And another question is "why?" The whole thing is silly and will eventually be discredited and forgotten in short order. The problem is that it takes a great deal of time, emotion, and energy to do the discrediting. It is great that people are coming out of the woodwork to explain why this is so bad, but their time could be better spent spreading good news rather than discounting bad news.
It's not so unreasonable. MS has to expand, and this is one way to go. It will be tough since MPI seems to be the standard, and it will take some time to embrace and extend on an existing standard. (It's been done before though.)
We don't like to have clusters running any windowing software, so it would be a tough sell for us and a big change for the MS culture to get rid of windows. Then again, I used to use xenix.
The other big thing is the lack of a command line. Sometimes I wonder if MS has engaged in an all out war against the command line. If they are successful it will mean one less place where the command line is useful. I'm already starting to feel nostalgic for my keyboard...
So basically they still haven't learned their lesson. Cost of doing business.
It is more than just a cost of business. Microsoft is saying that they can shift their cost curve, customers will pay, and there is little repercussion for the company. The only times that a company can get away with this is if it is either a monopoly or sells addictive products. This is why the government can jack up the prices of cigerettes cia taxes. Microsoft is admitting that it is a monopoly cuz I highly doubt that most people just can't get enough of XP.
Perhaps the NSA can decrypt pgp (hint: lots and lots of computers and very bright mathematicians). It could also be that they were stupid about their choice of keys or showed their privates (keys that is...)
The problem is that english changes. Since the book uses english to describe the latin the descriptions have to be changed and updated. You wouldn't expect to use a book based on 1700's english even though latin hasn't changed since then.
Also, our understanding of how people learn is changing. If there is a better way to describe something then it should be incorporated in the book. The features in sendmail don't change but new versions are released because the authors find better ways to do things.
The problem is that most folks just click on the thing in front of them without knowing about the different options. For example, many of the normals around me just type a phrase in the url window to do a search. Since almost all of them use IE this represents a huge advantage for the folks at Redmond. For most folks it is good enough that things work and don't worry that things could work better.
I don't like this, but it is the way most of the normal folks I know operate. The real problem here is that their ignorance hurts me because MS has a monopoly. The monopoly makes it extremely difficult for the companies that I want to support who just want a chance to survive on their own merit.
These geriatric hooligans are ruining the Internet for the rest of us.
Not only that they are ruining the movies for us. It is no wonder the "academy" makes the decisions it does for awards. They've got geriatric, movie leaking, second rate, B-movie, washed up actors weighing in on what is deserving of an award. Let me guess, this guy probably isn't going to vote for Return of the Kings...
Does the spammer care? There is a principle here. What kind of a world do we live in when a spammer cannot trust another spammer? Is there no honor even amongst thieves? A spammer who is willing to cheat another spammer cannot move any further down on the food chain. This is the last straw. Perhaps its time to start boycotting spammers! As hard as it is to delete those penis enlargement emails it is time to take a stand.
After the whole redhat/fedora thing I started looking around and tried out slackware, debian, fedora, and freebsd. I pulled out an old machine that wasn't beeing used and did fresh installs. The first thing I tried was slackware, and it was great. There were some quirks with partitioning, but I could break out into the shell and do it manually. I was hooked. Next when I tried debian, I knew slackware was the real thing (worst installer I've used in years).
Next I tried freebsd and the damn thing was rock solid. Most of my previous expierence was with IRIX and AIX machines, which help make slackware feel "right." However, when I started playing with freebsd it felt "more righter." Moreover, it was clear that slackware was trying hard to feel like BSD. I quickly realized that I would rather use the original!
When I tried fedora I was pleasantly surprised. Nobody came to my door to rape my cat and beat my wife or anything. Also, the desktop is nice and the support quite broad. The result is that I am now using Fedora on my desktop machines and will be converting my server over to freebsd.
After finally taking a look at freebsd I finally understand what some folks mean when they say the right tool for the job. I have really fallen for the mix of freebsd on a server and linux on the desktop. Also, I think that fedora will do well once it gets a second hearing. I just hope that they move a little slower than the proposed 6 month turn around time...
You forgot the footnote to those figures: 26% of Linux Active Sites have known distributions.
So the figures you cited are based on a large fraction of the total number of linux sites that are monitored. The true number may not be represented here depending on how the different installations are configured.
From the article:
(c) Subdivision (a) does not apply to a mobile, digital terminal
installed in an authorized emergency vehicle or to a motor vehicle
providing emergency road service or roadside assistance.
I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time.
Cool????
I for one do not think that this is "cool." This is the sort of rampant individualism(1) that can create havoc in an office. This is the sort of thing that happens when they let people post comics outside of their cubicles. We have taken one more step closer to the abyss. I can only hope that your little project will stand up to the resulting chaos that will result from this sort of willful nihilism (sp?). Now clean up that mess and get a haircut...
Yes, it is different. But, the thing proposed is essentially an asynchronous instant messaging service. The article has almost no real information in it except some buzzwords and a very nice picture.
It is a good idea and could be a great way to do email. It is a little bit different, but it is an evolutionary step making email look like IM. The tone of the article is a little bit misleading, but it is something that could make email much better.
I'm sure the nice view will end up with some very interesting conversations that are spawned by spam...
One of the biggest issues for putting gnu/linux on the desktop is more support for hardware. I understand why Redhat is supporting Fedora and focusing more on industrial clients, but I am concerned about the long term implications. What will Redhat be doing to increase hardware compatibility and support? Without an official Redhat "civilian" distribution do you feel that you will have the ability to sway hardware manufacturers to support gnu/linux?
This is great! Pretty soon I can go through life without owning everything, and everything I use will essentially be rented. I will be relieved of the material need to own things. "Imagine a world with no posessions."
Not only that, if I get caught breaking the drug laws, the feds can't take anything that I own since I won't own anything. Best of all, when I get tired of my wife and daughter I just have to stop paying the license fees.
I'm free! Free! Free! This is better than living in New Hampshire!
Wife and daughter... Oh cr4p. I don't own anything anyway. This is bogus...
"I wish those people just would be quiet," he said of computer researchers who publish vulnerabilities in Microsoft's products. "It would be best for the world. That's not going to happen, so we have to work in the right fashion with these security researchers."
They want to educate people but do not want the people who really know to talk about it? This seems a bit paternalistic even for microsoft. They want to be the ones who work with people to make updates but do not want anybody else to have a voice.
The semantics themselves are also a bit problematic. I'm assuming that he doesn't really want them to "shut-up" but rather not talk to people outside of the microsoft offices???
Sounds like just about everybody wants a piece of google. Considering that all of these companies will also be making complete copies of the web for their own private cache, perhaps it is time to start hoarding disk drives since they will soon be a scarce commodity as companies start buying them up to copy the web.
Hmmm, if amazon starts copying everything google has, and yahoo copies amazon, and google copies MS, and MS copies yahoo... Yikes!
None of the reasons given imply that we need a human presence in space. As long as we have to use huge, contained explosions to move things off of the planet there is little reason to put humans in space.
They also forgot the 11th reason. NASA is a government agency, and government agencies must find reasons to exist and grow their budgets.
All you need to do is find one place that changes their filtering software according to the time of day. For example, a coffee house that switches off their filtering after 10:00pm. On the other hand,
if the patent is allowed to stand does this mean that my local library would not be allowed to have different filters in place at different times of the day without paying this company?
Actually SCO is sending an invoice to anyone who happens to view the IBM commercial. They aren't saying how much it will be and are promising not to sue regular viewers, though.
This is way off topic, but did anybody else notice the link in the article titled "SCO to go to Senate." Kinda scary since the Utah senators are in the majority and the NY senators aren't...
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Even if the target doesn't blow up there could be mines between you and where the bullet landed!
SGT Smith: PVT Jones, fire the transmitter on that big hunk of metal.
PVT Jones: Okay, I hit it.
SGT Smith: Okay, the transmitter says its clean. You go over and check it out.
PVT Jones: Good news, I'll run right over there sarge.
SGT Smith: PVT Marshall fire the transmitter on that hunk of metal next to PVT Jones...
And another question is "why?" The whole thing is silly and will eventually be discredited and forgotten in short order. The problem is that it takes a great deal of time, emotion, and energy to do the discrediting. It is great that people are coming out of the woodwork to explain why this is so bad, but their time could be better spent spreading good news rather than discounting bad news.
It's not so unreasonable. MS has to expand, and this is one way to go. It will be tough since MPI seems to be the standard, and it will take some time to embrace and extend on an existing standard. (It's been done before though.)
We don't like to have clusters running any windowing software, so it would be a tough sell for us and a big change for the MS culture to get rid of windows. Then again, I used to use xenix.
The other big thing is the lack of a command line. Sometimes I wonder if MS has engaged in an all out war against the command line. If they are successful it will mean one less place where the command line is useful. I'm already starting to feel nostalgic for my keyboard...
So basically they still haven't learned their lesson. Cost of doing business.
It is more than just a cost of business. Microsoft is saying that they can shift their cost curve, customers will pay, and there is little repercussion for the company. The only times that a company can get away with this is if it is either a monopoly or sells addictive products. This is why the government can jack up the prices of cigerettes cia taxes. Microsoft is admitting that it is a monopoly cuz I highly doubt that most people just can't get enough of XP.
This is exactly what I have been looking for! If only it could be made so that it is hard to remove then it would be perfect for my daughter....
Perhaps the NSA can decrypt pgp (hint: lots and lots of computers and very bright mathematicians). It could also be that they were stupid about their choice of keys or showed their privates (keys that is...)
The problem is that english changes. Since the book uses english to describe the latin the descriptions have to be changed and updated. You wouldn't expect to use a book based on 1700's english even though latin hasn't changed since then.
Also, our understanding of how people learn is changing. If there is a better way to describe something then it should be incorporated in the book. The features in sendmail don't change but new versions are released because the authors find better ways to do things.
The problem is that most folks just click on the thing in front of them without knowing about the different options. For example, many of the normals around me just type a phrase in the url window to do a search. Since almost all of them use IE this represents a huge advantage for the folks at Redmond. For most folks it is good enough that things work and don't worry that things could work better.
I don't like this, but it is the way most of the normal folks I know operate. The real problem here is that their ignorance hurts me because MS has a monopoly. The monopoly makes it extremely difficult for the companies that I want to support who just want a chance to survive on their own merit.
These geriatric hooligans are ruining the Internet for the rest of us.
Not only that they are ruining the movies for us. It is no wonder the "academy" makes the decisions it does for awards. They've got geriatric, movie leaking, second rate, B-movie, washed up actors weighing in on what is deserving of an award. Let me guess, this guy probably isn't going to vote for Return of the Kings...
Does the spammer care? There is a principle here. What kind of a world do we live in when a spammer cannot trust another spammer? Is there no honor even amongst thieves? A spammer who is willing to cheat another spammer cannot move any further down on the food chain. This is the last straw. Perhaps its time to start boycotting spammers! As hard as it is to delete those penis enlargement emails it is time to take a stand.
After the whole redhat/fedora thing I started looking around and tried out slackware, debian, fedora, and freebsd. I pulled out an old machine that wasn't beeing used and did fresh installs. The first thing I tried was slackware, and it was great. There were some quirks with partitioning, but I could break out into the shell and do it manually. I was hooked. Next when I tried debian, I knew slackware was the real thing (worst installer I've used in years).
Next I tried freebsd and the damn thing was rock solid. Most of my previous expierence was with IRIX and AIX machines, which help make slackware feel "right." However, when I started playing with freebsd it felt "more righter." Moreover, it was clear that slackware was trying hard to feel like BSD. I quickly realized that I would rather use the original!
When I tried fedora I was pleasantly surprised. Nobody came to my door to rape my cat and beat my wife or anything. Also, the desktop is nice and the support quite broad. The result is that I am now using Fedora on my desktop machines and will be converting my server over to freebsd.
After finally taking a look at freebsd I finally understand what some folks mean when they say the right tool for the job. I have really fallen for the mix of freebsd on a server and linux on the desktop. Also, I think that fedora will do well once it gets a second hearing. I just hope that they move a little slower than the proposed 6 month turn around time...
You forgot the footnote to those figures:
26% of Linux Active Sites have known distributions.
So the figures you cited are based on a large fraction of the total number of linux sites that are monitored. The true number may not be represented here depending on how the different installations are configured.
From the article: (c) Subdivision (a) does not apply to a mobile, digital terminal installed in an authorized emergency vehicle or to a motor vehicle providing emergency road service or roadside assistance.
Seems like no problem here.
I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time.
Cool????
I for one do not think that this is "cool." This is the sort of rampant individualism(1) that can create havoc in an office. This is the sort of thing that happens when they let people post comics outside of their cubicles. We have taken one more step closer to the abyss. I can only hope that your little project will stand up to the resulting chaos that will result from this sort of willful nihilism (sp?). Now clean up that mess and get a haircut...
(1) With apologies to Author's boss in "The Tick"
If it succeeds then this will be taken as an affirmation that cheaper can work. Unfortunately, some will think of it as cheaper is better.
Yes, it is different. But, the thing proposed is essentially an asynchronous instant messaging service. The article has almost no real information in it except some buzzwords and a very nice picture.
It is a good idea and could be a great way to do email. It is a little bit different, but it is an evolutionary step making email look like IM. The tone of the article is a little bit misleading, but it is something that could make email much better.
I'm sure the nice view will end up with some very interesting conversations that are spawned by spam...
One of the biggest issues for putting gnu/linux on the desktop is more support for hardware. I understand why Redhat is supporting Fedora and focusing more on industrial clients, but I am concerned about the long term implications. What will Redhat be doing to increase hardware compatibility and support? Without an official Redhat "civilian" distribution do you feel that you will have the ability to sway hardware manufacturers to support gnu/linux?
It's not so bad, they will avoid viruses and be as smart as outlook.
This is great! Pretty soon I can go through life without owning everything, and everything I use will essentially be rented. I will be relieved of the material need to own things. "Imagine a world with no posessions."
Not only that, if I get caught breaking the drug laws, the feds can't take anything that I own since I won't own anything. Best of all, when I get tired of my wife and daughter I just have to stop paying the license fees.
I'm free! Free! Free! This is better than living in New Hampshire!
Wife and daughter... Oh cr4p. I don't own anything anyway. This is bogus...
They want to educate people but do not want the people who really know to talk about it? This seems a bit paternalistic even for microsoft. They want to be the ones who work with people to make updates but do not want anybody else to have a voice.
The semantics themselves are also a bit problematic. I'm assuming that he doesn't really want them to "shut-up" but rather not talk to people outside of the microsoft offices???
Sounds like just about everybody wants a piece of google. Considering that all of these companies will also be making complete copies of the web for their own private cache, perhaps it is time to start hoarding disk drives since they will soon be a scarce commodity as companies start buying them up to copy the web.
Hmmm, if amazon starts copying everything google has, and yahoo copies amazon, and google copies MS, and MS copies yahoo... Yikes!
None of the reasons given imply that we need a human presence in space. As long as we have to use huge, contained explosions to move things off of the planet there is little reason to put humans in space.
They also forgot the 11th reason. NASA is a government agency, and government agencies must find reasons to exist and grow their budgets.
All you need to do is find one place that changes their filtering software according to the time of day. For example, a coffee house that switches off their filtering after 10:00pm. On the other hand, if the patent is allowed to stand does this mean that my local library would not be allowed to have different filters in place at different times of the day without paying this company?
Actually SCO is sending an invoice to anyone who happens to view the IBM commercial. They aren't saying how much it will be and are promising not to sue regular viewers, though.
This is way off topic, but did anybody else notice the link in the article titled "SCO to go to Senate." Kinda scary since the Utah senators are in the majority and the NY senators aren't...