As the son of a musician, a musician myself, and in a word yes. Many artists live the 'starving artist' lifestyle because it is generally not a line of work with which you can make any money at all. The popular musicians we hear about are 1 in 5,000,000 that get very lucky with a record contract,
So let me see if I understand this. Only 1 in 5,000,000 are truly benefiting from the current system so we should ban private, fair use so that this tiny minority can be paid even more while the vast majority of the musicians are screwed in either case. And even though you are one of the 4,999,999 struggling artists you are still advocate giving extra help to the lucky 1.
Isn't this like a member of a minority voting Republican?
Hmm, is that like it's no big deal that a Budweiser distributor employee was fired for drinking Coors while he was not on the job, as documented here. I guess this also means nothing in the grand scheme.
With all the security problems Windows has now, it is increasingly obvious to everyone that tiny microkernels, like that of MINIX, are a better base for operating systems than huge monolithic systems.
Interesting comment from AST given that, to my knowledge, Windows IS a micro-kernel based OS and it is still the most insecure system out there. If micro-kernel architectures were so inherently secure then Windows would have one of the best records in the business.
I'm sorry Andy but, in a University teaching environment, I agree with you, a micro-kernel is the way to go. It makes it much easier to have students try different algorithms and see how they affect the system if the memory management system is done as a user process.
Having said that, for a production system a micro-kernel is just wrong. The stability and security of a monolithic kernel is much more important than the flexibility of a micro-kernel.
No, no, no. A plaugerist is a person who steals from the writings of P. J. Plauger, Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and author of many software books.
The problem is that showing that Linux developement is fragmented and uncontrolled will not help SCO in the court, that is not what the court is trying to decide. The issue is whether or not SCO IP was placed in Linux. The ease or difficulty of making that transfer is not the point, the point is did the transfer take place.
Having said that, there are reasons to depose both LT & RMS. LT certainly has knowledge about what was placed into Linux and when, so he is clearly a valid witness. RMS is a little more of a stretch but SCO has raised the issue of the validity of the GPL so RMS would clearly have some interesting views on that subject.
my current car CD player won't play CDRs, nor will my DVD player attached to the home theater
I had the same problem with my DVD player. Turns out the problem is probably the media you are using. CD-R's use material that reflects light at a different frequency than what the DVD player is expecting and it doesn't work. CD-RW media, on the other hand, seems to work great on my Sony DVD player. You still tell your computer to burn a CD-R and just use CD-RW media, works great.
You're ignoring the story of ex-CIO director John Deutch who used a computer containing classified information to surf the web from his home. All the security procedures in the world will not protect you from the person who feels that the rules just don't apply to him.
The autor states Three decades ago, AT&T created a computer operating system called UNIX to run its telecommunications network.
In point of fact, Ritchie created Unix to run a chess program, not for telecommunications. Only later, when AT&T discoverd that Unix was a very creditable OS, was it used for more prosaic, business related work.
No, the term fragging was used long before Doom. I was always told that the term appeared during the Viet Nam war when GI's used to remove officers they disliked by tossing a fragmentation device (aka grenade) to the officer. Note that there was an instance of this during the recent war in Iraq.
Maybe the market is reacting to the news that Microsoft can't innovate, most innovation is coming from Open Source and since SCO is a big defender of open source then....
On second thought the more likely answer is that people who buy stocks are idiots
Yes, MS employees really do sit around figuring out how to keep Wordperfect from crashing.
Actually, I would be willing to bet large sums of money that MS employees spend no time figuring out how to keep WordPerfect from crashing. What they do is sit around and try to figure out how to make an API, that they designed and created, work in their new OS.
If you design an API make damn sure you do it right because you are going to have to live with it for a long time.
The court appointed an "enforcement committee" to protect the plaintiffs' interests.
If I rember correctly the "enforcement committee" will be created by, and controlled by, the Microsoft board of directors. Given that this board has a slightly vested interest in seeing that the actions of Microsoft remain unchecked what are the odds that this committee will be nothing but a toothless lapdog?
Making the "enforcement committee" a part of the company it is supposed to monitor is ludicrous and one of the biggest jokes in the entire settlement.
One of the issues with the Internet that many governments are complaining about is that it is borderless, I can post a web page in South Africa that can be easily read by someone in France. Because of this people are in an up roar and some are trying to create new laws to deal with this new medium.
In point of fact borderless media already exists, we call it radio and TV. Radio/TV signals are broadcast indescriminately and can be received all over the world and yet we don't see any nation trying to censor the broadcasts of other nations (I'm ignoring the eastern block countries efforts to jam radio signals from things like Radio Free Europe, that's a different issue).
Why can't we take the same international protections that are afforded to radio and TV and extend them to the internet?
Assuming that MicroSoft actually winds up owing every one is the class $40, a big if, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a check. What do you want to bet that the payout will be in the form of a $40 rebate on your next MS purchase?
I love the US class action legal system. The lawyers get paid big bucks and the consumers wind up funding a new marketing program that locks them in even tighter to the guilty party!
isn't one of the selling points of Itanium its backward i386 compatibility
The article was referring to inline assembly in the kernel code. The IA32 compatibility built into the IA64 CPU is strictly for user mode, all system functions are executed in IA64 mode. Although it would be technically possible to enter kernel mode, swith to the IA32 instruction set, exec some IA32 code and then swith back, in practice this is unfeasible. The IA32 code would be using different data structures and it couldn't call any of the kernel internal routines with somehow finding a way to swith from IA32 to IA64 mode and back on each subroutine call.
The problems of mixing IA32 and IA64 code, especially inside the kernel, are just too difficult and provide little benefit. For these reasons the Linux/IA64 team decided not to support this.
All the industry blood money in the world isn't going to help their campaign one single bit if 50% (+1) of their constituents is pissed off at them.
This is completely off topic but this comment demonstrates yet another reason why term limits are such a horribly bad idea. If an elected official is facing a term limit, and therefore has no concern about being re-elected, then the politician has no reason not to become a complete whore for his big campaign donors. The constituents can't re-elect him and one of the big donors might give him a good job.
Technology firms did not want to testify in the hearing, did not offer input while the bill was being drafted, and have offered plenty of criticism but little helpful suggestions since, a Hollings aide said.
"They seem satisfied to try to attack it in the press rather than trying to make it work," said Sen. Hollings spokesman Andy Davis.
Well, duh. Maybe no one's trying to make it work because no one wants it in the first place.
Why company would switch to ANY OS that is less then 3 years old is beyond me.
Let's see, Win98 came out in approximately 1998, it's now 2001 so Win98 has achieved your desired maturity level. Of course Win98 has been superseded by WinME which has been superseded by Win2000 which has been superceded by WinXP. Also, I believe Win98 has an official End of Life date from MicroSoft. Now what am I supposed to run.
Because ILECs (I'm thinking Verizon here) can be ISPs too, they will naturally take a price gouging on their ISP service to get business and avoid having to share profits with a seperate company.
Then explain what happened at Qwest. They provided the local loop and also acted as an ISP, qwest.net. Starting in November of 2001 Qwest is exiting the ISP business and selling all of their customers to Microsoft (and yes, I am PISSED over this and I immediately went out and found a local ISP - I don't know which is worse MSN or AOL)
The order granting a preliminary injunction is reversed. Defendant Andrew Bunner shall recover his appellate costs. Any lawyers out there? I thought that American courts don't usually award costs. Does this mean that the appellate court was ticked off or is this just normal boiler plate?
Career security, not job security
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I'm curious what fairy tale land you have been living in? Job security in America has been a myth for years, certainly since I entered the work force over 30 years ago.
Understand this basic truism - your job is not secure, it never was, it never will be. A company's primary goal in life is not to provide jobs for its employees. It's primary goal is to survive and the only way to survive is by making a profit. If a company has to make a choice between making a profit or shedding employees it will eventually shed the employees, it has no choice.
Fortunately you don't need or want job security. What you really need to strive for is career security. As long as you have unique skills you will be able to find another job and getting laid off is unfortunate but by no means catastrophic.
I've been laid off by a Fortune 500 firm and I've also been laid off by a 200 person firm. In both cases I was lucky and able to find a new job immediately. Keep current in your field and you'll have no problems. (Of course, if you're a ditch digger or a middle manager you might want to seriously re-consider your career patch:-)
Qwest does owe customers a rebate.
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I tend to think this is just complaining bull crap. My net connection when down too, and I don't run around demanding $5 back.
Being a Quest customer using one of their Cisco 675 routers I was on the recieving end of this affair and I think Qwest owes its customers a refund because of the pathetic way they dealt with this situation. I spent 3 weeks power cycling my router 3 to 4 times a day, not being able to connect to work from home because the router got hit every evening. What really bites about this is I followed Qwest's instructions and they were not sufficient.
Originally, I followed Qwest's instructions to disable web access to the router. I still got hit and had to power cycle multiple times a day. Then I read an article on The Register about the situation and followed the link to a writeup at the Cisco site that described how to work around the problem (turns out you also had to change the access port to >1024). Why didn't Qwest do their homework and discover the real solution originally?
Also, being a Linux user, I have no choice but to use Quest's preferred Cisco router. The only other DSL hardware available for Qwest's DSL system are an internal PCI card and an external USB modem. Both of these devices use proprietary drivers that only work with Windows and I can't even get specs on them to create my own driver.
Since Quest has forced me to use hardware that they selected that was vulnerable to this outage then I believe they should shoulder the responsibility for that selection.
The thread core dump patch was originally put into Alan's tree around the 2.4.3 time frame. It was quite correctly labeled experimental at the time (it took a few iterations to get it right.) The intent is to merge it into Linus' tree at some time, it just hasn't gotten there yet.
In the mean time, if you're desperate, I can give you a patch that provides this capability to any Linus tree.
How many people know that C was a successor to B which was a successor to BCPL? Based upon that analysis the successor language to C (or C++) should be P (I have no idea what the successor to L should be).
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So let me see if I understand this. Only 1 in 5,000,000 are truly benefiting from the current system so we should ban private, fair use so that this tiny minority can be paid even more while the vast majority of the musicians are screwed in either case. And even though you are one of the 4,999,999 struggling artists you are still advocate giving extra help to the lucky 1.
Isn't this like a member of a minority voting Republican?
Hmm, is that like it's no big deal that a Budweiser distributor employee was fired for drinking Coors while he was not on the job, as documented here. I guess this also means nothing in the grand scheme.
Interesting comment from AST given that, to my knowledge, Windows IS a micro-kernel based OS and it is still the most insecure system out there. If micro-kernel architectures were so inherently secure then Windows would have one of the best records in the business.
I'm sorry Andy but, in a University teaching environment, I agree with you, a micro-kernel is the way to go. It makes it much easier to have students try different algorithms and see how they affect the system if the memory management system is done as a user process.
Having said that, for a production system a micro-kernel is just wrong. The stability and security of a monolithic kernel is much more important than the flexibility of a micro-kernel.
No, no, no. A plaugerist is a person who steals from the writings of P. J. Plauger, Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and author of many software books.
Having said that, there are reasons to depose both LT & RMS. LT certainly has knowledge about what was placed into Linux and when, so he is clearly a valid witness. RMS is a little more of a stretch but SCO has raised the issue of the validity of the GPL so RMS would clearly have some interesting views on that subject.
Good first effort but you forgot about .bat, .com and probably a few other executable extensions that I don't know about.
I had the same problem with my DVD player. Turns out the problem is probably the media you are using. CD-R's use material that reflects light at a different frequency than what the DVD player is expecting and it doesn't work. CD-RW media, on the other hand, seems to work great on my Sony DVD player. You still tell your computer to burn a CD-R and just use CD-RW media, works great.
You're ignoring the story of ex-CIO director John Deutch who used a computer containing classified information to surf the web from his home. All the security procedures in the world will not protect you from the person who feels that the rules just don't apply to him.
In point of fact, Ritchie created Unix to run a chess program, not for telecommunications. Only later, when AT&T discoverd that Unix was a very creditable OS, was it used for more prosaic, business related work.
No, the term fragging was used long before Doom. I was always told that the term appeared during the Viet Nam war when GI's used to remove officers they disliked by tossing a fragmentation device (aka grenade) to the officer. Note that there was an instance of this during the recent war in Iraq.
On second thought the more likely answer is that people who buy stocks are idiots
Actually, I would be willing to bet large sums of money that MS employees spend no time figuring out how to keep WordPerfect from crashing. What they do is sit around and try to figure out how to make an API, that they designed and created, work in their new OS.
If you design an API make damn sure you do it right because you are going to have to live with it for a long time.
If I rember correctly the "enforcement committee" will be created by, and controlled by,
the Microsoft board of directors. Given that this board has a slightly vested interest in seeing that the actions of Microsoft remain unchecked what are the odds that this committee will be nothing but a toothless lapdog?
Making the "enforcement committee" a part of the company it is supposed to monitor is ludicrous and one of the biggest jokes in the entire settlement.
In point of fact borderless media already exists, we call it radio and TV. Radio/TV signals are broadcast indescriminately and can be received all over the world and yet we don't see any nation trying to censor the broadcasts of other nations (I'm ignoring the eastern block countries efforts to jam radio signals from things like Radio Free Europe, that's a different issue).
Why can't we take the same international protections that are afforded to radio and TV and extend them to the internet?
I love the US class action legal system. The lawyers get paid big bucks and the consumers wind up funding a new marketing program that locks them in even tighter to the guilty party!
The article was referring to inline assembly in the kernel code. The IA32 compatibility built into the IA64 CPU is strictly for user mode, all system functions are executed in IA64 mode. Although it would be technically possible to enter kernel mode, swith to the IA32 instruction set, exec some IA32 code and then swith back, in practice this is unfeasible. The IA32 code would be using different data structures and it couldn't call any of the kernel internal routines with somehow finding a way to swith from IA32 to IA64 mode and back on each subroutine call.
The problems of mixing IA32 and IA64 code, especially inside the kernel, are just too difficult and provide little benefit. For these reasons the Linux/IA64 team decided not to support this.
This is completely off topic but this comment demonstrates yet another reason why term limits are such a horribly bad idea. If an elected official is facing a term limit, and therefore has no concern about being re-elected, then the politician has no reason not to become a complete whore for his big campaign donors. The constituents can't re-elect him and one of the big donors might give him a good job.
Technology firms did not want to testify in the hearing, did not offer input while the bill was being drafted, and have offered plenty of criticism but little helpful suggestions since, a Hollings aide said.
"They seem satisfied to try to attack it in the press rather than trying to make it work," said Sen. Hollings spokesman Andy Davis.
Well, duh. Maybe no one's trying to make it work because no one wants it in the first place.
Why company would switch to ANY OS that is less then 3 years old is beyond me.
Let's see, Win98 came out in approximately 1998, it's now 2001 so Win98 has achieved your desired maturity level. Of course Win98 has been superseded by WinME which has been superseded by Win2000 which has been superceded by WinXP. Also, I believe Win98 has an official End of Life date from MicroSoft. Now what am I supposed to run.
Then explain what happened at Qwest. They provided the local loop and also acted as an ISP, qwest.net. Starting in November of 2001 Qwest is exiting the ISP business and selling all of their customers to Microsoft (and yes, I am PISSED over this and I immediately went out and found a local ISP - I don't know which is worse MSN or AOL)
The order granting a preliminary injunction is reversed. Defendant Andrew Bunner shall recover his appellate costs.
Any lawyers out there? I thought that American courts don't usually award costs. Does this mean that the appellate court was ticked off or is this just normal boiler plate?
Understand this basic truism - your job is not secure, it never was, it never will be. A company's primary goal in life is not to provide jobs for its employees. It's primary goal is to survive and the only way to survive is by making a profit. If a company has to make a choice between making a profit or shedding employees it will eventually shed the employees, it has no choice.
Fortunately you don't need or want job security. What you really need to strive for is career security. As long as you have unique skills you will be able to find another job and getting laid off is unfortunate but by no means catastrophic.
I've been laid off by a Fortune 500 firm and I've also been laid off by a 200 person firm. In both cases I was lucky and able to find a new job immediately. Keep current in your field and you'll have no problems. (Of course, if you're a ditch digger or a middle manager you might want to seriously re-consider your career patch
Being a Quest customer using one of their Cisco 675 routers I was on the recieving end of this affair and I think Qwest owes its customers a refund because of the pathetic way they dealt with this situation. I spent 3 weeks power cycling my router 3 to 4 times a day, not being able to connect to work from home because the router got hit every evening. What really bites about this is I followed Qwest's instructions and they were not sufficient.
Originally, I followed Qwest's instructions to disable web access to the router. I still got hit and had to power cycle multiple times a day. Then I read an article on The Register about the situation and followed the link to a writeup at the Cisco site that described how to work around the problem (turns out you also had to change the access port to >1024). Why didn't Qwest do their homework and discover the real solution originally?
Also, being a Linux user, I have no choice but to use Quest's preferred Cisco router. The only other DSL hardware available for Qwest's DSL system are an internal PCI card and an external USB modem. Both of these devices use proprietary drivers that only work with Windows and I can't even get specs on them to create my own driver.
Since Quest has forced me to use hardware that they selected that was vulnerable to this outage then I believe they should shoulder the responsibility for that selection.
In the mean time, if you're desperate, I can give you a patch that provides this capability to any Linus tree.
How many people know that C was a successor to B which was a successor to BCPL? Based upon that analysis the successor language to C (or C++) should be P (I have no idea what the successor to L should be).