Linux is dead, linux will never be useable on the desktop. Linux is too hard, linux doesnt have games, linux doesnt do X or Y or even Z.
Huh? Linux does X.
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If it stays limited to older nintendo and sega ROMs, they might slip under the radar... but I don't know anymore.
No way they would let anything slide. I knew of some guys who were making reproductions of arcade game artwork, to restore their old machines. That stuff was nowhere to be found, and the company who released the game (can't remember who right now) would never think of producing it again. They made a few posts to rec.games.video.arcade.collecting to see who else would be interested in the sideart. The company got wind of it, and came after the guys with their cease-and-desist guns blazing. Big companies don't like unauthorized materials, yet they won't authorize anything either.
Oddly, since the article was so long, I posted this on all 3 sections of it. This was the only one where my comment was modded down to 0 as overrated. The others were modded up to 4 as Funny.
What sucks even more is that the interview was 3 pages long, so I had to submit this comment 3 times. Oddly, it was modded about the same on two of them, and on the other it was modded down to 0 as overrated.
Please don't embarass America any more with your pathetic spelling/grammar. (for the 100th time, you mean "their", not "there" - dumbass. And if you think that these phones use analog, think again.
The real reason America is so F'd up when it comes to cell phones is because we are so damn big. We simply have a lot of surface area in our country, and to produce phones that can work everywhere takes a lot longer. The logistics of it are just more complicated.
And, we have to drive EVERYWHERE. Unless you live in a city, chances are you are going to be in your car every day. If we were able to properly use public transportation, people might be more inclined to use phones. Well, not that they don't while they are driving, but those people aren't the highest memebers on the evolutionary scale.
I guess what I am trying to say is, we have a different kind of country. What we can't do in the way of cellphone technology, we make up for in other areas. (good or bad, take them for what they are)
It had more to do with the way slashdot regurgitates and repost's entire stories about things we already knew in some attempt to stur up anti-microsoft sentiment that inspired my post.
While I agree with you, they are a meta-news-site. And they get their stories from people who submit them and those people seem to be mainly anti-Microsoft. Which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing either. I don't mind bashing MS some, when they deserve it. As I see it, they are reaping what they have sown. They want to be known as "trustworthy" but if you look at the facts, they are not. As long as the stories stay factual, I don't see anything wrong with shining a light on them. When they delve into fanaticism, that is when I kind of tune out.
Yeah, it sucks that you are the lead of people who can't do the work, but all you can do is lead. You can't make them work. I would go to the project lead, or your manager, and say what you said here: "If others don't catch up quickly, we'll have serious problems delivering on time. " Yeah, it might not be the nicest thing to do, but you aren't there to grab each other's asses, you are there to do a job. I assume you have already given them time to do the work. If you haven't spoken to them personally yet, do so. Tell them their code sucks, ask them why they don't have anything done yet. It is your ass on the line as the lead.
At first I thought you were correct, but did you read the article at all? Slashdot title: Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat. The Register title: IBM and Linux our biggest threats - Microsoft. So how did Slashdot filter this story? Here are some snippets from it:
Eric Rudder, senior vice president developer and platform evangelism, set the tone. "IBM is our greatest competitor. In the way they sell products and compete in corporate accounts," he said. Paul Flessner, senior vice president.NET enterprise servers, called IBM and Linux a "formidable" challenge. "It's not just IBM alone, it's not just Linux alone," he said.
I understand that you are trying to be funny, and Slashdot DOES have a tendency to do this. But at least do it on an article where you have a leg to stand on.
From the article: However, Flessner articulated Microsoft's response to Linux. "Linux is free like a puppy. It looks free but when you get all the pieces around it, it doesn't work out so free. There's a lot more than I/O and memory management to make up an operating system."
Whereas Windows is like a puppy that you can only take to one vet when he gets sick, and it is the same vet everyone else is taking their puppy to. And the vet has a very busy schedule, he is deaf and blind, and tells you that the puppy got sick because of something you did. Even though the vet sold you the puppy knowing he was sick. And the medicine he finally gives you for your sick puppy to cure his barfing gives him the shits.
What a dumbass analogy. They still don't get the concept of Free vs free, do they?
Well, back then we all had Unix accounts, so no account = no email. We had our own server farm, etc. We USED to have our own admin, who was a cool guy who would create the accounts while you were standing there. Then corporate stepped in, and decided that we didn't need our own admin (for 200 people, all with Unix access?), so they reassigned that person, and we had to send all of our requests through corporate.
I would have gone (San Jose, CA area) but I'm pretty sure there were no attractive women (or women at all:-/). If anyone can prove otherwise, I'll go to the next one.
Gee, and you sound like such a winner. I can't imagine why you haven't found someone yet.
As I said elsewhere, they cancel meetups that don't get a minimum number of users--users who not only register, but who come back to the website a few days before the event after receiving an emailed reminder and click a link to say "I'll be there."
And as I said elsewhere, I simply wanted to see where the meeting was going to be BEFORE I signed up. They want my email address just if I want to see where the meeting will be. I don't think they need that information. IF I decide to go, then I would register.
Hmm, but I have to give my email just to look up where the meeting will be? I am not talking about registering, that makes sense. I just wanted to find out if there was a meeting even close to me. I shouldn't have to register for that.
Privacy policy. That's a good one. Companies always follow their privacy policy.
You go to the Slashdot meetup website [meetup.com], register with your email address and zip code, and the site tells you where the meetup is in your area.
zipcode is optional. But I wonder why they want your email address just to see the meeting place. Hmm, maybe to sell to spammers? In order to check the one in my local area, just out of curiousity, I used cmdrtaco@slashdot.org. Works just fine.
I think this isn't universally true at Motorola. I worked there several years ago in one department that was SW-CMM Level 5, and most people there seemed pretty sharp. However, their general UNIX network and their network admins left a great deal to be desired. Their UNIX servers were vintage early-90's (really old Sun servers, I believe),
Heh, probably the same equipment that they used when I was there. ('93-'98) When I started, we had the old black and white Sun boxes. The kind where you could get screen dumps of anyone else on your server, or you could change their background. Man, those were unsecure pieces of crap. Then we upgraded to newer servers. Those are probably the same ones that you used.
I agree, there were bright people there, but they were caught in the same mess as everyone else, and it still took forever to get anything accomplished.
Wanna know how to bring a server to it's knees?
write a shell script called "hose", with this as the contents: ./hose &
When you run it with (hose &), it will eat all the cpu on the server, but it probably won't crash it, it will eventually taper off and stay at a really high level. Nobody else will be able to log in, and even if they do, they can't kill the process (it is constantly changing). I did this on accident once, and went immediately to our Unix admin. They were going to reboot the server. I said "wait a minute" and went back to my terminal. Can you guess what I typed to get it to stop?
rm hose
I wonder if that will still work today, I haven't tried it lately.
Aren't people already allowed to do this kind of research thanks to the librian of congress's decision on exemptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention scheme?
Wow, excellent question... Oh wait, no it isn't. RTFA!!!!
From the article:
Filter-hacking protections
There is some legal immunization for blocking-software researchers. When enacting the DMCA in 1998, Congress ordered the Library of Congress to weigh exemptions to the law's broad prohibition against circumventing copy-protection techniques.
In October 2000, the Library of Congress ruled that "the case has been made for an exemption for compilations consisting of lists of websites blocked by filtering software applications."
But that exemption explicitly does not permit a researcher to write and distribute software that decodes the encrypted blacklists. Because Edelman wants to do just that, the ACLU argues, the Library of Congress' decision is insufficient.
The DMCA's limited exemption for some forms of reverse-engineering also does not apply, the lawsuit claims. According to the DMCA, reverse-engineering must be done for "the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program" necessary to create similar software.
Because Edelman's purpose is instead to critique filtering software, the ACLU says, he could be liable under the DMCA unless the court intervenes.
What did said intern need a UNIX account for? It sounds suspiciously like he did SOMETHING productive at the company for four months....
Back then, everyone had Unix terminals at their desk instead of PCs. 10 people per server.
He was still able to do his work, simply because we had some lab accounts that he could use to login. He didn't have email access though, cause he didn't have an account. That was a real PITA.
Ahh, the days of using Mosaic, Zmail, Framemaker, shell scripting, telnet, ftp, talk, etc. on a daily basis.
I worked at the M in MEN for about 5 years, in the cellular division. Believe me, they don't really know what they are doing. It may sound logical to say they know that they are stifling competition, but nobody there could wipe their butt unless there was an SOP document showing them how. It was a huge, iceberg of a company, where it took months to get anything done. We had an intern who was there for 4 months, and he never got his UNIX account created. We had to submit the proper paperwork to someone, and they had to interoffice mail it to someone else, who then gave it to the manager of the sysadmin, etc etc etc. It was excruciating. We submitted the papwork the day after he started. We called, emailed, you name it for 4 months. No account was ever created, it was always "in process".
So as a company they may be part of a group (MEN) that collectively keeps their own interests to heart, but there is no grand conspiracy as far as I could tell. Unless it is between the VPs or CEOs, or other people who make those important decisions. I was just a grunt that got sick of working for a lumbering giant with a cult-like company culture.
Many mac people claim that they have the best computers because of their size and portablity. Perhaps Windows (or hopefully linux) will be able to show people that we to can make really weird looking small computers too.
Psst. Windows and Linux are operating systems, not computers.
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Huh? Linux does X.
No way they would let anything slide. I knew of some guys who were making reproductions of arcade game artwork, to restore their old machines. That stuff was nowhere to be found, and the company who released the game (can't remember who right now) would never think of producing it again. They made a few posts to rec.games.video.arcade.collecting to see who else would be interested in the sideart. The company got wind of it, and came after the guys with their cease-and-desist guns blazing. Big companies don't like unauthorized materials, yet they won't authorize anything either.
Oddly, since the article was so long, I posted this on all 3 sections of it. This was the only one where my comment was modded down to 0 as overrated. The others were modded up to 4 as Funny.
What sucks even more is that the interview was 3 pages long, so I had to submit this comment 3 times. Oddly, it was modded about the same on two of them, and on the other it was modded down to 0 as overrated.
Please don't embarass America any more with your pathetic spelling/grammar. (for the 100th time, you mean "their", not "there" - dumbass. And if you think that these phones use analog, think again.
The real reason America is so F'd up when it comes to cell phones is because we are so damn big. We simply have a lot of surface area in our country, and to produce phones that can work everywhere takes a lot longer. The logistics of it are just more complicated.
And, we have to drive EVERYWHERE. Unless you live in a city, chances are you are going to be in your car every day. If we were able to properly use public transportation, people might be more inclined to use phones. Well, not that they don't while they are driving, but those people aren't the highest memebers on the evolutionary scale.
I guess what I am trying to say is, we have a different kind of country. What we can't do in the way of cellphone technology, we make up for in other areas. (good or bad, take them for what they are)
While I agree with you, they are a meta-news-site. And they get their stories from people who submit them and those people seem to be mainly anti-Microsoft. Which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing either. I don't mind bashing MS some, when they deserve it. As I see it, they are reaping what they have sown. They want to be known as "trustworthy" but if you look at the facts, they are not. As long as the stories stay factual, I don't see anything wrong with shining a light on them. When they delve into fanaticism, that is when I kind of tune out.
Yeah, it sucks that you are the lead of people who can't do the work, but all you can do is lead. You can't make them work. I would go to the project lead, or your manager, and say what you said here: "If others don't catch up quickly, we'll have serious problems delivering on time. " Yeah, it might not be the nicest thing to do, but you aren't there to grab each other's asses, you are there to do a job. I assume you have already given them time to do the work. If you haven't spoken to them personally yet, do so. Tell them their code sucks, ask them why they don't have anything done yet. It is your ass on the line as the lead.
At first I thought you were correct, but did you read the article at all? Slashdot title: Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat. The Register title: IBM and Linux our biggest threats - Microsoft. So how did Slashdot filter this story? Here are some snippets from it:
Eric Rudder, senior vice president developer and platform evangelism, set the tone. "IBM is our greatest competitor. In the way they sell products and compete in corporate accounts," he said. .NET enterprise servers, called IBM and Linux a "formidable" challenge. "It's not just IBM alone, it's not just Linux alone," he said.
Paul Flessner, senior vice president
I understand that you are trying to be funny, and Slashdot DOES have a tendency to do this. But at least do it on an article where you have a leg to stand on.
However, Flessner articulated Microsoft's response to Linux. "Linux is free like a puppy. It looks free but when you get all the pieces around it, it doesn't work out so free. There's a lot more than I/O and memory management to make up an operating system."
Whereas Windows is like a puppy that you can only take to one vet when he gets sick, and it is the same vet everyone else is taking their puppy to. And the vet has a very busy schedule, he is deaf and blind, and tells you that the puppy got sick because of something you did. Even though the vet sold you the puppy knowing he was sick. And the medicine he finally gives you for your sick puppy to cure his barfing gives him the shits.
What a dumbass analogy. They still don't get the concept of Free vs free, do they?
Libere, Gratis, Linux
Well, back then we all had Unix accounts, so no account = no email. We had our own server farm, etc. We USED to have our own admin, who was a cool guy who would create the accounts while you were standing there. Then corporate stepped in, and decided that we didn't need our own admin (for 200 people, all with Unix access?), so they reassigned that person, and we had to send all of our requests through corporate.
That is odd, for me it was 30.
Gee, and you sound like such a winner. I can't imagine why you haven't found someone yet.
I didn't comment on whether or not nationalism was right or wrong. The term should be used correctly at least.
Sorry, but that would be nationalism, not racism.
And as I said elsewhere, I simply wanted to see where the meeting was going to be BEFORE I signed up. They want my email address just if I want to see where the meeting will be. I don't think they need that information. IF I decide to go, then I would register.
Hmm, but I have to give my email just to look up where the meeting will be? I am not talking about registering, that makes sense. I just wanted to find out if there was a meeting even close to me. I shouldn't have to register for that.
Privacy policy. That's a good one. Companies always follow their privacy policy.
zipcode is optional. But I wonder why they want your email address just to see the meeting place. Hmm, maybe to sell to spammers? In order to check the one in my local area, just out of curiousity, I used cmdrtaco@slashdot.org. Works just fine.
Heh, probably the same equipment that they used when I was there. ('93-'98) When I started, we had the old black and white Sun boxes. The kind where you could get screen dumps of anyone else on your server, or you could change their background. Man, those were unsecure pieces of crap. Then we upgraded to newer servers. Those are probably the same ones that you used.
I agree, there were bright people there, but they were caught in the same mess as everyone else, and it still took forever to get anything accomplished.
Wanna know how to bring a server to it's knees?
write a shell script called "hose", with this as the contents:
./hose &
When you run it with (hose &), it will eat all the cpu on the server, but it probably won't crash it, it will eventually taper off and stay at a really high level. Nobody else will be able to log in, and even if they do, they can't kill the process (it is constantly changing). I did this on accident once, and went immediately to our Unix admin. They were going to reboot the server. I said "wait a minute" and went back to my terminal. Can you guess what I typed to get it to stop?
rm hose
I wonder if that will still work today, I haven't tried it lately.
Wow, excellent question...
Oh wait, no it isn't. RTFA!!!!
From the article:
Filter-hacking protections
There is some legal immunization for blocking-software researchers. When enacting the DMCA in 1998, Congress ordered the Library of Congress to weigh exemptions to the law's broad prohibition against circumventing copy-protection techniques.
In October 2000, the Library of Congress ruled that "the case has been made for an exemption for compilations consisting of lists of websites blocked by filtering software applications."
But that exemption explicitly does not permit a researcher to write and distribute software that decodes the encrypted blacklists. Because Edelman wants to do just that, the ACLU argues, the Library of Congress' decision is insufficient.
The DMCA's limited exemption for some forms of reverse-engineering also does not apply, the lawsuit claims. According to the DMCA, reverse-engineering must be done for "the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program" necessary to create similar software.
Because Edelman's purpose is instead to critique filtering software, the ACLU says, he could be liable under the DMCA unless the court intervenes.
Back then, everyone had Unix terminals at their desk instead of PCs. 10 people per server.
He was still able to do his work, simply because we had some lab accounts that he could use to login. He didn't have email access though, cause he didn't have an account. That was a real PITA.
Ahh, the days of using Mosaic, Zmail, Framemaker, shell scripting, telnet, ftp, talk, etc. on a daily basis.
So as a company they may be part of a group (MEN) that collectively keeps their own interests to heart, but there is no grand conspiracy as far as I could tell. Unless it is between the VPs or CEOs, or other people who make those important decisions. I was just a grunt that got sick of working for a lumbering giant with a cult-like company culture.
Psst. Windows and Linux are operating systems, not computers.