They won't make a BSD derived OS. Ignoring the fact that there is competition in that field.. The geek crowd would howl. The Mac crowd would crow. Consumers would see MS stray from Windoze and may decide to explore alternatives themselves. Their apple cart would truly tip then.
Still, they in a bind: The Inq does have an anti-MS edge to it, but the underlying problem for MS is true. Linux/OpenOffice hit hardest where their 90% profit ratio exists. Even it it doesn't translate into any actuall wins, it will hit their books b/c their customers can finally negotiate. How would any company negotiate when they know their supplier's products have a 90% profit ratio???
I wonder if there exists a market for the Linux techie that will provide negotiation support?? = )
Well these devices do not last forever. Biological agents simply die off over time. Those little buggers (and their offspring) have a shelf life. Chemical agents decompose, become unstable or unusable, and must be disposed of. So yes, in a way they do "spontaneously combust.. into nothingness".
I'm happy you quote their website. I'm so desperate for Sleemans down here in Colorado that I have to bribe my wife to bring it back as luggage on the plane.
Decent beer would make an expat Canuck's life in the US sooooo much more palatable.
Ahh, the media are asking tougher questions now. Where where they before the war when it mattered? The answer is that it is easy for them to ask those questions when the war is *obviously* not going as planned. Holding the administration's feet to the fire earlier could have improved policy decisions. The US media has definitely lost the ball on this one.
As for Helen Thomas, good for her. She is cited as the exception rather than the rule isn't she?
I think it is rather too cozy in Washington right now. Bush is so out of practice that he has to import Blair to do his speaking for him.
If one causes another's death, one can get the death penalty. What if one causes mere annoyance to millions and millions across the globe? Would that not also warrant the death penalty if the equivalent harm is done?
I believe their profit margins on XP is around 80% or so. (can't re-find the link)
So I'd bet that $40.00 ($200 * 20%) is when they "officially" start dumping or selling below cost.
Even if it is not dumping, it is still the case that a monopolist is using price discrimination to prevent a small player's entry into a market.
Cheers, -D
Re:Applications I could run?
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Open Mosix would allow the migration of regular processes, not specially written parallel programs which are required for Beowulf varieties. With Open Mosix you can run 50 instances of what-ever program.
I think it won't be long before we have an insta-Apache cluster, insta-mySQL cluster, insta redHat ecomm application cluster... I don't think Oracle's unbreakable claims hold a candle to this:
It is very exciting. (well I dig it!) But not simply because you can use your Mamma's Windoze network without her knowing: Say a bunch of machines in an e-commerce configuration insta-cluster, each with a couple gigs of ram and a cdrom (or even network boot). This makes it extremely unlikely that an unstable node wouldn't be able to get up on its feet again if it was rebooted or simply crashed. It is much more likely that your traditional installed OS will go AWOL and pooch your hard drive, making it unusable w/o a re-install. This time, every boot is a fresh install. Your data is the only thing that is written to storage. Maybe to a SAN via an mySQL cluster?
Also if a node is mis-behav'n then you can tell the processes to get lost (move onto other nodes) reboot the machine w/o worrying about the stability of the installation. Have your script reboot each node weekly in staggered times during low volume times just for the hell of it!
You could always use diskless nodes 'n stuff but this way it will be brought to the starving masses. Much less administration. Much more turnkey. Much more scary for Redmond based software companies (Lycoris excepted) because this sort of thing beats traditional point and click. -b
It would be nice to not have to recompile Nvidia's modules every time you changed your kernel though. Or to not have a downloadable one/w some wack'd out latest beta kernel.
Well, one must differentiate between internal and external forces..
The Constitutional checks and balances are what keep the US a democracy right? The three branches of government: Legal, Legislative, Administrative. All three have constraints: Legal has the US Constitution. Legislative have the voting (and donating) public. Administrative also have the voting/donating public. The three branches keep each other in check.
US Citizens enjoy this balance of power that which prevents tyrany. US citizens are not the only people influenced by this hyper-power, and for non-US citizens, like your average Iraqi, the constraints break down. Iraqi's (or anyone else) do not have US constitutional protection, do not vote, nor do they fund political parties. Yet they are heavily influenced by the US Government. Taxation w/o representation, if you will.
In essence, if one believes in the US constitution and these other instututions are what make America great and free, then one also must hold true that America may not be so "great and free" for people in other countries, when the interests of internal US and non-US citizens collide.
The fact that the US is a hyper-power, combined with the failure of US institutions to consider non-US citizen's interests (they were not designed to do so) means that essentially we have democracy on the inside, tyranny on the outside. Without international institutions strong enough to contain a hyper-power, it can be no other way. -b
Re:The only thing war has ever done is...
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You mean like: "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century" written for Bush's pals, by Bush's pals.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/publicationsre po rts.htm
"The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
Is this "Lebensraum"?
Just causing trouble. ; ) -b
Re:First war post!
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Since Vietnam, American news will never see the true stomach turning results of war. Broadcast standards see to this.
Other news organizations in other parts of the world do show it.
I think that speaks volumes in terms of public opinion.
What about GNU tools? I don't mean undelete utilities, but say something that reads the drive at the hardware level? I remember there being a flag in the kernel... CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL
more like those cellophane wrappers that cds come in. They are soo annoying. Fingernails, teeth, pens--scratch up the case by the time you get in there. Great idea Real. ; )
Replace it with free labor markets in North and South America!
If an Irishman can work in 14 other EU countries (perhaps 25 when it is enlarged), why can't we get our crap together and do the same?
All this BS with government restrictions is wasteful. It creates employment alright: lots and lots of government workers to stamp stamps and push paper and allow politicians to pretend that their citizens are somehow safer. It also keeps families apart, pushes people underground, and enriches the pockets of immigration lawyers.
The notion that a border makes you safe is preposterous. The notion that a border makes a society rich is silly. Anyone can work & live in any country now with sufficient cash. It is time to free every citizen from his or her borders.
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Because companies should be trying to maximize profit not market share.
Neo-classical (mainstream) Micro economics doesn't focus on screwing your competition, only improving your *own* products/prices.
There is a difference.
-b
Better yet, stick the Hubble on to the ISS. That way they're there anyway, so they might as well fix the damn thing.
-b
"A rat done bit my sister Nell with Dubya on the moon...."
...But he *is* going to the moon right????
= ) -b
They won't make a BSD derived OS. Ignoring the fact that there is competition in that field..
The geek crowd would howl. The Mac crowd would crow. Consumers would see MS stray from Windoze and may decide to explore alternatives themselves. Their apple cart would truly tip then.
Still, they in a bind: The Inq does have an anti-MS edge to it, but the underlying problem for MS is true. Linux/OpenOffice hit hardest where their 90% profit ratio exists. Even it it doesn't translate into any actuall wins, it will hit their books b/c their customers can finally negotiate. How would any company negotiate when they know their supplier's products have a 90% profit ratio???
I wonder if there exists a market for the Linux techie that will provide negotiation support?? = )
Cheers,
-B
Well these devices do not last forever. Biological agents simply die off over time. Those little buggers (and their offspring) have a shelf life. Chemical agents decompose, become unstable or unusable, and must be disposed of. So yes, in a way they do "spontaneously combust.. into nothingness".
-b
I'm happy you quote their website. I'm so desperate for Sleemans down here in Colorado that I have to bribe my wife to bring it back as luggage on the plane.
Decent beer would make an expat Canuck's life in the US sooooo much more palatable.
-b
Ahh, the media are asking tougher questions now. Where where they before the war when it mattered? The answer is that it is easy for them to ask those questions when the war is *obviously* not going as planned. Holding the administration's feet to the fire earlier could have improved policy decisions. The US media has definitely lost the ball on this one.
As for Helen Thomas, good for her. She is cited as the exception rather than the rule isn't she?
I think it is rather too cozy in Washington right now. Bush is so out of practice that he has to import Blair to do his speaking for him.
Cheers,
-b
Yes.
I thought I was hacked when I had 20-30 undeliverable messages in my inbox.
Luckily, just another windoze virus. = )
-b
I'd say that *all* US Nukes have fallen into the wrong hands.
-B
If one causes another's death, one can get the death penalty. What if one causes mere annoyance to millions and millions across the globe? Would that not also warrant the death penalty if the equivalent harm is done?
Just asking.
-b
Then penquinistas shift strategy:
Linux: So good they pretent it's illegal.
-b
hmmm.... Redhat not being a monopolist--why would we care?
I believe their profit margins on XP is around 80% or so. (can't re-find the link)
So I'd bet that $40.00 ($200 * 20%) is when they "officially" start dumping or selling below cost.
Even if it is not dumping, it is still the case that a monopolist is using price discrimination to prevent a small player's entry into a market.
Cheers,
-D
Open Mosix would allow the migration of regular processes, not specially written parallel programs which are required for Beowulf varieties. With Open Mosix you can run 50 instances of what-ever program.
I think it won't be long before we have an insta-Apache cluster, insta-mySQL cluster, insta redHat ecomm application cluster... I don't think Oracle's unbreakable claims hold a candle to this:
It is very exciting. (well I dig it!) But not simply because you can use your Mamma's Windoze network without her knowing: Say a bunch of machines in an e-commerce configuration insta-cluster, each with a couple gigs of ram and a cdrom (or even network boot). This makes it extremely unlikely that an unstable node wouldn't be able to get up on its feet again if it was rebooted or simply crashed. It is much more likely that your traditional installed OS will go AWOL and pooch your hard drive, making it unusable w/o a re-install. This time, every boot is a fresh install. Your data is the only thing that is written to storage. Maybe to a SAN via an mySQL cluster?
Also if a node is mis-behav'n then you can tell the processes to get lost (move onto other nodes) reboot the machine w/o worrying about the stability of the installation. Have your script reboot each node weekly in staggered times during low volume times just for the hell of it!
You could always use diskless nodes 'n stuff but this way it will be brought to the starving masses. Much less administration. Much more turnkey. Much more scary for Redmond based software companies (Lycoris excepted) because this sort of thing beats traditional point and click.
-b
300 hours????
p
I've used and enjoyed this utility:
http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.ph
-b
Knoppix MIB though.... Yummi!
-b
It would be nice to not have to recompile Nvidia's modules every time you changed your kernel though. /w some wack'd out latest beta kernel.
Or to not have a downloadable one
Small complaint, I know....
Later!
-b
Well, one must differentiate between internal and external forces..
The Constitutional checks and balances are what keep the US a democracy right? The three branches of government: Legal, Legislative, Administrative. All three have constraints: Legal has the US Constitution. Legislative have the voting (and donating) public. Administrative also have the voting/donating public. The three branches keep each other in check.
US Citizens enjoy this balance of power that which prevents tyrany. US citizens are not the only people influenced by this hyper-power, and for non-US citizens, like your average Iraqi, the constraints break down. Iraqi's (or anyone else) do not have US constitutional protection, do not vote, nor do they fund political parties. Yet they are heavily influenced by the US Government. Taxation w/o representation, if you will.
In essence, if one believes in the US constitution and these other instututions are what make America great and free, then one also must hold true that America may not be so "great and free" for people in other countries, when the interests of internal US and non-US citizens collide.
The fact that the US is a hyper-power, combined with the failure of US institutions to consider non-US citizen's interests (they were not designed to do so) means that essentially we have democracy on the inside, tyranny on the outside. Without international institutions strong enough to contain a hyper-power, it can be no other way.
-b
You mean like:
e po rts.htm
"Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century" written for Bush's pals, by Bush's pals.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/publicationsr
"The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
Is this "Lebensraum"?
Just causing trouble. ; )
-b
Since Vietnam, American news will never see the true stomach turning results of war. Broadcast standards see to this.
Other news organizations in other parts of the world do show it.
I think that speaks volumes in terms of public opinion.
Cheers,
-b
What exactly *is* the problem Intel has with manufacturing/designing Itanic? I always liked the theory.
Cheers,
-b
You're just wasting power.
Or crack some keys or something!
-b
What about GNU tools?
I don't mean undelete utilities, but say something that reads the drive at the hardware level?
I remember there being a flag in the kernel...
CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL
Cheers,
-b
more like those cellophane wrappers that cds come in. They are soo annoying. Fingernails, teeth, pens--scratch up the case by the time you get in there. Great idea Real. ; )
-b
Replace it with free labor markets in North and South America!
If an Irishman can work in 14 other EU countries (perhaps 25 when it is enlarged), why can't we get our crap together and do the same?
All this BS with government restrictions is wasteful. It creates employment alright: lots and lots of government workers to stamp stamps and push paper and allow politicians to pretend that their citizens are somehow safer. It also keeps families apart, pushes people underground, and enriches the pockets of immigration lawyers.
The notion that a border makes you safe is preposterous. The notion that a border makes a society rich is silly. Anyone can work & live in any country now with sufficient cash. It is time to free every citizen from his or her borders.
-b