I'm not saying that IBM is guilty (and I hope they're not - they are on on side after all (linux)).
But, the Radium Dial Co. delibertly told their workers that the "paint" they were using for the instrument dials was completely harmless, regardless of its constant glow. These people used to put it in their mouths, on their face, etc. and then turn out the lights and have fun after hours with it.
Radium Dial Co. changed their name and moved when too many workers started to get sick. The location where the building was (I think it was Chicago) still registers as radioactive with a giger counter. And this is something like 50-60 years later.
I'm waiting for the spiritual conclusion, "Windows: Reveloutions" where we see Bill Gates portrayed as the savior of human-kind. Maybe the Windows logo will change to a cross when you shutdown too.
Perhaps we should all watch the news re-runs of 9/11. They were dancing in the street over there. I'm sorry. I have no love, respect, or any other nice feeling towards people who have time and time again shown their total hatred for us. America's news footage never showed Americans dancing in the street and shooting machine guns in the air when we heard Saddam was caught. We certainly never cheered when tons of innocent people lost their lives to some fucking terrorist asshole.
What other invention can disrupt virtually any event, almost always at the worst time? (Besides CmdrTaco bringing out nude Natalie Portman pictures...)
There is never a "worst time" for nude Natalie Portman pictures.
One of my friends went to the middle east once - someplace she hasn't been before, so she went there for vacation. If it wasn't for her brother being with her, she'd probably be dead. One of the people on the bus she was on was threatening her because she didn't have her arms or head covered.
You think they're just like us huh? Did the Americans have kamakazi pilots? Suicide bombers? No. America is a "cultral melting pot" remember? That basically says we're fairly tolerant, because we see so many different races and religions each day. Until the Taliban fell over there, the ENTIRE freaking nation was one governemnt - one religion. So you can't tell me its only the few extremists there that would kill women for being head-garb-less. Actually, its only a few people there who aren't extemists, that would object to killing them for such a petty thing.
Interestingly, where normal humans had needs of 100 meg, 1 gig, 100 gig storage spaces, this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use. It's got plenty applications, but not normal user applications.
See thats the problem. The only reason a normal human has need of that much freaking space is the bloat in software these days.
Wow. I calculate it would take about 10 continous days to download or upload one of these over USB 1.1.
Or by carrier pigeon?
a) Carrier pigeon moves at a rate of 20ft/sec. b) Its approx. 2400 miles (as the carrier pigeon flies) from NYC to LA
c) 5280 ft in a mile / (15 ft p/sec * 60 sec) = 1200 ft in a minute. d) 5280 ft/ 1200 ft/min = 4.4 minutes per mile. e) 60min / 4.4 min/p mile = 13.63 miles/hr.
f) 2400 mi / 13.63 mi/hr = 176 hours.
g) 176 hr / 24 hr = 7.3 days
So There you have it. To move 1T of data via carrier pigeon from NYC to LA would take 7.3 days to complete.
You're just grabbing at straws trying to find things to bitch about regarding Microsoft. Red Hat drops support WAY sooner than Microsoft ever does (it's been 5 years for Windows 98 -- Redhat discontinued support for Redhat 7.3 at the end of last year and that's way newer than Windows 98.)
And you sir, need to check some facts too: o Microsoft charges for Win98, RH didn't for 7.3 o Red Hat's commerical offerings (AS, ES, EW) are comparable to Microsoft's in terms of support length.
Complaining about lack of support for a free product is like a homeless man complaining that the mission food sucks and he wants them to serve him something better.
--Software is like sex; if you feel the need to pay for it you can always find someone willing to take your money.
My favorite part of this article is the fact that this guy is their business columnist. A business columnist giving out stock advice based on the fact that he disagrees with the moral content of the product a company makes. Yeah, OK.
If that were the case - that all business analysts rated stocks on the morals of a company - Microsoft's stock would be rated as worthless...
But its not, so obviously morals have nothing to do with dollars.
This is exactly what Microsoft deserves. They try to claim Lindows is too similar to Windows, so hell with them, let them take some heat for a similar name too.
and I was ready to commit suicide. Thank you for saving my life Slashdot
Careful what you say. Some left wing liberal might read that and either decide slashdot should be outlawed (and the process known as slashdotting, or people who read slashdot are a threat to themselves and need to be medicated.
Don't forget IBM's JFS, it's in 2.4 AFAIK, and the last time that there were benchmarks linked from slashdot, it actually seemed the best overall, even over the highly anticipated reiser4.
Best overall is still not best in most cases. =)
JFS has been shown on several benchmarks to be VERY slow when dealing with large amounts of files in one directory.
Sometimes, though, cell phones are absolutely necessary - my wife is pregnant, right? What happens if I'm at a movie or at school when she goes into labour? Not only would she be royally pissed off once I actually got out of the movie/class (some classes are 3 hours long), but what happens if something went wrong?
That could be a interesting law suit:
Premature birth results in brain damage due to complications in getting to the hospital soon enough.
Not only would taking everything that the jammer owned be morally right, so would beating him everyday for the rest of his life. That "bothersome" phone ring just ruined the life of a new child, and the lives of both parents now required to care for the child for his entire life.
Windows CE navigation and information systems or music players in cars are an endangerment to you? Tooth and nail? Hahaha. Right.
They not only control entertainment devices, but onboard computers, locks, acceleration, etc. Do you trust Microsoft's code enough for it to accelerate for you? Steer for you? Brake for you?
You looked at some new cars lately? No longer do you have a physical cable run from the accelerator to the carbureator - no, you have an electronic rheostat that tells the onboard computer how much gas to inject. Steering is slated to be replaced that same way next, and the car manufacturers even suggest (and approve) of using wireless transmitters to send the singals, rather than running the miles (literally) of cable in today's vehicles. We've seen how well 802.11 works when another transmitter is close, think of how well that steering command is going to work with some interference.
I currently have to hard boot my Dell Axim X5 after roughly 2-3 hours depending on the app that locked (RealOne Player, X-Lite (SIP Phone), etc..). I think CE/PPC is still too unstable for possible life threatening experiences in the car.
Agreed.
And we as consumers should fight this tooth and nail, not because we buy these cars (I sure wouldn't), but because someone else does, and having them on the road is an endangerment me.
i mean, after all, we all turn off ping before we put our servers up... don't we?
Turning off ping can break so many things! traceroutes fail, Path MTU Discovery fails, and the niceity of sitting at a remote location and doing a "ping" to see if the machine is still alive fails. Turning off ping is a BAD idea. Google for it, you'll find many papers written about ICMP being necessary. If you're worried about someone breaking into your boxes, patch your boxes! Don't hide them.
I was not at all surprised to find that experts are predicting the death of the compact disc in as little as 5 years. [...] the next format of music will be little fingernail-sized cards.
So long as I have a fingernail-sized card reader for my PC so I can copy my horde of MP3s onto it, I'll be set!
Um, I think you misread that. The Fedora Core 1 that is coming out in a couple weeks has no plans whatsoever for supporting kernel 2.6.
Which is a good reason to try Slackware again. 9.1 was just released, with 2.4.22, and support for 2.6. Which means they already did the dirty work of making sure mod-init-tools was on the machine, along with other necessities. Not to mention it comes with Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.1.4
I've tried 2.6.0-test4 on Slackware 9, and it made a difference in desktop usability and responsiveness.
My most idle box is my Linux server, which mostly just tosses traffic to and fro, and occassionally sends me some mail and files.
But, it also is a fast AMD system. So, during the winter, I tend to put some sort of distributed program on there to help heat up the room. =) It puts out some heat too. Who'd think a thing as tiny as your pinky-nail could heat offset my gas bill?
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Anyone know if the reanimation and Linux installation process described in the article can be adapted for use on a doll, as in the blow-up kind...
If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...
Phhhbbtt. Real men do it in the shell!
I think you mean gallons to the mile
Oh come now. This is Europe. Surely you mean liters to the kilometer.
This kind of reminds me about the Radium Dial Co.
I'm not saying that IBM is guilty (and I hope they're not - they are on on side after all (linux)).
But, the Radium Dial Co. delibertly told their workers that the "paint" they were using for the instrument dials was completely harmless, regardless of its constant glow. These people used to put it in their mouths, on their face, etc. and then turn out the lights and have fun after hours with it.
Radium Dial Co. changed their name and moved when too many workers started to get sick. The location where the building was (I think it was Chicago) still registers as radioactive with a giger counter. And this is something like 50-60 years later.
Isn't the history channel fun? =)
I'm waiting for the spiritual conclusion, "Windows: Reveloutions" where we see Bill Gates portrayed as the savior of human-kind. Maybe the Windows logo will change to a cross when you shutdown too.
It'll probably be just like the original USB spec - the distance had to be less than 2m to work.
So us sysadmins aren't going to speedily patch systems for this one then?
RJ? Are you Rick Jones down in cubical 3C? Wow man, I didn't know you read Slashdot. And to think we work together!
Perhaps we should all watch the news re-runs of 9/11. They were dancing in the street over there. I'm sorry. I have no love, respect, or any other nice feeling towards people who have time and time again shown their total hatred for us. America's news footage never showed Americans dancing in the street and shooting machine guns in the air when we heard Saddam was caught. We certainly never cheered when tons of innocent people lost their lives to some fucking terrorist asshole.
What other invention can disrupt virtually any event, almost always at the worst time? (Besides CmdrTaco bringing out nude Natalie Portman pictures...)
There is never a "worst time" for nude Natalie Portman pictures.
One of my friends went to the middle east once - someplace she hasn't been before, so she went there for vacation. If it wasn't for her brother being with her, she'd probably be dead. One of the people on the bus she was on was threatening her because she didn't have her arms or head covered.
You think they're just like us huh? Did the Americans have kamakazi pilots? Suicide bombers? No. America is a "cultral melting pot" remember? That basically says we're fairly tolerant, because we see so many different races and religions each day. Until the Taliban fell over there, the ENTIRE freaking nation was one governemnt - one religion. So you can't tell me its only the few extremists there that would kill women for being head-garb-less. Actually, its only a few people there who aren't extemists, that would object to killing them for such a petty thing.
Interestingly, where normal humans had needs of 100 meg, 1 gig, 100 gig storage spaces, this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use. It's got plenty applications, but not normal user applications.
See thats the problem. The only reason a normal human has need of that much freaking space is the bloat in software these days.
Wow. I calculate it would take about 10 continous days to download or upload one of these over USB 1.1.
/p mile = 13.63 miles/hr.
Or by carrier pigeon?
a) Carrier pigeon moves at a rate of 20ft/sec.
b) Its approx. 2400 miles (as the carrier pigeon flies) from NYC to LA
c) 5280 ft in a mile / (15 ft p/sec * 60 sec) = 1200 ft in a minute.
d) 5280 ft/ 1200 ft/min = 4.4 minutes per mile.
e) 60min / 4.4 min
f) 2400 mi / 13.63 mi/hr = 176 hours.
g) 176 hr / 24 hr = 7.3 days
So There you have it. To move 1T of data via carrier pigeon from NYC to LA would take 7.3 days to complete.
You're just grabbing at straws trying to find things to bitch about regarding Microsoft. Red Hat drops support WAY sooner than Microsoft ever does (it's been 5 years for Windows 98 -- Redhat discontinued support for Redhat 7.3 at the end of last year and that's way newer than Windows 98.)
And you sir, need to check some facts too:
o Microsoft charges for Win98, RH didn't for 7.3
o Red Hat's commerical offerings (AS, ES, EW) are comparable to Microsoft's in terms of support length.
Complaining about lack of support for a free product is like a homeless man complaining that the mission food sucks and he wants them to serve him something better.
--Software is like sex; if you feel the need to pay for it you can always find someone willing to take your money.
My favorite part of this article is the fact that this guy is their business columnist. A business columnist giving out stock advice based on the fact that he disagrees with the moral content of the product a company makes. Yeah, OK.
If that were the case - that all business analysts rated stocks on the morals of a company - Microsoft's stock would be rated as worthless...
But its not, so obviously morals have nothing to do with dollars.
This is exactly what Microsoft deserves. They try to claim Lindows is too similar to Windows, so hell with them, let them take some heat for a similar name too.
and I was ready to commit suicide. Thank you for saving my life Slashdot
Careful what you say. Some left wing liberal might read that and either decide slashdot should be outlawed (and the process known as slashdotting, or people who read slashdot are a threat to themselves and need to be medicated.
Don't forget IBM's JFS, it's in 2.4 AFAIK, and the last time that there were benchmarks linked from slashdot, it actually seemed the best overall, even over the highly anticipated reiser4.
Best overall is still not best in most cases. =)
JFS has been shown on several benchmarks to be VERY slow when dealing with large amounts of files in one directory.
Sometimes, though, cell phones are absolutely necessary - my wife is pregnant, right? What happens if I'm at a movie or at school when she goes into labour? Not only would she be royally pissed off once I actually got out of the movie/class (some classes are 3 hours long), but what happens if something went wrong?
That could be a interesting law suit:
Premature birth results in brain damage due to complications in getting to the hospital soon enough.
Not only would taking everything that the jammer owned be morally right, so would beating him everyday for the rest of his life. That "bothersome" phone ring just ruined the life of a new child, and the lives of both parents now required to care for the child for his entire life.
Windows CE navigation and information systems or music players in cars are an endangerment to you? Tooth and nail? Hahaha. Right.
They not only control entertainment devices, but onboard computers, locks, acceleration, etc. Do you trust Microsoft's code enough for it to accelerate for you? Steer for you? Brake for you?
You looked at some new cars lately? No longer do you have a physical cable run from the accelerator to the carbureator - no, you have an electronic rheostat that tells the onboard computer how much gas to inject. Steering is slated to be replaced that same way next, and the car manufacturers even suggest (and approve) of using wireless transmitters to send the singals, rather than running the miles (literally) of cable in today's vehicles. We've seen how well 802.11 works when another transmitter is close, think of how well that steering command is going to work with some interference.
Time to pull your head out and look around.
I currently have to hard boot my Dell Axim X5 after roughly 2-3 hours depending on the app that locked (RealOne Player, X-Lite (SIP Phone), etc..). I think CE/PPC is still too unstable for possible life threatening experiences in the car.
Agreed.
And we as consumers should fight this tooth and nail, not because we buy these cars (I sure wouldn't), but because someone else does, and having them on the road is an endangerment me.
i mean, after all, we all turn off ping before we put our servers up... don't we?
Turning off ping can break so many things! traceroutes fail, Path MTU Discovery fails, and the niceity of sitting at a remote location and doing a "ping" to see if the machine is still alive fails. Turning off ping is a BAD idea. Google for it, you'll find many papers written about ICMP being necessary. If you're worried about someone breaking into your boxes, patch your boxes! Don't hide them.
I was not at all surprised to find that experts are predicting the death of the compact disc in as little as 5 years. [...] the next format of music will be little fingernail-sized cards.
So long as I have a fingernail-sized card reader for my PC so I can copy my horde of MP3s onto it, I'll be set!
Um, I think you misread that. The Fedora Core 1 that is coming out in a couple weeks has no plans whatsoever for supporting kernel 2.6.
Which is a good reason to try Slackware again. 9.1 was just released, with 2.4.22, and support for 2.6. Which means they already did the dirty work of making sure mod-init-tools was on the machine, along with other necessities. Not to mention it comes with Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.1.4
I've tried 2.6.0-test4 on Slackware 9, and it made a difference in desktop usability and responsiveness.
My most idle box is my Linux server, which mostly just tosses traffic to and fro, and occassionally sends me some mail and files.
But, it also is a fast AMD system. So, during the winter, I tend to put some sort of distributed program on there to help heat up the room. =) It puts out some heat too. Who'd think a thing as tiny as your pinky-nail could heat offset my gas bill?
The poster points out that he bought a mobo with 1 ISA slot for his old modem. Lets not forget that in automation, sometimes old is necessary.