Okay, ha ha... we are all a bunch of amish here. Whatever! Is there a market here for movies w/ the violence and swearing taken out? Sure. Can you still get the other R rated films as well. Yes. Would they force people to use censor'd net if they did have it? No. If anything they would just provide it as an option, which I am sure some people would appreciate, but you could still get the raw full of pr0n feed if you wanted it.
Hey, I'm a mormon too, but I think SCO's actions suck! Makes me want to scream filthy expletives!!!
Seriously though, there is nothing in our beliefs that say "thou shalt sue those that offend you". In fact it would be more the opposite - you know, the turn the other cheek thing, bless your enemies, etc. We view greed and pride as bad things too you know.
D&C 56:17 Wo unto you poor men, whose hearts are not broken, whose spirits are not contrite, and whose bellies are not satisfied, and whose hands are not stayed from laying hold upon other men's goods, whose eyes are full of greediness, and who will not labor with your own hands!
Wo unto Darl.
How exactly would his being mormon change your reaction to some of his statements? And your understanding of him as a person? If you are German, does that make you a nazi? Most likely not!
It would be interesting to get ahold of the logs from this website though - then you could really see where you need to be squatting!!! Most coomonly typed unused domain: "www.verisignsmellsofelderberry.com"... er... or something along those lines as we all checked to see if this was for real!
I work at a large manufacturing company and officially am the system administrator of over one hundred sun workstations (most attached to mainframe testers), a nice server cluster (ha, disk storage), and a handful of linux workstations in our semiconductor test operations.
Along w/ normal system administration duties, I am on call 24x7 as I have no backup... am the webmaster for our department as well as the engineering group... manage software development at our site... spend a ton of time doing web development in php/mysql/javascript... handhold tons of people w/ unix questions/perl questions/exceed connections... manage and maintain a pretty well used mysql database. At least if they come to me w/ windows questions I can refer them to the IS department helpline. "I don't do windows... sorry!"
I usually spend about 45-50 hours per week at work... I go home because I want to - there is always stuff I can work on... I do keep anything critical taken care of on a priority basis. And luckily suns tend to be remarkably stable... if these were windows I would be running around frantically. The majority of my servers have been up over a year. Plus, we share the load w/ the admins at the other locations - definitely helps!
I think your typical system administrator ends up doing all this stuff because he is more geek than the average programmer/engineer/etc. The guy with all the skillz... the Chief Geek.
We looked into this several years ago after doing a digitized lighting system for a wealthy family up in New Hampshire who had glass capable of this effect in their shower, overlooking a beautiful valley. If you wanted the privacy you could instantly have it. We thought, this is perfect for when your car is parked... block all of the suns rays and heat with a simple switch - no more need for those cardboard sunglasses. Unfortuneately the only supplier we could find wanted $5000 / sq. foot. But, if prices have come down, this would be pretty cool to have.
So, then is text-messaging credited with those movies that did exceptionally well such as Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean and the Matrix Reloaded? I know I text messaged every one I know personally telling them to see those!!! (NOT!)
Sun doesn't mind because their revenue doesn't necessarily come from Solaris, it comes from servers and support contracts. Whether they slap Solaris on a box or Linux, won't matter as long as they are still the ones supplying the hardware with redundant power supplies, fiber channel disk arrays, etc. Short term, solaris may be a little more stable for a large scale enterprise. Long term, if linux fills the gap there, they just increase their profit margin by not having to maintain their own OS.
I went to a religious university and they were watching for those tempted by the sins of the flesh... problem was, one of the keywords they were looking for was "gay". Well the college of engineering secretary happened to be named Gaye. Needless to say, there were several students surprised to learn of their pornography addiction before the mistake was realized!
I have a 20GB 2nd series ipod (now my wifes) and a 30GB 3rd series. The big difference I found was the quality. Borrow somebodies ipod and just listen to the sound - it is fantastic. The headphones alone would be $75 as they contain neobydium magnets and are great quality - ever notice when you see somebody with an ipod they are using the included headphones?
The next thing is simplicity - the menu system on the ipod I find much more navigable and easier to use... granted I have only played w/ a zen in the store but the ipod just makes sense.
You also say you are not too worried about size, but just going from the series 2 to the series 3 is awesome (and the series 2 was smaller). You can slip it into your shirt pocket and never know it is there. It really does make a difference... granted, either is night and day for you right now, but down the road do you really want to suddenly be envious of a friends tight little package? (he he...)
I can honestly say these have been some of the best purchases I have ever made, have used them w/ both windows and on my wife's ibook. They work fabulous. And don't forget that iTunes and the Apple Music Store are coming to windows... you'll need something to play those nice songs on and slickly hook into what I think is the best mp3 player out there! (Yup, I'm jealous of my wife... come on economy - get rolling so I can get me a G5!!!)
You could always just buy you a volkwagen bug and get an ipod for free!!!:)
I've had my tivo for several years - I think the kernel in my series 1 tivo predates 2.4... unless they did an upgrade... anybody know?
What is next, anybody seeing the movie Sinbad owes SCO $32 since it was created w/ unlicensed linux systems...
I still can't figure out how their 50 lines of code in the kernel ($699) is worth more than Windows XP professional plus office professional combined - and we all know Microsoft is screwing us!
I'm an admin and I have a 2 Sun boxes at home (well, okay, one is a Cobalt Qube, but the other is a Sun pancake box). Depends what you want to use it for... do I use the suns for a desktop? No. Do I use them to serve webpages and do email and such. Yup. Solaris has never been targeted at the consumer desktop. I administer 100+ suns at work and I don't even use one as my desktop there (use Linux)... the engineers of course, are stuck.:)
That is not true. My ISP put a filter on my public ip address which is tied to a cobalt qube saying it was sending out packets in the thousands per minute on port 137 (netbios, SMB port).
Basically what I think was happenning is that one of the methods the w32.sobig.e virus spreads is via looking for network shares. Since I have a public ip address w/ network shares on it, thousands of systems were querying it to see if I had the proper directories shared to propagate itself (which of course I don't). So I turned off my samba sharing, put an ipchain rule to do a DENY on both incoming and outgoing traffic on port 137, and requested my ISP to reenable my site, which they have yet to do.
So, even not running windows, this has effectively taken down my website and my email. True, linux based rarely gets "infected", but these thing "affect" us all!!! (Let alone taking down websites we use that are windows based and slowing down the internet)
I would ask - has anyone else seen this and come up with a better solution than not having my samba available?
not all South Korean memory manufacturers (if there are any others)
Ummm... Samsung! (The big dog of memory makers!)
The banks have been giving multibillion dollar bailouts to Hynix repeatedly the last few years - Hynix if it were an American company would have been bankrupt several times, but they keep on going thanks to the state ran banks. They produce 18% or so of the memory market - the market has been in a severe oversupply situation... this is bad news for all memory makers. Hence our government and the EU (for Infineon) felt the need to protect their companies.
Our banks would not continue to extend credit to a failing company like Hynix - it is not good business for the banks. All of the Korean banks actually failed a few years ago - we (yes, your tax dollars) bailed them out from the IMF and now the banks are back at it again, bailing out Hynix.
Micron even signed an MOU w/ Hynix to acquire them - wasted an entire year of efforts to get the deal done, only to have the Hynix board reject it at the end - Hynix even complained that it was unfair for Micron to file this complaint because they had inside info from when they almost acquired Hynix. They don't make much public, but they probably gave some pretty good evidence to the commerce department.
Our companies can hold their own competing against any other companies, but it is pretty hard to compete against an entire government. Free trade is good, but it has got to be free on both sides.
Well, Caldera actually bought the rights to DRDOS and took on Microsoft and got a nice settlement... so I wouldn't go saying it is suicidal... they did it once before and think they can do it again. (They probably used the $$$ from that to buy SCO and setup their next one... who's their next target if they win this one?)
You also have to remember, this company was started by Novell boys, so they have a deep hatred of the big established companies that rained on Novell's parade too.
"Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release."
You mean which is why we DON'T NEED the Strategic Defense Initiative... with accuracy like that, we are safer with the Russians aiming at us!
We have our condos all wired with cat 5e individually pulled to every room (enough to do two phone lines and your ethernet to every room). We went through a third party group that took care of the wiring as the units were built and manages the connection for us... we basically have 150 units and one shared T1 line. We have a little box on the outside of each condo building with a little hub (you don't have to worry too much about bandwidth so go cheap - T1 is not going to give you gigabit speed!) with a lock to keep people out.
For the most part, it is quite adequate - downloading the latest Matrix trailer or a couple mp3s can't be beat... in non peak (evenings and weekends) periods the bandwidth is quite plentiful. You will get the occasional abuser though (you'll want the ability to sniff out who is doing major downloading) and you'll also run into people misconfiguring their hardware so you'll get a rogue dhcp server or two going you have to track down (have to admit, my little linksys box got carried away one time!)
An added bonus is that with a T1 you usually get a bunch of static ip addresses available too, so those that have requested it in our complex have had their wish granted.
Overall, we pay $15 a month on our HOA dues for this access - pretty good deal. We are actually requesting (and we'll probably get it down the road) a second T1 line as well - as the costs come down it is even more economical. We also get directtv services through the same 3rd party - those that don't pay their hoa dues get their net and tv turned off - good incentive to keep people paid up too!:) (And we get a discount on directtv for a large group as well)
Heard the same arguments when digital cameras came into play - no professional photographer would give up the godlike qualities of film. Well, even the studio that did my wedding photos last fall used a Nikon D1 (that's digital) to do it... film will be less of a big deal especially once the theatres themselves fully convert over to digital distribution and playback systems.
You will of course still have the nostalgic enthusiasts, but the majority will switch to digital, it is already happening (apparently you missed the Comdex keynote a few years ago w/ Lucas and Sony touting their digital camera)
I'm sure your movies are top quality too if you are shaking the camera the whole time you are shooting it!:)
As to the hobbyist side - gotta love shooting all digital - my MicroMV Sony camera makes it easy to put together little family movies and such... just select a thumbnail of the clip I want from the index and edit it all up on the puter. Frees the hobbyist from requiring a pile of money and equipment knowledge and you can focus on content.
Shouldn't a book review be for a recent book? This one is almost two years old - so old it isn't even available on Amazon, BN.com, or Bookpool... How about some new stuff instead of the book gathering dust on your shelf that you finally got around to reading?!?!
The sony blue-ray drive actually goes on sale in Japan on April 10. (See bluray.com) I totally agree with you - first working prototype? Give me a break!
hmmm... apparently here are pictures of prototypes by sony, jvc, panasonic, philips, pioneer, samsung, sharp, and zenith.:)
Cnet had an article on this as well on March 3. Sony has been showing prototypes since last October.
" The people who need 64bit already know that they need 64bit. Gamers, home users, small businesses, and the like aren't in this category."
Hmmm... I thought the 64 in the Nintendo-64 stood for 64 bit! Wait a minute, you are right - the game consoles are moving well past 64 bit now!! Even your xbox running w/ an Intel chip uses 80 bit or 128 bit sse instructions for floating point. I think you are wrong on the call that this would not be an advantage for gamers - once the software takes advantage of it.
Of course, the MMX instructions and SSE instructions in a sense could be said to have already given pentium owners 64 bit and higher computing.
I subscribed to this a couple years ago when they were saying it was the premier issue (I guess just a states version of it if it was primarily in canada). I even got a ski hat with their logo for subscribing. Anyhow, I got like two issues and then a notice they were ceasing publication. If I would have known they were still up and running in canada I would have hit them up for my money back! Apparently they just used us in the states for a quick cash infusion for the motherland. Anybody else have this happen to them?
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Okay, ha ha... we are all a bunch of amish here. Whatever! Is there a market here for movies w/ the violence and swearing taken out? Sure. Can you still get the other R rated films as well. Yes. Would they force people to use censor'd net if they did have it? No. If anything they would just provide it as an option, which I am sure some people would appreciate, but you could still get the raw full of pr0n feed if you wanted it.
Hey, I'm a mormon too, but I think SCO's actions suck! Makes me want to scream filthy expletives!!!
Seriously though, there is nothing in our beliefs that say "thou shalt sue those that offend you". In fact it would be more the opposite - you know, the turn the other cheek thing, bless your enemies, etc. We view greed and pride as bad things too you know.
D&C 56:17 Wo unto you poor men, whose hearts are not broken, whose spirits are not contrite, and whose bellies are not satisfied, and whose hands are not stayed from laying hold upon other men's goods, whose eyes are full of greediness, and who will not labor with your own hands!
Wo unto Darl.
How exactly would his being mormon change your reaction to some of his statements? And your understanding of him as a person? If you are German, does that make you a nazi? Most likely not!
It would be interesting to get ahold of the logs from this website though - then you could really see where you need to be squatting!!! Most coomonly typed unused domain: "www.verisignsmellsofelderberry.com" ... er... or something along those lines as we all checked to see if this was for real!
I work at a large manufacturing company and officially am the system administrator of over one hundred sun workstations (most attached to mainframe testers), a nice server cluster (ha, disk storage), and a handful of linux workstations in our semiconductor test operations.
Along w/ normal system administration duties, I am on call 24x7 as I have no backup... am the webmaster for our department as well as the engineering group... manage software development at our site... spend a ton of time doing web development in php/mysql/javascript... handhold tons of people w/ unix questions/perl questions/exceed connections... manage and maintain a pretty well used mysql database. At least if they come to me w/ windows questions I can refer them to the IS department helpline. "I don't do windows... sorry!"
I usually spend about 45-50 hours per week at work... I go home because I want to - there is always stuff I can work on... I do keep anything critical taken care of on a priority basis. And luckily suns tend to be remarkably stable... if these were windows I would be running around frantically. The majority of my servers have been up over a year. Plus, we share the load w/ the admins at the other locations - definitely helps!
I think your typical system administrator ends up doing all this stuff because he is more geek than the average programmer/engineer/etc. The guy with all the skillz... the Chief Geek.
We looked into this several years ago after doing a digitized lighting system for a wealthy family up in New Hampshire who had glass capable of this effect in their shower, overlooking a beautiful valley. If you wanted the privacy you could instantly have it. We thought, this is perfect for when your car is parked... block all of the suns rays and heat with a simple switch - no more need for those cardboard sunglasses. Unfortuneately the only supplier we could find wanted $5000 / sq. foot. But, if prices have come down, this would be pretty cool to have.
So, then is text-messaging credited with those movies that did exceptionally well such as Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean and the Matrix Reloaded? I know I text messaged every one I know personally telling them to see those!!! (NOT!)
Relax man, most of us only have ONE copy of Linux installed!!! :)
Sun doesn't mind because their revenue doesn't necessarily come from Solaris, it comes from servers and support contracts. Whether they slap Solaris on a box or Linux, won't matter as long as they are still the ones supplying the hardware with redundant power supplies, fiber channel disk arrays, etc. Short term, solaris may be a little more stable for a large scale enterprise. Long term, if linux fills the gap there, they just increase their profit margin by not having to maintain their own OS.
I went to a religious university and they were watching for those tempted by the sins of the flesh... problem was, one of the keywords they were looking for was "gay". Well the college of engineering secretary happened to be named Gaye. Needless to say, there were several students surprised to learn of their pornography addiction before the mistake was realized!
I have a 20GB 2nd series ipod (now my wifes) and a 30GB 3rd series. The big difference I found was the quality. Borrow somebodies ipod and just listen to the sound - it is fantastic. The headphones alone would be $75 as they contain neobydium magnets and are great quality - ever notice when you see somebody with an ipod they are using the included headphones?
:)
The next thing is simplicity - the menu system on the ipod I find much more navigable and easier to use... granted I have only played w/ a zen in the store but the ipod just makes sense.
You also say you are not too worried about size, but just going from the series 2 to the series 3 is awesome (and the series 2 was smaller). You can slip it into your shirt pocket and never know it is there. It really does make a difference... granted, either is night and day for you right now, but down the road do you really want to suddenly be envious of a friends tight little package? (he he...)
I can honestly say these have been some of the best purchases I have ever made, have used them w/ both windows and on my wife's ibook. They work fabulous. And don't forget that iTunes and the Apple Music Store are coming to windows... you'll need something to play those nice songs on and slickly hook into what I think is the best mp3 player out there! (Yup, I'm jealous of my wife... come on economy - get rolling so I can get me a G5!!!)
You could always just buy you a volkwagen bug and get an ipod for free!!!
I've had my tivo for several years - I think the kernel in my series 1 tivo predates 2.4... unless they did an upgrade... anybody know?
What is next, anybody seeing the movie Sinbad owes SCO $32 since it was created w/ unlicensed linux systems...
I still can't figure out how their 50 lines of code in the kernel ($699) is worth more than Windows XP professional plus office professional combined - and we all know Microsoft is screwing us!
I'm an admin and I have a 2 Sun boxes at home (well, okay, one is a Cobalt Qube, but the other is a Sun pancake box). Depends what you want to use it for... do I use the suns for a desktop? No. Do I use them to serve webpages and do email and such. Yup. Solaris has never been targeted at the consumer desktop. I administer 100+ suns at work and I don't even use one as my desktop there (use Linux)... the engineers of course, are stuck. :)
That is not true. My ISP put a filter on my public ip address which is tied to a cobalt qube saying it was sending out packets in the thousands per minute on port 137 (netbios, SMB port).
Basically what I think was happenning is that one of the methods the w32.sobig.e virus spreads is via looking for network shares. Since I have a public ip address w/ network shares on it, thousands of systems were querying it to see if I had the proper directories shared to propagate itself (which of course I don't). So I turned off my samba sharing, put an ipchain rule to do a DENY on both incoming and outgoing traffic on port 137, and requested my ISP to reenable my site, which they have yet to do.
So, even not running windows, this has effectively taken down my website and my email. True, linux based rarely gets "infected", but these thing "affect" us all!!! (Let alone taking down websites we use that are windows based and slowing down the internet)
I would ask - has anyone else seen this and come up with a better solution than not having my samba available?
not all South Korean memory manufacturers (if there are any others)
Ummm... Samsung! (The big dog of memory makers!)
The banks have been giving multibillion dollar bailouts to Hynix repeatedly the last few years - Hynix if it were an American company would have been bankrupt several times, but they keep on going thanks to the state ran banks. They produce 18% or so of the memory market - the market has been in a severe oversupply situation... this is bad news for all memory makers. Hence our government and the EU (for Infineon) felt the need to protect their companies.
Our banks would not continue to extend credit to a failing company like Hynix - it is not good business for the banks. All of the Korean banks actually failed a few years ago - we (yes, your tax dollars) bailed them out from the IMF and now the banks are back at it again, bailing out Hynix.
Micron even signed an MOU w/ Hynix to acquire them - wasted an entire year of efforts to get the deal done, only to have the Hynix board reject it at the end - Hynix even complained that it was unfair for Micron to file this complaint because they had inside info from when they almost acquired Hynix. They don't make much public, but they probably gave some pretty good evidence to the commerce department.
Our companies can hold their own competing against any other companies, but it is pretty hard to compete against an entire government. Free trade is good, but it has got to be free on both sides.
So instead of HTML, just give your output in xml and you are not in violation.
Well, Caldera actually bought the rights to DRDOS and took on Microsoft and got a nice settlement... so I wouldn't go saying it is suicidal... they did it once before and think they can do it again. (They probably used the $$$ from that to buy SCO and setup their next one... who's their next target if they win this one?)
You also have to remember, this company was started by Novell boys, so they have a deep hatred of the big established companies that rained on Novell's parade too.
"Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release."
You mean which is why we DON'T NEED the Strategic Defense Initiative... with accuracy like that, we are safer with the Russians aiming at us!
We have our condos all wired with cat 5e individually pulled to every room (enough to do two phone lines and your ethernet to every room). We went through a third party group that took care of the wiring as the units were built and manages the connection for us... we basically have 150 units and one shared T1 line. We have a little box on the outside of each condo building with a little hub (you don't have to worry too much about bandwidth so go cheap - T1 is not going to give you gigabit speed!) with a lock to keep people out.
:) (And we get a discount on directtv for a large group as well)
For the most part, it is quite adequate - downloading the latest Matrix trailer or a couple mp3s can't be beat... in non peak (evenings and weekends) periods the bandwidth is quite plentiful. You will get the occasional abuser though (you'll want the ability to sniff out who is doing major downloading) and you'll also run into people misconfiguring their hardware so you'll get a rogue dhcp server or two going you have to track down (have to admit, my little linksys box got carried away one time!)
An added bonus is that with a T1 you usually get a bunch of static ip addresses available too, so those that have requested it in our complex have had their wish granted.
Overall, we pay $15 a month on our HOA dues for this access - pretty good deal. We are actually requesting (and we'll probably get it down the road) a second T1 line as well - as the costs come down it is even more economical. We also get directtv services through the same 3rd party - those that don't pay their hoa dues get their net and tv turned off - good incentive to keep people paid up too!
Deja Vu???
:)
Heard the same arguments when digital cameras came into play - no professional photographer would give up the godlike qualities of film. Well, even the studio that did my wedding photos last fall used a Nikon D1 (that's digital) to do it... film will be less of a big deal especially once the theatres themselves fully convert over to digital distribution and playback systems.
You will of course still have the nostalgic enthusiasts, but the majority will switch to digital, it is already happening (apparently you missed the Comdex keynote a few years ago w/ Lucas and Sony touting their digital camera)
I'm sure your movies are top quality too if you are shaking the camera the whole time you are shooting it!
As to the hobbyist side - gotta love shooting all digital - my MicroMV Sony camera makes it easy to put together little family movies and such... just select a thumbnail of the clip I want from the index and edit it all up on the puter. Frees the hobbyist from requiring a pile of money and equipment knowledge and you can focus on content.
Shouldn't a book review be for a recent book? This one is almost two years old - so old it isn't even available on Amazon, BN.com, or Bookpool... How about some new stuff instead of the book gathering dust on your shelf that you finally got around to reading?!?!
The sony blue-ray drive actually goes on sale in Japan on April 10. (See bluray.com) I totally agree with you - first working prototype? Give me a break!
:)
hmmm... apparently here are pictures of prototypes by sony, jvc, panasonic, philips, pioneer, samsung, sharp, and zenith.
Cnet had an article on this as well on March 3. Sony has been showing prototypes since last October.
" The people who need 64bit already know that they need 64bit. Gamers, home users, small businesses, and the like aren't in this category."
Hmmm... I thought the 64 in the Nintendo-64 stood for 64 bit! Wait a minute, you are right - the game consoles are moving well past 64 bit now!! Even your xbox running w/ an Intel chip uses 80 bit or 128 bit sse instructions for floating point. I think you are wrong on the call that this would not be an advantage for gamers - once the software takes advantage of it.
Of course, the MMX instructions and SSE instructions in a sense could be said to have already given pentium owners 64 bit and higher computing.
Come on, we never really landed on the moon - it was just a farce to make the Russkies feel bad!
"Norway's legal system is different than the U.S.; the government can appeal a loss in a criminal case."
... er... the clothes off his back.
Correct, in America they'd have to file a civil lawsuit once he was found innocent and takeaway his heisman
I subscribed to this a couple years ago when they were saying it was the premier issue (I guess just a states version of it if it was primarily in canada). I even got a ski hat with their logo for subscribing. Anyhow, I got like two issues and then a notice they were ceasing publication. If I would have known they were still up and running in canada I would have hit them up for my money back! Apparently they just used us in the states for a quick cash infusion for the motherland. Anybody else have this happen to them?