Your theory is flawed...your theory assumes that those government workers have no possitive impact on society...as a matter of fact your assumption, when taken to its end is that all government employees would be better in a private sector job, but I would argue that, it is in fact exactly the government that we need to maintain our standard of living. Without taxes, we woud have no military, no fire department, no police, no NASA, no health care standards, and no food standards... As a matter of fact, without government jobs, we would have anarchy...if you think anarchy is better, there's still bad news for you, a weak government spawns dictatorships...but since you seem to like them, maybe you should go live in Cuba...
TechTV excels at some things you can't get through other mediums...
1) Things that require or are enhanced by video and/or audio...reviews, video editing, and how-tos/tips...
You may not mind downloading 100 megs of video files to see the newest game, but I would much prefer a 2 minute review...
Tips & Tricks just come across better...screenshots aren't always the best way to demonstrate complex methods.
Product reviews are better...looking for a notebook??? They can review an Alienware or Dell (something most won't have access to) and show you the size, performance, and quality fairly easily...still photos and benchmarks just don't always tell you the whole story...
2) They can cut through the crap...unlike sites that include any and every new piece of software available, they can review the top software and can suggest new apps that you might never try had you not seen it...
3) They can get interviews and guests in a medium they arent always seen...
4) As most of my time is spent in Linux/UNIX at work and home, it's the only place that I generally get to see any info on Windoze or Macs outside of slashdot and problem reports (web and mail servers)...so I can be informed of new apps or userland problems that need addressed on friends and familys peecees...
ZoneAlarm is more software to be exploited...with a hardware firewall/router, there is no way for an outside system to access a system directly without some sort of user intervention (forwarding a port or putting an IP in a DMZ)...
Yea. Ok, I guess that may be so, but then again...if that's gonna be the case, you'ld be better off paying the local Subway to do it...just let them stash your head in their freezer...it would accomplish the same thing...
We are going to install a backup generator that runs off of natural gas. Here's a link to one...
We are of course going with a different company and generator, but it gives you an idea of price and features. $3500 might be too much for your situation. Keep in mind that you will still want to keep your UPSs in place (for the ~1-3 minutes that these things take to get up to speed)...
But, if you must have power to all of your systems, all of the time, a natural gas generator is probably the way to go. Before you do any of this, you will want to check out how much power you are actually using and how big of a generator you will need...the one linked to should be enough for the 9 servers you need as well as room to upgrade...
As you can tell, most of the natural gas generators also take propane, which is still good if you don't get natural gas service, or as a backup for the natural gas...
Packeteer is NOT an embedded Linux, it is a proprietary OS...as a matter of fact, Packeteer is almost the ONLY packet shaper with a proprietary OS and it is one of the big selling points for it...because it was developed from the ground up to do packet shaping...
We use packeteer as well and are certainly happy with it...the biggest problem is you have to watch what you decide to do...if you throttle P2P upload bandwidth, then it will throttle the download bandwidth as well...
Don't they understand that they will only drive corporations to BSD??? I mean, ever since the whole BSD vs. AT&T thing back in the early 90's, BSD is in the clear...
Not that I'm going to switch any of my Linux boxes to BSD (I actually have some machines with BSD too), so even if SCO won the case (severly unlikely), users would simply begin the switch to BSD or another OSS kernel, and with it, development of software...
this is going to keep hanging over the heads of everyone who uses Linux - or BSD for that matter.
It's already happened. Back in 1992, AT&T sued BSDI... The end result of the suit was that BSD was able to call itself UNIX and AT&T was able to keep the BSD code they had in System V...
Any infringement (if it even exists) is still SCO's fault. SCO has still not given us exact line numbers or snippets of code. They have made statements without backing them up and claim that Linux is still hurting their IP.
The only thing we've seen are claims that are nothing short of saying anything IBM has touched is stolen from SCO...It's obvious that SCO has no plans to actually cooperate with the kernel dvelopers, as there has really been no attempt at contacting the developers directly...
There's really no reason for this type of speculation until the courts actually make their decision...this article seems to assume that SCO's claims are as good as gold...To be honest, SCO doesn't look to be moving on their end...
A good bit of the bottles are being mixed in with normal (blue capped) bottles in vending machines. They hafta find a way to get rid of them, so my guess is they're giving the Pepsi vendors cases of winners and they are told to put the winners in 1/3 times...
The arcade market pretty much died a while ago... Probably sometime around the same time that Bally/Midway stopped making pinball machines...
It may very well have been the rise of the Neo-Geo that killed the arcades, or maybe online games, or even the advance of consumer 3D technology...but regardless of what you blame it on, they are mostly a thing of the past.
The small trickle of games that have come out in the recent past are either console based arcades (like Tekken) which have probably been ported to a modern console before they are ever released, or expensive games of "novelty" (large, oddly shaped cabinets, like Dance Dance Revolution) which generally lose their appeal once the home version is released...
I certainly hope that the market will return, but sadly, the last remaining arcades are disappearing...
I'm under the impression there are options for dealing with even serious OS-level trouble that would shock and awe the average general purpose computer user.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that it probably has something to do with this failsafe mode they have switched the rover to...
My guess is that the failsafe mode is a seperate system that they can send software upgrades, basic directives (recharge batteries, shutdown scientific sensors, etc), and diagnostic commands...
Sort of like a service processor on a modern server except one that can do software upgrades for the main system...I highly doubt this will be a mission-stopper...just a minor setback...
"No use"? The purpose of a vaporware announcement is to generate buzz. You sound pretty buzzful to me.
You sound like developers set out to create vaporware. Vaporware generally happens when a management group mis-represents the product as being ready or feasable when it is neither. This is less likely in OSS...
Why else no Linux screenshots? If they had them, they'd certainly show them, given the Linux bias of the typical MySQL user.
Gee, I don't know...maybe because that's their primary audience for this product...most Linux administrators use Windoze workstations and this most certainly is a workstation app...much like the MySQL Control Center...as a matter of fact, all of the Screenshots for the Control Center are from Windoze...yet it most certainly exists.
Not to mention the fact that there are quotes in the product page from people that have obviously seen some sort of Alpha release. There's obviously a real reason for them not releasing the current product...it probably has to do with the fact that they don't want anyone to screw up their database...
The real question here is what has MySQL AB done to make you doubt the authenticity of a product???
I think I suggested it when they announced it in December, but it's obvious that college students probably make up the majority of P2P downloaders...and since most schools now offer 24/7 broadband access from dormitories, it would only go to reason that they make up a majority of the uploaders...
The RIAA was trying to spin the end of semester as a win for their cause...but as soon as they released the info, I'm sure they realized the error of their ways...it was only going to last for about a month...
So, why are all schools not blocking P2P??? Because, when you start blocking ports you start to take responsibility for what your users are doing (block KaZaA because it's "bad" and you have to block gnutella too)...most schools are simply throtling the most popular P2P ports...which isn't keeping students from downloading...
ACiD will be missed, but this will obviously not be the end of ASCII/ANSI art. As long as we are still using command lines and text interfaces there will be ASCII and ANSI art. This is really an art form, and art forms rarely die off...
My guess is they don't want to make any of their earlier mistakes with Time Warner Interactive...they will probably create a few new properties that they can kill off if they suck bad enough...maybe make buy out a struggling company...
It would make more sense for them to start off with some basic driving/fighting/action/sports games and build a group of good developers before they started puting the names of their properties on the line...
Of course all of these were fighting games, but they did a few that weren't fighting games...however, their games were infamous for their suckitude...even those games that had fans (like ROTR) were nothing more than eye candy (no real playability)...however, this was honestly close to the end for the origonal Atari...
It depends on 2 things. First, how integrated is the code...can the code be removed from the main app...if so, then they would only have to release the module with the GPLed code...if they actually broke this code out into a seperate module, it would probably be obvious, therefore, they would still be in violation...
Then again, if they are willing to rewrite, the MPlayer group may allow them to rewrite without opening code...even though they are still in violation with previous releases, so if the MPlayer group wants to push it, they are still in violation regardless of the rewrite...
What it really comes down to is KISS should be kissing @$$, because it's ultimately up to the MPlayer developers as to how they want to proceed...
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No, just send him to school...It's simple economics...
Your theory is flawed...your theory assumes that those government workers have no possitive impact on society...as a matter of fact your assumption, when taken to its end is that all government employees would be better in a private sector job, but I would argue that, it is in fact exactly the government that we need to maintain our standard of living. Without taxes, we woud have no military, no fire department, no police, no NASA, no health care standards, and no food standards... As a matter of fact, without government jobs, we would have anarchy...if you think anarchy is better, there's still bad news for you, a weak government spawns dictatorships...but since you seem to like them, maybe you should go live in Cuba...
TechTV excels at some things you can't get through other mediums...
1) Things that require or are enhanced by video and/or audio...reviews, video editing, and how-tos/tips...
You may not mind downloading 100 megs of video files to see the newest game, but I would much prefer a 2 minute review...
Tips & Tricks just come across better...screenshots aren't always the best way to demonstrate complex methods.
Product reviews are better...looking for a notebook??? They can review an Alienware or Dell (something most won't have access to) and show you the size, performance, and quality fairly easily...still photos and benchmarks just don't always tell you the whole story...
2) They can cut through the crap...unlike sites that include any and every new piece of software available, they can review the top software and can suggest new apps that you might never try had you not seen it...
3) They can get interviews and guests in a medium they arent always seen...
4) As most of my time is spent in Linux/UNIX at work and home, it's the only place that I generally get to see any info on Windoze or Macs outside of slashdot and problem reports (web and mail servers)...so I can be informed of new apps or userland problems that need addressed on friends and familys peecees...
Umh, yes...I own a Sparcstation LX that runs NetBSD and yes, I trust it as well...the point was I don't really trust Windoze-based firewalls :)
ZoneAlarm is more software to be exploited...with a hardware firewall/router, there is no way for an outside system to access a system directly without some sort of user intervention (forwarding a port or putting an IP in a DMZ)...
Yea. Ok, I guess that may be so, but then again...if that's gonna be the case, you'ld be better off paying the local Subway to do it...just let them stash your head in their freezer...it would accomplish the same thing...
We are going to install a backup generator that runs off of natural gas. Here's a link to one...
We are of course going with a different company and generator, but it gives you an idea of price and features. $3500 might be too much for your situation. Keep in mind that you will still want to keep your UPSs in place (for the ~1-3 minutes that these things take to get up to speed)...
But, if you must have power to all of your systems, all of the time, a natural gas generator is probably the way to go. Before you do any of this, you will want to check out how much power you are actually using and how big of a generator you will need...the one linked to should be enough for the 9 servers you need as well as room to upgrade...
As you can tell, most of the natural gas generators also take propane, which is still good if you don't get natural gas service, or as a backup for the natural gas...
It runs an embedded version of Linux
Packeteer is NOT an embedded Linux, it is a proprietary OS...as a matter of fact, Packeteer is almost the ONLY packet shaper with a proprietary OS and it is one of the big selling points for it...because it was developed from the ground up to do packet shaping...
We use packeteer as well and are certainly happy with it...the biggest problem is you have to watch what you decide to do...if you throttle P2P upload bandwidth, then it will throttle the download bandwidth as well...
Don't they understand that they will only drive corporations to BSD??? I mean, ever since the whole BSD vs. AT&T thing back in the early 90's, BSD is in the clear...
Not that I'm going to switch any of my Linux boxes to BSD (I actually have some machines with BSD too), so even if SCO won the case (severly unlikely), users would simply begin the switch to BSD or another OSS kernel, and with it, development of software...
this is going to keep hanging over the heads of everyone who uses Linux - or BSD for that matter.
It's already happened. Back in 1992, AT&T sued BSDI... The end result of the suit was that BSD was able to call itself UNIX and AT&T was able to keep the BSD code they had in System V...
No, this is not what I'm talking about...I wanna see...
"Here's the code from System V...now here's the (more than 10 continuous) lines of code from the Linux 2.4.X Kernel"
Any infringement (if it even exists) is still SCO's fault. SCO has still not given us exact line numbers or snippets of code. They have made statements without backing them up and claim that Linux is still hurting their IP.
The only thing we've seen are claims that are nothing short of saying anything IBM has touched is stolen from SCO...It's obvious that SCO has no plans to actually cooperate with the kernel dvelopers, as there has really been no attempt at contacting the developers directly...
There's really no reason for this type of speculation until the courts actually make their decision...this article seems to assume that SCO's claims are as good as gold...To be honest, SCO doesn't look to be moving on their end...
A good bit of the bottles are being mixed in with normal (blue capped) bottles in vending machines. They hafta find a way to get rid of them, so my guess is they're giving the Pepsi vendors cases of winners and they are told to put the winners in 1/3 times...
They are...the next version of Notes is going to be written in Java.
Probably because most Linux users change their user agent string to report as a windoze variant...
Sounds like a good chance for indy and local artists to get their music out there (kind of like iTunes)...
I won't be the guy that says all pop music sucks, but there are still a lot of good indy groups out there...
The arcade market pretty much died a while ago... Probably sometime around the same time that Bally/Midway stopped making pinball machines...
It may very well have been the rise of the Neo-Geo that killed the arcades, or maybe online games, or even the advance of consumer 3D technology...but regardless of what you blame it on, they are mostly a thing of the past.
The small trickle of games that have come out in the recent past are either console based arcades (like Tekken) which have probably been ported to a modern console before they are ever released, or expensive games of "novelty" (large, oddly shaped cabinets, like Dance Dance Revolution) which generally lose their appeal once the home version is released...
I certainly hope that the market will return, but sadly, the last remaining arcades are disappearing...
I'm under the impression there are options for dealing with even serious OS-level trouble that would shock and awe the average general purpose computer user.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that it probably has something to do with this failsafe mode they have switched the rover to...
My guess is that the failsafe mode is a seperate system that they can send software upgrades, basic directives (recharge batteries, shutdown scientific sensors, etc), and diagnostic commands...
Sort of like a service processor on a modern server except one that can do software upgrades for the main system...I highly doubt this will be a mission-stopper...just a minor setback...
"No use"? The purpose of a vaporware announcement is to generate buzz. You sound pretty buzzful to me.
You sound like developers set out to create vaporware. Vaporware generally happens when a management group mis-represents the product as being ready or feasable when it is neither. This is less likely in OSS...
Why else no Linux screenshots? If they had them, they'd certainly show them, given the Linux bias of the typical MySQL user.
Gee, I don't know...maybe because that's their primary audience for this product...most Linux administrators use Windoze workstations and this most certainly is a workstation app...much like the MySQL Control Center...as a matter of fact, all of the Screenshots for the Control Center are from Windoze...yet it most certainly exists.
Not to mention the fact that there are quotes in the product page from people that have obviously seen some sort of Alpha release. There's obviously a real reason for them not releasing the current product...it probably has to do with the fact that they don't want anyone to screw up their database...
The real question here is what has MySQL AB done to make you doubt the authenticity of a product???
I think I suggested it when they announced it in December, but it's obvious that college students probably make up the majority of P2P downloaders...and since most schools now offer 24/7 broadband access from dormitories, it would only go to reason that they make up a majority of the uploaders...
The RIAA was trying to spin the end of semester as a win for their cause...but as soon as they released the info, I'm sure they realized the error of their ways...it was only going to last for about a month...
So, why are all schools not blocking P2P??? Because, when you start blocking ports you start to take responsibility for what your users are doing (block KaZaA because it's "bad" and you have to block gnutella too)...most schools are simply throtling the most popular P2P ports...which isn't keeping students from downloading...
ACiD will be missed, but this will obviously not be the end of ASCII/ANSI art. As long as we are still using command lines and text interfaces there will be ASCII and ANSI art. This is really an art form, and art forms rarely die off...
ACiD is good, but they aren't the only ones...
My guess is they don't want to make any of their earlier mistakes with Time Warner Interactive...they will probably create a few new properties that they can kill off if they suck bad enough...maybe make buy out a struggling company...
It would make more sense for them to start off with some basic driving/fighting/action/sports games and build a group of good developers before they started puting the names of their properties on the line...
Time-Warner bought Atari before their death and renamed them Time Warner Interactive...
Time Warner Interactive was probably best remembered for Rise of the Robots Rise2: Resurection (the sequel of the former) and Primal Rage...
Of course all of these were fighting games, but they did a few that weren't fighting games...however, their games were infamous for their suckitude...even those games that had fans (like ROTR) were nothing more than eye candy (no real playability)...however, this was honestly close to the end for the origonal Atari...
This sounds good to me, but I think the real point is that it is ultimately up to the MPlayer team to decide how they want to deal with it...
It depends on 2 things. First, how integrated is the code...can the code be removed from the main app...if so, then they would only have to release the module with the GPLed code...if they actually broke this code out into a seperate module, it would probably be obvious, therefore, they would still be in violation...
Then again, if they are willing to rewrite, the MPlayer group may allow them to rewrite without opening code...even though they are still in violation with previous releases, so if the MPlayer group wants to push it, they are still in violation regardless of the rewrite...
What it really comes down to is KISS should be kissing @$$, because it's ultimately up to the MPlayer developers as to how they want to proceed...