approved licenses that are GPL-incompatible and CDDL is one of them. That is and always was our point."
The bit in bold is inappropriate and unnecessary, even if true. There's no need to put it in what amounts to a press release. In fact, this whole paragraph is unnecessarily antagonistic. They could (and should) have merely said that Jörg's interpretation of the GPL was inconsistent with theirs, and the presence of CDDL-licensed software was incompatable with the Debian license model.
Again, even if these statements are true, there's no need for them to be in a fork statement. It's just unprofessional, and bordering on juvenile.
Business sense only applies to companies that have to compete. Once you have a monopoly, you can do all sorts of things that should drive consumers away, but can't because they have nowhere else to go.
Shitty behaviour does NOT drive away business, if there's no meaningful competition. If no one else offers the same level of support and comparable market penetration to paypal, then they can be as offensive and dirty as they want without losing any business.
That's why anti-trust laws don't prevent monopolies, but restrict their behaviour.
Yep. A hundred and thirty thousand dollars per hour, 14 hours per day. That's a major player in the oil and gas commodities trading industry. That's why...
Servers are clustered. Spare desktops are available. Floor switches are redundant (and on separate power feeds). Internet service is redundant (through two major carriers). People have backups who know their job. All service contracts have specific performance requirements.
If Comcast isn't meeting their stated performance, then they'd better FIX IT NOW! It's their job, after all. Mind you, if they haven't guaranteed anything to you, then they don't have to worry about any more penalty than losing you as a customer.
Get the SLA it in writing, hold them to it, and if they fail, legal action may be neccessary as a last resort.
I seem to recall McNealy talking about this before he stepped down. I don't know of anyone who expected the IIIi to get anything more than maybe a speed bump, and even that was questionable. This is utterly not news.
Oh but wait--it's The Register. Any product that gets cancelled is worth talking about, if you can spin it as a death knell for the company du jour.
"As a technology company, we've been losing our technical edge in the last two years. Whatever shall we do?" "I know--let's fire people until we're profitable again!!!"
Look at who they're firing--the marketers. From the article, "Intel studies comparing its own staffing levels to competitors' concluded that the ratio of marketing personnel to salespeople was too large, the sources said."
I'm not saying that eliminating marketing people isn't the right thing to do, but what an assinine metric--the ratio of marketing to sales. At a certain size, do all companies forget that creating better products is often a good way of making sales?
If unrestricted internet access from work is so important for you that you'll refuse a job, then you're most likely one of the people who shouldn't be allowed that unrestricted access.
Did some looking. Bioshock, which looked like a fairly cool and immersive FPS, is apparently the spiritual successor to SS2. Now I'm all a-quiver! Time to upgrade the P3-1GHz, finally.
Although I'm an IT professional, I'm speaking as an end user here.
Last night my laptop (our company's corporate build, no additions or weird stuff) auto-applied a bunch of patches. When I came in this morning, it told me to reboot. No problem. Reboot to...bluescreen. Did some digging, and found that my install is hosed. I can't do anything until I get an XP boot CD and get to a rescue console. I have no clue if it's SP1 or SP2, and quite honestly, I shouldn't have to. If I had this sort of difficulty with a car, a furnace, or a kitchen appliance, it would go RIGHT BACK TO THE MANUFACTURER! There is no way a company
This isn't a rant against MS per se, it's against all shitty computer companies (hardware and software) who build shitty products that can't do the job they're designed for in a reliable and consistent manner. The entire computer industry needs to be taken out back and shot.
Yeah, I'm railing and blowing off steam here. Doesn't matter--I challenge you to come up with a single product in the industry that (a) does what it's supposed to, in a (b) reliable and (c) consistent manner.
Linux? Nope. Firefox? Close, but nope. MS Office? Nope. OpenOffice? Nope. Any and all media players? Nope. Most hardware now? Nope.
This industry is pathetic. It shouldn't be allowed to exist, let alone thrive.
First of all, you seem to be trying hard to take offense where it wasn't intended. Did you notice the little tick-thingies before and after the statement? Those are called quotation marks, and mean that the statement was a quote. In this case, it was Foghorn Leghorn, complaining to his young charge that his practicality made him overlook the whole philosophy of the subject. This, I claim, is what you've done. Sure, PCs are cheap, replaceable garbage. However, that doesn't change the fact that many of us have had to do certain bits of magic on computers (or other equipment) to keep it alive while waiting for parts, or because parts aren't available for old minicomputers and the like.
As for the age comment, I hope I'm older than you. It saddens me to think of someone approaching middle-aged and still as uncreative as you appear.
Normally I would agree with you. In this case, however, I'm on the other side of the fence.
This is very clearly and very definitely an added safety feature for emergencies only. This device is a one-shot brake which needs replacing afterwards (by a registered dealer only), and will also destroy the blade as a side effect. The net result is that if it fires, you're out half a grand in cash, and probably two weeks without a saw.
Rather tellingly, I have a friend whose father taught junior-high shop for some decades, before retiring to full-time woodworking. After years of junior-high antics, he has no patience with stupidity, nor with people blaming others for their problems. However, he honestly thinks this is the first useful innovation in power tools since the advent of useful cordless tools.
Lots of showers throughout the year, although the Perseids is generally the best. The Leonids, Geminids, and Orionids are the next biggest showers. You can find out here:
AMANDA could easily be the buggiest OSS program in existence, and it would still be OK. The reason? It just has to be less buggy than Netbackup, and more usable than Legato. Luckily for the AMANDA developers, this are very very difficult criteria to miss.
I am really getting sick of 'psychological addiction' and the industry of treatment that has sprung up around it.
Addiction is a physiological reaction to certain substances. There are clear and properly defined symptoms of addiction. So-called psychological addiction is the fuzzy opinion of some individual who decides that a person needs to be treated as an addiction patient, rather than a mental health patient.
I could live with the misuse of the term addiction, except that people who are being treated as addicts for their psychological dependency on games, sex, email, or socks are not getting the proper help; and also are being encouraged to develop symptoms of physiological addiction that aren't symptoms of psychological dependency.
Withdrawl is a horrible thing--the body goes through hell while it tries to compensate for the loss of a drug to which it had become accustomed. Removal of a psychological dependency can easily lead to depression, but it isn't the same as withdrawl. Nonetheless, there are cases where people are encouraged that typical withdrawl symptoms are normal for someone who has had their game du jour taken away. Utter bullshit, and most importantly, HARMFUL bullshit.
"Game addiction" may not be a good thing, but it ain't addiction.
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Sure like whining, don't you?
If people want it in Linux, they can figure out the GPL issues that are so near and dear to their heart. A port to *BSD is already happening, and it's going to be in OS X, complete with (gasp!) a GUI frontend.
"Does this mean I think Sun don't deserve the award? I've not used that tool, so I'm not in a position to say. It would have to do a lot in addition to basic analysis to earn the right to be innovative, never mind the title of "top technical innovation". If it can, that's great and can Sun kindly port it to Linux."
First of all, it does. It's a new system tracing paradigm, and that's not a word I throw around lightly. Download OpenSolaris, install it, and then see what dtrace can do before you comment on it.
Secondly, you want it in Linux? Then why don't YOU port it? Why should Sun be bothered, when not only the design document but the actual source code is already available? Years ago, that was the rallying cry of Linux boosters: "Go write it yourself if you want it." Now I'm increasingly seeing the Linux camp DEMANDING that someone else do all of their work.
Interesting stuff.
I attended a lecture by Bryan Cantrill just before OpenSolaris hit the public with dtrace, zones, zfs, and persistent self-healing services. Talking to him is pretty amazing--he can make developing traces on kernel hooks an interesting and dynamic lecture topic, and then can talk about football in the next breath. Then he'll regale you (yes, I said regale) with tales of the development groups outsmarting the marketing standards board within Sun. You reaalise very quickly that he's brilliant, focussed, passionate, coherent, and genuinely likeable. He also believes in what he's doing. We need more people like him in IT, and in fact in most of the business world.
Since others are just giving the runaround, let me be the one to spell it out. From the article...
"Jörg has a different opinion about this and has repeatedly
stated that the CDDL is not incompatible, interpreting a facial
expression in the above-mentioned video, calling us liars and generally
appearing unwilling to consider our concerns (he never replied to the
parts where we explained why it is incompatible). As he has basically
ignored what we have said, we have no choice but to fork. While the CDDL
*may* be a free license, we never questioned if it is free or not, as it
is not our place to decide this as the Debian cdrtools
maintainers. However, having been approved by OSI doesn't mean it's ok
for any usage, as Jörg unfortunately seems to assume. There are several
OSI-approved licenses that are GPL-incompatible and CDDL is one of
them. That is and always was our point."
The bit in bold is inappropriate and unnecessary, even if true. There's no need to put it in what amounts to a press release.
In fact, this whole paragraph is unnecessarily antagonistic. They could (and should) have merely said that Jörg's interpretation of the GPL was inconsistent with theirs, and the presence of CDDL-licensed software was incompatable with the Debian license model.
Again, even if these statements are true, there's no need for them to be in a fork statement. It's just unprofessional, and bordering on juvenile.
Business sense only applies to companies that have to compete. Once you have a monopoly, you can do all sorts of things that should drive consumers away, but can't because they have nowhere else to go.
This is the problems with a monopoly.
Shitty behaviour does NOT drive away business, if there's no meaningful competition. If no one else offers the same level of support and comparable market penetration to paypal, then they can be as offensive and dirty as they want without losing any business.
That's why anti-trust laws don't prevent monopolies, but restrict their behaviour.
Yep. A hundred and thirty thousand dollars per hour, 14 hours per day. That's a major player in the oil and gas commodities trading industry. That's why...
Servers are clustered.
Spare desktops are available.
Floor switches are redundant (and on separate power feeds).
Internet service is redundant (through two major carriers).
People have backups who know their job.
All service contracts have specific performance requirements.
If Comcast isn't meeting their stated performance, then they'd better FIX IT NOW! It's their job, after all. Mind you, if they haven't guaranteed anything to you, then they don't have to worry about any more penalty than losing you as a customer.
Get the SLA it in writing, hold them to it, and if they fail, legal action may be neccessary as a last resort.
I seem to recall McNealy talking about this before he stepped down. I don't know of anyone who expected the IIIi to get anything more than maybe a speed bump, and even that was questionable. This is utterly not news.
Oh but wait--it's The Register. Any product that gets cancelled is worth talking about, if you can spin it as a death knell for the company du jour.
"As a technology company, we've been losing our technical edge in the last two years. Whatever shall we do?"
"I know--let's fire people until we're profitable again!!!"
Look at who they're firing--the marketers. From the article, "Intel studies comparing its own staffing levels to competitors' concluded that the ratio of marketing personnel to salespeople was too large, the sources said."
I'm not saying that eliminating marketing people isn't the right thing to do, but what an assinine metric--the ratio of marketing to sales. At a certain size, do all companies forget that creating better products is often a good way of making sales?
Honestly, all of these answers and not a single person has asked this question yet? /. may have hit a new low tonight.
The proper answer is, 'it depends.' This is one of the things it depends on.
If unrestricted internet access from work is so important for you that you'll refuse a job, then you're most likely one of the people who shouldn't be allowed that unrestricted access.
Mind you, he used a big screw driven into the head of a boy, instead of breeding for traits.
(In case you're wondering...)
"Fungwha?"
Exactly my response to that comment.
Did some looking. Bioshock, which looked like a fairly cool and immersive FPS, is apparently the spiritual successor to SS2.
Now I'm all a-quiver! Time to upgrade the P3-1GHz, finally.
This is pretty typical from what I've seen.
Although I'm an IT professional, I'm speaking as an end user here.
Last night my laptop (our company's corporate build, no additions or weird stuff) auto-applied a bunch of patches. When I came in this morning, it told me to reboot. No problem. Reboot to...bluescreen. Did some digging, and found that my install is hosed. I can't do anything until I get an XP boot CD and get to a rescue console. I have no clue if it's SP1 or SP2, and quite honestly, I shouldn't have to. If I had this sort of difficulty with a car, a furnace, or a kitchen appliance, it would go RIGHT BACK TO THE MANUFACTURER! There is no way a company
This isn't a rant against MS per se, it's against all shitty computer companies (hardware and software) who build shitty products that can't do the job they're designed for in a reliable and consistent manner. The entire computer industry needs to be taken out back and shot.
Yeah, I'm railing and blowing off steam here. Doesn't matter--I challenge you to come up with a single product in the industry that (a) does what it's supposed to, in a (b) reliable and (c) consistent manner.
Linux? Nope. Firefox? Close, but nope. MS Office? Nope. OpenOffice? Nope. Any and all media players? Nope. Most hardware now? Nope.
This industry is pathetic. It shouldn't be allowed to exist, let alone thrive.
First of all, you seem to be trying hard to take offense where it wasn't intended. Did you notice the little tick-thingies before and after the statement? Those are called quotation marks, and mean that the statement was a quote. In this case, it was Foghorn Leghorn, complaining to his young charge that his practicality made him overlook the whole philosophy of the subject. This, I claim, is what you've done. Sure, PCs are cheap, replaceable garbage. However, that doesn't change the fact that many of us have had to do certain bits of magic on computers (or other equipment) to keep it alive while waiting for parts, or because parts aren't available for old minicomputers and the like.
As for the age comment, I hope I'm older than you. It saddens me to think of someone approaching middle-aged and still as uncreative as you appear.
"Ya just don't get it, do ya son?"
Honestly. Big Fucking Deal.
Life is insecure. You build your own level of insecurity, and deal with it.
Normally I would agree with you. In this case, however, I'm on the other side of the fence.
This is very clearly and very definitely an added safety feature for emergencies only. This device is a one-shot brake which needs replacing afterwards (by a registered dealer only), and will also destroy the blade as a side effect. The net result is that if it fires, you're out half a grand in cash, and probably two weeks without a saw.
Rather tellingly, I have a friend whose father taught junior-high shop for some decades, before retiring to full-time woodworking. After years of junior-high antics, he has no patience with stupidity, nor with people blaming others for their problems. However, he honestly thinks this is the first useful innovation in power tools since the advent of useful cordless tools.
Fascinating!!!
Totally wrong, but still a fascinating delusion.
Lots of showers throughout the year, although the Perseids is generally the best.
The Leonids, Geminids, and Orionids are the next biggest showers. You can find out here:
Meteor Shower article.
Not yet, but you are if you let anyone else listen to it, or see your transcriptions.
AMANDA could easily be the buggiest OSS program in existence, and it would still be OK. The reason? It just has to be less buggy than Netbackup, and more usable than Legato. Luckily for the AMANDA developers, this are very very difficult criteria to miss.
Your logic is right, but I'm really curious about your numbers. I would have expected much less than 1%, and maybe a dime per view/click.
Are your numbers approximately accurate, or are you just inventing them for the sake of the point?
Not smaller, just much more agile. And let me tell you, agility counts!
I am really getting sick of 'psychological addiction' and the industry of treatment that has sprung up around it.
Addiction is a physiological reaction to certain substances. There are clear and properly defined symptoms of addiction. So-called psychological addiction is the fuzzy opinion of some individual who decides that a person needs to be treated as an addiction patient, rather than a mental health patient.
I could live with the misuse of the term addiction, except that people who are being treated as addicts for their psychological dependency on games, sex, email, or socks are not getting the proper help; and also are being encouraged to develop symptoms of physiological addiction that aren't symptoms of psychological dependency.
Withdrawl is a horrible thing--the body goes through hell while it tries to compensate for the loss of a drug to which it had become accustomed. Removal of a psychological dependency can easily lead to depression, but it isn't the same as withdrawl. Nonetheless, there are cases where people are encouraged that typical withdrawl symptoms are normal for someone who has had their game du jour taken away. Utter bullshit, and most importantly, HARMFUL bullshit.
"Game addiction" may not be a good thing, but it ain't addiction.