But this sounds like a golden opportunity to try out ZFS and benchmark it using a large amount of old-ish commodity hardware. And get yourself a nice little storage center in the process. From what I understand, ZFS loves old disks.
Nothing is stopping you from continuing to use the GPL2. Or using another license. Or writing your own bloody license. Nobody's *forcing* you to do anything.
MSN for MSIE7 is a conflict of interest, Google for random browsers not owned by Google isn't. I'm amazed that the submitter can't see the distinction.
Of course Google would be silent. It's an open source browser that chose to direct searches to Google by default. And what the default search option appears as in Firefox is entirely up to the core Firefox developers, which (as far as I know) have no discernable connection to Google, and certainly didn't when this started.
It's funny, because I was just typing on my iBook G4 and realized how little proprietary software I actually use, aside from the OS itself. Fink provides a lot of it for me, and being a Linux junkie turned Mac laptop user, what I can't get from Fink or elsewhere I compile from source.
Almost everything I do on a daily basis is done in a command prompt, or in an OSS-for-Mac app - Adium for IM, TeXShop for document preparation, Azureus for this and that download, X-Chat Aqua for IRC, Thunderbird for NNTP reading, Cyberduck for SFTP, Inkscape for vector graphics, Frozen Bubble, Armagetron and FooBillard for fun. Notable exceptions are Safari (which is based on an open source rendering engine, anyway), Mail.app and NetNewsWire -- if I find something better that is free/open, I will gladly switch, but what's out there for the Mac right now doesn't really do it for me.
And the "overpriced" thing about Macs is a myth, plain and simple. I run an iBook G4, simply the best bang for buck laptop a student could buy when I purchased it two years ago, and I'd wager that iBooks are still that way for students. iMacs are luxury items, sure, but the Mac mini is a brilliant mid-range computer system for the money (compact, too!).
You'd also be surprised at how much you low level mucking around can do at the OS X command line. If you want to. On my laptop, I don't. I want to get work done.
I can't say much to this except "you're a goddamned moron". You can't get much better than a cross platform, free-and-open, print-the-same-anywhere format with good compression support and a host of other features, developed by the industry leader in professional printing. It's the best thing for information interchange since ASCII. It's too bad you're missing out.
There was a time when people went to university (college as you Americans call it) to become educated. When did it turn into a vocational/job training school for people with more money and better marks?
Seriously, I have no doubt that the CS degree I'm earning will expand my mind and prepare me for life either as an academic or an industry person. There are a section of people at school who always complain that we aren't learning the latest and greatest technologies, to which I respond "go to DeVry if that's what you're looking for". There's no shame in wanting job prep, but a university level education will ultimately prove more valuable with less potential for obsolescence.
Ditto on the LiDE comments. Cheap and decent for most end-user needs. You can get ridiculously high res with a LiDE 30 (again, not a big deal since dpi means very little) and the quality is decent. SANE loves my LiDE 30 too, for the record.
TWAIN was the worst idea ever... "Let's have the DRIVER render its own widgets and control panels! Let's not think about the kinds of options a scanner might have... that would require too much foresight".
We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade.
Let's not forget that there were Free Speech Zones outside the Democratic National Convention, and that the D-crats are just the other side of the same coin. Unless people start busting heads and overthrow the entire system, things won't get better. Thankfully, Bush has managed to piss enough people off in his first four years that I'm confident he has the kind of arrogance and disregard necessary to inspire a bloody coup. See you on the flipside. I'll be sitting tight here in Canada.
Them: "Good afternoon Maui X-Stream?" Me: "Hi there, I'm inquiring about your software pricing..." Them: "Who's calling?" Me: "Just an interested consumer." Them: "I'll transfer you to sales." * hold music * Them: "Good afternoon this is Gene may I help you?" Me: "Yes I'm interested in the pricing of VX30" Them: "Which specific product? Did you mean the Encoder, the Live Streaming..." Me: "The encoder." Them: "$799." Me: "Seven hundred ninety-nine?" Them: "Yes." Me: "And is the source code included?"
Really? I guess that idiot who stole my dad's mini-van a few years back (in the middle of downtown Toronto) was just playing a practical joke. Perhaps all the kidnappings, murders, drug busts, etc. in this city are similarly comical in nature. Not to mention all the prostitute-killing in BC. That's not crime, that's just taking out the trash!
Crime is everywhere, to varying degrees, so get your head out of the sand.
The all-night buses that replace the subway when it shuts down at 2am here in Toronto, Canada have the nickname "the Vomit Comet". Fortunately it's only once in a while that someone sufficiently hammered will throw up on the bus, but it does happen.
When I saw "blogging a ride on the vomit comet" I thought someone was blogging about all the strange people you meet on those buses (or ones like it). Hmmm.... that gives me an idea...
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Who read that as "the Pokémon Institute" the first time through?
But this sounds like a golden opportunity to try out ZFS and benchmark it using a large amount of old-ish commodity hardware. And get yourself a nice little storage center in the process. From what I understand, ZFS loves old disks.
Nothing is stopping you from continuing to use the GPL2. Or using another license. Or writing your own bloody license. Nobody's *forcing* you to do anything.
Man, am I the only one who read the first sentence of the description and got "British Pornographic Industry" the first time through?
THANK you.
MSN for MSIE7 is a conflict of interest, Google for random browsers not owned by Google isn't. I'm amazed that the submitter can't see the distinction.
Of course Google would be silent. It's an open source browser that chose to direct searches to Google by default. And what the default search option appears as in Firefox is entirely up to the core Firefox developers, which (as far as I know) have no discernable connection to Google, and certainly didn't when this started.
It's funny, because I was just typing on my iBook G4 and realized how little proprietary software I actually use, aside from the OS itself. Fink provides a lot of it for me, and being a Linux junkie turned Mac laptop user, what I can't get from Fink or elsewhere I compile from source.
Almost everything I do on a daily basis is done in a command prompt, or in an OSS-for-Mac app - Adium for IM, TeXShop for document preparation, Azureus for this and that download, X-Chat Aqua for IRC, Thunderbird for NNTP reading, Cyberduck for SFTP, Inkscape for vector graphics, Frozen Bubble, Armagetron and FooBillard for fun. Notable exceptions are Safari (which is based on an open source rendering engine, anyway), Mail.app and NetNewsWire -- if I find something better that is free/open, I will gladly switch, but what's out there for the Mac right now doesn't really do it for me.
And the "overpriced" thing about Macs is a myth, plain and simple. I run an iBook G4, simply the best bang for buck laptop a student could buy when I purchased it two years ago, and I'd wager that iBooks are still that way for students. iMacs are luxury items, sure, but the Mac mini is a brilliant mid-range computer system for the money (compact, too!).
You'd also be surprised at how much you low level mucking around can do at the OS X command line. If you want to. On my laptop, I don't. I want to get work done.
Um. With GNU-Darwin installed it's pretty much as good as any Linux distribution. I don't know what you're whining about.
Sure; let's add in closures, inline FORTRAN support and programmer mind-reading too.
"Jurassic Park. But with spiders!"
And it's still a better title than this.
I can't say much to this except "you're a goddamned moron". You can't get much better than a cross platform, free-and-open, print-the-same-anywhere format with good compression support and a host of other features, developed by the industry leader in professional printing. It's the best thing for information interchange since ASCII. It's too bad you're missing out.
There was a time when people went to university (college as you Americans call it) to become educated. When did it turn into a vocational/job training school for people with more money and better marks?
Seriously, I have no doubt that the CS degree I'm earning will expand my mind and prepare me for life either as an academic or an industry person. There are a section of people at school who always complain that we aren't learning the latest and greatest technologies, to which I respond "go to DeVry if that's what you're looking for". There's no shame in wanting job prep, but a university level education will ultimately prove more valuable with less potential for obsolescence.
Ditto on the LiDE comments. Cheap and decent for most end-user needs. You can get ridiculously high res with a LiDE 30 (again, not a big deal since dpi means very little) and the quality is decent. SANE loves my LiDE 30 too, for the record.
TWAIN was the worst idea ever... "Let's have the DRIVER render its own widgets and control panels! Let's not think about the kinds of options a scanner might have... that would require too much foresight".
Windows NT started development in 1988.
And when did VMS, from which NT claims much of its heritage, begin development?
It's fair game if you're making the OS X -> NeXTStep leap.
I'll give you the USB pen drive, I've never used one
The interface for USB Mass Storage devices is pretty standard. Even Linux handles this flawlessly most of the time.
We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade.
Does he mean Ronald Reagan?
Let's not forget that there were Free Speech Zones outside the Democratic National Convention, and that the D-crats are just the other side of the same coin. Unless people start busting heads and overthrow the entire system, things won't get better. Thankfully, Bush has managed to piss enough people off in his first four years that I'm confident he has the kind of arrogance and disregard necessary to inspire a bloody coup. See you on the flipside. I'll be sitting tight here in Canada.
Hehehe. We called from Canada just now.
Them: "Good afternoon Maui X-Stream?"
Me: "Hi there, I'm inquiring about your software pricing..."
Them: "Who's calling?"
Me: "Just an interested consumer."
Them: "I'll transfer you to sales."
* hold music *
Them: "Good afternoon this is Gene may I help you?"
Me: "Yes I'm interested in the pricing of VX30"
Them: "Which specific product? Did you mean the Encoder, the Live Streaming..."
Me: "The encoder."
Them: "$799."
Me: "Seven hundred ninety-nine?"
Them: "Yes."
Me: "And is the source code included?"
*CLICK*
Ahhh well.
There's a reason, though, that LISP has remained primarily an academic curiosity. XML is dumbed down enough to appeal to the masses.
Unfortunately Java generics are pretty clunky for anything moderately complex. C#'s generics, though I'm aghast to say it, seem much friendlier.
Refer to page 4. Programmers would not see/edit XML tags. RTFA.
The fool should study polymorphism, and a object orientated language like Java or C++. But I suspect that is all is to much for the child's brain.
Maybe you should read up on the author. He's probably written more code in his day than you could shake a stick at.
So advertise that you've got a small minefield in your alley way, and it's your own fault if you decide to take your chances.
Kind of useless in the event of a home invasion, if they have the foresight to cut the lines going into your phone box.
Really? I guess that idiot who stole my dad's mini-van a few years back (in the middle of downtown Toronto) was just playing a practical joke. Perhaps all the kidnappings, murders, drug busts, etc. in this city are similarly comical in nature. Not to mention all the prostitute-killing in BC. That's not crime, that's just taking out the trash!
Crime is everywhere, to varying degrees, so get your head out of the sand.
The all-night buses that replace the subway when it shuts down at 2am here in Toronto, Canada have the nickname "the Vomit Comet". Fortunately it's only once in a while that someone sufficiently hammered will throw up on the bus, but it does happen.
When I saw "blogging a ride on the vomit comet" I thought someone was blogging about all the strange people you meet on those buses (or ones like it). Hmmm.... that gives me an idea...