This lawsuit does not say that "people that commit a violent crime after watching a violent movie are innocent". It simply says that whoever produces the violent movie has absolutely no responsibility over any actions committed by the movie audience. This, IMHO, is the correct approach to the issue. If you happen to dislike someone so much, say... Drew Carey, and put up a website or make a documentary where you show a brutally violent scene of you beating 'Drew Carey' to hell and back, and some idiot goes and does just that, is it now your fault that Drew Carey got his ass kicked?
Freedom of speech goes both ways, whether you like it or not. Censorship is not 'right' when it's used to curb messages that may not be particularly pleasing to your sensitive self.
And regarding Europe, did you actually spend any time in a European country? I was born in Europe, try to stay informed about events in my country, and I can tell you that a lot of european countries are as fucked up as the US in some respects (namely drugs, drunk driving, racism, etc). Simply because our media doesn't cover these issues doesn't mean they do not exist over there.
Now, with all due respect, instead of trying to sound sanctimonious and trying to whore up those karma points, get your shit straight.
Yes. Go to a music gear store, like Sam Ash or Guitar Center. You will find a number of racks in many different sizes and shapes. They're fairly common since a lot of gear happens to be rackmountable (i.e. synths, effect processors, etc). They're not that expensive either. You may even find decent prices on online stores.
Judging from the way you mangle your words ("IEE", "satalite", "their"), and your atrocious grammar, it comes as no surprise to me that MS gets so much flak for putting out crappy products. Hell, they hired you as a consultant?
Maybe they could improve their overall quality if they *didn't* hire dumbasses...
Well, actually, Mercedes and BMWs are rather innovative. These are German-bred auto companies, that produce some of the finest mass-market luxury automobiles out there (note, I said mass-market). Ford and GM *CANNOT* make a vehicle like a Benz. Lincoln (owned by Ford) and Cadillac (owned by GM) sucked some serious ass for the longest time, which forced American companies to go and buy *FOREIGN* car companies in order to have a competitive product (Ford owns Volvo, Aston-Martin, and Jaguar, for example). How's that for 'innovative'?
BTW, try you race a M3 against a Corvette, and you may find yourself looking at the skidmarks from the BMW. The 'vette may have the horsepower, but but the BMW is just way-better engineered (and don't let me get started on the Brabus, from Mercedes).
Regarding the "superior engineers" bit, you're mistaken. The first 'computer' came to existence several centuries ago (as far back as 1623, when Wilhelm Schickard, a German, who created a 'calculating clock'), and who can forget Charles Babbage, who in 1822 designed the fist mechanical computer that used punchcards for input, and Americans had nothing to do with it. Try the German, French and the English; between them, they were the first to come up with the concept of 'computing'. Also, the atomic bomb was the result of research by foreigners, like Albert Einstein (born in Germany), Niels Bohr (Denmark), Enrico Fermi (Italy), and others. Most of the brainpower was foreign, not domestic.
Sorry to rain on your parade, kid... but the way I look at it, it seems like Americans are really not that 'superior' at all....
Due to the fact that Slashdot is owned by VA Linux, and that the general (read, vast majority) of Slashdot population happens to be as sharp as a barrel filled with rubber spoons when discussing negative news related to Linux or any of the current 'hot OpenSource-related companies', allow me to make matters slightly easier to understand.
Please note that I am not a lawyer nor I'm professing to be one; I just happen to be able to read and exercise common sense, which seem just two of the many things most of the kids here need to develop.
Withouth further ado, here it is:
o As mentioned in the several of the posts, why are they using 'Linux' as the shorthand for VA Linux? Very simple. Pick up a copy of any financial newspaper or, if you feel so inclined, hit nasdaq.com and look through the SEC Filings. It is common practice to substitute a company's full name for a suitable substitute, be it initials, 'the Company', etc. It's actually clearly shown in the 2nd paragraph of the article (``Linux'' or the ``Company''); o Are Yahoo or Millberg Weiss engaging in slander/libel/trademark infringement/blah/blah/blah by using 'Linux' in the article when referring to VA Linux? Well, I think a better question would be: Is VA Linux engaging in trademark infringement by using 'Linux' in their own company name? After all, I don't think you see Joe's Coca-Cola or Fred's Campbell soup, do you? o Here's the good stuff - This is what's happening: CS First Boston (CSFB from here on) was handling the public offering of VA's shares. CSFB then went and offered some (a sizable amount, it seems) of those restricted IPO shares to buyers which may have not been part of the 'friends & family gig' in exchange for added commissions & fees, as well as a promise/commitment by those buyers to buy a preset number of shares *after* the IPO, regardless of the market price at the time.
This seemed like a good deal for CSFB because:
a) it insured that all of the 'friends and family' shares would be sold; b) it insured that regardless of the market price after the IPO, the remaining shares (if any) would be sold, therefore resulting in added (*guaranteed*) revenue in comissions to CSFB; c) it would please CSFB customers and encourage them to continue to do business with them.
VA Linux, Larry Augustin, and Todd Schull are also being sued because CSFB are just the brokers, and they can allege that they only offered those options/shares because they were instructed by VA Linux, whose President/CEO/Director is Larry Augustin, and whose VP of Finance/CFO is Todd Schull. Nothing could go on at VA Linux that these two should not be aware of/have a say in it (when it comes to such a big thing as a IPO).
Does that make it any clearer for some of you ding-dongs? Remember, this class action suit is not a 'selfish' thing per se. If you bought VA stock and happened to get short-changed, you can (with luck) recoup some of those losses. Also, note that in roughly 11 months, the shares went from ~$240 to $9. I wouldn't call that a 'stellar performance', even though CSFB considers them a 'strong buy' (HOLY SHIT, A PIG JUST FLEW BY). They're not making any profit (yah yah, you'll say 'YET!'); they're just losing less. *BIG* difference in those two.
Bear in mind that your $5k or $30k is not that much for CSFB when they have customers (read, ppl that have traders in their pocket) with portfolios worth millions. I know, because I worked for them.
nyah
P.S.- I know this will end up being scored as flamebait, but hey, at least I'm educating the idiots, and I can spell.
In the low-end, perhaps. In the mid-sized shop, maybe linux is a decent option for file and printing services. Now, if you start looking into large-scale server implementations, Sun Hardware +Solaris run the show. There is no linux-centric DB implementation capable of supporting databases in the 100's of GB in size. There is no Intel box running linux that is capable of handling this. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to Oracle on a big fat E6500?
Kids and their pipe dreams... Linux is good for desktops and even then, you have no consistency across distributions. Windows is and will be the deskop king for many days to come, and Sun+Solaris will be running the server market, just like it has been for a while.
BTW, if MS wants to kill Linux, it'll have no problems whatsoever. All it needs to do is take BSD source, build a nice GUI for it, port over their apps, and voila! No more Linux. (Heh, Apple doesn't have the nuts to do it, but nice try with OSX).
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Why not the BSD source? If he's a child prodigy and you want him to start out right, have him look at *good* code and not at a poorly-designed mountain of crap.
Don't get me wrong, the concept rocks, but the actual implementation sucks terribly...
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion..."
It is the Mentat Mantra, very much like the Sisterhood's Littany of Fear that goes like so:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind Killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye and see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Both were in Dune, the book, in the little excerpts that precluded each chapter.
Note that I was being sarcastic (hence the "oh-so-much..."). I'm a KDE user myself, since I have better things to do than spend a few hours compiling all the crap required to have Gnome 'running' . Yes, I know about helixcode; yes, it's neat; and no, I won't run binaries that I haven't built myself.
Set your phasers to 'get-over-it', sir.
Well, it seems there are a few people that don't care about daycare because they don't have kids. There's also some that believe that people should consider staying home and raising their children as opposed to dropping them off at the daycare center and have someone else look after them. Of course, others argue about this too.
Here's my solution:
Have daycare be optional. Only have ppl pay for it if they want to use it. As an example, I use the Transitcheck program here in NY/NJ. You can take up to $65/month from your paycheck (before taxes) and get vouchers that you can use to pay for public transportation. This is a optional benefit, which means you don't have to enroll.
So, there you go. Daycare is important to some, not so important to others, and totally useless for a whole lot of ppl. Make everyone happy by simply following the Transitcheck example.
Now, for the lady that is peddling the msgeek.org site, will you please stop? It's kinda annoying to see almost as much./-bashing as news. Your effort is laudable and you have a pretty neat idea, but having the pottle call the kettle black doesn't make you look very good...
1) The War on Drugs has been a failure. Let's concentrate on something easier, like the War on Mimes.
2) I will do nothing. As religion is a personal choice, it's up to them to protect their own rights. After all, we're all free to bear arms... *hint* *hint* 3) Let's not worry about that now. Concentrate on the War on Mimes!!!!!
4) I have no position. Just vote for me and shut the f**k up. Have you clobbered a mime with a baggette today? No? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
5) I feel fine, thanks. Must be all the exercise I got during my excursions into MimeLand.
6) Jesus H. Christ on a pink pogostick, what is with you people and all these hard questions? Find a mime as soon as possible and.. nevermind. 7) We all long for the 60's. Being a hippie was one of the most amazing things ever. I have never had acid as pure as the one I got me during the anti-Vietnam protests in DC... Ahh... good times. That's why I think we should not worry about globalization, but instead worry about the Underground Mime Liberation Front (UMLF). They are the true danger we must fight to keep down!
8) Only if there is conclusive proof of the existence of superhuman alien mimes.
9) Like I have been saying, the War on Mimes is the cause which we should look at for inspiration. Our goal is the complete and utter eradication of all mime-like life in this planet, and eventually rid the universe of this pesky creature. By god, I hope we have enough baggettes to handle all of these mimes!!!!!
Yah, I'll probably get mod'ed down and some shitty karma... BFD. On with the show.
I find this 'let's-tax-the-rich-so-that-we-can-give-more-to-th e-poor' trend a bit disturbing. Allow me to explain why.
I came to the United States about ten years ago. I was 15 at the time, and wasn't particularly fond of the idea of leaving all my friends behind, etc. My parents came here with hopes for a better life. My father was a electrician, had been working at a large company in Europe for about 20 years, but he felt he had a better oportunity here. My mother was a daycare teacher, and thought that coming here would be good for me and my siblings.
We had some seriously rough times in the beginning. My father started out working at a recycling facility picking garbage, because it was the only job he could find, since he could not get in a union. My mother became a housekeeper, because all the certifications required to work in daycare were too lenghty and costed money we didn't have. We never had any kind of government help, be it welfare or anything else. We worked hard, plain and simple.
I went to college, worked 70+ hours/week to pay for my own tuition, since I was not a member of a 'minority' (I'm white) and I didn't qualify for federal aid (or so they said).
Now, several years later, I make 6 figures. I have my own house, a couple of cars, my parents are doing a lot better, and my siblings are also rather well off. We didn't take hand-me-downs from anyone, we got no subsidies, no help, no nothing. We couldn't get anything, and we never took anything from anyone.
Now, explain to me.... if we could do it, why can't someone that was born here and has all kinds of oportunities do much better than me? Why should I be taxed more because I make more when the people that can't do it feel they have the right to be at the same level as me? This may sound pretty bad, but if I am better than others, I deserve to do better than them. Sorry, but having some asshole with political ambitions suggest that I should get taxed more than what I already am to support some unwashed welfare-leeching gang of hoodlums is not my idea of fairness.
Have any of these so-called 'candidates' given their money away to the people that are 'in more need' than them?
Sorry. I believe that anyone can achieve anything, provided they have the will and the desire to do so. I am living proof of that. If someone feels they have the right to do as good as others without any effort simply because they 'should' needs a good beating and a reality check.
Read any of Ayn Rand's books. Many of you may not agree with her views, but she had the right idea.
I'd like to ask you to please sponsor me. Currently, I am employed, working roughly 75+ hours/week, doing sysadmin work. What I would really like to do is work roughly 25 hours/week, dedicate some quality time to my girlfriend, and spend more time with my friends. Optimally, I don't even want to work at all. Of course, this means I need your support. All I need is roughly USD $120,000.00 (my salary now, not counting bonuses), in order to meet my car payments, mortgage, and the occasional Broadway show outings and other finer things I am accustomed to.
Your contribution will enable me to become the perfect example that 'geeks' can be much more than the pocket-protector-wearing, shower-needing, D&D-playing social misfits portrayed in so many of those silly movies, and I will proudly mention your contributions in a webpage of my design.
I will also take the liberty of tattoing the names of the top 10 contributors on my left buttock.
So there you go, fellas. Give me your money. Let me take some time off, and live for free. Oh, fine, ok.... I'll also code some stuff and make it public, if you do so insist.
Actually, the Wine team could not take MS to court. Ever heard of 'prior art'? MS has been coding their apps longer than Wine has been around (remember, Wine is what allows Windows apps to run under Linux, nothing more), therefore, the initial poster had a valid point:
MS could 'technically' claim that projects such as Wine and other emulators may be using some of the supposedly-stolen source in order to develop their apps at a faster pace.
Just my two cents...
Goddamn, people. Can't you guys read the discussion before going and posting about his 'Thank God' comment?????
I hereby suggest that the next punk-ass that posts about this already-beaten-to-death-horse be taken outside, have both his kneecaps shot off, then be forced to kneel in a pit of beerbottle glass and salt, until they learn their lesson.
uhm... neat. In response to your 'educated statement', here's mine:
a) I do have a college degree (EE);
b) I have taken several electives that include social science, political analysis, etc;
c) I also know how to spell (which you seem to having some difficulty doing...).
May I suggest some basic spelling and grammar courses for you, sir? Or maybe you want to lay off the beer, and go for the coke.. it seems to be affecting your reasoning.
By 'real' candidates, I didn't mean candidates that were 'in tune' with the people. I meant candidates which the vast majority of voters will go for simply because they happen to be the representatives of the largest parties. Not to mention that even if Nader got the popular vote, the electoral college would never vote him in (yep, thats right). The electoral college can pretty much vote for whoever they want, w/o necessarily being bound by the 'will of the people' (go here for a good article explaining how things work).
So there you have it. Moderate me as a troll if you want, but the bottom line is: I am a *realist*. Only 2 candidates *really* count in this election, and that's Bush and Gore. Pick your poison, fellas....
PS - I think I'll have a Sapphire & tonic now, guy... with some lime, if you please.
What 'rights' should these people have that they don't already have? Should they have any 'preferential' treatment just because they happen to be into the latest harry-poter-induced religious craze? (yah yah yah, blah blah blah, I know those have been around for a while, etc etc. This is a sarcastic comment, hold your flames, Gimps).
Last I checked, you were free to chose your own religion, unless you went to some institution where you have to be a specific religion (i.e. catholic HS, college, etc). Then, you get what you pay for.
Just my 2 cents...
"...Computerworld had a front page story a couple of weeks ago about how there were problems with Solaris on Sun's Enterprise systems..."-WRONG! The problem is not with the operating system, but with the onboard cache on the UltraSPARC processors that are being shipped with the systems. There is *no* mention in the article about operating system issues at all.As quoted from the ComputerWorld article:
"Sun recently acknowledged a problem involving an external memory cache on its UltraSPARC II microprocessor module. Under certain conditions, the problem has been triggering system failures and frequent server reboots at customer locations over the past 18 months. "
NOTE: UltraSPARC II == PROCESSOR ; Solaris == OPERATING SYSTEM
Granted, Solaris has his own share of bugs, and SunSolve is the site where they're documented, and where public patches are available. If you happen to have a support agreement, you can even access the knowledge database used by their engineers to determine a resolution for the issues you're running into.
The bottom line is that you're comparing a badly-mangled OS release such as RedHat 7.0 to a enterprise-class operating system environment (yes, Solaris is *that* reliable), and using a *HARDWARE* problem on Sun's processors as an excuse to defend your rush-job and say "Hey, our stuff is free, and we have it out in the open, so you can't really complain that much. We still rule and whatnot".
Sun made customers sign an NDA like any other company would, when it came to resolving some of the issues they run into. I'd sign one if it meant that I'd have stellar support (which companies like Sun have, and EMC makes it a standard) and my problem would be resolved.
Now, when you start shipping your own hardware, provide support for both hardware and software, and have tens of thousands of corporate customers, then you can start pointing fingers at Sun and whatnot. Until then, make sure your people take the time to release a decent product, and at least take the time to read the articles you quote on your 'Open Letters'.
P.S. - Oh yah... for the record,I did buy a copy of RH 6.2, and attempted to work with 7 as well... Only to go back to Debian on my intel boxes, and Solaris 7 and 8 on my Sparcs.
With all the delaying and appealing that MS will be doing in the months to come, this process will take years before it produces any kind of outcome that will benefit/impact any consumer....
Sigh... so much for the justice system...
I, for one, find these devices very useful. I'll gladly pay a bit for one of these, once they become smaller and more inconspicuous. For example, those of you that travel regularly as part of work would probably agree that carrying one of these would probably be a bit easier than lugging around a laptop with its tote bag, batteries, etc. One of these with a nicely-sized IBM microdrive would do wonders, specially since it would allow you to switch OSes at a moment's notice.
Yes, they do seem a bit clunky, but then again, they are probably a lot more useful than those 'fashionable' computers that have been posted here on/. over and over. Sorry, but of all the 'geeks' I know, none of them look like those models.
Someone mentioned a computer-enabled trenchcoat. Oh yah, that will go real well during those hot summer days...
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Someone care to explain how does VA expect to stay afloat?
This lawsuit does not say that "people that commit a violent crime after watching a violent movie are innocent". It simply says that whoever produces the violent movie has absolutely no responsibility over any actions committed by the movie audience. This, IMHO, is the correct approach to the issue. If you happen to dislike someone so much, say... Drew Carey, and put up a website or make a documentary where you show a brutally violent scene of you beating 'Drew Carey' to hell and back, and some idiot goes and does just that, is it now your fault that Drew Carey got his ass kicked?
Freedom of speech goes both ways, whether you like it or not. Censorship is not 'right' when it's used to curb messages that may not be particularly pleasing to your sensitive self.
And regarding Europe, did you actually spend any time in a European country? I was born in Europe, try to stay informed about events in my country, and I can tell you that a lot of european countries are as fucked up as the US in some respects (namely drugs, drunk driving, racism, etc). Simply because our media doesn't cover these issues doesn't mean they do not exist over there.
Now, with all due respect, instead of trying to sound sanctimonious and trying to whore up those karma points, get your shit straight.
Regards,
Swift
Maybe they could improve their overall quality if they *didn't* hire dumbasses...
Ford and GM *CANNOT* make a vehicle like a Benz. Lincoln (owned by Ford) and Cadillac (owned by GM) sucked some serious ass for the longest time, which forced American companies to go and buy *FOREIGN* car companies in order to have a competitive product (Ford owns Volvo, Aston-Martin, and Jaguar, for example). How's that for 'innovative'?
BTW, try you race a M3 against a Corvette, and you may find yourself looking at the skidmarks from the BMW. The 'vette may have the horsepower, but but the BMW is just way-better engineered (and don't let me get started on the Brabus, from Mercedes).
Regarding the "superior engineers" bit, you're mistaken. The first 'computer' came to existence several centuries ago (as far back as 1623, when Wilhelm Schickard, a German, who created a 'calculating clock'), and who can forget Charles Babbage, who in 1822 designed the fist mechanical computer that used punchcards for input, and Americans had nothing to do with it. Try the German, French and the English; between them, they were the first to come up with the concept of 'computing'. Also, the atomic bomb was the result of research by foreigners, like Albert Einstein (born in Germany), Niels Bohr (Denmark), Enrico Fermi (Italy), and others. Most of the brainpower was foreign, not domestic.
Sorry to rain on your parade, kid... but the way I look at it, it seems like Americans are really not that 'superior' at all....
Please note that I am not a lawyer nor I'm professing to be one; I just happen to be able to read and exercise common sense, which seem just two of the many things most of the kids here need to develop. Withouth further ado, here it is:
o As mentioned in the several of the posts, why are they using 'Linux' as the shorthand for VA Linux?
Very simple. Pick up a copy of any financial newspaper or, if you feel so inclined, hit nasdaq.com and look through the SEC Filings. It is common practice to substitute a company's full name for a suitable substitute, be it initials, 'the Company', etc. It's actually clearly shown in the 2nd paragraph of the article (``Linux'' or the ``Company'');
o Are Yahoo or Millberg Weiss engaging in slander/libel/trademark infringement/blah/blah/blah by using 'Linux' in the article when referring to VA Linux?
Well, I think a better question would be: Is VA Linux engaging in trademark infringement by using 'Linux' in their own company name? After all, I don't think you see Joe's Coca-Cola or Fred's Campbell soup, do you?
o Here's the good stuff - This is what's happening:
CS First Boston (CSFB from here on) was handling the public offering of VA's shares. CSFB then went and offered some (a sizable amount, it seems) of those restricted IPO shares to buyers which may have not been part of the 'friends & family gig' in exchange for added commissions & fees, as well as a promise/commitment by those buyers to buy a preset number of shares *after* the IPO, regardless of the market price at the time.
This seemed like a good deal for CSFB because:
a) it insured that all of the 'friends and family' shares would be sold;
b) it insured that regardless of the market price after the IPO, the remaining shares (if any) would be sold, therefore resulting in added (*guaranteed*) revenue in comissions to CSFB;
c) it would please CSFB customers and encourage them to continue to do business with them.
VA Linux, Larry Augustin, and Todd Schull are also being sued because CSFB are just the brokers, and they can allege that they only offered those options/shares because they were instructed by VA Linux, whose President/CEO/Director is Larry Augustin, and whose VP of Finance/CFO is Todd Schull. Nothing could go on at VA Linux that these two should not be aware of/have a say in it (when it comes to such a big thing as a IPO).
Does that make it any clearer for some of you ding-dongs? Remember, this class action suit is not a 'selfish' thing per se. If you bought VA stock and happened to get short-changed, you can (with luck) recoup some of those losses. Also, note that in roughly 11 months, the shares went from ~$240 to $9. I wouldn't call that a 'stellar performance', even though CSFB considers them a 'strong buy' (HOLY SHIT, A PIG JUST FLEW BY). They're not making any profit (yah yah, you'll say 'YET!'); they're just losing less. *BIG* difference in those two.
Bear in mind that your $5k or $30k is not that much for CSFB when they have customers (read, ppl that have traders in their pocket) with portfolios worth millions. I know, because I worked for them.
nyah
P.S.- I know this will end up being scored as flamebait, but hey, at least I'm educating the idiots, and I can spell.
BULLSHIT!
In the low-end, perhaps. In the mid-sized shop, maybe linux is a decent option for file and printing services. Now, if you start looking into large-scale server implementations, Sun Hardware +Solaris run the show. There is no linux-centric DB implementation capable of supporting databases in the 100's of GB in size. There is no Intel box running linux that is capable of handling this. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to Oracle on a big fat E6500?
Kids and their pipe dreams... Linux is good for desktops and even then, you have no consistency across distributions. Windows is and will be the deskop king for many days to come, and Sun+Solaris will be running the server market, just like it has been for a while.
BTW, if MS wants to kill Linux, it'll have no problems whatsoever. All it needs to do is take BSD source, build a nice GUI for it, port over their apps, and voila! No more Linux. (Heh, Apple doesn't have the nuts to do it, but nice try with OSX).
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WHOOP-DEE-FUCKIN-DOO!!!!!
Don't get me wrong, the concept rocks, but the actual implementation sucks terribly...
How's that for 'educating the maggotry'?
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion..."
It is the Mentat Mantra, very much like the Sisterhood's Littany of Fear that goes like so:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind Killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye and see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Both were in Dune, the book, in the little excerpts that precluded each chapter.
Note that I was being sarcastic (hence the "oh-so-much..."). I'm a KDE user myself, since I have better things to do than spend a few hours compiling all the crap required to have Gnome 'running' . Yes, I know about helixcode; yes, it's neat; and no, I won't run binaries that I haven't built myself.
Set your phasers to 'get-over-it', sir.
CmdrTaco not being able to spell ("leage"), and KDE news being mocked, since GNOME is oh-so-much-neater....
bleh
Here's my solution:
Have daycare be optional. Only have ppl pay for it if they want to use it. As an example, I use the Transitcheck program here in NY/NJ. You can take up to $65/month from your paycheck (before taxes) and get vouchers that you can use to pay for public transportation. This is a optional benefit, which means you don't have to enroll.
So, there you go. Daycare is important to some, not so important to others, and totally useless for a whole lot of ppl. Make everyone happy by simply following the Transitcheck example.
Now, for the lady that is peddling the msgeek.org site, will you please stop? It's kinda annoying to see almost as much ./-bashing as news. Your effort is laudable and you have a pretty neat idea, but having the pottle call the kettle black doesn't make you look very good...
1) The War on Drugs has been a failure. Let's concentrate on something easier, like the War on Mimes. .. nevermind.
2) I will do nothing. As religion is a personal choice, it's up to them to protect their own rights. After all, we're all free to bear arms... *hint* *hint*
3) Let's not worry about that now. Concentrate on the War on Mimes!!!!!
4) I have no position. Just vote for me and shut the f**k up. Have you clobbered a mime with a baggette today? No? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
5) I feel fine, thanks. Must be all the exercise I got during my excursions into MimeLand.
6) Jesus H. Christ on a pink pogostick, what is with you people and all these hard questions? Find a mime as soon as possible and
7) We all long for the 60's. Being a hippie was one of the most amazing things ever. I have never had acid as pure as the one I got me during the anti-Vietnam protests in DC... Ahh... good times. That's why I think we should not worry about globalization, but instead worry about the Underground Mime Liberation Front (UMLF). They are the true danger we must fight to keep down!
8) Only if there is conclusive proof of the existence of superhuman alien mimes.
9) Like I have been saying, the War on Mimes is the cause which we should look at for inspiration. Our goal is the complete and utter eradication of all mime-like life in this planet, and eventually rid the universe of this pesky creature. By god, I hope we have enough baggettes to handle all of these mimes!!!!!
I find this 'let's-tax-the-rich-so-that-we-can-give-more-to-th e-poor' trend a bit disturbing. Allow me to explain why.
I came to the United States about ten years ago. I was 15 at the time, and wasn't particularly fond of the idea of leaving all my friends behind, etc. My parents came here with hopes for a better life. My father was a electrician, had been working at a large company in Europe for about 20 years, but he felt he had a better oportunity here. My mother was a daycare teacher, and thought that coming here would be good for me and my siblings.
We had some seriously rough times in the beginning. My father started out working at a recycling facility picking garbage, because it was the only job he could find, since he could not get in a union. My mother became a housekeeper, because all the certifications required to work in daycare were too lenghty and costed money we didn't have. We never had any kind of government help, be it welfare or anything else. We worked hard, plain and simple.
I went to college, worked 70+ hours/week to pay for my own tuition, since I was not a member of a 'minority' (I'm white) and I didn't qualify for federal aid (or so they said).
Now, several years later, I make 6 figures. I have my own house, a couple of cars, my parents are doing a lot better, and my siblings are also rather well off. We didn't take hand-me-downs from anyone, we got no subsidies, no help, no nothing. We couldn't get anything, and we never took anything from anyone.
Now, explain to me.... if we could do it, why can't someone that was born here and has all kinds of oportunities do much better than me? Why should I be taxed more because I make more when the people that can't do it feel they have the right to be at the same level as me? This may sound pretty bad, but if I am better than others, I deserve to do better than them. Sorry, but having some asshole with political ambitions suggest that I should get taxed more than what I already am to support some unwashed welfare-leeching gang of hoodlums is not my idea of fairness. Have any of these so-called 'candidates' given their money away to the people that are 'in more need' than them?
Sorry. I believe that anyone can achieve anything, provided they have the will and the desire to do so. I am living proof of that. If someone feels they have the right to do as good as others without any effort simply because they 'should' needs a good beating and a reality check.
Read any of Ayn Rand's books. Many of you may not agree with her views, but she had the right idea.
I'd like to ask you to please sponsor me. Currently, I am employed, working roughly 75+ hours/week, doing sysadmin work. What I would really like to do is work roughly 25 hours/week, dedicate some quality time to my girlfriend, and spend more time with my friends. Optimally, I don't even want to work at all.
Of course, this means I need your support. All I need is roughly USD $120,000.00 (my salary now, not counting bonuses), in order to meet my car payments, mortgage, and the occasional Broadway show outings and other finer things I am accustomed to.
Your contribution will enable me to become the perfect example that 'geeks' can be much more than the pocket-protector-wearing, shower-needing, D&D-playing social misfits portrayed in so many of those silly movies, and I will proudly mention your contributions in a webpage of my design.
I will also take the liberty of tattoing the names of the top 10 contributors on my left buttock.
So there you go, fellas. Give me your money. Let me take some time off, and live for free. Oh, fine, ok.... I'll also code some stuff and make it public, if you do so insist.
Actually, the Wine team could not take MS to court. Ever heard of 'prior art'? MS has been coding their apps longer than Wine has been around (remember, Wine is what allows Windows apps to run under Linux, nothing more), therefore, the initial poster had a valid point:
MS could 'technically' claim that projects such as Wine and other emulators may be using some of the supposedly-stolen source in order to develop their apps at a faster pace.
Just my two cents...
I hereby suggest that the next punk-ass that posts about this already-beaten-to-death-horse be taken outside, have both his kneecaps shot off, then be forced to kneel in a pit of beerbottle glass and salt, until they learn their lesson.
a) I do have a college degree (EE);
b) I have taken several electives that include social science, political analysis, etc;
c) I also know how to spell (which you seem to having some difficulty doing...).
May I suggest some basic spelling and grammar courses for you, sir? Or maybe you want to lay off the beer, and go for the coke.. it seems to be affecting your reasoning.
By 'real' candidates, I didn't mean candidates that were 'in tune' with the people. I meant candidates which the vast majority of voters will go for simply because they happen to be the representatives of the largest parties. Not to mention that even if Nader got the popular vote, the electoral college would never vote him in (yep, thats right). The electoral college can pretty much vote for whoever they want, w/o necessarily being bound by the 'will of the people' (go here for a good article explaining how things work).
So there you have it. Moderate me as a troll if you want, but the bottom line is: I am a *realist*. Only 2 candidates *really* count in this election, and that's Bush and Gore. Pick your poison, fellas....
PS - I think I'll have a Sapphire & tonic now, guy... with some lime, if you please.
What 'rights' should these people have that they don't already have? Should they have any 'preferential' treatment just because they happen to be into the latest harry-poter-induced religious craze? (yah yah yah, blah blah blah, I know those have been around for a while, etc etc. This is a sarcastic comment, hold your flames, Gimps).
Last I checked, you were free to chose your own religion, unless you went to some institution where you have to be a specific religion (i.e. catholic HS, college, etc). Then, you get what you pay for.
Just my 2 cents...
"Sun recently acknowledged a problem involving an external memory cache on its UltraSPARC II microprocessor module. Under certain conditions, the problem has been triggering system failures and frequent server reboots at customer locations over the past 18 months. "
NOTE: UltraSPARC II == PROCESSOR ; Solaris == OPERATING SYSTEM
Granted, Solaris has his own share of bugs, and SunSolve is the site where they're documented, and where public patches are available. If you happen to have a support agreement, you can even access the knowledge database used by their engineers to determine a resolution for the issues you're running into.
The bottom line is that you're comparing a badly-mangled OS release such as RedHat 7.0 to a enterprise-class operating system environment (yes, Solaris is *that* reliable), and using a *HARDWARE* problem on Sun's processors as an excuse to defend your rush-job and say "Hey, our stuff is free, and we have it out in the open, so you can't really complain that much. We still rule and whatnot".
Sun made customers sign an NDA like any other company would, when it came to resolving some of the issues they run into. I'd sign one if it meant that I'd have stellar support (which companies like Sun have, and EMC makes it a standard) and my problem would be resolved.
Now, when you start shipping your own hardware, provide support for both hardware and software, and have tens of thousands of corporate customers, then you can start pointing fingers at Sun and whatnot. Until then, make sure your people take the time to release a decent product, and at least take the time to read the articles you quote on your 'Open Letters'.
P.S. - Oh yah... for the record,I did buy a copy of RH 6.2, and attempted to work with 7 as well... Only to go back to Debian on my intel boxes, and Solaris 7 and 8 on my Sparcs.
With all the delaying and appealing that MS will be doing in the months to come, this process will take years before it produces any kind of outcome that will benefit/impact any consumer....
Sigh... so much for the justice system...
I, for one, find these devices very useful. I'll gladly pay a bit for one of these, once they become smaller and more inconspicuous. For example, those of you that travel regularly as part of work would probably agree that carrying one of these would probably be a bit easier than lugging around a laptop with its tote bag, batteries, etc. One of these with a nicely-sized IBM microdrive would do wonders, specially since it would allow you to switch OSes at a moment's notice. /. over and over. Sorry, but of all the 'geeks' I know, none of them look like those models.
Yes, they do seem a bit clunky, but then again, they are probably a lot more useful than those 'fashionable' computers that have been posted here on
Someone mentioned a computer-enabled trenchcoat. Oh yah, that will go real well during those hot summer days...