Here here. Well said, if I only I had the mod points... I'm glad I'm not the only one to refuse to buy commercial software and provide the company free debugging. Using Oracle comes to mind.....
Umm, fairly recently an electron was accelerated through a medium faster than the speed of light through that medium. That by defintion is faster than the speed of light, is it not?
Couldn't find much info, but here is a reference saying pretty much the same thing. I'm sure someone will come up with something better.
Net access is all fine and well, but I'm still waiting for wide spread adoption of power outlets so my laptop will last longer than three hours. This may have been addressed in the article, but it's/.'d....
Much better than getting in your car, driving to the store, sifting through BlockBuster's nonsense, and then having to return the darn thing.
I guess I don't understand this thinking. Maybe it's my mentality or maybe it's where I live. There are at least 10 video rental stores (blockbuster,hollywood, mom&pop) within a mile or two of where I live (San Jose). Take a nice after dinner walk with the girlfriend or 60 second drive and pick a movie. Not much nonsense. Late fees and returning the tape? I don't know about everyone else, but I don't hibernate in a cave. I'm usually running in and out of the house everyday: work, gym, groceries, post office, mall, whatever. I mean, how big a deal is it to swing by and drop a video off?
I'm not criticizing anyone, I just don't understand what the big deal is about renting a movie then dropping it off. As far as VoD and other things, it's just another reason to never leave the house and become a real TROLL in my opinion. Groceries? WebVan. Entertainment? porn.com or VoD. Money? Contract programming work over the net (for us programmers). Bank? Wingspan. Am I the only one who actually enjoys leaving the house for things?
Thomson has sold 10 million DirecTV satellite receivers" is just stupid. Nobody buys satelite receivers. They rent them.
Right and wrong. You do rent sattelite recievers, just not from Thompson. Thompson sold them to the provider, in this case directTV, whom then leased you the dish/reciever. So, in effect, Thompson has sold the receivers, just not to end users...
Try evolution (if you use GNome that is). Despsite being beta, I find it incredibly usable. Filters, PGP, etc all work well. It does occasionally crash, but hey, that's life in beta. I do tend to hit bumps with the gtkhtml snapshots, but hey, this is Linux, deal with the pain. It makes encryption just as easy to use as Outlook. Well done Ximian....
Most notably to me are the firmware designers in Forumla 1. These guys don't go to the races and are rarely, if ever, seen in public (at least in an official capacity). The number of people in Formula 1 with these types of skills are so small, that everyone constantly tries to steal/hire everyone elses coders. They are paid a ton of money (no numbers ever release of course) and jealously guarded like they were made of gold (which to an F1 team -- they are).
FYI -- these are the guys that write the control software for the engines, fuel management, shift patterns, etc. In F1, the margin between the top teams is so small, that any gain in something as small as reduced shifting time between gears is a major deal. Over the course of a race, those reduced times add up, since their are sometimes thousands of shifts per race (e.g., Monaco).
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Well, you forget a key Linus concept. He's inheriently lazy and liks to get credit for other peoples work. Not a troll, these are Linus's own words.
It would be fantastic; a huge cluster of Tivo's simultaneous recording and distilling all broadcasted tranmissions for my viewing pleasure....all to the conclusion of there is nothing on TV that's any good....
I was up in SF over the weekend moving the last remenants of my apartment down to San Jose. I saw them as well (Battery St mainly), although they have faded quite a bit. It hasn't exactly rained much this year in the bay area; I think once since the signs were painted/chalked. So, I'm not sure about Chicago, but unless someone specifically gets out there with a brush, my guess is we'll be seeing Peace, Love, and Linux well throughout SF all summmer long....
Do you know how your car works? Or your fridge? Maybe a slot machine?
99% of people simply need to know insert gas here or put food into me to stay fresh (extra credit -- guess which one applies to what). Thats why we have mechanics and Maytag men. Just becauase we're all geeks and actually want to know how the world works, doesn't mean everyone does. In fact, I guarantee we're in the minority.
Actually, I can't believe that no one pulled an April first joke and registred windowsxp.sourceforge.net.....
Actually, I can't believe that no one pulled an April one joke and registred windowsxp.sourceforge.net..., probably get sued by Microsoft for lack of humor on a trademark infringement.
Having both worked at NASA (as an employee) and the military (as a contractor), some of your replies are well founded, others are mis-directed.
Example: The reason for the so-called draconian policies are just, governmental abuses. Damn straight I don't want a congressman taking a vacation on a charted plane on my tax dollars. Why should I be financing your Christmas parties? Are you financing mine? You want a party, do what I did at NASA, take up a collection and have one off base. I agree that a Christmas party is pretty small potatoes compared to many things going on, but it's the principle. The government has a long history of abusing various 'perks'. Until they can learn to play nicely with my tax dollars (such as getting rid of the marine band and the national endowment for the arts), I think that serving my country and job security, greateer than average holidays, and government retirement, more than make up for the difference.
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Here here. Well said, if I only I had the mod points... I'm glad I'm not the only one to refuse to buy commercial software and provide the company free debugging. Using Oracle comes to mind.....
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Couldn't find much info, but here is a reference saying pretty much the same thing. I'm sure someone will come up with something better.
Net access is all fine and well, but I'm still waiting for wide spread adoption of power outlets so my laptop will last longer than three hours. This may have been addressed in the article, but it's /.'d....
I guess I don't understand this thinking. Maybe it's my mentality or maybe it's where I live. There are at least 10 video rental stores (blockbuster,hollywood, mom&pop) within a mile or two of where I live (San Jose). Take a nice after dinner walk with the girlfriend or 60 second drive and pick a movie. Not much nonsense. Late fees and returning the tape? I don't know about everyone else, but I don't hibernate in a cave. I'm usually running in and out of the house everyday: work, gym, groceries, post office, mall, whatever. I mean, how big a deal is it to swing by and drop a video off?
I'm not criticizing anyone, I just don't understand what the big deal is about renting a movie then dropping it off. As far as VoD and other things, it's just another reason to never leave the house and become a real TROLL in my opinion. Groceries? WebVan. Entertainment? porn.com or VoD. Money? Contract programming work over the net (for us programmers). Bank? Wingspan. Am I the only one who actually enjoys leaving the house for things?
Right and wrong. You do rent sattelite recievers, just not from Thompson. Thompson sold them to the provider, in this case directTV, whom then leased you the dish/reciever. So, in effect, Thompson has sold the receivers, just not to end users...
staple (noun) - small metalic object used to hold papers together. Hurts like hell when you get one in your finger. Staple.
Try evolution (if you use GNome that is). Despsite being beta, I find it incredibly usable. Filters, PGP, etc all work well. It does occasionally crash, but hey, that's life in beta. I do tend to hit bumps with the gtkhtml snapshots, but hey, this is Linux, deal with the pain. It makes encryption just as easy to use as Outlook. Well done Ximian....
FYI -- these are the guys that write the control software for the engines, fuel management, shift patterns, etc. In F1, the margin between the top teams is so small, that any gain in something as small as reduced shifting time between gears is a major deal. Over the course of a race, those reduced times add up, since their are sometimes thousands of shifts per race (e.g., Monaco).
Well, you forget a key Linus concept. He's inheriently lazy and liks to get credit for other peoples work. Not a troll, these are Linus's own words.
Two places: Microsoft campus in Redmond (do we really need Seattle anyway??) or RIAA Headquarters (let's face it no one really likes LA anyway)....
Spread the OLED seeds, add water, and watch it grow.....
If Dennis Tito is an example of almost a flawless human specimen, I'll join another race...
Where is Mac when we need him? He'd have that fixed with two coconuts, some rubber plant extract, and a fishing line.....
Said one hacker to another, "Hey check this gut out that I'm sniffing he just moved his mouse to 324,222 and is double clicking a lot...."
It would be fantastic; a huge cluster of Tivo's simultaneous recording and distilling all broadcasted tranmissions for my viewing pleasure....all to the conclusion of there is nothing on TV that's any good....
I keep seeing the following equation repeated all over the internet: too much power + morons = fsck'd operations....
I was up in SF over the weekend moving the last remenants of my apartment down to San Jose. I saw them as well (Battery St mainly), although they have faded quite a bit. It hasn't exactly rained much this year in the bay area; I think once since the signs were painted/chalked. So, I'm not sure about Chicago, but unless someone specifically gets out there with a brush, my guess is we'll be seeing Peace, Love, and Linux well throughout SF all summmer long....
Funny. Angelina Jolie would rock at that part....
Do you know how your car works? Or your fridge? Maybe a slot machine?
99% of people simply need to know insert gas here or put food into me to stay fresh (extra credit -- guess which one applies to what). Thats why we have mechanics and Maytag men. Just becauase we're all geeks and actually want to know how the world works, doesn't mean everyone does. In fact, I guarantee we're in the minority.
Woops, oh well, you guys get the point...damn cut & paste.....
Actually, I can't believe that no one pulled an April one joke and registred windowsxp.sourceforge.net..., probably get sued by Microsoft for lack of humor on a trademark infringement.
Maybe Taco felt that having authored the story, it was a conflict of interest in the submission queue....besides, don't you have enough karma? :-)
Example: The reason for the so-called draconian policies are just, governmental abuses. Damn straight I don't want a congressman taking a vacation on a charted plane on my tax dollars. Why should I be financing your Christmas parties? Are you financing mine? You want a party, do what I did at NASA, take up a collection and have one off base. I agree that a Christmas party is pretty small potatoes compared to many things going on, but it's the principle. The government has a long history of abusing various 'perks'. Until they can learn to play nicely with my tax dollars (such as getting rid of the marine band and the national endowment for the arts), I think that serving my country and job security, greateer than average holidays, and government retirement, more than make up for the difference.