Uhmm, cute but incorrect. I don't believe nostradamus's prophecies, but to follow it correctly.
City of God... Definately not NYC, Jerusalem is the city of God === Jerusalem
Where the two brothers... 3 buildings fell, and they weren't brothers, they were 1 center with MANY workers and separate offices, if you're going to follow that logic, the brothers must be the people at war. This could be the Palestinians vs Isreali, or perhaps the civil war being played out in Afghanistan. Brothers don't have to love each other, they are just "related" some how. (in prophecies at least, I love my brother) == Inconclusive, but it's 2 political factions
Fortress... Pentagon, eh, maybe, but that's an office building. Note that they didn't crash into a military BASE where there would be missiles and such to attack them. This is perhaps the US as a whole more accurately, since the US has not suffered an attack on their soil of this magnitude for a long time, but is a symbolically important target to many groups. Of course, the US is very open. Crossing boarders in other countries is much more difficult. Perhaps this could be viewed as the World Trade Center, the warground of what was until not long ago, and I am sure will remain the modern warfare, that is fought at a terminal in stock shares, not with guns. == Also inconclusive
Great Leader... GWB, Congress, The US... Keep giong, it could even be someone on the other side, the Great Leader of the attack (though I don't think he's so great) == Still inconclusive
Big City... Eh, NYC
Still, this is pretty ambiguous. I don't really follow nostradamus nor do I think that this is one of the signs of the end of the world. This is bad, this sucks, this is a shock to us, this isn't apocalyptic prophecy. OBL (not to cast this on him until it's known) is not the sort of charismatic leader to start the kind of war that gets printed in the bible in the end of days. Whoever did this will be brought to justice swiftly and forcefully. This isn't a war they can win. The one in the Bible is one that drags out and is fought hard by both sides. Not to sound overconfident, but I haven't seen the sort of military force yet that I would expect from such a power. Until planes fly over my house that aren't from the US, and start carrying out surgical strikes against us, I won't believe that it is that sort of war. This will not stand, they can not win. The sort of war in the bible, I would be standing out front with my hunting rifles right now gunning down an invasion.
In their native enviro, java bytecode runs on a "virtual machine." Uhmm, yeah, that's an interpretter... Perls bytecode runs through an interpretter. Hrmm, yeah, I guess that's right. It's not meant to smack down on the language, and people get all defensive about this. I mean, hell, byte compiled emacs stuff isn't the same as byte compile C if you want me to be a dick about it. I'd like it to run in machine code if I can. Not to be rude, but there IS a difference.
Neither is a product that I want my mail reader written in. If I'm going to have something that I want fast, that is running in my native gui, that does not need to be portable and is not running a scripting task, I would prefer for it to be in compiled machine code. Even emacs lets you compile as much of it's scripting as it can.
NSA got a bad rap because it was so secret. In modern times, good cryptography doesn't require so much secretness because it is generally all about yoru computation power and not your ability to steal captain crunch decoder rings from the enemy. It aslo got a bad rap because legislative oversight was sorta bypassed decades ago. The NSA has been looking for a friendlier image to couterract all of the bad publicity that they got. It can't function effectively if people don't trust it, especially in a day and age where NATIONAL SECURITY means that the people of that nation have to practice it too in order to be effective at all. NSA phone taps are all done perfectly legally, we all know that the police station has equipment, and have even seen them use it, why should we be surprised to see the NSA doing it? Remember, these people aren't clandestine agents who require anonymity to function. They're professors, who just need a good office and a compiler.
GUI environment tools don't offer ANYTHING above what the command line offers. Have you EVER done anything serious in a "visual" language that couldn't be done better in raw code? Higher layers of abstraction don't mean better code. It all gets translated down to machine code in the end anyway, or linked against something else.
However, who gives a shit? It's not the quality of the user interface, it's the quality of the end product. All of this has very little to do with your IDE anyway.
I want to be able to compute unabashadly on my computer. If you want interractive television content and the like, then build a new device for it, don't cripple mine. Just because people don't want to buy your shoddy products doesn't mean that you should ruin already good ones so you can sell your content that nobody wants anyway.
Most likely, whichever platform is superior will be marketted as the jordana or some new name.
Does HP plan to continue using the Compaq brandname? There's the chance that they may want names like iPaq (even though iPuke when iHear iPrefixed too many freaking iTimes).
Or they may attempt to steal features from both, not necessarilly on a technical level (since incompatibilities may arise, but I haven't studied the particulars close enough to comment on that), but icons, trademarks, interface features, so on.
FreeBSD
Oracle
GCC
X
My whole computer is run by software made by other companies. I just think it sounds like a nice device. It has little to do wtih the fact that MS makes it.
Drinking at all? Surely this thing can't tell if you're over the legal limit. I can't imagine a cop pulling you over because something said you might have had one beer and you were driving perfectly, breathalyzing you and releasing you. Sooner or later someone will file police harassment if that's the case. Why not just put a warning light on the dash!
Hell, what if a TCU student takes communion and starts driving!
You know. I know that people on/. give MS a lot of flack... hell, there are instances in which they deserve it.
I don't mean to sound like a dick. I know that this will get modded down... but hell. More power to them. Expansion is a good thing and if I were Bill I'd be trying to get MS tied into just about everything too. I'd like to be the first person in this post to say that I don't think that this is a bad thing. I'll get me an x-box and one of these too I'm sure.
Hey, I know and I agree, but I tell you what, you try asking M$ to play nice and document themselves for interoperability. People have been trying for a good long time now.
1) Better word filters, it's beaten up a couple of my.docs
2) Better gui integration, I don't need it to take over my desktop, it should just sit in there like every other program. I HATE primadonna projects that add self importance by taking up desktop real estate (what the hell do I want some video game adding hundreds of desk icons and taskbar AND everything else it can under windows).
3) Drop in support. You gotta add this to your path and add this and add this, for functionality that is ALREADY in your directory hierarchy. Why can't they just use the same directories everyone else does? I have a/home, a/usr/bin, and all that already, I don't need/usr/share/local/staroffice/home & bin & multiple layers of symbolic links
The cost in damages should only be counted if it constitues
A) Lost Time
B) Outsourced Work
Generally, neither of these things happened. The last virus that I know of that cost my former employer ANYTHING was the love bug, because it erased a large, backed up set of images. These were all restored within a day. The entire workforce merely asked for a copy from the backup server and got it. Nobody stopped working, the people who handled it were IT professionals wou would have been working anyways. I would estimate that perhaps 30 seconds of everybody's time was spent on it. So, 1/120th of hourly payrate at 15-40$/hourly for 500 people... Hrmm... No, only one wing got struck, make that 100 people.
Since we didn't spend any money that we wouldn't have been spending ALREADY, I would have to say that the cost was $0. There was also no downtime, so it didn't cost us any sales (that is if were were selling anything).
This is just companies who figured out that they don't make any money doing what they do who said, hrmmm. Oh yeah, our webserver got it, goodness, that's $5000 right there in damages, right? Downtime? Well, it slowed down a little, and I had to fix it by running virus scan. It cost me a trip to the coffee pot!
Are you kidding?
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ACM has chapters in MANY universities, has MANY professors and such as members, hosts the MOST prestrigious and important conferences (SIGGRAPH, SIGMICRO, and the like). I would have to say that the EFF is not in the same league as ACM by far. I know MANY college libraries and professors offices with BOOKSHELFS devoted to ACM proceedings. I would have to say that ACM holds a lot of clout (and besides, they have my dollar, hehe).
Sweet! Thanks! I know that it's possible, but often that's the exception to the rule. Just pulled it off apt and everything seems to be pretty sweet once I got everything in line!
Uhmm, forgive me for saying so, but every time we addressed CORBA in academia, it was addressed that CORBA was GREAT for rapid prototyping and LOWSY for finished products because of the overhead involved with it (sockets being more lightweight for similar purposes). Can anybody shed some light onto this? It would seem to me that for unix domain connections a unix socket or even an IP based socket would be much much more appropriate in a finished product. Does Berlin happen to be one of those "special cases," like the way NFS treats CORBA, that is somehow optimized?
Also, it would seem to me that the way X handles itself would be suboptimal speed-wise for a single machine, making Berlin more suitable for the standard desktop, yet not for a client-server pair operating over a network, in which case X would excel.
Think about it, get one of those desk rovers, strap an x10 camera to it, drop it in somewhere interesting, like the runways in your office for cabling and in the ceiling... Instant remote control first person shooter!
Well, just last year, people wanted to encrypt our harddrives to prevent copying of documents. People want to limit what software we use. It sounds like people don't want us to have computers anymore. As opposed to building a new device to distribute their media, they'd rather cripple our computers. The thing is, how much of the public is doing much "computing" these days anyway? I've been to offices where it seems that they have people who browse the web for a living.
Ahh, as my first administration of the sacrement, I would like to decrypt the ULC eBook in order to gain access to the materials needed for an ordination in a box.
Va Linux OWNS slashdot... No reason for them to censor ads for their parent company, but I do think that the news is relavent. Most people REALLY into the whole opensource thang are registered on sourceforge.
What I mean is that in the minds of the people, "Techies think MS is bad." Is about as far as they comprehend corporate issues. Many accept lower level goods "upgrades" that just take away features, and the like because they are absorbing a media blitz as opposed to making informed decisions. The fault being with neither the companies for protecting their interests, or the government, but the people blame the government, who has to cave to the interests of the corporation since ONLY the corporation is making its voice known in a coherent sense, the people only blasting illiterate claptrap like "fuck the gorvernment, it's their fault," when really the only possible PROTECTION is through their use of the government, but since so few make their voice heard, it APPEARS that the corporate interests are the only ones with a voice.
Trust me, I'm capitalist through and through, I'd gladly take the helm of a company, and I trade stock regularly.
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Uhmm, cute but incorrect. I don't believe nostradamus's prophecies, but to follow it correctly.
City of God... Definately not NYC, Jerusalem is the city of God === Jerusalem
Where the two brothers... 3 buildings fell, and they weren't brothers, they were 1 center with MANY workers and separate offices, if you're going to follow that logic, the brothers must be the people at war. This could be the Palestinians vs Isreali, or perhaps the civil war being played out in Afghanistan. Brothers don't have to love each other, they are just "related" some how. (in prophecies at least, I love my brother) == Inconclusive, but it's 2 political factions
Fortress... Pentagon, eh, maybe, but that's an office building. Note that they didn't crash into a military BASE where there would be missiles and such to attack them. This is perhaps the US as a whole more accurately, since the US has not suffered an attack on their soil of this magnitude for a long time, but is a symbolically important target to many groups. Of course, the US is very open. Crossing boarders in other countries is much more difficult. Perhaps this could be viewed as the World Trade Center, the warground of what was until not long ago, and I am sure will remain the modern warfare, that is fought at a terminal in stock shares, not with guns. == Also inconclusive
Great Leader... GWB, Congress, The US... Keep giong, it could even be someone on the other side, the Great Leader of the attack (though I don't think he's so great) == Still inconclusive
Big City... Eh, NYC
Still, this is pretty ambiguous. I don't really follow nostradamus nor do I think that this is one of the signs of the end of the world. This is bad, this sucks, this is a shock to us, this isn't apocalyptic prophecy. OBL (not to cast this on him until it's known) is not the sort of charismatic leader to start the kind of war that gets printed in the bible in the end of days. Whoever did this will be brought to justice swiftly and forcefully. This isn't a war they can win. The one in the Bible is one that drags out and is fought hard by both sides. Not to sound overconfident, but I haven't seen the sort of military force yet that I would expect from such a power. Until planes fly over my house that aren't from the US, and start carrying out surgical strikes against us, I won't believe that it is that sort of war. This will not stand, they can not win. The sort of war in the bible, I would be standing out front with my hunting rifles right now gunning down an invasion.
In their native enviro, java bytecode runs on a "virtual machine." Uhmm, yeah, that's an interpretter... Perls bytecode runs through an interpretter. Hrmm, yeah, I guess that's right. It's not meant to smack down on the language, and people get all defensive about this. I mean, hell, byte compiled emacs stuff isn't the same as byte compile C if you want me to be a dick about it. I'd like it to run in machine code if I can. Not to be rude, but there IS a difference.
Neither is a product that I want my mail reader written in. If I'm going to have something that I want fast, that is running in my native gui, that does not need to be portable and is not running a scripting task, I would prefer for it to be in compiled machine code. Even emacs lets you compile as much of it's scripting as it can.
Kinda like an AC posting something on a board (not necessarily /.) for fear of disdain from peers and the notice of corporations.
NSA got a bad rap because it was so secret. In modern times, good cryptography doesn't require so much secretness because it is generally all about yoru computation power and not your ability to steal captain crunch decoder rings from the enemy. It aslo got a bad rap because legislative oversight was sorta bypassed decades ago. The NSA has been looking for a friendlier image to couterract all of the bad publicity that they got. It can't function effectively if people don't trust it, especially in a day and age where NATIONAL SECURITY means that the people of that nation have to practice it too in order to be effective at all. NSA phone taps are all done perfectly legally, we all know that the police station has equipment, and have even seen them use it, why should we be surprised to see the NSA doing it? Remember, these people aren't clandestine agents who require anonymity to function. They're professors, who just need a good office and a compiler.
GUI environment tools don't offer ANYTHING above what the command line offers. Have you EVER done anything serious in a "visual" language that couldn't be done better in raw code? Higher layers of abstraction don't mean better code. It all gets translated down to machine code in the end anyway, or linked against something else.
However, who gives a shit? It's not the quality of the user interface, it's the quality of the end product. All of this has very little to do with your IDE anyway.
I want to be able to compute unabashadly on my computer. If you want interractive television content and the like, then build a new device for it, don't cripple mine. Just because people don't want to buy your shoddy products doesn't mean that you should ruin already good ones so you can sell your content that nobody wants anyway.
Most likely, whichever platform is superior will be marketted as the jordana or some new name.
Does HP plan to continue using the Compaq brandname? There's the chance that they may want names like iPaq (even though iPuke when iHear iPrefixed too many freaking iTimes).
Or they may attempt to steal features from both, not necessarilly on a technical level (since incompatibilities may arise, but I haven't studied the particulars close enough to comment on that), but icons, trademarks, interface features, so on.
Hrmm..
FreeBSD
Oracle
GCC
X
My whole computer is run by software made by other companies. I just think it sounds like a nice device. It has little to do wtih the fact that MS makes it.
Drinking at all? Surely this thing can't tell if you're over the legal limit. I can't imagine a cop pulling you over because something said you might have had one beer and you were driving perfectly, breathalyzing you and releasing you. Sooner or later someone will file police harassment if that's the case. Why not just put a warning light on the dash!
Hell, what if a TCU student takes communion and starts driving!
You know. I know that people on /. give MS a lot of flack... hell, there are instances in which they deserve it.
I don't mean to sound like a dick. I know that this will get modded down... but hell. More power to them. Expansion is a good thing and if I were Bill I'd be trying to get MS tied into just about everything too. I'd like to be the first person in this post to say that I don't think that this is a bad thing. I'll get me an x-box and one of these too I'm sure.
It mangles the word doc as it appears on screen, not printed.
Hey, I know and I agree, but I tell you what, you try asking M$ to play nice and document themselves for interoperability. People have been trying for a good long time now.
1) Better word filters, it's beaten up a couple of my .docs
/home, a /usr/bin, and all that already, I don't need /usr/share/local/staroffice/home & bin & multiple layers of symbolic links
2) Better gui integration, I don't need it to take over my desktop, it should just sit in there like every other program. I HATE primadonna projects that add self importance by taking up desktop real estate (what the hell do I want some video game adding hundreds of desk icons and taskbar AND everything else it can under windows).
3) Drop in support. You gotta add this to your path and add this and add this, for functionality that is ALREADY in your directory hierarchy. Why can't they just use the same directories everyone else does? I have a
The cost in damages should only be counted if it constitues
A) Lost Time
B) Outsourced Work
Generally, neither of these things happened. The last virus that I know of that cost my former employer ANYTHING was the love bug, because it erased a large, backed up set of images. These were all restored within a day. The entire workforce merely asked for a copy from the backup server and got it. Nobody stopped working, the people who handled it were IT professionals wou would have been working anyways. I would estimate that perhaps 30 seconds of everybody's time was spent on it. So, 1/120th of hourly payrate at 15-40$/hourly for 500 people... Hrmm... No, only one wing got struck, make that 100 people.
Since we didn't spend any money that we wouldn't have been spending ALREADY, I would have to say that the cost was $0. There was also no downtime, so it didn't cost us any sales (that is if were were selling anything).
This is just companies who figured out that they don't make any money doing what they do who said, hrmmm. Oh yeah, our webserver got it, goodness, that's $5000 right there in damages, right? Downtime? Well, it slowed down a little, and I had to fix it by running virus scan. It cost me a trip to the coffee pot!
ACM has chapters in MANY universities, has MANY professors and such as members, hosts the MOST prestrigious and important conferences (SIGGRAPH, SIGMICRO, and the like). I would have to say that the EFF is not in the same league as ACM by far. I know MANY college libraries and professors offices with BOOKSHELFS devoted to ACM proceedings. I would have to say that ACM holds a lot of clout (and besides, they have my dollar, hehe).
I am a proud member of UPE and ACM.
Sweet! Thanks! I know that it's possible, but often that's the exception to the rule. Just pulled it off apt and everything seems to be pretty sweet once I got everything in line!
Uhmm, forgive me for saying so, but every time we addressed CORBA in academia, it was addressed that CORBA was GREAT for rapid prototyping and LOWSY for finished products because of the overhead involved with it (sockets being more lightweight for similar purposes). Can anybody shed some light onto this? It would seem to me that for unix domain connections a unix socket or even an IP based socket would be much much more appropriate in a finished product. Does Berlin happen to be one of those "special cases," like the way NFS treats CORBA, that is somehow optimized?
Also, it would seem to me that the way X handles itself would be suboptimal speed-wise for a single machine, making Berlin more suitable for the standard desktop, yet not for a client-server pair operating over a network, in which case X would excel.
Think about it, get one of those desk rovers, strap an x10 camera to it, drop it in somewhere interesting, like the runways in your office for cabling and in the ceiling... Instant remote control first person shooter!
Well, just last year, people wanted to encrypt our harddrives to prevent copying of documents. People want to limit what software we use. It sounds like people don't want us to have computers anymore. As opposed to building a new device to distribute their media, they'd rather cripple our computers. The thing is, how much of the public is doing much "computing" these days anyway? I've been to offices where it seems that they have people who browse the web for a living.
Ahh, as my first administration of the sacrement, I would like to decrypt the ULC eBook in order to gain access to the materials needed for an ordination in a box.
Va Linux OWNS slashdot... No reason for them to censor ads for their parent company, but I do think that the news is relavent. Most people REALLY into the whole opensource thang are registered on sourceforge.
My brother turned 19 today :-P He's born on Linux's birthday (just not the same year).
What I mean is that in the minds of the people, "Techies think MS is bad." Is about as far as they comprehend corporate issues. Many accept lower level goods "upgrades" that just take away features, and the like because they are absorbing a media blitz as opposed to making informed decisions. The fault being with neither the companies for protecting their interests, or the government, but the people blame the government, who has to cave to the interests of the corporation since ONLY the corporation is making its voice known in a coherent sense, the people only blasting illiterate claptrap like "fuck the gorvernment, it's their fault," when really the only possible PROTECTION is through their use of the government, but since so few make their voice heard, it APPEARS that the corporate interests are the only ones with a voice.
Trust me, I'm capitalist through and through, I'd gladly take the helm of a company, and I trade stock regularly.
Oh yeah, and how can I capitalize on this?