Sorry for not completing my point before. In the US, it's a rare individual who is too poor to own a PC with net access. More common is that such an item isn't a priority (I.e. Cable TV with some premium channels or ADSL? Same price, choose one).
Personally, I don't make enough as an engineer in the 3rd world to afford MIT so this will be useful for personal development. My degree will have to come from a lesser institution.
IF I lived in the US and made minimum wage I could live in a slum (Like the bad parts of New York) so rent would be cheap enough to leave me with enough money to buy a PC. $700 pays for a decent system and is ONLY 3 weeks pay at minimum wage. Or 3 months with aggressive saving.
What you should ask about is People who live in Poor countries (Like Jamaica) where Minimum wage is $33.5 per week and any PC costs at least 17% more (or $819) for my example system. I.e. 6 Months pay at minimum wage or 2 years of aggressive saving.
The price gap for Internet Bandwidth is even wider. I.e. Your ENTIRE salary at minimum wage would barely pay for entry level ADSL (256K up 128K down)
Why should anyone offer anything about baseless claims? I guess if your scared of McBride and Co, your looking for a pimp daddy to protect you.
BECAUSE the claims are baseless.
Think of it this way. If I made a device which is practicaly indistructeble, I would back it with a solid waranty. This way I get to promise something that smart customers want without ever having to deliver.
Look. The Enterprise edition is not that different from the regular edition. I have checked and Oracle etc... Runs just fine on the Regular RedHat. The differences between Enterprise and Regular are the kind of changes a mid level admin makes during routine system tuning. I.e. File locks, large memory support etc...
The bugfixes and security updates ARE part of what I mean by support. A bugfix in Kwrite is mentioned 1st on kde.org and the patch can be downloaded there and applied by the user and recompiled.
RedHat automates this process for you. Dose your enterprise need to pay for that or can you get it done for less by using another distro?
Are you running a bank where external auditors have to certify the combination of software on your systems and "RedHat Enterprise" like "Windows 2003 Server" is precertifide but you must pay a huge fee to certify "Mandrake Linux".
That's esentialy what you are paying for if you go with the RedHat enterprise. The assesment you need to make is;
1. Do you need that level of support.
2. Is there a cheaper way to achive the level of support you do need.
3. Dose 1 or 2 requiere switching vendors.
For the cluless. It has nothing to do with the software itself. I.e. You can download RedHat and install it on as many PCs as you like virtualy free.
PS: Support for large numbers of critical solaris and/or Windows servers costs just as much or more. I should know since I work for a company that makes most of it's money off this sort of thing.
The article dose not mention how they descoverd it's age. I would be realy curius to know this. I mean at this range you are estimating the chemical composition based on very limited data.
Even calculating the mass is acomplish by mesuring the woble induced of nearby objects. The actual size is not known at all.
So my question is. How did they figure out the age and what makes them think they have it right?
PS: Anyone who has used carbon dateing knows that sometimes trusted sientific methods can screw up badly enogh to be replaced wholesale. Whatever was employd here had to me fairly revolutionary.
Agreed. But different distributions for different systems. Mandrake is quite literally the best distro for a power users laptop. Servers and Handhelds are different beasts entirely. Isn't it cool that you can do this sort of thing and still remain compatible ?
SCO isn't a software company anymore. They have descended into purely a lawsuit driven enterprise. Everything they say these days has a single consideration. How dose it affect the court case?
This sort of criticism therefore isn't the same as what you get from a dissatisfied user or even a disgruntled competitor.
When it seriously matters (and I have the time) I use an external spell checker. For serious business communication I go so far as to crank up a grammar check engine. On fast paced web forums or IRC, I can't take the time however.
Besides the true intellectuals around these parts know about dyslexia and look past my mountain of spelling errors to discover the actual content of my comments.
It's just the morons that scream about illiteracy and hide in perpetual ignorance.
Pore SCO. The funny thing is that "someone" has demonstraighted a major comitment to Linux by steping forward to pay Dr. Torvalds a full time salary to work on just the kernel with no obligations to any specific vendor etc...
My gues ? It has something to do with SCO's silly little lawsuite. See the story before this one.
Now here is the tall order SCO has to fill to compleat this case.
1: These specific lines were introduced into the Linux Kernel by IBM at this date.
2: That date must be after the comensment of Trilian.
3: That item was not in any IBM product before Trilian.
4: That item was not in BSD.
5: And finaly. That item was in SCO before the Trilian project.
That's a lot to prove and I doubt SCO will ever do it.
Funy thing is everybody else saw right throgh my sarcasm. Sure, I'm not deap enogh into this stuff to know Dr. Kaku. I am however aware that Einstine said the same thing.
"You'r calling Einstine a quack? You can't be serius" "No. I can't, that's the point."
I don't know. It looks like a more complex 3D version that's just real togh to build with plastic.
Maybe it's because I read some quack's claim that the 4th dimension was time. In which case a 4D rubics cube would solve itself over time or be onsolvable because it rescrambled while you were trying to solve.
The most obvius problem with building this scall model seams to be that the Sun isn't actualy a Ball.
Seriusly. I think other "partialy to scale" modelsarebetter for the simple reason that if you get the reletive sizes of all the planets right but ignore the actual distance betwean them you enable people to look over the whole thing.
As is it looks like they streached the scale large enogh so someone won't literaly poket mercury andthus ended up with acrane to lift saturn and a sun that isn't all there.
The Fact is that a properly configured PC router is going to be faster than a special purpose cisco box simply beause you can throw more hardware at the problem for less money.
I.e. A PC with 3x 1 Gig NICs on a 64 bit PCI bus with 2GB ram, 3 disc raid 0, 2.4 GH CPU and prperly tuned kernel will still cost $1200 or so. Far less than any cisco box that even aproches the performance it will deliver under high loads.
($1200 Cisco boxes don't even do layer 7 filtering. So performance dosn't even matter until you enter the high priced stuff)
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Patent law explicitly alows you to file your application up to a year after the 1st publication of the. In other words a "Patent Parasite" can file applications on every W3C RFC after reading the RFC.
If the RFC is the 1st publication of the idea then the "Patent Parasite" wins.
At least this way W3C members can criple patent parasite.
Another step is to use those patented W3C standards to countersue people who attack OSS developers. It's just realy dificult to design a policy for this.
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I just pluged it into my Mandrake 9.1 machine and an icon apeard on the desktop a cople seconds latter. Klick on the icon, open the folder, copy files both ways. Simple.
This was a fresh install of the download eddition. I didn't _do_ anything to make it work.
Simple answer. If QT is overpriced, Troll Tech will suffer the consequences of the business decision to set the price as they have.
A company can only successfully overcharge if it has a monopoly, is part of a cartel or has the government forcing everyone to use it's product. Otherwise you will get creamed by more competent managers who choose better prices.
I.e. If Gamming is what matters to you then find out which CPU gives the most bang per buck in the games you like. I don't play many "modern" 3D games. Pure game play fun matters more than graphics to me so a lowly Celeron 300 MHz is fast enough.
However I do rip an occasional DVD (For personal use since dialup is too slow for sharing:). For that I needed a faster chip. Performance in that application is what mattered most to me.
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And educating people to "MIT Level" has made America welthy.
Note that nowhere in my coment do I ask for any kind of handout for anyone.
Sorry for not completing my point before. In the US, it's a rare individual who is too poor to own a PC with net access. More common is that such an item isn't a priority (I.e. Cable TV with some premium channels or ADSL? Same price, choose one).
Personally, I don't make enough as an engineer in the 3rd world to afford MIT so this will be useful for personal development. My degree will have to come from a lesser institution.
IF I lived in the US and made minimum wage I could live in a slum (Like the bad parts of New York) so rent would be cheap enough to leave me with enough money to buy a PC. $700 pays for a decent system and is ONLY 3 weeks pay at minimum wage. Or 3 months with aggressive saving.
What you should ask about is People who live in Poor countries (Like Jamaica) where Minimum wage is $33.5 per week and any PC costs at least 17% more (or $819) for my example system. I.e. 6 Months pay at minimum wage or 2 years of aggressive saving.
The price gap for Internet Bandwidth is even wider. I.e. Your ENTIRE salary at minimum wage would barely pay for entry level ADSL (256K up 128K down)
Why should anyone offer anything about baseless claims? I guess if your scared of McBride and Co, your looking for a pimp daddy to protect you.
BECAUSE the claims are baseless.
Think of it this way. If I made a device which is practicaly indistructeble, I would back it with a solid waranty. This way I get to promise something that smart customers want without ever having to deliver.
Look. The Enterprise edition is not that different from the regular edition. I have checked and Oracle etc... Runs just fine on the Regular RedHat. The differences between Enterprise and Regular are the kind of changes a mid level admin makes during routine system tuning. I.e. File locks, large memory support etc...
The bugfixes and security updates ARE part of what I mean by support. A bugfix in Kwrite is mentioned 1st on kde.org and the patch can be downloaded there and applied by the user and recompiled.
RedHat automates this process for you. Dose your enterprise need to pay for that or can you get it done for less by using another distro?
Are you running a bank where external auditors have to certify the combination of software on your systems and "RedHat Enterprise" like "Windows 2003 Server" is precertifide but you must pay a huge fee to certify "Mandrake Linux".
That's esentialy what you are paying for if you go with the RedHat enterprise. The assesment you need to make is;
1. Do you need that level of support.
2. Is there a cheaper way to achive the level of support you do need.
3. Dose 1 or 2 requiere switching vendors.
For the cluless. It has nothing to do with the software itself. I.e. You can download RedHat and install it on as many PCs as you like virtualy free.
PS: Support for large numbers of critical solaris and/or Windows servers costs just as much or more. I should know since I work for a company that makes most of it's money off this sort of thing.
The article dose not mention how they descoverd it's age. I would be realy curius to know this. I mean at this range you are estimating the chemical composition based on very limited data.
Even calculating the mass is acomplish by mesuring the woble induced of nearby objects. The actual size is not known at all.
So my question is. How did they figure out the age and what makes them think they have it right?
PS: Anyone who has used carbon dateing knows that sometimes trusted sientific methods can screw up badly enogh to be replaced wholesale. Whatever was employd here had to me fairly revolutionary.
Agreed. But different distributions for different systems. Mandrake is quite literally the best distro for a power users laptop. Servers and Handhelds are different beasts entirely. Isn't it cool that you can do this sort of thing and still remain compatible ?
SCO isn't a software company anymore. They have descended into purely a lawsuit driven enterprise. Everything they say these days has a single consideration. How dose it affect the court case?
This sort of criticism therefore isn't the same as what you get from a dissatisfied user or even a disgruntled competitor.
When it seriously matters (and I have the time) I use an external spell checker. For serious business communication I go so far as to crank up a grammar check engine. On fast paced web forums or IRC, I can't take the time however.
Besides the true intellectuals around these parts know about dyslexia and look past my mountain of spelling errors to discover the actual content of my comments.
It's just the morons that scream about illiteracy and hide in perpetual ignorance.
Pore SCO. The funny thing is that "someone" has demonstraighted a major comitment to Linux by steping forward to pay Dr. Torvalds a full time salary to work on just the kernel with no obligations to any specific vendor etc...
My gues ? It has something to do with SCO's silly little lawsuite. See the story before this one.
Now here is the tall order SCO has to fill to compleat this case.
1: These specific lines were introduced into the Linux Kernel by IBM at this date.
2: That date must be after the comensment of Trilian.
3: That item was not in any IBM product before Trilian.
4: That item was not in BSD.
5: And finaly. That item was in SCO before the Trilian project.
That's a lot to prove and I doubt SCO will ever do it.
Funy thing is everybody else saw right throgh my sarcasm. Sure, I'm not deap enogh into this stuff to know Dr. Kaku. I am however aware that Einstine said the same thing.
"You'r calling Einstine a quack? You can't be serius"
"No. I can't, that's the point."
I don't know. It looks like a more complex 3D version that's just real togh to build with plastic.
Maybe it's because I read some quack's claim that the 4th dimension was time. In which case a 4D rubics cube would solve itself over time or be onsolvable because it rescrambled while you were trying to solve.
I take that back.
Getting the comunity to help build it works to the benifit of sience just like televised socket laounches did.
Perhaps better.
The most obvius problem with building this scall model seams to be that the Sun isn't actualy a Ball.
Seriusly. I think other "partialy to scale" modelsarebetter for the simple reason that if you get the reletive sizes of all the planets right but ignore the actual distance betwean them you enable people to look over the whole thing.
As is it looks like they streached the scale large enogh so someone won't literaly poket mercury andthus ended up with acrane to lift saturn and a sun that isn't all there.
I did rough calculations in my head without looking at my reseler price list. I stated that high a price to be on the safe side.
That's not entirely acurate.
The Fact is that a properly configured PC router is going to be faster than a special purpose cisco box simply beause you can throw more hardware at the problem for less money.
I.e. A PC with 3x 1 Gig NICs on a 64 bit PCI bus with 2GB ram, 3 disc raid 0, 2.4 GH CPU and prperly tuned kernel will still cost $1200 or so. Far less than any cisco box that even aproches the performance it will deliver under high loads.
($1200 Cisco boxes don't even do layer 7 filtering. So performance dosn't even matter until you enter the high priced stuff)
And a Dislexic one at that :)
Patent law explicitly alows you to file your application up to a year after the 1st publication of the. In other words a "Patent Parasite" can file applications on every W3C RFC after reading the RFC.
If the RFC is the 1st publication of the idea then the "Patent Parasite" wins.
At least this way W3C members can criple patent parasite.
Another step is to use those patented W3C standards to countersue people who attack OSS developers. It's just realy dificult to design a policy for this.
I just pluged it into my Mandrake 9.1 machine and an icon apeard on the desktop a cople seconds latter. Klick on the icon, open the folder, copy files both ways. Simple.
This was a fresh install of the download eddition. I didn't _do_ anything to make it work.
Simple answer. If QT is overpriced, Troll Tech will suffer the consequences of the business decision to set the price as they have.
A company can only successfully overcharge if it has a monopoly, is part of a cartel or has the government forcing everyone to use it's product. Otherwise you will get creamed by more competent managers who choose better prices.
That's just sic man. What kind of pervert are you anyway?
I used to think the GoatSE.CX and TubGirl.com people were perverted but you take the cake.
PS: I'm still moping up my lunch.
{"...Comp Repair (A/Net+) class we've been watching The Matrix all day.."}
:)
"Great! Could you send me your resume? I was looking for some qualified techs!"
That crack makes more sence than you think. I didn't attend classes or study for the A+ exam. In fact I didn't even read the book.
I still finished in 12 minutes with a passing score.
More importantly customers who don't know what certs I have are impresed with my work. So enogh confidence to goof off in A+ class is a good sign
Someone else uses the name "Bill Gates" on Slashdot in all the popular variations.
:)
If he loged on as B1!! G@T335 you wouldn't belive it
Actually you agree with my point.
:). For that I needed a faster chip. Performance in that application is what mattered most to me.
I.e. If Gamming is what matters to you then find out which CPU gives the most bang per buck in the games you like. I don't play many "modern" 3D games. Pure game play fun matters more than graphics to me so a lowly Celeron 300 MHz is fast enough.
However I do rip an occasional DVD (For personal use since dialup is too slow for sharing