You're using an OS that claims code quality and security as a result of massive code review (lots of eyes looking at the code.) Then you stick this binary-only 'black box' into the kernel, code nobody's seen except a few programmers of unknown ability from a company with most likely only a mediocre interest in Linux support. Yeah, I'd call that tainted code.
Not to mention the pain you'll go through if XFree gets updated but your binary-only driver doesn't. If you don't consider it tainted in the first case, you will when you get hit by the second.
it doesn't matter here at slashdot... MS can't do a thing without getting bashed.
That's because we've been payting attention. Microsoft plays hardball, and they do so better than anybody else. Or hand't you heard?
This is a pure PR move which just helps further extend the ubiquity of their software. If they really wanted to help non profits they could fork over a tiny fraction of their billions of real dollars and let the organizations themselves decide what to do with the money.
Yeah, this was sort of a revalation to me recently. I just got a new machine at work. Of course it came with Windows (XP Pro) installed on it so I played with it for a few days before blowing it away and putting RedHat 9 on it. I was sort of hesitant to do so because windows in XP seemed to pop up fast and the whole system seemed very responsive (not that I was doing anything heavy duty.) Another plus is that font rendering is actually better than Windows, and about equal with Macs. That's really nice.
Anyway, now that I've got RH installed (w/XFree 4.3.x) I am very happy to say that X seems just as responsive as Windows, even when I am doing something heavy duty, and I'm using KDE as well. This was the first time in about five years I've used any kind of Windows, it was a nice validation of X as far as I am concerned.
XFree, at least without propriatary drivers, might not be great for games, but it makes my development life a lot more joyful than other non-networked windowing environments would, and that includes the kludgy windows terminal services crapola.
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You obviously haven't seen TiVo. It's constantly recording the current channel, you can rewind even without explicitly pressing record. These would apparently work the same.
Having to add a bios upgrade is going to really hurt the chances that the average person will go to the trouble to install something non-MS on his computer. And it'll eliminate the change that a corporation will do it. No IT department is going to modify a desktop machine's BIOS to get it to run Linux, IT departments are very conservative.
Yeah, explain what you mean when you say C++ is more compact and easier to "write" than Java? As a long time user of both languages I can only imagine that you haven't done anything significant in C++.
"Java is very powerful on the server-side" Flaimbait
Another shining example of the expert/. moderation we've all come to love. And when I say expert and love I am of course using those words in the negative sense.
Java is a huge server-side force because it is so powerful. Many very high end sites run on Java. JBoss is constantly in the top 10 downloads from sourceforge, and that's not likely because it "sucks ass."
Absolutely, RCN is so much better than anything else I've tried. I routinely get 3Mbps download, in fact I often get over 4M download speeds, 800K upload for $40/month. Needless to say I'm a very happy customer, that's the best deal on the planet.
I lost 40 lbs on the Atkins diet in 5 months. Eat as much as you like like, no calorie watching, just no carbs. Eat as much chicken, steak, ham, cheese as you like. Bascially give up potatos, rice, sugar, and beer. Not very hard at at all and it feels nice to be thin again.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. How could the fastest commercial airplane be an anachronism?
Here's a story problem. Two jets take off in Paris headed for New York. One of them is a Concorde and the other is a 747. The Concorde arrives two hours before the 747, how many times can you cay "anachronisim" before the 747 lands?
Context. The term metaphysics is obviously an overloaded word. Originally used in 350 B.C. by Aristotle it meant, "after Physics", as in the book I wrote after I wrote my book called 'Physics'. Now it's mostly used to refer to religious (occultism and mysticism are just religions you don't beleive in) or philosophical ideas. As others have pointed out here, metaphysics as used in articles like this one is typically a misnomer, used by someone who doesn't understand physics or science too well.
Yes RH 7 was not great, but past performance is no guarantee of furture results. 7.1 was good and and 7.2 even better. I like 8.0 a lot, I especially like the "Blue Curve" theme (which you can easily change if you want to) and the nice anti-aliased fonts, which look MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS and as good as OSX, when using Mozilla compiled for xft. It makes a huge difference to me that RH has bothered to do the work to have this stuff working without forcing me to spend my time doing it. I can do it, I have in the past. I don't want to do it though. I have real work to do. (OK, I do do it on my OpenBSD and debian machines, but those are my home machines wich I play with for fun.)
I don't get the reason for 9 either, but why the hostility? How does this damage or threaten you?
No, I can forgive movies for straying from their books. But I thought the Sci-Fi movie was terrible in every way except for the cinamatography. If the book never existed it would be an even worse movie because there'd be no explaining the plot at all.
The acting was horrible and so many events were un or under explained. I TiVo'd the first half of the show and watched it, not knowing that it was in two parts, while the second part was airing. When I discovered the fact, I was releived that I wouldn't have to watch the second part.
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Flexible work hours and an open plolicy regarding internet and telephone use is a very good policy, but the absence of this type of policy is a symptom of a deeper problem within corporate "culture," by that I mean the treatment of employees like any other "just-in-time" business resource.
Many companies today layoff and re-hire (euphamistically called "contract hire") employees as they're needed. Contract prices today are generally no where near where they were a few years ago because of the surplus number of contract workers and the new rage to outsource work to drastically cheaper overseas labor pools. Corporations spent the 80's and 90's trying to convince people that it really was in their best interest to function as resource units, even suggesting that it put the individual worker in the driver's seat, but in realitiy of course it was always in the corporations best interest. An excellent book on this subject is Thomas Frank's One Market Under God which chronicles the enormous PR and marketing resources expended by big companines to cultivate thier self-serving pseudo-populist image. Great insight also into the backgroud behind all those MCI and IBM commercials featuring throngs of third world looking people and the proverbial work-at-home CEO mom. Does Microsoft really stand in awe of us? I don't think so.
Few people are doing well contracting today. Employers need to realize that paying employees well and not treating them like children, indentured servants or worse as a simple "resource" like computers or other equipment but instead like fellow human beings, is the best way to make everybody happy and productive.
Good lord, Children of Dune was one of the worst movies I've ever seen*. I hope that's not what you're referring to. The money behind that movie would have been better spent painting squirrels.
*I have not been able to bring myself to see the most recent two or three Star Wars feature length merchandise promotions.
They can take the test 100 times a week till they pass
Only if they have a supercomputer. The last time I ran them they took three days, but my machine is slow. Even on a fast machine they'd take a day.
Passing the tests is very difficult and no doubt there will lots of areas where they'll have problems, but yeah, they'll eventually pass and that'll be one fewer reason not to use JBoss. yay.
I don't care about colors, I want text! The perfect device would be The Info Globe if it could be controlled by acomputer. Sadly, it can't. I don't know what the people's problem is, they really missed the boat.
I wouldn't say our best moments are in our present. Our present seems a little dismal to me right about now. We, the country with the biggest guns in the world, are about to invade a very small and weak country. And we consider ourselves brave for doing so.
If we had more of a past we might have a clearer perspective of our future, and present. Right now we're just a bunch of hillbillies with the biggest gun at the hoedown.
OK, how's this for a reason: we have no sense of history here in the US. Try this, go around the US asking people about history then go around europe and asia and do the same. You'll see what I mean. I speak from experience.
So why be obsessed about superficial attributes such as beauty, strength and intelligence, when love is what we seek?
The answer may be because we're genetically programmed to be that way. At least according to Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) and Nancy Etcoff Survival of the Prettiest. Perhaps our first attempt at genetic modification should be to get rid of the beauty-appreciation gene. On second thought, maybe not.
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You're using an OS that claims code quality and security as a result of massive code review (lots of eyes looking at the code.) Then you stick this binary-only 'black box' into the kernel, code nobody's seen except a few programmers of unknown ability from a company with most likely only a mediocre interest in Linux support. Yeah, I'd call that tainted code.
Not to mention the pain you'll go through if XFree gets updated but your binary-only driver doesn't. If you don't consider it tainted in the first case, you will when you get hit by the second.
What they meant was that, as a cost cutting measure, they weren't going to be stocking the employee washroom with toilet paper anymore.
it doesn't matter here at slashdot... MS can't do a thing without getting bashed.
That's because we've been payting attention. Microsoft plays hardball, and they do so better than anybody else. Or hand't you heard?
This is a pure PR move which just helps further extend the ubiquity of their software. If they really wanted to help non profits they could fork over a tiny fraction of their billions of real dollars and let the organizations themselves decide what to do with the money.
Yeah, this was sort of a revalation to me recently. I just got a new machine at work. Of course it came with Windows (XP Pro) installed on it so I played with it for a few days before blowing it away and putting RedHat 9 on it. I was sort of hesitant to do so because windows in XP seemed to pop up fast and the whole system seemed very responsive (not that I was doing anything heavy duty.) Another plus is that font rendering is actually better than Windows, and about equal with Macs. That's really nice.
Anyway, now that I've got RH installed (w/XFree 4.3.x) I am very happy to say that X seems just as responsive as Windows, even when I am doing something heavy duty, and I'm using KDE as well. This was the first time in about five years I've used any kind of Windows, it was a nice validation of X as far as I am concerned.
XFree, at least without propriatary drivers, might not be great for games, but it makes my development life a lot more joyful than other non-networked windowing environments would, and that includes the kludgy windows terminal services crapola.
You obviously haven't seen TiVo. It's constantly recording the current channel, you can rewind even without explicitly pressing record. These would apparently work the same.
Having to add a bios upgrade is going to really hurt the chances that the average person will go to the trouble to install something non-MS on his computer. And it'll eliminate the change that a corporation will do it. No IT department is going to modify a desktop machine's BIOS to get it to run Linux, IT departments are very conservative.
Yeah, explain what you mean when you say C++ is more compact and easier to "write" than Java? As a long time user of both languages I can only imagine that you haven't done anything significant in C++.
"Java sucks ass", Insightful gush /. moderators
/. moderation we've all come to love. And when I say expert and love I am of course using those words in the negative sense.
"Java is very powerful on the server-side" Flaimbait
Another shining example of the expert
Java is a huge server-side force because it is so powerful. Many very high end sites run on Java. JBoss is constantly in the top 10 downloads from sourceforge, and that's not likely because it "sucks ass."
Absolutely, RCN is so much better than anything else I've tried. I routinely get 3Mbps download, in fact I often get over 4M download speeds, 800K upload for $40/month. Needless to say I'm a very happy customer, that's the best deal on the planet.
I've been around 175 to 180 lbs. for the last three months.
I lost 40 lbs on the Atkins diet in 5 months. Eat as much as you like like, no calorie watching, just no carbs. Eat as much chicken, steak, ham, cheese as you like. Bascially give up potatos, rice, sugar, and beer. Not very hard at at all and it feels nice to be thin again.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. How could the fastest commercial airplane be an anachronism?
Here's a story problem. Two jets take off in Paris headed for New York. One of them is a Concorde and the other is a 747. The Concorde arrives two hours before the 747, how many times can you cay "anachronisim" before the 747 lands?
Beneift != profit, it's perfectly reasonable to argue that you benefited by being entertained or informed.
...view a Disney movie, not just when you buy it at WallMart.
If you're getting Disney movies at WallMart you might already be in hell.
Context. The term metaphysics is obviously an overloaded word. Originally used in 350 B.C. by Aristotle it meant, "after Physics", as in the book I wrote after I wrote my book called 'Physics'. Now it's mostly used to refer to religious (occultism and mysticism are just religions you don't beleive in) or philosophical ideas. As others have pointed out here, metaphysics as used in articles like this one is typically a misnomer, used by someone who doesn't understand physics or science too well.
Yes RH 7 was not great, but past performance is no guarantee of furture results. 7.1 was good and and 7.2 even better. I like 8.0 a lot, I especially like the "Blue Curve" theme (which you can easily change if you want to) and the nice anti-aliased fonts, which look MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS and as good as OSX, when using Mozilla compiled for xft. It makes a huge difference to me that RH has bothered to do the work to have this stuff working without forcing me to spend my time doing it. I can do it, I have in the past. I don't want to do it though. I have real work to do. (OK, I do do it on my OpenBSD and debian machines, but those are my home machines wich I play with for fun.)
I don't get the reason for 9 either, but why the hostility? How does this damage or threaten you?
I'd reply to this pendantic post but I'm late for my AA meeting, or should that be my An A meeting?
No, I can forgive movies for straying from their books. But I thought the Sci-Fi movie was terrible in every way except for the cinamatography. If the book never existed it would be an even worse movie because there'd be no explaining the plot at all.
The acting was horrible and so many events were un or under explained. I TiVo'd the first half of the show and watched it, not knowing that it was in two parts, while the second part was airing. When I discovered the fact, I was releived that I wouldn't have to watch the second part.
Flexible work hours and an open plolicy regarding internet and telephone use is a very good policy, but the absence of this type of policy is a symptom of a deeper problem within corporate "culture," by that I mean the treatment of employees like any other "just-in-time" business resource.
Many companies today layoff and re-hire (euphamistically called "contract hire") employees as they're needed. Contract prices today are generally no where near where they were a few years ago because of the surplus number of contract workers and the new rage to outsource work to drastically cheaper overseas labor pools. Corporations spent the 80's and 90's trying to convince people that it really was in their best interest to function as resource units, even suggesting that it put the individual worker in the driver's seat, but in realitiy of course it was always in the corporations best interest. An excellent book on this subject is Thomas Frank's One Market Under God which chronicles the enormous PR and marketing resources expended by big companines to cultivate thier self-serving pseudo-populist image. Great insight also into the backgroud behind all those MCI and IBM commercials featuring throngs of third world looking people and the proverbial work-at-home CEO mom. Does Microsoft really stand in awe of us? I don't think so.
Few people are doing well contracting today. Employers need to realize that paying employees well and not treating them like children, indentured servants or worse as a simple "resource" like computers or other equipment but instead like fellow human beings, is the best way to make everybody happy and productive.
Good lord, Children of Dune was one of the worst movies I've ever seen*. I hope that's not what you're referring to. The money behind that movie would have been better spent painting squirrels.
*I have not been able to bring myself to see the most recent two or three Star Wars feature length merchandise promotions.
They can take the test 100 times a week till they pass
Only if they have a supercomputer. The last time I ran them they took three days, but my machine is slow. Even on a fast machine they'd take a day.
Passing the tests is very difficult and no doubt there will lots of areas where they'll have problems, but yeah, they'll eventually pass and that'll be one fewer reason not to use JBoss. yay.
I don't care about colors, I want text! The perfect device would be The Info Globe if it could be controlled by acomputer. Sadly, it can't. I don't know what the people's problem is, they really missed the boat.
I wouldn't say our best moments are in our present. Our present seems a little dismal to me right about now. We, the country with the biggest guns in the world, are about to invade a very small and weak country. And we consider ourselves brave for doing so.
If we had more of a past we might have a clearer perspective of our future, and present. Right now we're just a bunch of hillbillies with the biggest gun at the hoedown.
OK, how's this for a reason: we have no sense of history here in the US. Try this, go around the US asking people about history then go around europe and asia and do the same. You'll see what I mean. I speak from experience.
So why be obsessed about superficial attributes such as beauty, strength and intelligence, when love is what we seek?
The answer may be because we're genetically programmed to be that way. At least according to Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) and Nancy Etcoff Survival of the Prettiest . Perhaps our first attempt at genetic modification should be to get rid of the beauty-appreciation gene. On second thought, maybe not.