Reminds me of that Finnish college kid who was too cheap to buy a copy of minix and tried to make his own operating system back in 1991. Whatever happened to him?
It has been said, but yes, you are correct. We are humans and have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be problem solvers. Parents give their kids all kinds of "stuff" and make their lives as worry free as possible, which (ironically) is more damaging than having a slightly abusive alcoholic single parent, in the long run. It also makes for sorry ass kids who take everything for granted.
To be clear, AOL has had a stigma attached to it's name for more than 10 years. Even back in the early 90s, it was a joke, and for those too dumb to use a proper unix shell to ftp and irc.
It is terrible that someone would judge others by something as simple as an email address. Yet we all do it. *@aol.com instantly kicks in my "dumbass...." reflex, and I'm sure it does for most other nerds. Worse yet, can you image applying for an IT job with an aol email account? Right or wrong, it would be looked down on.
This is what worries me about genetic testing before birth. What if Stephen Hawking had been determined to be "unfit for life" before he was born, in order to save him from horrors of ALS?
Wasn't that ruling more about the fact that the police used something other than "in plain sight" to detect the lamps? I don't think they meant "you can only use inexpensive technology" when they made that ruling. If thermal imaging equipment was a free gift in a box of Cracker Jacks, it wouldn't change this ruling.
The 4th amendment is designed to protect us *from* the government (police) regardless of how common or inexpensive the technology is.
Because everyone that has nuclear reactors also builds bombs, so they go hand in hand, and cost less in the short run. Even Iran wants nuclear power for this reason.
I used to fly several times a year, but now fly maybe once, and drive the rest of the time. Not because of any fear, but because of the shear hassle and expense. My wife has a heart monitor, and it took a new TSA agent 20 minutes to search her. (its like a pager with two wires to her chest, nothing big at all) The TSA has become too fucking stupid for its own good. As I told the airline attendant, just give everyone a baseball bat as they enter the plane and everyone will be safe. I wanted to say knife or gun, but felt sure that would end up getting me on the "no flight" list, like the guy who tried to set off the bomb...oh yea, thats right, they didn't put HIM on the list. And I'm supposed to feel safer.
Suffice it to say that if Yahoo ran Linux, they would NOT be obligated to submit their changes. The GPL puts no restriction on use, only distribution. And "entitlement" is irrelevant to the conversation. You are likely glad you posted AC.
Well Mr. Know-nothing, if a contract is illegal, such as promising you will give your first born child, then it *isn't* legally binding. That is why contracts have clauses saying that if one part of the contract is found to be illegal or invalid, it doesn't release the obligations of the existing parts.
I did know. I was contrasting Yahoo to Google. Everyone kind of knows that Google gives some back, even via Android by keeping it open. That was the point.
To add: Yahoo runs their entire infrastructure on FreeBSD, including their ecommerce sites (we have a few), but I haven't seen much in the way of contributing back. On the other hand, Google runs Linux and, well, you know.
Of course the GNU/GPL is part of the success of Linux. On one extreme, there are those who believe GPL is more than a license, it is religion itself and RMS is their prophet. If the license didn't matter, many of the people writing software only for the GNU/GPL now might have working on BSD instead. Not every programmer is license agnostic. That doesn't mean that Free software (as a whole) would necessarily be behind the current state, but there are many people who are are a part of the "Linux only" scene *solely* because they believe in the idea of the GPL. For some, "free" isn't good enough, it must be "free, with the obligation it stays free". Some of those people just so happen to be pretty good programmers.
While it would run in similar POSIX way, there is enough difference in the BSD and GNU/Linux license, that Free software would be very different. Don't underestimate the power of the philosophy behind the software.
SDSL has just as much upload speed as download. 10 years ago I ran a 1.5mbit SDSL line with a few servers, and never had any issues, reasonable latency, and speeds as advertised. (Covad -> ATT) It costs more than ADSL, but it usually comes with an uptime guarantee of 3 nines, which sounds better than his 4 nines provider is giving him now.
granted, but it is really, really bloated. if you ever played it, you would likely conclude that while the game is pretty cool (I am a fan, really) it is bloated to the point of it interfering with the fun. It makes insane amounts of sql calls for every little thing as well, so when their servers are busy, the smallest event in the game lags. It has been out long enough that they should have worked out some of the bugs, and maybe 100mb worth of bloat.
Not to nitpick, but you can't really compare/. here. The code base is very limited, and it has been previously discussed that running the code in C instead of Mod_perl wouldn't actually make it faster. Slashdot has already done the math and found that the "savings" were non-existent for their particular application because of the code itself.
On the flip side, can you imagine trying to debug all the little crap that runs on facebook if it were all written in C/C++? What is the biggest waste is some of the flash games. Just for fun, I have entered "Cafe World" on over a dozen computers, ranging from P4/3gz/1gb up to Core2-9550/4x 2.83gz/8gb, and it takes up from 380mb to 550mb of ram on all of them. *For a flash game*. Yea, those guys at Zynga are really good programmers...
don't give a heck about what you're advertising for, nor what style, images, words, whatever you use. I don't want to see your crap. If I need "product information", I will find it - ironically - on Google. The difference is that I'll be looking for it, instead of getting it shoved down my throat, willingly or otherwise.
Then expect to pay for content behind a paywall or expect it to disappear. The only thing that pays for all those pretty words and do-clickys that you WANT to see is the advertisers betting you might click their ad to buy a product. Without advertisers taking that bet, the publishers have no funds to pay staff, and there is no content. Whether you like it or not isn't a function of how capitalism works.
Because any manufacturer is going to charge the most that you are willing to pay. In lawnmowers, there are cheaper alternatives. With laptops, there are not. Pure market based pricing.
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Reminds me of that Finnish college kid who was too cheap to buy a copy of minix and tried to make his own operating system back in 1991. Whatever happened to him?
It has been said, but yes, you are correct. We are humans and have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be problem solvers. Parents give their kids all kinds of "stuff" and make their lives as worry free as possible, which (ironically) is more damaging than having a slightly abusive alcoholic single parent, in the long run. It also makes for sorry ass kids who take everything for granted.
To be clear, AOL has had a stigma attached to it's name for more than 10 years. Even back in the early 90s, it was a joke, and for those too dumb to use a proper unix shell to ftp and irc.
That is a good point. Even SCO/Novell had trouble at first determining who owned the copyrights to Unix, which isn't/wasn't a trivial matter.
Wow, very cool stuff. Why he does this on his phone, I have no idea except for art's sake, but still a true testament of what *is* possible.
My slashdot login has it's own domain, although I am not really doing anything with it. pharmboy.org
It is terrible that someone would judge others by something as simple as an email address. Yet we all do it. *@aol.com instantly kicks in my "dumbass...." reflex, and I'm sure it does for most other nerds. Worse yet, can you image applying for an IT job with an aol email account? Right or wrong, it would be looked down on.
This is what worries me about genetic testing before birth. What if Stephen Hawking had been determined to be "unfit for life" before he was born, in order to save him from horrors of ALS?
Wasn't that ruling more about the fact that the police used something other than "in plain sight" to detect the lamps? I don't think they meant "you can only use inexpensive technology" when they made that ruling. If thermal imaging equipment was a free gift in a box of Cracker Jacks, it wouldn't change this ruling.
The 4th amendment is designed to protect us *from* the government (police) regardless of how common or inexpensive the technology is.
Because everyone that has nuclear reactors also builds bombs, so they go hand in hand, and cost less in the short run. Even Iran wants nuclear power for this reason.
I used to fly several times a year, but now fly maybe once, and drive the rest of the time. Not because of any fear, but because of the shear hassle and expense. My wife has a heart monitor, and it took a new TSA agent 20 minutes to search her. (its like a pager with two wires to her chest, nothing big at all) The TSA has become too fucking stupid for its own good. As I told the airline attendant, just give everyone a baseball bat as they enter the plane and everyone will be safe. I wanted to say knife or gun, but felt sure that would end up getting me on the "no flight" list, like the guy who tried to set off the bomb...oh yea, thats right, they didn't put HIM on the list. And I'm supposed to feel safer.
Suffice it to say that if Yahoo ran Linux, they would NOT be obligated to submit their changes. The GPL puts no restriction on use, only distribution. And "entitlement" is irrelevant to the conversation. You are likely glad you posted AC.
Well Mr. Know-nothing, if a contract is illegal, such as promising you will give your first born child, then it *isn't* legally binding. That is why contracts have clauses saying that if one part of the contract is found to be illegal or invalid, it doesn't release the obligations of the existing parts.
I did know. I was contrasting Yahoo to Google. Everyone kind of knows that Google gives some back, even via Android by keeping it open. That was the point.
To add: Yahoo runs their entire infrastructure on FreeBSD, including their ecommerce sites (we have a few), but I haven't seen much in the way of contributing back. On the other hand, Google runs Linux and, well, you know.
Of course the GNU/GPL is part of the success of Linux. On one extreme, there are those who believe GPL is more than a license, it is religion itself and RMS is their prophet. If the license didn't matter, many of the people writing software only for the GNU/GPL now might have working on BSD instead. Not every programmer is license agnostic. That doesn't mean that Free software (as a whole) would necessarily be behind the current state, but there are many people who are are a part of the "Linux only" scene *solely* because they believe in the idea of the GPL. For some, "free" isn't good enough, it must be "free, with the obligation it stays free". Some of those people just so happen to be pretty good programmers.
While it would run in similar POSIX way, there is enough difference in the BSD and GNU/Linux license, that Free software would be very different. Don't underestimate the power of the philosophy behind the software.
SDSL has just as much upload speed as download. 10 years ago I ran a 1.5mbit SDSL line with a few servers, and never had any issues, reasonable latency, and speeds as advertised. (Covad -> ATT) It costs more than ADSL, but it usually comes with an uptime guarantee of 3 nines, which sounds better than his 4 nines provider is giving him now.
granted, but it is really, really bloated. if you ever played it, you would likely conclude that while the game is pretty cool (I am a fan, really) it is bloated to the point of it interfering with the fun. It makes insane amounts of sql calls for every little thing as well, so when their servers are busy, the smallest event in the game lags. It has been out long enough that they should have worked out some of the bugs, and maybe 100mb worth of bloat.
Yes, and I went "doh" right after I posted that. No edit feature here...
Ruth Buzzy was right.
Not to nitpick, but you can't really compare /. here. The code base is very limited, and it has been previously discussed that running the code in C instead of Mod_perl wouldn't actually make it faster. Slashdot has already done the math and found that the "savings" were non-existent for their particular application because of the code itself.
On the flip side, can you imagine trying to debug all the little crap that runs on facebook if it were all written in C/C++? What is the biggest waste is some of the flash games. Just for fun, I have entered "Cafe World" on over a dozen computers, ranging from P4/3gz/1gb up to Core2-9550/4x 2.83gz/8gb, and it takes up from 380mb to 550mb of ram on all of them. *For a flash game*. Yea, those guys at Zynga are really good programmers...
If you have to worry about your newly wed bride doing someone else while you toil away at work, the relationship is already over.
don't give a heck about what you're advertising for, nor what style, images, words, whatever you use. I don't want to see your crap. If I need "product information", I will find it - ironically - on Google. The difference is that I'll be looking for it, instead of getting it shoved down my throat, willingly or otherwise.
Then expect to pay for content behind a paywall or expect it to disappear. The only thing that pays for all those pretty words and do-clickys that you WANT to see is the advertisers betting you might click their ad to buy a product. Without advertisers taking that bet, the publishers have no funds to pay staff, and there is no content. Whether you like it or not isn't a function of how capitalism works.
Because any manufacturer is going to charge the most that you are willing to pay. In lawnmowers, there are cheaper alternatives. With laptops, there are not. Pure market based pricing.