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Doesn't matter how much funding they throw into the military. That's pretty much been proven. Who cares if they have ultra high tech missiles with built in laser scopes and all that, they don't work - they end up hitting the wrnog bloody targets.
And as for the advanced US military aircraft....whatever, it would be nice if they could actually fly the vehicles without bashing into eachother. Americans. Bah. Even with.5% of the military funding Russia would kick their arses.
I think that what it'll take to make the XBox a success is not so much marketing/public mindshare as much as developer mindshare. Note, too, that this doesn't mean "most developers win". This might eb true in the PC/Corporate market, but in the console market, the platform with the most *good* games will walk away the winner. So what MS needs to do is concentrate on getting the likes of the Steve Wostons of the world to notice the platform. Surely, people like Woston already have preview versions of the Xbox. The question is, will they prefer them over other platforms and write games accordingly?
For example, this configuration would be completely untracable:
Tracing PC (SRC IP=ORIG) Router X(SRC IP=ORIG) ----traffic---- Interface 0 on Router B ------traffic-----NAT BOX with Fragmenting Routing capabilities running on LINUX(SRC IP=GFX)-----(traffic dests).
Simply, what this means is that once the traffic reaches certain points, they won't be able to trace it back any further than that NAT Box.(network address translation box) The packet header has been altered and it is impossible to tell where the packet came from before it hit that box. So therefore, this thing is a joke and the internet is unstoppable.
...once anonymous speech is banned by some kind of forced ID on users sending messages/communications on the internet, how will it make a difference whether the person is slandering/libeling or simply sending a message that is counter-culture? You can't selectively ban anonymous speech. It doesn't work that way.
Sure, it's not an extreme amount of cash, but since it'd be a donation straight to Damian, he would actually be better off than if he earned $70K from a corporation....
Add to that the freedom of doing whatever he wanted , and you have a winner. Besides, a lot of well known programmers have enough cash to actually partake in projects like this without feeling financially strained by a small-ish donation...Steve Woston for instance, often does programming boot camps for beginning computer game programmers.
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing happening - and it's a good thing, after all, in the end, Conway's stills devoted full time to Perl hacking will increase Perl's chances of becoming the next killer open suorce language app.
Really, if you have 25 years of experience as you claim...you're overqualified or too expensive. And even if you aren't, 25 years of experience projects that impression.
...that's probably why they've issued the degree under a "Philosophy" banner rather than a Technology banner.
Ordinarily, it would be quite stupid to put a technical degree under a Philosophy banner....Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) usually only refers to natural sciences and philosphy, art, etc. (Geology, Anthropology, Mathematics, Physics etc). Anything applied, like Applied Mathematics, Computers, Electronics, Robotics etc, would usually go under a Technology or Science degree (D.Sc or D.T/D.Tech)
At a garage (gas station) they have guys who are clued up about the internals of ICE cars. That is Internal Combustion Engine, cars. That's not to say that they're chemical experts, but think on it - if electrical cars replaced ICE cars, would they really be clued up anymore? No. They'd have to know electrical engineering, EPROM programming, etc. So basically they'd need a combination of programming ability and electrical knowledge that just wouldn't be available - not in your average car mechanic.
Course, most geeks on/. might prefer these kind of cars, but/. readers are a small minority in comparison with the total driving population - and would need their car seen to as their ICE cars are seen to.
Unless you set up a chain of electric-device providing service stations, this won't really take off....besides, who is going to pay for the EE students to sit there and consult/fix probs that occur?
Have all computers have linux installed by default!
Ok, this would be quite a good idea I guess.
It's free,
Can't argue with that:=)
fast
At most tasks, yes.
stable.........
This isn't really 100% true (Perhaps with the exception of Slackware). From my experiences, the default Linux filesystem is extermely finicky and anything other than a careful shutdown ( ctrl-alt-del or "shutdown" or "reboot" ) will end up in a serious FS problem, which at least will require a fsck -f to fix and at worst will trash the filesystem completely.
The dependencies under Linux aren't great which makes installing anything a pure nightmare. Of course, this doesn't neccessarily mean it's unstable, but it's not an ideal working enviroment. Once, however, your programs have been installed under Slackware, you have a mostly stable system that rules.
However, the first problem I mentioned, FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a problem with. And the second is quite adequately dealt with due to the uniformity of the BSD systems and the ports collection. You'll find that compiling something under FreeBSD or any BSD is better than Linux (works at least 60% of the time as compared to about 30% for various GNU/Linux distributions
No...Egg layers are on a different layer of the OSI model and therefore cannot communicate their encapsulated frames directly. Therefore, only mammals will benefit.
Slackware This is the most "pure" mainstream Linux distrib that you will find. Old-school Linux users will use this, and even though other distributions are more popular now, I believe that this distribution will be one of the last standing.
Red Hat A distribution that has gained a large portion of the market through a combination of user-friendly installation and tools, marketing hype and business savvy. Lots of software which they don't seem to be able to keep track of all that well, thus leading to the inclusion of more buggy software than other distributions. Definitely the most popular distribution though.
Mandrake Originally based on Red Hat, this distribution is probably the closest thing to an ultra-user-friendly distribution we've seen yet. It's geared towards userfriendliness but unfortunately has the same software bloat inclusion-wise that Red Hat does. Getting very popular.
Debian GNU/Linux Debian is a distribution that maintains a staunch ideal of free software and has a zealous following of "Free" Software supporters. Some interesting stuff like "apt" updating software, but usually kind of outdated compared to other Linuxes. The most BSD-like of any Linux distribution.
TurboLinux Some nifty stuff and wide language support, and an otherwise solid distribution. Somewhere inbetween Slackware and SuSE.
SuSE Very popular in Europe, this thing looks like a mixture of BSD-style and SysV-style and is a very solid distribution, if a bit Germanized for non-German people.
The top distribution has to be Slackware. No doubt. No doubt.
By the term "edition" I guess that they might port the browser to those toolkits in time. I sure hope so:=) Not that I don't like Qt, but I use an all GTK+ desktop at the moment.
No wonder more people don't use FreeBSD...it's a great operating system. I was so impressed with it that I even mentioned that I thought it could take over the Cobalt market. And yet you, the FreeBSD user, still insult the very people who are trying to use your system.
I think FreeBSD has a lot of potential, but as long as FreeBSD users like you, AC, are around, people will be scared away from FreeBSD. Luckily I am thick-skinned and will not be put off by your unfriendly attitude.
To anyone who is thinking of trying FreeBSD, I do recommend it personally. It's a bit different from Linux, for example, you have to go to/usr/src/sys/i386/conf and put all of your kernel options into a text file. Some of the stuff is a bit different, especially the init scripts, but luckily the documentation for all this is quite excellent, so you might be lucky and not have to even deal with some of the rude FreeBSD users like the AC above at all.
The installation is actually easier than Linux and the configuration is different, yet not a lot harder. Everything I've needed to do so far has been available in the documentation section of the FreeBSD website. Just try to avoid rude FreeBSD users like the AC above and you'll be fine.
What's the point of that? Seems like you're cutting off your nose to spite your face. IE might be the "in" thing now, but what Netscape in 1996? it was probably around 95% market penetration, now it's more like 20%:=) So who's to say that in 2002, the statistics will be the same as they are now? No man. No man can make that kind of prediction. Not even John C. Dvorak.
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A few questions for the /. community. First of all, has anyone seen a revamped version of Terminator vs Robocop for consoles or PC's?
2nd: Who would win a fight:5 Robocops and 5 Terminators VS 1 superman, 2 batmin, and 2 spidermin???
Shy of females??
And as for the advanced US military aircraft....whatever, it would be nice if they could actually fly the vehicles without bashing into eachother. Americans. Bah. Even with .5% of the military funding Russia would kick their arses.
Umm, I could never get used to talking in LOOP's and IF's etc etc in a normal conversation :=)
I think that what it'll take to make the XBox a success is not so much marketing/public mindshare as much as developer mindshare. Note, too, that this doesn't mean "most developers win". This might eb true in the PC/Corporate market, but in the console market, the platform with the most *good* games will walk away the winner. So what MS needs to do is concentrate on getting the likes of the Steve Wostons of the world to notice the platform. Surely, people like Woston already have preview versions of the Xbox. The question is, will they prefer them over other platforms and write games accordingly?
For example, this configuration would be completely untracable:
Tracing PC (SRC IP=ORIG) Router X(SRC IP=ORIG) ----traffic---- Interface 0 on Router B ------traffic-----NAT BOX with Fragmenting Routing capabilities running on LINUX(SRC IP=GFX)-----(traffic dests).Simply, what this means is that once the traffic reaches certain points, they won't be able to trace it back any further than that NAT Box.(network address translation box) The packet header has been altered and it is impossible to tell where the packet came from before it hit that box. So therefore, this thing is a joke and the internet is unstoppable.
...once anonymous speech is banned by some kind of forced ID on users sending messages/communications on the internet, how will it make a difference whether the person is slandering/libeling or simply sending a message that is counter-culture? You can't selectively ban anonymous speech. It doesn't work that way.
Sure, it's not an extreme amount of cash, but since it'd be a donation straight to Damian, he would actually be better off than if he earned $70K from a corporation....
Add to that the freedom of doing whatever he wanted , and you have a winner. Besides, a lot of well known programmers have enough cash to actually partake in projects like this without feeling financially strained by a small-ish donation...Steve Woston for instance, often does programming boot camps for beginning computer game programmers.I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing happening - and it's a good thing, after all, in the end, Conway's stills devoted full time to Perl hacking will increase Perl's chances of becoming the next killer open suorce language app.
Really, if you have 25 years of experience as you claim...you're overqualified or too expensive. And even if you aren't, 25 years of experience projects that impression.
You read too much User Friendly (Sid Dabster thread)
mod_python rules !
D.Sc = Doctor of Science
D.Tech = Doctor of TechnologyPh.D = Doctor of Philosophy
DVM = Doctor of Vetinery MedicineMD = Medical Doctor
Mus.D = Doctor of Music (hehe)D.Comm = Doctor of Commerce
Those are all I know of. Perhaps I'm missing a few, any Slashdotters know any of others?
...that's probably why they've issued the degree under a "Philosophy" banner rather than a Technology banner.
Ordinarily, it would be quite stupid to put a technical degree under a Philosophy banner....Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) usually only refers to natural sciences and philosphy, art, etc. (Geology, Anthropology, Mathematics, Physics etc). Anything applied, like Applied Mathematics, Computers, Electronics, Robotics etc, would usually go under a Technology or Science degree (D.Sc or D.T/D.Tech)At a garage (gas station) they have guys who are clued up about the internals of ICE cars. That is Internal Combustion Engine, cars. That's not to say that they're chemical experts, but think on it - if electrical cars replaced ICE cars, would they really be clued up anymore? No. They'd have to know electrical engineering, EPROM programming, etc. So basically they'd need a combination of programming ability and electrical knowledge that just wouldn't be available - not in your average car mechanic.
Course, most geeks onGet it?
Unless you set up a chain of electric-device providing service stations, this won't really take off....besides, who is going to pay for the EE students to sit there and consult/fix probs that occur?
Red Hat, but not Slackware? Why!?!?!
Have all computers have linux installed by default!
Ok, this would be quite a good idea I guess.It's free,
Can't argue with thatfast
At most tasks, yes.stable.........
This isn't really 100% true (Perhaps with the exception of Slackware). From my experiences, the default Linux filesystem is extermely finicky and anything other than a careful shutdown ( ctrl-alt-del or "shutdown" or "reboot" ) will end up in a serious FS problem, which at least will require a fsck -f to fix and at worst will trash the filesystem completely.The dependencies under Linux aren't great which makes installing anything a pure nightmare. Of course, this doesn't neccessarily mean it's unstable, but it's not an ideal working enviroment. Once, however, your programs have been installed under Slackware, you have a mostly stable system that rules.
However, the first problem I mentioned, FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a problem with. And the second is quite adequately dealt with due to the uniformity of the BSD systems and the ports collection. You'll find that compiling something under FreeBSD or any BSD is better than Linux (works at least 60% of the time as compared to about 30% for various GNU/Linux distributionsNo...Egg layers are on a different layer of the OSI model and therefore cannot communicate their encapsulated frames directly. Therefore, only mammals will benefit.
Of course :o)
Here's a breakdown of distributions:
Slackware This is the most "pure" mainstream Linux distrib that you will find. Old-school Linux users will use this, and even though other distributions are more popular now, I believe that this distribution will be one of the last standing.Red Hat A distribution that has gained a large portion of the market through a combination of user-friendly installation and tools, marketing hype and business savvy. Lots of software which they don't seem to be able to keep track of all that well, thus leading to the inclusion of more buggy software than other distributions. Definitely the most popular distribution though.
Mandrake Originally based on Red Hat, this distribution is probably the closest thing to an ultra-user-friendly distribution we've seen yet. It's geared towards userfriendliness but unfortunately has the same software bloat inclusion-wise that Red Hat does. Getting very popular.
Debian GNU/Linux Debian is a distribution that maintains a staunch ideal of free software and has a zealous following of "Free" Software supporters. Some interesting stuff like "apt" updating software, but usually kind of outdated compared to other Linuxes. The most BSD-like of any Linux distribution.
TurboLinux Some nifty stuff and wide language support, and an otherwise solid distribution. Somewhere inbetween Slackware and SuSE.
SuSE Very popular in Europe, this thing looks like a mixture of BSD-style and SysV-style and is a very solid distribution, if a bit Germanized for non-German people.
The top distribution has to be Slackware. No doubt. No doubt.
Why not GTK+ or xwWindows?
By the term "edition" I guess that they might port the browser to those toolkits in time. I sure hope so...and what about Steve Woston?
No wonder more people don't use FreeBSD...it's a great operating system. I was so impressed with it that I even mentioned that I thought it could take over the Cobalt market. And yet you, the FreeBSD user, still insult the very people who are trying to use your system.
I think FreeBSD has a lot of potential, but as long as FreeBSD users like you, AC, are around, people will be scared away from FreeBSD. Luckily I am thick-skinned and will not be put off by your unfriendly attitude.To anyone who is thinking of trying FreeBSD, I do recommend it personally. It's a bit different from Linux, for example, you have to go to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and put all of your kernel options into a text file. Some of the stuff is a bit different, especially the init scripts, but luckily the documentation for all this is quite excellent, so you might be lucky and not have to even deal with some of the rude FreeBSD users like the AC above at all.
The installation is actually easier than Linux and the configuration is different, yet not a lot harder. Everything I've needed to do so far has been available in the documentation section of the FreeBSD website. Just try to avoid rude FreeBSD users like the AC above and you'll be fine.
It just produces a list of statistics.
IE 80.18%NS 4 16.37%
Other 3.45%What's the point of that? Seems like you're cutting off your nose to spite your face. IE might be the "in" thing now, but what Netscape in 1996? it was probably around 95% market penetration, now it's more like 20%:=) So who's to say that in 2002, the statistics will be the same as they are now? No man. No man can make that kind of prediction. Not even John C. Dvorak.
FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE (SAHARA) #0: Thu Aug 23 13:30:10 SAST 2001
Welcome to FreeBSD!Before seeking technical support, please use the following resources:
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If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it as a question to the questions@FreeBSD.org mailing list. If you are unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout, please refer to the hier(7) man page. If you are not familiar with man pages, type "man man". You may also use `/stand/sysinstall' to re-enter the installation and configuration utility. Editbash-2.04$ uptime
7:45PM up 5 days, 10:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.06, 0.01, 0.00Well, I guess that's the answer. FreeBSD is the way to go on these new boxes.