Free trade only exists on a level playing field. When water from one class only flows one way it isn't free trade, it's starvation and slavery for the people that provide goods.
Have you guys noticed all of these agencies suddenly not just planning to make craft that can detonate an asteroid, but that are making one right now. Yea, like right now. I count 3 G7 governments and 1 UN so far over the world.
Can somebody tell us when this fat bitch is going to ram a hole through the earth? Just in case my 2012-2014 calculation is off?
Seriously folks. This isn't academic anymore. People that don't spend money on shit for space travel are building these ships to kill an asteroid. A complete exercise is fulitiy at our current tech level, which is making me wonder- what/when the fuck is it gonna hit us?
I don't understand what's so confusing to the poster. There are no jobs. So, the path of least resistance is to find a area with jobs. Like screwing people over as a MBA and then cashing out.
You might try small countries that value freedom, unlike New Zealand. Such as the Republic of Sealand. They're claim to fame is that they have a data storage haven called havenco.com, as I recall. Their requirements would be more defensive I would guess.
You would probably find a niche in small independent territories or islands, many of which I am not familiar with.
I want to apologize for the 'boy meets world' maturity of some of the responses. They don't understand that you will die without a matching defense- it's just a matter of time. And all we have are choices and time. I think you can bridge the gap for smaller countries and some independent land owners. Best wishes.
Your experience is skewed. The Bay Area is the tech toilet of planet Earth whether you realize it or not. I'm sure you have an idea of this since www.fuckedcompany.com has it's own section just for that particular shithole.
The rest of the US is not as screwed up as that area- which is something you don't know. I.T. workers don't live in boxes and in homeless camps... really.
And so, here's option number three, for those of us not living in the land earthquake bait and the non-working homeless.
3)
A: Your company has no money at all and are going to use passive and active forced attrition, just so they can survive long enough for the CEO to steal half of the pension fund.
B: They will then offer the last remaining retards a job in their new remote Bay Area office park- conveniently called "Casa de bastardos estúpidos" aka suite 69.
C. After the direct deposit check clears in Guam, you all get a email on the Blackberry device you just bought for $500 saying, "You're All Fired FuckNuggets! Wooo Hooo!"
This is a slippery slope of bullshit, and your CEO is covering something up in the financials. I would bet if you looked through his monthlies on your server's, it would give you your answer in black and white... more like red actually.
Do not cave into this. The company is asking you to work with tools you provide. It's one step away from a giant pyramid scheme. You should start looking for work elswhere- today. You already know this, or else you wouldn't have posted your fear on slashdot.
Get an exit plan now. Tell the CIO to stuff it. Jump ship.
SLI/Scan Line Interleave is just a method of making your slow ass gear go faster by splitting up the lines each card has to draw on the screen.
As I recall, Voodoo released this card(24 MB version) which I bought, right before they realized they had nothing faster left to put out there. And that's where Nvidia came in and put their foot up their ass with a Single card solution that didn't need an external power supply(for the later voodoo card).
So, what does this mean..? I hope Nvidia can muster some American inventiveness to get passed their tech barrier- because ATI is biting at their heals now. Not really sure if Nvidia has any American's though, but if not, they better find some. Cause chinese can't invent dick. Good luck Nvidia!
You wanted to know why you can't look at a book and a topic on one plane of thought for months on end. You can only do that if you are a fairly unadaptable and to be honest, simple person.
For instance, people that can memorize subjects to infinity but then not know what they have learned a week later. Then you have the office worker type that couldn't solve anything unless it was given in a formula or in the book. Then you have the folks that just like solving problems and are very good at it, but can only understand it within the realm that it has been given them- and never can look beyond for it's purpose. "What is it, in and of itself.", essentially.
People that know how to learn have to connect the dots and see patterns in which all subjects eventually coalesce. This ability can be either taught or innate. And this is the trait that you want the person to have that is trying to save you from drowning in a vault of H2O with the clock ticking. If you want somebody to cook meals for you or do your payroll or prescribe medication or put caps on your teeth, then the former would be better suited.
The first collection of traditional information gatherers can advance in school easily. They can therefore come into the workforce a step up above people without it regardless of if they can learn and solve problems on their own and under pressure.
You, meanwhile will have to work your ass off to prove yourself and to get to their salary/status level. But, after about 5 years in the workforce, you will be able to match and surpass them because your skillset and accomplishments will be concrete and quantifiable, while they have only thier degree and a "I worked here" job history. If you want to hypothesize which is better, lets compare say Albert Einstein or Bill Gates to oohhhh... anyone. I hate Gates, but he has for better or worse accomplished a great deal just from learning to overcome his competition on a high school diploma.
In any case, the jist is this. School will always be boring because they do not know the answers in the end. They are fucking clueless in all respects. And I say this because if you don't know what happens in the end, then you are just guessing in the present. Modern schools do not teach you to learn. And knowing how to learn and adapt is more important than anything else you will ever need to know.
Who would you choose to keep you from drowning in a undescript sealed tank of water? The wank that memorized everything or worse- thinks he therefore understands everything?
And if you are anything like me, it is a glaring hole or a splinter in your mind when you get to the end of say- quantum mechanics or "advanced" physics. The don't even know how to define or create gravity yet. A basic priciple of life for 100K years since this race has been hatched. That's just depressingly sad.
Now, what should you do with your life to harness this? Don't worry about it. That's the great thing about being able to see endgame relationships aka adapt in realtime. You will excel at what you choose no matter what. You should just do what you do now when you aren't working or at school. In the quiet of your own home or wherever you feel most focused- choose that task to go after. Whatever ability you have with the greatest sense of intuition would be the best bet. It won't steer you wrong.
And that's it. It's hard, but you'll see/create things that actually benefit the evolution of mankind, rather than fill an immediate consumeristic need. Is that deep or what? Woohoo.. how exciting. OK, must be ging now.
As I recall, Baystar(Microsoft) along with Sun and very few others were funding SCO about 6 months ago reinforcing these same kind of threats and lawsuits. Isn't it delicious irony that SCO holds them back with their own sword?
Sayeth SCO: "No, I'm sorry but you have to whither and die right along with us. Now, Buckle-up Buttercup!"
I love this shit. It's like watching a dysfunctional family trying to teach their dog how to masterbate. Or better, watching a train wreck with 500 lawyers opposite 500 democrats in the tray isle. It's all just too sick not to watch.
I'm guessing the general point is that Linux needs to create it's own JAVA. Is that about right?
Icaza is no linux advocate, in fact I put him on par with Transgaming for usefulness for lack of foresight- but I don't see anything destructive about having the community put together their own JAVA-ish structure. I don't mean imitate it, but create a better virtual machine from scratch.
That I can live with. But Icaza and his.NET isn't the right person to bring attention to this. Nobody likes his. He's a sellout, to be straight about it.
"C# is the best language in the whole world! Microsoft is sooo cool! Have you seen it?!?! uNF uNF uNF Can you guys hire me cause I've been applying for like 10 years now??? huh? Can ya?? Huh??"
Yea, He isn't someone that's worth a drop of GPL'd piss in my book. He may get a clue one day. But that day isn't today.
As it turns out, the U.S. tax laws do not apply to corporations overseas. Doesn't take a real long or deep thought to figure that one out, but follow where this is going. Rather, where we are now.
U.S. Companies with operations overseas do not pay taxes at those points of operation. They are protected, fed, and sheltered by our resources- but do not pay taxes.
Dell Corporation now has 60% of ALL it's holdings in India and China, as an example.
Who exactly is benefiting from this? Why are these businesses based inside the U.S. if they aren't majority stake holder in promoting U.S. welfare.
The classification of "corporation" is equivalent to a U.S. "citizen"- as sick as that sounds- that's the actuality of it. To be that, you must live here the majority of the time. Our corporations do not live here the majority of the time. Where does their allegance lie? Who cares? Why should we give a shit. Why are they even allowed to stay here?
This is rotting the U.S. from the inside out.
Money is leaving. Taxes are not being paid. Businesses are not staying here, and using us as a comfortable place to protect themselves while they are actually working out of Asia and selling back to what's left of the existing economy.
This is what's happening. The U.S. Government is essentially using tax paying citizen's money to pay for the protection, infrastructure, incentives of Foreign Corporations.
Sounds like I'm just a looney doesn't it. Look up the laws for yourself. Look up our own corporations holdings yourself. We've been ratted out here boys.
It's time to get a collective rope and start it swingin.
Not to confuse you with the various intricacies of software development, but before software becomes production- it is alpha, beta, and release candidate. Guess which one you were using? Did you report the bugs? Dumbass say what? No.. alrighty then.
Have unix folks not learned a whole lot since they shattered into little pieces.
Assuming this article is correct, what is the end result if lets say- 30% of folks used MacOSY?
You would have expensive ass hardware running on a bastardized BSD with little or no expansion or value beyond what Apple wants you to have. Does this sound vaguely familiar? Sun? Microsoft? Prima Donna Company X?
I don't understand you folks. It's a dead end man. The OS is commodity. The hardware is commodity. Even certain labor is commodity now.
What's the point? If you want to circle jerk, buy a 6 pack and a 'Think Different' poster. The end is inevitable for this product.
That's an odd thing with the Proxim card, as that's the only card with full drivers in the linux kernel. That leads me to believe that your pcmcia slot isn't being seen properly, or the motherboard bios needs to get a firmware upgrade. Orinoco is that card of choice for linux installs. Very odd.
I am speaking from the point of view of a Linux user.
The crux of what the gentleman has written about BSD and Linux's main difference seems to be stability vs. adaptability. There is one small point that is crucial to Linux's adoption over that of BSD. It's a point that I think the author knows, but did not focus on when he wrote his articles. If you have hardware, odds are Linux will get on it FIRST before BSD by a factor of months to years. And why is this.. because demand is met by Linux first. BSD values correctness or cleanliness over getting it to simply work. I admire that, but that's about it.
This is how technology works.. just like anything else. First come, first serve. The saturation point is reached sooner to whomever is first. If I'm hungry, I want something to eat. I don't care if it's a 5 course meal shipped from Paris, or a madcow burger from McDonald's. I'm fucking hungry- NOW! Anyhow, that's one lame example. Now to continue..
Linux is not as stable as BSD. Everyone knows this. Netcraft has documented it for web servers. Experience shows us this for ssh, ftp, and the like. But that doesn't matter- if this package isn't available, or this feature isn't available, or this hardware isn't available. If you cannot adapt rapidly to a changing environment, then you are left behind.
It is said that "intelligence", by definition, is the ability to adapt. Evolution is messy. The fact that most people have an appendix sitting there waiting to get infected and burst is tribute to how adaptation isn't clean and neat and orderly. Nature IS this. Scientific progress is no different.
I would like it to be different, but we aren't that smart. We have no foresight as human beings. We are bumbling idiots pretending to be aware. Achievement for us is gained by learning from failure- not by innately knowing what is right or wrong. This is how we got to where we are now.
I have great respect for BSD and it's users. Although, they seem to be upset by the lack of attention paid to them for some reason. That's a subjective observation on my part. Either way, I don't care if their feelings are hurt. This is reality. Linux works and does what I need it to. When BSD does the same, then I'm all over it. Until then, keep on doing your thing. BSD serves a great niche. I hope they survive. And I wish them the best. We will see if "adaptability" or "correctness" survives in time. Until then, I want to say I admire both camps.
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Spot on the money. Very good retort.
Free trade only exists on a level playing field. When water from one class only flows one way it isn't free trade, it's starvation and slavery for the people that provide goods.
Have you guys noticed all of these agencies suddenly not just planning to make craft that can detonate an asteroid, but that are making one right now. Yea, like right now. I count 3 G7 governments and 1 UN so far over the world.
Can somebody tell us when this fat bitch is going to ram a hole through the earth? Just in case my 2012-2014 calculation is off?
Seriously folks. This isn't academic anymore. People that don't spend money on shit for space travel are building these ships to kill an asteroid. A complete exercise is fulitiy at our current tech level, which is making me wonder- what/when the fuck is it gonna hit us?
Why is it that I alway's cringe when I hear "San Francisco Bay Area". It's gay and retardville all rolled into one.
Fuck them. DVD is about to be phased out for 17 GB, then 48 GB media. These guys already got 0wned by mplayer and a 14 year old.
I don't understand what's so confusing to the poster. There are no jobs. So, the path of least resistance is to find a area with jobs. Like screwing people over as a MBA and then cashing out.
You might try small countries that value freedom, unlike New Zealand. Such as the Republic of Sealand. They're claim to fame is that they have a data storage haven called havenco.com, as I recall. Their requirements would be more defensive I would guess.
You would probably find a niche in small independent territories or islands, many of which I am not familiar with.
I want to apologize for the 'boy meets world' maturity of some of the responses. They don't understand that you will die without a matching defense- it's just a matter of time. And all we have are choices and time. I think you can bridge the gap for smaller countries and some independent land owners. Best wishes.
A: You tell me.
Your experience is skewed. The Bay Area is the tech toilet of planet Earth whether you realize it or not. I'm sure you have an idea of this since www.fuckedcompany.com has it's own section just for that particular shithole.
The rest of the US is not as screwed up as that area- which is something you don't know. I.T. workers don't live in boxes and in homeless camps... really.
And so, here's option number three, for those of us not living in the land earthquake bait and the non-working homeless.
3)
A: Your company has no money at all and are going to use passive and active forced attrition, just so they can survive long enough for the CEO to steal half of the pension fund.
B: They will then offer the last remaining retards a job in their new remote Bay Area office park- conveniently called "Casa de bastardos estúpidos" aka suite 69.
C. After the direct deposit check clears in Guam, you all get a email on the Blackberry device you just bought for $500 saying, "You're All Fired FuckNuggets! Wooo Hooo!"
D. The end.
This is a slippery slope of bullshit, and your CEO is covering something up in the financials. I would bet if you looked through his monthlies on your server's, it would give you your answer in black and white... more like red actually.
Do not cave into this. The company is asking you to work with tools you provide. It's one step away from a giant pyramid scheme. You should start looking for work elswhere- today. You already know this, or else you wouldn't have posted your fear on slashdot.
Get an exit plan now. Tell the CIO to stuff it. Jump ship.
SLI/Scan Line Interleave is just a method of making your slow ass gear go faster by splitting up the lines each card has to draw on the screen.
As I recall, Voodoo released this card(24 MB version) which I bought, right before they realized they had nothing faster left to put out there. And that's where Nvidia came in and put their foot up their ass with a Single card solution that didn't need an external power supply(for the later voodoo card).
So, what does this mean..? I hope Nvidia can muster some American inventiveness to get passed their tech barrier- because ATI is biting at their heals now. Not really sure if Nvidia has any American's though, but if not, they better find some. Cause chinese can't invent dick. Good luck Nvidia!
And you retards, liberal or just plain evolutionally degenerate, follow suit.
Nuff said.
We need upload speed. They can suck me off with their download. Nobody cares. Nobody needs it.
You wanted to know why you can't look at a book and a topic on one plane of thought for months on end. You can only do that if you are a fairly unadaptable and to be honest, simple person.
For instance, people that can memorize subjects to infinity but then not know what they have learned a week later. Then you have the office worker type that couldn't solve anything unless it was given in a formula or in the book. Then you have the folks that just like solving problems and are very good at it, but can only understand it within the realm that it has been given them- and never can look beyond for it's purpose. "What is it, in and of itself.", essentially.
People that know how to learn have to connect the dots and see patterns in which all subjects eventually coalesce. This ability can be either taught or innate. And this is the trait that you want the person to have that is trying to save you from drowning in a vault of H2O with the clock ticking. If you want somebody to cook meals for you or do your payroll or prescribe medication or put caps on your teeth, then the former would be better suited.
The first collection of traditional information gatherers can advance in school easily. They can therefore come into the workforce a step up above people without it regardless of if they can learn and solve problems on their own and under pressure.
You, meanwhile will have to work your ass off to prove yourself and to get to their salary/status level. But, after about 5 years in the workforce, you will be able to match and surpass them because your skillset and accomplishments will be concrete and quantifiable, while they have only thier degree and a "I worked here" job history. If you want to hypothesize which is better, lets compare say Albert Einstein or Bill Gates to oohhhh... anyone. I hate Gates, but he has for better or worse accomplished a great deal just from learning to overcome his competition on a high school diploma.
In any case, the jist is this. School will always be boring because they do not know the answers in the end. They are fucking clueless in all respects. And I say this because if you don't know what happens in the end, then you are just guessing in the present. Modern schools do not teach you to learn. And knowing how to learn and adapt is more important than anything else you will ever need to know.
Who would you choose to keep you from drowning in a undescript sealed tank of water? The wank that memorized everything or worse- thinks he therefore understands everything?
And if you are anything like me, it is a glaring hole or a splinter in your mind when you get to the end of say- quantum mechanics or "advanced" physics. The don't even know how to define or create gravity yet. A basic priciple of life for 100K years since this race has been hatched. That's just depressingly sad.
Now, what should you do with your life to harness this? Don't worry about it. That's the great thing about being able to see endgame relationships aka adapt in realtime. You will excel at what you choose no matter what. You should just do what you do now when you aren't working or at school. In the quiet of your own home or wherever you feel most focused- choose that task to go after. Whatever ability you have with the greatest sense of intuition would be the best bet. It won't steer you wrong.
And that's it. It's hard, but you'll see/create things that actually benefit the evolution of mankind, rather than fill an immediate consumeristic need. Is that deep or what? Woohoo.. how exciting. OK, must be ging now.
As I recall, Baystar(Microsoft) along with Sun and very few others were funding SCO about 6 months ago reinforcing these same kind of threats and lawsuits. Isn't it delicious irony that SCO holds them back with their own sword?
Sayeth SCO:
"No, I'm sorry but you have to whither and die right along with us. Now, Buckle-up Buttercup!"
I love this shit. It's like watching a dysfunctional family trying to teach their dog how to masterbate. Or better, watching a train wreck with 500 lawyers opposite 500 democrats in the tray isle. It's all just too sick not to watch.
It's nice to know that there really are happy endings. It's too bad this guy still breathes the same air we do though. Quite a waste.
I'm guessing the general point is that Linux needs to create it's own JAVA. Is that about right?
.NET isn't the right person to bring attention to this. Nobody likes his. He's a sellout, to be straight about it.
Icaza is no linux advocate, in fact I put him on par with Transgaming for usefulness for lack of foresight- but I don't see anything destructive about having the community put together their own JAVA-ish structure. I don't mean imitate it, but create a better virtual machine from scratch.
That I can live with. But Icaza and his
"C# is the best language in the whole world! Microsoft is sooo cool! Have you seen it?!?! uNF uNF uNF Can you guys hire me cause I've been applying for like 10 years now??? huh? Can ya?? Huh??"
Yea, He isn't someone that's worth a drop of GPL'd piss in my book. He may get a clue one day. But that day isn't today.
As it turns out, the U.S. tax laws do not apply to corporations overseas. Doesn't take a real long or deep thought to figure that one out, but follow where this is going. Rather, where we are now.
U.S. Companies with operations overseas do not pay taxes at those points of operation. They are protected, fed, and sheltered by our resources- but do not pay taxes.
Dell Corporation now has 60% of ALL it's holdings in India and China, as an example.
Who exactly is benefiting from this? Why are these businesses based inside the U.S. if they aren't majority stake holder in promoting U.S. welfare.
The classification of "corporation" is equivalent to a U.S. "citizen"- as sick as that sounds- that's the actuality of it. To be that, you must live here the majority of the time. Our corporations do not live here the majority of the time. Where does their allegance lie? Who cares? Why should we give a shit. Why are they even allowed to stay here?
This is rotting the U.S. from the inside out.
Money is leaving. Taxes are not being paid. Businesses are not staying here, and using us as a comfortable place to protect themselves while they are actually working out of Asia and selling back to what's left of the existing economy.
This is what's happening. The U.S. Government is essentially using tax paying citizen's money to pay for the protection, infrastructure, incentives of Foreign Corporations.
Sounds like I'm just a looney doesn't it. Look up the laws for yourself. Look up our own corporations holdings yourself. We've been ratted out here boys.
It's time to get a collective rope and start it swingin.
Could someone here post a review of Mandrake 10 Official that has acutally used it?
For a point of reference, Community=BETA Official=FINAL.
All I have seen or month old posts of how much the beta sucks. Any new information on the actual topic of discussion would be helpful.
Not to confuse you with the various intricacies of software development, but before software becomes production- it is alpha, beta, and release candidate. Guess which one you were using? Did you report the bugs? Dumbass say what? No.. alrighty then.
The missing information is only in your head.
Have unix folks not learned a whole lot since they shattered into little pieces.
Assuming this article is correct, what is the end result if lets say- 30% of folks used MacOSY?
You would have expensive ass hardware running on a bastardized BSD with little or no expansion or value beyond what Apple wants you to have. Does this sound vaguely familiar? Sun? Microsoft? Prima Donna Company X?
I don't understand you folks. It's a dead end man. The OS is commodity. The hardware is commodity. Even certain labor is commodity now.
What's the point? If you want to circle jerk, buy a 6 pack and a 'Think Different' poster. The end is inevitable for this product.
That's an odd thing with the Proxim card, as that's the only card with full drivers in the linux kernel. That leads me to believe that your pcmcia slot isn't being seen properly, or the motherboard bios needs to get a firmware upgrade. Orinoco is that card of choice for linux installs. Very odd.
If you are in the state of Virginia, USA. There is a 3 MBit wireless host called:
http://www.r-comm.net/
They are friendly fellas and their rates are comparable with DSL pricing. Nice if you are out in the sticks.
I am speaking from the point of view of a Linux user.
The crux of what the gentleman has written about BSD and Linux's main difference seems to be stability vs. adaptability. There is one small point that is crucial to Linux's adoption over that of BSD. It's a point that I think the author knows, but did not focus on when he wrote his articles. If you have hardware, odds are Linux will get on it FIRST before BSD by a factor of months to years. And why is this.. because demand is met by Linux first. BSD values correctness or cleanliness over getting it to simply work. I admire that, but that's about it.
This is how technology works.. just like anything else. First come, first serve. The saturation point is reached sooner to whomever is first. If I'm hungry, I want something to eat. I don't care if it's a 5 course meal shipped from Paris, or a madcow burger from McDonald's. I'm fucking hungry- NOW! Anyhow, that's one lame example. Now to continue..
Linux is not as stable as BSD. Everyone knows this. Netcraft has documented it for web servers. Experience shows us this for ssh, ftp, and the like. But that doesn't matter- if this package isn't available, or this feature isn't available, or this hardware isn't available. If you cannot adapt rapidly to a changing environment, then you are left behind.
It is said that "intelligence", by definition, is the ability to adapt. Evolution is messy. The fact that most people have an appendix sitting there waiting to get infected and burst is tribute to how adaptation isn't clean and neat and orderly. Nature IS this. Scientific progress is no different.
I would like it to be different, but we aren't that smart. We have no foresight as human beings. We are bumbling idiots pretending to be aware. Achievement for us is gained by learning from failure- not by innately knowing what is right or wrong. This is how we got to where we are now.
I have great respect for BSD and it's users. Although, they seem to be upset by the lack of attention paid to them for some reason. That's a subjective observation on my part. Either way, I don't care if their feelings are hurt. This is reality. Linux works and does what I need it to. When BSD does the same, then I'm all over it. Until then, keep on doing your thing. BSD serves a great niche. I hope they survive. And I wish them the best. We will see if "adaptability" or "correctness" survives in time. Until then, I want to say I admire both camps.
Take care.
Thor
I could have sworn that non of those applications currently run on 64-bit linux. And 64-bit windows is in betaland. I am not understanding this test.
Oh! I see it.. at the bottom:
"The Dual Opteron was running Windows XP Professional, not Windows XP 64 bit edition..."
Well wtf is that? Fucking moron. He's running all this shit in 32 bit emulation mode. Got damn Mac idiots.