These are interesting times, my friends. Another clash of the Titans. I just read today about M$'s DataCenter, a big-iron release of its Windows 2000 Server. will run on machines with 32 processors and loads of RAM. It's supposed to be Microsoft's best challenge to date to *nix systems. IBM should get linux compatibility and get it quick!
Politics is a self supporting system, and human nature craves power over ideals. Technology will most likely be integrated carefully into the current system to ensure that things don't get out of control. After all, not to many politians making laws that keep them from being re-elected. Sure, you get your share of commercials about campaign finance reform, etc etc, but is anything ever done? Sure, you get your republican platforms carefully drawing in the radical right, but no politician wants to put his vote on any extreme right measures, cause he won't get re-elected....and vice-versa. Everything is about getting your streotypical vote, and when technology comes to the forefront, they will have all the right words to say and nothing to back it up....
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I was under the impression that gcc calls gas as one step of its execution. IIRC, you can run each stage of compilation separately, ie preprocess, translate to assembly, gas, link.
Then Again, maybe this is just leftover fluff from reading sys arch book at 2:00 in the morning.
This saves QNX from many of the headaches new Linux users run into learning to compile and install applications.
What Headaches? Is typing three/four commands that hard? If you have all the prereq's and you actually read the README & INSTALL to make sure there isn't some issues, there is no headache, 99.9% of the time. Every application that I've installed that was open source compiled easily under Linux. Most of the time is works better for me than rpms. I have had trouble getting some apps to compile under AIX, but that's a different story.
By your logic, we should bulldoze all hospitals and allow people with easily-treatable diseases to die.
Keep in mind, humans in hospitals are either alive or in the grey zone between dying and dead. I don't think extinct qualifies as being in that grey zone. Being extinct means you are definitely crossing a threshold to reinstantiate thier life on earth again.
And bridging over that "70-year hiccup" isn't that far from time-travel in the sense that you are assuming that all changes in the enviroment are trivial since the last time this tiger was domininate. What if the world has adjusted since then?
Probably a bit off topic, and a bit U.S. centric, but, the with all the talk about non-profit companies, the article did make me think:
Wouldn't it be great if you could claim open-source work as a charity/tax deduction?
A flat per-hour rate that you could claim up to a certain limit for any open source programming...of course, the implementation would get a little hairy I guess...expecially with the million and a half minscule projects on source forge...maybe each project would have to qualify based on certain merits...hey, it's better than campaign finance...
Although, I've always felt giving to charity for the tax deduction (or even for the chance to win a car the local United Way Raffle) is lame.
Dude, it starts up a lot faster if you change the -mx in the admin.config file. Also, the way to shut it down is to startup./adminconfig.sh and stop the server. You must not have used a recent version (ie > 3.0). Never had a problem with having to reconfig the whole thing though. I have had problems in getting the Advanced edition EJB's to work, though.
ANALYSIS OF THE DECISION AGAINST 2600 is the title of the article, and I was expecting an analysis. I don't think he really brought anymore information to the table besides complaining that he felt discriminated against. I haven't read all the transcripts, but I did read a few and I felt as though the issue isn't as black and white as everyone assumes. Judge Kaplan made a lot of good points in his decision, but, it did seem to contain an obvious bias against the 2600. I guess I expected Goldstien to review the decision and tell us why Kaplan was wrong. BTW, you're right about publishing "HOWTO: Pick a lock" and the fact that you can do it legally, however, that doesn't mean that you might not be responsible for what you choose to write. It's like the debate about whether bartenders should limit patron's drinking and whether bars are responsible...they aren't, but yet, are they? It's not an easy answer.
Someone may fix the problem because of the story or someone may exploit it. We cannot and will not determine what happens as a result nor will we allow fear of that to make our editorial decisions for us.
The glory of journalism...you are "free" to speak, but that doesn't mean you aren't responsible for what you speak. That's why we have "Top Secret" documents and laws against compromising national security. It's not as if 2600 didn't know that the information was sensitive...and claiming "you were just helping to get it fixed" is kind of lame. In the "Information Age" breaking encryption is like picking locks...it's hard to justify it...and publishing how to pick locks isn't exactly white hat...even it if helps to correct the problem...
I thought part of the argument was against having the encryption to begin with...i.e. fair use....
whatever.
I just suppose if 2600 was broken into and we could modify content at will becuase of a crappy content-protection scheme, the blatant attitude would be different. I just think the article could have been a bit more rational then just a big rant.
which is obviously why Redhat can package it and IPO, right? The market doesn't know what the heck it wants, most people invested don't know the difference between UNIX and NES. You have to admit no matter what the style of development is, it is the technical executives who produce the best software companies. Also why some CTO & CIO get paid more than CEO's.
The market's game is "beat the analyst's estimates" How many analysts have even written accurate columns about Linux?
and, if you are a decent coder, you usually get something like:
Hey Michelangelo, could you re-paint the ceiling? Use whatever colors you want, just get it done by next week...ok? I'll let you know what kind of faces we'd like after the progress meeting next Monday.
He said he is also availing himself of some of the advantages of good fortune, such as buying a house for himself, his wife and two young daughters, as well as trading in his old Pontiac for a sporty BMW Z3. His fortunes may swell in coming months as Thursday, his employer, Transmeta Corp., filed to go public.
Plus, he's guaranteed a great retirement w/ speaking engagements, if he so desires. It seems to me only the wall street jopuranl would make a point of that fact he is getting rich through stocks....
When I read the title to the article, I thought that Slashdot was announcing that a KDE developer would have an advisory position in the GNOME Foundation....That's what we need....I'm all for diversity, but it would be nice to have a few more liasons between GNOME and KDE, they both have merits....I use them both...depending on my mood.
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a watch that came with software you loaded to your computer. You could set up your schedule/alarms/address book with the computer program, then tell it to send the data to the watch. You then held the watch up to the monitor, which would blink from black to white a billion times to program the watch.
The linux watch idea may not be useful now, but give it a few years, Mr. Bond.
Is it an applciation that is going to gain a lot of interest? In that case I would start publishing a least the API's so that you can see how many people are interested in working with your technology. A lot depends on what you are trying to release. If it's something that you can have people start writing add-ons and features to without releasing the whole thing, then you should probably consider open sourcing that part right away. (ie, keep the "kernel" closed until you have a big jump on competitors)
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It may have been powerful, but the GUI you had to use on a day to day basis was ugly and non-intuitive. IMHO -k.
These are interesting times, my friends. Another clash of the Titans. I just read today about M$'s DataCenter, a big-iron release of its Windows 2000 Server. will run on machines with 32 processors and loads of RAM. It's supposed to be Microsoft's best challenge to date to *nix systems. IBM should get linux compatibility and get it quick!
Politics is a self supporting system, and human nature craves power over ideals. Technology will most likely be integrated carefully into the current system to ensure that things don't get out of control. After all, not to many politians making laws that keep them from being re-elected. Sure, you get your share of commercials about campaign finance reform, etc etc, but is anything ever done? Sure, you get your republican platforms carefully drawing in the radical right, but no politician wants to put his vote on any extreme right measures, cause he won't get re-elected....and vice-versa. Everything is about getting your streotypical vote, and when technology comes to the forefront, they will have all the right words to say and nothing to back it up....
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This is a S.O.P.
Which is why we need to start teaching PERL programming along with English in 4th grade.
I agree. The interviewer keeps summarizing larry up before he even says anything.
I was under the impression that gcc calls gas as one step of its execution. IIRC, you can run each stage of compilation separately, ie preprocess, translate to assembly, gas, link. Then Again, maybe this is just leftover fluff from reading sys arch book at 2:00 in the morning.
This saves QNX from many of the headaches new Linux users run into learning to compile and install applications.
What Headaches? Is typing three/four commands that hard? If you have all the prereq's and you actually read the README & INSTALL to make sure there isn't some issues, there is no headache, 99.9% of the time. Every application that I've installed that was open source compiled easily under Linux. Most of the time is works better for me than rpms. I have had trouble getting some apps to compile under AIX, but that's a different story.
By your logic, we should bulldoze all hospitals and allow people with easily-treatable diseases to die.
Keep in mind, humans in hospitals are either alive or in the grey zone between dying and dead. I don't think extinct qualifies as being in that grey zone. Being extinct means you are definitely crossing a threshold to reinstantiate thier life on earth again.
And bridging over that "70-year hiccup" isn't that far from time-travel in the sense that you are assuming that all changes in the enviroment are trivial since the last time this tiger was domininate. What if the world has adjusted since then?
It sounds comparable to Under the Radar, reviewed and commented on here and here. Under the Radar was perceived by many as stiff and uncaptivating, so I would welcome the informal style and casualisms and jargon. I'm only halfway through Under the Radar, but I'm already inclined to pick this up, being that I see the informal style as a strong point.
BTW, who needs survivor when you got the slashdot moderation system?
Yeah that bias thing really gets to me. That's why I read slashdot! -K.
Probably a bit off topic, and a bit U.S. centric, but, the with all the talk about non-profit companies, the article did make me think:
Wouldn't it be great if you could claim open-source work as a charity/tax deduction?
A flat per-hour rate that you could claim up to a certain limit for any open source programming...of course, the implementation would get a little hairy I guess...expecially with the million and a half minscule projects on source forge...maybe each project would have to qualify based on certain merits...hey, it's better than campaign finance...
Although, I've always felt giving to charity for the tax deduction (or even for the chance to win a car the local United Way Raffle) is lame.
Dude, it starts up a lot faster if you change the -mx in the admin.config file. Also, the way to shut it down is to startup ./adminconfig.sh and stop the server. You must not have used a recent version (ie > 3.0). Never had a problem with having to reconfig the whole thing though. I have had problems in getting the Advanced edition EJB's to work, though.
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ANALYSIS OF THE DECISION AGAINST 2600 is the title of the article, and I was expecting an analysis. I don't think he really brought anymore information to the table besides complaining that he felt discriminated against. I haven't read all the transcripts, but I did read a few and I felt as though the issue isn't as black and white as everyone assumes. Judge Kaplan made a lot of good points in his decision, but, it did seem to contain an obvious bias against the 2600. I guess I expected Goldstien to review the decision and tell us why Kaplan was wrong. BTW, you're right about publishing "HOWTO: Pick a lock" and the fact that you can do it legally, however, that doesn't mean that you might not be responsible for what you choose to write. It's like the debate about whether bartenders should limit patron's drinking and whether bars are responsible...they aren't, but yet, are they? It's not an easy answer.
Someone may fix the problem because of the story or someone may exploit it. We cannot and will not determine what happens as a result nor will we allow fear of that to make our editorial decisions for us.
The glory of journalism...you are "free" to speak, but that doesn't mean you aren't responsible for what you speak. That's why we have "Top Secret" documents and laws against compromising national security. It's not as if 2600 didn't know that the information was sensitive...and claiming "you were just helping to get it fixed" is kind of lame. In the "Information Age" breaking encryption is like picking locks...it's hard to justify it...and publishing how to pick locks isn't exactly white hat...even it if helps to correct the problem...
I thought part of the argument was against having the encryption to begin with...i.e. fair use.... whatever.
I just suppose if 2600 was broken into and we could modify content at will becuase of a crappy content-protection scheme, the blatant attitude would be different. I just think the article could have been a bit more rational then just a big rant.
Goldstein, Prove your case.
DSL = Damn Slow Line.
at least in this case.
which is obviously why Redhat can package it and IPO, right? The market doesn't know what the heck it wants, most people invested don't know the difference between UNIX and NES. You have to admit no matter what the style of development is, it is the technical executives who produce the best software companies. Also why some CTO & CIO get paid more than CEO's.
The market's game is "beat the analyst's estimates"
How many analysts have even written accurate columns about Linux?
and, if you are a decent coder, you usually get something like:
Hey Michelangelo, could you re-paint the ceiling? Use whatever colors you want, just get it done by next week...ok? I'll let you know what kind of faces we'd like after the progress meeting next Monday.
He said he is also availing himself of some of the advantages of good fortune, such as buying a house for himself, his wife and two young daughters, as well as trading in his old Pontiac for a sporty BMW Z3. His fortunes may swell in coming months as Thursday, his employer, Transmeta Corp., filed to go public.
Plus, he's guaranteed a great retirement w/ speaking engagements, if he so desires. It seems to me only the wall street jopuranl would make a point of that fact he is getting rich through stocks....
When I read the title to the article, I thought that Slashdot was announcing that a KDE developer would have an advisory position in the GNOME Foundation....That's what we need....I'm all for diversity, but it would be nice to have a few more liasons between GNOME and KDE, they both have merits....I use them both...depending on my mood.
-K.
If your writing for convenience, stick with M$ ASP, cowboy.
But if you want enterprise stability and the advantages of object oriented code reuse, consider servlets.
How do you get the data on your watch? (IR?)
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a watch that came with software you loaded to your computer. You could set up your schedule/alarms/address book with the computer program, then tell it to send the data to the watch. You then held the watch up to the monitor, which would blink from black to white a billion times to program the watch.
The linux watch idea may not be useful now, but give it a few years, Mr. Bond.
Is it an applciation that is going to gain a lot of interest? In that case I would start publishing a least the API's so that you can see how many people are interested in working with your technology. A lot depends on what you are trying to release. If it's something that you can have people start writing add-ons and features to without releasing the whole thing, then you should probably consider open sourcing that part right away. (ie, keep the "kernel" closed until you have a big jump on competitors)
Of course IANAExpert.