You can take these anti-free market arguments elsewhere, because here in Taiwan they "let the market fight it out" and very vigorously so. There are different standards: GSM and PHS. Many companies: Chunghua Telecom, Taiwan Cellular, FarEasTone, KGT Online, PHS, and a bunch of others. This has created a country with the highest per-capita wielding cell phones. We exceed Japan and Korea and others by a handful.
It's more like regulation and big government oversight (more akin to socialist ideals) actually drives innovation into the ground. Kind of like the deal about Internet Exploder losing its luster as Microsoft, the monopoly moves forward onto other markets.
It's actually okay, statistically speaking, since averages are always skewed. That's why you go with medians and standard deviations. 20% of the men just need extremely large penises that pull the average up to the 80 percentile.
You might want to ask your local Stat guru or professor to make sure. They'd get a kick out of the subject.
What are you smoking? Here in Asia, there are frontend vendors that are "IBM" distributors. They do provide support here and for all kinds of servers. For example, I've setup 4 different x330 series clusters from 15 up to 28 computer racks and the local IBM has given great support, including but not limited to:
1. Setting up the OS. 2. Downloading and recompiling appropriate kernel modules. 3. Setting up monitoring systems. 4. Setting up networking and hostnames. 5. Setting up some services.
Your problem is not IBM, it's the local vendor company who says they are "IBM".
Too bad anywhere from 50 to 1,000,000 people have the same name as you. Name tracking and being up-tight about the current gossip about myself wouldn't work for me.
Christopher Columbus, et al, didn't sit down and talk about this when they brought over their diseases like the pox wiping out whole populations of native americans. I mean, it sucked, but the human race still lives on and we're still here to do arm-chair analysis and rant our way forward.
Sans serif fonts such as Tahoma, Verdana, Vera Sans, etc. are most suitable for on-screen display of textual documents such as web pages. However, Serif fonts still reign supreme for readability in print form.
As an exercise, for your enjoyment, take a sheet of paper and cover the upper slice of a word on a Serif font. 100% of the time, you can still read it. Do the same on the bottom slice as well. And, lastly, print out some Verdana/Tahoma and perform the same exercise, you'll find that more often than not you'll be second guessing what the word really is.
I'm not a font expert, but there are legit reasons for standardizing on this font.
14 point might be needed to:
1. Reduce government redundant wording by allowing the book to fill up faster as to allow one to "feel" that the content is thick.
There's the biggest difference. When Americans sit down to plan about blowing things up, they actually put potential casualties and/or collateral damage on the agenda for discussion prior to doing so. When Terrorists sit down to plan about blowing things up, they have this seemingly brainwashed sense of the need to damage, maim, and kill innocent people *directly*.
Not sure, but I'd think OSDL's focus would be more kernel-space modifications and/or optimizations to make the desktop better. I doubt they'll care about distros or desktops. Focus should be on kernel X interaction, improved drivers, including better peripheral support for the home market.
Now imagine if they put out bounties for distributed projects that found cures for cancer, aids, the common cold, alzheimers, m.s., and thousands of other diseases. Philanthropy can only take you so far; use the "greedy" free market to drive progess even further!
We asked Sun why their NFS server kept crashing causing some serious downtime in one of our manufacturing facilities. We were signed up with Silver Stirling (or whatever) support and had local Sun engineers look into the problem. They couldn't figure it out, and therefore needed to submit the logs, core, and other relevant information to Sun. Timeframe for answer on the problem: one year.
Yep! That's right folks, one whole year. We're sitting here paying tens of thousands in support and that's the response we got.
Well, the decision was easy from thenceforth. Scrap Sun and Solaris and we went with IBM and Linux. It's been great ever since.
YMMV, but our experience has been wholly negative.
On a positive note, Sun Solaris is what brought me into the world of Unix, so I do have to give it credit. It rocks over HP-UX, which royally sux. I'll put that in another comment when an HP-UX article comes up later...
We, as people, do a darn good job of filtering spam without even looking at the mail headers or body of the message. I know this message will go relatively unread since this story has been up for awhile now, but think about that. When you *do* have to click through to delete stuff, we as humans just need to look at the Subject and the From and can nail spam nearly 99% of the time.
If someone can encapsulate common sense into a program and map it against the Subject/From, then who cares about the content of the emails!
It might not be legal, but you can rip SomaFM, et al. to mp3. For example, with SomaFM you just need to record 3 or 4 hours worth and you can have a portable SomaFM (you may have to refresh the recording every month or so). Write a cron job that records at night and then take it with you during the day.
Easy. Just look up all the cracking activities that have occurred in the last five years via google or the library (newspaper articles). Then seek after the stories in a more specific way. Find out who did it. Interview them. Cover up their names and place their extremely detailed intrusion technique.
The confirmation can be had by the sys admin saying, "Yep! That corresponds to the logs we had!" If someone really wanted to get that nitpicky.
I'd even recommend that Kevin meet these people in a completely anonymous fashion so the authorities couldn't leverage him to get after his interviewees.
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> By letting the market fight it out, the FCC
You can take these anti-free market arguments elsewhere, because here in Taiwan they "let the market fight it out" and very vigorously so. There are different standards: GSM and PHS. Many companies: Chunghua Telecom, Taiwan Cellular, FarEasTone, KGT Online, PHS, and a bunch of others. This has created a country with the highest per-capita wielding cell phones. We exceed Japan and Korea and others by a handful.
It's more like regulation and big government oversight (more akin to socialist ideals) actually drives innovation into the ground. Kind of like the deal about Internet Exploder losing its luster as Microsoft, the monopoly moves forward onto other markets.
It's actually okay, statistically speaking, since averages are always skewed. That's why you go with medians and standard deviations. 20% of the men just need extremely large penises that pull the average up to the 80 percentile.
You might want to ask your local Stat guru or professor to make sure. They'd get a kick out of the subject.
Hurry, read the site before the battery runs out in 10 minutes! :P
What are you smoking? Here in Asia, there are frontend vendors that are "IBM" distributors. They do provide support here and for all kinds of servers. For example, I've setup 4 different x330 series clusters from 15 up to 28 computer racks and the local IBM has given great support, including but not limited to:
1. Setting up the OS.
2. Downloading and recompiling appropriate kernel modules.
3. Setting up monitoring systems.
4. Setting up networking and hostnames.
5. Setting up some services.
Your problem is not IBM, it's the local vendor company who says they are "IBM".
Too bad anywhere from 50 to 1,000,000 people have the same name as you. Name tracking and being up-tight about the current gossip about myself wouldn't work for me.
Christopher Columbus, et al, didn't sit down and talk about this when they brought over their diseases like the pox wiping out whole populations of native americans. I mean, it sucked, but the human race still lives on and we're still here to do arm-chair analysis and rant our way forward.
Sans serif fonts such as Tahoma, Verdana, Vera Sans, etc. are most suitable for on-screen display of textual documents such as web pages. However, Serif fonts still reign supreme for readability in print form.
As an exercise, for your enjoyment, take a sheet of paper and cover the upper slice of a word on a Serif font. 100% of the time, you can still read it. Do the same on the bottom slice as well. And, lastly, print out some Verdana/Tahoma and perform the same exercise, you'll find that more often than not you'll be second guessing what the word really is.
I'm not a font expert, but there are legit reasons for standardizing on this font.
14 point might be needed to:
1. Reduce government redundant wording by allowing the book to fill up faster as to allow one to "feel" that the content is thick.
or
2. Aid in the ever-aging American population.
> Lucky many weren't killed.
There's the biggest difference. When Americans sit down to plan about blowing things up, they actually put potential casualties and/or collateral damage on the agenda for discussion prior to doing so. When Terrorists sit down to plan about blowing things up, they have this seemingly brainwashed sense of the need to damage, maim, and kill innocent people *directly*.
Not sure, but I'd think OSDL's focus would be more kernel-space modifications and/or optimizations to make the desktop better. I doubt they'll care about distros or desktops. Focus should be on kernel X interaction, improved drivers, including better peripheral support for the home market.
Now imagine if they put out bounties for distributed projects that found cures for cancer, aids, the common cold, alzheimers, m.s., and thousands of other diseases. Philanthropy can only take you so far; use the "greedy" free market to drive progess even further!
> Anyone know how much 14,800 yen is in US Dollars?
I use the lazy way of dividing by an hundred, which would put you around 148 bucks.
YMMV.
> Why not just ask Sun, they designed it!
We asked Sun why their NFS server kept crashing causing some serious downtime in one of our manufacturing facilities. We were signed up with Silver Stirling (or whatever) support and had local Sun engineers look into the problem. They couldn't figure it out, and therefore needed to submit the logs, core, and other relevant information to Sun. Timeframe for answer on the problem: one year.
Yep! That's right folks, one whole year. We're sitting here paying tens of thousands in support and that's the response we got.
Well, the decision was easy from thenceforth. Scrap Sun and Solaris and we went with IBM and Linux. It's been great ever since.
YMMV, but our experience has been wholly negative.
On a positive note, Sun Solaris is what brought me into the world of Unix, so I do have to give it credit. It rocks over HP-UX, which royally sux. I'll put that in another comment when an HP-UX article comes up later...
Wow, 90%? That seems like a conservative number.
You've never used NIS and NFS before. It's nasty, trust me.
Great one Sam!
Sisyphean
We, as people, do a darn good job of filtering spam without even looking at the mail headers or body of the message. I know this message will go relatively unread since this story has been up for awhile now, but think about that. When you *do* have to click through to delete stuff, we as humans just need to look at the Subject and the From and can nail spam nearly 99% of the time.
If someone can encapsulate common sense into a program and map it against the Subject/From, then who cares about the content of the emails!
Wasn't going over 80 miles an hour supposed to suck the air out of our lungs with the early steam engines? What happened to that?
> Even the merest possibility of such a future
> should cause us to worry. Shouldn't it?
No. What should worry us is our social problems. Once these are fixed, then everything else falls in place.
Funny thing is they're living in the same safe house. It started as an argument about who got the top bunk. I'll let you write the dialog...
Make sure you have that AI thingy installed, because she won't like it (esp. if her name is eliza or lisa) when she gets something unintended:
bash: eliza: command not found
Sure it is! It's new to all of us!
Now I need to go take a shower...
It might not be legal, but you can rip SomaFM, et al. to mp3. For example, with SomaFM you just need to record 3 or 4 hours worth and you can have a portable SomaFM (you may have to refresh the recording every month or so). Write a cron job that records at night and then take it with you during the day.
Easy. Just look up all the cracking activities that have occurred in the last five years via google or the library (newspaper articles). Then seek after the stories in a more specific way. Find out who did it. Interview them. Cover up their names and place their extremely detailed intrusion technique.
The confirmation can be had by the sys admin saying, "Yep! That corresponds to the logs we had!" If someone really wanted to get that nitpicky.
I'd even recommend that Kevin meet these people in a completely anonymous fashion so the authorities couldn't leverage him to get after his interviewees.
With RFID.
Note for the humor-impaired: this is a joke.
The military medical examiner found all traces of WMD left in the beard of the man that started all. Thank you, and good night.