I wouldn't be surprised in this atmosphere of fear and uncertainty for the USA
ahh yes - I saw Bowling for Columbine too.. but isn't your attitude one of fear as well? Fear as a motivator isn't always the best way to go but *sigh* when will we learn?
Since Reagan we have been seeing more and more melodramatic hollywood plots emerge in politics?
You want to really influence the people against Microsoft - fund a couple of big blockbusters that portrays OSS promoters in a positive light (preferrably not criminals, people on the fringe element, Newman, or some other fat taco eating guy) along with a more accurate portrayal of Gates' and company business model.. that's pretty much it if you can pull it off to change perception.. Perception is Reality.
When you know HOW, you are an Engineer. When you know WHY, you are a Theologian.
No and No, but in the corporate world, unfortunately, Perception is Reality.
I'm appalled by the perception they continue to tout that there are more viruses in windows simply because it's more popular.. ahem, wouldn't that be because it's the easiest thing to hack at since the underlying architecture is based on a single role, and Microsoft promotes some of the most clueless users?
right.. in other words - Linux can be installed on our hardware, just like those people who figured out how to run linux on the XBox.. it could theoretically be done, we're not stupid, and hey the XBox hackers helped us find a lot of issues in our hardware - so more power to them - we don't care as long as they're putting more money in our pockets.
Of course they do much more useful things with them than just watch TV and hollywood pre-digested birdfood.. I've seen them used for active directions (a 3d overlay of the street you're on with colored arrows showing you where to turn), showing traffic congestion (imagine seeing the accident on your screen rather than contributing to the rubbernecking delay), video conferencing (drop your cell-phone into a slot and have realtime voice and video.. of course most of their cell-phones have the same connector base), digital camera and video playback.. man the US is so far behind, that if this is slashdot worthy news.. it's embarrassing.
~15-20MB/s best case sustained for a sequential write? You might want to baseline this with raw performance, take a look at IOPs amd filesystem layout for a particular application, adjust the blocksize and take an approach like what's laid out on http://www.storageperformance.org/..
well actually, you're right. they're just the delegated authority for pushing out the root zones - of course you need approval from DoC and the root operators to change records here and the old Network Solutions group still holds a lot of weight.
even if you had the.COM zone, i believe you'd need a system capable of handling a process of something like 2-4GB in memory - 64bit, and a customized bind most likely.
actually it's resource mgmt - not just X display shipping.. (ever try shipping an X display from San Francisco to Hamburg, Germany? A lot of un-necessary display overhead gets shipped as well.) If you deploy it right, you should just hit a local X-Server and mount up your home directory for preferences, what should be running and junk.
But overall, it's a thinner protocol stack, and your applications will actually sleep on the server side when you pull the card.
take a look at: http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/Sun_Ray_Server_So ftwar e_2.0 or the impaired faq summary: http://wwws.sun.com/software/sunray/faq. html javacard info should be here: http://java.sun.com/products/javacard/
actually the interview reads like a bad mobile phone conversation with someone who has spotty reception. They appear to have cut some of the content out, and left in the annoying banter. I've read better interviews in Jr High School newspapers.
And the over-emphasis on the stock price? okok.. give it a rest - sun's market perception sucks - we get it.
actually he should be in his boxers with a greasy white tee-shirt and a big hairy gut hanging out, wedged against the makeshift desktop - he'd have a sloppy taco in one hand and be answering an inane poll on which window manager reminded him most of Cowboy Neal wrestling Natalie Portman in hot oatmeal..
Oh, and don't forget extended sizes.. XXL or XXXL would be a nice thing. Some of us like our shirts baggy.
someone healthy and active i guess.. as opposed to an invalid.. (i hesitate to use the term invalid user as this also denotes those getting rich off retirement communities for the disabled)
mail is always going to come from "a valid user" at some point in the trail whether that person is bouncing it off open relays, or using a myriad of other anonymous services. i don't think you can have both privacy of information and full accountability of everyone who might send you public mail. with our current system it has much more to do with personal accountability and much less to do with identification of an individual or organization.
if people are concerned about getting unsolicited emails, set up PGP and setup different keyrings for trust - then you can procmail filter on the back end depending on the keyring, and have your mail sorted for you - most spam i've seen isn't smart enough to figure out both your email address and your PGP keys.
i'm starting to see another annoying trend these days - i've been starting to get email bounced back to me from a spammer[s] using a mispelled version of my email address in the From:.. and with the way most companies run their email as firstname[._]lastname@acme.com - it's pretty trivial to figure out "valid" email addresses if you want one or need one.
Computerworld reports that the IEEE has changed the 100BaseT spec to only run at 65Mb/s not 100Mb/s as initially specified, thus slowing down millions of computers world-wide. Additionally gigabit ethernet has also been affected by the IEEE bringing many critical business systems down to a crawl.
The only people who look bad as a result of this are silly chipset vendors and the 54g collaboration of idiots who put products on the market based loosely on the draft since now all their logos look stupid.
Perl, Python and Ruby can do in 2 lines what it takes Java to do in 50. Once Parrot is finished Java's big claim to fame, the JVM, will be yet another bloated, useless feature.
sure if all you're doing is screen scraping and mySQL DBI dropping.. but then again you're dependent on your CPAN classes, erm.. modules, erm.. subs and I think you'll find many more lines underneath. Lemme see, you're talking about respect for Eclipse, so you must have taken the bait on websphere and are now dissatisfied with the performance you're getting. If you want to understand Java better and how to write high performance apps that run more efficiently - I could recommend a few books and courses or you could always hire Sun's PS Java people to come in for a couple hours or days and show you directly what might be helpful. But then again you'd have to reach the point where you can admit that there's much you don't understand about Java yet..
Parrot should be interesting - I have a lot of respect for both Larry and Guido, but it'll be interesting to see how they handle GC and threading. I haven't been impressed with most of the SMP implementations I've seen on commodity hardware, and the OSS community still has a way to go in the enterprise space.
Wow - I wonder if people would be saying the same thing about other languages if there was a lot of poorly written C++, C, or even assembler out there. Putting everything under the sun in your jars and classpath coupled with an improper understanding of code optimizations are typically more at fault here.
Mozilla (like KDE) is more memory consumptive thanks to a combination of poorly hacked eye candy code. Then when you start swapping pages out - it might actually be time to drop more memory in your box.
Why not deal with the real beasts here? - the integration of Java with X11 and Win32. All it takes is one quick look at the number of layers of indirection that MS provides to see that a poorly executed language set like ActiveX is going to outperform Swing or Jimi every time on Windows.
It has less to do with the browser and more to do with open standards imho. Far too often I'm seeing more and more websites that are tailoring their Web experience to specific browsers like IE, Mozilla/Netscape, and Opera. The side effect is hearing *far too many people* say "IE works the best" or Opera is the greatest thing since sliced bread (thanks to the "free porn" industry). It's also a wonderful tool to see what barfs on popular websites and see the many unnecessary and cruddy obfuscations they've had to do with things like getBrowserType() and a myriad of javascript crap.
The main limitation to the web now is the protocols we're using to define it. There's so much more available in "well-written" Java, but I don't expect the majority of platform bigots to get that quite yet.
Very interesting indeed.. I also wonder if the stock selling might have anything to do with an intentional stock dilution in other markets - in other words, making MSFT seem more valuable in comparison by buying high and selling low into other competing companies and calling it diversification. I've always wondered how MS still manages the perception that they're a profitable and stable company and thus a worthy buy in this economy.
The stock split is also rather interesting to look at since it puts them in the same stock perception range as the bulk of other IT companies.. somewhere in the $15-30 range/share. Perhaps the real defining standard for a company's profitability should be based more on the quality of their lawyers and the savviness of their accounting and finance departments than on the quality of their product or fair business practices.
um - actually sun support can be surprisingly good, but it often depends on who you talk to like any other large IT vendor. You might also find that they've got a really good handle on openSource and may even know the code better than some of the development teams.
As for the shouting matches - ever consider counseling or classes in public speaking? There are many ways to make valid points and positive change without pissing on people or being overly confrontational..
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ahh yes - I saw Bowling for Columbine too
Since Reagan we have been seeing more and more
melodramatic hollywood plots emerge in politics?
You want to really influence the people against Microsoft - fund a couple of big blockbusters that portrays OSS promoters in a positive light (preferrably not criminals, people on the fringe element, Newman, or some other fat taco eating guy) along with a more accurate portrayal of Gates' and company business model
When you know HOW, you are an Engineer. When you know WHY, you are a Theologian.
No and No, but in the corporate world, unfortunately, Perception is Reality.
.. ahem, wouldn't that be because it's the easiest thing to hack at since the underlying architecture is based on a single role, and Microsoft promotes some of the most clueless users?
I'm appalled by the perception they continue to tout that there are more viruses in windows simply because it's more popular
Personally, I like Ed Norton Ghost - It beats the crap out of itself and then starts fights between the other filesystems installed in the system.
no - it's just free support services for them - why pay a big support staff if you've got geeks doing your dirty work for you for no cost to you?
right .. in other words - Linux can be installed on our hardware, just like those people who figured out how to run linux on the XBox .. it could theoretically be done, we're not stupid, and hey the XBox hackers helped us find a lot of issues in our hardware - so more power to them - we don't care as long as they're putting more money in our pockets.
right .. but you hack the makefiles and configs from the std distro too, i'm guessing.
Of course they do much more useful things with them than just watch TV and hollywood pre-digested birdfood .. I've seen them used for active directions (a 3d overlay of the street you're on with colored arrows showing you where to turn), showing traffic congestion (imagine seeing the accident on your screen rather than contributing to the rubbernecking delay), video conferencing (drop your cell-phone into a slot and have realtime voice and video .. of course most of their cell-phones have the same connector base), digital camera and video playback .. man the US is so far behind, that if this is slashdot worthy news .. it's embarrassing.
~15-20MB/s best case sustained for a sequential write? You might want to baseline this with raw performance, take a look at IOPs amd filesystem layout for a particular application, adjust the blocksize and take an approach like what's laid out on http://www.storageperformance.org/ ..
well actually, you're right. they're just the delegated authority for pushing out the root zones - of course you need approval from DoC and the root operators to change records here and the old Network Solutions group still holds a lot of weight.
even if you had the .COM zone, i believe you'd need a system capable of handling a process of something like 2-4GB in memory - 64bit, and a customized bind most likely.
actually it's resource mgmt - not just X display shipping .. (ever try shipping an X display from San Francisco to Hamburg, Germany? A lot of un-necessary display overhead gets shipped as well.) If you deploy it right, you should just hit a local X-Server and mount up your home directory for preferences, what should be running and junk.
o ftwar e_2.0. html
But overall, it's a thinner protocol stack, and your applications will actually sleep on the server side when you pull the card.
take a look at:
http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/Sun_Ray_Server_S
or the impaired faq summary:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/sunray/faq
javacard info should be here:
http://java.sun.com/products/javacard/
actually the interview reads like a bad mobile phone conversation with someone who has spotty reception. They appear to have cut some of the content out, and left in the annoying banter. I've read better interviews in Jr High School newspapers.
.. give it a rest - sun's market perception sucks - we get it.
And the over-emphasis on the stock price? okok
well, not anymore .. he appears to have dyed his hair blonde and has evidently received a sex-change operation.
Oh, and don't forget extended sizes.. XXL or XXXL would be a nice thing. Some of us like our shirts baggy.
right .. you just want a shirt that fits ..
oddly enough the same header that perlfr is using .. guess they didn't know what the comment was for ..
Anyway, what is a "valid user"?
.. as opposed to an invalid .. (i hesitate to use the term invalid user as this also denotes those getting rich off retirement communities for the disabled)
.. and with the way most companies run their email as firstname[._]lastname@acme.com - it's pretty trivial to figure out "valid" email addresses if you want one or need one.
someone healthy and active i guess
mail is always going to come from "a valid user" at some point in the trail whether that person is bouncing it off open relays, or using a myriad of other anonymous services. i don't think you can have both privacy of information and full accountability of everyone who might send you public mail. with our current system it has much more to do with personal accountability and much less to do with identification of an individual or organization.
if people are concerned about getting unsolicited emails, set up PGP and setup different keyrings for trust - then you can procmail filter on the back end depending on the keyring, and have your mail sorted for you - most spam i've seen isn't smart enough to figure out both your email address and your PGP keys.
i'm starting to see another annoying trend these days - i've been starting to get email bounced back to me from a spammer[s] using a mispelled version of my email address in the From:
excuseme, desee decir esperanto es muerto ..
;P
amor, paz, esperanza, muelle
love, peace, hope, wharf?
Computerworld reports that the IEEE has changed the 100BaseT spec to only run at 65Mb/s not 100Mb/s as initially specified, thus slowing down millions of computers world-wide. Additionally gigabit ethernet has also been affected by the IEEE bringing many critical business systems down to a crawl.
The only people who look bad as a result of this are silly chipset vendors and the 54g collaboration of idiots who put products on the market based loosely on the draft since now all their logos look stupid.
It's ok monkey boy .. I wouldn't put much stock in Computerworld as an authority on anything - Nick Petreley is just the Dave Barry of pop IT rags.
Just keep up the good work spreading mono around! It's quite contagious.
Paz, amor, esperanto es muerte
sure if all you're doing is screen scraping and mySQL DBI dropping .. but then again you're dependent on your CPAN classes, erm .. modules, erm .. subs and I think you'll find many more lines underneath. Lemme see, you're talking about respect for Eclipse, so you must have taken the bait on websphere and are now dissatisfied with the performance you're getting. If you want to understand Java better and how to write high performance apps that run more efficiently - I could recommend a few books and courses or you could always hire Sun's PS Java people to come in for a couple hours or days and show you directly what might be helpful. But then again you'd have to reach the point where you can admit that there's much you don't understand about Java yet ..
Parrot should be interesting - I have a lot of respect for both Larry and Guido, but it'll be interesting to see how they handle GC and threading. I haven't been impressed with most of the SMP implementations I've seen on commodity hardware, and the OSS community still has a way to go in the enterprise space.
Wow - I wonder if people would be saying the same thing about other languages if there was a lot of poorly written C++, C, or even assembler out there. Putting everything under the sun in your jars and classpath coupled with an improper understanding of code optimizations are typically more at fault here.
Mozilla (like KDE) is more memory consumptive thanks to a combination of poorly hacked eye candy code. Then when you start swapping pages out - it might actually be time to drop more memory in your box.
Why not deal with the real beasts here? - the integration of Java with X11 and Win32. All it takes is one quick look at the number of layers of indirection that MS provides to see that a poorly executed language set like ActiveX is going to outperform Swing or Jimi every time on Windows.
It has less to do with the browser and more to do with open standards imho. Far too often I'm seeing more and more websites that are tailoring their Web experience to specific browsers like IE, Mozilla/Netscape, and Opera. The side effect is hearing *far too many people* say "IE works the best" or Opera is the greatest thing since sliced bread (thanks to the "free porn" industry). It's also a wonderful tool to see what barfs on popular websites and see the many unnecessary and cruddy obfuscations they've had to do with things like getBrowserType() and a myriad of javascript crap.
The main limitation to the web now is the protocols we're using to define it. There's so much more available in "well-written" Java, but I don't expect the majority of platform bigots to get that quite yet.
or you could use the print to PDF option in staroffice ..
Very interesting indeed .. I also wonder if the stock selling might have anything to do with an intentional stock dilution in other markets - in other words, making MSFT seem more valuable in comparison by buying high and selling low into other competing companies and calling it diversification. I've always wondered how MS still manages the perception that they're a profitable and stable company and thus a worthy buy in this economy.
.. somewhere in the $15-30 range/share. Perhaps the real defining standard for a company's profitability should be based more on the quality of their lawyers and the savviness of their accounting and finance departments than on the quality of their product or fair business practices.
The stock split is also rather interesting to look at since it puts them in the same stock perception range as the bulk of other IT companies
um - actually sun support can be surprisingly good, but it often depends on who you talk to like any other large IT vendor. You might also find that they've got a really good handle on openSource and may even know the code better than some of the development teams.
..
As for the shouting matches - ever consider counseling or classes in public speaking? There are many ways to make valid points and positive change without pissing on people or being overly confrontational