So now eWeek has to lecture Linux developers on their priorities? Maybe all of the "threats" Linux faces that the author describes, are real ones, or even properly posed (pretty unlikely for an eWeek article), and maybe they aren't. But to frame the discussion like there's some monolith entity Linux that has to compete with OSX is to not eevn begin to understand where Linux came from, how and why it evolved, and who's behind it and why.
And to argue from another direction, Linux's always had competition in the form of Windows. Maybe, just maybe, there's something about Linux that escapes the folks at eWeek.
Yeah, let's build, you know, VOTING MACHINES, with this!!! I mean, is that a revolutionary idea or what?! At least in these parts, huh? Where wa the TCPA/TCP/fancy_acronym in '04 (for that matter, in '00) when we could've used them for what is th emost important use of them all?
I want to point out that the Zaurus is a great for the Slashdot commuter. Yes, the CL3000 is expensive, but you can get almost the same machine (but different form factor and better screen) with an SL-6000. What do you get out of it?
Put in a bluetooth card and connect to the internet (no, not WAP, the whole damn internet) through your cell phone. For as little as $20 a month (depending on your cell provider), a wired handheld Linux machine, that can be used in the most cramped and bumpy bus/train ride. Edit code if you like, or surf the news without stuffing a newspaper in front of your co-passenger's faces.
Could you do this with a PocketPC? Not with a great 4" VGA (readable in bright light) screen unless you get the $650 HP model. And you'd still have to install Linux on it yourself.
It's your "facts" that are wrong. Here's a link shoing Boeing did indeed boycott the show with a greatly scaled back presence.
http://defence-data.com/paris2003/pagep101.htm
And another shoign they've since learned their lesson.
The fact is deals are signed at air shows. Sure, there is a lot of planning, but there's a lot of planning that goes into going to an air show too. If Boeing tells then they're not going to the show, it sends a messages right there that they're more in the business of wanking off to euro-bashing than making planes, building relationships with people. I mean, if you can't have an understanding about an air show, that is a symbolic FU to the airlines that come there.
It isn't so much that Boeing wasn't nimble enough in this case, it was too jingoistic. Remember the year (2001-2003) when everybody in the US (well, the white house and the mainstream media anyway) was all anti-french, "Old Europe", and all, becasue France and Germany wouldn't back the invasion? Well, that year Boeing didn't go to the Paris air show, where a lot of deals are signed. Airbus wasn't as stupid (they're not American anyway) and they got an order of 45 A380s from Kuwait airlines. That is a big order. An order that the extended version of the 747 then being planned did not get. So all of a sudden Boeing starts talking as if they made a strategy shift to smaller planes.
No one gives up a race they've been leading for 40 years just like that! Boeing was stupid, they should've gone to Paris and eaten french fries, they probably would've gotten some orders, and the jumbo jet wars wouldn't end up so lop-sided.
Well maybe Marx "himself" (as if he were some kind of god) said it, I don't know, not being well versed in such matters); but it appears that there is a period of dictatorship in capitalism too (or what is nomically termed "capitalism" these days, or in these parts). Boy, can't talk about these things without a qualifier every 4 words! Hi Ashcroft/Kerik/Chertoff/whoever!
>> There are literally tens of millions of pages of information that supports ID. In fact a careful UNBIASED review of such information would be quite enlightening to you I believe.
Well I was at the bookstore the other day and was taken aback by the sheer thickness of the Lord of the Rings books. I believe that your statements apply equally well to JR Tolkien too. Of course, that doesn't make the whole thing true.
The marginal cost of a kWh is less than 10c in most places in the US. Most notebooks are well below 100 W. So you're looking at at most 1 c/hr of use. I think the Starbucks or whatever shop's margin is well above that. Weren't we bashing them just the other day for over-priced coffee?
You said: "Anyone who shops at WalMart is party to the destruction of the american middle class, the 40 hour work week, and employer paid health care."
Walmart just carried the possibilities allowed by "the system" to their economically logical conclusion. Yeah, I live in union-rich Chicago and have plently of union (and non-union) shops to choose from, but it isn't the same everywhere, and it isn't like they're doing anything illegal. The "people" chose this system (a lot of them anyway) and Walmart is just working it.
And furthermore, this can only hurt the Dells and HP and other glorified importers in the long run. If they are allowed to suppress "innovation" by making it economically feasible only to cater to the mass market and lowest price point, then the incentive of competition as a driver of innovation is lost anyway. In which case, we might as well let Walmart out-Dell Dell.
Well, he's the one to talk. He saw the $$$ signs before anybody else. He now spends his days on the speech circuit (inspirational management organizational type BS) and makes big time $$$ off that. Sure he'll say that, he say anything that make MBA type know nothings fell all warm and invite him back...
NK? Well, the media tells us KIJ II is a lunatic, so he isn't going to be rational about it. So a bargaining chip is worthless.
China? We already give them spy planes and satellite launch rockets to disassemble and study, and we run a huge trade deficit with them.. they've every reason to not attack us (goose.. golden egg).
Russia? We've already looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul. A soul brother wouldn't attack us. Besides, didn't we already "defeat" the "Evil Empire?"
India? I doubt they give a fuck about the US.
Iran? Once they get their heads out of their religion, they might be remotely dangerous, but as of now, they're not, and they're not talking anyway.
Israel? Why, we already give them all they money they want.
And Russia and Israel already have missile defense systems. Not experimental ones, but ones being marketed.
The post you replied to didn't misunderstand, it understood too well. You're the one who's believing the people you shouldn't be.
You forgot Bluetooth. So you can carry a separate cell phone, and yet have internet access anywhere. Not that it's useful, but it's good to know you can. And this way, you don't lock anybody into a particular provider (EVDO, GPRS, etc).
One book by a well-known fund manager calls this type of merger "diworsification". It comes about from analysts sitting around all day long and engaging in fantasies about which firms might be "complementary." You know, like toothbrushes and toothpaste. Analysts aren't the brightest people (they'd be in engineering otherwise, heh heh) and as in the toothpaste example, they'll miss the fact that there are bigger differences and only incidental similarities between the victi..err, companies.
In this case, IBM is actually divesting itself of much more complementary businesses, such as hard drives (Hitachi) and PCs (Lenovo, reportedly).
IBM also has a nice business selling chips to Apple, and they're cutting edge in chips. This merger would get rid of those sales (in hard $$$ terms anyway).
Furthermore, IBM is well invested, in legal and development terms in another OS, Linux, which happens to run on a somewhat larger set of hardware than OS X.
IBM should just stay put.. well, maybe put out a POWER-based Thinkpad (only sold with no OS). But that's just my preference.
I mean, c'mon, you have a Slashdot OD, would it be too much to get your opinions from someplace other than a late night talk show?
What effing good would eradicating illiteracy do to India if they're ruled by the Chinese, as in Tibet? It's strawman to begin with, because the Indians are debating whether or not to put a man on the moon, unlike Kennedy, who declared we would (to one up the CCCP, among other things).
Besides, to address your silly lil' list: dysentery : India's already got the largest first class drug industry in the world; they're not the ones who are out of anthrax and flu vaccines
literacy : They're not the ones teaching creationism (intelligent design) in school
There was a transporter aircraft, a modified Antonov An-124, I think. Or a Myasischev (sp?). The CCCP definitely had it's pick, the russians always had great transport planes.
>> Why do you think Reagan's funeral got such reverent coverage? I was against him at the time, but I was wrong, and he was right. He truly changed the world for the better.
Yeah, whatever. It got so much coverage because the media is a bunch of lazy ass incompetents, and they'd rather show the funeral and the pre-funeral and dig up the old praetorian guard to wax on about past and present and mostly imagined glory. This mesmerizes viewers, who project most of the imagined glory onto themselves, and in the process sit through hours and hours of asinine commercials. *That* is the business the media is in.
As a bonus, the asinine ads become the generally accepted standard of language, grammar, dialog, etc. This obviously makes it easier for the good-for-nothing overpaids in the media to do their "job."
How much impact, or beneficial impact Reagan truly had, and his place in history have nothing to do with it.
Spake Blake Stowell: "Contrary to the speculation of Eric Raymond, Microsoft did not orchestrate or participate in the BayStar transaction."
This if I understand correctly is commercial speech. I wonder how the judges in the many instances of barratry that SCO has indulged in will like the fact that SCO is trying this in the court of public opinion, influencing juries, and all of that with bare lies. Not clear either how the so-called business channels that get all indignant and prissy over Martha Stewart can barely get themselves worked up to even report this. C'mon folks, this is a good and evil story like no movie ever seen.
>> It can be said that this article is roughly equivalent with the US second amendment, except that unlike the second amendment it doesn't unfortunately provide the tools to exerce this right to resistance.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to have impeded the passage of the DMCA, Patriot Act, etc etc.
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So now eWeek has to lecture Linux developers on their priorities? Maybe all of the "threats" Linux faces that the author describes, are real ones, or even properly posed (pretty unlikely for an eWeek article), and maybe they aren't. But to frame the discussion like there's some monolith entity Linux that has to compete with OSX is to not eevn begin to understand where Linux came from, how and why it evolved, and who's behind it and why.
And to argue from another direction, Linux's always had competition in the form of Windows. Maybe, just maybe, there's something about Linux that escapes the folks at eWeek.
Yeah, let's build, you know, VOTING MACHINES, with this!!! I mean, is that a revolutionary idea or what?! At least in these parts, huh? Where wa the TCPA/TCP/fancy_acronym in '04 (for that matter, in '00) when we could've used them for what is th emost important use of them all?
I want to point out that the Zaurus is a great for the Slashdot commuter. Yes, the CL3000 is expensive, but you can get almost the same machine (but different form factor and better screen) with an SL-6000. What do you get out of it?
Put in a bluetooth card and connect to the internet (no, not WAP, the whole damn internet) through your cell phone. For as little as $20 a month (depending on your cell provider), a wired handheld Linux machine, that can be used in the most cramped and bumpy bus/train ride. Edit code if you like, or surf the news without stuffing a newspaper in front of your co-passenger's faces.
Could you do this with a PocketPC? Not with a great 4" VGA (readable in bright light) screen unless you get the $650 HP model. And you'd still have to install Linux on it yourself.
It's your "facts" that are wrong. Here's a link shoing Boeing did indeed boycott the show with a greatly scaled back presence.
o recaster/Paris_Air_Show_Jun_05.asp
http://defence-data.com/paris2003/pagep101.htm
And another shoign they've since learned their lesson.
http://www.broadcast.bt.com/home/events/resourcef
I think you will find that the Kuwaitis have more than a few billion buring a hole in their pocket.
The fact is deals are signed at air shows. Sure, there is a lot of planning, but there's a lot of planning that goes into going to an air show too. If Boeing tells then they're not going to the show, it sends a messages right there that they're more in the business of wanking off to euro-bashing than making planes, building relationships with people. I mean, if you can't have an understanding about an air show, that is a symbolic FU to the airlines that come there.
It isn't so much that Boeing wasn't nimble enough in this case, it was too jingoistic. Remember the year (2001-2003) when everybody in the US (well, the white house and the mainstream media anyway) was all anti-french, "Old Europe", and all, becasue France and Germany wouldn't back the invasion? Well, that year Boeing didn't go to the Paris air show, where a lot of deals are signed. Airbus wasn't as stupid (they're not American anyway) and they got an order of 45 A380s from Kuwait airlines. That is a big order. An order that the extended version of the 747 then being planned did not get. So all of a sudden Boeing starts talking as if they made a strategy shift to smaller planes.
No one gives up a race they've been leading for 40 years just like that! Boeing was stupid, they should've gone to Paris and eaten french fries, they probably would've gotten some orders, and the jumbo jet wars wouldn't end up so lop-sided.
Well maybe Marx "himself" (as if he were some kind of god) said it, I don't know, not being well versed in such matters); but it appears that there is a period of dictatorship in capitalism too (or what is nomically termed "capitalism" these days, or in these parts). Boy, can't talk about these things without a qualifier every 4 words! Hi Ashcroft/Kerik/Chertoff/whoever!
>> There are literally tens of millions of pages of information that supports ID. In fact a careful UNBIASED review of such information would be quite enlightening to you I believe.
Well I was at the bookstore the other day and was taken aback by the sheer thickness of the Lord of the Rings books. I believe that your statements apply equally well to JR Tolkien too. Of course, that doesn't make the whole thing true.
The marginal cost of a kWh is less than 10c in most places in the US. Most notebooks are well below 100 W. So you're looking at at most 1 c/hr of use. I think the Starbucks or whatever shop's margin is well above that. Weren't we bashing them just the other day for over-priced coffee?
Mod this gratuitous post 'Off-topic' please.
You said:
"Anyone who shops at WalMart is party to the destruction of the american middle class, the 40 hour work week, and employer paid health care."
Walmart just carried the possibilities allowed by "the system" to their economically logical conclusion. Yeah, I live in union-rich Chicago and have plently of union (and non-union) shops to choose from, but it isn't the same everywhere, and it isn't like they're doing anything illegal. The "people" chose this system (a lot of them anyway) and Walmart is just working it.
And furthermore, this can only hurt the Dells and HP and other glorified importers in the long run. If they are allowed to suppress "innovation" by making it economically feasible only to cater to the mass market and lowest price point, then the incentive of competition as a driver of innovation is lost anyway. In which case, we might as well let Walmart out-Dell Dell.
Gorby credited Reagan with out-spending the USSR?
Well, he's the one to talk. He saw the $$$ signs before anybody else. He now spends his days on the speech circuit (inspirational management organizational type BS) and makes big time $$$ off that. Sure he'll say that, he say anything that make MBA type know nothings fell all warm and invite him back...
Lipstick on a pig huh?
A bargaining chip with whom?
NK? Well, the media tells us KIJ II is a lunatic, so he isn't going to be rational about it. So a bargaining chip is worthless.
China? We already give them spy planes and satellite launch rockets to disassemble and study, and we run a huge trade deficit with them.. they've every reason to not attack us (goose.. golden egg).
Russia? We've already looked into Putin's eyes and seen his soul. A soul brother wouldn't attack us. Besides, didn't we already "defeat" the "Evil Empire?"
India? I doubt they give a fuck about the US.
Iran? Once they get their heads out of their religion, they might be remotely dangerous, but as of now, they're not, and they're not talking anyway.
Israel? Why, we already give them all they money they want.
And Russia and Israel already have missile defense systems. Not experimental ones, but ones being marketed.
The post you replied to didn't misunderstand, it understood too well. You're the one who's believing the people you shouldn't be.
You forgot Bluetooth. So you can carry a separate cell phone, and yet have internet access anywhere. Not that it's useful, but it's good to know you can. And this way, you don't lock anybody into a particular provider (EVDO, GPRS, etc).
You forgot Poland!
Oh, never mind...
The reason you're modded as 'Troll' currently is that you dissed an Apple product.
I agree with you.
Yeah, "except" is right.
One book by a well-known fund manager calls this type of merger "diworsification". It comes about from analysts sitting around all day long and engaging in fantasies about which firms might be "complementary." You know, like toothbrushes and toothpaste. Analysts aren't the brightest people (they'd be in engineering otherwise, heh heh) and as in the toothpaste example, they'll miss the fact that there are bigger differences and only incidental similarities between the victi..err, companies.
In this case, IBM is actually divesting itself of much more complementary businesses, such as hard drives (Hitachi) and PCs (Lenovo, reportedly).
IBM also has a nice business selling chips to Apple, and they're cutting edge in chips. This merger would get rid of those sales (in hard $$$ terms anyway).
Furthermore, IBM is well invested, in legal and development terms in another OS, Linux, which happens to run on a somewhat larger set of hardware than OS X.
IBM should just stay put.. well, maybe put out a POWER-based Thinkpad (only sold with no OS). But that's just my preference.
I mean, c'mon, you have a Slashdot OD, would it be too much to get your opinions from someplace other than a late night talk show?
What effing good would eradicating illiteracy do to India if they're ruled by the Chinese, as in Tibet? It's strawman to begin with, because the Indians are debating whether or not to put a man on the moon, unlike Kennedy, who declared we would (to one up the CCCP, among other things).
Besides, to address your silly lil' list:
dysentery : India's already got the largest first class drug industry in the world; they're not the ones who are out of anthrax and flu vaccines
literacy : They're not the ones teaching creationism (intelligent design) in school
I believe it has the biggest payload record. Impressive specs.
There was a transporter aircraft, a modified Antonov An-124, I think. Or a Myasischev (sp?). The CCCP definitely had it's pick, the russians always had great transport planes.
My, that sounded nicer translated from the German than if it were to have been written in English.
>> Why do you think Reagan's funeral got such reverent coverage? I was against him at the time, but I was wrong, and he was right. He truly changed the world for the better.
Yeah, whatever. It got so much coverage because the media is a bunch of lazy ass incompetents, and they'd rather show the funeral and the pre-funeral and dig up the old praetorian guard to wax on about past and present and mostly imagined glory. This mesmerizes viewers, who project most of the imagined glory onto themselves, and in the process sit through hours and hours of asinine commercials. *That* is the business the media is in.
As a bonus, the asinine ads become the generally accepted standard of language, grammar, dialog, etc. This obviously makes it easier for the good-for-nothing overpaids in the media to do their "job."
How much impact, or beneficial impact Reagan truly had, and his place in history have nothing to do with it.
It's standard in British English. Companies are declined as plural.
Spake Blake Stowell:
"Contrary to the speculation of Eric Raymond, Microsoft did not orchestrate or participate in the BayStar transaction."
This if I understand correctly is commercial speech. I wonder how the judges in the many instances of barratry that SCO has indulged in will like the fact that SCO is trying this in the court of public opinion, influencing juries, and all of that with bare lies. Not clear either how the so-called business channels that get all indignant and prissy over Martha Stewart can barely get themselves worked up to even report this. C'mon folks, this is a good and evil story like no movie ever seen.
>> It can be said that this article is roughly equivalent with the US second amendment, except that unlike the second amendment it doesn't unfortunately provide the tools to exerce this right to resistance.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to have impeded the passage of the DMCA, Patriot Act, etc etc.