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The question, though, is will their tricky ways work? Cyrix tried the exact same thing a few years back (marking a chip with a model number that represented the 'approximate intel performance' rather than the chip speed itself. Is AMD going to be able to pull this one off, or is it destined to go the same way as the Cyrix chip?
What, if any, changes have you noticed in your dealings with politicians following the Sept 11 attacks? Are they more receptive, less receptive, or what?
If neither, do you expect this to change in the near future as more and more tech laws are being discussed?
This morning when I came into work it was 1.77. It is now (as of 4:45 CDT) 1.99 and the gas station next to the building where I work has cars out on the street waiting to pull in. It will be interesting to see where this ends up.
I've heard through the grapevine that gas prices are going through the roof in some areas. Supposedly Lafayette, Indiana has $7 a gallon
gas prices and here in central Illinois where I'm at the stations have long lines.. What about where you are?
Do you find that the people you have to deal with in Washington are relatively knowledeable about issues that we care about such as Linux (and it's distribution model)?
If not, what are you doing and what do you see can be done to change this?
One of the main things that you have to consider
is the exchange rate of the money. If $50 US
is equal to 1000 units of their money and a
cheeseburger costs 500 units you aren't doing
very well. This is a common problem with American
workers going over to XXX (country name deleted
so I don't sound biased in any way; I'm not)
and working. The American's get paid in dollars
and when the worker converts to local currency
they have trouble even paying rent.
The very first reason that they give for Linux users disliking Java is that it doesn't have a GPL (or similar) license. I would have to disagree with that.
1) Sun is doing a decent job of releasing new versions of Java. So, we can't say that it is stagnating (at least at this point. This could always change in the future)
2) Sun DOES allow source code to be released. We might not be able to hack it and rerelease it as something else, but the source code is available. This is sufficient for 99.9% of us. Let's get real here. What percentage of Linux people actually hack the source for C++ and release their own versions? Wanting to look at the C++ source code? sure.. I've done that many times myself. There's a big difference between looking for something in particular (which Sun is allowing for java by releasing the java source) and actually needing to modify the source.
I think that the problem that Linux users have with Java is that java was slow getting to the table for linux. It took a long time to get a decent version of Java for linux (years longer than it took on sun/windows) and it just hasn't been fully adopted yet.
We have plenty of these rehashed stories.. I wonder.. Why not have a database of links used in slashdot stories and messages and when someone posts something new, have it check to see if a URL has been used before. Now.. a few issues with doing this..
* - False negatives. The same story might appear different places with different URLs.. Well.. it happens.. This would help with a lot of the cases I'm sure..
* - Some top level URLs would need to be removed from the list of bad sites.. For instance, lots of people might mention something as being posted in the NY Times and give a link to both the main NY Times page and a deep link to the message itself. The top-level link would need to be ignored.
* -/. would have to take processing power to check for this.. ie., it wouldn't be free.. But what is?
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The question, though, is will their tricky ways work? Cyrix tried the exact same thing a few years back (marking a chip with a model number that represented the 'approximate intel performance' rather than the chip speed itself. Is AMD going to be able to pull this one off, or is it destined to go the same way as the Cyrix chip?
What, if any, changes have you noticed in your dealings with politicians following the Sept 11 attacks? Are they more receptive, less receptive, or what?
If neither, do you expect this to change in the near future as more and more tech laws are being discussed?
This morning when I came into work it was 1.77. It is now (as of 4:45 CDT) 1.99 and the gas station next to the building where I work has cars out on the street waiting to pull in. It will be interesting to see where this ends up.
Kirby
I've heard through the grapevine that gas prices are going through the roof in some areas. Supposedly Lafayette, Indiana has $7 a gallon
gas prices and here in central Illinois where I'm at the stations have long lines.. What about where you are?
Kirby
Do you find that the people you have to deal with in Washington are relatively knowledeable about issues that we care about such as Linux (and it's distribution model)?
If not, what are you doing and what do you see can be done to change this?
One of the main things that you have to consider is the exchange rate of the money. If $50 US is equal to 1000 units of their money and a cheeseburger costs 500 units you aren't doing very well. This is a common problem with American workers going over to XXX (country name deleted so I don't sound biased in any way; I'm not) and working. The American's get paid in dollars and when the worker converts to local currency they have trouble even paying rent.
The very first reason that they give for Linux users disliking Java is that it doesn't have a GPL (or similar) license. I would have to disagree with that.
1) Sun is doing a decent job of releasing new versions of Java. So, we can't say that it is stagnating (at least at this point. This could always change in the future)
2) Sun DOES allow source code to be released. We might not be able to hack it and rerelease it as something else, but the source code is available. This is sufficient for 99.9% of us. Let's get real here. What percentage of Linux people actually hack the source for C++ and release their own versions? Wanting to look at the C++ source code? sure.. I've done that many times myself. There's a big difference between looking for something in particular (which Sun is allowing for java by releasing the java source) and actually needing to modify the source.
I think that the problem that Linux users have with Java is that java was slow getting to the table for linux. It took a long time to get a decent version of Java for linux (years longer than it took on sun/windows) and it just hasn't been fully adopted yet.
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/. would have to take processing power to check for this.. ie., it wouldn't be free.. But what is?
We have plenty of these rehashed stories.. I wonder.. Why not have a database of links used in slashdot stories and messages and when someone posts something new, have it check to see if a URL has been used before. Now.. a few issues with doing this..
* - False negatives. The same story might appear different places with different URLs.. Well.. it happens.. This would help with a lot of the cases I'm sure..
* - Some top level URLs would need to be removed from the list of bad sites.. For instance, lots of people might mention something as being posted in the NY Times and give a link to both the main NY Times page and a deep link to the message itself. The top-level link would need to be ignored.
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Anyway, something to think about...