Well, ATM is good for rerouting calls if a particular link fails, so if they have a well meshed network then ATM will automagically reroute active calls around the failed or congested link.
But back to the point, this guy is just spouting buzzwords and TLAs in a futile attempt to sound like he understands the tech in question.
If and only if you believe that your action will influence manufacturer B -- otherwise you sacrificed something for nothing.
Why would you have made the choice if you didn't believe it would influence B. So beliving in you're ability to change B is the necessary and sufficent condition for B to change. Probably not what you meant.
And I don't believe the shit about "If only everybody did this, then....". History provides ample arguments that when everybody has to do something, the malcontents invariably end up either on the stake or in concentration camps.
Thats a little over the top. How about a more down to earth line of reasioning. If enough people did this then it would cause change. Say if enough people band together and buy products from A and give the reason that they specifically bought A because of A's policies, A's competitors would be irrational not to follow in A's footsteps, if for no reason than to recapture market share.
It boils down to personal responsibility. Make the right choices with the thought in mind that you are not the only person on this planet, and paying 5 dollars more for something that has less of a damaging effect is actually a good deal.
Take the detonator drivers on the Riva 128 and TNT for example. Performance increased a good 35% (brought a 128 close to a Voodoo2 for QuakeII), just by changing drivers. You rarely see that kind of optimization in Open source stuff.
Thats because its usually done right to begin with. Any company can push a crappy driver out the door and then release what they should have in the first place and claim a 35% increase.
With open source drivers this simply doesn't happen. You put out crap, someone goes over the source and you get a whole lot of feedback that goes a lot like "Dude, your code sucks." Now, once in a while one of those flame mails will come with helpful patches, but the flames are a form of QA on open source drivers, or anything for that matter.
With a little time and attention, "he" begins to seem awfully non-representative. The whole "he or she" construction is so freakin' awkward as to distract attention from the point in hand.. particularly in spoken conversation.
So what is it then? I *hate* the he or she construct. They or their is equally broken most of the time. In classes where people are sensitive about the pronoun-gender nonsense I end up restructuring things so I can use "individual" or some other wordy kludge.
I understand the point they make about "he", but for the most part English is gender neutral. There are many other languages which are structuarlly gendered, and I don't hear complaints about them.
Cheap gig, great. More support for and old conecpt in networking. I just wish there was more support for a certain networking technology which would in turn help another related project. Instead we see a lot of progress in gig because its easy. Throwing bandwith and a bunch of buffer space in a switch is a crummy way to do QoS. Aside from the ATM vs. Gig rant, this really doesn't mean a whole lot. Yeah LANs are fast, this isn't news to anyone. I don't see anyone complaining about the network performance on their desktop at 100Mb/s switched. So whats the deal? The big step forward in networking is when we can see something that gets close to the performace of atleast 10Mb/s to residential and buinesses that doesn't cost a small fortune.
In SV they have some complexes with this sort of thing. The problem is when the apartment mgmt doesn't understand what kind of resources people need for entertainment type network use, and you end up with a couple hundred people contending for bandwitdh on a single T1.
Some places with 10/100 equipment force 10 so as not to overwhelm the frame backplane on some frame/cell switches. 99 times out of 100 (switched)10Mbps gets it done. For traffic that goes out to Tier 1 networks it doesn't matter. Usually you run into a T3 somewhere and your have to contend with god knows how many others for a little bit of that 45Mbps. Locally 100 is *really* nice, but 10 is a whole lot better than what most people have.
What's really bad is when they start pronouncing the acronyms like they were words.
Oh so you walk around saying stuff like "S-C-S-I" and "L-A-N". Its not lazy, its just the generally accepted way to say these things. I'd probably think you were a luser trying to sound smart if you said. "I need an I-S-A ethernet N-I-C for my machine.", instead of "I need a ISA NIC for my crappy 486." or something to that effect.
Recently, they've ditched the widget. In place there seems to be just a little plastic ball in there, although I haven't mutilated the can to see if there's any other goodies in there. It creates the same head, cascade and all, just probably cheaper to make.
I agree with your assessment of Bay Area corp. culture. The reason it is that way is due to the number of jobs out there. Us Bay Area geeks don't have to put up with crap, since we can always find another job within an hour. However this has some downsides. Lets face it, San Jose blows. Its nothing but sprawl, and outside of downtown you'd think having more than 2 stories on a building was against the law. The thing thats going to kill this area is the housing costs. Gee I really look forward to spending close to a mil for a 1950s track home.
...What is supported is the notion of striking out unreasonably clauses, leaving the majority intact. And surely a court of law would find reality to be other than black and white.
And by not abiding by the terms of the GPL they have no right to redistribute the software. The reality is that they could:
Distribute the software without the changes
Come in line with the GPL and distrbute as normal.
If you extend your argument, some parts of standard EULAs could be striken as unreasonable, that doesn't mean I can freely distribute it.
Its not like the code's locked up or anything. Just follow the current kernel tree and make the patches to the PPC arch. If Linus feels like adding it in to the official tree it will happen. If you don't like it, you have the source don't you? I'm not advocating a fork here mind you, but patches seem to work just fine.
There is a way for HP 720C, 820C, and 1000C winprinters to work under linux. PPA for the masses It does not have color support but will print black text and graphics just fine.
The depths of stupidity that some of these ACs can reach is unbelievable...
It was a joke, albeit not too funny, its probably an inside one. Secondly who cares if Rob gets some free stuff. More over if Rob was to editorialize about Sony being greatest stuff on earth, how many/. readers would fire up the flamethrowers on it? A lot.
In conclusion: Who cares? Its a joke, and "you" contains a "y" and an "o". Try to use all the letters of a given word when asking people to take you seriously.
It looks like other site because its a simple design. Making a site more useful is not selling out, not that a commercial company can sell out... By definition they have already sold out. This redhat bashing is senseless. What have they ever done that is wrong or is against the community. They pay programmers to work on Free Software projects. Those Bastards! They GPL their code. Corporate Sellouts! Oh wait, I know what their fault is.. They're sucessful, and are gaining mainstream acceptance. gasp! So Linux is loosing alitle bit of its mystery and your elitism is being threatened. So sad, you'll have to go find another counterculture OS to identify with. Me, I use it because it works. An OS is not a lifestyle, its a tool.
You can say the same about BSD, if you have different library versions on different machines you won't get the binaries to work right either. Linux systems have one thing in common, the same kernel. Will I have problems copying a binary linked against libfoo 1.5 to a system with libfoo 1.0? Yes. Is that Linux specific? No.
PacBell offers 384k/128k ADSL, however your upstream is capped at 128k(pretty standard.) If your line qualifies, your base is 384k but you can get up to, according to PacBell's page 3Mbps if you are close to the CO. I know people about a mile out that get around 1.5Mbps down. DSL speed degrades with distance so if you get more, good for you, if you don't oh well. The real limiting factor is the 128k capped uplink, I know a couple guys sharing a 384k/128k DSL line, while one is playing Tribes and the other is FTPing, the uplink becomes saturated and lag sets in pretty bad. Get SDSL where possible to avoid that. The synchronous data transfer will make your connection a lot more efficient.
Recent versions of pgcc and binutils have support for K6-2,3 specific things, 3dnow for example. If you're whining about the K6(not the K6-2,3), its pretty much a P5, so you can still see a performance gain over i386 binaries if you compile with pgcc.
Exactly. Back in my younger days (6 or 7) I hacked BASIC code to get my games to work right, played with electronics kits, etc. I sure as hell knew how to plug a wire onto a recepticle, and I probably had enough sense not to drive a powerwheels onto the freeway.;)
Have you ever been to a jury selection? Any hint of an education or intellegence and you're out. Lawyer's don't want people who think for themselves on a jury. Sad but true.
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Really.. then whats the in the last column of your link?
Acutually i thing its a GNUStep logo, WM uses it too.
Well, ATM is good for rerouting calls if a particular link fails, so if they have a well meshed network then ATM will automagically reroute active calls around the failed or congested link.
But back to the point, this guy is just spouting buzzwords and TLAs in a futile attempt to sound like he understands the tech in question.
Not to say the technology hasn't been around for quite a while. Everyone just got fixated on IP and Frame networks..
NeXT Cube is good, but there actually is a group by the name of 10BassT.
If and only if you believe that your action will influence manufacturer B -- otherwise you sacrificed something for nothing.
Why would you have made the choice if you didn't believe it would influence B. So beliving in you're ability to change B is the necessary and sufficent condition for B to change. Probably not what you meant.
And I don't believe the shit about "If only everybody did this, then....". History provides ample arguments that when everybody has to do something, the malcontents invariably end up either on the stake or in concentration camps.
Thats a little over the top. How about a more down to earth line of reasioning. If enough people did this then it would cause change. Say if enough people band together and buy products from A and give the reason that they specifically bought A because of A's policies, A's competitors would be irrational not to follow in A's footsteps, if for no reason than to recapture market share.
It boils down to personal responsibility. Make the right choices with the thought in mind that you are not the only person on this planet, and paying 5 dollars more for something that has less of a damaging effect is actually a good deal.
Take the detonator drivers on the Riva 128 and TNT for example. Performance increased a good 35% (brought a 128 close to a Voodoo2 for QuakeII), just by changing drivers. You rarely see that kind of optimization in Open source stuff.
Thats because its usually done right to begin with. Any company can push a crappy driver out the door and then release what they should have in the first place and claim a 35% increase.
With open source drivers this simply doesn't happen. You put out crap, someone goes over the source and you get a whole lot of feedback that goes a lot like "Dude, your code sucks." Now, once in a while one of those flame mails will come with helpful patches, but the flames are a form of QA on open source drivers, or anything for that matter.
So what is it then? I *hate* the he or she construct. They or their is equally broken most of the time. In classes where people are sensitive about the pronoun-gender nonsense I end up restructuring things so I can use "individual" or some other wordy kludge.
I understand the point they make about "he", but for the most part English is gender neutral. There are many other languages which are structuarlly gendered, and I don't hear complaints about them.
Cheap gig, great. More support for and old conecpt in networking. I just wish there was more support for a certain networking technology which would in turn help another related project. Instead we see a lot of progress in gig because its easy. Throwing bandwith and a bunch of buffer space in a switch is a crummy way to do QoS.
Aside from the ATM vs. Gig rant, this really doesn't mean a whole lot. Yeah LANs are fast, this isn't news to anyone. I don't see anyone complaining about the network performance on their desktop at 100Mb/s switched. So whats the deal? The big step forward in networking is when we can see something that gets close to the performace of atleast 10Mb/s to residential and buinesses that doesn't cost a small fortune.
In SV they have some complexes with this sort of thing. The problem is when the apartment mgmt doesn't understand what kind of resources people need for entertainment type network use, and you end up with a couple hundred people contending for bandwitdh on a single T1.
Some places with 10/100 equipment force 10 so as not to overwhelm the frame backplane on some frame/cell switches. 99 times out of 100 (switched)10Mbps gets it done. For traffic that goes out to Tier 1 networks it doesn't matter. Usually you run into a T3 somewhere and your have to contend with god knows how many others for a little bit of that 45Mbps. Locally 100 is *really* nice, but 10 is a whole lot better than what most people have.
What's really bad is when they start pronouncing the acronyms like they were words.
Oh so you walk around saying stuff like "S-C-S-I" and "L-A-N". Its not lazy, its just the generally accepted way to say these things. I'd probably think you were a luser trying to sound smart if you said. "I need an I-S-A ethernet N-I-C for my machine.", instead of "I need a ISA NIC for my crappy 486." or something to that effect.
Why would Linux/UNIX people want to use a grahical IDE? Isn't the *nix philosophy: "Many small tools that do one thing well"?
Oh right, I should use Emacs then.
Recently, they've ditched the widget. In place there seems to be just a little plastic ball in there, although I haven't mutilated the can to see if there's any other goodies in there. It creates the same head, cascade and all, just probably cheaper to make.
I agree with your assessment of Bay Area corp. culture. The reason it is that way is due to the number of jobs out there. Us Bay Area geeks don't have to put up with crap, since we can always find another job within an hour. However this has some downsides. Lets face it, San Jose blows. Its nothing but sprawl, and outside of downtown you'd think having more than 2 stories on a building was against the law. The thing thats going to kill this area is the housing costs. Gee I really look forward to spending close to a mil for a 1950s track home.
clauses, leaving the majority intact. And surely a court of law would find reality to be other than black and white.
And by not abiding by the terms of the GPL they have no right to redistribute the software. The reality is that they could:
If you extend your argument, some parts of standard EULAs could be striken as unreasonable, that doesn't mean I can freely distribute it.
Its not like the code's locked up or anything. Just follow the current kernel tree and make the patches to the PPC arch. If Linus feels like adding it in to the official tree it will happen. If you don't like it, you have the source don't you? I'm not advocating a fork here mind you, but patches seem to work just fine.
There is a way for HP 720C, 820C, and 1000C winprinters to work under linux.
PPA for the masses
It does not have color support but will print black text and graphics just fine.
The depths of stupidity that some of these ACs can reach is unbelievable...
/. readers would fire up the flamethrowers on it? A lot.
It was a joke, albeit not too funny, its probably an inside one. Secondly who cares if Rob gets some free stuff. More over if Rob was to editorialize about Sony being greatest stuff on earth, how many
In conclusion: Who cares? Its a joke, and "you" contains a "y" and an "o". Try to use all the letters of a given word when asking people to take you seriously.
It looks like other site because its a simple design. Making a site more useful is not selling out, not that a commercial company can sell out... By definition they have already sold out. This redhat bashing is senseless. What have they ever done that is wrong or is against the community. They pay programmers to work on Free Software projects. Those Bastards! They GPL their code. Corporate Sellouts! Oh wait, I know what their fault is.. They're sucessful, and are gaining mainstream acceptance. gasp! So Linux is loosing alitle bit of its mystery and your elitism is being threatened. So sad, you'll have to go find another counterculture OS to identify with. Me, I use it because it works. An OS is not a lifestyle, its a tool.
You can say the same about BSD, if you have different library versions on different machines you won't get the binaries to work right either. Linux systems have one thing in common, the same kernel. Will I have problems copying a binary linked against libfoo 1.5 to a system with libfoo 1.0? Yes. Is that Linux specific? No.
PacBell offers 384k/128k ADSL, however your upstream is capped at 128k(pretty standard.) If your line qualifies, your base is 384k but you can get up to, according to PacBell's page 3Mbps if you are close to the CO. I know people about a mile out that get around 1.5Mbps down. DSL speed degrades with distance so if you get more, good for you, if you don't oh well. The real limiting factor is the 128k capped uplink, I know a couple guys sharing a 384k/128k DSL line, while one is playing Tribes and the other is FTPing, the uplink becomes saturated and lag sets in pretty bad. Get SDSL where possible to avoid that. The synchronous data transfer will make your connection a lot more efficient.
Recent versions of pgcc and binutils have support for K6-2,3 specific things, 3dnow for example. If you're whining about the K6(not the K6-2,3), its pretty much a P5, so you can still see a performance gain over i386 binaries if you compile with pgcc.
Exactly. Back in my younger days (6 or 7) I hacked BASIC code to get my games to work right, played with electronics kits, etc. I sure as hell knew how to plug a wire onto a recepticle, and I probably had enough sense not to drive a powerwheels onto the freeway. ;)
Have you ever been to a jury selection? Any hint of an education or intellegence and you're out. Lawyer's don't want people who think for themselves on a jury. Sad but true.