The sonic boom will make you wet yourself with giddy excitement.
This reminds me of an Arthur C. Clarke novel where a spaceship traversed a section (many tens of miles or something) of atmosphere within a second or two - the author described it like a bullet drilling a hole through the atmosphere which then collapsed again (for miles behind the speeding craft) creating an almighty sonic boom... not too different here I imagine.
The purpose of Chrome isn't to make money or even to be the most popular browser
The purpose of a business is to turn a profit. Without profit, a business starts dying. Everything, including odd-ball projects and products, is geared towards supporting the business model of turning a profit.
Your post reminds me of the DoomSayers wailing about the imminent demise of humanity when the tech for test-tube babies was being developed way back when.
I'm not saying don't be concerned about disasters, but geez, there are other things to worry about in this sad world of ours.
Speaking as a non-US observer in all this: how is this different to your finger prints being compared every time an official does a finger print search in their DB?...or vehicle registration numbers, or social security numbers, or credit card purchases in the vicinity of a crime, or video surveillance of a public road, or cell phone records of a particular tower in the vicinity of a crime, etc, etc.
I too am uncomfortable with too much information being collected, but if it's regulated and checks/balances are in place, does it not help fight crime and catch baby rapers, mother rapers, FATHER rapers. (sorry, for an silly second there Alice's Restaurant came to mind:)
Exactly. We use SSDs wherever performance is needed and once you (and your customers) have experienced the gains, there is simply NO going back. Even for a small accounting database server, using SSDs provides compelling gains - eg, for batch runs, instead of waiting half an hour, the wait is now something like a minute or two. The traditional HD will end up as an archive medium eventually... Seagate better get their shit together or risk becoming another SGI, SUN, whatever.
I hear you. Honestly, I've never taken the time or felt the need to try Ruby -- Perl/C/PHP/Bourne (and C++ if I have to, and JS if I'm required) do everything I need... It's the same with Python: I'm sure it's great, I just don't have a burning need.
That's the beauty of what we do - we have a choice.
Somehow, breathlessly bubbling that There's even a way to write apps in Ruby now, which implies you're a luvva of Ruby (a bad thing) and then stating I would have preferred something other than Java which implies you don't enjoy Java (a good thing) and I'm a VIM/Makefile kind of guy which implies you're a decent, honest and all-round wholesome GNU/C/C++ kind of guy, and doing it all in what seems to be a single breath, just leaves me feeling confused.
Still, -1 + 1 + 1 == 1, so there's hope for you yet:)
Exactly. I've built a company (now almost 13 yo) on an open source foundation, wherever possible. Where that proved impossible or the available FOSS was just too poor technically, etc, then I willingly paid.
No offence, but thinking small will only solve small problems. Also, as another poster said, you've obviously never had to actually *build* a real-world solution to a big problem.
Yes, and irrespective of how questionable you think it is for a business to use a free domain, it might take a bit more than 10 minutes to let everyone you advertised to know what your new website address is.
Some kind of forewarning would have been nice for those legitimate folks using.co.cc. For example, in South Africa there's what's known as a Closed Corporation which is a juristic entity like a pty (ltd), Inc, LLC, LTD, etc. Some of these businesses are using theirname.co.cc since it's common to use "name CC" on their company letterheads, etc.
While I agree that sometimes it's in the interests of the ephemeral "greater good" to make sweeping changes, irrespective of the damage it may cause a small group, I think it would be even greater if the cocksuckers making the sweeping change had the respect to publicly - and prominently - proclaim their intent a while before wielding their considerable power so the innocent could make arrangements.
This is yet another example of Google becoming too much like Microsoft in their casual and often cavalier disregard of others. I look forward to them being monitored more closely by the US anti-trust auth's.
Who's most people? Can you provide some stats to support your statement besides a vague cock-wave? I agree though that the CentOS team could do a better job, especially on the PR side, but the project is alive and well.
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are too important to allow China to trivial blackmail the rest of the world at their pleasure
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The sonic boom will make you wet yourself with giddy excitement.
This reminds me of an Arthur C. Clarke novel where a spaceship traversed a section (many tens of miles or something) of atmosphere within a second or two - the author described it like a bullet drilling a hole through the atmosphere which then collapsed again (for miles behind the speeding craft) creating an almighty sonic boom... not too different here I imagine.
I know, it's beautiful isn't it? An astonishing achievement no matter how you look at it. Mach20...
Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality
Joseph Mengele. Extreme example, but you get my point.
The purpose of Chrome isn't to make money or even to be the most popular browser
The purpose of a business is to turn a profit. Without profit, a business starts dying. Everything, including odd-ball projects and products, is geared towards supporting the business model of turning a profit.
To think otherwise is embarrassingly naive.
Your post reminds me of the DoomSayers wailing about the imminent demise of humanity when the tech for test-tube babies was being developed way back when.
I'm not saying don't be concerned about disasters, but geez, there are other things to worry about in this sad world of ours.
Does this http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html also fill you with dread?
Speaking as a non-US observer in all this: how is this different to your finger prints being compared every time an official does a finger print search in their DB? ...or vehicle registration numbers, or social security numbers, or credit card purchases in the vicinity of a crime, or video surveillance of a public road, or cell phone records of a particular tower in the vicinity of a crime, etc, etc.
I too am uncomfortable with too much information being collected, but if it's regulated and checks/balances are in place, does it not help fight crime and catch baby rapers, mother rapers, FATHER rapers. (sorry, for an silly second there Alice's Restaurant came to mind:)
Couldn't agree more. The command line tool psql is immensely flexible and usable. I'm lost in the mysql command line tool :(
Performance.
Exactly. We use SSDs wherever performance is needed and once you (and your customers) have experienced the gains, there is simply NO going back. Even for a small accounting database server, using SSDs provides compelling gains - eg, for batch runs, instead of waiting half an hour, the wait is now something like a minute or two. The traditional HD will end up as an archive medium eventually... Seagate better get their shit together or risk becoming another SGI, SUN, whatever.
The gains far outweigh the costs.
I hear you. Honestly, I've never taken the time or felt the need to try Ruby -- Perl/C/PHP/Bourne (and C++ if I have to, and JS if I'm required) do everything I need... It's the same with Python: I'm sure it's great, I just don't have a burning need.
That's the beauty of what we do - we have a choice.
Somehow, breathlessly bubbling that There's even a way to write apps in Ruby now, which implies you're a luvva of Ruby (a bad thing) and then stating I would have preferred something other than Java which implies you don't enjoy Java (a good thing) and I'm a VIM/Makefile kind of guy which implies you're a decent, honest and all-round wholesome GNU/C/C++ kind of guy, and doing it all in what seems to be a single breath, just leaves me feeling confused.
Still, -1 + 1 + 1 == 1, so there's hope for you yet :)
A woman? on slashdot?! What's this world coming to? Your sig touches on regex too. My God. I need a lie down.
Now get ofF _my_ lawn!
speak ascii or die.
utf8 shmutf8 ;)
That's like patenting a mathematical formula, or an algorithm, or software,... oh wait, we're talking about the USA.
woah! your IP are belong to us! I can just imagine a red flag gif flashing on some FBI monitor somewhere...
Speed. Reliability.
Exactly. I've built a company (now almost 13 yo) on an open source foundation, wherever possible. Where that proved impossible or the available FOSS was just too poor technically, etc, then I willingly paid.
Simple.
You had me with artificial high. The rest is hot air, just say'n.
Just a small point (I do get the gist of what you're saying): /. is not representative of the open source community.
Why is this so?
No offence, but thinking small will only solve small problems. Also, as another poster said, you've obviously never had to actually *build* a real-world solution to a big problem.
Yes, and irrespective of how questionable you think it is for a business to use a free domain, it might take a bit more than 10 minutes to let everyone you advertised to know what your new website address is.
Some kind of forewarning would have been nice for those legitimate folks using .co.cc. For example, in South Africa there's what's known as a Closed Corporation which is a juristic entity like a pty (ltd), Inc, LLC, LTD, etc. Some of these businesses are using theirname.co.cc since it's common to use "name CC" on their company letterheads, etc.
While I agree that sometimes it's in the interests of the ephemeral "greater good" to make sweeping changes, irrespective of the damage it may cause a small group, I think it would be even greater if the cocksuckers making the sweeping change had the respect to publicly - and prominently - proclaim their intent a while before wielding their considerable power so the innocent could make arrangements.
This is yet another example of Google becoming too much like Microsoft in their casual and often cavalier disregard of others. I look forward to them being monitored more closely by the US anti-trust auth's.
Who's most people? Can you provide some stats to support your statement besides a vague cock-wave? I agree though that the CentOS team could do a better job, especially on the PR side, but the project is alive and well.
Don't bother. CentOS is alive and well despite the old grannies with their wet panties.