you seem to have forgotten that Sen. Hatch is also a songwriter (mostly Christian contemporary) and has first hand knowledge of the ass-ramming RIAA members give their artists. And he's not a man to be messed with, he's spent almost his entire political career _collecting_ favors. Good thing sometimes that members of congress don't have to recuse themselves when self-interest enters the picture like judges do.
It's also a good thing that there was someone in Congress capable of picking up after some of Sonny Bono's pro-artist crusades.
I've got Katz turned off too because I don't want to even think about beautiful wonderful/. having anything to do with this loser. Can you please add a JonKatz topic in the topic section so I/we can filter that too?
For me, and undoubtedly others, Katz Free is the way to be. If you're gonna have stories _about_ him, please let us filter those too!
You try quadrupling your sales, increasing your sales staff by a factor of ten, tripling the rest of your staff, and heptupling your data center space while trying to find competant tech staff in a period of just a couple of months and see just how well you do!
Disclaimer: Yes, I am an employee of DigitalNation, a Unix Developer, and we're hiring across the board, Sales, Tech, NOC, and Interactive.
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It can never truly imitate a monkey unless it throws artificial feces at everyone.
yes, crusoe is designed for smaller applications, but its software roots allow for a far greater degree of flexibility. Transmeta can swap in and out hardware and software as it sees fit.
the reason they're going after mobile apps is because a) that's where the future of the market is, b) because it's where Intel is weakest, and c) the desktop and server markets are a major bitch.
With smaller applications quickly taking the forefront, the introduction of an x86 compatible low-power processor is as much a positive shock on the market as the zip drive was.
I bet they probably will move into larger apps, but after Intel and AMD have kicked the crap out of each other and after IA-64 secures it's status as a major flop.
Nonsense. When the next Red Scare finally hits (and hopefully before) emphasis will be placed on the best utilization of Linux (and other Open Source) as a sound method of technological defense.
My company occasionally dabbles in the military industrial complex and in my experience they're beginning see the strengths of free software just as much as the rest of the world is. They're beginning to understand, albeit slowly, that closed-source is simply another form of security thru obscurity and a potential threat to national security
I distinctly remember the original Microsoft website used a single image logo from the early 1980's (Circa 1981, IIRC). It was far cheesier than the "original" they posted in the story.
I wonder if employees get extensive free services. Drool.
No we do not. We can get half price for a personal box, but making money with it (even adverts) is a no-no.
As far as/.'s speed is concerned, it seems to me that the occasional slowdown is the result of httpd and loads, but I'm not directly privy to the goings on of customers and their servers, so I'm just speculating as someone local to the box(en).
Disclaimer: i'm a php programmer in the dev dept, not one of the overworked tech guys. We're always hiring, tech and dev!
This is surprisingly similar to pro and anti OSS/Free Software arguments. With your tuition, are you paying for the end product, which is knowledge in your mind? Or are you paying for the "source" as well, the materials, notes, etc.?
I think this is where the real debate is, open source or not? Whether or not derivative products, like notes, are free?
I have been told we would have done something like that, but we never had any idea that we'd have thousands of machines. As it is, since we number things sequentially and rack them chronologically, we generally have a pretty good idea where they are...
Here at dN (where./ is hosted, BTW,:) ) we have several thousand servers in our two datacenters. It's a hell of a lot easier to keep track of linux360, cobalt942 or web773 than it is slappy, apollo, and gilgamesh. Most people who swear by creative naming schemes never had to manage huge number of machines before. "Which one's gilgamesh? I don't know. It's on one of these rows of racks..."
Since everyone else is chiming in... Young Americans for Freedom fights hard for individual rights. In fact, several congresscritters rely on this particular YAFer for info about the net (if I do say so myself!). (Disclaimer: YAF does not support or endorse candidates or propsosed legislation, but IANAL)
Lester Thurow is a deranged lunatic who likes to hear himself talk.
He's been so discredited WRT stock market and interest rates that even Leftists don't listen to him anymore.
In 95 he loudly complained that Greenspan was being to tight with the money supply by his low interest rates, and he (greenspan) NEEDS to raise interest rates to save the stock market.
Remember in 92 when he proclaimed the immediate necessity of imposing a $4.50/gallon gas tax in order to "save the economy" (!)? His reasoning was "because Europe does it" (his words)!
His basic premise is that government needs to control EVERYTHING and every method that government uses to achieve this is fine with him.
Unlike Marxists, he considers Government control the ends instead of the means.
He's one of the intellectual forces behind the concept in government that 'you' are not responsible for your actions and 'we' need to force 'you' to behave 'properly'
he's skeptical about the 'self-regulation' because he wants government control of everything.
It would have been nice if Rob also mentioned the gurus from DigitalNation who put the servers together and provide the bandwidth to Andover (and now also/.).
I usually don't like to shamelessly plug my employer, but our tech dept is quite overworked and unsung.
I will, however, point out that I now get ZERO LAG!! Yay!
You should definately consider that Rob. I work for the company that provides hardware and connection to Andover.net (and now freshmeat) and I can say we'd love to have you aboard.
Just to put some of you cliche thumpin lefties in a tizzy, I'd just like to point out that the jezzuzfreaks do not represent those of us extreme right wingers that are of the traditional Goldwater variety.
Marketroids value registered users of a website between US$400 and US$1000 each based upon the assorted marketroid statistics. That easily would put the value of/. in the tens of millions of dollars.
I hope that you were paid this well for your awesome work. You definately deserve it!
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you seem to have forgotten that Sen. Hatch is also a songwriter (mostly Christian contemporary) and has first hand knowledge of the ass-ramming RIAA members give their artists. And he's not a man to be messed with, he's spent almost his entire political career _collecting_ favors. Good thing sometimes that members of congress don't have to recuse themselves when self-interest enters the picture like judges do.
It's also a good thing that there was someone in Congress capable of picking up after some of Sonny Bono's pro-artist crusades.
I've got Katz turned off too because I don't want to even think about beautiful wonderful /. having anything to do with this loser. Can you please add a JonKatz topic in the topic section so I/we can filter that too?
For me, and undoubtedly others, Katz Free is the way to be. If you're gonna have stories _about_ him, please let us filter those too!
thanks
You try quadrupling your sales, increasing your sales staff by a factor of ten, tripling the rest of your staff, and heptupling your data center space while trying to find competant tech staff in a period of just a couple of months and see just how well you do!
Disclaimer: Yes, I am an employee of DigitalNation, a Unix Developer, and we're hiring across the board, Sales, Tech, NOC, and Interactive.
It can never truly imitate a monkey unless it throws artificial feces at everyone.
yes, crusoe is designed for smaller applications, but its software roots allow for a far greater degree of flexibility. Transmeta can swap in and out hardware and software as it sees fit.
the reason they're going after mobile apps is because a) that's where the future of the market is, b) because it's where Intel is weakest, and c) the desktop and server markets are a major bitch.
With smaller applications quickly taking the forefront, the introduction of an x86 compatible low-power processor is as much a positive shock on the market as the zip drive was.
I bet they probably will move into larger apps, but after Intel and AMD have kicked the crap out of each other and after IA-64 secures it's status as a major flop.
I'm YAF.com! what do you mean by YAF? Please clarify, I read at +1
Nonsense. When the next Red Scare finally hits (and hopefully before) emphasis will be placed on the best utilization of Linux (and other Open Source) as a sound method of technological defense.
My company occasionally dabbles in the military industrial complex and in my experience they're beginning see the strengths of free software just as much as the rest of the world is. They're beginning to understand, albeit slowly, that closed-source is simply another form of security thru obscurity and a potential threat to national security
www.microsofttimecapsule.com
ROTFL!!! I don't believe I actually fell for it! It should have been moderated UP not down. I hope this one shows up for meta moderation!
Some "time capsule"
I distinctly remember the original Microsoft website used a single image logo from the early 1980's (Circa 1981, IIRC). It was far cheesier than the "original" they posted in the story.
No we do not. We can get half price for a personal box, but making money with it (even adverts) is a no-no.
As far as /.'s speed is concerned, it seems to me that the occasional slowdown is the result of httpd and loads, but I'm not directly privy to the goings on of customers and their servers, so I'm just speculating as someone local to the box(en).
Disclaimer: i'm a php programmer in the dev dept, not one of the overworked tech guys. We're always hiring, tech and dev!
This is surprisingly similar to pro and anti OSS/Free Software arguments. With your tuition, are you paying for the end product, which is knowledge in your mind? Or are you paying for the "source" as well, the materials, notes, etc.?
I think this is where the real debate is, open source or not? Whether or not derivative products, like notes, are free?
The similarities are uncanny.
I have been told we would have done something like that, but we never had any idea that we'd have thousands of machines. As it is, since we number things sequentially and rack them chronologically, we generally have a pretty good idea where they are...
Here at dN (where ./ is hosted, BTW, :) ) we have several thousand servers in our two datacenters. It's a hell of a lot easier to keep track of linux360, cobalt942 or web773 than it is slappy, apollo, and gilgamesh. Most people who swear by creative naming schemes never had to manage huge number of machines before. "Which one's gilgamesh? I don't know. It's on one of these rows of racks..."
Since everyone else is chiming in... Young Americans for Freedom fights hard for individual rights. In fact, several congresscritters rely on this particular YAFer for info about the net (if I do say so myself!). (Disclaimer: YAF does not support or endorse candidates or propsosed legislation, but IANAL)
Lester Thurow is a deranged lunatic who likes to hear himself talk.
He's been so discredited WRT stock market and interest rates that even Leftists don't listen to him anymore.
In 95 he loudly complained that Greenspan was being to tight with the money supply by his low interest rates, and he (greenspan) NEEDS to raise interest rates to save the stock market.
Remember in 92 when he proclaimed the immediate necessity of imposing a $4.50/gallon gas tax in order to "save the economy" (!)? His reasoning was "because Europe does it" (his words)!
His basic premise is that government needs to control EVERYTHING and every method that government uses to achieve this is fine with him.
Unlike Marxists, he considers Government control the ends instead of the means.
He's one of the intellectual forces behind the concept in government that 'you' are not responsible for your actions and 'we' need to force 'you' to behave 'properly'
he's skeptical about the 'self-regulation' because he wants government control of everything.
Does that sound fundamentally evil to you?
society is irrelevant, emotions are irrelevant, you will be windowed, resistance is futile.
As a fervent Anti-Communist, I appreciate that someone else actually understands the relationship between Communism/"Communist" Countries/Socialism.
Both sides could go along way with this understanding, Anti-Communist AND "Anti-Anti-Communist".
Can primary posts be labeled? It seems to me that this post should be labeled "flamebait"
... If only I weren't so busy today, I'd take this one on. Gift Culture is Communism, bah. Talk about grasping for straws...
Whoever tagged this post as flamebait obviously never saw the movie!
She should really blame Canada...
I usually don't like to shamelessly plug my employer, but our tech dept is quite overworked and unsung.
I will, however, point out that I now get ZERO LAG!! Yay!
You should definately consider that Rob. I work for the company that provides hardware and connection to Andover.net (and now freshmeat) and I can say we'd love to have you aboard.
Extreme and loving it!
Marketroids value registered users of a website between US$400 and US$1000 each based upon the assorted marketroid statistics. That easily would put the value of /. in the tens of millions of dollars.
I hope that you were paid this well for your awesome work. You definately deserve it!
Been there, done that. from Marx to Marcusa.