If you are in a car going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
The whole point of the theory of relativity is that the speed of light is constant. Your example is moot, because the car could not travel at the speed of light, but a better example, if a car was travelling at half the speed of light, and it turned on its headlights, the light would still appear to travel away from the car at the speed of light, if you were in the car viewing the light travelling away from the front of the car.
If you had clearance, you would probably get in serious shit for revealing all that, which leave the other option, you don't have clearance, and you just pieced together publicly available information and filled in the gaps with guesses.
IDE drive could be as reliable, but they would cost more too.
Maxtor is closing this percieved gap at the beginning of next year, their Maxline II are ATA drives with the reliability ratings equal to SCSI, aimed at bulk storage archives.
You may ask why a MaxLine II, when there was no MaxLine I... Well, the 5400 RPM 120GB and 160GB 540DX were basically the MaxLine I. You will notice that these drives have been discontinued in favor of the 7200 RPM forms with 1 year warantee. I suspect the covert MaxLine I drives were actually aiming for SCSI reliability, because we have over 50 of them in service here in large archive RAIDs with no failures for over a year.
The real question is whether you can make money in the open source arena when your business is creating your own software rather than being a marketing and distribution company.
An easy question. All of the following companies do this, with more or less success:
These are just a few examples off the top of my head. There are thousands of small and medium sized companies that are either owner or heavy contributer to a single or a few open source projects, and their business model is based around customization and support of that open source product.
Looking at the distros only to ask the question "Is open souce a valid business model?" is like looking at the profitability of the owner of a shopping mall to answer the question "Is it profitable to run stores in a mall".
I think CNBC has given people the idea that the only companies that matter are publicly traded ones. There is more to business than the stock market. There are only a few thousand companies on the major stock markets, it isn't even a particularly large slice of the total US economy.
If you tell people about a Windows program, they will likely assume closed source; if you tell them about a Linux program, they will likely assume open source...
I don't see what the problem is.
If you don't want the uphill battle informing people about your product being closed source, you should just follow the Linux business model of charging only for code custimization and support.
Besides, if your product has such little value that the only money you can make from it is through restrictive licensing, you have larger problems than people assuming things about it.
You know, in this post [slashdot.org] posted 6 minutes earlier. Of course you followed the tried and true technique of posting pretty much the same thing as a followup to an earlier post, knowing that most people won't realize your theft.
Bah, I didn't copy anyone (except maybe myself*), it took me longer than 6 minutes to write that message.
*I seem to recall using this same joke a long time ago in a wi-fi security article.
I'm working on seed funding for a company that is developing a new product that will revolutionize WiFi security. I can't give too much away (patents and such are pending), but I can tell you it involves the transmission of RF signals through a flexible strand of material that freely conducts RF signals. This material is then surrounded by a material that does not conduct energy, and then (this is the kicker), the whole thing is wrapped in a "shield" of conductive material, preventing interception and injection of data.
These "RF Pipes" are going to be the next big thing, I just know it!
but........ If you look at number of deployed systems, you might as well say x86 is the rest of the world (other than macs), by at least a 1000/1 ratio.:)
Nearest deep pocket is the rule of thumb in any civil suit.
That would be Red Hat, with their 200 million in the bank. Small change for a company like MS, but at least it could pay the legal fees if they won, and take down the largest pure play Linux company.
Of course, IBM might just have a problem with that little strategy, and has the muscle to beat MS into the ground, or at least cost them a lot of money. I could see IBM buying Red Hat just to avoid the precedent should MS win.
Red Hat knows this, which is why you don't see NTFS in their kernels, or MP3 players in their distro, things like that. They know they are the nearest deep pockets in a lot of these cases.
But then that's meaningless too if you don't look at cost. If that 28% reduction in CPU count made the cluster cost 5 times more, then it doesn't look so hot unless your space is really worth that much to you, which is true in some cases and not others.
It's really difficult to look at a single metric for these things, because different things are important to different people.
It's like two people fighting to the death over a huge treasure that is supposed to be in a sealed box, but then they notice the box is a lot lighter than they thought.:)
You are absolutely correct. The people suggesting Quicken level programs obviously aren't aware that there is more to accounting than that. No business with more than 30 or 40 employees is going to use Quicken/Quickbooks level software for accounting.
Now, At work, we are going through an accounting software upgrade, I was involved in the meetings to some limited extent. We decided to stick with the product from "Ultimate" software for Windows. We had been using the DOS Ultipro for several years (based on foxpro). It wasn't cheap to upgrade, and the support isn't cheap either. Lets just say the cost is more than I make in a year.
I don't think there is any effort currently to bring anything close to this to Linux. Considering the critical nature of the app, and also the amount you would be paying for support (not just tech support, but things like tax table updates, etc), Wine is not an option.
My suggestion to the asker of the question, suck it up and get one single Windows/whatever box for the accounting if you are looking for any serious accounting apps. Maybe in a few years there will be something for Linux, but I doubt it, considering the constant need to revise for tax/employment laws and the potential liability if you screw up a tax table.
As a Solaris newbie, I agree 100%. The first thing I did when faced with a Solaris box was install as much of the GNU stuff I was familiar with as possible. This actually wasn't so hard, but Sun has less prepackaged "freeware" (as the UNIX companies are fond of calling open source), than SGI does for IRIX, leaving a few gaps in what I needed.
But the main thing was the heirarchy. It was horrible. I spent a couple hours getting all the file locations set up so that things worked, tweaking search path environment variables for the plentiful random locations that binary files are in, things like that.
My core knowledge is around IRIX and Linux, and I always thought IRIX was kinda weird, with some of our legacy packages thinking/etc was a good place to put binaries and package trees, but Solaris really makes IRIX FS heirarchy seem to make sense, even with quirky legacy packages.
I hear Minnesota is going to need a new Governor soon if so.:)
Typical binary thinking by someone who doesn't have to have his philosophies tested in the real world.
I'd love to have them tested. When I hire someone, I should be able to choose whether to hire them or not based on my own criteria, even if I don't hire them for some irrelevant and petty reason like the brand of shoes they wear or the color of their skin. Goes both ways too... I don't want anyone to feel pressured to hire me for some irrelevant reason.
laws that "mandate tolerance,"... have done much to remove the artificial barriers
They have also caused much resentment and helped internalize the ideas that minorities need help, in fact, that they really are inferior, and cannot succeed on merit alone. This is in addition to the loss of freedom that employers face, and that's even assuming the laws work in the first place, which is questionable.
"hate speech" websites help violent government dissidents to organize.
Well, we have this little thing called "freedom of association". We are free to gather and even talk about how we hate the government and oppose it. So long as we don't act in criminal ways, we have committed no crime. At least it was that way before everyone became willing to trade freedoms for the illusion of security.
The US recently arrested a citizen who was making a website for Al-Qaeda.
In the absence of other information, yes, I would say he was wrongly arrested. Of course, nothing is stopping the government from keeping an eye on this person in constitutional ways, and if they happen to uncover deeper ties that implicate him in terrorist activies, then by all means arrest the person.
Even if a million people had died on Sep. 11, I wouldn't feel much differently. There is nothing that is worth giving up basic freedoms for.
The haterd isn't illegal, it's the spreading of your, umm, "theory" by lies and deciet that you are held accountable for. IOW, you can type "I don't think the Holocaust happened."
But so what if someone thinks the halocaust didn't happen? So what even if they present it as fact? Most (if not all) of the history books used in school have many outright lies and inaccuracies that reflect the bias of the publisher.
The government of all countries have outright lied to the people many times, and been caught and even admitted the lie years later. If all deceptive propaganda were banned, only the government would be able to use said propaganda. Is that the way you want it to be?
You also seem to be confusing propaganda with deceptive propaganda. Propaganda takes many forms, not all of it involves deception. Propaganda is used every day by governments, companies, groups, and individuals.
So lets say that these hate laws are carefully crafted to end deceptive propaganda... That won't end what most consider "hate speech" by a long shot.
Suppose I put up a web site that says "Almost half the young nigger men in Washington DC are criminals." That is a fact, not a lie or even an opinion. It would still be considered by most as "hate speech", because of the connotations of the words I use.
I don't see any reasonable way to have any hate speech legislation at all, without repugnant repercussions to liberty.
There were recent posts with problems regarding the game freezing during migrations, not with this cluster, but with a similar one someone is trying to set up.
From the post: We used openmosix, and some linux qdisc trick to guarantee smooth play even in quite heavy network activity.
The bottom line was to just have a lot of bandwith. It looks like he is doing some traffic shaping or something... I don't read his language.
Maybe I hate people that have red hair or something... and I start a group of people that also hate people with red hair, and we make sure that none of those kind of people can work for any member of my group that owns a business, etc...
It's all or nothing. Once you butt into private industry, private speech, and start mandating tolerance, it's all over.
Hate "crimes" are inherently though crimes. They punish you additionally for what you think, rather than only based on what you do. Soon we will be able to harness the rotational energy from Orwell's grave to solve all world energy problems.
*** Why not read an analysis of the Slashdot Effect instead:))
Why do you incessantly plug that page? Just put it in your sig and get it over with. Putting it at the bottom of each post in addition to your sig is pretty annoying.
It's not like you go apply for jobs at small farms. It's pretty much all family owned, or megacorp these days, not much inbetween, except for specialties like wineries, etc, which are closer to family owned, but may employ a good number of people at least seasonally.
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If you are in a car going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
The whole point of the theory of relativity is that the speed of light is constant. Your example is moot, because the car could not travel at the speed of light, but a better example, if a car was travelling at half the speed of light, and it turned on its headlights, the light would still appear to travel away from the car at the speed of light, if you were in the car viewing the light travelling away from the front of the car.
And why would we believe you?
If you had clearance, you would probably get in serious shit for revealing all that, which leave the other option, you don't have clearance, and you just pieced together publicly available information and filled in the gaps with guesses.
IDE drive could be as reliable, but they would cost more too.
e _a pplications/maxline_ii/
Maxtor is closing this percieved gap at the beginning of next year, their Maxline II are ATA drives with the reliability ratings equal to SCSI, aimed at bulk storage archives.
http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/enterpris
You may ask why a MaxLine II, when there was no MaxLine I... Well, the 5400 RPM 120GB and 160GB 540DX were basically the MaxLine I. You will notice that these drives have been discontinued in favor of the 7200 RPM forms with 1 year warantee. I suspect the covert MaxLine I drives were actually aiming for SCSI reliability, because we have over 50 of them in service here in large archive RAIDs with no failures for over a year.
The real question is whether you can make money in the open source arena when your business is creating your own software rather than being a marketing and distribution company.
An easy question. All of the following companies do this, with more or less success:
www.sendmail.com
www.artifex.com (ghostscript)
www.transgaming.com
www.haxx.se (curl)
These are just a few examples off the top of my head. There are thousands of small and medium sized companies that are either owner or heavy contributer to a single or a few open source projects, and their business model is based around customization and support of that open source product.
Looking at the distros only to ask the question "Is open souce a valid business model?" is like looking at the profitability of the owner of a shopping mall to answer the question "Is it profitable to run stores in a mall".
I think CNBC has given people the idea that the only companies that matter are publicly traded ones. There is more to business than the stock market. There are only a few thousand companies on the major stock markets, it isn't even a particularly large slice of the total US economy.
If you tell people about a Windows program, they will likely assume closed source; if you tell them about a Linux program, they will likely assume open source...
I don't see what the problem is.
If you don't want the uphill battle informing people about your product being closed source, you should just follow the Linux business model of charging only for code custimization and support.
Besides, if your product has such little value that the only money you can make from it is through restrictive licensing, you have larger problems than people assuming things about it.
You know, in this post [slashdot.org] posted 6 minutes earlier. Of course you followed the tried and true technique of posting pretty much the same thing as a followup to an earlier post, knowing that most people won't realize your theft.
Bah, I didn't copy anyone (except maybe myself*), it took me longer than 6 minutes to write that message.
*I seem to recall using this same joke a long time ago in a wi-fi security article.
I'm working on seed funding for a company that is developing a new product that will revolutionize WiFi security. I can't give too much away (patents and such are pending), but I can tell you it involves the transmission of RF signals through a flexible strand of material that freely conducts RF signals. This material is then surrounded by a material that does not conduct energy, and then (this is the kicker), the whole thing is wrapped in a "shield" of conductive material, preventing interception and injection of data.
These "RF Pipes" are going to be the next big thing, I just know it!
Nah man, you just flip your hard disk data cable over... I thought everyone knew that!
Just supposed to be a joke.
:)
but........ If you look at number of deployed systems, you might as well say x86 is the rest of the world (other than macs), by at least a 1000/1 ratio.
The read only support is mature now, the read-write support is what is still dangerous.
Knows common opposites: big-little,
:)
They still havn't mastered this part, and switched their byte ordering to the way the rest of the world does it.
Nearest deep pocket is the rule of thumb in any civil suit.
That would be Red Hat, with their 200 million in the bank. Small change for a company like MS, but at least it could pay the legal fees if they won, and take down the largest pure play Linux company.
Of course, IBM might just have a problem with that little strategy, and has the muscle to beat MS into the ground, or at least cost them a lot of money. I could see IBM buying Red Hat just to avoid the precedent should MS win.
Red Hat knows this, which is why you don't see NTFS in their kernels, or MP3 players in their distro, things like that. They know they are the nearest deep pockets in a lot of these cases.
But then that's meaningless too if you don't look at cost. If that 28% reduction in CPU count made the cluster cost 5 times more, then it doesn't look so hot unless your space is really worth that much to you, which is true in some cases and not others.
It's really difficult to look at a single metric for these things, because different things are important to different people.
It's like two people fighting to the death over a huge treasure that is supposed to be in a sealed box, but then they notice the box is a lot lighter than they thought. :)
There won't be high crosswinds, the swivel base lets it weathervane into the wind.
You are absolutely correct. The people suggesting Quicken level programs obviously aren't aware that there is more to accounting than that. No business with more than 30 or 40 employees is going to use Quicken/Quickbooks level software for accounting.
Now, At work, we are going through an accounting software upgrade, I was involved in the meetings to some limited extent. We decided to stick with the product from "Ultimate" software for Windows. We had been using the DOS Ultipro for several years (based on foxpro). It wasn't cheap to upgrade, and the support isn't cheap either. Lets just say the cost is more than I make in a year.
I don't think there is any effort currently to bring anything close to this to Linux. Considering the critical nature of the app, and also the amount you would be paying for support (not just tech support, but things like tax table updates, etc), Wine is not an option.
My suggestion to the asker of the question, suck it up and get one single Windows/whatever box for the accounting if you are looking for any serious accounting apps. Maybe in a few years there will be something for Linux, but I doubt it, considering the constant need to revise for tax/employment laws and the potential liability if you screw up a tax table.
As a Solaris newbie, I agree 100%. The first thing I did when faced with a Solaris box was install as much of the GNU stuff I was familiar with as possible. This actually wasn't so hard, but Sun has less prepackaged "freeware" (as the UNIX companies are fond of calling open source), than SGI does for IRIX, leaving a few gaps in what I needed.
/etc was a good place to put binaries and package trees, but Solaris really makes IRIX FS heirarchy seem to make sense, even with quirky legacy packages.
But the main thing was the heirarchy. It was horrible. I spent a couple hours getting all the file locations set up so that things worked, tweaking search path environment variables for the plentiful random locations that binary files are in, things like that.
My core knowledge is around IRIX and Linux, and I always thought IRIX was kinda weird, with some of our legacy packages thinking
First off, are you really Scott Hall?
:)
... have done much to remove the artificial barriers
I hear Minnesota is going to need a new Governor soon if so.
Typical binary thinking by someone who doesn't have to have his philosophies tested in the real world.
I'd love to have them tested. When I hire someone, I should be able to choose whether to hire them or not based on my own criteria, even if I don't hire them for some irrelevant and petty reason like the brand of shoes they wear or the color of their skin. Goes both ways too... I don't want anyone to feel pressured to hire me for some irrelevant reason.
laws that "mandate tolerance,"
They have also caused much resentment and helped internalize the ideas that minorities need help, in fact, that they really are inferior, and cannot succeed on merit alone. This is in addition to the loss of freedom that employers face, and that's even assuming the laws work in the first place, which is questionable.
"hate speech" websites help violent government dissidents to organize.
Well, we have this little thing called "freedom of association". We are free to gather and even talk about how we hate the government and oppose it. So long as we don't act in criminal ways, we have committed no crime. At least it was that way before everyone became willing to trade freedoms for the illusion of security.
The US recently arrested a citizen who was making a website for Al-Qaeda.
In the absence of other information, yes, I would say he was wrongly arrested. Of course, nothing is stopping the government from keeping an eye on this person in constitutional ways, and if they happen to uncover deeper ties that implicate him in terrorist activies, then by all means arrest the person.
Even if a million people had died on Sep. 11, I wouldn't feel much differently. There is nothing that is worth giving up basic freedoms for.
The haterd isn't illegal, it's the spreading of your, umm, "theory" by lies and deciet that you are held accountable for. IOW, you can type "I don't think the Holocaust happened."
But so what if someone thinks the halocaust didn't happen? So what even if they present it as fact? Most (if not all) of the history books used in school have many outright lies and inaccuracies that reflect the bias of the publisher.
The government of all countries have outright lied to the people many times, and been caught and even admitted the lie years later. If all deceptive propaganda were banned, only the government would be able to use said propaganda. Is that the way you want it to be?
You also seem to be confusing propaganda with deceptive propaganda. Propaganda takes many forms, not all of it involves deception. Propaganda is used every day by governments, companies, groups, and individuals.
So lets say that these hate laws are carefully crafted to end deceptive propaganda... That won't end what most consider "hate speech" by a long shot.
Suppose I put up a web site that says "Almost half the young nigger men in Washington DC are criminals." That is a fact, not a lie or even an opinion. It would still be considered by most as "hate speech", because of the connotations of the words I use.
I don't see any reasonable way to have any hate speech legislation at all, without repugnant repercussions to liberty.
Thanks :)
Go ahead, if it will fit :)
There were recent posts with problems regarding the game freezing during migrations, not with this cluster, but with a similar one someone is trying to set up.
From the post:
We used openmosix, and some linux qdisc trick to guarantee smooth play even in quite heavy network activity.
The bottom line was to just have a lot of bandwith. It looks like he is doing some traffic shaping or something... I don't read his language.
Hate laws are inherently that way.
Maybe I hate people that have red hair or something... and I start a group of people that also hate people with red hair, and we make sure that none of those kind of people can work for any member of my group that owns a business, etc...
It's all or nothing. Once you butt into private industry, private speech, and start mandating tolerance, it's all over.
Hate "crimes" are inherently though crimes. They punish you additionally for what you think, rather than only based on what you do. Soon we will be able to harness the rotational energy from Orwell's grave to solve all world energy problems.
*** Why not read an analysis of the Slashdot Effect instead :))
Why do you incessantly plug that page? Just put it in your sig and get it over with. Putting it at the bottom of each post in addition to your sig is pretty annoying.
What, working for ADM?
It's not like you go apply for jobs at small farms. It's pretty much all family owned, or megacorp these days, not much inbetween, except for specialties like wineries, etc, which are closer to family owned, but may employ a good number of people at least seasonally.