Thanks for bringing up Thomas Gold. There is really little evidence to go along with the fossil theory of petroleum, and increasingly more to support Thomas Gold. See this link
"For the good of all", we must tell hard working, innovative, talented people to stop producing. "For public safety", we must restrict the creativity of others. "For a better future", we must force others to live by a collectivist mantra, with a morality that says that we must live for others. I reject this. Regardless of the risks, the bigger risk is that individuals cannot pursue their desired research.
Most of these smaller, embedded or handheld devices cost more for less performance compared to a PC. I don't know how well they will compete, until the price/performance ratio gets closer to that of the PC. Portability or embedability certainly factor into the equation, but versatilty and outright cheapness tend to matter to the average consumer.
After being a loyal Redhat user since 1997 (When I switched from Slackware), I am probably going to move on to SUSE, or Debian, based on RH's crappy implementation of KDE. I am not going to pay good money ( Yes, I usually buy the box set) for a distro that does not include an up to date, correct implementation of KDE. And don't get me started on Apt get vs. RPM.
Greg
How many CIOs own Microsoft stock?
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I have always wanted CIO's to disclose their ownership in MS or other tech companies prior to making purchases of technology. This would keep them honest brokers to the board of directors and the stockholders in the company. They need to know if their decisions are based in a conflict of interest. ( However, if enough of the stockholders or board members are also owners of MS, they might try swaying the CIO that direction.)
I turned down a well paying job at Walgreens
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because of this. They demanded suit and tie every day. ( Not kaki pants and a sport jacket, but an actual suit!).
Additionally, they worked wierd for IT hours, of only 8:00-4:30. They do not work overtime, weekends,or anything else. I didn't want to be in a programming department that was that regimented. It is a creative process, and if I wanted to work late to figure out a problem, they didn't want that.
That is a really good observation. What are the bandwidth requirements for this gizmo? I looked around, and I couldn't find any guidance on their website. From what I know in information theory, they need about 3000 hz of bandwidth in a POTS system, but with whatever compression system this company uses, maybe it can use very little bandwidth.
G
Oh, no! They are going to ruin a(pretty bad) thing
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The Future of MREs
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In my other, non geek, life, I am a National Guard officer, with a fair amount of time on Active Duty. The first MREs were absolutely awful. Anybody else remember the dehydrated pork or beef patties? YUCKKKK! They were uniformly horrible ( BBQ beef, ham slice, wieners), until a few years ago they started adding ones with actual taste, like jamaican jerk pork, and so forth. Now they want to go back to the inedible bland menus, because the percieve it to be "comforting"? Are they high? If you are cold, lonely, and a long way from home, a plastic envelope of several year old eggs will not make you feel any better. I want more spicy foods in the field, not less. ( At least they do include a tiny bottle of hot sauce.)
You know, I get really tired of people confusing "right wing" with libertarian. The Cato institute is liberatarian. It is not right wing. Get your labels straight before you start calling people names.
So, in my non-geek life, I am an Army Field Artillery officer, and I have some background in Fire Support and Close Air. This thing will be used to support US ground troops( army or marine) in the middle of bad fights, where Field Artillery, or bombs are not availble or inappropriate. AC-130s are big, slow, relatively low flying aircraft, and they are generally committed to support our guys that are in a bad fight. This weapon probably will not be used as some sort of non-discriminate area fire weapon, ( would take too much energy, plus there is a higher risk of losing it to ground fire), but it will help our guys in a fight. If we had used a Spectre in Mogadishu, you folks wouldn't be watching "Black Hawk Down" in the theaters right now. Obviously, I am for it.
For the moralist out there, I wish to ask them one simple question: If we are to be continually called to be the world's cop, like we were in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Somalia, why are you against giving the guys who are doing the dirty work the support to do their jobs? If you don't want us to be the world's cop, then do you have any right to be self rightous about the massacres in these same countries? I oughta know. I did a tour in Sarajevo, Bosnia, right at the beginning of the US mission. So, either you want us to do these missions, and you give us the tools, or you convince your elected officials that you won't get upset by the pictures on TV, and then we don't need these sorts of tools.
It says that it "supports" up to three SCSI drives, whatever that means, but it comes with Ultra ATA drive stock. For a machine of this performance potential, there is no substitute for a really good scsi drive, like the Fujitsu MAN series.
For those that believe that IDE has caught up, I have done a comparison on a Sun Ultra 5, which comes with internal IDE drives, and an optional SCSI interface. We had the stock IDE, and a Sun labeled external SCSI drive, and the SCSI drive kicked old school at about 1.6 times faster.
Considering Apple is marketing this to graphics/music/multimedia pros, who really use bandwidth, this box needs SCSI.
I have seen both mem=nopentium and
append mem=nopentium.
Do I need the append or not?
Thanks,
Greg
Why were characters always "possessed"?
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My complaint is that main characters would become "Possessed", and then flake out. This plot device was used in TNG, DS9, and Voyager. How many times did Data act irrationally, only to find out that something had taken him over and he was not responsible for sodemizing the warp coil. Same with the other episodes. Whichever writer came up with this deserves to be "Possessed" by some angry fans.
You are exactly right! The world is littered with dead OSes, that lost support from a company, and had no maintainers, because they were closed source. If these OSes were free, they would still be in use, since the geeks and hackers would be maintaining them, and adding features. This is why Linux is where it is, in spite of no organized development model, and nobody is developing Aegis, TRS-80 DOS, or the PRIME OSes.
I cannot argue with any of your points about ESRI. I am in an awkward business position, though, and really would like them to "see the light" through a little bit of positive reinforcement. The ESRI staff is pretty unimaginative on Open Source, and maybe Jack just needs some more info.
Thanks,
G
I have tried for four years to get the GIS industry leader Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) to port its products to Linux. They have expressed interest, but so far, have ported zero product. The problem is that they have not only leadership, but actual dominance in the industry You can send email to jdangermond@esri.com. Jack Dangermond is the president of the company, and a reasonable man. He has stated in the past that product ports are driven by user demand. Please be polite, ask for the specific product, and refer him to this slashdot site. I think that if he sees that the userbase is considering jumping to Open source, it might help his decision.
Thanks
Greg
Cringely said that PC's would go this way
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Paper Phones
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I forget which column, but Robert X. Cringely suggested this technology for PCs, as well. We could be seeing disposible computing coming soon. The interesting part of this to me is that MS products are too expensive for this sort of product. Linux is the obvious choice, as well as KDE or Gnome office programs.
Patrick, Do you still live in the Fargo-Moorhead area? I always suspected that the Internet made geography rather irrelevant, but your location, I am guessing, is fairly distant from your developers and partners. Has geography played much of a hinderance in Slackware? Has the Internet made up for this by harnessing collaboration?
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Thanks for bringing up Thomas Gold. There is really little evidence to go along with the fossil theory of petroleum, and increasingly more to support Thomas Gold. See this link
"For the good of all", we must tell hard working, innovative, talented people to stop producing. "For public safety", we must restrict the creativity of others. "For a better future", we must force others to live by a collectivist mantra, with a morality that says that we must live for others. I reject this. Regardless of the risks, the bigger risk is that individuals cannot pursue their desired research.
Read "Atlas Shrugged" !
Do you keep in touch with any of the other original Phone Phreaks? How about a Phone Phreak Phantasy Kamp, where you would hang out with your Phans?
Most of these smaller, embedded or handheld devices cost more for less performance compared to a PC. I don't know how well they will compete, until the price/performance ratio gets closer to that of the PC. Portability or embedability certainly factor into the equation, but versatilty and outright cheapness tend to matter to the average consumer.
After being a loyal Redhat user since 1997 (When I switched from Slackware), I am probably going to move on to SUSE, or Debian, based on RH's crappy implementation of KDE. I am not going to pay good money ( Yes, I usually buy the box set) for a distro that does not include an up to date, correct implementation of KDE. And don't get me started on Apt get vs. RPM.
Greg
I have always wanted CIO's to disclose their ownership in MS or other tech companies prior to making purchases of technology. This would keep them honest brokers to the board of directors and the stockholders in the company. They need to know if their decisions are based in a conflict of interest. ( However, if enough of the stockholders or board members are also owners of MS, they might try swaying the CIO that direction.)
because of this. They demanded suit and tie every day. ( Not kaki pants and a sport jacket, but an actual suit!).
Additionally, they worked wierd for IT hours, of only 8:00-4:30. They do not work overtime, weekends,or anything else. I didn't want to be in a programming department that was that regimented. It is a creative process, and if I wanted to work late to figure out a problem, they didn't want that.
That is a really good observation. What are the bandwidth requirements for this gizmo? I looked around, and I couldn't find any guidance on their website. From what I know in information theory, they need about 3000 hz of bandwidth in a POTS system, but with whatever compression system this company uses, maybe it can use very little bandwidth.
G
In my other, non geek, life, I am a National Guard officer, with a fair amount of time on Active Duty. The first MREs were absolutely awful. Anybody else remember the dehydrated pork or beef patties? YUCKKKK! They were uniformly horrible ( BBQ beef, ham slice, wieners), until a few years ago they started adding ones with actual taste, like jamaican jerk pork, and so forth. Now they want to go back to the inedible bland menus, because the percieve it to be "comforting"? Are they high? If you are cold, lonely, and a long way from home, a plastic envelope of several year old eggs will not make you feel any better. I want more spicy foods in the field, not less. ( At least they do include a tiny bottle of hot sauce.)
You know, I get really tired of people confusing "right wing" with libertarian. The Cato institute is liberatarian. It is not right wing. Get your labels straight before you start calling people names.
Hey Fuzzy, thanks for the words, and for serving. There are fewer and fewer people that have put on the uniform, and done the hard stuff.
:) ( I am serving in a 105 battalion now).
As far as 105 rounds, yes they are big of the Air Force, but for Arty guys, they seem small.
Thanks,
Greg
So, in my non-geek life, I am an Army Field Artillery officer, and I have some background in Fire Support and Close Air. This thing will be used to support US ground troops( army or marine) in the middle of bad fights, where Field Artillery, or bombs are not availble or inappropriate. AC-130s are big, slow, relatively low flying aircraft, and they are generally committed to support our guys that are in a bad fight. This weapon probably will not be used as some sort of non-discriminate area fire weapon, ( would take too much energy, plus there is a higher risk of losing it to ground fire), but it will help our guys in a fight. If we had used a Spectre in Mogadishu, you folks wouldn't be watching "Black Hawk Down" in the theaters right now. Obviously, I am for it.
For the moralist out there, I wish to ask them one simple question: If we are to be continually called to be the world's cop, like we were in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Somalia, why are you against giving the guys who are doing the dirty work the support to do their jobs? If you don't want us to be the world's cop, then do you have any right to be self rightous about the massacres in these same countries? I oughta know. I did a tour in Sarajevo, Bosnia, right at the beginning of the US mission. So, either you want us to do these missions, and you give us the tools, or you convince your elected officials that you won't get upset by the pictures on TV, and then we don't need these sorts of tools.
It says that it "supports" up to three SCSI drives, whatever that means, but it comes with Ultra ATA drive stock. For a machine of this performance potential, there is no substitute for a really good scsi drive, like the Fujitsu MAN series.
For those that believe that IDE has caught up, I have done a comparison on a Sun Ultra 5, which comes with internal IDE drives, and an optional SCSI interface. We had the stock IDE, and a Sun labeled external SCSI drive, and the SCSI drive kicked old school at about 1.6 times faster.
Considering Apple is marketing this to graphics/music/multimedia pros, who really use bandwidth, this box needs SCSI.
I have seen both mem=nopentium and
append mem=nopentium.
Do I need the append or not?
Thanks,
Greg
My complaint is that main characters would become "Possessed", and then flake out. This plot device was used in TNG, DS9, and Voyager. How many times did Data act irrationally, only to find out that something had taken him over and he was not responsible for sodemizing the warp coil. Same with the other episodes. Whichever writer came up with this deserves to be "Possessed" by some angry fans.
You are exactly right! The world is littered with dead OSes, that lost support from a company, and had no maintainers, because they were closed source. If these OSes were free, they would still be in use, since the geeks and hackers would be maintaining them, and adding features. This is why Linux is where it is, in spite of no organized development model, and nobody is developing Aegis, TRS-80 DOS, or the PRIME OSes.
I cannot argue with any of your points about ESRI. I am in an awkward business position, though, and really would like them to "see the light" through a little bit of positive reinforcement. The ESRI staff is pretty unimaginative on Open Source, and maybe Jack just needs some more info. Thanks, G
I have tried for four years to get the GIS industry leader Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) to port its products to Linux. They have expressed interest, but so far, have ported zero product. The problem is that they have not only leadership, but actual dominance in the industry You can send email to jdangermond@esri.com. Jack Dangermond is the president of the company, and a reasonable man. He has stated in the past that product ports are driven by user demand. Please be polite, ask for the specific product, and refer him to this slashdot site. I think that if he sees that the userbase is considering jumping to Open source, it might help his decision. Thanks Greg
I forget which column, but Robert X. Cringely suggested this technology for PCs, as well. We could be seeing disposible computing coming soon. The interesting part of this to me is that MS products are too expensive for this sort of product. Linux is the obvious choice, as well as KDE or Gnome office programs.
Patrick, Do you still live in the Fargo-Moorhead area? I always suspected that the Internet made geography rather irrelevant, but your location, I am guessing, is fairly distant from your developers and partners. Has geography played much of a hinderance in Slackware? Has the Internet made up for this by harnessing collaboration?