Not to offend anyone, but I've never really gotten the whole obsession with Ender's game.
I agree, I didn't find it was a master piece. It's easy to read, and it the end there is a full twist of plot. But it's tricky. It cheats. I read a couple of the next books of the saga and I found them mostly boring.
I enjoyed a lot more the Alvin Maker saga. It was really a new kind of magic.;) The way it portraits the american pioneers was unique.
This looks like Dumping to me. I mean selling an item for a price lower that it costs to make it. That is an illegal practice that a monopoly should be forbidden to do.
Notice that MS, as a business, doesn't have to give away anything. Maybe people, like Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, can give goods to charity. But, if Microsoft does it, it's because it pretends to take some market and dump their rivals.
In this case, the rivals are open source projects. So this is not fair.
In its local area, Microsoft is known as "The Velvet Sweatshop," which suggests that, if anything, Microsoft might be doing too good a job of motivating its employees.
McConnel has a great book with a chapter about morale: Rapid Develpment
The use of oil for moving the cars damages the air.
In addition, don't forget there are many countries that oil is expensive in itself. In Europe it takes almost $40 to fill my car with 35 litres of oil. I think thats more than 200% it would cost in the U.S.A.
The thing that pushes ppl to Linux and Open Source is the price.
That is not true. Price is in the bottom of the list. When you buy a linux server to install expensive datatabase engines like oracle or web server farms, you want it run like a charm. It doesn't matter if it costs a lot or comes for free.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: Three Strikes And You're Out Microsoft extended Kerberos with undocumented proprietary features in an effort to prevent interoperability
Lately I've been testing amanda as a backup server. It's quite good. You can do backups of your PCs to the server via network.
It stores data in a "holdisk" and it even can be configured tapeless. Or you can configure to always keep as much as possible in the holdisk.
Add RAID, and you can have cheap backups on IDE. It requires the disks always on-line, but then you'll sure the data is still there, because when a drive fails you notice and can replace it without loosing data.
You can always do rm -rf / and screw it all so tape backups are always good to have.
My boss at the ISP I sysadmin at started insisting 6 months ago that we use FreeBSD on every machine instead of Linux. Why ? I have many servers with linux and I've always wanted to test FreeBSD. But I don't see any reason. I've seen posts about the ports software admin better than rpm. But the true is RPM rocks for servers. It keeps you up to date and never broke for me.
I don't want to start a Linux vs FreeBSD thread. I'm willing to try. Just give me a reason.
That's an interesting issue. I do have my workstation working with folding@home and I'm careless of my stats.
But I know about people who stopped using it because their web site stats is ugly, sometimes it didn't work, and some problems about creating a group. That was long time ago, now it's better.
So you see, people may think it's more important ranking well in the stats that solving the protein folding issue and find the cure for alzheimer.
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Not to offend anyone, but I've never really gotten the whole obsession with Ender's game.
;) The way it portraits the american pioneers was unique.
I agree, I didn't find it was a master piece. It's easy to read, and it the end there is a full twist of plot. But it's tricky. It cheats.
I read a couple of the next books of the saga and I found them mostly boring.
I enjoyed a lot more the Alvin Maker saga. It was really a new kind of magic.
This looks like Dumping to me. I mean selling an item for a price lower that it costs to make it.
That is an illegal practice that a monopoly should be forbidden to do.
Notice that MS, as a business, doesn't have to give away anything. Maybe people, like Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, can give goods to charity. But, if Microsoft does it, it's because it pretends to take some market and dump their rivals.
In this case, the rivals are open source projects. So this is not fair.
For those who won't read the article, here is an
... this is a 10, 15 and 20 year investment.
interesting question:
How long will Microsoft support a platform that seems destined to be in the red for the next few years?
So MS is gonna inject cash in this project for many years. Expect a hard fight in the console market for ever.
perl.apache.org. This is the mod_perl site, nice docs, faqs, mailing lists and so.
masonhq.com This is the mason web site. Very well documented. There are also Mason Books
In addition mod_perl won't work well with apache2, it's still beta, so you better try with apache-1.3
framework to work with. It's not easy to install
but you'll get a nice backend por code embedding.
Reasons to choose perl:
Separation of presentation from code: perl objects and modules.
Zillions of perl modules in search.cpan.org
Perl is a more mature language with years of existence before php. It has many more features like quite better regexpes and many more.
Like Java and Lisp -- and unlike Perl -- Python has exception handling.
Perl has exception handling with die/eval. Here is an article about it.
the entire system needs to be scrutinized by security experts before any program written in Perl can be considered secure,
#/usr/bin/perl -T
This Microsoft: article by Steve McConnell is interesting to read.
In its local area, Microsoft is known as "The Velvet Sweatshop," which suggests that, if anything, Microsoft might be doing too good a job of motivating its employees.
McConnel has a great book with a chapter about morale: Rapid Develpment
Not while oil is so cheap.
Oil is not cheap. You forget what the side cost of getting oil, transporting and using it.
First of all, many countries with Oil have wars, echological and many other problems. Take a look at the african or south american countries.
Transporting oil causes a lot of damage, like the Prestige Oil Spill.
The use of oil for moving the cars damages the air.
In addition, don't forget there are many countries that oil is expensive in itself. In Europe it takes almost $40 to fill my car with 35 litres of oil. I think thats more than 200% it would cost in the U.S.A.
1.- show segway to some rich people who love it
2.- report how they loved to the media
3.- end user notices it's useless and expensive
4.- not profit
The thing that pushes ppl to Linux and Open Source is the price.
That is not true. Price is in the bottom of the list. When you buy a linux server to install expensive datatabase engines like oracle or web server farms, you want it run like a charm. It doesn't matter if it costs a lot or comes for free.
The fact is that the linux server is better.
Once I bought a Hyundai as a winter beater.
What means "winter beater" ?
kerberos
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: Three Strikes And You're Out
Microsoft extended Kerberos with undocumented proprietary features in an effort to prevent interoperability
I recall something about a
Man dies after 86 hours gaming.
So, you get married, and suddenly you have no hobbies anymore ?
There's always a place in human beings for having fun with something.
Lately I've been testing amanda as a backup server. It's quite good. You can do backups of your PCs to the server via network.
It stores data in a "holdisk" and it even can be configured tapeless. Or you can configure to always keep as much as possible in the holdisk.
Add RAID, and you can have cheap backups on IDE. It requires the disks always on-line, but then you'll sure the data is still there, because when a drive fails you notice and can replace it without loosing data.
You can always do rm -rf / and screw it all so tape backups are always good to have.
This film was first called "Hardwired", then they inserted Susan Calvin and other Asimov elements into the script!
Read the story and scoop of this movie.
The complete list of cast:
Director: Alex Proyas
Writer: Jeff Vintar, based on his spec script, Hardwired; with characters & concepts from the short story collection by Isaac Asimov
Producers: Topher Dow, Mystery Clock Cinema;
Laurence Mark, Laurence Mark Productions;
John Davis, Davis Entertainment
Exec producer: Wyck Godfrey, Davis Entertainment
Fox execs: Peter Rice, Emma Watts
And it's supposed to be the first in a proposed series of robot films!
Wow, and you're a lawyer [slashdot.org], and you run a successful dot.com [slashdot.org]?! I'm impressed!!
I wonder who modded Jazzman interesting ? He's a troll.
System admin
web programming
standalone applications
quick and dirty scripts
In addition, it's a lot of fun !
My first feeling after reading the slashdot report of the results was that Microsoft lost. APIs and information should have to be released.
But I read amazed the press and the media in my country (spain) and all of them agree that Microsoft Wins.
Who won ?
It's weird there are people who mod this up interesting, but funny.
You ain't got mod points when you really need'em.
My boss at the ISP I sysadmin at started insisting 6 months ago that we use FreeBSD on every machine instead of Linux.
Why ? I have many servers with linux and I've always wanted to test FreeBSD. But I don't see any reason.
I've seen posts about the ports software admin better than rpm. But the true is RPM rocks for servers. It keeps you up to date and never broke for me.
I don't want to start a Linux vs FreeBSD thread. I'm willing to try. Just give me a reason.
That's an interesting issue. I do have my workstation working with folding@home and I'm careless of my stats.
But I know about people who stopped using it because their web site stats is ugly, sometimes it didn't work, and some problems about creating a group. That was long time ago, now it's better.
So you see, people may think it's more important ranking well in the stats that solving the protein folding issue and find the cure for alzheimer.
Human are very competitive, we want to be #1.
EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (IBM, Contact: Kevin Corry)
Kernel Probes (IBM, contact: Vamsi Krishna S)
Kernel Hooks (IBM contact: Vamsi Krishna S.)
It's nice to see.
I'd love to see a Pininfarina design of it.
It's the best car designer in the world: Alfa-Romeos, Ferraris, Jaguars, and Pajero. And many others.