Hard to say. I've wondered the same thing myself. But when pushes comes to shove, I don't really have a problem with an enterprise OS taking their time on a release just as long as it's been through a bit more of regression testing to cut some of the bigger bugfixes out of the way. RHEL5 right now is really a stable foundation OS for the most part, even when using more of the COTS packages right out of the distro (e.g. LAMP setups, PostgreSQL, vsftp, ect.).
So I guess it's now time for RHEL to live up to their hype FTFA and hope that the 4 year wait measures up to the gloat about the 10's of thousands of fixes they poured into the release.
I think I'd be shaking in my boots if I was a Discovery bound astronaut. Although, I think it's a good thing their exhaustive checkout is finding more issues, it's a real drag to see NASA struggling to get one last launch of the Discovery and having such showstopper flaws. I understand that no amount of engineering or preparation can substitute the small amount of pure luck it is to have a successful space launch with all things considered, but you can't help but wonder if there wasn't such drastic funding cutbacks for NASA in space exploration and aeronautics if we'd be seeing a different, more positive outcome from the same reporting.
If it was it was a heavily invested militarized stronghold like the U.S., Great Britian, ect. I would have fell out my chair. I'm not surprised Nicaraguan military uses free earth imaging resources to conduct operations or remote sensing, but it's just that: Free, with a disclaimer to boot! Who cares if you're a 3rd world country, get organized! That's almost scary; wars have been waged on smaller misunderstandings than that...
You have got to be kidding me! At what point would this hold up, ever? I beg to wonder what stakeholder douche with a slight pinch of technological know-how came up with this toilet spin idea. Besides the fact of droning on about how stupid of an idea that is, for anyone who has actually spent time cross-referencing IP address to physical users and are NOT an ISP, it's exhaustive, expensive, mildly time consuming and with all the other entities involved, you better have a damn good reason other than a flawed model to gain income from your website.
Wake up North Country Gazette and welcome to the wide variety the internet has to offer. The amount of users who will just find somewhere else to get their content far outweighs the few dumb ones that will pay for it. That's not business, that's lunacy.
Agreed. It's not like that ~$3 billion was going to be applied solely to our national debt, or something worth-while to keep our economy afloat. Applaud Google for legally avoiding ridiculous taxation. As wasteful and ridiculous as spending of our tax dollars has become more and more every year, I'd prefer to have Google use their break to pillage my personal and private data than have the U.S. Government do it half ass.
I think one of the best games that was on a very un-productive platform (NeoGeo) is R-type. I grew up playing this on an arcade machine and ultimately wanted to buy it and play it at home. I don't think it was ever made for the console systems I had (NES and Atari-2600, at the time). I don't even know anyone who owned a NeoGeo during the early 90's originally. I think R-type was one of those games that survived via arcade success even though it wasn't ported over to a vastly popular gaming system.
We match for two things, technical skill and your ability to jell with the team, specific technologies are rarely that important
...So you match technical skills but the exact technologies you're looking for aren't important? You're kidding right?
That comment alone should make you give up doing the hiring and turn it over to someone else.
That's the whole point to not hire a "...hell of a good guy who get along with everyone but has zero skills in the area you're seeking or lacking in." Where can I put my application in at? Sounds like a hell of a place to work for.
I agree 100% WTFA. In the time I've been employed in the I.T. field, it astounds me that managers and bosses hire on the pure premise of line items on a resume and talking-the-talk, and take a side-line approach to not asking or quizzing outside the realm of if the interviewee still has a pulse and is breathing. It seems like everything is taken at face value and if the 'buzz word' scan on the resume succeeds, so-I-guess-we-are-going-to-hire-them approach becomes all to comfortable.
Any time that I've interviewed anyone, sure, I take their honesty on a resume with some consideration, but I'm more interested in you, the interviewer, proving those skills you have written down on your resume, whether that be an online open-sourced repository, tossing a dry-erase marker at them during the interview, ect and showing your soon-to-be employer you got the stuff than I am wow'ing about someone word-smithing the shit out of their resume.
Contrary to the lame doomsday message IFTA, USB isn't going away, people. I see all the millions of devices that use USB for data transfer, power charging, ect. not to mention cellular phone market is finally starting to standardize to micro-USB. On top of that, there's too many TTL 5v devices out there built and designed around USB that it would cause some serious chaos if it did go away. There's no way that something like LightPeak is going to come in and whisk it off of computer hardware manufacturer's list of "things to provide". It may be a high-speed fad like Firewire or something of the recent past, but USB is here to stay.
It's inevitable that geo-technology and *gasp* geo-equipped apps on cellphones, are going to make this all but even worse in the coming years or decade. IMHO, I don't think you ever get away from that battle unless you harbor legislation that gives them more than a handbook-rule judgement when to or not to help someone when stupidity has reared its ugly head into the matter.
I am all for doing exactly what was quoted in the article: telling them they should have been more prepared and leaving that person out in the bush for the night to figure it out in the morning. However, we know the outcome of that: a bear chews their face off and NFS has a pile of lawsuits on their hands for claims of being negligent in the face of danger, no matter how insignificant the event called it was. Which also means more tax dollars tied up in court on top of calling out the rescue helicopters and NFS commandos.
Why is even Android mentioned ITFA? Android is just than: an embedded, highly tailored, and customized Linux kernel for specific, embedded hardware devices. Comparing distributions with the Linux kernel for end-user consumption in the market made to run on a plethora of hardware and architectures, great. Don't throw Android in there. To me, that's like counting apples in with the oranges.
However, I'm glad there was some sort of data interpretation done and didn't end up being a Ubuntu flamewar. I, myself, started on Redhat 4.x and grew to love (and hate) the RPM packaging system, along with Redhat's idiosyncrasies on the distribution level. I won't say it's been easy trying to find a balance between Fedora, CentOS and RedHat, as far as when to and not-to use bleeding edge; gamble for enterprise support and stick with the community.
Canon just flat out cannot compete in that market with something that will cost too much. Look at the ridiculous amount of effort put up by the kingpin companies like Samsung, Visio, Sony, ect. Their campaigns filled with all the goody-TV-jargon ooze, not to mention anyone with even a remotely hapless budget can afford a 42"+ LCD TV now from them is flat out hard to stand next to.
FTFA, it's unfortunate that SED TV won't survive. But I see it no different that the VHS-vs-Betamax, BlueRay-vs-HDDVD market flame-wars that have taken place of recent memory. Some things that had potential to be better than their rival product sometimes just don't survive or make it.
If Canonical is only tracking OEM installs of Ubuntu, I can't imagine some of those other businesses (NOT Dell) were even contributing to the greater percentage totals Canonical was looking for. Perhaps a way to persuade Dell, yet again, to prove their installation stability and tenure on PCs?
If Canonical is only tracking OEM installs of Ubuntu, I can't imagine some of those other businesses (NOT Dell) were even contributing to the greater percentage totals Canonical was looking for. Perhaps a way to persuade Dell, yet again, to prove their installation stability and tenure on PCs?
I've been through the days where I wanted to do zillions of case mod's to my desktop PC; everything from a 5.25" toggled-switch fan controller bus to microcontroller-controlled lighting system that steals/slaves the 5v power from the PSU (which was pretty bitchin', btw).
All I'm saying is if you're super duper struggling to find a DIY solution to extra 5.25" bays in your PC and went as fas as to ask slashdot'ers what they think, I'd either: 1) just buy a new, slimline case that doesn't have extra bays, 2) take your girlfriend/wife/best friend out to lunch or 3) keep the money in the bank; anything else is just going to be a geek-fad money pit that'll die out sooner than it takes you find another idea to use that empty space for.
Go download it like the rest of the world has already?
Honestly, what kind of statement is that. It's already been leaked. What is there to gain from getting it back? I doubt Wikileaks got a stack of paper from PFC Manning anyway.
IMHO, not only has Verizon become an evil glutton when it's come to data plans in combination with certain (all) phones which are marketed almost as bad as laptops and PCs are now-a-days (e.g. "Multimedia", "Great for checking e-mail and updating your twit-face account"), but THEN want to add tiered broadband access constraints at the user for something they *always* got, and now start referring to some access as *premium*? This shit is out of control.
The mocked up stats ITFA almost seem pretty skewed. I love how the central polling audience are called 'computer users', then went on to ask them their opinions VERY in-depth topic that only someone who loathes in technology for pleasure, employment or both would understand (e.g. DDoS). Since my wife is a 'computer user', I'll make sure to ask her what a her stance on using DDoS attacks against foreign banking institutions and after being drawn in by her blank stare, have her call me a 'nerd' after the fact. Whole article sounds superficial to me.
FTFA, it's no question they aren't going to put space trolls and giant moon worms out there for you to battle in a sim-slash-educational game for lunar exploration and habitat; this isn't 'Pitch Black', people, and Vin Diesel isn't the astronaut.
Now, I don't claim to know a single anything about space exploration, but I can imagine the engineering and thought behind everything that an astronaut has or brings with them has a superior purpose, is highly scrutinized and is, as far as our tax dollars are concerned, thought out.
If they want to make it intriguing, they should throw some puzzle-based problem solving in there: Scenario! We have small tear and/or breech in the cabin... you have access to a Cape Canaveral space pen, a shaving mirror, duct tape and toothpaste. GO!
Of course that's a pretty facetious example, but we know NASA has to deal with these types of things, why not put them in there.
It's too bad that malicious people have to ruin an open-source forum like the Android with crap like this. I can see why Apple scrutinizes over the application approval process because I'm sure this is one concern on top of just being plain difficult about the whole matter.
I guess don't have a criminal mindset and have put my tomfoolery hat away, it's bad enough having hack and malicious threats on the computer level, now my phone? I miss the days of my 2x10 backlit serial display analog cell phone that did nothing more than dial a phone number.
What did Chatroulette think was going to happen when they thought diving into the realms of social networking and adding the element of live video feed of everyone who is on there to anyone wanting to look? It's, of course, easier for an exposer or behaviorally creepy basement dweller to crawl out of their cave online than it is in public.
...but enough of the social network rant. I'm glad to see Chatroulette policing up their mess and trying to enforce some sort of civil 'net etiquette, but someone is going to throw the privacy flag up on this one. Let's be real here: it's a bird's eye view directly into A LOT of homes. Regardless of the intention to track IP addresses and gather screenshots, I can easily seeing this getting abused if it isn't controlled or greed doesn't rear it's ugly head into this.
Linux has always had the extreme flexibility to run on a wide range of processors types not to mention still get a nominal amount of performance and use out of something that is deemed 'obsolete' by Moore's Law. That's why I don't do bleeding edge hardware at home unless I have an absolute need for it (e.g. gaming, or some bloatware application that needs that type of horsepower) and it works great to be a bargain-basement shopper. Do I find this article surprising? Not at all.
Dell's Ubuntu offering was only on a selected bunch of their marketed PCs/laptops anyway, so it may feel like a consumer loss, but I don't see it that way. Heck, I was pricing out a Dell Mini-10 a few months back and wanted to see the differences in getting Ubuntu pre-loaded (since that was what was going to go on it in place of Windows anyway once in arrived to my house) and after jockeying around the sales horn, I found out the only Dell Mini-10 that was offered with Ubuntu was the Nickelodeon Spongebob-branded laptop. Cool for the kids? Sure, but not for me as the real end-consumer of the product who didn't want such a narrow choice.
Linux distributions, as far as installation and get-up-and-go time is concerned, has improved hand-over-foot in the past two years. I don't see a problem having to go download and install Ubuntu onto my new, shiny Dell myself; there's TOO much community support to even make an argument otherwise if you're clueless or don't know where to start.
Continue the off-topic spell-check fetish discussion you provoked or talk about the actual article topic?
You need to stop reading dictionaries for fun, and wasting your employers time. So I used a word wrong in a context. Sounds like you were going to loose enough sleep over it tonight to waste your time brewing up such a childish debate. I can, for sure, tell you anything you replied to in the context of my original post has been nothing more than drivel and off-topic at the very least. Get a life. A shame they still let you carry that low/. UID, peon.
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Hard to say. I've wondered the same thing myself. But when pushes comes to shove, I don't really have a problem with an enterprise OS taking their time on a release just as long as it's been through a bit more of regression testing to cut some of the bigger bugfixes out of the way. RHEL5 right now is really a stable foundation OS for the most part, even when using more of the COTS packages right out of the distro (e.g. LAMP setups, PostgreSQL, vsftp, ect.).
So I guess it's now time for RHEL to live up to their hype FTFA and hope that the 4 year wait measures up to the gloat about the 10's of thousands of fixes they poured into the release.
I think I'd be shaking in my boots if I was a Discovery bound astronaut. Although, I think it's a good thing their exhaustive checkout is finding more issues, it's a real drag to see NASA struggling to get one last launch of the Discovery and having such showstopper flaws. I understand that no amount of engineering or preparation can substitute the small amount of pure luck it is to have a successful space launch with all things considered, but you can't help but wonder if there wasn't such drastic funding cutbacks for NASA in space exploration and aeronautics if we'd be seeing a different, more positive outcome from the same reporting.
If it was it was a heavily invested militarized stronghold like the U.S., Great Britian, ect. I would have fell out my chair. I'm not surprised Nicaraguan military uses free earth imaging resources to conduct operations or remote sensing, but it's just that: Free, with a disclaimer to boot! Who cares if you're a 3rd world country, get organized! That's almost scary; wars have been waged on smaller misunderstandings than that...
You have got to be kidding me! At what point would this hold up, ever? I beg to wonder what stakeholder douche with a slight pinch of technological know-how came up with this toilet spin idea. Besides the fact of droning on about how stupid of an idea that is, for anyone who has actually spent time cross-referencing IP address to physical users and are NOT an ISP, it's exhaustive, expensive, mildly time consuming and with all the other entities involved, you better have a damn good reason other than a flawed model to gain income from your website.
Wake up North Country Gazette and welcome to the wide variety the internet has to offer. The amount of users who will just find somewhere else to get their content far outweighs the few dumb ones that will pay for it. That's not business, that's lunacy.
Agreed. It's not like that ~$3 billion was going to be applied solely to our national debt, or something worth-while to keep our economy afloat. Applaud Google for legally avoiding ridiculous taxation. As wasteful and ridiculous as spending of our tax dollars has become more and more every year, I'd prefer to have Google use their break to pillage my personal and private data than have the U.S. Government do it half ass.
I think one of the best games that was on a very un-productive platform (NeoGeo) is R-type. I grew up playing this on an arcade machine and ultimately wanted to buy it and play it at home. I don't think it was ever made for the console systems I had (NES and Atari-2600, at the time). I don't even know anyone who owned a NeoGeo during the early 90's originally. I think R-type was one of those games that survived via arcade success even though it wasn't ported over to a vastly popular gaming system.
We match for two things, technical skill and your ability to jell with the team, specific technologies are rarely that important
...So you match technical skills but the exact technologies you're looking for aren't important? You're kidding right?
That comment alone should make you give up doing the hiring and turn it over to someone else.
That's the whole point to not hire a "...hell of a good guy who get along with everyone but has zero skills in the area you're seeking or lacking in." Where can I put my application in at? Sounds like a hell of a place to work for.
I agree 100% WTFA. In the time I've been employed in the I.T. field, it astounds me that managers and bosses hire on the pure premise of line items on a resume and talking-the-talk, and take a side-line approach to not asking or quizzing outside the realm of if the interviewee still has a pulse and is breathing. It seems like everything is taken at face value and if the 'buzz word' scan on the resume succeeds, so-I-guess-we-are-going-to-hire-them approach becomes all to comfortable.
Any time that I've interviewed anyone, sure, I take their honesty on a resume with some consideration, but I'm more interested in you, the interviewer, proving those skills you have written down on your resume, whether that be an online open-sourced repository, tossing a dry-erase marker at them during the interview, ect and showing your soon-to-be employer you got the stuff than I am wow'ing about someone word-smithing the shit out of their resume.
Contrary to the lame doomsday message IFTA, USB isn't going away, people. I see all the millions of devices that use USB for data transfer, power charging, ect. not to mention cellular phone market is finally starting to standardize to micro-USB. On top of that, there's too many TTL 5v devices out there built and designed around USB that it would cause some serious chaos if it did go away. There's no way that something like LightPeak is going to come in and whisk it off of computer hardware manufacturer's list of "things to provide". It may be a high-speed fad like Firewire or something of the recent past, but USB is here to stay.
It's inevitable that geo-technology and *gasp* geo-equipped apps on cellphones, are going to make this all but even worse in the coming years or decade. IMHO, I don't think you ever get away from that battle unless you harbor legislation that gives them more than a handbook-rule judgement when to or not to help someone when stupidity has reared its ugly head into the matter.
I am all for doing exactly what was quoted in the article: telling them they should have been more prepared and leaving that person out in the bush for the night to figure it out in the morning. However, we know the outcome of that: a bear chews their face off and NFS has a pile of lawsuits on their hands for claims of being negligent in the face of danger, no matter how insignificant the event called it was. Which also means more tax dollars tied up in court on top of calling out the rescue helicopters and NFS commandos.
Why is even Android mentioned ITFA? Android is just than: an embedded, highly tailored, and customized Linux kernel for specific, embedded hardware devices. Comparing distributions with the Linux kernel for end-user consumption in the market made to run on a plethora of hardware and architectures, great. Don't throw Android in there. To me, that's like counting apples in with the oranges.
However, I'm glad there was some sort of data interpretation done and didn't end up being a Ubuntu flamewar. I, myself, started on Redhat 4.x and grew to love (and hate) the RPM packaging system, along with Redhat's idiosyncrasies on the distribution level. I won't say it's been easy trying to find a balance between Fedora, CentOS and RedHat, as far as when to and not-to use bleeding edge; gamble for enterprise support and stick with the community.
Canon just flat out cannot compete in that market with something that will cost too much. Look at the ridiculous amount of effort put up by the kingpin companies like Samsung, Visio, Sony, ect. Their campaigns filled with all the goody-TV-jargon ooze, not to mention anyone with even a remotely hapless budget can afford a 42"+ LCD TV now from them is flat out hard to stand next to.
FTFA, it's unfortunate that SED TV won't survive. But I see it no different that the VHS-vs-Betamax, BlueRay-vs-HDDVD market flame-wars that have taken place of recent memory. Some things that had potential to be better than their rival product sometimes just don't survive or make it.
If Canonical is only tracking OEM installs of Ubuntu, I can't imagine some of those other businesses (NOT Dell) were even contributing to the greater percentage totals Canonical was looking for. Perhaps a way to persuade Dell, yet again, to prove their installation stability and tenure on PCs?
If Canonical is only tracking OEM installs of Ubuntu, I can't imagine some of those other businesses (NOT Dell) were even contributing to the greater percentage totals Canonical was looking for. Perhaps a way to persuade Dell, yet again, to prove their installation stability and tenure on PCs?
I've been through the days where I wanted to do zillions of case mod's to my desktop PC; everything from a 5.25" toggled-switch fan controller bus to microcontroller-controlled lighting system that steals/slaves the 5v power from the PSU (which was pretty bitchin', btw).
All I'm saying is if you're super duper struggling to find a DIY solution to extra 5.25" bays in your PC and went as fas as to ask slashdot'ers what they think, I'd either: 1) just buy a new, slimline case that doesn't have extra bays, 2) take your girlfriend/wife/best friend out to lunch or 3) keep the money in the bank; anything else is just going to be a geek-fad money pit that'll die out sooner than it takes you find another idea to use that empty space for.
Go download it like the rest of the world has already?
Honestly, what kind of statement is that. It's already been leaked. What is there to gain from getting it back? I doubt Wikileaks got a stack of paper from PFC Manning anyway.
IMHO, not only has Verizon become an evil glutton when it's come to data plans in combination with certain (all) phones which are marketed almost as bad as laptops and PCs are now-a-days (e.g. "Multimedia", "Great for checking e-mail and updating your twit-face account"), but THEN want to add tiered broadband access constraints at the user for something they *always* got, and now start referring to some access as *premium*? This shit is out of control.
The mocked up stats ITFA almost seem pretty skewed. I love how the central polling audience are called 'computer users', then went on to ask them their opinions VERY in-depth topic that only someone who loathes in technology for pleasure, employment or both would understand (e.g. DDoS). Since my wife is a 'computer user', I'll make sure to ask her what a her stance on using DDoS attacks against foreign banking institutions and after being drawn in by her blank stare, have her call me a 'nerd' after the fact. Whole article sounds superficial to me.
FTFA, it's no question they aren't going to put space trolls and giant moon worms out there for you to battle in a sim-slash-educational game for lunar exploration and habitat; this isn't 'Pitch Black', people, and Vin Diesel isn't the astronaut.
Now, I don't claim to know a single anything about space exploration, but I can imagine the engineering and thought behind everything that an astronaut has or brings with them has a superior purpose, is highly scrutinized and is, as far as our tax dollars are concerned, thought out.
If they want to make it intriguing, they should throw some puzzle-based problem solving in there: Scenario! We have small tear and/or breech in the cabin... you have access to a Cape Canaveral space pen, a shaving mirror, duct tape and toothpaste. GO!
Of course that's a pretty facetious example, but we know NASA has to deal with these types of things, why not put them in there.
It's too bad that malicious people have to ruin an open-source forum like the Android with crap like this. I can see why Apple scrutinizes over the application approval process because I'm sure this is one concern on top of just being plain difficult about the whole matter.
I guess don't have a criminal mindset and have put my tomfoolery hat away, it's bad enough having hack and malicious threats on the computer level, now my phone? I miss the days of my 2x10 backlit serial display analog cell phone that did nothing more than dial a phone number.
What did Chatroulette think was going to happen when they thought diving into the realms of social networking and adding the element of live video feed of everyone who is on there to anyone wanting to look? It's, of course, easier for an exposer or behaviorally creepy basement dweller to crawl out of their cave online than it is in public.
...but enough of the social network rant. I'm glad to see Chatroulette policing up their mess and trying to enforce some sort of civil 'net etiquette, but someone is going to throw the privacy flag up on this one. Let's be real here: it's a bird's eye view directly into A LOT of homes. Regardless of the intention to track IP addresses and gather screenshots, I can easily seeing this getting abused if it isn't controlled or greed doesn't rear it's ugly head into this.
Linux has always had the extreme flexibility to run on a wide range of processors types not to mention still get a nominal amount of performance and use out of something that is deemed 'obsolete' by Moore's Law. That's why I don't do bleeding edge hardware at home unless I have an absolute need for it (e.g. gaming, or some bloatware application that needs that type of horsepower) and it works great to be a bargain-basement shopper. Do I find this article surprising? Not at all.
Dell's Ubuntu offering was only on a selected bunch of their marketed PCs/laptops anyway, so it may feel like a consumer loss, but I don't see it that way. Heck, I was pricing out a Dell Mini-10 a few months back and wanted to see the differences in getting Ubuntu pre-loaded (since that was what was going to go on it in place of Windows anyway once in arrived to my house) and after jockeying around the sales horn, I found out the only Dell Mini-10 that was offered with Ubuntu was the Nickelodeon Spongebob-branded laptop. Cool for the kids? Sure, but not for me as the real end-consumer of the product who didn't want such a narrow choice.
Linux distributions, as far as installation and get-up-and-go time is concerned, has improved hand-over-foot in the past two years. I don't see a problem having to go download and install Ubuntu onto my new, shiny Dell myself; there's TOO much community support to even make an argument otherwise if you're clueless or don't know where to start.
Continue the off-topic spell-check fetish discussion you provoked or talk about the actual article topic?
You need to stop reading dictionaries for fun, and wasting your employers time. So I used a word wrong in a context. Sounds like you were going to loose enough sleep over it tonight to waste your time brewing up such a childish debate. I can, for sure, tell you anything you replied to in the context of my original post has been nothing more than drivel and off-topic at the very least. Get a life. A shame they still let you carry that low /. UID, peon.
You mean grammar checker, right? Should I go as far as mentioning that it was homonym issue? Grab your crayons and go back to your cave, troll.