In one week the entire DOJ is going to be filled with compassionate conservative lawyers and department heads. (Compassionate to big business, Conservative to the poor working class).
The outcome of the anti-trust trial against Microsoft really depends on the new Attorney General, and, of course Bush's agenda.
Maybe someone should find out what the NRA would like to see happen to Microsoft, that may provide some insight into what Bush might do.
*NIX is a very powerful an agile conglomeration of code. Inherintly it is also very complex. That very complexity is a result of the nature of the developers and the layers of different personalities that have come to push it all together.
The X Windowing System is quite possibly the best example of why *NIX can't really win the entire market. Especially not the Free *NIX category.
BeOS has a posix compatibility and is far superior to every *NIX I've ever used. Why doesn't everyone use that? The thousands of applications written for *NIX (Read: Linux) are all X-Centric and have little hope of compliling easily (if at all, ever) on Be, unless you run an optinal third-party "X server." Thus completely defeating the point.
*NIX is the core of Apple's shiny new OS, but you won't find it easily. You won't find X anywhere but in the name either.
It doesn't matter which processor the software is flawed by design. I'm not saying MS's OS's aren't, either.
Pray to god *NIX never reign's supreme. Rooms filled with programmers will be replaced by droves of tech-support hotlines.
Perhaps they are shipping with so little ram as to allow the end-user to install his own ram. Maybe from a Dell computer they have lying around with a broken peripheral. Or perhaps from other machines they are throwing away. The first one in line at the big trash pickup day would love to find a 128mb stick in there.
I think that posting another Intel vs. AMD article disguised as a Sun/Cobalt/Linux-rules arguement is pretty boring.
We already know that Slashdot's readers overwhelmingly support AMD to holy-war proportions.
We should be able to moderate the stories actually post on the main page. The editors should be subject to karma. If you put up something stupid you get smacked.
Of course, as a result of editor karma-whoring every other story would show Linux pit against any other operating system or AMD pit against Intel.
There were probably more than one submission about this news but Cliff chose the one that showed significant bias.
I don't even really understand why there is such a hype about the Athlon chips. They are less expensive and may be technically superior. But that arguement doesn't cleanly follow the patterns slashdot readers follow. Take Linux for example, it is surely less expensive than other operating systems, but it is not even close to being technically better than all others. FreeBSD, technically better, lacks bleeding edge drivers, same cost as Linux, yet with almost 1/5 the user base.
Who the hell cares if they can get 150fps in quake or 147, I sure as hell don't. There are better things to argue about. We're about to innagurate a president who will only account for his actions in the past 20 years.
And on top of it all, my favorite lighter is almost empty.
If the power plant that produced the 10W to half-light that lamp was burning coal, natural gas, or some other hydrocarbon then I would say, "yes, That definitely contributed to global warming."
And why would you run a 20W lamp? Is that even enough to light a 3x3x8 closet?
This is easily the first time I've ever seen a report about Microsoft on the local Eleven O'Clock News before it was on Slashdot.
That is kind of disturbing.
I guess everyone of us was trying to figure out how we could steal one instead of sharing that information with the Slashdot Community. (That's what I was doing.)
I've been running Professional for a while and so far the only thing that has caused this thing to crash is the USB. Bloddy USB hardware either is just crappy or the drivers are crappy. Either one. Windows didn't like it.
That is very true. But unfortunately everyone isn't nice. That's why we have locks in the first place? Sure, but how is that lock going to stop someone from smashing through your window to take the 27" flatscreen TV hanging on the wall?
Fortes is a very good program for security. But, when it is improperly configured it can have a few major security downfalls. It is very annoying to see the IE tool bars destroyed automatically by the Fortres default configuration. That is heavily annoying.
Fortres will allow you to run regedit, command.com, edit, etc. but you will be completely unable to actually store your changes to the hard drive, if it was properly configured.
Borland C++ Builder requires the ability to open a shell to run the programs unless the APCS teacher teaches them API stuff(hah!). The lab had to be set up so that command.com could run (For NT login.bat, too) and the student couldn't **F** with the computer.
The company that produces Fortres also produces a product called "CleanSlate" which is also very amusing. It allows a student/user to change anything on the computer but once rebooted restores itself to the original configuration. Of course, the whole point of Fortres is to stop kiddies from installing packet sniffers. Goddamn them.
Fortres can't stop things from sneaking in through Word. Many a macrovirus have come through that way. Very disappointing.
I don't know much about an unregulated hydrogen flame, but when a "cloud" of hydrogen flashes it produces some orange. Admittedly it does tend burn blue-ish, but that is related to the weight and density of hydrogen and the oxygen already present in the air.
Carbon appears black, which is what appears on things you place over a candle.
The course program at the school I work for uses DEC BASIC. It's much more powerful, but is heavily unpractical.
We have Visual Basic 6, but the teacher is highly unqualified to teach it. Actually, he looks a lot like Santa Claus, but that is something completely unrelated.
The problem is absolutely a lack of qualified teachers. The good programming teachers work for higher education. Public school teachers aren't paid high enough to be sufficiently knowledgeable to teach a modern programming class.
I am a application developer and network administrator for a public school department in Massacuhsetts. Ironically, there is no Academic Computer Department. It operates as a function of the Business and Math departments.
With the two contesting course of studies (Math: APCS, BASIC, PASCAL;Business: MS Office, Corel, etc.) it is becoming increasingly difficult to afford the demands for software alone.
It was a swift decision to move from the Pascal-Based AP program to the C++ based course. In fact, the move was made so quickly for almost a year and a half the students were forced to use joe / g++ to compile the programs on a FreeBSD computer a student was kind enough to set up.
We have 30 licensed copies of Borland C++, the teacher didn't know how to use it. Actually for him to be able to teach the class he needed to equate almost all the C++ syntax to a corresponding Pascal statement. Needless to say, Object Orientation was not covered.
Qualified teachers are needed more than anything else. Funding is a huge issue for secondary education.
Certainly the case with this particular institution is a lack of a clear course progression. DEC BASIC is hardly a lead-in to C++.
The College Board should provide the outlines for a progressive approach to an eventual APCS (Java) course. Something that doesn't involve antiquated languages would be helpful.
We offered Fortran and Cobol classes until 3 years ago, and we were using DEC VT 320 terminals until 2 years ago aswell. Talk about Modern Technology. FEH!
The color of the flame is related to the amount of the fuel that is combusted. An orange-yellow flame contains much non-consumed fuel. A blue flame has a perfect oxygen/fuel ratio.
Any combustable material can be made to produce a blue flame if there is sufficient oxygen supplied fast enough.
I don't understand how posting a story about Linux benchmarks is considered to be "banner bait." The same number of people are going to http on over to www.slashdot.org whether there is an article about CmdrTaco's underwear or an article about AnandTech wanting to benchbark with Linux.
Only if the story is somehow broadcast into the minds of non-slashdot readers could your theory be even remotely true.
It may generate a few more hits due to subsequent trolling and flamewars, but how many of the trolls and flamers actually click (or even notice) banner ads at all?
Actually I was going to plug the quest for negative karma with you in mind.
I forgot, though.
Oh yeah, thanks for the link.
You're already posting at -1, it doesn't seeem liketly that you're going to be able to go much lower than you currently are unless you really post a lot of garbage.
Why not just go troll on IRC? They can't shut you up permanently.
Why do you think everything is about karma?! Who cares? I certainly don't. Half the discussions on this webpage are deticated to the accumulation of karma. I just do not understand why there is such a greed for the points.
I do not post to be moderated, I post to enlighten or to be enlightend.
What you don't realize is that this stupid First Posting nonsense is exactly why there are moderators and exactly where there are people who "whore for karma." It's a catch-22. The only way to prevent abuse actually tends to promote it.
Of course, that could be attributed to the nature of the beast. You, your friends and every one of the losers that attempt to make a first post are contributing to the downfall of intelligence and freedom.
I just cannot understand where things started going wrong? What is funny about being a troll? What is funny about linking to goatse.cx? That is incredibly stupid an immature.
I am absolutely sure I am not alone in this belief. It's a pathetic world where the trolls outnumber and overrun the people actually interested in positive contribution.
I could have easily moderated that post down, but I thought it might be more worthwhile to express my anger. Obviously you completely missed the point.
The BSD license may be better for an operation such as yours due to the intent. It allows the writer to actually sell the software and source, and anyone who makes changes to it to sell their versions. That is the primary reason a few of my friends choose the BSD license over the GPL.
The option to be able to charge is very appealing to corporate institutions who invest significant time and money into developing software. It is nice to be able to give it away, but eventually share-holders want to see some *profit*.
Red Hat's business model is flawed. They have yet to report a profit. In fact, the only internet company actually making money is Yahoo.
This is not a knock against the GPL or Red Hat, but is only an attempt to point out a flaw in the business model as you suggest. A legal disqualification of the GPL may only be one of the problems Red Hat may face.
Yeah. A testament to Massachusetts Public School System.
I'm not a biologist anyway, but I seem to remember reading about life that survived near deep-sea volcanic vents. That would require that the core of the satelites be moltent. The liquid rock could then account for the magnetic field cancelling out the reason for believing there is a liquid ocean of water or otherwise.
Do the words of the licenses actually stand up on a purely legal aspect? Is tacking a Copyleft (GPL) in the header of your code a real way to protect it? Shouldn't it actually be copyrighted and released under the GPL, et al?
This area brings a lot of ambiguity. What is the legitimacy of the Open Source licenses on a global level?
It seems that while the licenses are worded well and seem legally sound they depend a lot on good faith on the part of the user/company using the code.
Dude, come on. Democrats wouldn't trade vote for a packet of cigarettes. You're confused. Republicans need that. Democrats want to give republican's money to those poor people. They want to tax the tobacco industry to pay for the poor.
I'm glad there are people that make President-elect George Bush appear smart.
You can create an oil slick a single atom thick in your bathtub.
Dilute a thimble of baby oil with an entire bottle of isopropyl alcohol and add a few drops of food coloring to change the color (do not drink).
Fill an eye dropper and place a single drop into the bathtub. The slick will expand until it.
You can actually measure the thickness of the atom if you measure the two demensions of its area.. I'm not sure how exactly, now, but I remember doing this in my high school chemistry class.
I don't know how this applies to transistor creation, but perhaps it employs a similar tactic?
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In one week the entire DOJ is going to be filled with compassionate conservative lawyers and department heads. (Compassionate to big business, Conservative to the poor working class).
The outcome of the anti-trust trial against Microsoft really depends on the new Attorney General, and, of course Bush's agenda.
Maybe someone should find out what the NRA would like to see happen to Microsoft, that may provide some insight into what Bush might do.
*NIX is a very powerful an agile conglomeration of code. Inherintly it is also very complex. That very complexity is a result of the nature of the developers and the layers of different personalities that have come to push it all together.
The X Windowing System is quite possibly the best example of why *NIX can't really win the entire market. Especially not the Free *NIX category.
BeOS has a posix compatibility and is far superior to every *NIX I've ever used. Why doesn't everyone use that? The thousands of applications written for *NIX (Read: Linux) are all X-Centric and have little hope of compliling easily (if at all, ever) on Be, unless you run an optinal third-party "X server." Thus completely defeating the point.
*NIX is the core of Apple's shiny new OS, but you won't find it easily. You won't find X anywhere but in the name either.
It doesn't matter which processor the software is flawed by design. I'm not saying MS's OS's aren't, either.
Pray to god *NIX never reign's supreme. Rooms filled with programmers will be replaced by droves of tech-support hotlines.
Perhaps they are shipping with so little ram as to allow the end-user to install his own ram. Maybe from a Dell computer they have lying around with a broken peripheral. Or perhaps from other machines they are throwing away. The first one in line at the big trash pickup day would love to find a 128mb stick in there.
Okay, so your athlon overheats and melts because you were able to get 56 seconds more uptime.
I think that posting another Intel vs. AMD article disguised as a Sun/Cobalt/Linux-rules arguement is pretty boring.
We already know that Slashdot's readers overwhelmingly support AMD to holy-war proportions.
We should be able to moderate the stories actually post on the main page. The editors should be subject to karma. If you put up something stupid you get smacked.
Of course, as a result of editor karma-whoring every other story would show Linux pit against any other operating system or AMD pit against Intel.
There were probably more than one submission about this news but Cliff chose the one that showed significant bias.
I don't even really understand why there is such a hype about the Athlon chips. They are less expensive and may be technically superior. But that arguement doesn't cleanly follow the patterns slashdot readers follow. Take Linux for example, it is surely less expensive than other operating systems, but it is not even close to being technically better than all others. FreeBSD, technically better, lacks bleeding edge drivers, same cost as Linux, yet with almost 1/5 the user base.
Who the hell cares if they can get 150fps in quake or 147, I sure as hell don't. There are better things to argue about. We're about to innagurate a president who will only account for his actions in the past 20 years.
And on top of it all, my favorite lighter is almost empty.
If the power plant that produced the 10W to half-light that lamp was burning coal, natural gas, or some other hydrocarbon then I would say, "yes, That definitely contributed to global warming."
And why would you run a 20W lamp? Is that even enough to light a 3x3x8 closet?
Yeah. If you can't beat 'em then just ignore that they exist completely.
This is easily the first time I've ever seen a report about Microsoft on the local Eleven O'Clock News before it was on Slashdot.
That is kind of disturbing.
I guess everyone of us was trying to figure out how we could steal one instead of sharing that information with the Slashdot Community. (That's what I was doing.)
I've been running Professional for a while and so far the only thing that has caused this thing to crash is the USB. Bloddy USB hardware either is just crappy or the drivers are crappy. Either one. Windows didn't like it.
That is very true. But unfortunately everyone isn't nice. That's why we have locks in the first place? Sure, but how is that lock going to stop someone from smashing through your window to take the 27" flatscreen TV hanging on the wall?
With the BSD license you can take the work, modify it and keep your modifications private.
Fortes is a very good program for security. But, when it is improperly configured it can have a few major security downfalls. It is very annoying to see the IE tool bars destroyed automatically by the Fortres default configuration. That is heavily annoying.
Fortres will allow you to run regedit, command.com, edit, etc. but you will be completely unable to actually store your changes to the hard drive, if it was properly configured.
Borland C++ Builder requires the ability to open a shell to run the programs unless the APCS teacher teaches them API stuff(hah!). The lab had to be set up so that command.com could run (For NT login.bat, too) and the student couldn't **F** with the computer.
The company that produces Fortres also produces a product called "CleanSlate" which is also very amusing. It allows a student/user to change anything on the computer but once rebooted restores itself to the original configuration. Of course, the whole point of Fortres is to stop kiddies from installing packet sniffers. Goddamn them.
Fortres can't stop things from sneaking in through Word. Many a macrovirus have come through that way. Very disappointing.
I don't know much about an unregulated hydrogen flame, but when a "cloud" of hydrogen flashes it produces some orange. Admittedly it does tend burn blue-ish, but that is related to the weight and density of hydrogen and the oxygen already present in the air.
Carbon appears black, which is what appears on things you place over a candle.
The course program at the school I work for uses DEC BASIC. It's much more powerful, but is heavily unpractical.
We have Visual Basic 6, but the teacher is highly unqualified to teach it. Actually, he looks a lot like Santa Claus, but that is something completely unrelated.
The problem is absolutely a lack of qualified teachers. The good programming teachers work for higher education. Public school teachers aren't paid high enough to be sufficiently knowledgeable to teach a modern programming class.
I am a application developer and network administrator for a public school department in Massacuhsetts. Ironically, there is no Academic Computer Department. It operates as a function of the Business and Math departments.
With the two contesting course of studies (Math: APCS, BASIC, PASCAL;Business: MS Office, Corel, etc.) it is becoming increasingly difficult to afford the demands for software alone.
It was a swift decision to move from the Pascal-Based AP program to the C++ based course. In fact, the move was made so quickly for almost a year and a half the students were forced to use joe / g++ to compile the programs on a FreeBSD computer a student was kind enough to set up.
We have 30 licensed copies of Borland C++, the teacher didn't know how to use it. Actually for him to be able to teach the class he needed to equate almost all the C++ syntax to a corresponding Pascal statement. Needless to say, Object Orientation was not covered.
Qualified teachers are needed more than anything else. Funding is a huge issue for secondary education.
Certainly the case with this particular institution is a lack of a clear course progression. DEC BASIC is hardly a lead-in to C++.
The College Board should provide the outlines for a progressive approach to an eventual APCS (Java) course. Something that doesn't involve antiquated languages would be helpful.
We offered Fortran and Cobol classes until 3 years ago, and we were using DEC VT 320 terminals until 2 years ago aswell. Talk about Modern Technology. FEH!
The color of the flame is related to the amount of the fuel that is combusted. An orange-yellow flame contains much non-consumed fuel. A blue flame has a perfect oxygen/fuel ratio.
Any combustable material can be made to produce a blue flame if there is sufficient oxygen supplied fast enough.
I don't understand how posting a story about Linux benchmarks is considered to be "banner bait." The same number of people are going to http on over to www.slashdot.org whether there is an article about CmdrTaco's underwear or an article about AnandTech wanting to benchbark with Linux.
Only if the story is somehow broadcast into the minds of non-slashdot readers could your theory be even remotely true.
It may generate a few more hits due to subsequent trolling and flamewars, but how many of the trolls and flamers actually click (or even notice) banner ads at all?
Actually I was going to plug the quest for negative karma with you in mind.
I forgot, though.
Oh yeah, thanks for the link.
You're already posting at -1, it doesn't seeem liketly that you're going to be able to go much lower than you currently are unless you really post a lot of garbage.
Why not just go troll on IRC? They can't shut you up permanently.
yeah.
Why do you think everything is about karma?! Who cares? I certainly don't. Half the discussions on this webpage are deticated to the accumulation of karma. I just do not understand why there is such a greed for the points.
I do not post to be moderated, I post to enlighten or to be enlightend.
What you don't realize is that this stupid First Posting nonsense is exactly why there are moderators and exactly where there are people who "whore for karma." It's a catch-22. The only way to prevent abuse actually tends to promote it.
Of course, that could be attributed to the nature of the beast. You, your friends and every one of the losers that attempt to make a first post are contributing to the downfall of intelligence and freedom.
I just cannot understand where things started going wrong? What is funny about being a troll? What is funny about linking to goatse.cx? That is incredibly stupid an immature.
I am absolutely sure I am not alone in this belief. It's a pathetic world where the trolls outnumber and overrun the people actually interested in positive contribution.
I could have easily moderated that post down, but I thought it might be more worthwhile to express my anger. Obviously you completely missed the point.
Idiot.
The BSD license may be better for an operation such as yours due to the intent. It allows the writer to actually sell the software and source, and anyone who makes changes to it to sell their versions. That is the primary reason a few of my friends choose the BSD license over the GPL.
The option to be able to charge is very appealing to corporate institutions who invest significant time and money into developing software. It is nice to be able to give it away, but eventually share-holders want to see some *profit*.
Red Hat's business model is flawed. They have yet to report a profit. In fact, the only internet company actually making money is Yahoo.
This is not a knock against the GPL or Red Hat, but is only an attempt to point out a flaw in the business model as you suggest. A legal disqualification of the GPL may only be one of the problems Red Hat may face.
Yeah. A testament to Massachusetts Public School System.
I'm not a biologist anyway, but I seem to remember reading about life that survived near deep-sea volcanic vents. That would require that the core of the satelites be moltent. The liquid rock could then account for the magnetic field cancelling out the reason for believing there is a liquid ocean of water or otherwise.
Interesting, nonetheless.
Do the words of the licenses actually stand up on a purely legal aspect? Is tacking a Copyleft (GPL) in the header of your code a real way to protect it? Shouldn't it actually be copyrighted and released under the GPL, et al?
This area brings a lot of ambiguity. What is the legitimacy of the Open Source licenses on a global level?
It seems that while the licenses are worded well and seem legally sound they depend a lot on good faith on the part of the user/company using the code.
Certainly oceans contribute a massive amount to the development of life as we know it. However, life as we know it could not exist without sunlight.
An ocean of liquid water trapped beneith miles of ice is very unlikely to see much sunlight at all.
I suppose it might be possible for life to develop through some sort of thermal energy transfer.
Although it is quite possible that there are many other liquids, such as ammonia, et al that could possible support a complex "organic" structure.
I believe it's pretty safe to say we're unique in the solar system, if that's what we're looking for.
Nice.
Dude, come on. Democrats wouldn't trade vote for a packet of cigarettes. You're confused. Republicans need that. Democrats want to give republican's money to those poor people. They want to tax the tobacco industry to pay for the poor.
I'm glad there are people that make President-elect George Bush appear smart.
You can create an oil slick a single atom thick in your bathtub.
Dilute a thimble of baby oil with an entire bottle of isopropyl alcohol and add a few drops of food coloring to change the color (do not drink).
Fill an eye dropper and place a single drop into the bathtub. The slick will expand until it.
You can actually measure the thickness of the atom if you measure the two demensions of its area.. I'm not sure how exactly, now, but I remember doing this in my high school chemistry class.
I don't know how this applies to transistor creation, but perhaps it employs a similar tactic?