You've put it about right.."INVENTOR". However, I'd have a hard time classifying software as an invention. Put it more like this:
You're the little guy. You come up with this great software program that no one has thought of. The company you started in your basement now explodes into a silicone valley firm. You're living the high life.
Now, a company comes along that has never had any coders working for them claims to have a patent based on the way your program draws the arrow on the screen. They offer to settle for 1 billion. However, your company has only made 600 million. You fight it and, in the end, the court upholds the patent. Your company is liquidated. Your house is sold on auction. You're now worse off than you were before you even had the idea. Your wife leaves you and takes the dog too.
Yes, and isn't it a little hypocritical to mod me redundant when SLASHDOT is being redundant?
Granted, no one else had asked why the editors aren't reading slashdot....but even if they had, they keep posting the same things over and over. Why can't we?
Is it just me or is the tech community running out of things to compare? I mean, when we get to a showdown between BOOT LOADERS, we've sunk pretty low. LILO works for you? Use it. It doesn't? Use GRUB. Who really cares? Is anyone out there really getting excited about boot loaders that basically haven't changed in years?
Tune in next for the ULTIMATE showdown: my jock itch verses my ingrown toenail! It's a matchup you DON'T want to miss!!!
I disagree. Science can answer how something happens. The why is often an effect in a cause and effect relationship. Why did it happen? It happened because of this. How did it happen? It happened like this.
You don't need to attribute everything to God in order to get a why.
It's sad that we can cook our meals with microwaves, but don't know answers to questions like this. I thought science was supposed to answer the how and why. If so, they really should devote time to explaining local phenomena like this. Leaving unanswered questions for things so visible and widely known makes science look like a bunch of blowhards. THIS is why intelligent design is even considered in schools...
So many people are using firefox? That's a new one. What's the percentage? 5...10% of windows users? THAT is so many people to you? That proves my point
The problem was once that these things came bundled with windows. That's not a problem anymore. The problem now is that the average person sees these apps as the primary app for that task. When they think email they don't think Eudora..they think Outlook. That's not going to change even if they unbundle things now and include links to competitors. The customer will simply say "Yeah...that's a link to realplayer, but where's windows media player?"
That battle has been lost. Instead of concentrating on unbundling, these governments should focus on breaking the perception that email means outlook, that web browsing means IE, etc. Bundling was a way to thrust these apps to the forefront and choke the competition. That's been done. Unbundling now will just make the customer go through extra steps to get the same software back again.
Let's be honest. They didn't review much. They could have installed these Os's and then read the package list to get this review. If I'm running a business, yes, whether this is a pain in the ass to install is a major concern. However, the quality of the tech support is just as big of a concern.
It seems like they based their support rating somehow on what support was said to be offered. No mention was given on wait times, knowledge of the support staff, dependability, etc. I don't just want to know what is offered and how it installs. I want to know how easy it is to maintain, how well it integrates with my pre-existing network, etc. Think you can do that in a one page review? Obviously not.
Anyone who thinks Genesis is literal should read the book "101 Myths of the Bible" which was actually written by a bible scholar. The creation story in Genesis is nothing more than a rehashing of egyptian creation myths. Not only that, but if you read closely, there are actually 2 different creation myths. Things are created in different orders.
This has really floored me. The thing I liked, and I noticed many reviewers liked, was the polish the KDE desktop had in SuSE. Everything seemed to fit together wonderfully. It was a distribution for those that loved KDE.
Gnome is behind KDE and probably always will be. Every new release of QT pulls KDE further to the front. It really sickens me that the major linux distros are choosing an inferior product and trying to force it on us. Smells a little bit too much like Microsoft versus OS/2 to me.
Honestly, I've run SuSE for a couple of years now and I can say I haven't had a problem like that with sound in a long time. I'm using the onboard sound on this Asus a7n8x-e with no problems and have also used a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz...with no problems. Both soundcards were detected and ran perfectly out of the box. For that matter, so did my Winfast 2000XP tv card.
So, if he was using a distro to make him feel all elite...guess what...you don't look so elite anymore.
If you need man pages for up2date, then you wouldn't even be able to install debian nor use apt-get to start with. Up2date is as easy as windows update. It's about time non-rpm users faced the facts. The drawbacks to using rpms have been removed...and weren't a problem with the package, but instead the package management software.
I really don't see how anyone could use LFS as anything but "build it, learn how it works, delete it". There are so many security bugs fixed from package release to package release, it would be a full time job to keep track of all of them. Then, the ONE package you overlooked gets compromised and you're owned.
Now with open source software there's not much free support
You have GOT to be smoking crack with this one. Nothing the size and scope of the linux user community exists in windows. If you recall, the linux user community has won AWARDS for its support.
You can say a lot about linux, but you cannot say it doesn't contain free support. Linux is the epitome of free support.
The dual core athlon 64s have the hyperthreading bit turned on so they can take advantage of some optimizations made for hyperthreading. Does the problem affect them in these "optimizations" or does it just affect intel hyperthreading.
It's been said before in little side comments and such, but I'm adding something else to it:
Don't just cancel your subscriptions to syscon publications, boycott their sponsors. Make it a liability for someone to advertise with SYSCON. Don't just alert SYSCON that you're buying from their advertiser's competiters, alert the advertisers that if they continue advertising in SYSCON publications, then you will send all your business to their competitors.
It wouldn't take much of this until the real person that should be resigning does: Fuat Kirccali
People have asked how this is different than other public figures like the runaway bride and I'll tell you how: Do you know the runaway bride's address? Do you know the addresses of her family? Would you have a reason to attack the runaway bride?
Part of ethics is determining each case on its own individual merit and issues. Pamela Jones runs a blog. The internet is famous for its anonymity. Your words stand for themselves. Even if you publish something controversial, you don't have to fear physical reprisal. If someone hunts you down, that's a stalker. There are laws to stop them. In essence, Maureen O'Gara did the work of a stalker and made the information available for those who would wish to do PJ physical harm. There was nothing newsworthy to make this necessary. There was no justification.
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You've put it about right.."INVENTOR". However, I'd have a hard time classifying software as an invention. Put it more like this:
You're the little guy. You come up with this great software program that no one has thought of. The company you started in your basement now explodes into a silicone valley firm. You're living the high life.
Now, a company comes along that has never had any coders working for them claims to have a patent based on the way your program draws the arrow on the screen. They offer to settle for 1 billion. However, your company has only made 600 million. You fight it and, in the end, the court upholds the patent. Your company is liquidated. Your house is sold on auction. You're now worse off than you were before you even had the idea. Your wife leaves you and takes the dog too.
That is what patenting software is....
Yes, but that creates other problems:
8 178/README/appendix-s.html
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-
They'll have all those cryo people they unthawed to tell them all about us.
Or how about you leave that plant right where it is and not smoke it next time?
This had to be on purpose. They're taking the piss with us. No one is that incompetent. They're having a joke at our expense, so just let it ride
I don't have to worry about some unknown foreign army coming in, kicking in my door, and taking me to some unknown foreign place.
Now, I know my own government will kick in my door, declare me an enemy combatant, and send me to guantanemo.
Yeah....it's not much different....but the unknown is a pretty scare thing to me. So, yes, I feel safer. I know my terrorists.
Yes, and isn't it a little hypocritical to mod me redundant when SLASHDOT is being redundant?
Granted, no one else had asked why the editors aren't reading slashdot....but even if they had, they keep posting the same things over and over. Why can't we?
Do the slashdot editors ever actually do something radical like....oh, I dunno
READ SLASHDOT?!
Is it just me or is the tech community running out of things to compare? I mean, when we get to a showdown between BOOT LOADERS, we've sunk pretty low. LILO works for you? Use it. It doesn't? Use GRUB. Who really cares? Is anyone out there really getting excited about boot loaders that basically haven't changed in years?
Tune in next for the ULTIMATE showdown: my jock itch verses my ingrown toenail! It's a matchup you DON'T want to miss!!!
I disagree. Science can answer how something happens. The why is often an effect in a cause and effect relationship. Why did it happen? It happened because of this. How did it happen? It happened like this.
You don't need to attribute everything to God in order to get a why.
It's sad that we can cook our meals with microwaves, but don't know answers to questions like this. I thought science was supposed to answer the how and why. If so, they really should devote time to explaining local phenomena like this. Leaving unanswered questions for things so visible and widely known makes science look like a bunch of blowhards. THIS is why intelligent design is even considered in schools...
Ummmm excuse me. Can you tell me the last time God incorporated a patch into the kernel? I thought not....
Torvalds all the way!
So many people are using firefox? That's a new one. What's the percentage? 5...10% of windows users? THAT is so many people to you? That proves my point
The problem was once that these things came bundled with windows. That's not a problem anymore. The problem now is that the average person sees these apps as the primary app for that task. When they think email they don't think Eudora..they think Outlook. That's not going to change even if they unbundle things now and include links to competitors. The customer will simply say "Yeah...that's a link to realplayer, but where's windows media player?"
That battle has been lost. Instead of concentrating on unbundling, these governments should focus on breaking the perception that email means outlook, that web browsing means IE, etc. Bundling was a way to thrust these apps to the forefront and choke the competition. That's been done. Unbundling now will just make the customer go through extra steps to get the same software back again.
Let's be honest. They didn't review much. They could have installed these Os's and then read the package list to get this review. If I'm running a business, yes, whether this is a pain in the ass to install is a major concern. However, the quality of the tech support is just as big of a concern.
It seems like they based their support rating somehow on what support was said to be offered. No mention was given on wait times, knowledge of the support staff, dependability, etc. I don't just want to know what is offered and how it installs. I want to know how easy it is to maintain, how well it integrates with my pre-existing network, etc. Think you can do that in a one page review? Obviously not.
Anyone who thinks Genesis is literal should read the book "101 Myths of the Bible" which was actually written by a bible scholar. The creation story in Genesis is nothing more than a rehashing of egyptian creation myths. Not only that, but if you read closely, there are actually 2 different creation myths. Things are created in different orders.
This has really floored me. The thing I liked, and I noticed many reviewers liked, was the polish the KDE desktop had in SuSE. Everything seemed to fit together wonderfully. It was a distribution for those that loved KDE.
Gnome is behind KDE and probably always will be. Every new release of QT pulls KDE further to the front. It really sickens me that the major linux distros are choosing an inferior product and trying to force it on us. Smells a little bit too much like Microsoft versus OS/2 to me.
I wonder what she used to rhyme with "greedy spawn of Satan"?
Well, I can tell you that it's not there for gaim:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
Honestly, I've run SuSE for a couple of years now and I can say I haven't had a problem like that with sound in a long time. I'm using the onboard sound on this Asus a7n8x-e with no problems and have also used a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz...with no problems. Both soundcards were detected and ran perfectly out of the box. For that matter, so did my Winfast 2000XP tv card.
So, if he was using a distro to make him feel all elite...guess what...you don't look so elite anymore.
If you need man pages for up2date, then you wouldn't even be able to install debian nor use apt-get to start with. Up2date is as easy as windows update. It's about time non-rpm users faced the facts. The drawbacks to using rpms have been removed...and weren't a problem with the package, but instead the package management software.
I really don't see how anyone could use LFS as anything but "build it, learn how it works, delete it". There are so many security bugs fixed from package release to package release, it would be a full time job to keep track of all of them. Then, the ONE package you overlooked gets compromised and you're owned.
Now with open source software there's not much free support
You have GOT to be smoking crack with this one. Nothing the size and scope of the linux user community exists in windows. If you recall, the linux user community has won AWARDS for its support.
You can say a lot about linux, but you cannot say it doesn't contain free support. Linux is the epitome of free support.
The dual core athlon 64s have the hyperthreading bit turned on so they can take advantage of some optimizations made for hyperthreading. Does the problem affect them in these "optimizations" or does it just affect intel hyperthreading.
It's been said before in little side comments and such, but I'm adding something else to it:
Don't just cancel your subscriptions to syscon publications, boycott their sponsors. Make it a liability for someone to advertise with SYSCON. Don't just alert SYSCON that you're buying from their advertiser's competiters, alert the advertisers that if they continue advertising in SYSCON publications, then you will send all your business to their competitors.
It wouldn't take much of this until the real person that should be resigning does: Fuat Kirccali
People have asked how this is different than other public figures like the runaway bride and I'll tell you how: Do you know the runaway bride's address? Do you know the addresses of her family? Would you have a reason to attack the runaway bride?
Part of ethics is determining each case on its own individual merit and issues. Pamela Jones runs a blog. The internet is famous for its anonymity. Your words stand for themselves. Even if you publish something controversial, you don't have to fear physical reprisal. If someone hunts you down, that's a stalker. There are laws to stop them. In essence, Maureen O'Gara did the work of a stalker and made the information available for those who would wish to do PJ physical harm. There was nothing newsworthy to make this necessary. There was no justification.