Is that economies of scale trump superior hardware all day. SGI sees the inexorable creep of NT boxes slowly coring their market and they had to make a decision: Either go head to head with microsoft or take a risk in another type of market.
The commodity software market is totally separate from the standard one. You cant really make money by selling copies, so you have to find another way. Value-added services and brand recognition are the biggest assets in this market, which is not nearly as lucrative as selling shrink-wrap.
It is a huge risk for SGI, trying to take a growing share of a smaller market, versus a shrinking share of a larger one. It is a calculated risk though. They are not going whole-hog however: they will still ship proprietary code.
...must all fight for survival, battling for the only natural resource: living minds. Those ideas that are shared by many are more alive than those known only to a select few.
The most sucessful ideas are those that gain wide acceptance, and if there is any chance that evangelization will gain fertile minds, then there will be evangelization.
For example, how did you come to learn of Free software?
So, you for example would be able to live without britney and backdoor boys?:P
Just trying to point out that the majority of the most popular "music" is a soulless, brainless cash crop mass manufactured and mass marketted.
The music isnt really the fundamental argument here. Its just the first of the great Personal Freedom Debates to come. The reason is because it can be traded and consumed so easily (thanks to mp3 and sound blaster).
And people can live without music, but they dont like to. (im posting this while listening to stuff i dl'd from mp3.com)
The credit card system is in shambles. If it was designed properly we wouldnt have to subsidize billion of dollars of theft via higher prices at the store.
This country is becoming increasingly dependant upon computers, and as it does so you will become even more vulnerable to electronic fraud and surveillance.
It may have been easy for you to show that you obviously didnt make those charges on you credit card bill, but do you want to have to explain that you didnt request that $20,000 online "cash" advance next time, that was promptly "lost" at some ecasino?
Basic common sense security is something you should consider.
One day, your attitude may come back and bite you.
I understand that Trolltech recently agreed to release Qt under the GPL because they became convinced that dynamic linking couldn't be used as a shortcut around the GPL.
If Vidomi wins this case, then Trolltech may decide to reevaluate their position...
This could get interesting. There could be a compromise perhaps- if vidomi can come up with a plugin for their app that can substitute for the GPL library, which would became a separate download...
I personally believe any guy who is not interested in video games, firearms, paintball, explosions, or something of that nature to be extremely abnormal.
Men are hardwired to be violent, and that has a lot to do with natural evolution. (The non violent guys just didnt make it)
Video games are a safe and effective way to allow us to vent this. (A good game a counterstrike is amazingly refreshing) Pent up guys are prone to stress- or to take out their anger physically.
On a side note, I was at a talk with Douglas Copeland almost 8 years ago in Santa Cruz, California. He had some very interesting ideas that people who are good at computers are the most conforming of any groups of people because they follow all the arcane rules presented to them by computers.
"People who are good with computers" sounds alot like "advanced powerpoint user". The description certainly applies to users of commercial software packages.
Developers by definition are *not* satisfied with the rules presented to them, so they set about making their own (language|editor|interface|etc).
Teachers have no knowledge that is useful
anyway
You might be shocked by how many teachers that applies to. You might also be shocked by how many straight "A" students are massive morons. Maybe one day youll meet a person with a PhD who is obviously inept.
I interview people for programming positions, and I have found education to be the least reliable indicator of talent.
Grades are more a measure of conformity and how well you subjugate yourself to the teacher. Some kids are fine with that and accept it as a fact of life. Others are riled by it and find themselves unwilling to comply.
They typically get bad grades despite their intelligence, and find themselves ostracized by both the faculty and the other students.
Cheating by copying is incredibly common. What he's looking for is massive word for word copies, and thats what he's found.
Its not uncommon in college to have an archive of known "A" quality essays. Most are more than willing to help their friends get some material.
However the proffesors solution will only stop naive copying. Anyone with the time to reword the essay, or with access to a program to do it for them will require much more sophisticated copy detection. Even then, with a large enough datastore the problem quickly tilts in favor of the plagiarizar.
Do they wrap paragraphs for you, to fit as much content in your desired font size in as little space?
Do they allow you to extract the images easily? can you search through them for text properly? Can you search for regular expressions?
can you generate them on the fly in response to queries?
can you separate content from presentation?
can you see more than one page at a time? Can you fit an entire book on one page?
can you view the document in a font more to your liking?
Can you convert them to plain text files that make sense?
Can yau embed/link to content in other files. On other machines? Would you use a pdf for your homepage?
You can use a hammer to dig a hole in the ground, but you cant say thats what it was meant for.
Itll work with LILO installed in the MBR. But if you want LILO in your root partition it wont work. Mostly this is due to the fact that SGI wishes XFS to be disk-compatible across systems.
Its probably still a way to go until its well integrated with the distributions, but I think this FS has potential. Unlike Reiser, it currently works with NFS.
I guess its a race to see which of these will ultimately become the common denominator FS for linux. Reiser currently has the lead, due to Suse and being in the kernel.
You overestimate the power of infantry. Its mostly airplanes that handle conventional warfare these days. Infantry is essentally only useful for policing. In the current state of affairs a conventional war vs the US would be hopeless. (Ask the chinese, they admit it so and advocate asymmetric techniques)
That being said, war sucks and should be avoided- because they can be no winners.
That was due to negligence coming from up high in the navy. The captain would have had to sacrifice his career to operate the mission properly.
This space tourism is different though. The ocean is aready commercialized. Up in space there arent many trawlers to crash into. And this guy is gonig to be essentially a passenger- not a pilot.
NASA thinks its OK for them to send school teachers into space and get them killed, but not for a civilian to sign a disclaimer and finance his own trip?
This could even be a good thing- leading to more space tourism. If there isnt enough room for a civilian or two on every trip- then we could simply make more stations.
Can anyone think of a good reason not to commercialize space? I'm perplexed.
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how would you translate:
nihongo de hanasemasen
perhaps: I cannot speak in japanese right at the moment...
Is that economies of scale trump superior hardware all day. SGI sees the inexorable creep of NT boxes slowly coring their market and they had to make a decision: Either go head to head with microsoft or take a risk in another type of market.
The commodity software market is totally separate from the standard one. You cant really make money by selling copies, so you have to find another way. Value-added services and brand recognition are the biggest assets in this market, which is not nearly as lucrative as selling shrink-wrap.
It is a huge risk for SGI, trying to take a growing share of a smaller market, versus a shrinking share of a larger one. It is a calculated risk though. They are not going whole-hog however: they will still ship proprietary code.
The most sucessful ideas are those that gain wide acceptance, and if there is any chance that evangelization will gain fertile minds, then there will be evangelization.
For example, how did you come to learn of Free software?
but we can't live without music
So, you for example would be able to live without britney and backdoor boys? :P
Just trying to point out that the majority of the most popular "music" is a soulless, brainless cash crop mass manufactured and mass marketted.
The music isnt really the fundamental argument here. Its just the first of the great Personal Freedom Debates to come. The reason is because it can be traded and consumed so easily (thanks to mp3 and sound blaster).
And people can live without music, but they dont like to. (im posting this while listening to stuff i dl'd from mp3.com)
The credit card system is in shambles. If it was designed properly we wouldnt have to subsidize billion of dollars of theft via higher prices at the store.
This country is becoming increasingly dependant upon computers, and as it does so you will become even more vulnerable to electronic fraud and surveillance.
It may have been easy for you to show that you obviously didnt make those charges on you credit card bill, but do you want to have to explain that you didnt request that $20,000 online "cash" advance next time, that was promptly "lost" at some ecasino?
Basic common sense security is something you should consider. One day, your attitude may come back and bite you.
If Vidomi wins this case, then Trolltech may decide to reevaluate their position...
This could get interesting. There could be a compromise perhaps- if vidomi can come up with a plugin for their app that can substitute for the GPL library, which would became a separate download...
I personally believe any guy who is not interested in video games, firearms, paintball, explosions, or something of that nature to be extremely abnormal.
Men are hardwired to be violent, and that has a lot to do with natural evolution. (The non violent guys just didnt make it)
Video games are a safe and effective way to allow us to vent this. (A good game a counterstrike is amazingly refreshing) Pent up guys are prone to stress- or to take out their anger physically.
Perhaps your boyfriend didnt play enough games...
"People who are good with computers" sounds alot like "advanced powerpoint user". The description certainly applies to users of commercial software packages.
Developers by definition are *not* satisfied with the rules presented to them, so they set about making their own (language|editor|interface|etc).
Teachers have no knowledge that is useful anyway
You might be shocked by how many teachers that applies to. You might also be shocked by how many straight "A" students are massive morons. Maybe one day youll meet a person with a PhD who is obviously inept.
I interview people for programming positions, and I have found education to be the least reliable indicator of talent.
Grades are more a measure of conformity and how well you subjugate yourself to the teacher. Some kids are fine with that and accept it as a fact of life. Others are riled by it and find themselves unwilling to comply.
They typically get bad grades despite their intelligence, and find themselves ostracized by both the faculty and the other students.
"Sorry kid, ignorance of the law is no excuse."
Its not uncommon in college to have an archive of known "A" quality essays. Most are more than willing to help their friends get some material.
However the proffesors solution will only stop naive copying. Anyone with the time to reword the essay, or with access to a program to do it for them will require much more sophisticated copy detection. Even then, with a large enough datastore the problem quickly tilts in favor of the plagiarizar.
(~0)-1 is -2. I dont know what -2 marketshare is supposed to mean.
If you wanted to represent max positive int you should use (int)((unsigned)-1 >> 1)
perhaps you were thinking unsigned, which should have been (unsigned)~0 - 1
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ > gnom.sh #confirm that it looks good vim gnom.sh #now run it sh gnom.sh
Do they wrap paragraphs for you, to fit as much content in your desired font size in as little space?
Do they allow you to extract the images easily? can you search through them for text properly? Can you search for regular expressions? can you generate them on the fly in response to queries?
can you separate content from presentation?
can you see more than one page at a time? Can you fit an entire book on one page?
can you view the document in a font more to your liking?
Can you convert them to plain text files that make sense?
Can yau embed/link to content in other files. On other machines? Would you use a pdf for your homepage?
You can use a hammer to dig a hole in the ground, but you cant say thats what it was meant for.
Because theyre not designed to be read on a moniter. Theyre meant for printing out. Theyre a throwback to an older medium.
They have their place yet, but ultimately, when we quit printing out things on paper, theyll go away.
Its probably still a way to go until its well integrated with the distributions, but I think this FS has potential. Unlike Reiser, it currently works with NFS.
I guess its a race to see which of these will ultimately become the common denominator FS for linux. Reiser currently has the lead, due to Suse and being in the kernel.
Or maybe we should use the Qt port...
I'm going to have to change my keymapping now, until someone swats him with a cluestick.
The bug that bothers me most is when a windows box goes down (can you imagine that?) only root can unmount the share.
My question is whether this aspect of samba has been fixed. I have combed through all the online material and cant seem to find an answer to that.
And as you allude to the situation in israel, do you think the people there on either side prefer the current state of war to the previous of peace?
And moreso, in the current age, where any large scale war immediately becomes a question of total annihilation, do you really think that desirable?
That being said, war sucks and should be avoided- because they can be no winners.
This space tourism is different though. The ocean is aready commercialized. Up in space there arent many trawlers to crash into. And this guy is gonig to be essentially a passenger- not a pilot.
So the sub incident has no bearing.
NASA thinks its OK for them to send school teachers into space and get them killed, but not for a civilian to sign a disclaimer and finance his own trip?
This could even be a good thing- leading to more space tourism. If there isnt enough room for a civilian or two on every trip- then we could simply make more stations.
Can anyone think of a good reason not to commercialize space? I'm perplexed.