I've never stepped up to a major project such as that except with friends of mine and such, of which often we did not release a finished product (except to ourselves). Much of my graphics code is available at TPU.org (or was)... All this talk about kernel hacking and such, I think that I shall:-) It will be fun. Anyways, about the IPO, definately gonna get my mom in on this one:-)
With all due respect, people still use cell phones, and that technology has been around for a while. The only drawback that these phones had was that they were imperatively expensive. A company that could offer them for cellular prices, and provide all of the other technological tidbits that these have to offer over cellular would do very well.
If someone were to buy those satellites and put them to good use, this would be a bad move. Unfortunately, the only offer was from the United States Department of Defense, and they have since retracted their offer. It is a shame to see them go, tragic actually...
However,
NASA is applauding the decision to scuttle these satellites. If they were to stay up in the air, they would be unused space debris, which complicates missions and is potentially dangerous. This move is actually strategically removing potentially dangerous debris, not just destroying valuable equipment so others can use it for a bargain...
Altruistically, they could just lower the offering price to something trivial, but businesswise, this would be a bad move. The company that bought it would be able to offer the service that they designed, for a fraction of the cost, and edge out their potential future market.
"but this certainly puts some power behind the whole Open Source concept."
Not to be offensive, but the open source concept already has as much power as it will ever need by all parties who will ever be concerned. Most developers don't look to M$ as a deity, and end users don't care about the source code.
Well, first, Linux users tend to be a little bit more intelligent as computer users go. I think that the migration to linux will probably cause a greater awareness in the general community of end users, which will cause people to be less stupid about performing actions that will cause them to get viruses.
Also, the security in linux is far better than the paper cutout security in that other more popular OS. When your system has actual access permissions set up, rather than just a little game that sits on top of the OS and plays dungeon master, and you truly have well defined user restrictions in place, there is little that a virus could do, even if you are infected.
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People have been saying that unix is dead for years, which shows a lack of knowledge of the fact that unix is still the dominant operating system in the world today (or flavors of it). As for network environments, the original distributed OS's were based on that, including sunOS. As of yet, unix seems to be one of a very few OS's that are keen to distributed/network environments. In fact, it seems to be the best suited all around.
Unix is the power of the future. Simple, elegant, adaptable. A command line can be made to do millions of things that it would take millions of separate windows programs to do, from smaller, beautiful component programs. Any drive/file/or piece of hardware is instantly transferred to a network or a new use via a pipe. Older software works with newer hardware, and this will stay the same. Choices of shells, mulituser, multitasking, multienvironment. This is perfect for systems that control our homes, that speak to us, that learn, and that work with each other, distributing tasks, or acting at the core of a household in which all appliances have computer interfaces or embedded systems.
Unix is here to stay, because unix is whatever you want it to be. Where windows says, adapt to me, unix says, I will adapt to you.
Ok, I have read a few odd responses, and let me just clarify, and say, while it is a nice thought... Flat out no. The only entity that would experience a change in time is the signal itself. Time would remain unaltered for all other entities outside the closed system inside the signal. (Just like the light speed train problem in college physics, and the clock on the SR-71). Since the signal is being transmitted in the right order to us, it would not come backwards. It would just arrive at it's destination in a time shorter than it would take for like to get there. So if there's a transmitter one light year away, it would probably take a significantly shorter amount of time to reach us. This is supposing that it is actually exceeding the speed of light. Were it an actual wormhole, this wouldn't even be actual travel time, it would be instantaneous, I'm here in the universe, now I'm there. Parts of it would be distance x appart while it is moving through the wormhole. This, however, seems to have a bit shorter range, unless you investing a rather large amount of energy, perhaps it could be useful for a superhigh speed computer processor... But you better get a serious cooling system for it.
Redhat has neither the financing, nor the clout that microsoft does. There isn't really much way for them to setup a program of the nature that surrounds the MCSE because there just aren't enough people in their company, enough resources, or the popular support for it. BUT, from the sounds of this, this is quite possibly a superior course, for what seems to be a superior platform.
Of course, neither of these is a college degree... For 5k, you could be sending an employee to night classes at a university.
Specific training for system software is good and important and all, but nowhere near as valuable as a degree.
I can't say that I have been having much problems finding companionship lately... I do have one particular girl that I would like to fix things with... But heck, this could be fun!
Pigs are supposed to be one the the best animals to take a direct animal organ transplant from, and it is said that it is VERY easy to grow extremely human compatible organs in them.
Ironically, many colleges that don't already have large unix systems, and even some that do, are going to a linux curriculum. Most of them have been using gnu untilities for a long time, my university uses gcc and gnat.
Colleges know that unix (or a variant) is the way to go for true, serious computer science. Most high schools are administrated by people who do not know well of this, and opt for a windows based curriculum.
Unfortunately, you will probably have to wait until college to truly be fulfilled. It is funny that high schools would scoff at a curriculum that most universities take very seriously, in favor of one that most professors would laugh at.
Committees are for reference, but politicians may not understand what these committees are getting at. Also, the unfortunate downfall of our wonderful political system is the same of it strength. Politicians must bow the the whims of their constituents. While this may mean that they are controlled by the people, it also means that they have to get the attention of people. By passing an "anti-hacker" law, a legislator can get much more attention, than by voting it down, as their constituents may not understand/believe that it is misguided.
UCITA got voted up in my state... That is a good enough example. That document is an abomination, yet I am sure that next term, many delegates will say how they voted for it and it enables commerce.
I am sorry, but I maintain my position. I'm not saying that these people are foolish, but I am saying that they make mistakes... Or sometimes moves merely for political interest. And I am not decrying them for this. It is a necessary evil. The legal system will fix itself over time, this I know, that is what makes our country great. But Prohibition... Slavery... You get the picture.
Oh yeah, I meant to say "Thank God they said this"...BUT, also, a lot of the application of existing laws is misguided, and will lead to the downfall of western civilization:-) Also, to hear Reno and a bunch of others talk a few weeks ago, what do you think? Right...
All of this government talk has me more than a little bit concerned.
A lot of this legislation is completely misguided, and often rooted in the hands of people who are completely clueless about what they are talking about in this area.
Many of the government's decisions in relation to anything computer related of late have seemed irrational, misguided, and harmful. Much of which shows a high degree of paranoia, and a lack of knowledge about the subjects at hand.
I hate to see a politician stand up at a podium and spout about how our world is at the mercy of "hackers." Or how "dangerous" those damn DoS attacks were a couple of weeks ago.
If this doesn't stop, this world won't be a safe place for anyone, us in particular. We'll have big software corporations that can shut down our computer for not renewing a site license on their screensaver package, they already passed the ever damned UCITA in my state (Virginia), people will be able to seize my computer because my third cousin was suspected of using a banned encryption algorithm in his sappy love letters to his girlfriend, and in general, we'll take a nice smackdown every day and beg for more because everyone who votes will be too dumb to figure out what the hell any of this means, and they'll cry when someone says "HACKER."
Ok, this is probably a bit much. But still, even talking like this, and showing this much ignorance, and passing misguided laws that smack of a lack of understanding and paranoia... It just irritates me.
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I've never stepped up to a major project such as that except with friends of mine and such, of which often we did not release a finished product (except to ourselves). Much of my graphics code is available at TPU.org (or was)... All this talk about kernel hacking and such, I think that I shall :-) It will be fun. Anyways, about the IPO, definately gonna get my mom in on this one :-)
Just compile a unix app to do it. If nobody noticed, all of the really "BIG" things still use some unix derrivative for their heavy work.
It might not be the choice of the GNU generation, but it'll work, maybe with a little tweaking, and it'll kick arse when it does.
With all due respect, people still use cell phones, and that technology has been around for a while. The only drawback that these phones had was that they were imperatively expensive. A company that could offer them for cellular prices, and provide all of the other technological tidbits that these have to offer over cellular would do very well.
If someone were to buy those satellites and put them to good use, this would be a bad move. Unfortunately, the only offer was from the United States Department of Defense, and they have since retracted their offer. It is a shame to see them go, tragic actually...
However,
NASA is applauding the decision to scuttle these satellites. If they were to stay up in the air, they would be unused space debris, which complicates missions and is potentially dangerous. This move is actually strategically removing potentially dangerous debris, not just destroying valuable equipment so others can use it for a bargain...
Altruistically, they could just lower the offering price to something trivial, but businesswise, this would be a bad move. The company that bought it would be able to offer the service that they designed, for a fraction of the cost, and edge out their potential future market.
Que sera sera...
Hrmm. As long as THESE people are trustworthy.
By rights, copyrights...
But then, who has rights? Maybe just priveledges?
The priveledged few, and not necessarily those who are deserving has been my experience.
"but this certainly puts some power behind the whole Open Source concept."
Not to be offensive, but the open source concept already has as much power as it will ever need by all parties who will ever be concerned. Most developers don't look to M$ as a deity, and end users don't care about the source code.
Well, first, Linux users tend to be a little bit more intelligent as computer users go. I think that the migration to linux will probably cause a greater awareness in the general community of end users, which will cause people to be less stupid about performing actions that will cause them to get viruses.
Also, the security in linux is far better than the paper cutout security in that other more popular OS. When your system has actual access permissions set up, rather than just a little game that sits on top of the OS and plays dungeon master, and you truly have well defined user restrictions in place, there is little that a virus could do, even if you are infected.
People have been saying that unix is dead for years, which shows a lack of knowledge of the fact that unix is still the dominant operating system in the world today (or flavors of it). As for network environments, the original distributed OS's were based on that, including sunOS. As of yet, unix seems to be one of a very few OS's that are keen to distributed/network environments. In fact, it seems to be the best suited all around.
Unix is the power of the future. Simple, elegant, adaptable. A command line can be made to do millions of things that it would take millions of separate windows programs to do, from smaller, beautiful component programs. Any drive/file/or piece of hardware is instantly transferred to a network or a new use via a pipe. Older software works with newer hardware, and this will stay the same. Choices of shells, mulituser, multitasking, multienvironment. This is perfect for systems that control our homes, that speak to us, that learn, and that work with each other, distributing tasks, or acting at the core of a household in which all appliances have computer interfaces or embedded systems.
Unix is here to stay, because unix is whatever you want it to be. Where windows says, adapt to me, unix says, I will adapt to you.
Ok, I have read a few odd responses, and let me just clarify, and say, while it is a nice thought... Flat out no. The only entity that would experience a change in time is the signal itself. Time would remain unaltered for all other entities outside the closed system inside the signal. (Just like the light speed train problem in college physics, and the clock on the SR-71). Since the signal is being transmitted in the right order to us, it would not come backwards. It would just arrive at it's destination in a time shorter than it would take for like to get there. So if there's a transmitter one light year away, it would probably take a significantly shorter amount of time to reach us. This is supposing that it is actually exceeding the speed of light. Were it an actual wormhole, this wouldn't even be actual travel time, it would be instantaneous, I'm here in the universe, now I'm there. Parts of it would be distance x appart while it is moving through the wormhole. This, however, seems to have a bit shorter range, unless you investing a rather large amount of energy, perhaps it could be useful for a superhigh speed computer processor... But you better get a serious cooling system for it.
Hey, now we will be be able to get great throughput to that martian base without having to have a huge satellite array ;-)
Redhat has neither the financing, nor the clout that microsoft does. There isn't really much way for them to setup a program of the nature that surrounds the MCSE because there just aren't enough people in their company, enough resources, or the popular support for it. BUT, from the sounds of this, this is quite possibly a superior course, for what seems to be a superior platform.
Of course, neither of these is a college degree... For 5k, you could be sending an employee to night classes at a university.
Specific training for system software is good and important and all, but nowhere near as valuable as a degree.
I can't say that I have been having much problems finding companionship lately... I do have one particular girl that I would like to fix things with... But heck, this could be fun!
You could have sex 3.14 times... On second thought, make that 3 or 4.
Hehe, on a related note, you could eat a pie. Sorry, just had to make those puns.
Pigs are supposed to be one the the best animals to take a direct animal organ transplant from, and it is said that it is VERY easy to grow extremely human compatible organs in them.
Slashdot would have been a better name though...
I suppose that the big question is, is this really a good move...
I think that they really have a lot to offer each other... but I wonder if real time linux won't just sort of be eaten as an entity by cygnus.
Ironically, many colleges that don't already have large unix systems, and even some that do, are going to a linux curriculum. Most of them have been using gnu untilities for a long time, my university uses gcc and gnat.
Colleges know that unix (or a variant) is the way to go for true, serious computer science. Most high schools are administrated by people who do not know well of this, and opt for a windows based curriculum.
Unfortunately, you will probably have to wait until college to truly be fulfilled. It is funny that high schools would scoff at a curriculum that most universities take very seriously, in favor of one that most professors would laugh at.
Heck yeah. Tell em all that you set this up, so you get the vote.
But don't give them the power, since you really don't want what they would try to do to happen, and you couldn't enforce it anyway.
The world rocks.
I loved this program. I'm really glad that there will be a linux release. I still have a version of it on my parents' mac back home.
From what I understand, they fixed this problem last week. I saw it on ZDTV...Take it with the reliability that you credit to them as a news source...
Exactly. The strength of our government is that our legislators must appease the people. The weakness is that they must advertise to them.
Committees are for reference, but politicians may not understand what these committees are getting at. Also, the unfortunate downfall of our wonderful political system is the same of it strength. Politicians must bow the the whims of their constituents. While this may mean that they are controlled by the people, it also means that they have to get the attention of people. By passing an "anti-hacker" law, a legislator can get much more attention, than by voting it down, as their constituents may not understand/believe that it is misguided.
UCITA got voted up in my state... That is a good enough example. That document is an abomination, yet I am sure that next term, many delegates will say how they voted for it and it enables commerce.
I am sorry, but I maintain my position. I'm not saying that these people are foolish, but I am saying that they make mistakes... Or sometimes moves merely for political interest. And I am not decrying them for this. It is a necessary evil. The legal system will fix itself over time, this I know, that is what makes our country great. But Prohibition... Slavery... You get the picture.
Oh yeah, I meant to say "Thank God they said this"...BUT, also, a lot of the application of existing laws is misguided, and will lead to the downfall of western civilization :-) Also, to hear Reno and a bunch of others talk a few weeks ago, what do you think? Right...
All of this government talk has me more than a little bit concerned.
A lot of this legislation is completely misguided, and often rooted in the hands of people who are completely clueless about what they are talking about in this area.
Many of the government's decisions in relation to anything computer related of late have seemed irrational, misguided, and harmful. Much of which shows a high degree of paranoia, and a lack of knowledge about the subjects at hand.
I hate to see a politician stand up at a podium and spout about how our world is at the mercy of "hackers." Or how "dangerous" those damn DoS attacks were a couple of weeks ago.
If this doesn't stop, this world won't be a safe place for anyone, us in particular. We'll have big software corporations that can shut down our computer for not renewing a site license on their screensaver package, they already passed the ever damned UCITA in my state (Virginia), people will be able to seize my computer because my third cousin was suspected of using a banned encryption algorithm in his sappy love letters to his girlfriend, and in general, we'll take a nice smackdown every day and beg for more because everyone who votes will be too dumb to figure out what the hell any of this means, and they'll cry when someone says "HACKER."
Ok, this is probably a bit much. But still, even talking like this, and showing this much ignorance, and passing misguided laws that smack of a lack of understanding and paranoia... It just irritates me.
Hrmm, for robotics enthusiasts, has anybody tried a fisheye vision system? Could be some interesting stuff :-)