My father was an IT manager and eventually worked his was as a director of supply chain management.
How he got his first managerial job? Someone asked him in an interview what his favorite productivity tool was. His answer was the water cooler and coffee machine.
He summarized it as this. IF you chat with your employees before work or during breaks you can find out the most of what needs to be done and what is going on with the various projects. Needless to say he got the job.
Breaks including talking to those around the water cooler was alot more productive then serious talk in an unproductive meeting everyday.
I wonder how many hours each day are lost doing busy work or meetings, etc? Something to think about.
Well if this is true about the insane DRM in the units then I will pass on the consoles.
With a pc I can write my own games, hack, read slashdot, do uh things like work, and run Linux, in addtion to playing games.
The games are better then most console games that are just *hit the bottons as fast as you can in the right combo*. I admit I own a nintendo which seems like all the games are designed with this in mind. I hate it.
Its all the things these newer PentiumV's and PentiumMII's that are coming out, supposed to be. They are VLIW and use very little power, slim, and efficient.
Itanium was supposed to really take off back in 1997 according to all the analysists. How many years is that? Good lord!
HP shot itself in the foot because they had no concept of sunkin investments or sunk costs and demanded everyone use their hogs with full 1 pound heat sinks and a fan that sounds like a jet engine taking off.
To me the heat sinks alone and the fans show me something is seriously wrong and they are trying to overclock the chips to rediciously speeds just to look normal compared to the pentium's and alpha chips.
Why couldn't the alpha live?
I think moving optimizations in software is a bad idea. Please dont give me this stuff from the Intel marketing department that as time goes on there will be no room for anything on the cpu but cache so move everything to the compiler...yada yada. Chip fabrication has improved tremendously and something just have to be done in hardware. Engineering wise the Itanium was doomed to the start. If you are going to use LVIW use it right like Transmeta or the newer Intel chips that are comming out.
You only purchased "a right to use it" not actually own the device. Its similiar to any appliance, audio cd, and software packages you may have purchased (right to use).
My guess is they are trying to take over their market or they will use monopolistic pressures to "cut off Google's air supply". Certainly that scenario is a classic Microsoft tactic.
Especially after reading yesterday's news about Balmer throwing a chair because someone left to join google. That is just scary.
Will Lee have his job back after the trial assuming he wins? My guess is no.
Google is a company and needs employees to fullfill its positions it needs. If Lee can not work for Google then it will find someone else.
Also how will Lee live? He is now unemployed and will probably stay unemployed if hte trial is long all to prove that he did nothing wrong.
That is shitty if you ask me. MS seems to just be a bully here and its not fair for the workers. How do mid level managers or engineers do this? To them they could lose their home and other investments they need to make payments on.
Well whats good for Sun is not good for users and the future of the language.
Java is falling behind because it frankly has no way to update itself despite upgrades from Sun itself. Hell, even IBM is having trouble making their version of Java better. Mainly because its considering proprietary because its not from sun.
Java is designed to write portable apps to all platforms. You can not write your own java api and have that same app work on another system. So its a mute point.
C#.net is better as a language and we all have to wait for sun to stamp yet another revision to catch up. Microsoft has the resources to improve it when Sun does not.
In perl and other opensource languages you have developers improving the language itself. If Sun let the community upgrade it and develop more libraries it will improve and not die out.
I read all the early flamewars in the FreeBSD usenets from the mid 90's. Most had to do with compiling FreeBSD without gcc which was not as good as it is today.
GCC took over teh whole free compiler market today but it was not always like this.
Gnu was not essential to Linux as to what most people claim here. Posix was already free and surely Linus would have used Posix and another c compiler freely available for Linux.
This is why I disgree with calling it GNU/Linux. Linux is fine on its own regardless of whether Linus used gnu or not.
I have read some older usenet posts from the 1990's about using different c/c++ compilers when gcc was not as powerfull as it is now. They were free and if you load SuSE with everything installed you will see several different c/c++ compilers.
My guess is they faded away after gcc improved but certainly people compilied early BSD's under alternative compilers.
Posix is a open ansi stamped standard with free source code. Its true different vendors had different versions of "ls" and "make" but they were based off the opensource standard. The BSD versions are not totally tied into their own systems but I can see posix specific scripts in/etc that wont work right without it.
Infact my old "Unix Power Tools" book had a cdrom with sourcecode for posix and mentioned that in the early 1990's that the gnu tools were inferior to the posix ones. Linus surprising chose the lesser (at the time) quality versions. Perhaps he wanted portability with the gnu tools on the commerical unixies at his university? Who knows?
I am not bashing gnu. I am just saying GNU is not the only reason for free software and Linux uses it but does not need it.
The problem I have is I feel RMS is trying to steal the sucess of Linux and claim it on his own. That is quite an ego trip. GNU is nice but again other free alternatives would have existed and do exist. Linux is what ever Linus himself calls it since its his OS.
People growing up on Linux today see gnu everywhere and assume without gnu Linux would not be.
Truth be told gnu accounts for around 22% of a total Linux distribution according to another poster. IS taht 22% gnu or gnu licensed software not associated with gnu?
Actually KDE makes up the vast majority of source code in a modern distro. That means we should call it KLinux.
Its silly.
Also posix has been around for ages and alot of it is installed on many linux distro's in addition to gnu.
Posix is used on BSD and Linux could easily exist without gnu. GNu is only used because its more feature filled complete. It does not mean Linux and gnu are one. There are even c/C++ compilers taht are opensource besides gcc that could be used.
So why should we credit RMS? All he has done was to create another free license and create clones of many already free posix unix userland apps.
Opensource software has existed for BSD and MIT for decades before gnu was a twinkle in RMS's eye.
All the +4 and +5 scored posts are all about GNU/Linux being the one true name but none refuting this claim have been modded up. I sense bias again?
I guess the previous poster is right and we should call Linux, KLinux because without KDE Linux would be a totally different operating system from the user's view. It makes up most of any modern Linux distribution. Right?
I dont understand the logic?
If 22% of the system is licensed under a GNU license but most is not offically part of "gnu" then is it really a 100% pure GNU system?
The gnu license requires all of the source code to be gnu before anything is called gnu. To me this means unless its purely gnu/linux than its Linux.
BSD is doing fine without gnu with the exception of the gcc of course. There have been free c/c++ compilers in the past but most of them have died out due to gcc's popularity.
But Linux would not have existed without GNU right? Yes I think it would
BSD and yes Linux could have easily existed without gnu. Posix is still huge and just as functional and other FOSS c compilers would have gained popularity without gnu which Linux would have used.
GNU is not the reason Linux existed since free software has been around since the 1970's. Most of it BSD and Posix. This is from a former FreeBSD user so I look at gnu a little bit differently. BSD has been opensourced for a long time before GNU.
The playstation took over because it had better graphics. I am not talking about capabilities of the system which were lower than Nintendo's.
But rather because sony could fit all the images for the graphics on the cdrom while nintendo had tiny 70 meg cartridges. The speed argument was used by the marketing department to defend their action.
Many rumors stated that Nintendo was scared about piracy so they picked cartridges instead. It hurt them as most game makers found it difficult to develop for and chose the Playstation instead.
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I was an OS/2 fan back in those days. It was on a class of its own yet people demanded Windows 3.0 and 3.1.
Everyone drank the Windows95 coolaid that it made it obsolete by 95 when it came out. OS/2 was begining to catch on while Windows95 was delayed. I remember the OS/2 commercials for Warp and people in the business world begin to talk about it.
My guess is if MS waited for 2 more years, then OS/2 would have gained significant marketshare.
But still people chose only IBM at first and then only Microsoft and actually paid money for Windows. It floored me.... ps... I hated dos as well but at least it was a viable chose for a teenager with a pc.
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My system had GP faults through the roof. Of course I was 16 at the time and didn't realize it was from dll corruption?? Or was it?
When an app crashed the whole system froze under Windows3.1.
It really really sucked. So much that I used dos when using compuserve and AOL 2.0 for dos. I used windows to browse the early internet with mosiac but shutdown windows and used dos for everything else.
At least a broken app would not bring Windows95 down and on my system Windows95 was alot more stable and reliable than Windows3.1. Sad but true
It amazes me how ms won at all back in those days. It was sooo bad it was not even funny and it perplexes me how the IT departments standardized on this garbage.
I read about nintendo doing strange things like having synchronizing timer chips in both the console and the cartridge to prevent other non-approved nes games from hitting the market.
Also the Xbox is notarious for its drm scheme by having a special pentiumIII processor that wont execute code unless its signed.
Nintendo even switched to a strange disc format and kept using cartridges instead of cd's because they were so paranoid about piracy and user freedom.
If you buy any so called *appliance* that has to do with media, it will contain drm. Its already here whether we like it or not and its coming to the pc as well.
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My father was an IT manager and eventually worked his was as a director of supply chain management.
How he got his first managerial job? Someone asked him in an interview what his favorite productivity tool was. His answer was the water cooler and coffee machine.
He summarized it as this. IF you chat with your employees before work or during breaks you can find out the most of what needs to be done and what is going on with the various projects. Needless to say he got the job.
Breaks including talking to those around the water cooler was alot more productive then serious talk in an unproductive meeting everyday.
I wonder how many hours each day are lost doing busy work or meetings, etc? Something to think about.
Well if this is true about the insane DRM in the units then I will pass on the consoles.
With a pc I can write my own games, hack, read slashdot, do uh things like work, and run Linux, in addtion to playing games.
The games are better then most console games that are just *hit the bottons as fast as you can in the right combo*. I admit I own a nintendo which seems like all the games are designed with this in mind. I hate it.
I for one will keep my money in my wallet when this unit comes out thank you.
Go read this story?
So in other words if a screw slips out of the PS3 then its toast and the unit self destructs.
You want the PS3? You can fucking have it. I think I will save my money for other purchases.
Itanium is a joke.
...yada yada. Chip fabrication has improved tremendously and something just have to be done in hardware. Engineering wise the Itanium was doomed to the start. If you are going to use LVIW use it right like Transmeta or the newer Intel chips that are comming out.
Its all the things these newer PentiumV's and PentiumMII's that are coming out, supposed to be. They are VLIW and use very little power, slim, and efficient.
Itanium was supposed to really take off back in 1997 according to all the analysists. How many years is that? Good lord!
HP shot itself in the foot because they had no concept of sunkin investments or sunk costs and demanded everyone use their hogs with full 1 pound heat sinks and a fan that sounds like a jet engine taking off.
To me the heat sinks alone and the fans show me something is seriously wrong and they are trying to overclock the chips to rediciously speeds just to look normal compared to the pentium's and alpha chips.
Why couldn't the alpha live?
I think moving optimizations in software is a bad idea. Please dont give me this stuff from the Intel marketing department that as time goes on there will be no room for anything on the cpu but cache so move everything to the compiler
You only purchased "a right to use it" not actually own the device. Its similiar to any appliance, audio cd, and software packages you may have purchased (right to use).
Its all in the EULA.
Also String theory is not just a crack job like it was 20 years ago.
Its very popular and has many followers in physics. Einstien himself came up with the field of relativity by mathmatics as well.
Not of throwing his chair but if you love to laugh at Balmer check out this.
Yes, that is really Balmer from a developers tradeshow at Redmond.
MS is scared to death over google.
My guess is they are trying to take over their market or they will use monopolistic pressures to "cut off Google's air supply". Certainly that scenario is a classic Microsoft tactic.
Especially after reading yesterday's news about Balmer throwing a chair because someone left to join google. That is just scary.
Then how did it run on DOS and Windows3.1?
The real question.
Will Lee have his job back after the trial assuming he wins? My guess is no.
Google is a company and needs employees to fullfill its positions it needs. If Lee can not work for Google then it will find someone else.
Also how will Lee live? He is now unemployed and will probably stay unemployed if hte trial is long all to prove that he did nothing wrong.
That is shitty if you ask me. MS seems to just be a bully here and its not fair for the workers. How do mid level managers or engineers do this? To them they could lose their home and other investments they need to make payments on.
This seems still unfair on behalf of Microsoft.
He actually likes Apple if you listen to the end of his speech. Wow what an amazing guy.
Well whats good for Sun is not good for users and the future of the language.
Java is falling behind because it frankly has no way to update itself despite upgrades from Sun itself. Hell, even IBM is having trouble making their version of Java better. Mainly because its considering proprietary because its not from sun.
Java is designed to write portable apps to all platforms. You can not write your own java api and have that same app work on another system. So its a mute point.
C#.net is better as a language and we all have to wait for sun to stamp yet another revision to catch up. Microsoft has the resources to improve it when Sun does not.
In perl and other opensource languages you have developers improving the language itself. If Sun let the community upgrade it and develop more libraries it will improve and not die out.
Unfortunately CYGWIN does not access NFS shares which is what unix services do.
YEp.
I read all the early flamewars in the FreeBSD usenets from the mid 90's. Most had to do with compiling FreeBSD without gcc which was not as good as it is today.
GCC took over teh whole free compiler market today but it was not always like this.
Gnu was not essential to Linux as to what most people claim here. Posix was already free and surely Linus would have used Posix and another c compiler freely available for Linux.
This is why I disgree with calling it GNU/Linux. Linux is fine on its own regardless of whether Linus used gnu or not.
I have read some older usenet posts from the 1990's about using different c/c++ compilers when gcc was not as powerfull as it is now. They were free and if you load SuSE with everything installed you will see several different c/c++ compilers.
/etc that wont work right without it.
My guess is they faded away after gcc improved but certainly people compilied early BSD's under alternative compilers.
Posix is a open ansi stamped standard with free source code. Its true different vendors had different versions of "ls" and "make" but they were based off the opensource standard. The BSD versions are not totally tied into their own systems but I can see posix specific scripts in
Infact my old "Unix Power Tools" book had a cdrom with sourcecode for posix and mentioned that in the early 1990's that the gnu tools were inferior to the posix ones. Linus surprising chose the lesser (at the time) quality versions. Perhaps he wanted portability with the gnu tools on the commerical unixies at his university? Who knows?
I am not bashing gnu. I am just saying GNU is not the only reason for free software and Linux uses it but does not need it.
The problem I have is I feel RMS is trying to steal the sucess of Linux and claim it on his own. That is quite an ego trip. GNU is nice but again other free alternatives would have existed and do exist. Linux is what ever Linus himself calls it since its his OS.
Linux would have used the posix userland apps like the BSD's use and probably one of the popular non-gnu c/c++ compilers.
Linux was created because Linus wanted a unix for himself and he wanted to do OS programing. Not to fullfill RMS's fantasy about a GNU/OS utopia.
Linux never needed gnu really. It was just there.
People growing up on Linux today see gnu everywhere and assume without gnu Linux would not be.
Truth be told gnu accounts for around 22% of a total Linux distribution according to another poster. IS taht 22% gnu or gnu licensed software not associated with gnu?
Actually KDE makes up the vast majority of source code in a modern distro. That means we should call it KLinux.
Its silly.
Also posix has been around for ages and alot of it is installed on many linux distro's in addition to gnu.
Posix is used on BSD and Linux could easily exist without gnu. GNu is only used because its more feature filled complete. It does not mean Linux and gnu are one. There are even c/C++ compilers taht are opensource besides gcc that could be used.
So why should we credit RMS? All he has done was to create another free license and create clones of many already free posix unix userland apps.
Opensource software has existed for BSD and MIT for decades before gnu was a twinkle in RMS's eye.
All the +4 and +5 scored posts are all about GNU/Linux being the one true name but none refuting this claim have been modded up. I sense bias again?
I guess the previous poster is right and we should call Linux, KLinux because without KDE Linux would be a totally different operating system from the user's view. It makes up most of any modern Linux distribution. Right?
I dont understand the logic?
If 22% of the system is licensed under a GNU license but most is not offically part of "gnu" then is it really a 100% pure GNU system?
The gnu license requires all of the source code to be gnu before anything is called gnu. To me this means unless its purely gnu/linux than its Linux.
BSD is doing fine without gnu with the exception of the gcc of course. There have been free c/c++ compilers in the past but most of them have died out due to gcc's popularity.
But Linux would not have existed without GNU right? Yes I think it would
BSD and yes Linux could have easily existed without gnu. Posix is still huge and just as functional and other FOSS c compilers would have gained popularity without gnu which Linux would have used.
GNU is not the reason Linux existed since free software has been around since the 1970's. Most of it BSD and Posix. This is from a former FreeBSD user so I look at gnu a little bit differently.
BSD has been opensourced for a long time before GNU.
The playstation took over because it had better graphics. I am not talking about capabilities of the system which were lower than Nintendo's.
But rather because sony could fit all the images for the graphics on the cdrom while nintendo had tiny 70 meg cartridges. The speed argument was used by the marketing department to defend their action.
Many rumors stated that Nintendo was scared about piracy so they picked cartridges instead. It hurt them as most game makers found it difficult to develop for and chose the Playstation instead.
I was an OS/2 fan back in those days. It was on a class of its own yet people demanded Windows 3.0 and 3.1.
... ps... I hated dos as well but at least it was a viable chose for a teenager with a pc.
Everyone drank the Windows95 coolaid that it made it obsolete by 95 when it came out. OS/2 was begining to catch on while Windows95 was delayed. I remember the OS/2 commercials for Warp and people in the business world begin to talk about it.
My guess is if MS waited for 2 more years, then OS/2 would have gained significant marketshare.
But still people chose only IBM at first and then only Microsoft and actually paid money for Windows. It floored me.
My system had GP faults through the roof. Of course I was 16 at the time and didn't realize it was from dll corruption?? Or was it?
When an app crashed the whole system froze under Windows3.1.
It really really sucked. So much that I used dos when using compuserve and AOL 2.0 for dos. I used windows to browse the early internet with mosiac but shutdown windows and used dos for everything else.
At least a broken app would not bring Windows95 down and on my system Windows95 was alot more stable and reliable than Windows3.1. Sad but true
It amazes me how ms won at all back in those days. It was sooo bad it was not even funny and it perplexes me how the IT departments standardized on this garbage.
I see alot of young college folks around school and work with PSP's. They do not seem to be a flop.
How many have been sold and how many games are there?
I read about nintendo doing strange things like having synchronizing timer chips in both the console and the cartridge to prevent other non-approved nes games from hitting the market.
Also the Xbox is notarious for its drm scheme by having a special pentiumIII processor that wont execute code unless its signed.
Nintendo even switched to a strange disc format and kept using cartridges instead of cd's because they were so paranoid about piracy and user freedom.
If you buy any so called *appliance* that has to do with media, it will contain drm. Its already here whether we like it or not and its coming to the pc as well.