Atlanta Thrashers hockey here. That's if there were a game tonight.
My girlfriend always got preempted on her WB affiliate back home by the Red Wings. not that she cared because she loves hockey but it interfered with her Angel watching.
When I made the comment about another school, I was thinking more along the lines of a nice trade school where he could learn to drive a forklife or something.
As to bandwidth, I think you meant to say AREN'T excessive. I would agree that they are excessive and most of those charges come from local monopoly telco's that help artificially inflate the cost to CLECs. Then when Bellsouth comes in under the price of say Qwest, people jump on it. We pay around 800-900 USD a month for our t1. The biggest part of that cost is local loop charges from Bellsouth to Qwest. I don't consider the whole price to be excessive at all. It's a simple matter of supply and demand. If you want bandwidth and I have bandwith, it's worth as much as you are willing to pay. There is still a point I can't drop below and break even though.
You also have to think about how companies purchase hardware. They may actually have several million dollars in asset costs for switches and routers and costs are almost always spread across many years. This can include the cost of laying the cable. This is good for stock and it doesn't require as much of an upfront investment. Also if they are leasing hardware, which they probably are, then there is that monthly cost.
As to you putting up new redhat ISO's, I wouldn't assume that your university can handle it just fine. If they are paying ANY sort of metered bandwidth costs, those 100 downloads of 3 cd iso's can make an impact. It doesn't matter WHAT you are hosting and who's accessing it.
What the schools SHOULD do is cap upload speeds. That won't affect file sharing on the campus and it won't affect your ability to get work done (more than likely all incoming). It might actually help LOWER some of the costs because they can make reasonable judgements and estimations of bandwidth usage.
The universities still have a fee that has to be paid. Local loop charges and whatnot.
Just because the company that provides the cable has already recouped the costs of laying the fiber doesn't mean that they should give it away.
What about hardware such as routers and switches. What about the employees that monitor the connectivity? What about the standard costs of doing business?
Are you that fucking daft? Bandwidth is not a tangible item but that doesn't make it have any less of a value. I'd consider bandwidth to be more tangible than a movie in that I at least can see the results of my purchase.
Again people keep confusing the root of problems or lack any sort of real insight into business. The problem YOU have is with the universities charging so much. Don't go to that school. Choose another. You aren't being forced to go there. If it's the only school you could get into then maybe you should think about going to another school.
Don't confuse the issue with your lack of intelligence.
Many software companie, including Microsoft, offer educational versions of thier packages at seriously discounted prices. Many times those packages are the same version you get at full price.
If your issue is that schools are requiring specific software, then you need to approach the schools about it. Or you could chalk it up to the cost of education.
What fucking grey area? Whether a company should or should not provide software for free to non-profit/edu's is not the issue. It's against the fucking law.
Your need to learn a software package is no excuse either. Get someone at a school to buy it under the edu discount or shell out the money and buy it yourself.
I honestly cannot understand why people think this is a moral right to have software. If the companies WANT to give it away for free they will. No matter how many ways you look at it, it's a crime. The discussion of if it should be a crime or not doesn't matter. He broke the law. You are breaking the law. It doesn't matter what sort of twisted moral code you have that makes it okay in your mind.
If that were the case, in my mind it's okay to hunt you down and cut your nuts off. Who cares if it's against the law or not.
It boils down to this. You are stealing. If you are unwilling to pay the price for the software then use one of many opensource packages or use a cheaper commercial package. By using software you didn't pay for (if those are indeed the terms of the software), you are stealing money from developers and companies that produce software. By that same token, it should be okay to steal YOUR work as well (based on what software you listed, I'm guessing you fancy yourself a graphic artist).
I think maybe they were talking about people telling TOO MANY jokes and without any sort of marker, others being able to tell the difference. Of course I think it only applied to that thread.
That's simply not the case. Can you REALLY measure happiness? Some things are immeasurable. You're getting hung up in the tangible. Wind is not tangible. You can't touch it. You can feel it's effects and see it's effects but is it tangible in the same sense as a glass of water?
I'm alot like you in that I think too much about things. It's a blessing AND a curse.
Take something like love. Is my love for my girlfriend measurable? Sure I can buy her gifts and tell her I love her but there is no true measure of love because by nature it is intangible. It's this ethereal concept.
Something interesting that the Bible talks about is faith vs. works. Meaning are we given salvation because of our faith or the "good" deeds we do.
Paul says that your faith in God is enough to save you but that the end result of TRUE faith is good works. A TRUE faith is evidenced by the works of the person who has that faith. It's a natural by-product.
And now here's another twist to the whole thing. Not only are good works the offspring of your faith but you yourself aren't even doing the good works. God is doing them THROUGH you. Pretty neat.
In the end, if you don't honestly WANT to believe in God, you aren't. Nothing can change your mind about that. But if you are a true seeker of truth, I feel that WHATEVER the real truth is (Jesus, Buddah, Allah) will reveal itself to you.
While it's not a part of PHP core yet, I suggest you check out ADODB. I've used it and find it just as easy as DBI. I've not used perl in a while but don't you still have to declare what db you're using? You would still have to CPAN the mysql support to DBI.
Quite honestly if uniformity in accessing a database is that important, shouldn't you be using ODBC?
Was God good to Job, his most faithful of servants?
Good is a relative term. Many health and wealth preachers will try and tell you otherwise but it's simply not the case.
I would consider God being good to me if I wake up in the morning or if I don't die on the way to work because of some jackass who doesn't understand the concept of a loop exit.
The Bible never promised riches to those who were faithful. Well not unless you count the ones that we store up in heaven. Hell, Jesus himself said that.
Funny you should mention that. I have a buddy (actually my gf's best friend) who works for Sony and we hung out over labor day. The Sony TiVo came up because I was thinking of buying from him since he gets a NICE employee discount.
Anyways, he suggested I hold off because Sony still isn't sure about the Tivo idea. Maybe this is why? They want to make a Sony version and just license the tech from TiVo.
The other thing he mentioned is that with a company the size of Sony, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing half the time. I have a feeling this is the case. One business unit can make money with a tivo whilst it may directly compete with another business unit.
I'm quite sure this is the case with most largish global umbrella companies.
Sounds like you might be bitter that you would get passed up for a JBoss implementation over someone who has the JBoss certification.
This isn't a bad thing, mind you.
With opensource (and closed source too), companies need some sort of assurance. A certification from a particular project could be the assurance they need.
Anyone can say they know JBoss but with the certification you know they at least know enough to pass the certification.
Think about how many people you know who claim they have a skill on thier cv/resume when the truth is that someone at the previous company used it and they MIGHT have seen it on the desktop when they walked by.
Why do so many goddamn people get shit backwards when it comes to politics?
I bet you're one of those people who consider republicans (of which I am NOT a member) a bunch of Nazis? Funny considering that the Nazi's were actually socialists and the agenda (excluding the side project of attempting to erase the existance of an entire race of peoples) is more closely aligned with the Democratic party.
I am, myself, a libertarian. By that I mean that I hold the Constitution of the United States to be more sacred than my own nutsack. Having said that, I find this whole program ABSURD and VERY unconstitutional. Not only does it violate my right as innocent until proven guilty, it is a move by a power hungry government to exact a useless war against a victimless crime.
And anyone who wants to invoke Godwin's law can bite me.
In the minds of the U.S and rest of the world, having children make those shoes you wear is a horrible thing.
No look at things from the perspective of those children. They have an income to help thier families. They actually have gainful (abeit shitty in my eyes) employement.
Sure they don't make as much as they would here but then again the scale of the conomy is different there.
Would you rather have a country of people who are 85% unemployeed or a country of people,who while doing shit work as it were, ARE employeed and contributing to the local economy.
Or are you just pissed that the thuggish unions can't get a foot in the door and make money off it themselves?
Would you rather pay 4 times the price for that CPU you just bought because it couldn't be manufactured overseas?
The only thing that REALLY concerns me about this article is the fact that it's fucking up the environment the way it is. Then again farmers have been washing cow shit from barns into pupblic streams for years and they can't seem to understand why it's such a big deal.
Actually with UO there's more to it than a database query.
There are some issues with guildstones and other things that require a GM to be available in-game when you do the change. I personally think people needing to change thier name are stupid. What is so hard about thinking up a really good name when you start? I spent 30 minutes thinking about what I wanted to name my character.
Actually I would disagree. The game I play most under WineX is Jedi Knight 2. It actually runs BETTER than it does on my Win98 partition. The Win98 partition has NOTHING installed except Jedi Knight 2 and Ultima Online(They seriously need to get UOAssist working under WineX). No other software. I didn't even set up my cd burner.
I do apologize on the bad language part. I get so frustrated sometimes with people posting the same old "This isn't an article for slashdot". My point still stands though.
This article actually is generating some of the realworld insight that I was looking for before making my purchase. You can't get that with a magazine article. I wasn't so concerned with the article linked as I was with the responses of readers.
Again, apologies for the language. It didn't help my point and actually detracted from it.
Actually it's a PERFECT article. I've been comtemplating a KVM switch at home for a few months now. I almost bought the belkin soho set but balked at the price. The only usb device I need to share is my mouse. My linux box has a usb hub with my sidewinder and sandisk cf reader.
This article helped tremendously and I'm looking forward to reading the responses on other possible models to look at.
So in closing, fuck you for thinking your opinion is the only thing that matters. I'm not one to support slashdot for the same lame stories but this one was one of the better ones.
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I wasn't able to determine this in the book store and the books aren't labeled but Sundiver IS the first in the uplift series, correct?
Mind posting the order for me? I could go through and check pub dates but since you sound like a fan, I'm sure you'll know. heh.
I like this guy's work. I only heard about him because he spoke at the Libertarian National Convention this year.
Anyone have any suggestions for the next book to pick up of his?
I am David Lopan.
Bring me the girl with the green eyes!
hehe. Is that out on dvd? I need to own that one for my occasional fix.
Atlanta Thrashers hockey here. That's if there were a game tonight.
My girlfriend always got preempted on her WB affiliate back home by the Red Wings. not that she cared because she loves hockey but it interfered with her Angel watching.
When I made the comment about another school, I was thinking more along the lines of a nice trade school where he could learn to drive a forklife or something.
As to bandwidth, I think you meant to say AREN'T excessive. I would agree that they are excessive and most of those charges come from local monopoly telco's that help artificially inflate the cost to CLECs. Then when Bellsouth comes in under the price of say Qwest, people jump on it. We pay around 800-900 USD a month for our t1. The biggest part of that cost is local loop charges from Bellsouth to Qwest. I don't consider the whole price to be excessive at all. It's a simple matter of supply and demand. If you want bandwidth and I have bandwith, it's worth as much as you are willing to pay. There is still a point I can't drop below and break even though.
You also have to think about how companies purchase hardware. They may actually have several million dollars in asset costs for switches and routers and costs are almost always spread across many years. This can include the cost of laying the cable. This is good for stock and it doesn't require as much of an upfront investment. Also if they are leasing hardware, which they probably are, then there is that monthly cost.
As to you putting up new redhat ISO's, I wouldn't assume that your university can handle it just fine. If they are paying ANY sort of metered bandwidth costs, those 100 downloads of 3 cd iso's can make an impact. It doesn't matter WHAT you are hosting and who's accessing it.
What the schools SHOULD do is cap upload speeds. That won't affect file sharing on the campus and it won't affect your ability to get work done (more than likely all incoming). It might actually help LOWER some of the costs because they can make reasonable judgements and estimations of bandwidth usage.
Bandwidth is NOT free.
The universities still have a fee that has to be paid. Local loop charges and whatnot.
Just because the company that provides the cable has already recouped the costs of laying the fiber doesn't mean that they should give it away.
What about hardware such as routers and switches. What about the employees that monitor the connectivity? What about the standard costs of doing business?
Are you that fucking daft? Bandwidth is not a tangible item but that doesn't make it have any less of a value. I'd consider bandwidth to be more tangible than a movie in that I at least can see the results of my purchase.
Again people keep confusing the root of problems or lack any sort of real insight into business. The problem YOU have is with the universities charging so much. Don't go to that school. Choose another. You aren't being forced to go there. If it's the only school you could get into then maybe you should think about going to another school.
Don't confuse the issue with your lack of intelligence.
Your argument falls flat on it's face.
Many software companie, including Microsoft, offer educational versions of thier packages at seriously discounted prices. Many times those packages are the same version you get at full price.
If your issue is that schools are requiring specific software, then you need to approach the schools about it. Or you could chalk it up to the cost of education.
Jesus christ!
What fucking grey area? Whether a company should or should not provide software for free to non-profit/edu's is not the issue. It's against the fucking law.
Your need to learn a software package is no excuse either. Get someone at a school to buy it under the edu discount or shell out the money and buy it yourself.
I honestly cannot understand why people think this is a moral right to have software. If the companies WANT to give it away for free they will. No matter how many ways you look at it, it's a crime. The discussion of if it should be a crime or not doesn't matter. He broke the law. You are breaking the law. It doesn't matter what sort of twisted moral code you have that makes it okay in your mind.
If that were the case, in my mind it's okay to hunt you down and cut your nuts off. Who cares if it's against the law or not.
It boils down to this. You are stealing. If you are unwilling to pay the price for the software then use one of many opensource packages or use a cheaper commercial package. By using software you didn't pay for (if those are indeed the terms of the software), you are stealing money from developers and companies that produce software. By that same token, it should be okay to steal YOUR work as well (based on what software you listed, I'm guessing you fancy yourself a graphic artist).
Great...now we get the
Segue vs. Mercury vs. Rational vs. Radview debates!
As if emacs vs. vi and kde vs. gnome wasn't enough.
Personally most of our testers at the lab prefer the Rational stuff but we use whatever the customer has purchased licenses for.
I think maybe they were talking about people telling TOO MANY jokes and without any sort of marker, others being able to tell the difference. Of course I think it only applied to that thread.
That's simply not the case. Can you REALLY measure happiness? Some things are immeasurable. You're getting hung up in the tangible. Wind is not tangible. You can't touch it. You can feel it's effects and see it's effects but is it tangible in the same sense as a glass of water?
I'm alot like you in that I think too much about things. It's a blessing AND a curse.
Take something like love. Is my love for my girlfriend measurable? Sure I can buy her gifts and tell her I love her but there is no true measure of love because by nature it is intangible. It's this ethereal concept.
Something interesting that the Bible talks about is faith vs. works. Meaning are we given salvation because of our faith or the "good" deeds we do.
Paul says that your faith in God is enough to save you but that the end result of TRUE faith is good works. A TRUE faith is evidenced by the works of the person who has that faith. It's a natural by-product.
And now here's another twist to the whole thing. Not only are good works the offspring of your faith but you yourself aren't even doing the good works. God is doing them THROUGH you. Pretty neat.
In the end, if you don't honestly WANT to believe in God, you aren't. Nothing can change your mind about that. But if you are a true seeker of truth, I feel that WHATEVER the real truth is (Jesus, Buddah, Allah) will reveal itself to you.
But this is really the fault of the developer no?
I take great pain to separate each layer but some of the stuff I've seen does not.
Until a language FORCES (which would be perfect for people who like python *duck*!) you to do that, anyone can fuck up a perfectly good piece of code.
While it's not a part of PHP core yet, I suggest you check out ADODB. I've used it and find it just as easy as DBI. I've not used perl in a while but don't you still have to declare what db you're using? You would still have to CPAN the mysql support to DBI.
Quite honestly if uniformity in accessing a database is that important, shouldn't you be using ODBC?
Depends on what you consider "good".
Was God good to Job, his most faithful of servants?
Good is a relative term. Many health and wealth preachers will try and tell you otherwise but it's simply not the case.
I would consider God being good to me if I wake up in the morning or if I don't die on the way to work because of some jackass who doesn't understand the concept of a loop exit.
The Bible never promised riches to those who were faithful. Well not unless you count the ones that we store up in heaven. Hell, Jesus himself said that.
Funny you should mention that. I have a buddy (actually my gf's best friend) who works for Sony and we hung out over labor day. The Sony TiVo came up because I was thinking of buying from him since he gets a NICE employee discount.
Anyways, he suggested I hold off because Sony still isn't sure about the Tivo idea. Maybe this is why? They want to make a Sony version and just license the tech from TiVo.
The other thing he mentioned is that with a company the size of Sony, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing half the time. I have a feeling this is the case. One business unit can make money with a tivo whilst it may directly compete with another business unit.
I'm quite sure this is the case with most largish global umbrella companies.
Sounds like you might be bitter that you would get passed up for a JBoss implementation over someone who has the JBoss certification.
This isn't a bad thing, mind you.
With opensource (and closed source too), companies need some sort of assurance. A certification from a particular project could be the assurance they need.
Anyone can say they know JBoss but with the certification you know they at least know enough to pass the certification.
Think about how many people you know who claim they have a skill on thier cv/resume when the truth is that someone at the previous company used it and they MIGHT have seen it on the desktop when they walked by.
Pardon?
Why do so many goddamn people get shit backwards when it comes to politics?
I bet you're one of those people who consider republicans (of which I am NOT a member) a bunch of Nazis? Funny considering that the Nazi's were actually socialists and the agenda (excluding the side project of attempting to erase the existance of an entire race of peoples) is more closely aligned with the Democratic party.
I am, myself, a libertarian. By that I mean that I hold the Constitution of the United States to be more sacred than my own nutsack. Having said that, I find this whole program ABSURD and VERY unconstitutional. Not only does it violate my right as innocent until proven guilty, it is a move by a power hungry government to exact a useless war against a victimless crime.
And anyone who wants to invoke Godwin's law can bite me.
Thank you for pointing this out.
,who while doing shit work as it were, ARE employeed and contributing to the local economy.
In the minds of the U.S and rest of the world, having children make those shoes you wear is a horrible thing.
No look at things from the perspective of those children. They have an income to help thier families. They actually have gainful (abeit shitty in my eyes) employement.
Sure they don't make as much as they would here but then again the scale of the conomy is different there.
Would you rather have a country of people who are 85% unemployeed or a country of people
Or are you just pissed that the thuggish unions can't get a foot in the door and make money off it themselves?
Would you rather pay 4 times the price for that CPU you just bought because it couldn't be manufactured overseas?
The only thing that REALLY concerns me about this article is the fact that it's fucking up the environment the way it is. Then again farmers have been washing cow shit from barns into pupblic streams for years and they can't seem to understand why it's such a big deal.
I've been in the Weather Channel's server room. It made me cry.
;)
From that point on, I understood what enterprise was
This is what pissed me off about UO. It used to be 18 or older requirements. Now it's just listed as Teen.
I swear to god it drives me nuts! You get assholes at all ages but damn if I have to see another player named "AzZRapEr" I'm going to yarf!
Actually with UO there's more to it than a database query.
There are some issues with guildstones and other things that require a GM to be available in-game when you do the change. I personally think people needing to change thier name are stupid. What is so hard about thinking up a really good name when you start? I spent 30 minutes thinking about what I wanted to name my character.
The also linked to some NON gpl libraries (i.e. spyware stuff).
Actually I would disagree. The game I play most under WineX is Jedi Knight 2. It actually runs BETTER than it does on my Win98 partition. The Win98 partition has NOTHING installed except Jedi Knight 2 and Ultima Online(They seriously need to get UOAssist working under WineX). No other software. I didn't even set up my cd burner.
Wacky eh?
I do apologize on the bad language part. I get so frustrated sometimes with people posting the same old "This isn't an article for slashdot". My point still stands though.
This article actually is generating some of the realworld insight that I was looking for before making my purchase. You can't get that with a magazine article. I wasn't so concerned with the article linked as I was with the responses of readers.
Again, apologies for the language. It didn't help my point and actually detracted from it.
Bullshit.
Actually it's a PERFECT article. I've been comtemplating a KVM switch at home for a few months now. I almost bought the belkin soho set but balked at the price. The only usb device I need to share is my mouse. My linux box has a usb hub with my sidewinder and sandisk cf reader.
This article helped tremendously and I'm looking forward to reading the responses on other possible models to look at.
So in closing, fuck you for thinking your opinion is the only thing that matters. I'm not one to support slashdot for the same lame stories but this one was one of the better ones.
prick.