By SV I am guessing Silicon Valley. I looked at jobs there, wouldn't mind working there either. BUT -- I would have to be paid something like $150,000 a year to equal the standard of living I currently enjoy. Am I worth it? Maybe, but do I want that kind of responsibility or stress - not a chance.
You want workers - move your business to some place that has a resonable cost of living!
I think that Canada would help them. I looked into immigration to canada, and it is a lot easier than into the US, especially for the majority of MS's people. The clerks and book keepers might have a problem, but the core engineers and programmers wouldn't
This is all assuming they want to give up there fancy houses and move.
It hasn't been a tyranny of the majority for a long time. It has become a tyranny of the few (minority) that actually bother to vote. All the special interests have been getting out there voters and swaying the vote for years (decades?). I live in Kansas and look what happened here. Without everyone voting, it will always be a tyranny of the minority.
The state of Kansas also has a magnetic strip. In many of the local stores there is a pad that very clearly will erase the magnetic strip on any card (credit cards, drivers lic. etc) so I erase the strip.
What??? What does cryptography export restrictions have to do with being a geek?
Personally, if any of the NSA - CIA - FBI bunch would pull there heads out of their collective a**holes, they would realize that the terrorist organizations already have easy access to crypto.
Since Nuclear plants account for about 20 - 25% of US generating capacity, it is unlikely that having all nuc plants shutdown would cause the lights to go out.
In addition - the article states that 73 of 103 plants have completed Y2K work on their systems. Of the remaining 30, only 6 will not be ready by the end of Sept.
My local utility has already moved the clock on all plant systems to 2027, so they will be operating next year. I may never get a bill, but I would not complain about that!
As several people have said, it stands for Three Mile Island, a nuclear plant that had a problem in one of its reactors (It has two or three). The biggest hype about the incident was a movie about a nuclear meltdown ("China Syndrome" staring Jane Fonda.) came out about the same time which didn't help
The goverment wants to monitor each and every network for intrusions and develop patterns. The only mention in the article about goverment computers is the statement that because Goverment employee's allow monitoring, then there is no privicy issue.
The problem is they are contractually prevented (in a very old deal with SCO covering Xenix) from bringing out a Unix or Unix variation. I think that Linux version would be covered under that.
First they would have to prove that the person developed it on "company" time. An iffy proposition to begin with ("I brought it in to print it and forgot to delete it"). This is assuming that the company is not paying the person to develop Open Source and/or GPL release. Many companies are.
Second they would have to prove loss from the code. Check the copyright laws. If the company did not submit the code to the Feds for copyright, they cannot receive punitive damages. They can receive actual damages, but they would have to prove they suffered damages.
Third, years later the lawyers would get all the money leaving the company out BIG bucks with nothing but a bunch of mad and/or unhappy programmers.
-- There are also afternoons, evenings, nights, days off, holidays, rain days, snow days,....
How can one magazine print that Linux is just now getting to NT's performance level (Linux on a 386 vs NT on PII 450 maybe), but another magazine supposedly owned by the same company using the same testing lab say linux "kicks NT's butt"
There was a table showing which version of Apache for each distribution. They apparently used the distribution's straight without any recompiles or anything. A couple of the versions were 1.30 and one was 1.31. (See the link on how they stack up).
Historical Value?? I worked at a company that still used pdp11-73 as their main systems and this was only 2 years ago!!!! Knowing the owner (a dead ringer for PHB) they are most likely still using the garbage. (I lasted five months before I found a new job at a 20% pay increase).
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By SV I am guessing Silicon Valley. I looked at jobs there, wouldn't mind working there either. BUT -- I would have to be paid something like $150,000 a year to equal the standard of living I currently enjoy. Am I worth it? Maybe, but do I want that kind of responsibility or stress - not a chance. You want workers - move your business to some place that has a resonable cost of living!
I think that Canada would help them. I looked into immigration to canada, and it is a lot easier than into the US, especially for the majority of MS's people. The clerks and book keepers might have a problem, but the core engineers and programmers wouldn't
This is all assuming they want to give up there fancy houses and move.
It hasn't been a tyranny of the majority for a long time. It has become a tyranny of the few (minority) that actually bother to vote. All the special interests have been getting out there voters and swaying the vote for years (decades?). I live in Kansas and look what happened here. Without everyone voting, it will always be a tyranny of the minority.
Let your representative know how you feel. With this link you don't even have to know who that is
Write Your Representative
If lots of people write and let them know that this is a "BAD THING", maybe the house will act.
I did say maybe.
The state of Kansas also has a magnetic strip. In many of the local stores there is a pad that very clearly will erase the magnetic strip on any card (credit cards, drivers lic. etc) so I erase the strip.
What??? What does cryptography export restrictions have to do with being a geek?
Personally, if any of the NSA - CIA - FBI bunch would pull there heads out of their collective
a**holes, they would realize that the terrorist organizations already have easy access to crypto.
Since Nuclear plants account for about 20 - 25% of US generating capacity, it is unlikely that having all nuc plants shutdown would cause the lights to go out.
In addition - the article states that 73 of 103 plants have completed Y2K work on their systems. Of the remaining 30, only 6 will not be ready by the end of Sept.
My local utility has already moved the clock on all plant systems to 2027, so they will be operating next year. I may never get a bill, but I would not complain about that!
As several people have said, it stands for Three Mile Island, a nuclear plant that had a problem in one of its reactors (It has two or three). The biggest hype about the incident was a movie about a nuclear meltdown ("China Syndrome" staring Jane Fonda.) came out about the same time which didn't help
Read the article!!!!
The goverment wants to monitor each and every network for intrusions and develop patterns. The only mention in the article about goverment computers is the statement that because Goverment employee's allow monitoring, then there is no privicy issue.
READ THE ARTICLE!
The problem is they are contractually prevented (in a very old deal with SCO covering Xenix) from bringing out a Unix or Unix variation. I think that Linux version would be covered under that.
First they would have to prove that the person developed it on "company" time. An iffy proposition to begin with ("I brought it in to print it and forgot to delete it"). This is assuming that the company is not paying the person to develop Open Source and/or GPL release. Many companies are.
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Second they would have to prove loss from the code. Check the copyright laws. If the company did not submit the code to the Feds for copyright, they cannot receive punitive damages. They can receive actual damages, but they would have to prove they suffered damages.
Third, years later the lawyers would get all the money leaving the company out BIG bucks with nothing but a bunch of mad and/or unhappy programmers.
-- There are also afternoons, evenings, nights, days off, holidays, rain days, snow days,
Do they have more money than what can be raised by the /. and/or linux community world wide.
Do they really want the resulting bad publicity at the same time as the anti-trust suit.
Apple should skip the OS and use Linux. Then port the Mac User Interface to X
-- end result a killer interface (what many people say Linux needs) and lots of boxes sold (what Apple needs).
How can one magazine print that Linux is just now getting to NT's performance level (Linux on a 386 vs NT on PII 450 maybe), but another magazine supposedly owned by the same company using the same testing lab say linux "kicks NT's butt"
??????
There was a table showing which version of Apache for each distribution. They apparently used the distribution's straight without any recompiles or anything. A couple of the versions were 1.30 and one was 1.31. (See the link on how they stack up).
Historical Value?? I worked at a company that still used pdp11-73 as their main systems and this was only 2 years ago!!!! Knowing the owner (a dead ringer for PHB) they are most likely still using the garbage. (I lasted five months before I found a new job at a 20% pay increase).