The problem is that I'm not willing to give up my freedom and privacy for a little bit of extra "safety" (might I point out that the 9/11 terrorists were in the country legally). Fortunately, many of my fellow citizens agree with me. I really hope it stays that way. The very fact that Americans are even concerned with liberty and privacy makes me damn proud that I'm not a European.
final:
- David Miller: sparc/scsi scatterlist fixes
- Martin Mares: PCI ids, email address update
- David Miller: revert TCP hash optimizations that need more checking
- Ivan Kokshaysky/Richard Henderson: alpha update (atomic_dec_and_lock etc)
- Peter Anvin: cramfs/zisofs missing pieces
pre8:
- Andrea: fix races in do_wp_page, free_swap_and_cache
- me: clena up page dirty handling
- Tim Waugh: parport IRQ probing and documentation fixes
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Michael Warfield: computone driver update
- Randy Dunlap: add knowledge about some new io-apics
- Richard Henderson: alpha updates
- Trond Myklebust: make readdir xdr verify the reply packet
- Paul Mackerras: PPC update
- Jens Axboe: make cpqarray and cciss play nice with the request layer
- Massimo Dal Zotto: SMM driver for Dell Inspiron 8000
- Richard Gooch: devfs symlink deadlock fix
- Anton Altaparmakov: make NTFS compile on sparc
pre7:
- me: reinstate "delete swap cache on low swap" code
- David Miller: ksoftirqd startup race fix
- Hugh Dickins: make tmpfs free swap cache entries proactively
pre6:
- me: remember to bump the version number;)
- Hugh Dickins: export "free_lru_page()" for modules
- Jeff Garzik: don't change nopage arguments, just make the last a dummy one
- David Miller: sparc and net updates (netfilter, VLAN etc)
- Nikita Danilov: reiserfs cleanups
- Jan Kara: quota initialization race
- Tigran Aivazian: make the x86 microcode update driver happy about
hyperthreaded P4's
- me: shrink dcache/icache more aggressively
- me: fix up oom-killer so that it actually works
pre5:
- Andrew Morton: remove stale UnlockPage
- me: swap cache page locking update
pre4:
- Mikael Pettersson: fix P4 boot with APIC enabled
- me: fix device queuing thinko, clean up VM locking
pre3:
- René Scharfe: random bugfix
- me: block device queuing low-water-marks, VM mapped tweaking.
pre2:
- Alan Cox: more merging
- Alexander Viro: block device module race fixes
- Richard Henderson: mmap for 32-bit alpha personality
- Jeff Garzik: 8139 and natsemi update
pre1:
- Michael Warfield: computone serial driver update
- Alexander Viro: cdrom module race fixes
- David Miller: Acenic driver fix
- Andrew Grover: ACPI update
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
- Tim Waugh: parport update
- David Woodhouse: JFFS garbage collect sleep
...but borrow money. the fed just cut short-term interest rates to 2.5%, which is below the rate of inflation (free money). find a lawyer who can incorporate you, so that if your business fails, you don't lose your house. borrow however much money you think is reasonable. i'm sure there are lots of talented people you could hire to help you run operations, since the economy is bad and lots of people have been laid off.
i know it's a gutsy move, but there is no great gain without great risk. give it a shot.
The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all of the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to license third party code to include in StarOffice that which it does not have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things which are or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on OpenOffice.org include:
Spell checking
Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts)
Help
The database component (Adabas D)
Templates
Extensive Clip Art Gallery
Some sorting functionality (Asian versions)
Certain file filters
Looks like Sun is giving away everything that doesn't cost them money to give away.
"Specifically, the dollar value of all music product shipments decreased from $6.2 billion at mid-year 2000 to $5.9 billion at mid-year 2001--a 4.4 percent decrease."
So sales went down 4.4%. Could it possibly be because the economy is weaker today than it was a year ago?
Additionally, I have no idea to whom the RIAA is going to make their case, but fascists really need to look at their argument. We live in a country (at least most of us) where people need to be convicted of their actions individually. Claiming that computer users commit piracy and therefore should be punished is no different than the atrocities of racial profiling.
You all know that if some GPL'd piece of software won an Emmy, you'd be talking about how wonderful it is that the Community got the recognition. So let's be fair and let Apple have their cake.
On the other hand, this is not news for nerds, and I don't really care much about anyone who wins an Emmy, so I'm a little disappointed to see it on/.
Hopefully, Hollywood will be willing to put some time and money into developing Linux. In the longer term, this would mean that we, the "regular users" of Linux would benefit from better graphics capabilities of the OS as a whole. Maybe this is overly optimistic, but you never know...
The correct measure of national debt is debt held by the public. Money that the Defense Department owes to the State Department should not be included.
a friend of mine recently staffed a middle/high school teacher computer training seminar (using ms-windows, of course), and he said the teachers got VERY excited about emoticons. i submit that most of the teachers in elementary schools don't have the first idea how to use COMPUTERS.
A counter-argument would be that at some point, consumers are responsible for the appropriate use of those products they choose to buy. Sure, cigarettes cause cancer, but if Big Tobacco has been required to put warning labels on its products, that should end their liability, provided that cigarettes do not do damage beyond what is stated on the label.
In the case of guns, everyone who purchases one ought to be aware that they can be misused and mishandled. If a child finds a gun and accidently kills one of his friends, the owner of the gun should be liable for not taking the necessary precautions, not the gun manufacturer, who knows nothing about the circumstances under which the gun will be used.
I think the US has problems in its wireless industry because our ground telephone system is so solid. For a long time, Europe's telephone network lagged behind in system stability and in price, and therefore, there was an incentive for a thriving mobile industry to take root. In the US, there isn't nearly the same incentive, although when I hear about all the cool stuff you can do on a wireless phone in Europe and Japan, I turn a bright shade of green...
Perhaps the best way to send a message to these people is through death and violence. If a CEO knows that allowing his workers to defile the world around them could result in him waking up with his home gone, or a bullet in his wife's head, might be the only way to really stop these people.
are you insane? how can you justify that when a simple injunction or (at most) arrest would accomplish the same thing? maybe you should move to afghanistan.
that we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. if i want to own an suv, that's my business, not yours. if you don't like it, then go ahead and lobby for laws that prevent me from driving it, but i can own it, and everyone should respect that.
while i understand that rpm packages are more widely used than deb packages, i still think that debs are technically superior. i wish that lsb had used that as its criteria in recommending a package format.
one thing that turned me off from mandrake is the fact that they tinker with their rpms a lot. things get installed all over the place. you can't (or at least they recommend that you don't) use redhat rpms because they are not "optimized" for mandrake, which i think means that they don't have things shuffled around in them. the net result for me is that i would get confused because all documentation on the internet would tell me to do something and then i would try it and it wouldn't work...because those instructions don't apply to the special mandrake packages. debian is more standardized, and therefore, if i have trouble with configuration or what-not, i can just run a google search and learn how to fix it. for me personally, this is a huge plus not just for the apt-get system, but for debian as a whole.
They switched to ADC so you'd have to buy THEIR monitor. Gutsy move...it could bring them more profit or it could make the total cost of owning an Apple too high for some.
Alright, I've already been modded down for this idea, so please don't do it again. I think that one of the things holding down entrepreneurship (true entrepreneurship, not some of the lame crap that passes for it on the internet) is the cost. If the government built a public fiber network, it would help promising ideas develop into maturity. For example, an inner city kid who is a talented programmer could make a killer app, but if he doesn't have a means of promoting it, he'll never benefit from it. Free fiber internet access would allow him to use cheap hardware and free software to make a professional-looking (no ads, etc) website to market his app. Public internet access is the next step after free software. I think that it is one of the few areas in which the government could spend money on which there wouldn't be deadweight loss. of course, most slashdotters are hopelessly clueless about economics, so i can't expect you to agree with me on this.
Apple makes most (all? anyone know?) of its money selling hardware, not software. Nobody gets mad at AMD for "mooching" off of the open source community because their chips run linux.
One of the interesting aspects of the linux "industry" is that there really is no feasible business model. The only things that companies will be able to sell are those which no one is going to give away for free. I think linux is great, and there may be an opportunity for a truly innovative firm to make some money, but if I were a venture capitalist, I would stay away.
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The problem is that I'm not willing to give up my freedom and privacy for a little bit of extra "safety" (might I point out that the 9/11 terrorists were in the country legally). Fortunately, many of my fellow citizens agree with me. I really hope it stays that way. The very fact that Americans are even concerned with liberty and privacy makes me damn proud that I'm not a European.
More readable version.
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final:
- David Miller: sparc/scsi scatterlist fixes
- Martin Mares: PCI ids, email address update
- David Miller: revert TCP hash optimizations that need more checking
- Ivan Kokshaysky/Richard Henderson: alpha update (atomic_dec_and_lock etc)
- Peter Anvin: cramfs/zisofs missing pieces
pre8:
- Andrea: fix races in do_wp_page, free_swap_and_cache
- me: clena up page dirty handling
- Tim Waugh: parport IRQ probing and documentation fixes
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Michael Warfield: computone driver update
- Randy Dunlap: add knowledge about some new io-apics
- Richard Henderson: alpha updates
- Trond Myklebust: make readdir xdr verify the reply packet
- Paul Mackerras: PPC update
- Jens Axboe: make cpqarray and cciss play nice with the request layer
- Massimo Dal Zotto: SMM driver for Dell Inspiron 8000
- Richard Gooch: devfs symlink deadlock fix
- Anton Altaparmakov: make NTFS compile on sparc
pre7:
- me: reinstate "delete swap cache on low swap" code
- David Miller: ksoftirqd startup race fix
- Hugh Dickins: make tmpfs free swap cache entries proactively
pre6:
- me: remember to bump the version number
- Hugh Dickins: export "free_lru_page()" for modules
- Jeff Garzik: don't change nopage arguments, just make the last a dummy one
- David Miller: sparc and net updates (netfilter, VLAN etc)
- Nikita Danilov: reiserfs cleanups
- Jan Kara: quota initialization race
- Tigran Aivazian: make the x86 microcode update driver happy about
hyperthreaded P4's
- me: shrink dcache/icache more aggressively
- me: fix up oom-killer so that it actually works
pre5:
- Andrew Morton: remove stale UnlockPage
- me: swap cache page locking update
pre4:
- Mikael Pettersson: fix P4 boot with APIC enabled
- me: fix device queuing thinko, clean up VM locking
pre3:
- René Scharfe: random bugfix
- me: block device queuing low-water-marks, VM mapped tweaking.
pre2:
- Alan Cox: more merging
- Alexander Viro: block device module race fixes
- Richard Henderson: mmap for 32-bit alpha personality
- Jeff Garzik: 8139 and natsemi update
pre1:
- Michael Warfield: computone serial driver update
- Alexander Viro: cdrom module race fixes
- David Miller: Acenic driver fix
- Andrew Grover: ACPI update
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
- Tim Waugh: parport update
- David Woodhouse: JFFS garbage collect sleep
6 teraflops per second
:-)
wow...6 trillion floating point operations per second per second.
...but borrow money. the fed just cut short-term interest rates to 2.5%, which is below the rate of inflation (free money). find a lawyer who can incorporate you, so that if your business fails, you don't lose your house. borrow however much money you think is reasonable. i'm sure there are lots of talented people you could hire to help you run operations, since the economy is bad and lots of people have been laid off.
i know it's a gutsy move, but there is no great gain without great risk. give it a shot.
The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all of the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to license third party code to include in StarOffice that which it does not have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things which are or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on OpenOffice.org include:
Looks like Sun is giving away everything that doesn't cost them money to give away.
if i had a nickel for every bug in windows 95...
apt-get remove recession
So sales went down 4.4%. Could it possibly be because the economy is weaker today than it was a year ago?
Additionally, I have no idea to whom the RIAA is going to make their case, but fascists really need to look at their argument. We live in a country (at least most of us) where people need to be convicted of their actions individually. Claiming that computer users commit piracy and therefore should be punished is no different than the atrocities of racial profiling.
On the other hand, this is not news for nerds, and I don't really care much about anyone who wins an Emmy, so I'm a little disappointed to see it on
Hopefully, Hollywood will be willing to put some time and money into developing Linux. In the longer term, this would mean that we, the "regular users" of Linux would benefit from better graphics capabilities of the OS as a whole. Maybe this is overly optimistic, but you never know...
i just put a "designed for windows 98" sticker on it. everyone thinks it's a piece of junk.
Sooooo... Debt held by the public: $3,276,772,616,898.09 ($3.27 trillion)
a friend of mine recently staffed a middle/high school teacher computer training seminar (using ms-windows, of course), and he said the teachers got VERY excited about emoticons. i submit that most of the teachers in elementary schools don't have the first idea how to use COMPUTERS.
In the case of guns, everyone who purchases one ought to be aware that they can be misused and mishandled. If a child finds a gun and accidently kills one of his friends, the owner of the gun should be liable for not taking the necessary precautions, not the gun manufacturer, who knows nothing about the circumstances under which the gun will be used.
your friend, huh? wink, wink...
I think the US has problems in its wireless industry because our ground telephone system is so solid. For a long time, Europe's telephone network lagged behind in system stability and in price, and therefore, there was an incentive for a thriving mobile industry to take root. In the US, there isn't nearly the same incentive, although when I hear about all the cool stuff you can do on a wireless phone in Europe and Japan, I turn a bright shade of green...
are you insane? how can you justify that when a simple injunction or (at most) arrest would accomplish the same thing? maybe you should move to afghanistan.
that we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. if i want to own an suv, that's my business, not yours. if you don't like it, then go ahead and lobby for laws that prevent me from driving it, but i can own it, and everyone should respect that.
while i understand that rpm packages are more widely used than deb packages, i still think that debs are technically superior. i wish that lsb had used that as its criteria in recommending a package format.
where does powerpc stand in all of this? not trying to start a flame-war...just an honest question.
one thing that turned me off from mandrake is the fact that they tinker with their rpms a lot. things get installed all over the place. you can't (or at least they recommend that you don't) use redhat rpms because they are not "optimized" for mandrake, which i think means that they don't have things shuffled around in them. the net result for me is that i would get confused because all documentation on the internet would tell me to do something and then i would try it and it wouldn't work...because those instructions don't apply to the special mandrake packages. debian is more standardized, and therefore, if i have trouble with configuration or what-not, i can just run a google search and learn how to fix it. for me personally, this is a huge plus not just for the apt-get system, but for debian as a whole.
They switched to ADC so you'd have to buy THEIR monitor. Gutsy move...it could bring them more profit or it could make the total cost of owning an Apple too high for some.
Alright, I've already been modded down for this idea, so please don't do it again. I think that one of the things holding down entrepreneurship (true entrepreneurship, not some of the lame crap that passes for it on the internet) is the cost. If the government built a public fiber network, it would help promising ideas develop into maturity. For example, an inner city kid who is a talented programmer could make a killer app, but if he doesn't have a means of promoting it, he'll never benefit from it. Free fiber internet access would allow him to use cheap hardware and free software to make a professional-looking (no ads, etc) website to market his app. Public internet access is the next step after free software. I think that it is one of the few areas in which the government could spend money on which there wouldn't be deadweight loss. of course, most slashdotters are hopelessly clueless about economics, so i can't expect you to agree with me on this.
Apple makes most (all? anyone know?) of its money selling hardware, not software. Nobody gets mad at AMD for "mooching" off of the open source community because their chips run linux.
One of the interesting aspects of the linux "industry" is that there really is no feasible business model. The only things that companies will be able to sell are those which no one is going to give away for free. I think linux is great, and there may be an opportunity for a truly innovative firm to make some money, but if I were a venture capitalist, I would stay away.