I don't like this. Winmodems are only compatible with Windows because they rely on Windows for firmware. But this requires Windows for no apparent reason
No, it's because if you offload tasks from hardware to software, you can make cheaper modems, and most PCs have CPU to spare.
I'm sure that when Red Hat are in a position to offer cash subsidies to hardware manufacturers, you will see much better Linux support.
"Globalization" in this context usually means the removal of barriers to trade, such as tarriffs. These barriers are artificial anyway, and were not usually erected for economic reasons. For example, a politician might impose a tax in imported steel in order to safeguard steelworkers in his/her own country. Sometimes this might be because the country wants to have steel production capability because it needs to be able to manufacture its own weapons, sometimes it's because the politician wants to votes of the steelworkers and their communities.
Doing so, however, screws the consumer by making them pay higher prices, since without competition the monopolies and unions can dictate their own terms, it screws the taxpayer, who need to pay for the subsidies, it screws trading partners (other countries) who can't sell their products (which may be cheaper or better) and ultimately it screws the beneficiaries, who find that as soon as the barriers are no longer effective, they've become too inefficient to survive.
I must add that this group and the other protestors are not anti trade per say but against trade deciions being made by a small group of men that aren't elected, behind closed doors.
I've seen the posters and the demonstrators. They're against capitalism, industry, trade, the monetary system, the whole works. They seem to think that if they just do away with the economy altogether, they'll be free to party their whole lives. Where on earth do they suppose their dole comes from?
Now, personally, I'm happy for anyone to live any lifestyle they want to. I'm just not happy about paying for it.
Which is why the agreements struck are generally good for megacorps and bad for people.
Those would be the same organizations who employ millions of people, fund the machinery of state through corporate/employment/windfall taxes, and that your pension fund is invested in?
Things are not as black and white as the "anti capitalist" movement would have you believe. What do you suppose the world was like prior to globalization? The garden of Eden?!
I feel that the black community is just as responsible as the white community for the current conditions.
I agree (disclosure: I'm neither black not white:0) ). For example, when white TV executives are casting a black man, they create a character like Dr. Benton on ER - a successful, talented professional. When blacks portray blacks in the media, think about Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre boasting about pimping, dealing crack, stealing cars and whatever.
Case in point: When I was taking a high-level operating systems course, the prof randomly assigned us to groups. My group conferred primarily over e-mail, giving each other code examples, arguing about 'better ways' of doing things, etc. I ALWAYS seemed to have the correct answer, so it got to the point where everyone in the group generally agreed with me when I suggested something.
This is not strictly relevent, but it reminds me of a story one of my professors at grad school told me. A few years ago, she was responsible for dividing the class into small groups to carry out case studies, so she simply made an alphabetical list of the students in the class, drew a line across it every 5 or 6 names and those were the groups. Now, there were a whole group of African (Nigerian, I believe) students in the class, who complained that she'd placed them in a group to segregate them from the class. When it was investigated, it was found that all their surnames began with an O! It wasn't racist at all, just a coincidence.
Incidentally, if anyone, black or white, described themselves to me as a "pimp ass perl hacker" I would immediately assume they were less than competent. Maybe you need to stop using your skin color as an excuse and pay more attention to your professionalism.
Which OS are you using? NT can compress files transparently to applications. Just right-click the file, select "Properties" then check the appropriate box. You won't need to modify any of your code.
If the Males can't see the difference, though,
how does this improve desireability (unless it
becomes one of those unconsciously perceived
bits...)?
Let me give you an example. There are lots of ads on the TV for cosmetic products to be used on eyelashes. Thick, curled lashes are said to be very important. Now, I've never looked at a girl and thought <austin powers>"nice eyelashes, baby, yeah"</austin powers>. But if females are willing to spend $ on products to improve their eyelashes, then it stands to reason that they must have an effect on males that (at least some) males are unable to perceive consciously.
You could easily run it using VMWarez (or whatever it's called, that thing that's like WINE but isn't, you know the one I mean). And there is a native Solaris version of MSIE.
As many people have said both here on Slashdot and elsewhere, information is not "naturally" a resource that suffers from economies of supply/scarcity.
What utter nonsense. Where do you suppose information comes from in the first place? It's produced by expensive (scarce & overworked) people using expensive (difficult to manufacture) equipment. It is typical of/. to assume that all worthwhile information is produced purely for the pleasure of the producers. For example, while pure science may be the motivation of experimental physicists, someone's still got to write a cheque for a billion dollars for a new supercollider.
So here's a question, how many people in the world make their living purely though Open Source? What percentage of the overall user population is that? If you can't answer that off the top of your head, then information is *not* free:0)
Your offspring should start out the same way as everybody else. It makes me puke, when rich people, who has been rich for generations, goes ahead and brings the fortune to the nextgen, and the nextgen, and so forth.
So what should happen to the wealth? Should it go to the government? To the "poor" or "deserving" (whoever they are)? Should the accomplishments of a life be destroyed on that person's death?
It's the right of a creator or wealth to dispose of his or her property as they see fit - if this means leaving it to their offspring, then that's their choice, not the government's, and certainly not yours.
If I know how to make a certain algorithm, I should be able to use it in my software
In what way is that not leeching? You're using someone else's original thoughts without their permission. It's no different from stealing electricity from the power company, time from the phone company, or any other theft of a service.
In mediæval time, scholars would study and create in secret, and burn their notes rather than let the Church steal their knowledge. You'd plunge us back into a world like that.
"some people can't afford to have children" is sick and wrong
No it isn't. What sort of an irresponsible parent would be willing to have children that they couldn't provide for? Morally, that's equivalent to sending your children out naked into the cold and hoping that a passerby will offer them their coat.
What do you consider to be an ureasonably large salary?
Let's not forget that the average consulting firm charges >$200/hr for a professional's time. Assuming billing 60 hrs a week for 50 weeks a year, that's $600000. And almost all expenses are billable to the client. When you look at it this way, even a $70K salary is pretty close to exploitation unless there are serious cash bonus payments every year a la banking.
Why would they force you to sign an NDA to develop for it? Why shouldn't they make the consessions, open up their API and allow people to develop freely for their closed platform.
That's easy. Sony take a loss on every Playstation they sell, and make their money on licencing fees from games publishers. And because they're selling the platform, they have a vested interesting making sure only good quality games can ever be played on it, the risk to their brand is too great. It's like the way telcos will give you a mobile handset for free (or at low cost) and make their money from call charges, or Gilette will make their money from the razor blades, not the handles.
So, Sony can't give away developer kits and licences, even if they wanted to, because doing so would invalidate their business model.
I've worked on online banking systems. We could not support any X based clients on legal grounds, as there is no way to guarantee the security of the transaction: a direct SSL connection to a desktop running X over a Unix domain socket is one thing, but running Netscape on a remote machine, then the user viewing the page sent unencrypted over their LAN was judged by our client to be an unacceptable risk. *Shrug* so there you have it.
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No, it's because if you offload tasks from hardware to software, you can make cheaper modems, and most PCs have CPU to spare.
I'm sure that when Red Hat are in a position to offer cash subsidies to hardware manufacturers, you will see much better Linux support.
Why was that moderated as flamebait? It's clear that jcostom knows what he's talking about, and that antis0c hadn't actually tried it.
"Globalization" in this context usually means the removal of barriers to trade, such as tarriffs. These barriers are artificial anyway, and were not usually erected for economic reasons. For example, a politician might impose a tax in imported steel in order to safeguard steelworkers in his/her own country. Sometimes this might be because the country wants to have steel production capability because it needs to be able to manufacture its own weapons, sometimes it's because the politician wants to votes of the steelworkers and their communities.
Doing so, however, screws the consumer by making them pay higher prices, since without competition the monopolies and unions can dictate their own terms, it screws the taxpayer, who need to pay for the subsidies, it screws trading partners (other countries) who can't sell their products (which may be cheaper or better) and ultimately it screws the beneficiaries, who find that as soon as the barriers are no longer effective, they've become too inefficient to survive.
I must add that this group and the other protestors are not anti trade per say but against trade deciions being made by a small group of men that aren't elected, behind closed doors.
I've seen the posters and the demonstrators. They're against capitalism, industry, trade, the monetary system, the whole works. They seem to think that if they just do away with the economy altogether, they'll be free to party their whole lives. Where on earth do they suppose their dole comes from?
Now, personally, I'm happy for anyone to live any lifestyle they want to. I'm just not happy about paying for it.
Wow, what an interesting life you must have.
Those would be the same organizations who employ millions of people, fund the machinery of state through corporate/employment/windfall taxes, and that your pension fund is invested in?
Things are not as black and white as the "anti capitalist" movement would have you believe. What do you suppose the world was like prior to globalization? The garden of Eden?!
Analyst research from investment banks usually has that information.
I agree (disclosure: I'm neither black not white :0) ). For example, when white TV executives are casting a black man, they create a character like Dr. Benton on ER - a successful, talented professional. When blacks portray blacks in the media, think about Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre boasting about pimping, dealing crack, stealing cars and whatever.
This is not strictly relevent, but it reminds me of a story one of my professors at grad school told me. A few years ago, she was responsible for dividing the class into small groups to carry out case studies, so she simply made an alphabetical list of the students in the class, drew a line across it every 5 or 6 names and those were the groups. Now, there were a whole group of African (Nigerian, I believe) students in the class, who complained that she'd placed them in a group to segregate them from the class. When it was investigated, it was found that all their surnames began with an O! It wasn't racist at all, just a coincidence.
Incidentally, if anyone, black or white, described themselves to me as a "pimp ass perl hacker" I would immediately assume they were less than competent. Maybe you need to stop using your skin color as an excuse and pay more attention to your professionalism.
Which OS are you using? NT can compress files transparently to applications. Just right-click the file, select "Properties" then check the appropriate box. You won't need to modify any of your code.
You mean like sendmail and BIND? Try searching the CERT advisories and you'll see what I mean.
According to this article, the Canadian "quality of life" is largely irrelevant.
Sure, why not?
Well, they don't own HTML either, yet they produce the best (fastest, most robust, best looking, most popular) HTML application. What's your point?
Probably a lot sooner if Intel start giving VTune to developers for free. Which makes sense if they want to sell CPUs in competition with AMD.
Let me give you an example. There are lots of ads on the TV for cosmetic products to be used on eyelashes. Thick, curled lashes are said to be very important. Now, I've never looked at a girl and thought <austin powers>"nice eyelashes, baby, yeah"</austin powers>. But if females are willing to spend $ on products to improve their eyelashes, then it stands to reason that they must have an effect on males that (at least some) males are unable to perceive consciously.
You could easily run it using VMWarez (or whatever it's called, that thing that's like WINE but isn't, you know the one I mean). And there is a native Solaris version of MSIE.
Quite. Let's see how well these "open source" databases do in TPC-C and -H.
Why not just assume that we have an infinite power source and all components are infinitely reliable? Then you wouldn't need all that disk. :0)
What utter nonsense. Where do you suppose information comes from in the first place? It's produced by expensive (scarce & overworked) people using expensive (difficult to manufacture) equipment. It is typical of /. to assume that all worthwhile information is produced purely for the pleasure of the producers. For example, while pure science may be the motivation of experimental physicists, someone's still got to write a cheque for a billion dollars for a new supercollider.
So here's a question, how many people in the world make their living purely though Open Source? What percentage of the overall user population is that? If you can't answer that off the top of your head, then information is *not* free :0)
So what should happen to the wealth? Should it go to the government? To the "poor" or "deserving" (whoever they are)? Should the accomplishments of a life be destroyed on that person's death?
It's the right of a creator or wealth to dispose of his or her property as they see fit - if this means leaving it to their offspring, then that's their choice, not the government's, and certainly not yours.
If I know how to make a certain algorithm, I should be able to use it in my software
In what way is that not leeching? You're using someone else's original thoughts without their permission. It's no different from stealing electricity from the power company, time from the phone company, or any other theft of a service.
In mediæval time, scholars would study and create in secret, and burn their notes rather than let the Church steal their knowledge. You'd plunge us back into a world like that.
No it isn't. What sort of an irresponsible parent would be willing to have children that they couldn't provide for? Morally, that's equivalent to sending your children out naked into the cold and hoping that a passerby will offer them their coat.
Damn right it is - I want all the money, all the guns and all the women!
Let's not forget that the average consulting firm charges >$200/hr for a professional's time. Assuming billing 60 hrs a week for 50 weeks a year, that's $600000. And almost all expenses are billable to the client. When you look at it this way, even a $70K salary is pretty close to exploitation unless there are serious cash bonus payments every year a la banking.
That's easy. Sony take a loss on every Playstation they sell, and make their money on licencing fees from games publishers. And because they're selling the platform, they have a vested interesting making sure only good quality games can ever be played on it, the risk to their brand is too great. It's like the way telcos will give you a mobile handset for free (or at low cost) and make their money from call charges, or Gilette will make their money from the razor blades, not the handles.
So, Sony can't give away developer kits and licences, even if they wanted to, because doing so would invalidate their business model.
I've worked on online banking systems. We could not support any X based clients on legal grounds, as there is no way to guarantee the security of the transaction: a direct SSL connection to a desktop running X over a Unix domain socket is one thing, but running Netscape on a remote machine, then the user viewing the page sent unencrypted over their LAN was judged by our client to be an unacceptable risk. *Shrug* so there you have it.