Huh, I take it you're calling the republicans the "buddies of legalized bribery" because many were against campgin finance reform (limiting MY rights)?
While we're on the topic of corruption in politics how about Clinton and his infamous cash-for-clemency ring? Toricelli? hah. What about the foreign bribe iquiries into the DNC? What about DNC head, party McAuliffe--teamsters union money swap mean anything to you? I could go on...
I enjoyed your post. It always makes me wonder if the radical environmentalists were to go back in time and have the option of saving the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous mass extinction if they would do it (and thus ensure that we wouldn't be around today!). I mean it's clear that mankind had no impact there, so does that mean that it's natural and therefore ok? is it just manmade environmental changes that are ok?
Sounds highly dubious to me. I've not heard superior eyesight, but I've read that certain kinds of eye failure and even blindness are a ton more common in East Asia--one thought was that MSG might cause eye failure.
Well everything you just listed was found in a dinosaur too. For that matter everything was found in some of the earliest land dwelling amphibians. Fish even have most of those things. What is amazing to me is that these HUGE differences can be represented with so little data. I think it's time we start evaluating if what we know is right?
Personally being a CPS student has very much turned me off of academia (I've been programming a lot before college, so haven't really learned too much). More or less my opinion is that a large portion of the people in academia are those that weren't good enough or couldn't handle programming in the open market. There are definitely exceptions but by-and-by, I don't think I would be able to stomach the slow pace and university life.
So as an exception, if a word is both real (ie dictionary) BUT also in an "unusual phrase" it's ok?
What about if I called my company Mikrosoft? That's spelled the same as an existing company, but since I spelled it different it's creative and ok? Or what about if I called my band Roaling Stoans? That's both an usual phrase, AND spelled 'creatively' ?
And I would bet duke HAS trademarked all their names. Duke like most unviersities is money grubbing and control freakish:) not to mention they have one of the world's best hospitals..Duke University Hospital...wouldn't do for THAT name to be diluted.
But I guess it comes down fundamentally to our differing views of what trademarks shoud be. I have absolutely no problem with Microsoft being able to have a trademarked software product called windows. It's not as if you or I can't say Windows, or a window seller would be forced out of business--no court ANYWHERE (in the US at least) would support that. Likewise I have no problems with the names Gateway, etc.
Companies have historically had names made up of real words and people's names, in some combinations, as well as made up names. I don't see why you want to discriminate against the first two categories. Should East India Company not be allowed? Those are all words, and I'm sure there are LOTS of companies in East India. In any case, if you're in America, have a good thanksgiving.
So you're saying windows, apple, the beatles, the rolling stones, dell, gateway, the game monopoly, the game sorry, general electric, general motors, duke university, duke power, and a billion other examples I could think of shouldn't be trademarkable? Should everything really have to have a made up name to get a trademark now that you actually think about it?
Here's the way I generally think about it. Back in the "old days" it was common for CPU speed multipliers to be 1x. So memory, bus, cpu operated at the same speed. Look at multipliers today--13,17, etc. They're a ton higher. Now compare the speed of L1 cache on the CPU to main memory, to HDD speed. If we had computers that had 512MB of L1 cache speed memory, that would be insanely good (and insanely expensive). LAtency is also an issue. You are right though that recent strides in this direction have been good and helped the situation.
most of the things you mention btw do well on 1ghz computers. 1.5GHz (athlonxp) here, I can hardly tell a difference between it and 800MHz Duron I had before. going from 256MB to 512MB was a tangible difference though. KDE is fairly fast too...not windows fast, but good.
I don't see this as necessarily being a bad thing. The consumer computer processor market is a funny market today--the fabs cost billions to construct, the research costs millions and these chips are some of the most complex things ever created--and you can get then for $50 basically.
What's the point of every home user having a 3.0GHz processor? I'm not saying "640k should be enough for anyone" but at the moment, few applications (minus gamers) even need a 1ghz processor to shine--processors will no doubt continue to improve but until some radical paradigm shift in computing, it won't be that big a deal (memory, 3d cards, bandwidth are where I see the possibilities for a lot of improvement).
Let AMD get into market where the r&d is lower, and the margins are higher, this sounds like a good thing to me.
I'd be very wary of sound on this. I bought 2 of the early model SV25's (Shuttle also) and they are SO loud. The powersupply fan is part of the problem..it's ourageously loud. People really don't like using it because of the sound alone.
I would definitely check out the sound factor on this one before buying.
I'm sorry, I'm trying to understand but I don't. If kids in school should be forced to learn indepth about computer stuff, why not also fixing air conditioners and cars? No doubt some people would really find car mechanics fascinating.
And yes, my motivation for not wanting kids to be forced to learn about something I don't think is beneficiary to them is profit. you see as a college student majoring in history and computer science (and with a minor in turkish) stopping kids from learning about computers gives me $$$!!!
The point is NOT to stop kids from learning, it's setting priorities. I would have rather have K12 kids learning about philosophy, math, writing, reading, etc in school than how to install windows.
Absolutely I agree with you--the process is more often than not what counts. But I fail to see how calculus or philosophy are comparable to making grade schoolers learn how format disks and install OS's. Computers should be exactly like a calculator -- they are used to help us work better and think better, they shouldn't themselves be an end (except for the precious few who do become programmers and the like).
Every example I pointed out was physical hardware. If you don't know how to fix your air conditioner, I don't see why the air condition repairman should have to know how to fix his computer.
Bah, most people SHOULDN'T know or rather shouldn't NEED to know about formatting their disk. Unless you can tell me how radio circuit work, how to build a tv, how to service every part of your car, refrigerator, house, washing machine, lawn mower, etc than you've just presented yourself as a great example of a person who uses tools without fully grokking them. Computers, ESPECIALLY in K12 are tools, means to an end only.
It seems like a number of your complaints are answered in FreeBSD 5.0?
AFAIK, IPfilter is available for all the BSD and also Linux.
I'm not sure about sendmail..I'm certaintly not a sendmail expert, but what's special about the FreeBSD version of sendmail? I thought it was in synch with the real version (config file differences only imho). There is also a sendmail port.
Dunno about gnome, I'm all about KDE myself:)
I personally am looking forward to when I can upgrade to FreeBSD 5.0 for ACL support, though to be be honest it hasn't mattered for our company at all. (small company)
I've read that Apple is working on getting Darwin and FreeBSD a lot more in synch. A lot of the big changes in FreeBSD 5.0 (devfs, SMP stuff, etc) are kernel changes though, and won't matter at all to OSX which has its own kernel and relies on FreeBSD (and NetBSD I believe) for the userland tools and stuff.
From my own experience my company uses FreeBSD. Yahoo uses FreeBSD. pair.com one of the bigger hosting providers uses FreeBSD. mp3.com uses FreeBSD. Hotmail used to use FreeBSD, I'm not sure if they still do. (after it was bought by MS that is). ftp.cdrom.com uses FreeBSD. I'm sure there are more, and this isn't even getting into the internal server rooms of companies, hard to say there. FreeBSD is definitely a proven platform, it's not fair to lump it as "ISP's only".
If you had to look at all the linux servers running on the internet today (and discounting personal boxes) I would bet you the VAST majority are running none of those applications you mention. That's one of the reasons that MS and the commercial unixes still hold a sway--running those apps. You do raise a good point--oracle on FreeBSD (for example) is not a viable solution. But I'm not at all convinced that Linux is beating out the BSD's the way you think.
I would be REALLY curious to see how many linux and bsd boxes are running what you call a little "utility" box (and I'll throw in fileservers too). I would bet that that is the big domain of linux and bsd alike.
You do raise a good point in some ways--Linux has a lot of corporate backing and is very "loud" and attention grabbing. In the meanwhile, the server room is running bsd;)
Don't forget that when you say development for linux is outpacing bsd what does that mean? The servers apps most people run has nothing to do with the OS. Samba, Bind, Netatalk, Squid, Apache, IP NAT+firewall etc, ssh, ftp, sendmail and variants of these programs--these are what most people run, and these have absolutely no connection to linux.
Yes, the BSD's have a binary compatibility mode so you can take a linux compiled program and run it most of the time flawlessly. You can ALSO just recompile any opensource program and it will again 99% of the time run fine.
As for which is superior, that's certaintly a matter of taste. My first Linux experience was with Slackware way back, and then RedHat starting with version 4 and then 5. Then I gave FreeBSD a try. I actually find it easier to get setup and in many ways more consistent in terms of design and organization (given at least beginner level *nix knowledge). It's really a matter of personal taste though.
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Huh, I take it you're calling the republicans the "buddies of legalized bribery" because many were against campgin finance reform (limiting MY rights)?
While we're on the topic of corruption in politics how about Clinton and his infamous cash-for-clemency ring? Toricelli? hah. What about the foreign bribe iquiries into the DNC? What about DNC head, party McAuliffe--teamsters union money swap mean anything to you? I could go on...
I enjoyed your post. It always makes me wonder if the radical environmentalists were to go back in time and have the option of saving the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous mass extinction if they would do it (and thus ensure that we wouldn't be around today!). I mean it's clear that mankind had no impact there, so does that mean that it's natural and therefore ok? is it just manmade environmental changes that are ok?
With 100,00 cracked ebooks out there (at least) is it any wonder that Adobe got over protective of their market?
Adobe chose the wrong course of action, but would anyone really say that it's ok that there are so many pirated ebooks around?
Sounds highly dubious to me. I've not heard superior eyesight, but I've read that certain kinds of eye failure and even blindness are a ton more common in East Asia--one thought was that MSG might cause eye failure.
Well everything you just listed was found in a dinosaur too. For that matter everything was found in some of the earliest land dwelling amphibians. Fish even have most of those things. What is amazing to me is that these HUGE differences can be represented with so little data. I think it's time we start evaluating if what we know is right?
Personally being a CPS student has very much turned me off of academia (I've been programming a lot before college, so haven't really learned too much). More or less my opinion is that a large portion of the people in academia are those that weren't good enough or couldn't handle programming in the open market. There are definitely exceptions but by-and-by, I don't think I would be able to stomach the slow pace and university life.
So as an exception, if a word is both real (ie dictionary) BUT also in an "unusual phrase" it's ok?
:) not to mention they have one of the world's best hospitals..Duke University Hospital...wouldn't do for THAT name to be diluted.
What about if I called my company Mikrosoft? That's spelled the same as an existing company, but since I spelled it different it's creative and ok? Or what about if I called my band Roaling Stoans? That's both an usual phrase, AND spelled 'creatively' ?
And I would bet duke HAS trademarked all their names. Duke like most unviersities is money grubbing and control freakish
But I guess it comes down fundamentally to our differing views of what trademarks shoud be. I have absolutely no problem with Microsoft being able to have a trademarked software product called windows. It's not as if you or I can't say Windows, or a window seller would be forced out of business--no court ANYWHERE (in the US at least) would support that. Likewise I have no problems with the names Gateway, etc.
Companies have historically had names made up of real words and people's names, in some combinations, as well as made up names. I don't see why you want to discriminate against the first two categories. Should East India Company not be allowed? Those are all words, and I'm sure there are LOTS of companies in East India. In any case, if you're in America, have a good thanksgiving.
So you're saying windows, apple, the beatles, the rolling stones, dell, gateway, the game monopoly, the game sorry, general electric, general motors, duke university, duke power, and a billion other examples I could think of shouldn't be trademarkable? Should everything really have to have a made up name to get a trademark now that you actually think about it?
I can do a buildworld in FreeBSD on an AthlonXP 1.3GHz in something like 20 minutes. Room for improvement? yes. What made it fast--having a RAID.
Here's the way I generally think about it. Back in the "old days" it was common for CPU speed multipliers to be 1x. So memory, bus, cpu operated at the same speed. Look at multipliers today--13,17, etc. They're a ton higher. Now compare the speed of L1 cache on the CPU to main memory, to HDD speed. If we had computers that had 512MB of L1 cache speed memory, that would be insanely good (and insanely expensive). LAtency is also an issue. You are right though that recent strides in this direction have been good and helped the situation.
most of the things you mention btw do well on 1ghz computers. 1.5GHz (athlonxp) here, I can hardly tell a difference between it and 800MHz Duron I had before. going from 256MB to 512MB was a tangible difference though. KDE is fairly fast too...not windows fast, but good.
I don't see this as necessarily being a bad thing. The consumer computer processor market is a funny market today--the fabs cost billions to construct, the research costs millions and these chips are some of the most complex things ever created--and you can get then for $50 basically.
What's the point of every home user having a 3.0GHz processor? I'm not saying "640k should be enough for anyone" but at the moment, few applications (minus gamers) even need a 1ghz processor to shine--processors will no doubt continue to improve but until some radical paradigm shift in computing, it won't be that big a deal (memory, 3d cards, bandwidth are where I see the possibilities for a lot of improvement).
Let AMD get into market where the r&d is lower, and the margins are higher, this sounds like a good thing to me.
Do you have any links / advice about what was involved with this? If it's not too hard I'd like to give it a shot. (the 5V trick)
I'd be very wary of sound on this. I bought 2 of the early model SV25's (Shuttle also) and they are SO loud. The powersupply fan is part of the problem..it's ourageously loud. People really don't like using it because of the sound alone.
I would definitely check out the sound factor on this one before buying.
I'll assume your reply here is sarcastic or a troll or something, becuase again I'm trying to understand the logic of your message but can't.
Japan has many earthquakes and many high speed trains. Can't be too terrible a combo.
I'm sorry, I'm trying to understand but I don't. If kids in school should be forced to learn indepth about computer stuff, why not also fixing air conditioners and cars? No doubt some people would really find car mechanics fascinating.
And yes, my motivation for not wanting kids to be forced to learn about something I don't think is beneficiary to them is profit. you see as a college student majoring in history and computer science (and with a minor in turkish) stopping kids from learning about computers gives me $$$!!!
The point is NOT to stop kids from learning, it's setting priorities. I would have rather have K12 kids learning about philosophy, math, writing, reading, etc in school than how to install windows.
Absolutely I agree with you--the process is more often than not what counts. But I fail to see how calculus or philosophy are comparable to making grade schoolers learn how format disks and install OS's. Computers should be exactly like a calculator -- they are used to help us work better and think better, they shouldn't themselves be an end (except for the precious few who do become programmers and the like).
Every example I pointed out was physical hardware. If you don't know how to fix your air conditioner, I don't see why the air condition repairman should have to know how to fix his computer.
Bah, most people SHOULDN'T know or rather shouldn't NEED to know about formatting their disk. Unless you can tell me how radio circuit work, how to build a tv, how to service every part of your car, refrigerator, house, washing machine, lawn mower, etc than you've just presented yourself as a great example of a person who uses tools without fully grokking them. Computers, ESPECIALLY in K12 are tools, means to an end only.
So is that why I get script monkeys flooding my webserver with crap like this?
....yes. If apache has a hole that allows root access, is it the OS's fault?
It seems like a number of your complaints are answered in FreeBSD 5.0?
:)
AFAIK, IPfilter is available for all the BSD and also Linux.
I'm not sure about sendmail..I'm certaintly not a sendmail expert, but what's special about the FreeBSD version of sendmail? I thought it was in synch with the real version (config file differences only imho). There is also a sendmail port.
Dunno about gnome, I'm all about KDE myself
I personally am looking forward to when I can upgrade to FreeBSD 5.0 for ACL support, though to be be honest it hasn't mattered for our company at all. (small company)
I've read that Apple is working on getting Darwin and FreeBSD a lot more in synch. A lot of the big changes in FreeBSD 5.0 (devfs, SMP stuff, etc) are kernel changes though, and won't matter at all to OSX which has its own kernel and relies on FreeBSD (and NetBSD I believe) for the userland tools and stuff.
From my own experience my company uses FreeBSD. Yahoo uses FreeBSD. pair.com one of the bigger hosting providers uses FreeBSD. mp3.com uses FreeBSD. Hotmail used to use FreeBSD, I'm not sure if they still do. (after it was bought by MS that is). ftp.cdrom.com uses FreeBSD. I'm sure there are more, and this isn't even getting into the internal server rooms of companies, hard to say there. FreeBSD is definitely a proven platform, it's not fair to lump it as "ISP's only".
If you had to look at all the linux servers running on the internet today (and discounting personal boxes) I would bet you the VAST majority are running none of those applications you mention. That's one of the reasons that MS and the commercial unixes still hold a sway--running those apps. You do raise a good point--oracle on FreeBSD (for example) is not a viable solution. But I'm not at all convinced that Linux is beating out the BSD's the way you think.
I would be REALLY curious to see how many linux and bsd boxes are running what you call a little "utility" box (and I'll throw in fileservers too). I would bet that that is the big domain of linux and bsd alike.
You do raise a good point in some ways--Linux has a lot of corporate backing and is very "loud" and attention grabbing. In the meanwhile, the server room is running bsd ;)
Don't forget that when you say development for linux is outpacing bsd what does that mean? The servers apps most people run has nothing to do with the OS. Samba, Bind, Netatalk, Squid, Apache, IP NAT+firewall etc, ssh, ftp, sendmail and variants of these programs--these are what most people run, and these have absolutely no connection to linux.
NetBSD I've read has the best sparc port out there (and the most well tested).
Yes, the BSD's have a binary compatibility mode so you can take a linux compiled program and run it most of the time flawlessly. You can ALSO just recompile any opensource program and it will again 99% of the time run fine.
As for which is superior, that's certaintly a matter of taste. My first Linux experience was with Slackware way back, and then RedHat starting with version 4 and then 5. Then I gave FreeBSD a try. I actually find it easier to get setup and in many ways more consistent in terms of design and organization (given at least beginner level *nix knowledge). It's really a matter of personal taste though.