I can see where web-only broadcasters should have to pay royaltys and copyright fees, but it is ridiculous to make a radio station (in the traditional sense) pay twice for broadcasting the same material.
This is a good move for them. Not that I care how much money this must be for them, but how much help this gives to the Linux movement.
Not that I care much for IBM mainframe hardware, but I think running Linux on these boxes are a great way for companies to get some more life out of their hardware for (minimal) cost.
Unfortunately, not all people administering apache are experienced admin. While I can work my way through apache docs just fine, I know others here who might need to make changes to the server when I'm gone wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of some of that stuff.
Personally, I see the book as more of a training aid, not a reference work. I'm sure once someone picked up the basics with this book that they would do just fine with the online manual.
Why should you not have to wait for your servers to reboot? If your servers reboot because of power failures (in which case I'd advice a UPS;) then there is still the issue of fsck and mount that renders the RAM useless, if your server reboot because new hardware is added.. then you still need to reboot because you need to install a new kernel, if your machine crashes then a reboot won't help much, etc.
I suppose I should elaborate. . . I'm not too worried about the various *nix servers we have here. It just seems our NT servers need to reboot every day or two. . .:(
The thought of not having to wait for my machine to boot is extremely appealing. The thought of not having to wait for some of the servers here to reboot is even more appealing.
However, I don't see how this helps much with speech recognition or easier downloading as the article suggests. Am I not seeing something?
I'd bet the price of a nice flat screen monitor made with this technology would make the price of current flat screen monitors seem pretty attractive to my boss;)
Personally, I find it quite annoying when travelling to dial a 7-digit local number only to find that I needed to dial the area code too, or to dial the area code and be told by a recording that it wasn't necessary. Moving to mandatory 10-digit numbers is a good thing - there needs to be some consistency.
Someone earlier made a comment about people having one phone number that moves with them. . . I think that this is an important step towards that. I know that the technology is in place for this, but there seems to be some other obstacles barring the way.
I think that you are overlooking something rather obvious: that the fundamental design of an operating system (*nix) is so sound and solid that it is still being used 30 years after it's invention. I think that it is a tribute to the creators of Unix.
Are there problems with it? Sure. As there are with any operating system or software product. At least with *nix, you're likely to see problems fixed in a reasonable amount of time.
Well Unix is a great OS for hackers (in the old sense), and the fact that a free and fashionable implementation exists has made it popular. It's not the fact tha it's Unix that makes it so popular - it's that it's free.
And I think that you are dead wrong here. Making Unix free has brought it to thousands upon thousands of people who learned Unix and loved using Unix but otherwise couldn't afford the prohibitive cost of owning a unix workstation for personal use.
Whether or not they tested Linux with their notebooks does not point to deficient QA procedures. Like almost any company, IBM is just appealing to the masses, and, unfortunately, the masses are still Windoze users, and so, IBM is going to develop notebooks that are catered to Windows.
And just because Linux/FreeBSD doesn't boot on these notebooks doesn't mean that there are other problems with the notebooks. I have had very good experiences using and dealing with IBM notebooks.
Keep in mind, too, that the article said defaultinstallation. Nowhere does it say that kernel/installation tweaking can't make this work.
The title of this article is completely ridiculous.
I work for a small company (11 people) providing custom software to government. I am one of the only three programmers, and while we don't spend all of our time developing, almost every moment we spend there is working. Often times, we have to help pick up the slack as far as answering phones, dealing with users, training, installing a new site, or installing and maintaining our own hardware and network. While it isn't always programming work, to say we're not working is totally off.
Testing, debugging, enhancing, etc. is all part of what we do. To say that it is not "actual" work is ridiculous. It's every bit as important, if not more so, than the actual development of our products. Users are much happier if you give them less features (but ones that actually work) than if you give them more features, some or most of which don't work as they should.
As for users using only 10% of features to avoid using features that might break. . . I think most would agree with me that this is a load of crap. With only having three of us to do the load of programming work, it's a struggle to get in all of the required functionality in a timely manner, much less get in functionality that users can opt to not use 90% of. I would imagine that most shops experience this same problem.
While I respect your opinion/choice of candidates, I do not agree with your rationale. Vote for her just because she's a woman? Please. I (and I am sure many other Slashdotters agree) would have no problem with a woman on the board, I would certainly prefer that it was for her qualifications, NOT her gender.
I apologize that you feel you are not being represented properly. But if you are going to try to rally others to your cause, please try using some more intelligent rationale.
Said Enigma machine is stolen. Some neutral third party buys it not knowing it's stolen. Said third party discovers its stolen and claims that it was bought in "good faith" and then proceeds to threaten to destroy it if a ransom is not paid.
If it is bought in good faith, why would they simply not return it for what they spent on it (plus a cash reward because people are motivated by money).
Speaking of the moon, we should really think about going back there. Seems like we went there, said "Ok, we did it, that was cool" and abandoned it. It seems to me as if that would be a great starting point for further space exploration. Or colonization. Seeing as how gravity is 1/6 of the earth's, less fuel should be expended to launch a mission. And it would be a convenient place to colonize, being in our own backyard (so to speak).
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Finally, a mouse that will stand up to my foul temper and fits of violence while playing 1st person shooters ;)
That is, of course, if someone could actually use that mouse for FPSes. . .
Here comes the government to a share.
I can see where web-only broadcasters should have to pay royaltys and copyright fees, but it is ridiculous to make a radio station (in the traditional sense) pay twice for broadcasting the same material.
This is a good move for them. Not that I care how much money this must be for them, but how much help this gives to the Linux movement.
Not that I care much for IBM mainframe hardware, but I think running Linux on these boxes are a great way for companies to get some more life out of their hardware for (minimal) cost.
Unfortunately, not all people administering apache are experienced admin. While I can work my way through apache docs just fine, I know others here who might need to make changes to the server when I'm gone wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of some of that stuff.
Personally, I see the book as more of a training aid, not a reference work. I'm sure once someone picked up the basics with this book that they would do just fine with the online manual.
Why should you not have to wait for your servers to reboot? If your servers reboot because of power failures (in which case I'd advice a UPS ;) then there is still the issue of fsck and mount that renders the RAM useless, if your server reboot because new hardware is added.. then you still need to reboot because you need to install a new kernel, if your machine crashes then a reboot won't help much, etc.
:(
I suppose I should elaborate. . . I'm not too worried about the various *nix servers we have here. It just seems our NT servers need to reboot every day or two. . .
The thought of not having to wait for my machine to boot is extremely appealing. The thought of not having to wait for some of the servers here to reboot is even more appealing.
However, I don't see how this helps much with speech recognition or easier downloading as the article suggests. Am I not seeing something?
I'd bet the price of a nice flat screen monitor made with this technology would make the price of current flat screen monitors seem pretty attractive to my boss ;)
Personally, I find it quite annoying when travelling to dial a 7-digit local number only to find that I needed to dial the area code too, or to dial the area code and be told by a recording that it wasn't necessary. Moving to mandatory 10-digit numbers is a good thing - there needs to be some consistency.
Someone earlier made a comment about people having one phone number that moves with them. . . I think that this is an important step towards that. I know that the technology is in place for this, but there seems to be some other obstacles barring the way.
I think that you are overlooking something rather obvious: that the fundamental design of an operating system (*nix) is so sound and solid that it is still being used 30 years after it's invention. I think that it is a tribute to the creators of Unix.
Are there problems with it? Sure. As there are with any operating system or software product. At least with *nix, you're likely to see problems fixed in a reasonable amount of time.
Well Unix is a great OS for hackers (in the old sense), and the fact that a free and fashionable implementation exists has made it popular. It's not the fact tha it's Unix that makes it so popular - it's that it's free.
And I think that you are dead wrong here. Making Unix free has brought it to thousands upon thousands of people who learned Unix and loved using Unix but otherwise couldn't afford the prohibitive cost of owning a unix workstation for personal use.
I can't say I see how this is offtopic. Maybe it's just me though. . .
With this announcement, maybe a few more vendors will be motivated to ship Linux machines, with or without GNOME or KDE.
Anyone know what distribution they're shipping?
Whether or not they tested Linux with their notebooks does not point to deficient QA procedures. Like almost any company, IBM is just appealing to the masses, and, unfortunately, the masses are still Windoze users, and so, IBM is going to develop notebooks that are catered to Windows.
And just because Linux/FreeBSD doesn't boot on these notebooks doesn't mean that there are other problems with the notebooks. I have had very good experiences using and dealing with IBM notebooks.
Keep in mind, too, that the article said defaultinstallation. Nowhere does it say that kernel/installation tweaking can't make this work.
The title of this article is completely ridiculous.
I work for a small company (11 people) providing custom software to government. I am one of the only three programmers, and while we don't spend all of our time developing, almost every moment we spend there is working. Often times, we have to help pick up the slack as far as answering phones, dealing with users, training, installing a new site, or installing and maintaining our own hardware and network. While it isn't always programming work, to say we're not working is totally off.
Testing, debugging, enhancing, etc. is all part of what we do. To say that it is not "actual" work is ridiculous. It's every bit as important, if not more so, than the actual development of our products. Users are much happier if you give them less features (but ones that actually work) than if you give them more features, some or most of which don't work as they should.
As for users using only 10% of features to avoid using features that might break. . . I think most would agree with me that this is a load of crap. With only having three of us to do the load of programming work, it's a struggle to get in all of the required functionality in a timely manner, much less get in functionality that users can opt to not use 90% of. I would imagine that most shops experience this same problem.
While I respect your opinion/choice of candidates, I do not agree with your rationale. Vote for her just because she's a woman? Please. I (and I am sure many other Slashdotters agree) would have no problem with a woman on the board, I would certainly prefer that it was for her qualifications, NOT her gender.
I apologize that you feel you are not being represented properly. But if you are going to try to rally others to your cause, please try using some more intelligent rationale.
How can we be sure? Good question. Hmm. . .
Somehow I don't think that if you chopped off my head that I would be running around 250 million years later.
To be really sure that it's alive, however, maybe you should give it the shocker paddles.
Let me get this straight:
Said Enigma machine is stolen. Some neutral third party buys it not knowing it's stolen. Said third party discovers its stolen and claims that it was bought in "good faith" and then proceeds to threaten to destroy it if a ransom is not paid.
If it is bought in good faith, why would they simply not return it for what they spent on it (plus a cash reward because people are motivated by money).
All smells fishy to me. . .
You might wish to check out the Linux BIOS project at http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/. It's not exactly the same, but remarkably similar.
Anyone else agree or am I way off here?