Why do you think a company has any other responsibilities to the employee than what is legal and contracted?
Welcome to the dark side of capitalism. In a free market everyone is out to make as much money as possible... legally. Unless theres a law that forces companies to keep employees until it goes bankrupt, employees will be treated as commodity, which they are in a capital market. I dont think Oracle is doing anything 'wrong'.
It will be interesting to put red crescents on injured units in day of defeat (WWII). And maybe the players, for trademark reasons, should speak in chinese and indian accents.
I think youre talking about trojans and worms and spyware. Virii are supposed to spread themselves. Hard to come up with an equivalent in the car world except maybe a pervasive car thief.
They could come up with ATX or miniATX boards at real cheap prices, able to take your average DDR DIMMs, power supplies and IDE etc. Give it maybe 3 PCI slots... or 1 if its miniATX.
Sold for under $100, and theyre making money off it while spreading the love that will increase the developer market for the cell architecture.
It goes like this. Make a new architecture. Release a good compiler for free.. with awesome documentation and sample programs and libraries. Allow people to buy evaluation boards for low prices. Once you get people hooked enough, sell the chips themselves at high prices. Its the Microchip (tm) model. Their chips dont really do much for the high costs (compared to atmel, TI etc) but since everyone knows how to work them, they sell sell sell. Rabbit semiconductors however are trying hard to get into the market, and their dev tools are cheap. It'll take time.
IBM cant release a couple o PDFs and one tough software suite and expect the world to jump on it. Theres a reason why theres so much momentum behind the Power architecture, and the Cell is different.
They didnt do all that 'just because of a cartoon'. That was September2005 and nothing happened.
They're angry because many newspapers in many countries republished the cartoons along with articles that said 'up yours suck it up' with the politicians unapologetic.
They're particularly angry because of the prevailant 'thou shalt not speaketh bad about Jews' attitude in the west. I loved the original authors offer to post the Iranian Holocaust toons in Danish newspapers. If they do that, theres no issue here at all.
A friend of mine in the US admitted he hates black people, admitted the racism in himself and felt awefully proud to acknowledge it. However when I pointed out he's living on the lands taken away from Indians forefully, while they were killed in big numbers, he had trouble accepting that. Everyone considers himself openminded enough unless faced with something taboo... and Denmark is being reminded of that right now.
They cannot make open fun of black people as slaves and inferior to white people. If they do that in 12 newspapers in 6 countries with politicians completely unapologetic, there will be riots in the US. Do the same with the jewish holocaust show smiley faces putting non-smiley faces in big ovens and cracking jokes on that on 12 newspapers with articles that say 'here in Europe you HAVE to suck it up'.... there will be riots.
Now its awefully true parts of the Islamic world are extremists and violent. But so many facts are trampled over in the name of generalization. Many non-violent and proponents-of-free-speech muslims were offended. Not because of the cartoons but because of the 'suck it up' message from all of Europe.
Be also reminded that 'Muslims' arent exactly in a good situation right now. And the blame falls both on themselves and the US foreign policy. It is said 1 million children died as direct and indirect results of the US wars and sanctions against Iraq.
Think about that. Its easy for any fingerpointers in the west to underestimate what that means. Have you lost a child, had to bury it, cope with the anger and helplessness, cope with your wife and everything else? The feeling doesnt disappear 5 years down the line. Think of the colossal loss of life in Afghanistan after the Russians left. Primarily by the Taliban and Al Qaeda. And who created the Taliban and Al Qaeda??? The Afghans know, and theyre sorely angry.
Pakistan saw its worst drought in living memory around 1998. Many families lost their entire livestock. India tested nukes so Pakistan tested nukes in return. The US put major sanctions on Pakistan that really hurt the economy. Many people lost jobs. There was one suicide every week by a father who couldnt feed his kids and couldnt watch them starve. They dont blame themselves. They blame the US-backed Pakistani govt, and the US sanctions. Theyre angry.
Iran has lots of internal problems. But theyre a nationalist people. They'd rather fix their problems themselves then hand over the country to Uncle Sam. Any ideas what the long sanctions have done to Iran's economy and culture? Who do they blame?
The anger from the Arab world is a bit more obvious. Some people simply moved into a holy lot of land, took it all and put its residents in tent camps for over a generation. Since then theyve been inching their way forward. Sure Israel is an enemy but one fully backed by the west. Israel couldnt possibly exist on its own without America. Do the people of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi think America and the west are a neutral party just there to fix problems fairly? Who are they angry against?
Now think of this. What happened when a few lunatics funded by an organization created by the US flew airplanes into a few US buildings killing 3000? Does anyone remember the anger back then? Americans didnt care much back then except to 'get back'. Now think of the number of Iraqis and Afghans (civilians) who died during the US invasions. Does anyone remember the blockbuster that killed 40 children? Does th
I think Sun is really being urged to remove Java from OO. Its the main reason why OO is always slower than MS Office 2000. We dont enjoy java being shoved down our throats, and just a clean C/C++ interface with GUI wrappers that will work with any GUI will do.
OO is a great project, but it doesnt quite smack of freedom as does gcc.
Market forces will always keep the x86 chips on top of everything else. Any process IBM develops, will be more profitable having been sold to Intel or AMD. Else IBM could make their own x86 chips and make even more money if their process technology beats AMD and Intel.
As long as way more people are buying x86 chips, x86 chips will be better in price/performance deals.
VMware is not really competing with those other technologies. Its only looking at its impending doom at the hands of hypervisor technologies. Think about it, will you really need vmware when you have hypervisor... no vmware tools install, no slow machines, no lack of peripherals, full speed (almost)? For that reason alone I think I'll buy the first athlon64 with pacifica later this year. Hope they release a 754-pin version too.
I feel uneasy when projects out there include the word 'Linux' in their names. Linus for that purpose did something like trademark (dont know what exactly) recently to protect the trademark. This is important since someone could come up with a minor BSD-based project and call it GNU\Linux or Linux System or something like that. I hope you've kept that in mind.
As far as larger projects go, knoppix initially had great demand but the servers slow. Demand itself allowed the torrents to prosper and people could access the earlier knoppix CDs. Their servers seem faster now.
Host it on any given low bandwidth site, or better yet host all files somewhere online but put the downloadable ISOs on your home machine and elsewhere and allow the torrents to do their work. If theres demand it'll work beautifully. If theres no demand.. well.. you never needed the bandwidth in the first place.
PS I dont know of OSS hosting solutions other than sf.net.
Add to that the fact that black people simply dont go around exploring much.
Is that really a racist thing? I've been arguing with my not-so-light-colored coworkers why they dont go camping much. The dudes lived in Toronto all his life, hasnt travelled outside Toronto nearly as much as I have in 2 years. Theyre very urban while I love the national parks, canoe routes, mountain trails and just travelling far.
Think about it. How many black people have climbed mount everest, or visited the south pole, or travel to various third world countries etc? That supports the theory that mankind originates from Africa, they travelled the least.
This might come across as a bit racist but my dark buddies agree they dont like to travel much, or far. Find a black man's skeleton far away from home and its hard to conclude he was out exploring.
I dont believe you. Plenty of Europeans were coming in at that time.
They apparently know because you can deduce the race from the skeleton. At least differentiating between black, european and asian people is easy.
And when you have black people skeletons unceremoniously piled up in an unmarked grave around 1600 in the new world, ummm, can only be the slaves that were brought there.
Noone is trying to rewrite history, its about being sensitive.
How about producing a fun game of flying 737s into NYC buidings? You get more points for killing more people. People jumping off the buildings will be accompanied by humerous music. If the average american thinks thats unfunny, they should not produce games making fun of the original Americans, nor of Germans (like in wolf 3d).
The word nigger when and it was accepted was used in good literature. I'm not saying such literature should now be adulterated, but rather try not to produce games poking fun of black people in the most demeaning manner. Think of this Game:
Lynchings 2 (Activision 2007) $29.99 USD
Thats what shouldnt happen, rather than doing a s/nigger/African American/ across all literature. Thats what Activision has really been doing to Native Americans. If you still dont see why thats a bad thing, why its OK to joke about killing Indians centuries after having actually done it, get back to the idea of a game poking fun at flying planes into buildings and screaming people jumping off them.
If you still think thats ok... you need to get out more.
Just get serverpronto/colopronto server and do whatever you want with it. Its all yours, yours cheap and high bandwidth, and you can play with linux/solaris/openbsd/whatever. And youll have serious trouble crossing the bandwidth limit there.
The best deal is red rain/rave. It goes awesome with vodka. Its well less than $1 CDN per can. Give it a shot. Doesnt taste as well as red bull but the caffine is there. What the heck...
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Wow.
Now I know why some posters put [sarcasm] tags in their comments.
Just for the record, the above sentence is sarcasm too.
You mean the REPLACEMENT of a Symantec product with a Microsoft product?
Yeah best thing ever.
Should also replace firefox with IE7
Since the dawn of special relativity, travelling near light speed has always been possible. Its going beyond the speed of light thats not possible.
Why do you think a company has any other responsibilities to the employee than what is legal and contracted?
Welcome to the dark side of capitalism. In a free market everyone is out to make as much money as possible... legally. Unless theres a law that forces companies to keep employees until it goes bankrupt, employees will be treated as commodity, which they are in a capital market. I dont think Oracle is doing anything 'wrong'.
It will be interesting to put red crescents on injured units in day of defeat (WWII).
And maybe the players, for trademark reasons, should speak in chinese and indian accents.
Are you calling UNIX slow?
I think youre talking about trojans and worms and spyware. Virii are supposed to spread themselves. Hard to come up with an equivalent in the car world except maybe a pervasive car thief.
They could come up with ATX or miniATX boards at real cheap prices, able to take your average DDR DIMMs, power supplies and IDE etc. Give it maybe 3 PCI slots... or 1 if its miniATX.
Sold for under $100, and theyre making money off it while spreading the love that will increase the developer market for the cell architecture.
It goes like this. Make a new architecture. Release a good compiler for free.. with awesome documentation and sample programs and libraries. Allow people to buy evaluation boards for low prices. Once you get people hooked enough, sell the chips themselves at high prices. Its the Microchip (tm) model. Their chips dont really do much for the high costs (compared to atmel, TI etc) but since everyone knows how to work them, they sell sell sell. Rabbit semiconductors however are trying hard to get into the market, and their dev tools are cheap. It'll take time.
IBM cant release a couple o PDFs and one tough software suite and expect the world to jump on it. Theres a reason why theres so much momentum behind the Power architecture, and the Cell is different.
They didnt do all that 'just because of a cartoon'. That was September2005 and nothing happened.
They're angry because many newspapers in many countries republished the cartoons along with articles that said 'up yours suck it up' with the politicians unapologetic.
They're particularly angry because of the prevailant 'thou shalt not speaketh bad about Jews' attitude in the west. I loved the original authors offer to post the Iranian Holocaust toons in Danish newspapers. If they do that, theres no issue here at all.
A friend of mine in the US admitted he hates black people, admitted the racism in himself and felt awefully proud to acknowledge it. However when I pointed out he's living on the lands taken away from Indians forefully, while they were killed in big numbers, he had trouble accepting that. Everyone considers himself openminded enough unless faced with something taboo... and Denmark is being reminded of that right now.
They cannot make open fun of black people as slaves and inferior to white people. If they do that in 12 newspapers in 6 countries with politicians completely unapologetic, there will be riots in the US. Do the same with the jewish holocaust show smiley faces putting non-smiley faces in big ovens and cracking jokes on that on 12 newspapers with articles that say 'here in Europe you HAVE to suck it up'.... there will be riots.
Now its awefully true parts of the Islamic world are extremists and violent. But so many facts are trampled over in the name of generalization. Many non-violent and proponents-of-free-speech muslims were offended. Not because of the cartoons but because of the 'suck it up' message from all of Europe.
Be also reminded that 'Muslims' arent exactly in a good situation right now. And the blame falls both on themselves and the US foreign policy. It is said 1 million children died as direct and indirect results of the US wars and sanctions against Iraq.
Think about that. Its easy for any fingerpointers in the west to underestimate what that means. Have you lost a child, had to bury it, cope with the anger and helplessness, cope with your wife and everything else? The feeling doesnt disappear 5 years down the line. Think of the colossal loss of life in Afghanistan after the Russians left. Primarily by the Taliban and Al Qaeda. And who created the Taliban and Al Qaeda??? The Afghans know, and theyre sorely angry.
Pakistan saw its worst drought in living memory around 1998. Many families lost their entire livestock. India tested nukes so Pakistan tested nukes in return. The US put major sanctions on Pakistan that really hurt the economy. Many people lost jobs. There was one suicide every week by a father who couldnt feed his kids and couldnt watch them starve. They dont blame themselves. They blame the US-backed Pakistani govt, and the US sanctions. Theyre angry.
Iran has lots of internal problems. But theyre a nationalist people. They'd rather fix their problems themselves then hand over the country to Uncle Sam. Any ideas what the long sanctions have done to Iran's economy and culture? Who do they blame?
The anger from the Arab world is a bit more obvious. Some people simply moved into a holy lot of land, took it all and put its residents in tent camps for over a generation. Since then theyve been inching their way forward. Sure Israel is an enemy but one fully backed by the west. Israel couldnt possibly exist on its own without America. Do the people of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi think America and the west are a neutral party just there to fix problems fairly? Who are they angry against?
Now think of this. What happened when a few lunatics funded by an organization created by the US flew airplanes into a few US buildings killing 3000? Does anyone remember the anger back then? Americans didnt care much back then except to 'get back'. Now think of the number of Iraqis and Afghans (civilians) who died during the US invasions. Does anyone remember the blockbuster that killed 40 children? Does th
Am I free to go through the source code of Java on which it depends?
Its like BMW opensourcing their mercedes line, except the engine.
I think Sun is really being urged to remove Java from OO. Its the main reason why OO is always slower than MS Office 2000. We dont enjoy java being shoved down our throats, and just a clean C/C++ interface with GUI wrappers that will work with any GUI will do.
OO is a great project, but it doesnt quite smack of freedom as does gcc.
Market forces will always keep the x86 chips on top of everything else. Any process IBM develops, will be more profitable having been sold to Intel or AMD. Else IBM could make their own x86 chips and make even more money if their process technology beats AMD and Intel.
As long as way more people are buying x86 chips, x86 chips will be better in price/performance deals.
I'd love the Linus model and will promote it everywhere. I'd like to be the customer of the Linus model, yet my business will be a Bill model :)
I wonder if anyone will release a Darl model too.
Nope you got it wrong.
A virus and a worm rely on software insecurity. A worm is a virus but spreads through emails.
Its the trojan that relies on user stupidity. Spyware too. Unless it comes within a reputable software with no options to not select it.
I can hear the marketing department of a dozen antivirus companies go
"Oh Crap"
Where have all the virus makers gone anyway. We must either start funding script kiddies, or get into the antispam business.
VMware is not really competing with those other technologies. Its only looking at its impending doom at the hands of hypervisor technologies. Think about it, will you really need vmware when you have hypervisor... no vmware tools install, no slow machines, no lack of peripherals, full speed (almost)? For that reason alone I think I'll buy the first athlon64 with pacifica later this year. Hope they release a 754-pin version too.
I've seen powerouts but geez. Stone age? People in the Bronze age didnt require MS Windows did they?
At best millions of people will be bugged and Linux and Apple vendors will have a hell of a time selling their OSes.
I feel uneasy when projects out there include the word 'Linux' in their names. Linus for that purpose did something like trademark (dont know what exactly) recently to protect the trademark. This is important since someone could come up with a minor BSD-based project and call it GNU\Linux or Linux System or something like that. I hope you've kept that in mind.
As far as larger projects go, knoppix initially had great demand but the servers slow. Demand itself allowed the torrents to prosper and people could access the earlier knoppix CDs. Their servers seem faster now.
Host it on any given low bandwidth site, or better yet host all files somewhere online but put the downloadable ISOs on your home machine and elsewhere and allow the torrents to do their work. If theres demand it'll work beautifully. If theres no demand.. well.. you never needed the bandwidth in the first place.
PS I dont know of OSS hosting solutions other than sf.net.
Add to that the fact that black people simply dont go around exploring much.
Is that really a racist thing? I've been arguing with my not-so-light-colored coworkers why they dont go camping much. The dudes lived in Toronto all his life, hasnt travelled outside Toronto nearly as much as I have in 2 years. Theyre very urban while I love the national parks, canoe routes, mountain trails and just travelling far.
Think about it. How many black people have climbed mount everest, or visited the south pole, or travel to various third world countries etc? That supports the theory that mankind originates from Africa, they travelled the least.
This might come across as a bit racist but my dark buddies agree they dont like to travel much, or far. Find a black man's skeleton far away from home and its hard to conclude he was out exploring.
I dont believe you. Plenty of Europeans were coming in at that time.
They apparently know because you can deduce the race from the skeleton. At least differentiating between black, european and asian people is easy.
And when you have black people skeletons unceremoniously piled up in an unmarked grave around 1600 in the new world, ummm, can only be the slaves that were brought there.
They do mine with a laughter:
"Income? haahaha"
Noone is trying to rewrite history, its about being sensitive.
How about producing a fun game of flying 737s into NYC buidings? You get more points for killing more people. People jumping off the buildings will be accompanied by humerous music. If the average american thinks thats unfunny, they should not produce games making fun of the original Americans, nor of Germans (like in wolf 3d).
The word nigger when and it was accepted was used in good literature. I'm not saying such literature should now be adulterated, but rather try not to produce games poking fun of black people in the most demeaning manner. Think of this Game:
Lynchings 2 (Activision 2007)
$29.99 USD
Thats what shouldnt happen, rather than doing a s/nigger/African American/ across all literature. Thats what Activision has really been doing to Native Americans. If you still dont see why thats a bad thing, why its OK to joke about killing Indians centuries after having actually done it, get back to the idea of a game poking fun at flying planes into buildings and screaming people jumping off them.
If you still think thats ok... you need to get out more.
Just get serverpronto/colopronto server and do whatever you want with it. Its all yours, yours cheap and high bandwidth, and you can play with linux/solaris/openbsd/whatever. And youll have serious trouble crossing the bandwidth limit there.
VB or QT are the easiest ways. Visual C++ aint too difficult either. Other methods require fancy DLLs. Excutse me I'm drunk...
The best deal is red rain/rave. It goes awesome with vodka. Its well less than $1 CDN per can. Give it a shot. Doesnt taste as well as red bull but the caffine is there. What the heck...
Site fails with Opera.