On a slightly offtopic note, I think slashcode should allow us to mod down our own posts.
You can. If you get a karma bonus, post without it. If not, or if you need more self moderation, post as AC, and set your threshold to 3, then even YOU don't have to read your own posts;)
If that STILL isn't enough, just say something bad about Linux and good about Windows in the same sentence, and the regular moderators will take care of you in a matter of seconds. Linux bashing is always good for instant karma.
Jesse James is the host of the hit TV show, "Monster Garage". He owns West Coast Choppers, and does commercials for Auto Zone. He is a up and coming minor celebrity as well, for his excellent auto and motorcycle work, as well as his "bad boy" (but not too bad) image.
The hell you say. A Cisco router is just a CPU and some RAM with a few IO ports thrown in. Its the IOS firmware and software that makes it do its thing.
Another example would be the computer. Two identical computers, one is setup for as a Linux router for 100 DHCP clients, the other is a Windows 98 game box. It is everything on THIS side of the hardware that decides this, not the hardware itself. Even the same software can run on different hardware (Linux router on MIPS, Alpha, x86, Athlon 64, G5, etc).
Personally, I don't see the problem with using binary only drivers. I would prefer to use hardware with open sources, and I can make that decision when I purchase the hardware. This makes me more likely to buy ATI instead of nVidia, for example. But then its MY choice, not the kernel nazis. I thought that is what Linux was all about, Free as in speech, not as in beer.
Yes, putting the GPL\O is pretty sneaky to get around GPL restrictions, but maybe the restrictions are the problem, not the fact that some company wants to sell firmware for Linux.
I mean change from a mix of Linux and Windows servers, using SMB, with all Windows clients, to a purely *nix environment, be it some flavor of Linux or BSD. Change as in remove all traces of Microsoft and going to a purely GPL or BSD operating system, with either open and/or closed source applications to run the business.
I don't have a problem with closed source applications if they use open standards (SQL, XML, etc). I do have some bad experiences with totally closed operating systems and applications.
This would also justify upgrading our infrastructure from 100mbit to 1000mbit, as well as other hardware upgrades. Whether "correct" or not, from my perspective this is a whole new network.
I have found that most CEO's are more interested in making more money, rather than your particular skill set. Making money for the company is the ultimate skill, no matter what language or platform you use. Most of the succesful people I know are not specialists, they are "jack of all trades" that know enough about lots of subjects. Its not the knowledge that matters, its their ability to apply it in a way that is profitable.
I see so much potential for programmers, it is unreal. I look into the void and see a major shortage of applications for many industries that run on Linux. I have been searching for many, many months, and have not found any of the software I need to change the network to a *nix environment. I don't even care what flavor: Linux, BSD, OSX, whatever. SAPs suite only runs on Windows, and they don't want to support Linux as a Windows file server. Many calls to IBM have resulted in dead end leads. Oracle is just too much for this job, and slightly out of budget for only a 4 year license (and we have a fairly liberal budget).
I hear alot about skilz and such, but most small to medium business owners care about the results, not the methods. Often, you have to be able to fill more than one pair of shoes to get in. One way is with the ability to produce/demonstrate some software that will address some problem they have. Desperately. Business owners need solutions. We need software. We need a reason to fully embrace Linux. We want to. And we can pay fairly for it, and for extra support. But we can't if we can't the software to run the business to begin with.
I can't say what the solution is, but Linux desperately need commercial programmers to succeed, and I know there are lots of people willing to pay for it. I am one of them. It seems there just HAS to be lots of opportunity for a programmer in this environment. The economy is not bad. It WAS bad, and its getting better fast. Some industries and/or companies didn't really have a recession. They saw growth every year for 10 years or more. Even new startups need software, and MS is so expensive for a small network (think 20 to 40), that GNU/Linux can compete if it has the right applications. None of the licensing headaches, get to use older hardware, more stable, easy to customize, much easier to administer. Yes, we believe you, we already use Linux for routers and web servers. Now give us the biz apps. Here, have some money.
Nothing would make me happier than being able to say "Yes, this is exactly the software I need. I will gladly pay you your asking price, and full support as well.". Everything out there is either too small and simple, or too much for a company with under 50 employees. There simply IS opportunity out there. Now would be a good time for some visionary capitalist to finance it and make themselves rich in the process. Once Linux becomes the dominant OS and bgates is irrelavent, we will need someone new to kick around anyway.
I'm flattered. My original goal wasn't to be humorous. By the time I finished writing it, I was laughing myself, but the entire post is the honest truth (really, you can trust me;)
We have an expression at work: "This ain't kidney transplants." We sell luxury items, not life saving equipment, so I don't lose a wink of sleep by being creative about how I position our product. Our stuff has a money back guarantee and killer warranty, and is excellent quality by an old company. But I still have to be more creative than the next guy, whether he is honest or not (half are, half ain't).
Fortunately, I don't use our products (or any competing product for that matter), so my own opinion doesn't get in the way. Its just a game. I get paid to push the limits of honesty, as long as I keep honest. Its a fun fence to walk on.
However, if you like your redhat, and don't feel like paying the RedHat for the support. Try WhiteBox Linux. www.whiteboxlinux.org. It's a thing of beauty. I've started deploying it on our production servers. Works great.
I *know* redhat, I like it ok, and I have paid for support for years, and didn't mind. What I *DO* mind is how they keep changing their support options, with NO upgrade path. Upgrading RH9 (which I paid $60 a year per server for support) to Enterprise 3.0 is NOT supported. They tell you to wipe and start over. I had just paid $180 for 3 servers when they announced they were quitting the program, (they had automatic annual billing). They said they would not be issuing any refunds or rebates, although they did offer to give me a discount on their $800 a year per server program. Well, I don't need $800 a year per server style support, I just need updated RPMs. I would have gladly paid $120 a year per box to just use RHN updates, but that wasn't an option.
In other words, they screwed me by taking my money and not providing support, and screwed me by only offering support through a program that costs over 1300% more, but NO upgrade path. No thanks. If I want to get treated like this, I will buy a license from SCO.
I'm not sure how they can come to that conclusion without having access to the code which SCO is claiming that they have which was inapproprately added into the Linux kernels.
if you read the article, you would have seen that they traced the roots of all the code (be it bsd/pd or the credited author) and are basing their opinion on that research. They feel they have "sourced" all the source.
As a fellow capitalist (20 years in marketing), I can verify your statement. This applies to durable products in my case, but could apply to software as well.
If the competition has it, and you don't, its because it is not reliable enough, will cause potential problems, not fully compatible or affects performance/comfort/durability in a negative way.
If you have it and the competition doesn't, it is because they are technologically behind, outdated, incapable of incorporating change, or they just don't care about you.
If you both have it, yours is better tested, proven, the correct version, or better documented.
If they got it before you did, it was because you care enough about your customers to fully test it to prevent any potential problems. If you got it before they did, it is because you have better facilities/personel for testing so you can get it to market faster.
Steel is stronger than plastic, unless mine is plastic. Then plastic is lighter than steel, and stronger, pound for pound. Bigger is better, unless mine is smaller. Then we use more modern parts, instead of old technology, so ours is smaller.
Any feature my product has or doesn't have, I can give you a very good explanation that will demonstrate why we are better for having it / not have it. No matter the circumstances, we did it on purpose, and we did it because we care more than the evil/incompetent/small competition. If you give me at least 30 minutes, I will also produce graphs and charts that clearly demonstrate this point.
As to what the magical "it" I keep referring to, it doesn't matter. What ever "it" is, we have a reason for having / not having "it" and why we implimented it first / last. (please refer to the image for obvious proof.)
You don't have to be evil to be in Marketing, but it really does help;)
I used 6.2 until 8 came out (see fiasco regarding 8 and 9 above...). I was a killer distro for web servers, etc. It was leaner, simple, but gave me the best uptimes. Always ran custom kernels for it, usually non-modular. I had a few servers running 6.2, (two ibm 325's and a Dell 1400sc, all dual cpu) The only thing I noticed was SMP performance wasn't great until 2.4 came out.
Unfortunately, I am using Fedora on most boxes right now because I already know RH pretty well, and have not decided what distro I am going to switch to. RH has lost my faith with their version changes/fiascos/rhn ripoffs/cd update crap/ etc. I have to admit, I miss 6.2.
I would agree. One of the other problems I notice with Linux is how its not easy to tell that your sound card wasn't recognized. With Windows 9x you get a pop up window that tries to walk you through installing the driver, but if Linux doesn't recognize it, you may be trying to see if the speakers are plugged in, etc., because you really didn't get any warning.
I understand this is because "if you use Linux, you are expected to understand if it doesn't recognize your sound card" but this is exactly why I don't install Linux on computers for very non-technical friends, and instead install Windows and a very bad taste in my mouth.
Obviously this depends on distro, as it is a function of the desktop to warn you, rather than the kernel (even though the driver is a kernel module). A minor, but significant aggrivation.
Or they will release Longhorn, starting a wave of upgrades, some forced. And a new version of Office. I don't think anyone that owns significant stock in Microsoft, or anyone working at Microsoft, has missed a meal lately.
Microsoft is definately making a profit, and a large one at that. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply wrong.
In the process they are exposed to the toxic compounds that are released. In other cases, lead makes its way into drinking water.
But now it won't get into OUR drinking water, and the lead in the water of the enemy means their babies will talk and walk slower, making them easier military targets when they grow up. This could be a nice long term strategy in our war on terrorism, and helps keep our streams and lakes lead free, too.
Well, why should my Canadian tax money be spent by my Canadian government to fight terrorism? Lets face it - it's you guys south of the border who are the main target - and I'm not giving up my tax dollars or civil liberties to protect you.
And yet, over the last 100 years, America has come to the defense of several countries, such as France, England, and even failed attempts in Vietnam. Your statement is exactly why the term "apothy and ignorance" is used so often to describe Canadians. Many don't know, and don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally.
Personally, I think the way for everyone to prosper is to have open and fair elections, and capitalism. Anything my country does to remove dictators and install democracy and capitalism benefits us all, in the long run.
You can disagree, thats fine. I always welcome differing opinions. But I am very glad I am not so cynical as to say "screw everyone except me", and have the capacity to empathize with others, like oppressed Iraqi's. I have been bitching since Gulf War I that we should have liberated the people of Iraq, and sleep well at night knowing we did the right thing. This is one use of my tax dollars I fully support.
Leadership is NOT simply doing what others thing you should do. Leadership is doing the right thing, even when everyone else disagrees with you.
2 things: 1) It was expected that the US would have a recession before 9/11.
Actually, we began the recession (technically) on Jan 1 2001, 21 days before GW took office. The libs HATE it when you point that out.
2) In the economy, such effects are not immediate. It takes more than a few months for the economy to react to official policies.
And since we are a capitalistic society, the govt. does DICTATE the economy anyway. They can create policies that are conducive to a faster growing economy, but it is Joe and Mary Sixpack, plus the business sector, that really determine the economy. The more they spend, the better it gets.
technically, the president can sign all the treaties he wants, but they don't go into effect unless ratified by the congress. this has been used as a political tool before "I signed it, and I want to abide by it, but those rascally (other party) in the congress won't go for it".
Allows us to play both sides of the fence:D
Kinda like the southpark where we find that we need Doves to keep everyone from hating us, and we need Hawks to keep everyone from running over us, so in the end, we can say one thing and do another, and get away with it.
You are correct that the military can cost more to the economy than it gives back, but let us not forget one area that the military actually contributes, if not accidently: research. lots of really cool things started out as defense projects (like the internet). night vision, gps, and more all started with the military, and found civilian applications.
Of course, you don't need huge military budgets for this, just someone to defend against.
actually the powerpc, as of the power4 gen and forward (read: 970 or Apple's new chip) is 64 bit. It can run 32 bit code in native mode, but its actually a 64 bit chip.
More importantly, we are not getting computers with that great a performance jump. Part of this is feature bloat in Windows and Linux, and part is feature bloat in the chips.
Try installing Windows 95 on a P3@1.0Ghz and compare to XP on a P4/3.0Ghz.
I just ran Siege to test my web servers (a 2.6 P4 and a dual p3-1.0, both with 1.5gb ram) The 2xp3 blew the doors off the p4, 3 times faster. Then again, a 1.0ghz p3 IS faster than a 1.4ghz p4 for everything but multimedia, from my experience.
So we are getting more and more features, that use more and more power, and cause more and more bloat, to the end that the average computer isn't much faster than it was 8 years ago for most everyday tasks.
There might not even be a 'better way' to design a general-purpose CPU.
Transmeta has the right idea, IMHO. Design the hardware to be a simple engine, and use code to emulate hardware. (they call it Morph Code) Makes it much smaller, you can virtually 'upgrade' the cpu with code, and since it uses so much less power, you can blade the living crap out of it.
Although they have not implimented this technique to its fullest, they have a history of good coders working for them (Linus Torvald, for example) and they do have products out there.
But this design would allow a single cpu to be used for different purposes, since so much of the hardware is emulated in code.
I have rented from ev1 for quite some time. You could go to their website and SEE how many servers they had for rent. Usually, the total number available was 1 here, 4 there, 6 here, 2 there (of the different OS choices). Most of the time, there were ZERO available of at least half of the servers. As clients quit, more come available, etc.
Once the SCO story broke, EVERY type of server was available, and they quit publishing the number of servers available. My guess is they lost a few hundred clients, the "numbers available" became irrelevent and were dropped. It also made them look bad.... 12 servers available today, sign with SCO, 329 available after Slashdot reports on it...
Who do you blame when a some script kiddie gets into your linux box with the latest redhat exploit?
That HAS happened to me, several years ago. I blamed ME for not doing a better job of securing my box (I was pretty new to linux at the time). Hasn't happened since. It was a DNS exploit.
I have also installed a Windows 2000 box while it was connected to my router, and had it infected with Blaster before the install was done. I can't think of any similar experience with Linux, and I have installed literally HUNDREDS of boxes.
Wouldn't they just lay the old "recieving stolen property" thing on Person C?
You mean "knowingly" receiving stolen property. That is the key. If you buy a TV from a store, and the owner had stolen it off a UPS truck, you are not liable for receiving stolen goods unless you KNEW it was stolen. Or it passes the "you SHOULD have known" or "a reasonable person" test. This is when you buy a TV in the box from the back of a truck for $12, a "reasonable person" would have concluded that it was stolen. If you received an item from a known source and a reasonable person would have assumed it was legal, then you are clear.
When you download RH9 from redhat.com, it is reasonable to assume it is not stolen, thus you could not be liable for "knowingly receiving stolen goods".
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On a slightly offtopic note, I think slashcode should allow us to mod down our own posts.
;)
You can. If you get a karma bonus, post without it. If not, or if you need more self moderation, post as AC, and set your threshold to 3, then even YOU don't have to read your own posts
If that STILL isn't enough, just say something bad about Linux and good about Windows in the same sentence, and the regular moderators will take care of you in a matter of seconds. Linux bashing is always good for instant karma.
Jesse James is the host of the hit TV show, "Monster Garage". He owns West Coast Choppers, and does commercials for Auto Zone. He is a up and coming minor celebrity as well, for his excellent auto and motorcycle work, as well as his "bad boy" (but not too bad) image.
Its a pretty cool TV show.
The hell you say. A Cisco router is just a CPU and some RAM with a few IO ports thrown in. Its the IOS firmware and software that makes it do its thing.
Another example would be the computer. Two identical computers, one is setup for as a Linux router for 100 DHCP clients, the other is a Windows 98 game box. It is everything on THIS side of the hardware that decides this, not the hardware itself. Even the same software can run on different hardware (Linux router on MIPS, Alpha, x86, Athlon 64, G5, etc).
Personally, I don't see the problem with using binary only drivers. I would prefer to use hardware with open sources, and I can make that decision when I purchase the hardware. This makes me more likely to buy ATI instead of nVidia, for example. But then its MY choice, not the kernel nazis. I thought that is what Linux was all about, Free as in speech, not as in beer.
Yes, putting the GPL\O is pretty sneaky to get around GPL restrictions, but maybe the restrictions are the problem, not the fact that some company wants to sell firmware for Linux.
What do you mean "change the network"?
I mean change from a mix of Linux and Windows servers, using SMB, with all Windows clients, to a purely *nix environment, be it some flavor of Linux or BSD. Change as in remove all traces of Microsoft and going to a purely GPL or BSD operating system, with either open and/or closed source applications to run the business.
I don't have a problem with closed source applications if they use open standards (SQL, XML, etc). I do have some bad experiences with totally closed operating systems and applications.
This would also justify upgrading our infrastructure from 100mbit to 1000mbit, as well as other hardware upgrades. Whether "correct" or not, from my perspective this is a whole new network.
I have found that most CEO's are more interested in making more money, rather than your particular skill set. Making money for the company is the ultimate skill, no matter what language or platform you use. Most of the succesful people I know are not specialists, they are "jack of all trades" that know enough about lots of subjects. Its not the knowledge that matters, its their ability to apply it in a way that is profitable.
I see so much potential for programmers, it is unreal. I look into the void and see a major shortage of applications for many industries that run on Linux. I have been searching for many, many months, and have not found any of the software I need to change the network to a *nix environment. I don't even care what flavor: Linux, BSD, OSX, whatever. SAPs suite only runs on Windows, and they don't want to support Linux as a Windows file server. Many calls to IBM have resulted in dead end leads. Oracle is just too much for this job, and slightly out of budget for only a 4 year license (and we have a fairly liberal budget).
I hear alot about skilz and such, but most small to medium business owners care about the results, not the methods. Often, you have to be able to fill more than one pair of shoes to get in. One way is with the ability to produce/demonstrate some software that will address some problem they have. Desperately. Business owners need solutions. We need software. We need a reason to fully embrace Linux. We want to. And we can pay fairly for it, and for extra support. But we can't if we can't the software to run the business to begin with.
I can't say what the solution is, but Linux desperately need commercial programmers to succeed, and I know there are lots of people willing to pay for it. I am one of them. It seems there just HAS to be lots of opportunity for a programmer in this environment. The economy is not bad. It WAS bad, and its getting better fast. Some industries and/or companies didn't really have a recession. They saw growth every year for 10 years or more. Even new startups need software, and MS is so expensive for a small network (think 20 to 40), that GNU/Linux can compete if it has the right applications. None of the licensing headaches, get to use older hardware, more stable, easy to customize, much easier to administer. Yes, we believe you, we already use Linux for routers and web servers. Now give us the biz apps. Here, have some money.
Nothing would make me happier than being able to say "Yes, this is exactly the software I need. I will gladly pay you your asking price, and full support as well.". Everything out there is either too small and simple, or too much for a company with under 50 employees. There simply IS opportunity out there. Now would be a good time for some visionary capitalist to finance it and make themselves rich in the process. Once Linux becomes the dominant OS and bgates is irrelavent, we will need someone new to kick around anyway.
I'm flattered. My original goal wasn't to be humorous. By the time I finished writing it, I was laughing myself, but the entire post is the honest truth (really, you can trust me ;)
We have an expression at work: "This ain't kidney transplants." We sell luxury items, not life saving equipment, so I don't lose a wink of sleep by being creative about how I position our product. Our stuff has a money back guarantee and killer warranty, and is excellent quality by an old company. But I still have to be more creative than the next guy, whether he is honest or not (half are, half ain't).
Fortunately, I don't use our products (or any competing product for that matter), so my own opinion doesn't get in the way. Its just a game. I get paid to push the limits of honesty, as long as I keep honest. Its a fun fence to walk on.
However, if you like your redhat, and don't feel like paying the RedHat for the support. Try WhiteBox Linux. www.whiteboxlinux.org. It's a thing of beauty. I've started deploying it on our production servers. Works great.
I *know* redhat, I like it ok, and I have paid for support for years, and didn't mind. What I *DO* mind is how they keep changing their support options, with NO upgrade path. Upgrading RH9 (which I paid $60 a year per server for support) to Enterprise 3.0 is NOT supported. They tell you to wipe and start over. I had just paid $180 for 3 servers when they announced they were quitting the program, (they had automatic annual billing). They said they would not be issuing any refunds or rebates, although they did offer to give me a discount on their $800 a year per server program. Well, I don't need $800 a year per server style support, I just need updated RPMs. I would have gladly paid $120 a year per box to just use RHN updates, but that wasn't an option.
In other words, they screwed me by taking my money and not providing support, and screwed me by only offering support through a program that costs over 1300% more, but NO upgrade path. No thanks. If I want to get treated like this, I will buy a license from SCO.
I'm not sure how they can come to that conclusion without having access to the code which SCO is claiming that they have which was inapproprately added into the Linux kernels.
if you read the article, you would have seen that they traced the roots of all the code (be it bsd/pd or the credited author) and are basing their opinion on that research. They feel they have "sourced" all the source.
As a fellow capitalist (20 years in marketing), I can verify your statement. This applies to durable products in my case, but could apply to software as well.
;)
If the competition has it, and you don't, its because it is not reliable enough, will cause potential problems, not fully compatible or affects performance/comfort/durability in a negative way.
If you have it and the competition doesn't, it is because they are technologically behind, outdated, incapable of incorporating change, or they just don't care about you.
If you both have it, yours is better tested, proven, the correct version, or better documented.
If they got it before you did, it was because you care enough about your customers to fully test it to prevent any potential problems. If you got it before they did, it is because you have better facilities/personel for testing so you can get it to market faster.
Steel is stronger than plastic, unless mine is plastic. Then plastic is lighter than steel, and stronger, pound for pound. Bigger is better, unless mine is smaller. Then we use more modern parts, instead of old technology, so ours is smaller.
Any feature my product has or doesn't have, I can give you a very good explanation that will demonstrate why we are better for having it / not have it. No matter the circumstances, we did it on purpose, and we did it because we care more than the evil/incompetent/small competition. If you give me at least 30 minutes, I will also produce graphs and charts that clearly demonstrate this point.
As to what the magical "it" I keep referring to, it doesn't matter. What ever "it" is, we have a reason for having / not having "it" and why we implimented it first / last. (please refer to the image for obvious proof.)
You don't have to be evil to be in Marketing, but it really does help
I used 6.2 until 8 came out (see fiasco regarding 8 and 9 above...). I was a killer distro for web servers, etc. It was leaner, simple, but gave me the best uptimes. Always ran custom kernels for it, usually non-modular. I had a few servers running 6.2, (two ibm 325's and a Dell 1400sc, all dual cpu) The only thing I noticed was SMP performance wasn't great until 2.4 came out.
Unfortunately, I am using Fedora on most boxes right now because I already know RH pretty well, and have not decided what distro I am going to switch to. RH has lost my faith with their version changes/fiascos/rhn ripoffs/cd update crap/ etc. I have to admit, I miss 6.2.
I would agree. One of the other problems I notice with Linux is how its not easy to tell that your sound card wasn't recognized. With Windows 9x you get a pop up window that tries to walk you through installing the driver, but if Linux doesn't recognize it, you may be trying to see if the speakers are plugged in, etc., because you really didn't get any warning.
I understand this is because "if you use Linux, you are expected to understand if it doesn't recognize your sound card" but this is exactly why I don't install Linux on computers for very non-technical friends, and instead install Windows and a very bad taste in my mouth.
Obviously this depends on distro, as it is a function of the desktop to warn you, rather than the kernel (even though the driver is a kernel module). A minor, but significant aggrivation.
Or they will release Longhorn, starting a wave of upgrades, some forced. And a new version of Office. I don't think anyone that owns significant stock in Microsoft, or anyone working at Microsoft, has missed a meal lately.
Microsoft is definately making a profit, and a large one at that. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply wrong.
In the process they are exposed to the toxic compounds that are released. In other cases, lead makes its way into drinking water.
;)
But now it won't get into OUR drinking water, and the lead in the water of the enemy means their babies will talk and walk slower, making them easier military targets when they grow up. This could be a nice long term strategy in our war on terrorism, and helps keep our streams and lakes lead free, too.
I fail to see the down side for us.
Well, why should my Canadian tax money be spent by my Canadian government to fight terrorism? Lets face it - it's you guys south of the border who are the main target - and I'm not giving up my tax dollars or civil liberties to protect you.
And yet, over the last 100 years, America has come to the defense of several countries, such as France, England, and even failed attempts in Vietnam. Your statement is exactly why the term "apothy and ignorance" is used so often to describe Canadians. Many don't know, and don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally.
Personally, I think the way for everyone to prosper is to have open and fair elections, and capitalism. Anything my country does to remove dictators and install democracy and capitalism benefits us all, in the long run.
You can disagree, thats fine. I always welcome differing opinions. But I am very glad I am not so cynical as to say "screw everyone except me", and have the capacity to empathize with others, like oppressed Iraqi's. I have been bitching since Gulf War I that we should have liberated the people of Iraq, and sleep well at night knowing we did the right thing. This is one use of my tax dollars I fully support.
Leadership is NOT simply doing what others thing you should do. Leadership is doing the right thing, even when everyone else disagrees with you.
2 things:
1) It was expected that the US would have a recession before 9/11.
Actually, we began the recession (technically) on Jan 1 2001, 21 days before GW took office. The libs HATE it when you point that out.
2) In the economy, such effects are not immediate. It takes more than a few months for the economy to react to official policies.
And since we are a capitalistic society, the govt. does DICTATE the economy anyway. They can create policies that are conducive to a faster growing economy, but it is Joe and Mary Sixpack, plus the business sector, that really determine the economy. The more they spend, the better it gets.
technically, the president can sign all the treaties he wants, but they don't go into effect unless ratified by the congress. this has been used as a political tool before "I signed it, and I want to abide by it, but those rascally (other party) in the congress won't go for it".
:D
Allows us to play both sides of the fence
Kinda like the southpark where we find that we need Doves to keep everyone from hating us, and we need Hawks to keep everyone from running over us, so in the end, we can say one thing and do another, and get away with it.
You are correct that the military can cost more to the economy than it gives back, but let us not forget one area that the military actually contributes, if not accidently: research. lots of really cool things started out as defense projects (like the internet). night vision, gps, and more all started with the military, and found civilian applications.
Of course, you don't need huge military budgets for this, just someone to defend against.
actually the powerpc, as of the power4 gen and forward (read: 970 or Apple's new chip) is 64 bit. It can run 32 bit code in native mode, but its actually a 64 bit chip.
More importantly, we are not getting computers with that great a performance jump. Part of this is feature bloat in Windows and Linux, and part is feature bloat in the chips.
Try installing Windows 95 on a P3@1.0Ghz and compare to XP on a P4/3.0Ghz.
I just ran Siege to test my web servers (a 2.6 P4 and a dual p3-1.0, both with 1.5gb ram) The 2xp3 blew the doors off the p4, 3 times faster. Then again, a 1.0ghz p3 IS faster than a 1.4ghz p4 for everything but multimedia, from my experience.
So we are getting more and more features, that use more and more power, and cause more and more bloat, to the end that the average computer isn't much faster than it was 8 years ago for most everyday tasks.
There might not even be a 'better way' to design a general-purpose CPU.
Transmeta has the right idea, IMHO. Design the hardware to be a simple engine, and use code to emulate hardware. (they call it Morph Code) Makes it much smaller, you can virtually 'upgrade' the cpu with code, and since it uses so much less power, you can blade the living crap out of it.
Although they have not implimented this technique to its fullest, they have a history of good coders working for them (Linus Torvald, for example) and they do have products out there.
But this design would allow a single cpu to be used for different purposes, since so much of the hardware is emulated in code.
I actually wrote and National Semiconductor published an application note "proving" 1200 bps was the limit for a serial stream down a copper line.
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Then why should we listen to you now?
Now is this navel lint or dryer lint? Because you know it does make a difference!
You know, we really didn't need the visual of RMS's navel lint. God, I gotta go take a shower now.
I have rented from ev1 for quite some time. You could go to their website and SEE how many servers they had for rent. Usually, the total number available was 1 here, 4 there, 6 here, 2 there (of the different OS choices). Most of the time, there were ZERO available of at least half of the servers. As clients quit, more come available, etc.
Once the SCO story broke, EVERY type of server was available, and they quit publishing the number of servers available. My guess is they lost a few hundred clients, the "numbers available" became irrelevent and were dropped. It also made them look bad.... 12 servers available today, sign with SCO, 329 available after Slashdot reports on it...
Who do you blame when a some script kiddie gets into your linux box with the latest redhat exploit?
That HAS happened to me, several years ago. I blamed ME for not doing a better job of securing my box (I was pretty new to linux at the time). Hasn't happened since. It was a DNS exploit.
I have also installed a Windows 2000 box while it was connected to my router, and had it infected with Blaster before the install was done. I can't think of any similar experience with Linux, and I have installed literally HUNDREDS of boxes.
Wouldn't they just lay the old "recieving stolen property" thing on Person C?
You mean "knowingly" receiving stolen property. That is the key. If you buy a TV from a store, and the owner had stolen it off a UPS truck, you are not liable for receiving stolen goods unless you KNEW it was stolen. Or it passes the "you SHOULD have known" or "a reasonable person" test. This is when you buy a TV in the box from the back of a truck for $12, a "reasonable person" would have concluded that it was stolen. If you received an item from a known source and a reasonable person would have assumed it was legal, then you are clear.
When you download RH9 from redhat.com, it is reasonable to assume it is not stolen, thus you could not be liable for "knowingly receiving stolen goods".
(IANAL, but I'm pretty sure on this one)