My wife and I are expecting our 2nd child sometime around the end of May. Woops! Gotta go get the wife, boss! This might be the big moment!
The hard question is, if she goes into labor during the movie, do I stay and deliver my kid at the theatre, or do I send her on her way to the hospital in an amulance? Hmmm...
Just because this fellow has done a great thing in the past doesn't mean his words today should be diefied. He's a human, full of twisted human agendas, motives and hormones.
Also, his words show that he doesn't recognize the true impact and merit of Linux - not as an operating system, but as a social movement in freedom of speech, freedom of technology and freedom from coorporate tyranny.
is that they often fail to see the merit of non-optimal solutions.
Anyone with much experience has seen first hand how Linux is not worse than Microsoft products, but in fact is generally superior at everything Ken mentioned in his interview.
My college advisor (and a person I know and respect as a very bright person) once told me, "Dan, why are you wasting all this effort on web stuff, its just a passing fad?" This was in '93. Sometimes smart people just don't get it. It was really hard for me to ignore this 'smart person', but its been growing steadily easier over the years.
This man is essentially correct. Nothing impresses a woman more than a tie, a nice clean house, a basement full of Unix boxes all churning away on strange jobs, a nice car in the garage, an airplane in the hangar, and a nice salary to support it all.
And of course, nothing impresses me more than a nicely dressed (or undressed) woman who can appreciate the above and who makes a nice salary to support even more of the above!
... so that we can get the specs release and a linux port underway.
this is great - NOT (no source is evil)
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Linux is not simply about 'making things work better'. Its about making US work better. Without the source, WE cannot learn and improve. WE become victims to some 3rd party developer. We've all already been down that road (MS), lets not keep repeating the past.
... we dont! No source is bad for everyone
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Some people just don't get it. Who cares if AOL 'owns' Mozilla? The SOURCE is available for our prying eyes to see and digest - we can continue to implement thing with Mozilla, or take the IDEAS clearly portrayed in the Mozilla code and re-implement them if AOL goes stupid.
GPL isn't about the ownership if code - its about the freedom to express and convey ideas in ways that only code can.
and wouldn't we have to PAY for Opera?
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This country is insane. Petty lawsuits damage our economy more than most realize. These legal issues are not unique to this Y2K problem - they are indicative of our entire Judicial system. Limiting Y2K liability is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. Nothing short of full fledged tort reform will help.
The major Y2K disasters will be induced by people, not machines (at least in this country). If the power goes out in parts of China and all of India, the natives will say "so whats new?".
It will be little things, like non-Y2K compliant date codes and inventory/shipping software used by food packagers and distributors, that will cause many small problems.
Whats the expiration date of your Milk? Is the date printed with 4 digits? Now, check the barcode - is it coded in 4 digits or did some programming dweeb code the barcode in 2 digits and print the human readable version with 19%d ???? I've seen this done on boxes of meat. A few stupid mistakes in the distribution chain and you've got 5000 people with food poisoning.
I first set up a SAMBA server to support both faculty and student computing at Colorado State around '93. The die-hard MicroSoft sysadmin from hell hated it (he also hated the web server I set up - "Why do we need that, we have a gopher server?". Even back then SAMBA was reliable and fast and it saved our department TENS of thousands of dollars in stupid software, such as PC-NFS, Banyan Vines (barf), and memory managers to try to make it all work.
This early experience with SAMBA was only the first of a series of lessons for me: while MicroSuck markets their supposed solutions, there is usually a much better solution to be found in the unix community, and almost always GNU or opens source in licensing.
Oh, and if the MicroSuck sysadmin from hell (Scott) happens to read this: good - you are reading/. you might not be quite as stupid as you previously displayed.
I couldn't help it. Maybe Rob could do a story on past sysadmins that we've all hated and what they had in common....
Damn. I no longer have any reason to boycott France. I guass I'll have to resume drinking French wine even.
Now, all the French have to do is give up that silly accent and funny language they insist on speaking.
Seriously, this is great news. I fully expect european countries that adopt such e-commerce friendly laws to dwarf the US in the productive use and development of internet technologies in the not so distant future. Acutally, maybe they already do....
Ancient technology, what they need is....
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SQUID - superconducting quantum interference device. These little suckers can directly measure the em fields associated with a single electron moving very small distances (on the range of milimeters). Use of an array of SQUIDS over ones head (what a great image that is, ha!) could directly measure brain activity with amazing resolution. I'm sure someone is doing this somewhere...
Most, if not all, technologies in stories such as this rely on measuring secondary electrical signals that are induced on the scalp as a result of electrical activity in the brain. And of course, the lights, local radio station, your monitor, Grandpa's pacemaker all contribute to such induced signals on anyones scalp who's nearby. Trying to measure a specific signal in such a mess and use it for something is like trying to determine the nationality of a couple of people having sex in a rowboat a few miles off-shore during a hail storm- just by watching the waves hit the shore.
Its been awhile since I read anything on this subject, but the hard part about dealing with SQUIDS on ones head is the fact that they gotta be rather cold to operate, like about 70 Kelvin. I have seen a superconductor work (Meisner effect) at about 50 Celcius, but the material degraded in just a few minutes after processing. So, maybe someone will develop a useful high-temp superconductor someday soon. If so, then all you lazy folks that don't want to have to type or use the mouse to play Quake won't have to keep bottles of liquid nitrogen...
After researching and reviewing DVD issues, I have concluded that divx, and the people that created it are worse than greedy corporate bastards - they are just plain evil.
Avoid divx at all cost.
Bansai potatoe couldn't be ....
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Because the potatoe only devoloped in central and south America. I believe the Zen sect of buddhism started before such tubers were transplanted by our ancector-eco-terrorists.
Nobody should be expected to provide their hard earned money or effort to give you (or anyone) free beer.
What we are talking about when we say "open software" isn't free software. We are talking about an open exchange of ideas and information. Oddly, this kind of open exchange is one of the few things we humans are good at. Should we abandon such an open exchange of ideas and information, we'll just end up spending our time on other things we're good at, like war, making cool war toys, and having sex scandals.
As a technology and a business model, copyleft/open source + widely available internet access seems to be disruptive (a new way) both to existing business and to society. duh.
Whats wrong with the "model" relying mostly on people simply wanting to continue learning and developing where they see fit, and possibly profiting from their efforts on the side? Or for the more motivated/gifted, possibly quite profitable. Have we forgotten the meaning of the word "acadamia"? Why do we think big business must drive all aspects of our society? Have we been all hypnotized by big business marketing? Methinks so.
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My wife and I are expecting our 2nd child sometime around the end of May. Woops! Gotta go get the wife, boss! This might be the big moment!
The hard question is, if she goes into labor during the movie, do I stay and deliver my kid at the theatre, or do I send her on her way to the hospital in an amulance? Hmmm...
Just because this fellow has done a great thing in the past doesn't mean his words today should be diefied. He's a human, full of twisted human agendas, motives and hormones.
Also, his words show that he doesn't recognize the true impact and merit of Linux - not as an operating system, but as a social movement in freedom of speech, freedom of technology and freedom from coorporate tyranny.
is that they often fail to see the merit of non-optimal solutions.
Anyone with much experience has seen first hand how Linux is not worse than Microsoft products, but in fact is generally superior at everything Ken mentioned in his interview.
My college advisor (and a person I know and respect as a very bright person) once told me, "Dan, why are you wasting all this effort on web stuff, its just a passing fad?" This was in '93.
Sometimes smart people just don't get it. It was really hard for me to ignore this 'smart person', but its been growing steadily easier over the years.
This man is essentially correct. Nothing impresses a woman more than a tie, a nice clean house, a basement full of Unix boxes all churning away on strange jobs, a nice car in the garage, an airplane in the hangar, and a nice salary to support it all.
And of course, nothing impresses me more than a nicely dressed (or undressed) woman who can appreciate the above and who makes a nice salary to support even more of the above!
I must be the worlds happiest man.
Linux is not simply about 'making things work better'. Its about making US work better. Without the source, WE cannot learn and improve. WE become victims to some 3rd party developer. We've all already been down that road (MS), lets not keep repeating the past.
Some people just don't get it. Who cares if AOL
'owns' Mozilla? The SOURCE is available for our
prying eyes to see and digest - we can continue to
implement thing with Mozilla, or take the IDEAS
clearly portrayed in the Mozilla code and re-implement them if AOL goes stupid.
GPL isn't about the ownership if code - its about the freedom to express and convey ideas in ways that only code can.
Qt is anti GNU. Death to Qt!
... it exists. It was developed at HP in-house
but never released as a product.
See, MicroSuck does not own the soul of HP.
This country is insane. Petty lawsuits damage our economy more than most realize. These legal issues are not unique to this Y2K problem - they are indicative of our entire Judicial system. Limiting Y2K liability is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. Nothing short of full fledged tort reform will help.
The major Y2K disasters will be induced by people, not machines (at least in this country). If the power goes out in parts of China and all of India, the natives will say "so whats new?".
It will be little things, like non-Y2K compliant date codes and inventory/shipping software used by food packagers and distributors, that will cause many small problems.
Whats the expiration date of your Milk? Is the date printed with 4 digits? Now, check the barcode - is it coded in 4 digits or did some programming dweeb code the barcode in 2 digits and print the human readable version with 19%d ???? I've seen this done on boxes of meat. A few stupid mistakes in the distribution chain and you've got 5000 people with food poisoning.
I first set up a SAMBA server to support both faculty and student computing at Colorado State around '93. The die-hard MicroSoft sysadmin from hell hated it (he also hated the web server I set up - "Why do we need that, we have a gopher server?". Even back then SAMBA was reliable and fast and it saved our department TENS of thousands of dollars in stupid software, such as PC-NFS, Banyan Vines (barf), and memory managers to try to make it all work.
/. you might not be quite as stupid as you previously displayed.
This early experience with SAMBA was only the first of a series of lessons for me: while MicroSuck markets their supposed solutions, there is usually a much better solution to be found in the unix community, and almost always GNU or opens source in licensing.
Oh, and if the MicroSuck sysadmin from hell (Scott) happens to read this: good - you are reading
I couldn't help it. Maybe Rob could do a story on past sysadmins that we've all hated and what they had in common....
Nothing teaches structure, style and discipline like professional music lessons and hours of practice.
Damn. I no longer have any reason to boycott France. I guass I'll have to resume drinking French wine even.
Now, all the French have to do is give up that silly accent and funny language they insist on speaking.
Seriously, this is great news. I fully expect european countries that adopt such e-commerce friendly laws to dwarf the US in the productive use and development of internet technologies in the not so distant future. Acutally, maybe they already do....
SQUID - superconducting quantum interference device. These little suckers can directly measure the em fields associated with a single electron moving very small distances (on the range of milimeters). Use of an array of SQUIDS over ones head (what a great image that is, ha!) could directly measure brain activity with amazing resolution. I'm sure someone is doing this somewhere...
Most, if not all, technologies in stories such as this rely on measuring secondary electrical signals that are induced on the scalp as a result of electrical activity in the brain. And of course, the lights, local radio station, your monitor, Grandpa's pacemaker all contribute to such induced signals on anyones scalp who's nearby. Trying to measure a specific signal in such a mess and use it for something is like trying to determine the nationality of a couple of people having sex in a rowboat a few miles off-shore during a hail storm- just by watching the waves hit the shore.
Its been awhile since I read anything on this subject, but the hard part about dealing with SQUIDS on ones head is the fact that they gotta be rather cold to operate, like about 70 Kelvin.
I have seen a superconductor work (Meisner effect) at about 50 Celcius, but the material degraded in just a few minutes after processing. So, maybe someone will develop a useful high-temp superconductor someday soon. If so, then all you lazy folks that don't want to have to type or use the mouse to play Quake won't have to keep bottles of liquid nitrogen...
After researching and reviewing DVD issues, I have concluded that divx, and the people that created it are worse than greedy corporate bastards - they are just plain evil.
Avoid divx at all cost.
Because the potatoe only devoloped in central and south America. I believe the Zen sect of buddhism started before such tubers were transplanted by our ancector-eco-terrorists.
Does this mean I'm humor impaired?
Nobody should be expected to provide their hard earned money or effort to give you (or anyone) free beer.
What we are talking about when we say "open software" isn't free software. We are talking about an open exchange of ideas and information. Oddly, this kind of open exchange is one of the few things we humans are good at. Should we abandon such an open exchange of ideas and information, we'll just end up spending our time on other things we're good at, like war, making cool war toys, and having sex scandals.
As a technology and a business model, copyleft/open source + widely available internet access seems to be disruptive (a new way) both to existing business and to society. duh.
Whats wrong with the "model" relying mostly on people simply wanting to continue learning and developing where they see fit, and possibly profiting from their efforts on the side? Or for the more motivated/gifted, possibly quite profitable. Have we forgotten the meaning of the word "acadamia"? Why do we think big business must drive all aspects of our society? Have we been all hypnotized by big business marketing? Methinks so.
and it does seem like something the l00ft would do. Does distributed.net check for this kind of garbage?