mods, insightful does not mean insiteful. big difference. oh well, i'll bite the troll.
an os kernel is a big project. linus is "the man" when it comes to this kernel project. as such he decides what gets into the source tree. he's active in development and works closely with other developers to decide general direction and such. linus' goals for the linux kernel are much more broad than the goals for IBM, Novell, RHAT, etc. linus likes the all purpose general kernel that works on anything from an ipaq to the mainframe. something that's technically sound.
ibm, Novell, and RHAT all have different specific interests in the kernel. and as such they each deploy different non-vanilla kernels. sure they contribute their work back to linus and probably finance some of the major developers. IBM needs something that's extremely scalable on their big hardware. RHAT needs something that can make sure you've antied up your 1500$ exorti^^^ licensing fees. and Novell needs something that just plain works with their stuff.
i never really understand the insightful mod. what's in the parent post that contains a clear and deep perception? anyway, enough on the/. moderation system. back on topic.
do you have kids with legos? have you been a kid with legos?
the big duplo blocks that are aimed at preschool kids don't really incite much imagination in themselves. but that age group really can exercise their imagination with... well, i'm amazed at what little they can use to exercise their imagination.
now on to the actual legos. these are aimed at kids mainly 5 and over possibly 6. yes, they come with instructions, and somehow the kids can put them together just like the picture on the box in what seems like record time. once. that's the only time that heap of plastic will ever resemble anything that is on the box or any piece of paper within the box. not because they get taken apart and just left alone never to be used again. not because 1/2 the pieces are gone (well, this isn't entirely true, those tiny pieces are hard to keep track of). it's because the pieces take some new shape at least every other day or so to become part of a star fleet, or a battle ship, or a race team, or just kewl peice of art that lasts 20 minutes.
i dunno. i agree the system is all fscked up. what's a guy to do. get a direct connection to the internet? stay off line? use dial up? even the fairly cheep dial up in my area, copper.net, has limits on hour usage
on a side note. lots of things are up to the discression of the interpreter. public intoxication. are there specific guidelines on that? the MADD folks have tried to put specific limits on the DUI laws, but most others i'd say don't carry them. for that matter, obscene behavior, indecent exposure, etc, etc. these are all examples of things that society (and or local judge) re-evaluates from time to time to decide what the current standard is.
here's the relevant section of my isp's (current) policy. notice how it states that they get to define what violates this standard.
also, this isn't a contract that i'm aware of. it's a terms of service. they say here's the rules by which we'll give you X service.
you go into a gentlemen's club and the sign clearly states "no touching". that's the terms of service. if you get your self a table dance or whatever it is, and you break those terms, you'll unsurprisingly find yourself all bruised up outside the establishment.
F. CUSTOMER shall not utilize excessive "bandwidth" (i.e. volume of data transmitted or received) arising out of the Service at any time and on an on-going basis. PROVIDER shall have the sole and unreviewable right to determine whether CUSTOMER'S use violates this standard. CUSTOMER must comply with all current bandwidth, data storage, and other limitations on the Service established by PROVIDER. CUSTOMER must ensure that CUSTOMER'S activity (including, but not limited to, use made by CUSTOMER or others of any personal Web features) does not improperly restrict, inhibit, or degrade any other user's use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of PROVIDER) an unusually large burden on the network. In addition, CUSTOMER must ensure that CUSTOMER'S activities do not improperly restrict, inhibit, disrupt, degrade or impede PROVIDER'S ability to deliver the Service and monitor the Service, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network Services. Violation of this policy may, at PROVIDER'S option, result in termination of Service or imposition of excessive bandwidth usage charges, as more particularly described in the Conditions of Subscription. G. CUSTOMER may not use CUSTOMER'S account for hosting server software operating on commonly recognized TCP/IP ports.
i don't think that end users are expected to throttle or monitor their own bandwidth usage at a given time. if the provider advertises 1.5mbps, and the current mass technology doesn't make it easy for me to keep my usage w/i that limits, then i shouldn' t be the one to put the cap on. the provider should be the one to cap the usage.
sorry, this 250$ 4gb player will hold, as apple reps so nicely put it, "enough songs for a weekend road trip". 4gb of even fairly high quality mp3s is quite a bit of music.
the person in the gym can use a 64 mb (low quality mp3), a 128mb, 256, or 512 mb. that'll hold enough for your workout.
personally, i'm in the market for digital am/fm mini-cd/mp3 player. the 210 mb cd-roms hold plenty of music for the gym and they're small and fairly light to carry around.
IBM is far larger and more powerful than both SCO and Microsoft put together
ok, sure my source has the pretty butterfly on it, and could be considered biased, but i've looked in the past at yahoo quotes and they give similar market cap. i think i recall that IBM beats msft out in revenues or some such, but certainly this is one fairly big indicator that MSFT is as big if not bigger than IBM.
i'm not much of a stock analyst at all, would it seem that ibm is ripe for a stock split anytime soon?
fashion junkies maybe, but there's much smaller mp3 players for the majority of runners out there that don't plan to run constantly for an entire weekend. i checked out their page as i've been thinking about a nice small audio device during exercising.
250$ for the fashion statement or kewl factor is about all its worth to a runner. it would be better if it had an fm tuner, but still for less the price you can get a mini-cdr player with digital am/fm tuner, etc.
have you been to the coffee station in an office lately? there's plenty of (us) fat ass coffee adicts out there. i wouldn't at all correlate coffee adiction with being thin. the thin folks most like have a method for burning off energy which includes activities other than channel surfing and/. surfing.
sure, but the sticker price of an operating system is rarely a drop in the bucket compared to the total migration cost. typically a specific hardware box is used to run applications, and those applications must be able to run flawlessly in the new environment. if they can't then a replacement is needed for them.
not really. with alot of the freely downloadable software, you have to click through some soft of agreement. i have no idea what they say in there, as i just want to install what i'm after. sun does this with thier java/jdk. wouldn't sun benefit from allowing distros from including the sun jdk as oppose to that blackdown (similar, but not)? heck, sun even has a click through to download their netbeans platform in binary format. i suspect their cvs servers are public, but then you're on your own.
what other commercial products did you have in mind that exist for linux that could be installed? i can think if yahoo messenger, and there's no click thorough. debian and gentoo have it easy wrt to these types of software. just apt-get or emerge them and they're there.
i got tired of rebates long long ago. personally, i forget to send them in and or keep track of what was sent.vs. what i get back. so, off i went to pricewatch.com where things are pretty much the same price as those rebates except there's no rebates. then i started having lots of hardware failures (albeit after the hw worked for a while). the only thing worth sending back to the manufacturer was a hdd, which maxtor nicely sent back a larger hdd at no cost. finally, i realized that computer hardware , just like everything else, is a you get what you pay for business. buy name brands with a reputable vendor (newegg/tigerdirect among others).
as oppose to spending time usefully posting interesting and insightfull comments on/.?
i have to say that the holiday decoration probably created lots of "team building" in the way of informal conversations and such. more than can be said for surfing/. all day.
were you around during the latter half of the 90's when tech salaries were sometimes DOUBLING? while other sectors were getting nominal 3-4% salary increase.
most people would just like to do an honest days work for an honest days pay. on top of that they'd like to do something that they enjoy doing. would it be so bad if entry level wage for a software developer would be 25-30k? scale that by about 4-5% per year of experience. good, got the pay out of the way.
now the job. good hours, work when you want from home. just come in to the office one day per week. small work stations are available. and a team meeting room is available. the project, a fairly high profile project providing the ability to utilize the latest buz words all around.
I'm a programmer, so I prefer black and white. Enough of this _intent_ of the action, or what common sense tells you, etc.
The fact of the matter is that a person has ordered a service from a company that happens to have a flawed delivery mechanism which can be easily exploited to provide consumers with the extra content they deliver along with the paid content.
Ball games, movie tickets, concert tickets. those examples are kinda outta this relm. In those instances, you're purchasing access to enter another person or corporation's facilities for a limited time.
How about if cell phones or even home land lines could easily be modified or just used in such a way that they provided unmetered usage? Perhaps someone discovers that if you enter *420 before making an overseas call, that the call will not be metered. Is it wrong to make a call like this? Should it be illegal to do so? You're just buying phone service, the ability to dial numbers and be connected. They provide a dial tone and connectivity. They also provide a pricing structure. If their delivery system contains a flaw that allows easy access, then the system needs to be fixed. Don't shoot the messenger, or shoot the man who's having sex with your wife who's sleeping around all over town. Fix the problem;).
I don't think it matters how trivial it is to get around the problem is. Perhaps, you only need to order a special device for you playstation that allows it to bypass the boot up sequence and allows you to play "backup" games for your playstation. Is this wrong, is this illegal? You're accessing the system in a way it was untintented to be accessed...
interesting. so you own the right to use the content on the cd you purchased, but not the right to inspect and possibly use the extra content being streamed into your house by the cable company provider that you didn't order?
lets say new cd's start coming out with extra content on them (high quality mp3's of tracks not on the disk perhaps) that is encrypted, and to access the work, you need to purchase a key from the distribution company (RIAA). maybe microsoft media player licenses the right to have embeded keys in their software so they can play the encrypted mp3's but no other software can that doesn't pay the high license fee. if you figure out how to decode those mp3's, is it _right_ to listen to the content contained on them?
thanks for the link. been here for some time and never heard of that. i'm only an hour away and they do have some interesting talks it seems like. will have to sign up for the spring.
Where else can you take a tour that's half on land, half on water, SAME vehicle? Hmm?
no time to pick each one of these silly points apart, but Seattle also has these silly vehicles. i spent over two weeks there and never had the urge to actually take one of those tours. thank goodness.
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mods, insightful does not mean insiteful. big difference. oh well, i'll bite the troll.
an os kernel is a big project. linus is "the man" when it comes to this kernel project. as such he decides what gets into the source tree. he's active in development and works closely with other developers to decide general direction and such. linus' goals for the linux kernel are much more broad than the goals for IBM, Novell, RHAT, etc. linus likes the all purpose general kernel that works on anything from an ipaq to the mainframe. something that's technically sound.
ibm, Novell, and RHAT all have different specific interests in the kernel. and as such they each deploy different non-vanilla kernels. sure they contribute their work back to linus and probably finance some of the major developers. IBM needs something that's extremely scalable on their big hardware. RHAT needs something that can make sure you've antied up your 1500$ exorti^^^ licensing fees. and Novell needs something that just plain works with their stuff.
i never really understand the insightful mod. what's in the parent post that contains a clear and deep perception? anyway, enough on the /. moderation system. back on topic.
do you have kids with legos? have you been a kid with legos?
the big duplo blocks that are aimed at preschool kids don't really incite much imagination in themselves. but that age group really can exercise their imagination with... well, i'm amazed at what little they can use to exercise their imagination.
now on to the actual legos. these are aimed at kids mainly 5 and over possibly 6. yes, they come with instructions, and somehow the kids can put them together just like the picture on the box in what seems like record time. once. that's the only time that heap of plastic will ever resemble anything that is on the box or any piece of paper within the box. not because they get taken apart and just left alone never to be used again. not because 1/2 the pieces are gone (well, this isn't entirely true, those tiny pieces are hard to keep track of). it's because the pieces take some new shape at least every other day or so to become part of a star fleet, or a battle ship, or a race team, or just kewl peice of art that lasts 20 minutes.
something that's fun to do and watch? entertainment for the whole family? west virginia's favorite pastime? er just plain freaking kewl...
i dunno. i agree the system is all fscked up. what's a guy to do. get a direct connection to the internet? stay off line? use dial up? even the fairly cheep dial up in my area, copper.net, has limits on hour usage
on a side note. lots of things are up to the discression of the interpreter. public intoxication. are there specific guidelines on that? the MADD folks have tried to put specific limits on the DUI laws, but most others i'd say don't carry them. for that matter, obscene behavior, indecent exposure, etc, etc. these are all examples of things that society (and or local judge) re-evaluates from time to time to decide what the current standard is.
here's the relevant section of my isp's (current) policy. notice how it states that they get to define what violates this standard.
also, this isn't a contract that i'm aware of. it's a terms of service. they say here's the rules by which we'll give you X service.
you go into a gentlemen's club and the sign clearly states "no touching". that's the terms of service. if you get your self a table dance or whatever it is, and you break those terms, you'll unsurprisingly find yourself all bruised up outside the establishment.
F. CUSTOMER shall not utilize excessive "bandwidth" (i.e. volume of data transmitted or received) arising out of the Service at any time and on an on-going basis. PROVIDER shall have the sole and unreviewable right to determine whether CUSTOMER'S use violates this standard. CUSTOMER must comply with all current bandwidth, data storage, and other limitations on the Service established by PROVIDER. CUSTOMER must ensure that CUSTOMER'S activity (including, but not limited to, use made by CUSTOMER or others of any personal Web features) does not improperly restrict, inhibit, or degrade any other user's use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of PROVIDER) an unusually large burden on the network. In addition, CUSTOMER must ensure that CUSTOMER'S activities do not improperly restrict, inhibit, disrupt, degrade or impede PROVIDER'S ability to deliver the Service and monitor the Service, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network Services.
Violation of this policy may, at PROVIDER'S option, result in termination of Service or imposition of excessive bandwidth usage charges, as more particularly described in the Conditions of Subscription.
G. CUSTOMER may not use CUSTOMER'S account for hosting server software operating on commonly recognized TCP/IP ports.
i don't think that end users are expected to throttle or monitor their own bandwidth usage at a given time. if the provider advertises 1.5mbps, and the current mass technology doesn't make it easy for me to keep my usage w/i that limits, then i shouldn' t be the one to put the cap on. the provider should be the one to cap the usage.
sorry, this 250$ 4gb player will hold, as apple reps so nicely put it, "enough songs for a weekend road trip". 4gb of even fairly high quality mp3s is quite a bit of music.
the person in the gym can use a 64 mb (low quality mp3), a 128mb, 256, or 512 mb. that'll hold enough for your workout.
personally, i'm in the market for digital am/fm mini-cd/mp3 player. the 210 mb cd-roms hold plenty of music for the gym and they're small and fairly light to carry around.
IBM is far larger and more powerful than both SCO and Microsoft put together
ok, sure my source has the pretty butterfly on it, and could be considered biased, but i've looked in the past at yahoo quotes and they give similar market cap. i think i recall that IBM beats msft out in revenues or some such, but certainly this is one fairly big indicator that MSFT is as big if not bigger than IBM.
i'm not much of a stock analyst at all, would it seem that ibm is ripe for a stock split anytime soon?
MSFT:
Market Cap. 305.2 Bil
IBM:
Market Capitalization 159.93 Bil
fashion junkies maybe, but there's much smaller mp3 players for the majority of runners out there that don't plan to run constantly for an entire weekend. i checked out their page as i've been thinking about a nice small audio device during exercising.
250$ for the fashion statement or kewl factor is about all its worth to a runner. it would be better if it had an fm tuner, but still for less the price you can get a mini-cdr player with digital am/fm tuner, etc.
have you been to the coffee station in an office lately? there's plenty of (us) fat ass coffee adicts out there. i wouldn't at all correlate coffee adiction with being thin. the thin folks most like have a method for burning off energy which includes activities other than channel surfing and /. surfing.
are you joking, trolling, of just freaking insaine? at anyrate, you'll probably need the java induced answer:
public static void main(String [] args){
if (true)
System.out.println("yes");
}
sure, but the sticker price of an operating system is rarely a drop in the bucket compared to the total migration cost. typically a specific hardware box is used to run applications, and those applications must be able to run flawlessly in the new environment. if they can't then a replacement is needed for them.
not really. with alot of the freely downloadable software, you have to click through some soft of agreement. i have no idea what they say in there, as i just want to install what i'm after. sun does this with thier java/jdk. wouldn't sun benefit from allowing distros from including the sun jdk as oppose to that blackdown (similar, but not)? heck, sun even has a click through to download their netbeans platform in binary format. i suspect their cvs servers are public, but then you're on your own.
what other commercial products did you have in mind that exist for linux that could be installed? i can think if yahoo messenger, and there's no click thorough. debian and gentoo have it easy wrt to these types of software. just apt-get or emerge them and they're there.
from the article...
He is currently working in the semiconductor industry as an applications engineer.
not that many would have read the words on the page. besides the photo with the tank top doesn't appear to be female.
...haven't gotten anything done but surf, mess with iTunes and other BS junk like that
;). thoug it does sound like a fairly normal day.
and we wonder why jobs are going over seas
i got tired of rebates long long ago. personally, i forget to send them in and or keep track of what was sent .vs. what i get back. so, off i went to pricewatch.com where things are pretty much the same price as those rebates except there's no rebates. then i started having lots of hardware failures (albeit after the hw worked for a while). the only thing worth sending back to the manufacturer was a hdd, which maxtor nicely sent back a larger hdd at no cost. finally, i realized that computer hardware , just like everything else, is a you get what you pay for business. buy name brands with a reputable vendor (newegg/tigerdirect among others).
the reality is that most cube dwelers spend more time (awake) during the year in their cubicle than they do at their home, _all_ year long. sad.
as oppose to spending time usefully posting interesting and insightfull comments on /.?
/. all day.
i have to say that the holiday decoration probably created lots of "team building" in the way of informal conversations and such. more than can be said for surfing
should they both be worried, or do you think sco might only find one with a valid mailing address to send the extorti^^^cease and disist letter?
were you around during the latter half of the 90's when tech salaries were sometimes DOUBLING? while other sectors were getting nominal 3-4% salary increase.
most people would just like to do an honest days work for an honest days pay. on top of that they'd like to do something that they enjoy doing. would it be so bad if entry level wage for a software developer would be 25-30k? scale that by about 4-5% per year of experience. good, got the pay out of the way.
now the job. good hours, work when you want from home. just come in to the office one day per week. small work stations are available. and a team meeting room is available. the project, a fairly high profile project providing the ability to utilize the latest buz words all around.
money, money, money... gimme, gimme, gimme...
as oppose to surfing /. from the office ;)
I'm a programmer, so I prefer black and white. Enough of this _intent_ of the action, or what common sense tells you, etc.
;).
The fact of the matter is that a person has ordered a service from a company that happens to have a flawed delivery mechanism which can be easily exploited to provide consumers with the extra content they deliver along with the paid content.
Ball games, movie tickets, concert tickets. those examples are kinda outta this relm. In those instances, you're purchasing access to enter another person or corporation's facilities for a limited time.
How about if cell phones or even home land lines could easily be modified or just used in such a way that they provided unmetered usage? Perhaps someone discovers that if you enter *420 before making an overseas call, that the call will not be metered. Is it wrong to make a call like this? Should it be illegal to do so? You're just buying phone service, the ability to dial numbers and be connected. They provide a dial tone and connectivity. They also provide a pricing structure. If their delivery system contains a flaw that allows easy access, then the system needs to be fixed. Don't shoot the messenger, or shoot the man who's having sex with your wife who's sleeping around all over town. Fix the problem
I don't think it matters how trivial it is to get around the problem is. Perhaps, you only need to order a special device for you playstation that allows it to bypass the boot up sequence and allows you to play "backup" games for your playstation. Is this wrong, is this illegal? You're accessing the system in a way it was untintented to be accessed...
interesting. so you own the right to use the content on the cd you purchased, but not the right to inspect and possibly use the extra content being streamed into your house by the cable company provider that you didn't order?
lets say new cd's start coming out with extra content on them (high quality mp3's of tracks not on the disk perhaps) that is encrypted, and to access the work, you need to purchase a key from the distribution company (RIAA). maybe microsoft media player licenses the right to have embeded keys in their software so they can play the encrypted mp3's but no other software can that doesn't pay the high license fee. if you figure out how to decode those mp3's, is it _right_ to listen to the content contained on them?
thanks for the link. been here for some time and never heard of that. i'm only an hour away and they do have some interesting talks it seems like. will have to sign up for the spring.
Where else can you take a tour that's half on land, half on water, SAME vehicle? Hmm?
no time to pick each one of these silly points apart, but Seattle also has these silly vehicles. i spent over two weeks there and never had the urge to actually take one of those tours. thank goodness.