If you are doing something so important that someone is going to go to the time and trouble to attach a keystroke monitor to your pc, maybe you should hire some guys with guns to secure your computer.
If you cause SGI to lose revenue on their product by offering a similar product with a similar name, then you are effectively stealing from SGI.
SGI has spent alot of time and money promoting the OpenGL name as a 3d-graphics technology. If you create a graphics product and call it OpenML, OpenXL, etc, you are obviously using SGI's branding to promote your product.
If microsoft introduced an OS called Mlinix, would you have a problem with it?
John Glen is/was in much better shape than one might think. He flew an F-15 solo in 1997 and pulled 8 or 9 g's. I also remember reading about him running 2-3 miles per day at age 80.
The Sun Blade 100 workstation is near silent. I bought one when they were released like two weeks ago and am extremely happy with it.
This machine is SILENT. The fan noises from my pc keep me awake, this machine makes no noise, except the IDE hard drive chunks around a bit when there is a network connection.
The UltraSPARC IIc does not require a fan, so there is alot less ambient noise than what you get from a modern PIII or Athlon.
As far as performance goes, it is pretty quick. I benchmarked some of my company's apps on it against a bunch of $5k ultra-10's and it beat them by a small margin.
Cost is like $1025 with a keyboard kit and Solaris 8 media kit. Well worth it.
Dude, please get a fucking clue before you post drivel.
RDBMS are almost like mini-operating systems by themselves. Oracle, Informix, Sybase, etc all manage disks themselves and allow the tuning of various threads and data structures for performance.
MySQL is great for some limited applications, it gives a fast, convienient interface to large amounts of data with minimal training or operational costs. MySQL is especially useful for databases with a low read/write ratio.
The big commercial databases have alot of advantages, mainly in the area of data integrity. No 'free' database is able to guarantee the integrity of your data. MySQL and Postgre (as of the last time i used it) are not capable of performing online backup or parallel online-backups.
A large multi-user system requires a 'real' database. Period.
You see - banner ads are simply an ineffective advertising medium.
Right now, there is a big, red flashing "Compaq TestDrive" ad banner hovering on the top of my page. Not only is the banner sitting in a location that I don't look at closely (the top of the screen) but it clashes with the rest of the page and is trivial to screen out.
Another mistake in this particular ad is the fact that it tells me that I can go directly to www.testdrive.compaq.com, and avoid making Slashdot the $0.03 or whatever they make.
When was the last time you saw an ad in the top margin of your newspaper? Would you watch commercials if they were before and after TV programs, but not during the show? Never. Relevant ads need to be embedded within a site inorder to be at all effective.
Your analogy to the porn industry is not a valid comparision. Porn manages to succeed mightily because of the messed-up view of sex that most Americans possess.
Plus, people who go to porn websites are interested in looking at porn. The product (pictures or video) is immediately available online, no shipping or other expenses.
Not to be a smartass, but if you are using Solaris, DGUX or HPUX there is an alternative browser which works great out of the box:
MS Internet Explorer 5 for Unix
I'm using it right now on my new Blade 100 and it is sweet! After 3 days of running, IE is using 4% of CPU and 20 MB of memory. Netscape on Linux would be using 200MB of ram by the time it crashed 2 1/2 days ago!
Stores retain credit card numbers from purchases for anywhere between three and seven years.
They are required to keep original sales drafts in order to process chargebacks. A number of other consumer protection laws also require the retaining of customer information, including cc numbers.
If you are from Asia, the cheating rules were a little lax at my former shithole state university.
During one networking midterm, a group of Indian students sharing a graphing calculator lost ten (out of 200) points.
During a unix system administration final, four chinese students were babbling with each other for the whole test. The professor did nothing, although he did yell at me for hanging my coat on the back of my chair (versus the pegs in the back of the room)
It seems to me that Napster's position is untenable. Although there are some possible legal uses of the service (such as trading public domain MP3s), the illegal uses are more numerous, and there are no protections in place to prevent illegal use. Some may say it is up to the individual to avoid illegal uses, but there is no mechanism in place to determine which uses are legal and which are not. There are no copyright stamps on MP3s, as well as no public domain stamps, which make it too easy for an individual to unwittingly break copyright law.
Having said that, I use Naspter, and I believe that some of my activities are legal, while others are questionable. Here they are, in order of possible legality:
Finding tracks that I believe to be in the public domain (such as Naspter's Featured Music)
Making MP3s of my CDs at home, then accessing my home server from work or on the road to get songs as desired.
Finding MP3s of songs I own in an analog format, and do not have the time or skill to convert to MP3s myself.
Finding MP3s of songs I once owned in another format, but the original was lost or destroyed (broken / scratched CDs, analog tapes destroyed by placing them on the dashboard, scratched albums).
"Borrowing" MP3s from friends (friends I interact with in the real world), the same way I would borrow a CD that they do not listen to.
"Borrowing" MP3s from friends (again, meatspace friends) of CDs they are also listening to, the same way I would make a mix tape.
Finding MP3s of songs that I am no longer able to purchase, because they are not being sold anymore
Finding MP3s of songs from albums that were well reviewed, to determine whether I wish to purchase the album (deleting them if I decide not to, of course).
One of the marketing guys here at work (we resell for IBM) got some of the promo materials for the campaign, and I have to say the bumper stickers at least rock. I don't have a scanner, so I'll describe them: There are three different bumper stickers. They're completely black and white, with the funny e in the "IBM e Server" logo red. The background is black, and there are three white circles with the peace sign, a heart and Tux's head on them, respectively. On one of the stickers, Tux is huge, no logo. One the other two, the white circles are all the same size, and they say either LINUX LIVES or LINUX POWER in huge letters.
Still, they're very plain and non-detailed. There's no flower power feeling. In fact, the impression I get is more making fun of the sterotype of Linux hippies, especially on the one with Tux dwarfing the peace and love signs, kind of a manic celebration of the fact that yes, Linux was founded on the principles of sharing and goodwill, but it makes a damn good solid OS right now for your business.
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I agree.
Another big one:
the relational database, first deployed on IBM mainframes.
GUI publishing software
video games, first deployed on mainframes and mini's
Just get a new one...
Would you still be using your 15-pound 486/33 notebook that you bought 5 years ago today?
Notebooks get cheaper and cheaper as part prices fall through the floor. Just replace the damn thing!
If you are doing something so important that someone is going to go to the time and trouble to attach a keystroke monitor to your pc, maybe you should hire some guys with guns to secure your computer.
If you cause SGI to lose revenue on their product by offering a similar product with a similar name, then you are effectively stealing from SGI.
SGI has spent alot of time and money promoting the OpenGL name as a 3d-graphics technology. If you create a graphics product and call it OpenML, OpenXL, etc, you are obviously using SGI's branding to promote your product.
If microsoft introduced an OS called Mlinix, would you have a problem with it?
The GPL is the end all be all for everything!
Hardware devices should be Free anyway!
Just GPL it and thousands of independent developers will design it for you!
Since WINE is a project porting the Win32 API to linux, it will be Windows. (When and if completed)
John Glen is/was in much better shape than one might think. He flew an F-15 solo in 1997 and pulled 8 or 9 g's. I also remember reading about him running 2-3 miles per day at age 80.
All MLB Baseball games should be Free
Groups of independent fans could build their own stadiums whereever they please, so long as everyone is able to sit there at no charge.
You could have your own MLB games anytime, as long as you made the players available to everyone!
I did not know that.
Does the server-side software come with the ray, or does it have to be purchased seperately.
I can think of alot of uses for these thingys at work.
The Sun Blade 100 workstation is near silent. I bought one when they were released like two weeks ago and am extremely happy with it.
This machine is SILENT. The fan noises from my pc keep me awake, this machine makes no noise, except the IDE hard drive chunks around a bit when there is a network connection.
The UltraSPARC IIc does not require a fan, so there is alot less ambient noise than what you get from a modern PIII or Athlon.
As far as performance goes, it is pretty quick. I benchmarked some of my company's apps on it against a bunch of $5k ultra-10's and it beat them by a small margin.
Cost is like $1025 with a keyboard kit and Solaris 8 media kit. Well worth it.
Problem with the Ray is that you need an E250 to run it...
Read any tax magazine, I've read about this phenomenon in 6 or 7 articles in the last year or so.
Audit rates are much higher for people who e-file.
If the following applies to you:
1. You are a own a business (including doctors, lawyers, 'freelance' consultants)
2. You have held 5 or more jobs in the last 7 years
3. You itemize deductions
DO NOT EFILE! There is a 30-60% higher chance of you getting a microscope stuck right up your ass in the form of a tax audit!
Type up the forms and mail them in. It takes them like one week more to write a refund check.
Dude, please get a fucking clue before you post drivel.
RDBMS are almost like mini-operating systems by themselves. Oracle, Informix, Sybase, etc all manage disks themselves and allow the tuning of various threads and data structures for performance.
MySQL is great for some limited applications, it gives a fast, convienient interface to large amounts of data with minimal training or operational costs. MySQL is especially useful for databases with a low read/write ratio.
The big commercial databases have alot of advantages, mainly in the area of data integrity. No 'free' database is able to guarantee the integrity of your data. MySQL and Postgre (as of the last time i used it) are not capable of performing online backup or parallel online-backups.
A large multi-user system requires a 'real' database. Period.
And you got your common sense confused.
You see - banner ads are simply an ineffective advertising medium.
Right now, there is a big, red flashing "Compaq TestDrive" ad banner hovering on the top of my page. Not only is the banner sitting in a location that I don't look at closely (the top of the screen) but it clashes with the rest of the page and is trivial to screen out.
Another mistake in this particular ad is the fact that it tells me that I can go directly to www.testdrive.compaq.com, and avoid making Slashdot the $0.03 or whatever they make.
When was the last time you saw an ad in the top margin of your newspaper? Would you watch commercials if they were before and after TV programs, but not during the show? Never. Relevant ads need to be embedded within a site inorder to be at all effective.
Your analogy to the porn industry is not a valid comparision. Porn manages to succeed mightily because of the messed-up view of sex that most Americans possess.
Plus, people who go to porn websites are interested in looking at porn. The product (pictures or video) is immediately available online, no shipping or other expenses.
Out of curiosity, what are the clearner alternatives to gasoline?
Hydrogen Fuel Cells are vaporware.
Natural Gas cumbersome and inefficent.
Alcohol based fuels eat engines.
Electric inefficient, heavy and expensive.
What are you talking about?
It's more like saying Larry Wall is ignorant of S/370 assembler.
While Hillary Clinton is a Sentor, she did not write the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Thats like saying that chop shops are legal, since they may be trading in auto parts that they actually own.
Get a clue about the law.
"Long-term solution: All clueless legislators die off and are replaced by tech-savvy, clueful legislators"
Since your replacement legislators would be completely ignorant of the law, they would actually be the clueless people.
Napster is cool, but trying to argue that it is legal is a losing argument.
As an annendum. 10k SCSI hard disks make a noise that is a cross between an airplane preparing to take off and a dying cat.
If your PC is near where you work/sleep, buy a 7200rpm or stick with IDE!
Not to be a smartass, but if you are using Solaris, DGUX or HPUX there is an alternative browser which works great out of the box:
MS Internet Explorer 5 for Unix
I'm using it right now on my new Blade 100 and it is sweet! After 3 days of running, IE is using 4% of CPU and 20 MB of memory. Netscape on Linux would be using 200MB of ram by the time it crashed 2 1/2 days ago!
Stores retain credit card numbers from purchases for anywhere between three and seven years.
They are required to keep original sales drafts in order to process chargebacks. A number of other consumer protection laws also require the retaining of customer information, including cc numbers.
If you are from Asia, the cheating rules were a little lax at my former shithole state university.
During one networking midterm, a group of Indian students sharing a graphing calculator lost ten (out of 200) points.
During a unix system administration final, four chinese students were babbling with each other for the whole test. The professor did nothing, although he did yell at me for hanging my coat on the back of my chair (versus the pegs in the back of the room)
It seems to me that Napster's position is untenable. Although there are some possible legal uses of the service (such as trading public domain MP3s), the illegal uses are more numerous, and there are no protections in place to prevent illegal use. Some may say it is up to the individual to avoid illegal uses, but there is no mechanism in place to determine which uses are legal and which are not. There are no copyright stamps on MP3s, as well as no public domain stamps, which make it too easy for an individual to unwittingly break copyright law.
Having said that, I use Naspter, and I believe that some of my activities are legal, while others are questionable. Here they are, in order of possible legality:
Finding tracks that I believe to be in the public domain (such as Naspter's Featured Music)
Making MP3s of my CDs at home, then accessing my home server from work or on the road to get songs as desired.
Finding MP3s of songs I own in an analog format, and do not have the time or skill to convert to MP3s myself.
Finding MP3s of songs I once owned in another format, but the original was lost or destroyed (broken / scratched CDs, analog tapes destroyed by placing them on the dashboard, scratched albums).
"Borrowing" MP3s from friends (friends I interact with in the real world), the same way I would borrow a CD that they do not listen to.
"Borrowing" MP3s from friends (again, meatspace friends) of CDs they are also listening to, the same way I would make a mix tape.
Finding MP3s of songs that I am no longer able to purchase, because they are not being sold anymore
Finding MP3s of songs from albums that were well reviewed, to determine whether I wish to purchase the album (deleting them if I decide not to, of course).
One of the marketing guys here at work (we resell for IBM) got some of the promo materials for the campaign, and I have to say the bumper stickers at least rock. I don't have a scanner, so I'll describe them: There are three different bumper stickers. They're completely black and white, with the funny e in the "IBM e Server" logo red. The background is black, and there are three white circles with the peace sign, a heart and Tux's head on them, respectively. On one of the stickers, Tux is huge, no logo. One the other two, the white circles are all the same size, and they say either LINUX LIVES or LINUX POWER in huge letters.
Still, they're very plain and non-detailed. There's no flower power feeling. In fact, the impression I get is more making fun of the sterotype of Linux hippies, especially on the one with Tux dwarfing the peace and love signs, kind of a manic celebration of the fact that yes, Linux was founded on the principles of sharing and goodwill, but it makes a damn good solid OS right now for your business.