Once the RIAA/MPAA has shot themselves in the collective feet enough through negative press and marketing, consumers will demand alternative bands, distribution, technology, etc.
You're kidding, right? Have you met anyone under 20 recently? 90% of the kids out there don't even know what the hell a RIAA is, nor do they care. Neither do they seem to care that an album costs $18. You know why? All their friends are buying Linkin Park CD's and they don't want to be left out. At any cost.
Face it, the RIAA is selling to a largely agnostic market. It's just the same as the Nike sweatshop phenomenon.
OK. So here's the 86 billion dollar question: Who is going to pay for all of this? I'm as much for space exploration as the next guy (Heck, I *work* for NASA), but let's be honest: BUDGET DEFICIT
Here's the scariest part of Bush's speech: "NASA's current five-year budget is $86 billion. Most of the funding we need for the new endeavors will come from re-allocating $11 billion from within that budget." Hey other NASA folks out there, you know what this means: The return of the "ISS Tax".
Developing a new vehicle, returning to the Moon, going to Mars... This is all going to cost a lot of money, will it be fully funded? Part of the reason that the Space Shuttle is such a failure is the fact that it was not adequately funded*. One of the contributing factors to our ability to go to the moon the first time was that NASA had a blank check.
* This is addressed in the CAIB report, if you haven't read the section on the history of the politics of the STS, it's worth a glance.
I'm not offended by a particular religion. I'm offended by the concept of religion. We live in the 21st century now. We have explored other planets, we've set foot on the moon. We've discovered the presence of other planets around other stars. We have determined the secrets of life, and can now clone living organisms, and are now very close to creating life forms directly from base organic molecules.
Could you please explain how any of this excludes the possibility of a God?
I'm involved in a project moving 150TiB from the West Coast to the East Coast. I can attest to the fact that it is cheaper and faster to ship tapes via FedEx.
> What's the point of putting an article together if you just hire some guys to do it for you?
I have a side business where we do a lot of network cabling. We avoid residential, and basically refuse to do it except for a few cases where we are asked by a contractor who gives us a lot of commercial work. Hiring a contractor for something like this isn't all that bad of an idea. The main reason why I say this is because good contractors have a huge array of tools to do the job correctly. And they know how to use them.
Running network cable in a commercial environment is usually trivial. Running network cable in a home is always a hassle, and you had better know what you are doing. You also had better know how to fix a problem when you create it.
If you get queezy thinking about sawing holes in drywall and then patching it up (not just sloppily -- correctly so it looks like there was never a hole there), then yes, you should hire a contractor.
But be very careful, since most good contractors won't do residential. Homeowners whine a lot, don't want to pay much, and expect too much.
As far as this article, I don't really see the point, either.
cd/usr/src/linux bzcat/blah/patch-2.4.21.bz2|patch -p1 make oldconfig
Or, if you are patching up multiple levels (and you're lazy like me), put all the intermediate patches in/usr/local/src, then in/usr/local/src/linux run:./scripts/patch-kernel ...
Slashdot Mirror
BTW, Nike doesn't outsource to "sweatshops" anymore (if they ever did).
I stand corrected.
Once the RIAA/MPAA has shot themselves in the collective feet enough through negative press and marketing, consumers will demand alternative bands, distribution, technology, etc.
You're kidding, right? Have you met anyone under 20 recently? 90% of the kids out there don't even know what the hell a RIAA is, nor do they care. Neither do they seem to care that an album costs $18. You know why? All their friends are buying Linkin Park CD's and they don't want to be left out. At any cost.
Face it, the RIAA is selling to a largely agnostic market. It's just the same as the Nike sweatshop phenomenon.
Why is slashdot determined to report every single trivial detail when it comes to Microsoft?
Yeah, seriously.
As if Slashdot is never down and always works flawlessly.
I'd like a car with easily removable/exchangable seat cushions myself.
;)
Yeah, I remember riding in one of your limos. You could DEFINITELY have benefitted from changeable seat covers in that thing.
What should I look for in hiring a lawyer? Will that type of lawyer call themselves anything?
This guy. In spite of what looks like an evil bio, he's quite a techno-geek.
When will some OSS developers get a clue... ... and get together with an MBA, and write the killer app for OS.
:)
Yes... Now where would we find an experienced devloper with an MBA? Hmmmm.
OK. So here's the 86 billion dollar question: Who is going to pay for all of this? I'm as much for space exploration as the next guy (Heck, I *work* for NASA), but let's be honest: BUDGET DEFICIT
Here's the scariest part of Bush's speech: "NASA's current five-year budget is $86 billion. Most of the funding we need for the new endeavors will come from re-allocating $11 billion from within that budget." Hey other NASA folks out there, you know what this means: The return of the "ISS Tax".
Developing a new vehicle, returning to the Moon, going to Mars... This is all going to cost a lot of money, will it be fully funded? Part of the reason that the Space Shuttle is such a failure is the fact that it was not adequately funded*. One of the contributing factors to our ability to go to the moon the first time was that NASA had a blank check.
* This is addressed in the CAIB report, if you haven't read the section on the history of the politics of the STS, it's worth a glance.
Mirroring content form the NASA server on *gasp* a NASA server!
Yeah, because Lord knows we use the same bandwidth in Greenbelt, Maryland that we also use in Pasadena, California.
On the chance that this gets slashdotted (it's been slow for a while), I'll mirror the high-res panoramic image here: http://nccs.nasa.gov/~lsherida/PIA04995.jpg
Ahhhh, what the heck, I didn't like my job anyhow:
;)
ftp://nccs.nasa.gov/pub/linux/linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2
http://www.soekris.com/?
When I went to go watch the launch of MER-B, the KSC visitor center had a Lego model of the rover.
Funny, first thing I thought of was Don Knuth.
I'm not offended by a particular religion. I'm offended by the concept of religion. We live in the 21st century now. We have explored other planets, we've set foot on the moon. We've discovered the presence of other planets around other stars. We have determined the secrets of life, and can now clone living organisms, and are now very close to creating life forms directly from base organic molecules.
Could you please explain how any of this excludes the possibility of a God?
My little brother's website (which includes photos and comments sections) was spammed pretty bad by a member of a rival football team.
/24.
My the profanities! I'm thinking of making Apache redirect to goatse.cx the next time someone comes back from the offender's
Anyone recall the other, I think it might have been Detroit, not sure.
The other would be St. Louis, IIRC.
Granted the worst of the offenders have probably excluded all "@*.gov" addresses from their mailing lists, but I am sure they get enough of the rest.
.gov e-mail address.
Apparently you don't have a
I get a buttload of spam at work. It's even worse since I'm postmaster@.
I'm involved in a project moving 150TiB from the West Coast to the East Coast. I can attest to the fact that it is cheaper and faster to ship tapes via FedEx.
The NASA machine is called chapman. How do I know this? Because I'm sitting here looking at lomax right now.
;) In fact, I was through your datacenter back in February.
I have an account on turing.
the billion dollar machine
What the hell kind of Origin 3800 do YOU have? ISTR ours (512-proc) was roughly $10M.
> What's the point of putting an article together if you just hire some guys to do it for you?
I have a side business where we do a lot of network cabling. We avoid residential, and basically refuse to do it except for a few cases where we are asked by a contractor who gives us a lot of commercial work. Hiring a contractor for something like this isn't all that bad of an idea. The main reason why I say this is because good contractors have a huge array of tools to do the job correctly. And they know how to use them.
Running network cable in a commercial environment is usually trivial. Running network cable in a home is always a hassle, and you had better know what you are doing. You also had better know how to fix a problem when you create it.
If you get queezy thinking about sawing holes in drywall and then patching it up (not just sloppily -- correctly so it looks like there was never a hole there), then yes, you should hire a contractor.
But be very careful, since most good contractors won't do residential. Homeowners whine a lot, don't want to pay much, and expect too much.
As far as this article, I don't really see the point, either.
cd /usr/src/linux /blah/patch-2.4.21.bz2|patch -p1
/usr/local/src, then in /usr/local/src/linux run: ./scripts/patch-kernel . ..
bzcat
make oldconfig
Or, if you are patching up multiple levels (and you're lazy like me), put all the intermediate patches in
and it will apply the patches automatically.
I can not see any reason to use ReiserFS instead of XFS
I can. You cannot reduce an XFS filesystem short of rebuilding it. ReiserFS filesystems can be shrunk in place.
Particularly when using LVM's this is very useful.
Touche. :)
My little sister looked at This picture and commented on how cute he was.
:)
Now I'm jealous. Nerds aren't supposed to be cute.