Call it what you want. But I imagine that open source definately has had a major effect on the industry over its lifetime. It has definately been worth all the effort. Despite what some may think.
Actually, I wonder if any kids ever died while trying to leap out of trees using bedsheets as a shuba, like in the old game Below the Root. Now that would be ironic. One of the best non-violent video games of all time, getting blammed for causing kids to kill themselves.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, download the Vice C64 emulator right now and cruise on over to c64.com to download the game. Its worth a week of your time. I always wish someone would do a remake.
your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
Most of the time when I'm using usenet, I'm not looking for something. I am looking to get hit with random content like what other people think is good or interesting. Its fun to explore the mp3 newsgroups and just download some random mp3s and learn about new music.
Well, they have been talking about holographic storage for almost 20 years now and one would have thought it would have been here 5 years ago with a TB or more of storage, which would have been something. But now they are saying 1.6TB by 2010. Come on. Hard drives in 2010 will probably be 1.6TB or more.
The promise of Holographic storage is giving me the same feeling that I felt when I found out what the screen resolution of HDTV was going to be. Too little too late. Although, the "promise" of less moving parts would be nice.
Here is a translation from babblefish for those that don't read bullshit.
More consistent: It crashes the same way every time I press the start button. Predictable: It will crash at least once a week Easy to manage: There aren't any extra settings in the windows to set that confuse people.
With Linux, they couldn't figure out what they needed to press to make it crash and couldn't determine out when it would crash.
They like Canadian Hydrogen Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Injection, or HFI, system because it lets them save fuel, get more horsepower and, as a bonus, cause less pollution."
Could our root problem be that we consider less pollution a bonus instead of a motivating factor?
This week I've had the suso.org server fail nearly every day right after the backups start running (read, heavy disk access). One of my customers is a electrical engineer and pointed me at the bad capacitor problem on Wednesday, then today its on Slashdot. Usually my servers are up for at least a year at a time.
I think I'll be replacing my motherboard ASAP.
The problem is, how do you know if a motherboard company has fixed the problem by moving to better capacitors. I hate to find out in another 4 months that the capacitors have gone bad. I can't exactly replace the capacitors on a server since the risk of screwing up the operation is high. Maybe I can convince Dosman and Zach to come over from the Packet Sniffers to help me out, since they live in Bloomington as well.;-)
I figured I'd get marked as a troll. Compare $420,000,000 with the $60,000,000,000 amount being quoted as damages from Hurricane Katrina. Now it doesn't sound like much does it. Its amazing how people don't take things seriously until its too late. I guess false alarms reduce readyness.
By my calculations, you'd need a 21-ton spacecraft to move an asteroid off course and save the earth from disaster. So they better start collecting enough metal to make one because 21-tons is a lot and will take quite a bit of power to put into orbit.;-)
And yes, I RTFA'd and understand that everything has gravity and in space it has more effect, etc.
If a project is useful, and the people in control of the project won't help the project evolve in some direction or just sit on it and do nothing, you fork the code. In this case, you might not have access to the website source code, but I would think there would be an archive somewhere.
This is the reason why there should be at least two independent people in charge of open source projects.
To be fair, I did get modded down as offtopic first. I think once someone makes it to +5, its less likely that comment will be modded down. At least that's what I observe. Sure, slashdot may have slant, but its not 100% slant.
I find it less impressive since its being given by Bush. I realize that its more than the president that desides who receives such an honor. But still, for them to receive a medal of freedom from such a tyrant is disheartening.
And to digress slightly from the topic, I would bet in 1905, far fewer than 7% of people used cars. Same with your 2005 99% figure. I'd expect it's only about 70%. The same reason for that is the same reason only 40-some percent of Americans use the Internet; they're elderly, or very young, but most of all, many of them are just too poor.
It will be a great day when I can make a comment on slashdot without one person dissecting information in it.
What the hell? The last time they conducted a simular study was 1997? 96-97 was when the Internet really started to take off. How can they expect to show any kind of useful information if they don't do a study like that every year or every other year. Its like saying that in 1905 only 7% of people used cars and now in 2005 99% of people use them, so cars play a big role in people's lives.
I thought our government was gathering more useful statistics, but I guess not.
Slashdot Mirror
What company?
Yes sorry, I forgot about you folks up there in the country of Purdue. How could I forget it when Gentoo came out of there.
Don't outsource to India, outsource to Indiana.
Specifically, Bloomington. There is a lot of talent here.
Call it what you want. But I imagine that open source definately has had a major effect on the industry over its lifetime. It has definately been worth all the effort. Despite what some may think.
Actually, I wonder if any kids ever died while trying to leap out of trees using bedsheets as a shuba, like in the old game Below the Root. Now that would be ironic. One of the best non-violent video games of all time, getting blammed for causing kids to kill themselves.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, download the Vice C64 emulator right now and cruise on over to c64.com to download the game. Its worth a week of your time. I always wish someone would do a remake.
Fun toy banned because of three stupid dead kids
your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
Most of the time when I'm using usenet, I'm not looking for something. I am looking to get hit with random content like what other people think is good or interesting. Its fun to explore the mp3 newsgroups and just download some random mp3s and learn about new music.
Well, they have been talking about holographic storage for almost 20 years now and one would have thought it would have been here 5 years ago with a TB or more of storage, which would have been something. But now they are saying 1.6TB by 2010. Come on. Hard drives in 2010 will probably be 1.6TB or more.
The promise of Holographic storage is giving me the same feeling that I felt when I found out what the screen resolution of HDTV was going to be. Too little too late. Although, the "promise" of less moving parts would be nice.
So if this is so important to read, why is it being posted so late at night in the region where this article should have the most impact.
Here is a translation from babblefish for those that don't read bullshit.
More consistent: It crashes the same way every time I press the start button.
Predictable: It will crash at least once a week
Easy to manage: There aren't any extra settings in the windows to set that confuse people.
With Linux, they couldn't figure out what they needed to press to make it crash and couldn't determine out when it would crash.
They like Canadian Hydrogen Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Injection, or HFI, system because it lets them save fuel, get more horsepower and, as a bonus, cause less pollution."
Could our root problem be that we consider less pollution a bonus instead of a motivating factor?
but can it run a bash shell.
How about: I'd rather plant a tree than run on a Sun.
To jump ship? Someone tell me when.
This week I've had the suso.org server fail nearly every day right after the backups start running (read, heavy disk access). One of my customers is a electrical engineer and pointed me at the bad capacitor problem on Wednesday, then today its on Slashdot. Usually my servers are up for at least a year at a time.
;-)
I think I'll be replacing my motherboard ASAP.
The problem is, how do you know if a motherboard company has fixed the problem by moving to better capacitors. I hate to find out in another 4 months that the capacitors have gone bad. I can't exactly replace the capacitors on a server since the risk of screwing up the operation is high. Maybe I can convince Dosman and Zach to come over from the Packet Sniffers to help me out, since they live in Bloomington as well.
I figured I'd get marked as a troll. Compare $420,000,000 with the $60,000,000,000 amount being quoted as damages from Hurricane Katrina. Now it doesn't sound like much does it. Its amazing how people don't take things seriously until its too late. I guess false alarms reduce readyness.
By my calculations, you'd need a 21-ton spacecraft to move an asteroid off course and save the earth from disaster. So they better start collecting enough metal to make one because 21-tons is a lot and will take quite a bit of power to put into orbit. ;-)
And yes, I RTFA'd and understand that everything has gravity and in space it has more effect, etc.
If a project is useful, and the people in control of the project won't help the project evolve in some direction or just sit on it and do nothing, you fork the code. In this case, you might not have access to the website source code, but I would think there would be an archive somewhere.
This is the reason why there should be at least two independent people in charge of open source projects.
Mayor of New York: "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right."
And you get modded +5 Interesting....
To be fair, I did get modded down as offtopic first. I think once someone makes it to +5, its less likely that comment will be modded down. At least that's what I observe. Sure, slashdot may have slant, but its not 100% slant.
Does this answer your question?
http://jar.suso.org/ (click on the brocktoon.net link at the bottom)
Although I don't agree with Brocktoon, he still has the right to his own opinion and views. I would never censor his website for that reason.
I find it less impressive since its being given by Bush. I realize that its more than the president that desides who receives such an honor. But still, for them to receive a medal of freedom from such a tyrant is disheartening.
And to digress slightly from the topic, I would bet in 1905, far fewer than 7% of people used cars. Same with your 2005 99% figure. I'd expect it's only about 70%. The same reason for that is the same reason only 40-some percent of Americans use the Internet; they're elderly, or very young, but most of all, many of them are just too poor.
It will be a great day when I can make a comment on slashdot without one person dissecting information in it.
Learn to let things go.
What the hell? The last time they conducted a simular study was 1997? 96-97 was when the Internet really started to take off. How can they expect to show any kind of useful information if they don't do a study like that every year or every other year. Its like saying that in 1905 only 7% of people used cars and now in 2005 99% of people use them, so cars play a big role in people's lives.
I thought our government was gathering more useful statistics, but I guess not.