match the media buzz that surrounded FF 1.0 release
Media buzz? I must have missed it, however I did catch the TV commercials for Netscape. No offense, but you must have a pretty sheltered view of the world if you think Firefox has anything like the brand recognition of Netscape.
The ultimate moral question with this issue is "Why should the hard-working single mother of two who can barely pay her bills let alone afford a computer have to pay MORE taxes to support "free" Wi-Fi for a bunch of geeks who make three times more than she does and who ALREADY have Internet access anyway?"
That question has already been answered. It's called "common good." If free wireless lures more well paid geeks into a city and those geeks pay more in taxes, it is a case of the single mother supporting the common good. In fact, if enough wealthy people are lured into the area it's possible that your single mother will end up paying less in taxes (not likely, but possible in theory). Just like old childless people paying for school, or employed people funding welfare for the unemployed; if your tax money only benefits you there wouldn't be much point in paying taxes in the first place.
I'm not sure if free wireless is a common good, but if it is decided to be one by a community that community has the right to support it with tax income.
but still possibly smart enough to point the camera at herself
I think we know she's that smart.
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The point is to take a business class to get an intro to business concepts, so that you might better understand where a manager is coming from.
I'm rather skeptical. From my experience even pure business types can't communicate across industry lines. Retail-Banking-Manufacturing, the commonalities are so simple as to not require a class.
Red Hat? You can't be serious.I've never seen such incompetent support staff. We discovered that their support was worth absolutely nothing, so dropped it. There was an occasion when calling the number went straight to voice mail, which complained of a full mailbox and hung up; it took several days to get a person.
That argument still applies to this case since you don't own the entire network. Regardless of ownership though, this is a case about electronic wiretapping being illegal.
But Grincewicz concluded that "because the spyware installed by the wife intercepted the electronic communication contemporaneously with transmission, copied it and routed the copy to a file in the computer's hard drive, the electronic communications were intercepted in violation of the Florida Act."
It sounds like even if it had been a complete stranger using the woman's computer, it would have been illegal to record the conversation.
It's a very good thing she left. She was one of the very few powerful female CEOs, and she was doing a horrible job of it. I've heard numerous people cite Fiorina as proof that women should not be CEOs.
Of course it's hard to make these sorts of comparisons across a wide range of enterprise workloads, because Sun is too embarrassed to submit scores to e.g. TPC-C, the most important enterprise benchmark there is.
Sorry, but your taste in benchmarks isn't worth much to anyone but you. Maybe some people value TPC-H and price, in which case Sun is very well represented; it's takes more than arrogance to be right.
Obviously a 15k isn't pathetically underpowered by any objective standard; only in comparison to other machines in its class and price range.
I don't know of many machines in the 15k's class. The big Itanium and Power5 machines I've seen have all been one-off machines or clusters. I'm not going to argue about the merits of large single machine vs cluster, but they are clearly not the same thing.
(Lock-in and familiarity with Solaris are the only reasons anyone continues to buy their pathetically underpowered hardware.)
Well, when you grow up and become a CIO your company can buy whatever you think best. In the meantime, maybe you can tell me what you have that makes a Sun Fire 15k look pathetically underpowered?
This is simply not true. Years ago when we upgraded HPUX the way memory pages were locked was changed.
It doesn't sound like you found a bug. It sounds like you should have done more research prior to upgrading your OS. Is it a bug that Windows 2003 no longer allows writing to random spots in memory like DOS did?
I found a bug in HP-UX 11.0 support of NFS AUTH_NULL mounts at around 3:00p, and had a brand new patch emailed to me by the next morning. That's something that hasn't happened in the OSS world.
I think we (at SlashDot) should enhance our image infront of the world.
I don't think it's the image that is the problem. Slashdot really is predominantly a load of crap packed with idiots who think they're God's gift to computers. There is occasionally a link to some other side which is actually interesting, but it's getting more and more rare.
So are you claiming responsibility for every mugging that has ever occurred? I can't think of any other way you could make such a bold unverifiable assertion.
Besides, that's not necessarily what the previous poster was implying. I wouldn't be suprised if there's a correlation between people with high-end credit cards and people with expensive watches and large sums of cash.
In general, SysAdmins are not Software Engineers. They are code-monkeys.
Dumb fuck. SysAdmins are System Administrators. Got it? It's not a position that deals with development.
For that matter, developers are not "Software Engineers" they are code monkeys. Companies don't want, and can't afford, real engineering of their software.
Keep in mind that when you lie, your brain will be more active, weighing the impact the deception might/would have regarding other memories and any possible future situations involved with those memories.
All that can be true when you tell the truth too. For instance, imagine your wife asking "Are you cheating on me?"
You're starting with the assumption that the truth can't hurt, and that assumption seems quite obviously false.
Like, for example, in my religion, interest based financial transactions are not allowed. The only people who say its ok are bankers!
I've never been clear on a few points about that. Are stock dividends also forbidden? What is the principle involved? In practice there's a huge difference but it seems in theory, that there isn't much of a difference between a loan shark and any sort of investment.
You're right: PHP doesn't natively support database abstraction. Every database you want to support has it's own set of functions and must be specifically compiled in. There is a PEAR class that provides an abstraction layer though...
The problem with this view: there's nothing to distinguish your "not voting to show disillusionment with the system" with someone else's "not voting because of laziness and apathy".
The problem with voting is there's no way to distinguish between voting for Kerry and voting against Bush (or the otherway around). I hate Bush and I hate Kerry, so who do I say I want in charge? Voting for who I hate least isn't a solution: a vote for Kerry could mean anything from "Kerry is not quite as stupid as a rock" to "Kerry is the Messiah." If I want "my voice heard," I want it heard saying what I intend.
I think your entire point is 'silly', if you want to use DK to check the header FROM in your MUA then be my guest but don't go making statements about things you clearly don't understand.
I think the old fall back excuse for a weak argument is getting over used. I disagree with you, but that doesn't mean either of us doesn't understand the problem.
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match the media buzz that surrounded FF 1.0 release
Media buzz? I must have missed it, however I did catch the TV commercials for Netscape. No offense, but you must have a pretty sheltered view of the world if you think Firefox has anything like the brand recognition of Netscape.
The ultimate moral question with this issue is "Why should the hard-working single mother of two who can barely pay her bills let alone afford a computer have to pay MORE taxes to support "free" Wi-Fi for a bunch of geeks who make three times more than she does and who ALREADY have Internet access anyway?"
That question has already been answered. It's called "common good." If free wireless lures more well paid geeks into a city and those geeks pay more in taxes, it is a case of the single mother supporting the common good. In fact, if enough wealthy people are lured into the area it's possible that your single mother will end up paying less in taxes (not likely, but possible in theory). Just like old childless people paying for school, or employed people funding welfare for the unemployed; if your tax money only benefits you there wouldn't be much point in paying taxes in the first place.
I'm not sure if free wireless is a common good, but if it is decided to be one by a community that community has the right to support it with tax income.
but still possibly smart enough to point the camera at herself
I think we know she's that smart.
The point is to take a business class to get an intro to business concepts, so that you might better understand where a manager is coming from.
I'm rather skeptical. From my experience even pure business types can't communicate across industry lines. Retail-Banking-Manufacturing, the commonalities are so simple as to not require a class.
Red Hat? You can't be serious.I've never seen such incompetent support staff. We discovered that their support was worth absolutely nothing, so dropped it.
There was an occasion when calling the number went straight to voice mail, which complained of a full mailbox and hung up; it took several days to get a person.
Oh, just admit your daddy won't let you visit this site if he sees all the cursing...
That argument still applies to this case since you don't own the entire network. Regardless of ownership though, this is a case about electronic wiretapping being illegal.
No, to quote the article:
But Grincewicz concluded that "because the spyware installed by the wife intercepted the electronic communication contemporaneously with transmission, copied it and routed the copy to a file in the computer's hard drive, the electronic communications were intercepted in violation of the Florida Act."
It sounds like even if it had been a complete stranger using the woman's computer, it would have been illegal to record the conversation.
It's a very good thing she left. She was one of the very few powerful female CEOs, and she was doing a horrible job of it. I've heard numerous people cite Fiorina as proof that women should not be CEOs.
Of course it's hard to make these sorts of comparisons across a wide range of enterprise workloads, because Sun is too embarrassed to submit scores to e.g. TPC-C, the most important enterprise benchmark there is.
Sorry, but your taste in benchmarks isn't worth much to anyone but you. Maybe some people value TPC-H and price, in which case Sun is very well represented; it's takes more than arrogance to be right.
Obviously a 15k isn't pathetically underpowered by any objective standard; only in comparison to other machines in its class and price range.
I don't know of many machines in the 15k's class. The big Itanium and Power5 machines I've seen have all been one-off machines or clusters. I'm not going to argue about the merits of large single machine vs cluster, but they are clearly not the same thing.
(Lock-in and familiarity with Solaris are the only reasons anyone continues to buy their pathetically underpowered hardware.)
Well, when you grow up and become a CIO your company can buy whatever you think best. In the meantime, maybe you can tell me what you have that makes a Sun Fire 15k look pathetically underpowered?
This is simply not true. Years ago when we upgraded HPUX the way memory pages were locked was changed.
It doesn't sound like you found a bug. It sounds like you should have done more research prior to upgrading your OS. Is it a bug that Windows 2003 no longer allows writing to random spots in memory like DOS did?
I found a bug in HP-UX 11.0 support of NFS AUTH_NULL mounts at around 3:00p, and had a brand new patch emailed to me by the next morning. That's something that hasn't happened in the OSS world.
I think we (at SlashDot) should enhance our image infront of the world.
I don't think it's the image that is the problem. Slashdot really is predominantly a load of crap packed with idiots who think they're God's gift to computers. There is occasionally a link to some other side which is actually interesting, but it's getting more and more rare.
No-one has ever been mugged for credit cards.
So are you claiming responsibility for every mugging that has ever occurred? I can't think of any other way you could make such a bold unverifiable assertion.
Besides, that's not necessarily what the previous poster was implying. I wouldn't be suprised if there's a correlation between people with high-end credit cards and people with expensive watches and large sums of cash.
Dumb fuck. SysAdmins are System Administrators. Got it? It's not a position that deals with development.
For that matter, developers are not "Software Engineers" they are code monkeys. Companies don't want, and can't afford, real engineering of their software.
Sure, but a pretty big chunk of the internet is in the US. In fact the site you're reading right now is in the US.
All that can be true when you tell the truth too. For instance, imagine your wife asking "Are you cheating on me?"
You're starting with the assumption that the truth can't hurt, and that assumption seems quite obviously false.
Like, for example, in my religion, interest based financial transactions are not allowed. The only people who say its ok are bankers!
I've never been clear on a few points about that. Are stock dividends also forbidden? What is the principle involved? In practice there's a huge difference but it seems in theory, that there isn't much of a difference between a loan shark and any sort of investment.
All the "generic viagra" spam proves that this is already done on a large scale.
Unfortunately a lot of the "generic viagra" is actually diluted Viagra(tm).
You're right: PHP doesn't natively support database abstraction. Every database you want to support has it's own set of functions and must be specifically compiled in. There is a PEAR class that provides an abstraction layer though...
I would ask how many of you (or someone you know) has wound up on one of the RBL lists?
I have. It had nothing to do with me, the RBL (can't remember which) just screwed up. It took about a week to recover.
It's the simplest, cheapest way to reduce spam, yet....?
Yet, email is vital to the daily operations of the company. I can't hand control over to some group that is completely unaccountable.
In the case of Solaris though, you can think of it as a Linux desktop that's very very hard to use, and a hell of a lot slower.
You can think of Solaris as anything you want, but wouldn't it be better to have some factual basis?
Lest you be faced with the inevitable question pondered by all who preceded you: Why am I doing this again?
Obviously something Linux users never question.
The problem with this view: there's nothing to distinguish your "not voting to show disillusionment with the system" with someone else's "not voting because of laziness and apathy".
The problem with voting is there's no way to distinguish between voting for Kerry and voting against Bush (or the otherway around). I hate Bush and I hate Kerry, so who do I say I want in charge?
Voting for who I hate least isn't a solution: a vote for Kerry could mean anything from "Kerry is not quite as stupid as a rock" to "Kerry is the Messiah." If I want "my voice heard," I want it heard saying what I intend.
I think your entire point is 'silly', if you want to use DK to check the header FROM in your MUA then be my guest but don't go making statements about things you clearly don't understand.
I think the old fall back excuse for a weak argument is getting over used. I disagree with you, but that doesn't mean either of us doesn't understand the problem.