If and until IBM adopts Linux across the board themselves, it appears that they're talking out of both sides of their mouth. This came up before, and a number of IBMers said that it was impossible to get off of Microsoft entirely, mostly due to Windows specific apps (such as MS Project)--that may be so, but then how do you reasonably expect the rest of the world to adopt Linux?
And it's bullshit anyways--I understand IBM to have more than a few of their own coders. With enough will, you could rewrite the apps that you need, and then release them back to the OSS community, and the world will indeed thank you for making a migration from MS possible, for themselves as well.
Frankly, it'd be like going to Apple and finding that they all use Vaios. Hint: they don't. They do use MS applications, but they do so on Macs, like Office. And those that don't work on Macs--like the POS system for their retail stores--they port so that they do. What do you think would happen to sales of Macs if the you walked in and saw an IBM POS at the checkout counter at the Apple Store?
IBM has the opportunity and the resources to make their migration from Windows to OSS fodder for whitepapers and PR for decades to come. It's illustrative that they haven't yet, and I think it's a cautionary tale for any other company considering the same move.
Article states that IBM and Sony are collaborating to develop a workstation, which will be used to develop games for the PS3. IBM will supply the OS, Sony will supply the development tools, etc. Seems like the emphasis will be on game-development, but will have other uses like movie editing etc (and who will develop applications for that process remains unsaid--Adobe? Avid?)
Question is, why redevelop the wheel? Why not use G5s from Apple? Or, G5s from Apple with a "PS3" personality PCI card? Wouldn't that be a whole lot cheaper?
Apple's base station is also supports AOL user accounts, and is still the only one to do this, I believe. They also support WPA and bridging--the ability to use a WAP to "relay" the signals from a yet more distant WAP, thereby increasing your range. Finally, a model of the Base Station supports Power-over-Ethernet and is rated for use in air-handling spaces.
I don't know how common all this stuff is on your $79 Linksys; I would guess that it isn't. But then again, most folks don't need it--so it's usually overkill and a waste. And it still misses some features that most others have, like browser configuration; although there are both network- clients and windows- clients for the AirPort admin software.
Mobile accounts allows you to authenticate a network user when they are not actually connected to the network. A roaming desktop user allows you to work on a home directory that you mount from a server.
However, without the use of hand-built login/logout scripts, you cannot currently have a network user move their network home directory to a local workstation and then disconnect that workstation from the network, while maintaining the home directory. Would be useful for laptop users, for instance; come into the office in the morning, auth to the network, sync up their home folder; work all day off of the home folder stored on the network share; sync up their home folder and take it home for the evening.
That's what I was assuming the gp was talking about.
"As many as eight compression schemes will face screen tests in April as they vie for inclusion in the final U.S. specification for digital cinema...DCI won't reveal any of the compression contenders to be tested...one not on the list is Windows Media Video that Microsoft Corp. has elected not to submit for consideration in the standard."
Um, what the hell? Is this standard not as important as the article makes it sound? Does Microsoft feel like they can tie up the market even without being part of the standard? I surely thought this was one of their goals, and was surprised to learn that they no longer had an interest in contending.
Since you're in a candid frame of mind, let me ask a question that's on the minds of many Slashdotters: what fun is it being a troll? I'll stir the shit sometimes, just to see the kinds of reactions that I get. But what's interesting enough to you about trolling that you make a concerted effort to do so, enough that you know how to game the system? What have you learned from it? What's the payoff?
I can't see Solaris OS being majorly profitable for Sun either - they sell hardware too and if an open-source Solaris led to more end-user interest in their hardware it's easy to see it leading to an increase in revenue for Sun.
Essentially, Apple's strategy. And not really surprising, since Sun essentially does what Apple does--sell proprietary hardware with a tailored OS.
Question is: has that strategy paid off for Apple? And Sun has more to lose: they have a strong position in the server room, that Apple never had, so Sun would be trying Apple's consumer level strategy out but with their own Enterprise products--results may vary.
It could be an absolutely brilliant strategic move.
Could be. It could also be the end of the line for them, as other Linux developers take all the interesting bits from Solaris and port them to the Linux kernel--then you get all the stability etc of Solaris, but with Linux. Then Sun has not much left to offer but nice support plans.
Come to think, GPL of Solaris would allow Sun to build their own Linux and include the good bits of Solaris in it; maybe that's their plan.
I would think that Hamlet would be very hard to translate into Klingon, because it's a play that's essentially about a guy that is too much of a coward to do what his dead father's spirit has charged him to do. I don't think Klingons would be very appreciative of Hamlet's character at all; and would stomp his guts for being such a snivelilng whiner in the face of a task that he was duty-bound to complete.
I would think that a Klingon would get much more appreciation from MacBeth--kill the King for not watching out for himself!--or Titus Andronicus. Maybe even Caesar.
But if I didn't have a life, I wouldn't have wasted my time translating Hamlet. And then trying to sell it on Amazon.
I've lived in Iowa, and wondered that too. You could, I suppose, attach your fridge directly to the wall, and then simply connect a duct to the outside temperature. Here's some thoughts why that wouldn't work:
It would break in the summer, and it might be cheaper to cool in the winter using the traditional method than cool in the summer with the inefficiency of the duct;
it could get too cold--you don't want to keep you milk stored at -20F, you want it at +40F--so you would actually have to heat it up. But why not do this for a freezer?
The temperature change typical throughout the day might not guarantee that the food stays cold, which could lead to inconsistency and lawsuits over food poisoning.
Every time you open the door, heat would escape from the room to the outside--and it might be more efficient to keep food cold using the traditional method than to warm up the room again.
It does seem like each of these issues are surmountable with clever tech. Of course, there isn't anything stopping you from keeping your freezer on the porch and turning it off during the winter.
Microsoft Office (Yuck! Please get us an Aqua Native Open Office!)
Roger that. I would pay for StarOffice, even, if it was in the $50-$100 range. And I think a fair few other OS X users, would too. Sun, are you listening?
Although text edit is getting pretty close--could Apple fold OO.org's work into TextEdit?
Also will edit my.bash_profile, naturally, and have been known to put a fnorder in the login script.
Everything else is default, cause why not? Can you beat Apple's own email, web browser, media player? Apple's own PDF viewer is better in some respects than Acrobat Reader.
Oh, I did forget to give the beast it'd due, although really, the only thing I used Word for is to write up my resume and look at HR stuff.
It's hit or miss, still, but it's the best consistent resource that I've found to date, and I seem to keep changing states. It's getting harder and harder to find game stores, as most of it is now done on-line, so the postings for "gamers wanted" are also harder to find.
Here's a couple of other things:
I daresay that, unlike before, women members are appreciated. It makes the experience less of a circle jerk, and more of a social club.
You might consider, or be willing to try, playing anything other than D&D. Still the most popular, it nevertheless requires the reading of hundreds of pages of rules, which I just can't get into anymore. The Worlds of Darkness, best known for their Vampire games, really encouraged the roleplaying over the dice rolling; but there's lots of other, and I think, stronger games out there. The site linked is for Steve Jackson Games, best known for GURPS, probably the second-most popular gaming system. (He also did Car Wars, which got a lot of press in the day, but is now pretty stale.)
Um, of course, it was San Francisco? While I'm sure the breeders still out number the non-breeders, there's a pretty good chance the guy "wasn't interested."
Or, at least that's what the gal will be telling herself for some time to come, no doubt...
Except as otherwise provided in this title and notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement of copyright for a library or archives, or any of its employees acting within the scope of their employment, to reproduce no more than one copy or phonorecord of a work.
Emphasis mine
And indeed, Sec 107 Fair Use allows for "teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
So you can produce unlimited quantities for classroom or educational use; and libraries can make one copy (and sometimes three.) But libraries cannot make unlimited copies. Although you could argue that you copied the chapter of book from a library for research, even if it was outside of a classroom.
Does anyone happen to know if social engineering is allowed, or is this just a technical attack?
I would wager than any social engineering would a) be more likely to succeed, and b) be also more likely to occur in the real world. But it's less quantifiable too.
The moral of this story: when Microsoft points you to a place that you can spend tens of millions of dollars of your own money, they aren't doing it just because they like your tie. They are doing it for their own reasons, and won't really care if it turns out badly for you.
I hope BayStar doesn't get a dime back from SCO--hopefully they'll consider the merits of the issue more carefully next time Microsoft gives them a "hot tip." And hopefully BayStar losing tens of millions to SCO puts a chill through the investment community to beware of Microsoft advice.
But if we extend that line of reasoning, why not prosecute a library for copyright infringement?
And here's where the slashbots get it wrong time and time again.
No, I believe that you've gotten it wrong.
Copying a book with a Xerox copier is, indeed, illegal.
The library isn't prosecuted for having books available, as they haven't done anything wrong--any more than Tower Records has by making music CDs available. It's the individual doing the copying that is doing something illegal, and in fact Kinko's often will refuse to copy a book. Educational institutions may or may not have a particular dispensation to copy class materials; it could well be that they simply break the law and the process is ignored.
Now, since copying music via P2P happens to be easier, and, quite frankly, folks would rather burn a track than download the latest C++ textbook, the RIAA has pursued violators more aggressively--they stand to lose more money (in their eyes). But copying music via the internet is no more an illegal act than copying a book via a Xerox; it's just that the potential profit loss is greater, meaning the RIAA has more incentive to stop it.
It may be a policy, but it happens to be illegal. The GP is correct--if you can't get OT, you can't be penalized for not working your forty (besides termination).
There is a current law; look it up on the www.dol.gov website. If you are required to work 40 hours a week, and docked for less, you are similarly eligible for overtime. On the other hand, if you are paid "salary", and work as the work requires rather than by the clock, you are not eligible for overtime.
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If and until IBM adopts Linux across the board themselves, it appears that they're talking out of both sides of their mouth. This came up before, and a number of IBMers said that it was impossible to get off of Microsoft entirely, mostly due to Windows specific apps (such as MS Project)--that may be so, but then how do you reasonably expect the rest of the world to adopt Linux?
And it's bullshit anyways--I understand IBM to have more than a few of their own coders. With enough will, you could rewrite the apps that you need, and then release them back to the OSS community, and the world will indeed thank you for making a migration from MS possible, for themselves as well.
Frankly, it'd be like going to Apple and finding that they all use Vaios. Hint: they don't. They do use MS applications, but they do so on Macs, like Office. And those that don't work on Macs--like the POS system for their retail stores--they port so that they do. What do you think would happen to sales of Macs if the you walked in and saw an IBM POS at the checkout counter at the Apple Store?
IBM has the opportunity and the resources to make their migration from Windows to OSS fodder for whitepapers and PR for decades to come. It's illustrative that they haven't yet, and I think it's a cautionary tale for any other company considering the same move.
So, what is the proper question to ask if you want to check for comprehension?
For laughs, here's the directions for OS X (10.3, I don't think it was GUI visible before?)
Click on the Blue Apple, upper left hand corner of the screen. (Any app can be in front, btw)
Pull down to "System Preferences".
Click on Network--grey globe, approximately middle of the window.
Click on "Built-in Ethernet." Click on the oval that says "configure."
Click on the button that says "ethernet." Read to me the thing that says: Ethernet ID.
Article states that IBM and Sony are collaborating to develop a workstation, which will be used to develop games for the PS3. IBM will supply the OS, Sony will supply the development tools, etc. Seems like the emphasis will be on game-development, but will have other uses like movie editing etc (and who will develop applications for that process remains unsaid--Adobe? Avid?)
Question is, why redevelop the wheel? Why not use G5s from Apple? Or, G5s from Apple with a "PS3" personality PCI card? Wouldn't that be a whole lot cheaper?
Apple's base station is also supports AOL user accounts, and is still the only one to do this, I believe. They also support WPA and bridging--the ability to use a WAP to "relay" the signals from a yet more distant WAP, thereby increasing your range. Finally, a model of the Base Station supports Power-over-Ethernet and is rated for use in air-handling spaces.
I don't know how common all this stuff is on your $79 Linksys; I would guess that it isn't. But then again, most folks don't need it--so it's usually overkill and a waste. And it still misses some features that most others have, like browser configuration; although there are both network- clients and windows- clients for the AirPort admin software.
Disable single user mode. You can also disable the ability to boot from CDs and Firewire disk mode; it's called "Firmware password."
Mobile accounts allows you to authenticate a network user when they are not actually connected to the network.
A roaming desktop user allows you to work on a home directory that you mount from a server.
However, without the use of hand-built login/logout scripts, you cannot currently have a network user move their network home directory to a local workstation and then disconnect that workstation from the network, while maintaining the home directory. Would be useful for laptop users, for instance; come into the office in the morning, auth to the network, sync up their home folder; work all day off of the home folder stored on the network share; sync up their home folder and take it home for the evening.
That's what I was assuming the gp was talking about.
They fixed the net browsing in 10.3.3. Assuming you mean having "Browse" from the sidebar work like "Go->connect to Server".
I had assumed that Microsoft was vying for this, too; but then I read this:
Compression schemes take screen test for digital cinema.
"As many as eight compression schemes will face screen tests in April as they vie for inclusion in the final U.S. specification for digital cinema...DCI won't reveal any of the compression contenders to be tested...one not on the list is Windows Media Video that Microsoft Corp. has elected not to submit for consideration in the standard."
Um, what the hell? Is this standard not as important as the article makes it sound? Does Microsoft feel like they can tie up the market even without being part of the standard? I surely thought this was one of their goals, and was surprised to learn that they no longer had an interest in contending.
Can anyone shed any more light?
Since you're in a candid frame of mind, let me ask a question that's on the minds of many Slashdotters: what fun is it being a troll? I'll stir the shit sometimes, just to see the kinds of reactions that I get. But what's interesting enough to you about trolling that you make a concerted effort to do so, enough that you know how to game the system? What have you learned from it? What's the payoff?
I can't see Solaris OS being majorly profitable for Sun either - they sell hardware too and if an open-source Solaris led to more end-user interest in their hardware it's easy to see it leading to an increase in revenue for Sun.
Essentially, Apple's strategy. And not really surprising, since Sun essentially does what Apple does--sell proprietary hardware with a tailored OS.
Question is: has that strategy paid off for Apple? And Sun has more to lose: they have a strong position in the server room, that Apple never had, so Sun would be trying Apple's consumer level strategy out but with their own Enterprise products--results may vary.
It could be an absolutely brilliant strategic move.
Could be. It could also be the end of the line for them, as other Linux developers take all the interesting bits from Solaris and port them to the Linux kernel--then you get all the stability etc of Solaris, but with Linux. Then Sun has not much left to offer but nice support plans.
Come to think, GPL of Solaris would allow Sun to build their own Linux and include the good bits of Solaris in it; maybe that's their plan.
I think this deserves a reply.
I would think that Hamlet would be very hard to translate into Klingon, because it's a play that's essentially about a guy that is too much of a coward to do what his dead father's spirit has charged him to do. I don't think Klingons would be very appreciative of Hamlet's character at all; and would stomp his guts for being such a snivelilng whiner in the face of a task that he was duty-bound to complete.
I would think that a Klingon would get much more appreciation from MacBeth--kill the King for not watching out for himself!--or Titus Andronicus. Maybe even Caesar.
But if I didn't have a life, I wouldn't have wasted my time translating Hamlet. And then trying to sell it on Amazon.
I've lived in Iowa, and wondered that too. You could, I suppose, attach your fridge directly to the wall, and then simply connect a duct to the outside temperature. Here's some thoughts why that wouldn't work:
It does seem like each of these issues are surmountable with clever tech. Of course, there isn't anything stopping you from keeping your freezer on the porch and turning it off during the winter.
Microsoft Office (Yuck! Please get us an Aqua Native Open Office!)
Roger that. I would pay for StarOffice, even, if it was in the $50-$100 range. And I think a fair few other OS X users, would too. Sun, are you listening?
Although text edit is getting pretty close--could Apple fold OO.org's work into TextEdit?
When I install OS X, it immediately gets:
- Developer Tools
- fink, and then:
- $ fink install nmap;
- $ fink install osxutils
- Next is Carbon Copy Cloner,
- Transmit or some other ftp file browser.
- Finally, to make it "home", I'll install Windowshade X and Xounds.
- Also will edit my
.bash_profile, naturally, and have been known to put a fnorder in the login script.
Everything else is default, cause why not? Can you beat Apple's own email, web browser, media player? Apple's own PDF viewer is better in some respects than Acrobat Reader.Oh, I did forget to give the beast it'd due, although really, the only thing I used Word for is to write up my resume and look at HR stuff.
A Visit from the FBI
Also, it was a Slashdot story. FBI Agent Talks Crime, Macs
You might try the SJGames Gamer Finder.
It's hit or miss, still, but it's the best consistent resource that I've found to date, and I seem to keep changing states. It's getting harder and harder to find game stores, as most of it is now done on-line, so the postings for "gamers wanted" are also harder to find.
Here's a couple of other things:
Um, of course, it was San Francisco? While I'm sure the breeders still out number the non-breeders, there's a pretty good chance the guy "wasn't interested."
Or, at least that's what the gal will be telling herself for some time to come, no doubt...
TITLE 17 COPYRIGHTS CHAPTER 1 Sec. 108.
Except as otherwise provided in this title and notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement of copyright for a library or archives, or any of its employees acting within the scope of their employment, to reproduce no more than one copy or phonorecord of a work.
Emphasis mine
And indeed, Sec 107 Fair Use allows for "teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
So you can produce unlimited quantities for classroom or educational use; and libraries can make one copy (and sometimes three.) But libraries cannot make unlimited copies. Although you could argue that you copied the chapter of book from a library for research, even if it was outside of a classroom.
Does anyone happen to know if social engineering is allowed, or is this just a technical attack?
I would wager than any social engineering would a) be more likely to succeed, and b) be also more likely to occur in the real world. But it's less quantifiable too.
The moral of this story: when Microsoft points you to a place that you can spend tens of millions of dollars of your own money, they aren't doing it just because they like your tie. They are doing it for their own reasons, and won't really care if it turns out badly for you.
I hope BayStar doesn't get a dime back from SCO--hopefully they'll consider the merits of the issue more carefully next time Microsoft gives them a "hot tip." And hopefully BayStar losing tens of millions to SCO puts a chill through the investment community to beware of Microsoft advice.
But if we extend that line of reasoning, why not prosecute a library for copyright infringement?
And here's where the slashbots get it wrong time and time again.
No, I believe that you've gotten it wrong.
It may be a policy, but it happens to be illegal. The GP is correct--if you can't get OT, you can't be penalized for not working your forty (besides termination).
There is a current law; look it up on the www.dol.gov website. If you are required to work 40 hours a week, and docked for less, you are similarly eligible for overtime. On the other hand, if you are paid "salary", and work as the work requires rather than by the clock, you are not eligible for overtime.