this is a new venture. Pro/E has had support for Irix in the past, but their latest version (wildfire) now includes support for Redhat Linux 7.3 through a partnership with HP.
It's not perfect, as RedHat is up to 8, but it's at least something, and PTC says they are working to support more versions of Linux.
hopefully it works for them. most companies are so tied to windows and x86 they couldn't get out for anything near $200 a seat. they would need custom software to interact with their old data in proprietary format. many would need custom software just to allow them to continue working because no open-source software or even linux software is available to do the things they need for their business.
for example, i use a 3d cadd package (solid edge) to model parts and make drawings. as far as i know, the closest thing for linux is the army's brl-cad. which isn't very close at all.
in addition, our parts database has pdf's, doc's, xls's and such as part of the oracle database. there is a web frontend, but what good is it if you can't open the microsoft attachments.
there are many other layers of shackles in place, and there is no way anyone would easily be able to change platforms.
linux may work in this situation where the switch is from windows 95. any place the dor switches to will require new file formats, new programs and more training for everyone. so there is no net loss directly associated with switching to linux in particular.
My new favorite is the Ohio Statute. Spam must include the full name, either residence or business address, and email address of the spammer and provide an opt-out notice in the same type and size as the majority of the text of the message itself. The statute provides not only for damages of $100 per offense ($50,000 cap), but also allows for an injunction against the spammer. ISPs can also sue for $50 per violation ($50,000 cap - $500,000 cap if the violations were willful). The best part (for the non-lawyers and those who want the executive summary) is that forging headers is a FELONY."
I live in Ohio. If the sender forges headers, how do I figure out who they are?
Even though I don't speak any foreign languages, I get lots of spam in russian (maby other cryllic languages) and chinese (maybe other asian languages). How do I sue these guys?
I'm sure some of the stuff I get is coming from a spammer in Ohio. would it be easier to sue them? or does the law allow suits against spammers in other parts of the U.S.?
"In an attempt to prove VME's strength, Meganet began offering prizes such as a Ferrari or $1m. to anyone who could break into a VME-protected file. So far, two million people have attempted to crack the code, but none have managed."
I try not to use bad language on public forums, but the most descriptive word I can come up with for this is "********". If VME had ever put this out for that kind of money for a genuine trial, it would have been all over the Net. There is NO evidence I can discover that supports this claim. None. Nada. Zilch. This whole thing is really starting to smell bad.
the software companies can use the same method that pesticide makers use. there is a little booklet affixed to the outside of the box. a little adhesive keeps the booklet closed, but it can easily be opened and resealed. the pesticide makers include msds info and usage info for each type of plant you could apply to. there is no reason why a software vendor couldn't put their whole eula inside such a booklet.
Key Findings On Linux, numerically intense CPU performance improved by 47 percent compared to GNU C v2.95. On Windows, numerically intense CPU performance improved by 37 percent compared to MS Visual Studio. CPU performance for Intel on Linux and MS Visual Studio.NET on Windows was a dead heat. AMD Athlon-based systems benefited equally with Pentium III-based systems.
GCC 2.95??? in 2003??? what are these guys thinking? i mean, it may have been the compiler that came with the Suse 7.3 they were using, but still. Suse is on 8.1 now which does ship with gcc 3.2.
the worst danger from not voting in an open and public place is voter fraud and bribery. your vote can be bought.
currently, in the us, you go into a curtained booth and no one knows what anyone voted for. there is no incentive for someone to try to buy your vote as your actions in the booth are unknown.
if you vote from home, a politician could be standing right behind you while you enter in your 2048 bit pasword with a $50 bill and defeat the integrity of the electoral process. this is a problem no matter how secure you make the computer transaction.
noone tries to sue the thief for the cost of buying a lock. Instead, the thief gets punished for stealing.
in the case of robbery, it has to be proven that something was stolen. if your server is not secured, how does anyone know what was stolen? if it's anything more than simple defacement, the cracker is sure to cover his tracks.
this is at the heart of the stiff penalties for cracking a website. it can be very hard to tell what was actually done to the server.
In reading the other replies to your post, I thought of one other thing that might help. This may be a little past your first grader's ability, but the time will come when you play games that involve keeping score. It can be really to encourage her to keep the score. The math will be interspersed with the game and it's time together as a family, so it won't matter that the game slows down to wait for the score to be updated.
Also, to the posters questioning my computational skills, i do quite well. In a store, i can estimate the bill in my head, with taxes and discounts. I balance my checkbook in my head. I am the designated score-keeper for games with my family (and i total the score with each turn, not at the end of game).
And to the memorization naysayers. I can't imagine having to add when I want to do exponents. what a waste of time. And try teaching the concept of negative numbers without first teaching subtraction. There is a reason why negative numbers are not taught in first and second grade, but subtraction is.
and about the finger counting. maybe someone else can comment on this, but you might want to try having her wear mittens or sit on her hands while you do flash cards.
counting fingers is like looking at the keyboard while you learn to touch type. it may help you be fast and accurate at the beginning, but it quickly limits your progress.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the math curriculum. I used saxon through high school, and went on to get my BS in Mechanical Engineering. I would say I learned all the math in high school that I needed for college.
I would encourage you to continue with the practice at home, though. When I was in second grade, I had a real hard time doing subtraction and wasn't very fast at addition. My parents got me a book with about 25 addition/subtraction problems on a page, and had me do one page a night.
It took me a little longer to learn the multiplication tables as well, but by sixth grade, math was my favorite subject.
It may sound strange for someone who made it through differential equations to say they had problems subtracting, but it's true.
I think Mr. Hubbard has you all beat. He claims, "I know with certainty where I was and who I was in the last 80 trillion years."
For those of you who don't know which Hubbard this is, it's not poor mother hubbard who had no food in the cubbard's husband. This man is the founder of Scientology (head to zenu.net for more info).
I just happen to know this because I just finished a paper on Scientology I did for a class on Major Cults.
you're not ready to start your own business. there is a reason why entrepreneurs make more than the grunts. they come up with ideas that can make money _on their own_! and they have the planning skills to execute it. besides, if any slashdotter had such an idea, why would they give it away on a public forum?
see also the
"Scientia Est Potentia" ("Knowledge Is Power") article at kuro5hin.org. It's been there for two days already. It covers the same story, but without the anonymous coward troll comments.
real time means there is a guaranteed maximum response time. this generally hurts overall performance, but it does reign in the worst case. this is absolutely critical in some special applications, but most situations are better off without real-time. for example. qnx is a real-time operating system. it's frequently used in embedded systems with only one communication channel. everything that wants to communicate takes its turn and the system kicks it off the line when its time is up. so it is critical that there is a guaranteed maximum response time.
when i was at ohio state, we had a similar database of email addresses, phone numbers and regular addresses. i found it to be very usefull for getting in contact with profs, ta's and other students about school projects. that use alone outweighs the slight inconvenience of a little more junk.
the list started out as a gopher and ph service, but now it is more accessible through a web form: http://www.osu.edu/cgi-bin/Inquiry
It's easy to forget how far we've come, looking at the list of nitpicks that still exist today. But just take a look at a few of things that have been solved. Based on the past diligence of OSS developers, I expect to migrate all the items on the other page to this one over the next six months or so!
as far as i can tell, the slashdot crowd is not the lindows target market. most/.'ers can install an os by themselves. they can even set up an x86 box to host multiple operating systems.
aside from the novelty factor of running one more os, there is very little need of lindows here. i can be productive in either linux or windows and i don't need a kludge to bring them together.
(for the few times when i need a windows program to run in linux, i can configure wine by myself too.)
normally, quality journalists try their best to separate editorial content from paid advertisement. this helps prevent any impropriety. you will often see in newspapers where ads that try to look like editorial content are marked on the outside as being ads.
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That's great news!
this is a new venture. Pro/E has had support for Irix in the past, but their latest version (wildfire) now includes support for Redhat Linux 7.3 through a partnership with HP.
It's not perfect, as RedHat is up to 8, but it's at least something, and PTC says they are working to support more versions of Linux.
hopefully it works for them. most companies are so tied to windows and x86 they couldn't get out for anything near $200 a seat. they would need custom software to interact with their old data in proprietary format. many would need custom software just to allow them to continue working because no open-source software or even linux software is available to do the things they need for their business.
for example, i use a 3d cadd package (solid edge) to model parts and make drawings. as far as i know, the closest thing for linux is the army's brl-cad. which isn't very close at all.
in addition, our parts database has pdf's, doc's, xls's and such as part of the oracle database. there is a web frontend, but what good is it if you can't open the microsoft attachments.
there are many other layers of shackles in place, and there is no way anyone would easily be able to change platforms.
linux may work in this situation where the switch is from windows 95. any place the dor switches to will require new file formats, new programs and more training for everyone. so there is no net loss directly associated with switching to linux in particular.
I live in Ohio. If the sender forges headers, how do I figure out who they are?
Even though I don't speak any foreign languages, I get lots of spam in russian (maby other cryllic languages) and chinese (maybe other asian languages). How do I sue these guys?
I'm sure some of the stuff I get is coming from a spammer in Ohio. would it be easier to sue them? or does the law allow suits against spammers in other parts of the U.S.?
you must not have looked very hard.
Meganet's Ferrari 360 Challenge.
Meganet's Million Dollar Challenge.
you might want to peruse Meganet's website before you start spouting off with some more ill-informed anti-semitic flame-bait garbage.
the software companies can use the same method that pesticide makers use. there is a little booklet affixed to the outside of the box. a little adhesive keeps the booklet closed, but it can easily be opened and resealed. the pesticide makers include msds info and usage info for each type of plant you could apply to. there is no reason why a software vendor couldn't put their whole eula inside such a booklet.
GCC 2.95??? in 2003???
what are these guys thinking? i mean, it may have been the compiler that came with the Suse 7.3 they were using, but still. Suse is on 8.1 now which does ship with gcc 3.2.
the worst danger from not voting in an open and public place is voter fraud and bribery. your vote can be bought.
currently, in the us, you go into a curtained booth and no one knows what anyone voted for. there is no incentive for someone to try to buy your vote as your actions in the booth are unknown.
if you vote from home, a politician could be standing right behind you while you enter in your 2048 bit pasword with a $50 bill and defeat the integrity of the electoral process. this is a problem no matter how secure you make the computer transaction.
this is at the heart of the stiff penalties for cracking a website. it can be very hard to tell what was actually done to the server.
Lycos' webmonkey has a basic chart.
In reading the other replies to your post, I thought of one other thing that might help. This may be a little past your first grader's ability, but the time will come when you play games that involve keeping score. It can be really to encourage her to keep the score. The math will be interspersed with the game and it's time together as a family, so it won't matter that the game slows down to wait for the score to be updated.
Also, to the posters questioning my computational skills, i do quite well. In a store, i can estimate the bill in my head, with taxes and discounts. I balance my checkbook in my head. I am the designated score-keeper for games with my family (and i total the score with each turn, not at the end of game).
And to the memorization naysayers. I can't imagine having to add when I want to do exponents. what a waste of time. And try teaching the concept of negative numbers without first teaching subtraction. There is a reason why negative numbers are not taught in first and second grade, but subtraction is.
and about the finger counting. maybe someone else can comment on this, but you might want to try having her wear mittens or sit on her hands while you do flash cards.
counting fingers is like looking at the keyboard while you learn to touch type. it may help you be fast and accurate at the beginning, but it quickly limits your progress.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the math curriculum. I used saxon through high school, and went on to get my BS in Mechanical Engineering. I would say I learned all the math in high school that I needed for college.
I would encourage you to continue with the practice at home, though. When I was in second grade, I had a real hard time doing subtraction and wasn't very fast at addition. My parents got me a book with about 25 addition/subtraction problems on a page, and had me do one page a night.
It took me a little longer to learn the multiplication tables as well, but by sixth grade, math was my favorite subject.
It may sound strange for someone who made it through differential equations to say they had problems subtracting, but it's true.
I think Mr. Hubbard has you all beat. He claims, "I know with certainty where I was and who I was in the last 80 trillion years." For those of you who don't know which Hubbard this is, it's not poor mother hubbard who had no food in the cubbard's husband. This man is the founder of Scientology (head to zenu.net for more info). I just happen to know this because I just finished a paper on Scientology I did for a class on Major Cults.
sounds like some rogue dial-on-demand. there is a setting for that somewhere in dial-up networking.
you're not ready to start your own business. there is a reason why entrepreneurs make more than the grunts. they come up with ideas that can make money _on their own_! and they have the planning skills to execute it.
besides, if any slashdotter had such an idea, why would they give it away on a public forum?
so can the spam king be arrested if he ever travels to the netherlands?
see also the "Scientia Est Potentia" ("Knowledge Is Power") article at kuro5hin.org. It's been there for two days already. It covers the same story, but without the anonymous coward troll comments.
real time means there is a guaranteed maximum response time. this generally hurts overall performance, but it does reign in the worst case. this is absolutely critical in some special applications, but most situations are better off without real-time.
for example. qnx is a real-time operating system. it's frequently used in embedded systems with only one communication channel. everything that wants to communicate takes its turn and the system kicks it off the line when its time is up. so it is critical that there is a guaranteed maximum response time.
when i was at ohio state, we had a similar database of email addresses, phone numbers and regular addresses. i found it to be very usefull for getting in contact with profs, ta's and other students about school projects. that use alone outweighs the slight inconvenience of a little more junk.
the list started out as a gopher and ph service, but now it is more accessible through a web form:
http://www.osu.edu/cgi-bin/Inquiry
this license/marketing concept is similar to gobe's family license. they too marketed it as a response to microsoft's draconian anti-piracy measures.
unfortunately gobe is going bankrupt. (on the upside, gobe productive will be gpl'd).
>RIAA Smacked by DoS
/. them too!
so now we can
as far as i can tell, the slashdot crowd is not the lindows target market. most /.'ers can install an os by themselves. they can even set up an x86 box to host multiple operating systems.
aside from the novelty factor of running one more os, there is very little need of lindows here. i can be productive in either linux or windows and i don't need a kludge to bring them together.
(for the few times when i need a windows program to run in linux, i can configure wine by myself too.)
probably should have been more advertising. this is the first time i'm hearing about this company.
normally, quality journalists try their best to separate editorial content from paid advertisement. this helps prevent any impropriety. you will often see in newspapers where ads that try to look like editorial content are marked on the outside as being ads.
don't expect that here. this is slashdot.
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