So this is where NT belongs, among the relics of history.
Oh, BTW, if any NT advicate knows how to stop NT from changing the positions of icons in the bar at the bottom, please let me know. My problem with this is that if I have a couple of xtems, the icons in the bar flips positions depending on which is opened when. If more apps are open, icon behaviour is practically undefined. Truly dumb.
Let's see, installing and updating from a remote computer, saving disk space... all kinds of on-demand, convenient stuff.
So when it's called Unix, or X, or Java, or thin client, then it's no good; but once it comes out of Steve Ballmer's mouth, then it is somehow endowed with viability. How absurd.
What it is, is more Microsoft "innovation," which usually means poorly designed, untested, broken implementations of existing technology, at a higher cost and with an EULA. And notice how it comes just about when their software is become so big in size, and interdependent with specific versions of libraries, that they're soon going to need a service pack every month. But with software renting, their customer either isn't aware or isn't paying with time for every bug-fix release, that they can actually reserve the term "new version" for really new versions.
Go read the Infoworld article people, IBM is ging to introduce a 750 MHz PowerPC processor-based machine for Linux. We've seen what a 133MHz PPC machine can do to a 500MHz P!!!, haven't we now? It looks like Intel's not going to be the processor to have from now on. Assuming IBM has sensible people setting the prices, that is. Remember Big Blue, we aren't universities with the state exchequer standing behind us!
So, what you're saying is that in the clear stark light of day, companies like Intel and Microsoft (sorry, had to bring MS in) aren't such a big deal when compared to IBM. That's the way it's been, and looks to be. But IBM documentation... aaaaaaarrrrrghhh!
You write: >... if I submitted this to any english debate/political science teacher as valid >proof of anything I would be sadly disapointed with my mark.
Apart from the fact that I don't know what you mean here (off the mark? What mark?), the English teacher would probably find "Gandhi" misspelled, and not capitalized.
Let us look at the respected record. 1. Waco 2. Appointment of independent counsel to investigate extra-marital affairs of a president 3. Proposal to regulate what is very hard to regulate; and not of much utility.
I see that some moderator took it upon itself to moderateo this down to "Troll." It's the kind of article which you don't do anything about if you want to moderate down, or moderate it to "Humor." Don't you read the guidelines or what?
I await your classification of this posting. Troll? Rant? Insightful?
Hiding behind a legal disclaimer may or may not be sustainable, but I don't think it is legal. There is an act which requires merchantability or fitness for use (something like that). It puzzles me that Joe Klein is going after MSFT for uncompetitive practices, when I think there's a much better case for selling products unfit for use in terms of stability or security, or false advertising. Incidentally the government has a stated purpose of protecting consumers against intentionally or otherwise rogue merchants - a purpose that is beneficial to the individual, and thus a concept that some/.ers will find shocking.
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Somehow the majority of Slashdot posters have gotten this notion of the grand individual and their right to non-intereference into their heads. Civilization as we know it is an immense social effort. National governments, international bodies, other organizations, societies are not some kind of disease, they arose through necessity. The Jesse Helmsian mindset is very irritating.
Soon the repubs will run this country to the ground with their isolationism and anti-social(istic) efforts. Like a competing species of fungii, when one population dies, others will flourish with the nutrients available. We can choose to go along with the other countries by helping them now, or we can fall by the wayside. Don't depend on the bubble to sustain this country, another Reagan is enough to run it to the ground again.
One of the 4 elements of a super-power is the diplomacy - that's relations with other countries.
Greetings mjg51721! Still remember changing directories, furtively modifying the.cshrc file, reading nn... from the help sheet for uxa.cso! I had the impression it was 4 386s though.
According to CNN, Ebay crashed today, for the third time in a month. Are those Ebay folks for real, last time they said it was a failure of Sun software, on which their database runs? Anybody know what version of SunOS and Oracle or whichever database (Is SQLServer available for Solaris)? I thought I read somewhere that they use NT. Is that only for serving pages? Ebay needs to get this IBM box, that way they can blame it also, and piss off all the big iron makers one by one.
Looks like someone at the BBC decided that there is enough secrecy (or just aging memories) shrouding the details of the lunar mission (contingency plans and such), then they watched Armageddon (which would've been much more tolerable without the sap angle), and decided to have some fun.
Rambling is too weak a term to describe what he's doing. His (Metcalfe) article doesn't cut the grade as even a readable Usenet flame. What's the prior history on this guy, does he always not make sens? And Mr. Petreley, is he an idiot, to respond to garbage like that?
What exactly is it that you're amazed, amused, and depressed at? We're making fun of Bill G. precisely because his quote doesn't make sense, either if you leave 1 and p in, or leave them out. So your remaining discussion is nice, but irrelevant.
In recognition of the Micros$ft campaign to end the so-called millenium with a benchmarked bang, I would like to name my latest theorem, the Millenium Theroem. Here it is, along with a two-part theorem which will be a joy to all you mathematically inclined/.ers.
Th. (Millenium theorem, the): Proving NT is better than Linux is equivalent to factoring a prime. Proof: By construction. We will construct a method to factor a prime, but it will work only on NT, and not on Linux, thereby showing that it is inferior. So once the hard work of factoring is done, the superiority of NT follows automatically, which is the trivial second part.
Write a program in to iterate through set of integers or increasing cardinality, i.e. start with all possible integer combinations of 1 (then 2, then 3...) integers, multiply them and compare to a known prime (see note 1). When this program in written in Visual C++ and run on a P-III box with at least 128 Mb RAM and 4 100 Mbit ethernet cards, it will terminate (see note 2) in less than 2 seconds. For any configuration of Linux (libc5, glibc2; xterm, rxvt; egcs, gcc, etc.) the inefficiency of the OS will prevent termination.
The result follows.
Notes 1. A list of all known primes appears in the book "The Road Ahead of $$$" by William Gates Soph. 2. Mathematically minded stupid Linux people will protest that termination is not guaranteed (the really stupid ones will insist it is impossible). These people should read the conclusive assertion about termination in the book "Discontinuities on a Mobius Strip" by William Gates Soph.
Obviously ESR has a point, businesses feel more comfortable with Open Source terminology, and some practise it, to whatever extent. Obviously RMS has a point, we are where we are. But I didn't think it necessary for ESR to end a to-the-point letter with a taunt, such as "Shut up, and show them the code", because that is something RMS has already done. It never hurts to be civil, more so when respect is due.
There was an article on CNN a few weeks ago that said drinking coffee lowered the risk of getting gall stones. Only coffee, not tea, or other sources of caffeine. There, add that to your list.
Well no, not ironic. A Linux monopoly isn't the same as a MS monopoly, in fact, you'd be hard pressed to define it technically as a monopoly.
Besides MS has a really irritating media presence, so they deserve all the bad media they get. Really, Mindcraft? PC Week benchmarks? What's next, are they going to whip theirs out and compare?
No, that doesn't make me mad. What does irritate me is that the graphs are redundant. The information is conveyed more understandably (and with no risk of confusing a reader) with a table.
Spec_int95 Athlon PIII (350 MHz, L1=x y z L2=y, etc.)
You may not; I do. I know a few people who do. They aren't in mental institutions either. Since the 70s, the total rain forest area has reduced by a third. That's not going to change, regardless of talk about sustainable cutting, or livelihood, or other typical libertarian short-sighted arguments.
I don't see why they can't issue a statement saying they care and sell wood from renewable or environmentally friendly sources. If they really do not, then I don't see why you have to dismiss people who blacklist them.
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So this is where NT belongs, among the relics of history.
Oh, BTW, if any NT advicate knows how to stop NT from changing the positions of icons in the bar at the bottom, please let me know. My problem with this is that if I have a couple of xtems, the icons in the bar flips positions depending on which is opened when. If more apps are open, icon behaviour is practically undefined. Truly dumb.
Let's see, installing and updating from a remote computer, saving disk space... all kinds of on-demand, convenient stuff.
So when it's called Unix, or X, or Java, or thin client, then it's no good; but once it comes out of Steve Ballmer's mouth, then it is somehow endowed with viability. How absurd.
What it is, is more Microsoft "innovation," which usually means poorly designed, untested, broken implementations of existing technology, at a higher cost and with an EULA. And notice how it comes just about when their software is become so big in size, and interdependent with specific versions of libraries, that they're soon going to need a service pack every month. But with software renting, their customer either isn't aware or isn't paying with time for every bug-fix release, that they can actually reserve the term "new version" for really new versions.
Hmpf.. it's a 450 MHz PowerPC 750 copper processor. Comments still stand.
Go read the Infoworld article people, IBM is ging to introduce a 750 MHz PowerPC processor-based machine for Linux. We've seen what a 133MHz PPC machine can do to a 500MHz P!!!, haven't we now? It looks like Intel's not going to be the processor to have from now on. Assuming IBM has sensible people setting the prices, that is. Remember Big Blue, we aren't universities with the state exchequer standing behind us!
So, what you're saying is that in the clear stark light of day, companies like Intel and Microsoft (sorry, had to bring MS in) aren't such a big deal when compared to IBM. That's the way it's been, and looks to be. But IBM documentation... aaaaaaarrrrrghhh!
You write:
>... if I submitted this to any english debate/political science teacher as valid
>proof of anything I would be sadly disapointed with my mark.
Apart from the fact that I don't know what you mean here (off the mark? What mark?), the English teacher would probably find "Gandhi" misspelled, and not capitalized.
Up there on the hill, who will run the power line across government property to charge your battery?
Let us look at the respected record.
1. Waco
2. Appointment of independent counsel to investigate extra-marital affairs of a president
3. Proposal to regulate what is very hard to regulate; and not of much utility.
On ocassion, a record will speak for itself.
I see that some moderator took it upon itself to moderateo this down to "Troll." It's the kind of article which you don't do anything about if you want to moderate down, or moderate it to "Humor." Don't you read the guidelines or what?
I await your classification of this posting. Troll? Rant? Insightful?
All the little buttons, which one will you press?
Hiding behind a legal disclaimer may or may not be sustainable, but I don't think it is legal. There is an act which requires merchantability or fitness for use (something like that). It puzzles me that Joe Klein is going after MSFT for uncompetitive practices, when I think there's a much better case for selling products unfit for use in terms of stability or security, or false advertising. Incidentally the government has a stated purpose of protecting consumers against intentionally or otherwise rogue merchants - a purpose that is beneficial to the individual, and thus a concept that some /.ers will find shocking.
Somehow the majority of Slashdot posters have gotten this notion of the grand individual and their right to non-intereference into their heads. Civilization as we know it is an immense social effort. National governments, international bodies, other organizations, societies are not some kind of disease, they arose through necessity. The Jesse Helmsian mindset is very irritating.
Soon the repubs will run this country to the ground with their isolationism and anti-social(istic) efforts. Like a competing species of fungii, when one population dies, others will flourish with the nutrients available. We can choose to go along with the other countries by helping them now, or we can fall by the wayside. Don't depend on the bubble to sustain this country, another Reagan is enough to run it to the ground again.
One of the 4 elements of a super-power is the diplomacy - that's relations with other countries.
Greetings mjg51721! .cshrc file, reading nn... from the help sheet for uxa.cso! I had the impression it was 4 386s though.
Still remember changing directories, furtively modifying the
Way back when, eh?
bsmg9810
According to CNN, Ebay crashed today, for the third time in a month. Are those Ebay folks for real, last time they said it was a failure of Sun software, on which their database runs? Anybody know what version of SunOS and Oracle or whichever database (Is SQLServer available for Solaris)? I thought I read somewhere that they use NT. Is that only for serving pages? Ebay needs to get this IBM box, that way they can blame it also, and piss off all the big iron makers one by one.
Looks like someone at the BBC decided that there is enough secrecy (or just aging memories) shrouding the details of the lunar mission (contingency plans and such), then they watched Armageddon (which would've been much more tolerable without the sap angle), and decided to have some fun.
Rambling is too weak a term to describe what he's doing. His (Metcalfe) article doesn't cut the grade as even a readable Usenet flame. What's the prior history on this guy, does he always not make sens? And Mr. Petreley, is he an idiot, to respond to garbage like that?
DarkFire wrote:
>...Remember the GHANDI quote...
Everybody will quote the man, but no one will get his name right.
Gandhi.
What exactly is it that you're amazed, amused, and depressed at? We're making fun of Bill G. precisely because his quote doesn't make sense, either if you leave 1 and p in, or leave them out. So your remaining discussion is nice, but irrelevant.
The integers 1 and the known prime shoudl be left out by definition, of course.
In recognition of the Micros$ft campaign to end the so-called millenium with a benchmarked bang, I would like to name my latest theorem, the Millenium Theroem. Here it is, along with a two-part theorem which will be a joy to all you mathematically inclined /.ers.
Th. (Millenium theorem, the): Proving NT is better than Linux is equivalent to factoring a prime.
Proof: By construction. We will construct a method to factor a prime, but it will work only on NT, and not on Linux, thereby showing that it is inferior. So once the hard work of factoring is done, the superiority of NT follows automatically, which is the trivial second part.
Write a program in to iterate through set of integers or increasing cardinality, i.e. start with all possible integer combinations of 1 (then 2, then 3...) integers, multiply them and compare to a known prime (see note 1). When this program in written in Visual C++ and run on a P-III box with at least 128 Mb RAM and 4 100 Mbit ethernet cards, it will terminate (see note 2) in less than 2 seconds. For any configuration of Linux (libc5, glibc2; xterm, rxvt; egcs, gcc, etc.) the inefficiency of the OS will prevent termination.
The result follows.
Notes
1. A list of all known primes appears in the book "The Road Ahead of $$$" by William Gates Soph.
2. Mathematically minded stupid Linux people will protest that termination is not guaranteed (the really stupid ones will insist it is impossible). These people should read the conclusive assertion about termination in the book "Discontinuities on a Mobius Strip" by William Gates Soph.
Obviously ESR has a point, businesses feel more comfortable with Open Source terminology, and some practise it, to whatever extent. Obviously RMS has a point, we are where we are. But I didn't think it necessary for ESR to end a to-the-point letter with a taunt, such as "Shut up, and show them the code", because that is something RMS has already done. It never hurts to be civil, more so when respect is due.
There was an article on CNN a few weeks ago that said drinking coffee lowered the risk of getting gall stones. Only coffee, not tea, or other sources of caffeine. There, add that to your list.
Well no, not ironic.
A Linux monopoly isn't the same as a MS monopoly, in fact, you'd be hard pressed to define it technically as a monopoly.
Besides MS has a really irritating media presence, so they deserve all the bad media they get. Really, Mindcraft? PC Week benchmarks? What's next, are they going to whip theirs out and compare?
Well gee look at that, what a confusing table!
The tabs did not show up, ah well, you get the idea.
No, that doesn't make me mad. What does irritate me is that the graphs are redundant. The information is conveyed more understandably (and with no risk of confusing a reader) with a table.
Spec_int95 Athlon PIII
(350 MHz, L1=x y z
L2=y, etc.)
You may not; I do. I know a few people who do. They aren't in mental institutions either. Since the 70s, the total rain forest area has reduced by a third. That's not going to change, regardless of talk about sustainable cutting, or livelihood, or other typical libertarian short-sighted arguments.
I don't see why they can't issue a statement saying they care and sell wood from renewable or environmentally friendly sources. If they really do not, then I don't see why you have to dismiss people who blacklist them.