I don't know how you know my E-mail address, but thanks to you the spam will arrive in huge amounts if readers were to follow this example. Now I have get myself a new address.
That's quite a nerd way of seeing things. Most users have a camera to 'shoot a picture'. They are not interested in photography, they just want a picture to show that they were there. For a large part of the population technological equipment is something to use, and something to be afraid of. They don't know how it works, why it works; they don't care, don't want to care and don't bother. And I think that this goes for the majority of the population.
I think Bose-Einstein condensates are used in the making and / or broadcasting of sitcoms and movies. You're watching a movie or sitcom, and you already know what's going to happen. My guess is that you've already seen it just slightly before.
Or it was an assistant with a sense of humor. He just took the robot, placed it outside and let the scientist 'find' it. Maybe it was all just a prank, to freak everybody out.
What I miss in this discussion is something about the persons performing the tests. In my companyh we have a test team, consisting mainly of people who don't know the first thing about coding, who cannot read sources and who can only test 'through the UI'. And yet the system we work on has thousands of sources, a percentage of which has a UI (20%). Testing of all the underlying objects is a lot harder, and my experience is that with this many sources the total amount of possible 'paths' in the system is so large that tests using the UI take too much time, and therefore is never done properly. So now the developers are constantly asked to provide methods by which the testers can perform the tests.
I think you're wrong. In all the companies in the world you will see the stupid PHB's constantly defying gravity by going up all the time. Must be some strange inverse gravity thing going on in PHB land.
Lighten up, t'was only a small joke, but it doesn't get any better if I explain it. And no, I'm not stupid (and certainly don't like being called that); I do know a thing or two about Unix.
The abbriviation of 'divide' is 'div', which looks a bit like 'dev'. It also looks like UnitedLinux is already on destruction course. These things combined...get it?
Representatives from SuSE Linux are anxious to help clear the air about some misunderstandings they feel have arisen around recent news regarding UnitedLinux. And to accomplish this, they have revealed plans for a developer's release of the new distribution.
UnitedLinux, a joint enterprise-oriented distrbution that will be created from the combined resources of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and TurboLinux, was announced last week to the Linux community at large. Most of the reactions from industry analysts and community notables has been a wait and see approach. Some, however, have taken some strong exceptions to what they perceive UnitedLinux is trying to accomplish.
One of the most prevalent concerns is the alledged implementation of a per-seat licensing policy for UnitedLinux. According to SuSE, nothing could be further from the truth, at least as far as SuSE is concerned.
"We really don't plan any per-seat licensing for UnitedLinux," said SuSE's US Director of Sales Holger Dyroff. While he could not speak for the other companies within the UnitedLinux consortium, Dyroff was emphatic that such a major shift in licesning policy was never in the works for their products released under the UnitedLinux banner.
Under the agreement signed by the companies last week, each of the four distribution firms will contribute skills, manpower, and other resources to the development of a single UnitedLinux distrbution, which will then be marketed and released separately by each individual company. Each release will be branded by the individual companies, and will carry a "Powered by UnitedLinux" logo.
From some media reports, early statements from Caldera indicated that they were considering a per-seat license model for their UnitedLinux products and that perhaps other members of the consortium were considering this model as well. Given the separate marketing and sales structure each company has, it is entirely possible that any of the firms involved could use a per-seat license model, though no one in the consortium has made a formal statement regarding this possibility.
According to statements made by the consortium, the source code for the product would be made available under the GPL, though the binaries would not. This raised speculation that a per-seat licensing arrangement was in the works, particularly when no details were given on just how that source code would be distributed.
Dyroff acknowledged that no mention was made at the time of last week's announcement regarding the source code or development access to the UnitedLinux distribution, but he told Linux Today this afternoon that plans were indeed in the works to provide access to the distro for developers.
"We plan on having a downloadable developer's version as well," he stated. "We are absolutely committed to working with the community to produce this product under the GPL."
Currently, none of SuSE's products have a per-seat license arrangement, though the SuSE Maintenance utility (similar to the Red Hat Network) that is integral to the SuSE product does have a per-seat fee arrangement, Dyroff explained. The company has no plans to change this approach when they released their co-branded UnitedLinux enterprise product.
Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, who spoke strongly against a per-seat license model from UnitedLinux in media interviews last week, was interested to learn that SuSE was not planning on engaging in per-seat licensing. But, he was quick to add that this did not change the FSF's main concerns regarding UnitedLinux.
Kuhn stated that the FSF has long been concerned with the distribution companies' approach to free software. "Every one of these GNU/Linux companies have been including non-free software with their releases of GNU/Linux," he said, "It's a wrong-headed approach to mix free and non-free software."
Citing SuSE's own YaST application as an example, Kuhn said that the inclusion of software such as this completely negated the value of distribution. He feels the market is bearing the FSF out, too. "Users don't want this non-free software in their distros."
Dyroff and SuSE is engaged in a bit of damage control with respect to other areas surrounding UnitedLinux.
Because the product is targeted solely to the enterprise, Dyroff lamented, many people are under the impression that SuSE will be abandoning its desktop product line. Dyroff reiterated statements he made last week to the media that while they won't be within the UnitedLinux line, SuSE plans on maintaining releases of their SuSE Personal and SuSE Professional editions and stressed that SuSE has absolutely no plans to give up on their desktop models.
If these people are happy making this, and other people enjoy listening to it: good for them! In my book however, this doesn't qualify as music. For me music has structure, meaning and most importantly emotion, and contains almost nothing but non-randomness. For me this only qualifies as sound. Definately not my cup of tea! (come to think of it, the sound of a cup of tea cooling down could make a nice record!).
They will announce... on thursday. But to take the pleasure out of their announcement, Slashdot pre-announces it on wednesday. There goes their 5 minutes in the spotlight. How inconsiderate!
"Who should be the members of such a crew if it were to be launched?"" Well, what about me, a large stack of books and my laptop? I don't think I would hesitate when asked!
Pwaaah, well our soldiers will be manufactured from the ground up from carbon nanotubes, assembled by our Lego Quantum Storms (tm) molecular building set, and they will run on biodiesel, or even on a quantum nucleonic fuell cell. They will all be linked in on big matrix by our new cognitronic network. So where will your soldiers be then, huh?
This nano-army of robots would then begin assembling atoms into any material the laws of physics will allow. Now, my dear nanobots, build me a Natalie Portman and a fine bowl of... ah, well, you get the picture
It will haunt someone, sometime...
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It is surely to come back as N'AR, and it will be worshipped by a computer (ship). The computer (ship) will help it finish it's task by returning it to earth.
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Dear Sir,
I don't know how you know my E-mail address, but thanks to you the spam will arrive in huge amounts
if readers were to follow this example. Now I have get myself a new address.
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So go figure, you'll pay (and you will, you will) for free arrows in the chest.
Not if you hold a nice, fat penguin in front of you!
That's quite a nerd way of seeing things. Most users have a camera to 'shoot a picture'. They are not interested in photography, they just want a picture to show that they were there. For a large part of the population technological equipment is something to use, and something to be afraid of. They don't know how it works, why it works; they don't care, don't want to care and don't bother. And I think that this goes for the majority of the population.
That's because the truly insightful comments left the thread before they were even entered.
I think Bose-Einstein condensates are used in the making and / or broadcasting of sitcoms and movies. You're watching a movie or sitcom, and you already know what's going to happen. My guess is that you've already seen it just slightly before.
Aaaaaaaaah, that blue planet fits exactly in this chromatic scale!
"Josh, slow down," I said. "I can't see shit."
Weren't they looking hard enough?
Or it was an assistant with a sense of humor. He just took the robot, placed it outside and let the scientist 'find' it. Maybe it was all just a prank, to freak everybody out.
What I miss in this discussion is something about the persons performing the tests. In my companyh we have a test team, consisting mainly of people who don't know the first thing about coding, who cannot read sources and who can only test 'through the UI'. And yet the system we work on has thousands of sources, a percentage of which has a UI (20%). Testing of all the underlying objects is a lot harder, and my experience is that with this many sources the total amount of possible 'paths' in the system is so large that tests using the UI take too much time, and therefore is never done properly. So now the developers are constantly asked to provide methods by which the testers can perform the tests.
I think you're wrong. In all the companies in the world you will see the stupid PHB's constantly defying gravity by going up all the time. Must be some strange inverse gravity thing going on in PHB land.
Lighten up, t'was only a small joke, but it doesn't get any better if I explain it. And no, I'm not stupid (and certainly don't like being called that); I do know a thing or two about Unix.
The abbriviation of 'divide' is 'div', which looks a bit like 'dev'. It also looks like UnitedLinux is already on destruction course. These things combined...get it?
cat unitedlinux >
Don't think so, bet here you go:
By Brian Proffitt,
Managing Editor, Linux Today
Representatives from SuSE Linux are anxious to help clear the air about some misunderstandings they feel have arisen around recent news regarding UnitedLinux. And to accomplish this, they have revealed plans for a developer's release of the new distribution.
UnitedLinux, a joint enterprise-oriented distrbution that will be created from the combined resources of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and TurboLinux, was announced last week to the Linux community at large. Most of the reactions from industry analysts and community notables has been a wait and see approach. Some, however, have taken some strong exceptions to what they perceive UnitedLinux is trying to accomplish.
One of the most prevalent concerns is the alledged implementation of a per-seat licensing policy for UnitedLinux. According to SuSE, nothing could be further from the truth, at least as far as SuSE is concerned.
"We really don't plan any per-seat licensing for UnitedLinux," said SuSE's US Director of Sales Holger Dyroff. While he could not speak for the other companies within the UnitedLinux consortium, Dyroff was emphatic that such a major shift in licesning policy was never in the works for their products released under the UnitedLinux banner.
Under the agreement signed by the companies last week, each of the four distribution firms will contribute skills, manpower, and other resources to the development of a single UnitedLinux distrbution, which will then be marketed and released separately by each individual company. Each release will be branded by the individual companies, and will carry a "Powered by UnitedLinux" logo.
From some media reports, early statements from Caldera indicated that they were considering a per-seat license model for their UnitedLinux products and that perhaps other members of the consortium were considering this model as well. Given the separate marketing and sales structure each company has, it is entirely possible that any of the firms involved could use a per-seat license model, though no one in the consortium has made a formal statement regarding this possibility.
According to statements made by the consortium, the source code for the product would be made available under the GPL, though the binaries would not. This raised speculation that a per-seat licensing arrangement was in the works, particularly when no details were given on just how that source code would be distributed.
Dyroff acknowledged that no mention was made at the time of last week's announcement regarding the source code or development access to the UnitedLinux distribution, but he told Linux Today this afternoon that plans were indeed in the works to provide access to the distro for developers.
"We plan on having a downloadable developer's version as well," he stated. "We are absolutely committed to working with the community to produce this product under the GPL."
Currently, none of SuSE's products have a per-seat license arrangement, though the SuSE Maintenance utility (similar to the Red Hat Network) that is integral to the SuSE product does have a per-seat fee arrangement, Dyroff explained. The company has no plans to change this approach when they released their co-branded UnitedLinux enterprise product.
Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, who spoke strongly against a per-seat license model from UnitedLinux in media interviews last week, was interested to learn that SuSE was not planning on engaging in per-seat licensing. But, he was quick to add that this did not change the FSF's main concerns regarding UnitedLinux.
Kuhn stated that the FSF has long been concerned with the distribution companies' approach to free software. "Every one of these GNU/Linux companies have been including non-free software with their releases of GNU/Linux," he said, "It's a wrong-headed approach to mix free and non-free software."
Citing SuSE's own YaST application as an example, Kuhn said that the inclusion of software such as this completely negated the value of distribution. He feels the market is bearing the FSF out, too. "Users don't want this non-free software in their distros."
Dyroff and SuSE is engaged in a bit of damage control with respect to other areas surrounding UnitedLinux.
Because the product is targeted solely to the enterprise, Dyroff lamented, many people are under the impression that SuSE will be abandoning its desktop product line. Dyroff reiterated statements he made last week to the media that while they won't be within the UnitedLinux line, SuSE plans on maintaining releases of their SuSE Personal and SuSE Professional editions and stressed that SuSE has absolutely no plans to give up on their desktop models.
If these people are happy making this, and other people enjoy listening to it: good for them! In my book however, this doesn't qualify as music. For me music has structure, meaning and most importantly emotion, and contains almost nothing but non-randomness. For me this only qualifies as sound. Definately not my cup of tea! (come to think of it, the sound of a cup of tea cooling down could make a nice record!).
to create a selfcontrolled lawnmover robot ;)
Talk about big plans: moving your lawn with a robot? But, where to, and wouldn't people complain?
They will announce ... on thursday. But to take the pleasure out of their announcement, Slashdot pre-announces it on wednesday. There goes their 5 minutes in the spotlight. How inconsiderate!
No, they are just actors. At least I know a thing or two about computers 'n stuff.
And if this person did become the first human to stand on the red soil of Mars, what would they say?
Got some spare change?
Oh yeah, I could picture that: "Go away, you women, I'm hacking the kernel here!"
"Who should be the members of such a crew if it were to be launched?""
Well, what about me, a large stack of books and my laptop?
I don't think I would hesitate when asked!
Pwaaah, well our soldiers will be manufactured from the ground up from carbon nanotubes, assembled by our Lego Quantum Storms (tm) molecular building set, and they will run on biodiesel, or even on a quantum nucleonic fuell cell. They will all be linked in on big matrix by our new cognitronic network. So where will your soldiers be then, huh?
This nano-army of robots would then begin assembling atoms into any material the laws of physics will allow.
Now, my dear nanobots, build me a Natalie Portman and a fine bowl of... ah, well, you get the picture
It is surely to come back as N'AR, and it will be worshipped by a computer (ship). The computer (ship) will help it finish it's task by returning it to earth.
I vote for the first quantum processor to be named the 'Schrodinger'.