I was trying to appeal to the Slashdot Collective, most of whom equate Amazon with all that is evil.
And while amazon may be featured on FuckedCompany.com soon you can be sure that banner-ad supported slashdot.org will soon follow when the vc cash dries up.
I can't believe that Apple fanatics have such a ridiculous attitude towards other companies 'stealing' Apple products.
If I took a shit into a can and got IBM to sell it, you'd probaly bitch that I stole this idea from Apple since Steve Jobs is older than me and thus shat before me.
I think expecting Slashdot editorial staff to remember a story posted like two days ago is a little to much for you to ask.
Give the guys a break, it's not like they are happy about all of their VA or Andover or whatever options being worth less than the paper they are printed on, or becoming worth even less in the future!
The battleships did use the old ranging tables from the 1940's to determine power load and gun elevation. But laser ranging equipment and remote drones were used to provide targeting info.
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Who is going to attack american aircraft flying over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? The USA has the only real oceangoing Navy these days...
These aircraft would never be deployed in an area where the USAF does not have complete air supremacy.
People are upset about this because they are stuck in the old cold war 'balance of terror' concept.
They have a point.
In the late '40s and early '50s US foreign policy consisted of reminding foreigners that we have nukes, and nobody else does. Once the Soviets deployed h-bombs and long-range rockets, we changed our tune. You can be sure history will repeat itself when we have a reliable ballistic defense system.
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You are half-right.
The reason why ballistic missiles travel in a up and down arc has absolutely nothing to do with cost. It's simply that the forces involved in maneuvering a mach 30 missle would rip the missle apart.
The hot flash of a missile launch is detected instantly by US satellites, and a vast array of radar recon sats can track any ballistic threat.
A laser such as this would be ineffective against cruise missiles, aircraft or other threats.
If this was a story about Microsoft fixing licensing fees you would be screaming bloody murder.
This suit is about Credit Suisse, a large investment bank, making illegal backend deals to sell stock which was supposed to be offered PUBLICLY to large customers at preferred prices.
The fact that some idiots moderated you up to 5 is even more frightening. Just because a company sells Linux-based software doesn't make it as clean as the wind-driven snow!
I think it is time for trolls like you to just go away and crawl back under the rock that you came from.
Why don't we get together and manufacture 'open' cars and busses by ourselves over the internet? We can give them away for free to everyond and design new doors and stuff for each other.
With any luck, we'll have the steering wheel perfected in car v2.4 in like 5 years.
Yes, we are all supposed to be good little open source programmers donating our skill and energy to making computing better for the whole open source world...
Keep muttering to yourself, maybe you'll have a rational thought yet.
The people using Linux are IT pros at work, CS students and 'geeks'. Your neighbor and your doctor will never understand what Linux is or why they should use it.
Joe Bestbuy goes to a retail store or a mail order place and purchases a preassembled computer which includes a legitimate copy of Windows. He buys an extended warranty and a few video games for his kids and goes home.
Joe Bestbuy sees his computer as consumer electronics, not a way of life. He pirates software for the same reason that he steals cable: it's free and nothing is going to happen to him.
When it becomes expensive to buy software and he can't pirate it... he'll still buy it. At one time you could copy videotapes at a whim and steal satelliete tv; now everyone buys/rents movies and pays for digital satelliete or cable.
The idea is to push Joe Average Guy away from computers and towards more proprietary platforms like the Xbox.
Many people want to send email and goof off on the internet. Microsoft needs to take advantage of this market in order to survive. MS will do this with the Xbox and other similar devices (why do you think that they invested in WebTV??)
You won't pay $180 for Windows 98, but the mass market WILL pay $500 ($100 with three years of MSN) for an easy to use home entertainment system that can sit in the living room with your tv. Non technical people will see a quality internet appliance as a good deal compared to a big, clunky computer with it's mass of wires and monitors, etc.
Slashdot readers may dislike Bill Gates's methods, but the man is a genius who will continue to manipulate the market to enrich himself and Microsoft investors for many years to come.
Data integrity is always critical. MySQL is a flat-file with a fast sql-like frontend. Any loser who thinks that it is a relational database or anything like it needs to learn how to ream.
The more processors you use, the higher your memory latency goes up. "Real" multiprocessor systems use advanced switching technology like NUMA to reduce cpu-memory latency.
This would make a massive number of Crusoe chips linked together a bad joke.
Any problems that you had with the machine would be blamed on Linux, just the time saved from arguing with tech support would be worth running solaris.
Sun has a great os with widespread support, so Solaris isn't going anywhere. Companies like SGI need to dump IRIX because they cannot afford to maintain it anymore, not because they love linux.
What an incredible loss this would be to the Perl Community. Not just as a information tool but also as a visable indicator to the world of Perl's importance. It wasn't too long ago that I had to almost use a shotgun to get my boss to allow Perl in house. A national publication helps give Perl credentials.
The refinment of technology creates new applications for it.
How about email? Email is something that few people heard of 10 years ago; now it is an incredible tool for linking people together regardless of their distance. Would the development of the Linux kernel been possible without email? No.
How about the jet airplane and the expressways? I live in a small town 30 miles from Albany, NY. Yet I can be in London in less than 24 hours if I need to be. 50 years ago I would have too wait two weeks so that I could take an 8 hour trek to New York to take a 3 day steamship ride.
I could go on and on. In the next 50 years, we'll see the beginning of the exploiting resources in space, new medicines that improve human life and even faster and more universal communication. Plenty of new inventions and refinements of current technology will make that possible.
Think of the changes between 100AD and 1700AD. Not very much. In the last 50 years everything from food to medicine to computers have improved at an accellerated pace.
Are inventions like the lightbulb any more important than advanced communication networks or gene therapy?
I guess it depends on who you ask, but I would argue that innovation is accellerating further and faster than ever before in the history of civilization.
I am always inspired by the way people in extreme hardship manage to survive and even thrive.
In the USA, we believe that money can solve any problem, big or small. These kids are accomplishing something really big and learning alot without the big budgets of a suburban US school. My hat goes off to them!
Is there an AMD Dell? Compaq Deskpro? HP Vectra? IBM PC series? No.
With the exception of the Pentium 4 and the 1.3 Ghz P3's, which are still not really out, Intel has had few shipping problems. Millions of Celerons and P3s have shipped on time. AMD has always had difficulty shipping enough chips on time at the right price. Their new Dresden plant is their only exception.
That sucks. I went to school from 8-3, thats it. Then I would go off and chill with my friends or whatever. I used to smoke up once in awhile and party alot.
My grades were decent, and I went and graduated from a good state school with a degree in Comp Sci. I make pretty decent bread now and am satisfied with your life.
You need to go getyourself a life man. Hang out, skip school once in awhile, have some fun. You only live once, and you won't have time to goof off later.
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Companies will not be migrating to OS X or Linux. They will continue to happily use NT and hire dope MCSE's fresh from boot camp.
I was trying to appeal to the Slashdot Collective, most of whom equate Amazon with all that is evil.
And while amazon may be featured on FuckedCompany.com soon you can be sure that banner-ad supported slashdot.org will soon follow when the vc cash dries up.
I can't believe that Apple fanatics have such a ridiculous attitude towards other companies 'stealing' Apple products.
If I took a shit into a can and got IBM to sell it, you'd probaly bitch that I stole this idea from Apple since Steve Jobs is older than me and thus shat before me.
I think expecting Slashdot editorial staff to remember a story posted like two days ago is a little to much for you to ask.
Give the guys a break, it's not like they are happy about all of their VA or Andover or whatever options being worth less than the paper they are printed on, or becoming worth even less in the future!
If my company purchased a gig of pricewatch shit/RAM for a system that I was required to support I would quit.
Double or triple the price of SDRAM to buy good quality memory from a reseller.
Not true.
The battleships did use the old ranging tables from the 1940's to determine power load and gun elevation. But laser ranging equipment and remote drones were used to provide targeting info.
Who is going to attack american aircraft flying over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? The USA has the only real oceangoing Navy these days...
These aircraft would never be deployed in an area where the USAF does not have complete air supremacy.
People are upset about this because they are stuck in the old cold war 'balance of terror' concept.
They have a point.
In the late '40s and early '50s US foreign policy consisted of reminding foreigners that we have nukes, and nobody else does. Once the Soviets deployed h-bombs and long-range rockets, we changed our tune. You can be sure history will repeat itself when we have a reliable ballistic defense system.
You are half-right.
The reason why ballistic missiles travel in a up and down arc has absolutely nothing to do with cost. It's simply that the forces involved in maneuvering a mach 30 missle would rip the missle apart.
The hot flash of a missile launch is detected instantly by US satellites, and a vast array of radar recon sats can track any ballistic threat.
A laser such as this would be ineffective against cruise missiles, aircraft or other threats.
No, this IS a conspiracy to make us stop using CDR's. Sony just wants us to buy cd's from evil monopolists like Amazon.com.
The only solution is to produce open-sourced dvd players that are free for everyone.
Are you a complete idiot?
If this was a story about Microsoft fixing licensing fees you would be screaming bloody murder.
This suit is about Credit Suisse, a large investment bank, making illegal backend deals to sell stock which was supposed to be offered PUBLICLY to large customers at preferred prices.
The fact that some idiots moderated you up to 5 is even more frightening. Just because a company sells Linux-based software doesn't make it as clean as the wind-driven snow!
I think it is time for trolls like you to just go away and crawl back under the rock that you came from.
Why don't we get together and manufacture 'open' cars and busses by ourselves over the internet? We can give them away for free to everyond and design new doors and stuff for each other.
With any luck, we'll have the steering wheel perfected in car v2.4 in like 5 years.
Yes, we are all supposed to be good little open source programmers donating our skill and energy to making computing better for the whole open source world...
Keep muttering to yourself, maybe you'll have a rational thought yet. The people using Linux are IT pros at work, CS students and 'geeks'. Your neighbor and your doctor will never understand what Linux is or why they should use it. Joe Bestbuy goes to a retail store or a mail order place and purchases a preassembled computer which includes a legitimate copy of Windows. He buys an extended warranty and a few video games for his kids and goes home. Joe Bestbuy sees his computer as consumer electronics, not a way of life. He pirates software for the same reason that he steals cable: it's free and nothing is going to happen to him. When it becomes expensive to buy software and he can't pirate it... he'll still buy it. At one time you could copy videotapes at a whim and steal satelliete tv; now everyone buys/rents movies and pays for digital satelliete or cable.
The idea is to push Joe Average Guy away from computers and towards more proprietary platforms like the Xbox.
Many people want to send email and goof off on the internet. Microsoft needs to take advantage of this market in order to survive. MS will do this with the Xbox and other similar devices (why do you think that they invested in WebTV??)
You won't pay $180 for Windows 98, but the mass market WILL pay $500 ($100 with three years of MSN) for an easy to use home entertainment system that can sit in the living room with your tv. Non technical people will see a quality internet appliance as a good deal compared to a big, clunky computer with it's mass of wires and monitors, etc.
Slashdot readers may dislike Bill Gates's methods, but the man is a genius who will continue to manipulate the market to enrich himself and Microsoft investors for many years to come.
Data integrity is always critical. MySQL is a flat-file with a fast sql-like frontend. Any loser who thinks that it is a relational database or anything like it needs to learn how to ream.
The more processors you use, the higher your memory latency goes up. "Real" multiprocessor systems use advanced switching technology like NUMA to reduce cpu-memory latency.
This would make a massive number of Crusoe chips linked together a bad joke.
Why would I want to run Linux on a E10000?
Any problems that you had with the machine would be blamed on Linux, just the time saved from arguing with tech support would be worth running solaris.
Sun has a great os with widespread support, so Solaris isn't going anywhere. Companies like SGI need to dump IRIX because they cannot afford to maintain it anymore, not because they love linux.
What an incredible loss this would be to the Perl Community. Not just as a information tool but also as a visable indicator to the world of Perl's importance. It wasn't too long ago that I had to almost use a shotgun to get my boss to allow Perl in house. A national publication helps give Perl credentials.
The refinment of technology creates new applications for it.
How about email? Email is something that few people heard of 10 years ago; now it is an incredible tool for linking people together regardless of their distance. Would the development of the Linux kernel been possible without email? No.
How about the jet airplane and the expressways? I live in a small town 30 miles from Albany, NY. Yet I can be in London in less than 24 hours if I need to be. 50 years ago I would have too wait two weeks so that I could take an 8 hour trek to New York to take a 3 day steamship ride.
I could go on and on. In the next 50 years, we'll see the beginning of the exploiting resources in space, new medicines that improve human life and even faster and more universal communication. Plenty of new inventions and refinements of current technology will make that possible.
Think of the changes between 100AD and 1700AD. Not very much. In the last 50 years everything from food to medicine to computers have improved at an accellerated pace.
Are inventions like the lightbulb any more important than advanced communication networks or gene therapy?
I guess it depends on who you ask, but I would argue that innovation is accellerating further and faster than ever before in the history of civilization.
Out there that allows individuals or organizations to donate technology or books to schools in impovrished nations like cambodia?
I am always inspired by the way people in extreme hardship manage to survive and even thrive.
In the USA, we believe that money can solve any problem, big or small. These kids are accomplishing something really big and learning alot without the big budgets of a suburban US school. My hat goes off to them!
Is there an AMD Dell? Compaq Deskpro? HP Vectra? IBM PC series? No.
With the exception of the Pentium 4 and the 1.3 Ghz P3's, which are still not really out, Intel has had few shipping problems. Millions of Celerons and P3s have shipped on time. AMD has always had difficulty shipping enough chips on time at the right price. Their new Dresden plant is their only exception.
That sucks. I went to school from 8-3, thats it. Then I would go off and chill with my friends or whatever. I used to smoke up once in awhile and party alot.
My grades were decent, and I went and graduated from a good state school with a degree in Comp Sci. I make pretty decent bread now and am satisfied with your life.
You need to go getyourself a life man. Hang out, skip school once in awhile, have some fun. You only live once, and you won't have time to goof off later.