But then again, if he ends up dying from some bizarre rare disease, I'm going to feel pretty bad about this post.
Yes you will, because you know --even if you
don't admit it-- that the medical industry
in the US is very, very out of touch with
the actual needs of people, and more in touch
the the "needs" of big pharma.
I've seen it first-hand, with the death of
my brother-in-law, what doctors do in order
to not make "controversial" actions,
and not make a wrong prognosis (any
prognosis, actually).
So, what's happening? No hospital will take
Patrick in without a definitive diagnosis,
and no doctor will make the diagnosis without
proof, and the proof is inside Pat right
now (biopsy), so it has to be obtained in
a hospital, and no hospital will take Patrick
in without a definitive diagnosis...
(ad nauseam).
It really sux to be in his situation right
now, I hope he finds a real MD which will
listen to him, and make actual decisions.
Slackware is for people like you.
Simple, clean, unobtrusive, great.
Not to start a distro flamewar, and before
any Gentoo fans chime in: no, Gentoo is
definitely NOT
"Simple, Clean, Unobtrusive".
You can find it
here,
hope you finally can understand Linux,
it's a great tool/toy/idea.
-gus
Not if you want to actually use the stack
pointer and your stack-frame base pointer;
you have 4 GP regs (EAX.. EDX), two kinda-
specific-purpose regs (ESI, EDI), one
crippled-kinda-general-purpose-pointer reg (EBP)
and one specific-purpose register (ESP).
AND, if you want to do multiplications and
divisions (the worst offenders, IMO), then
two of the GP registers are already spoken
for (EAX, EDX).
He might live in Tucson or Phoenix, Arizona; the Sonora-Arizona desert is quite a hot place in summer. Around Hermosillo, Sonora, there's a permanent high-pressure system which pushes off any clouds coming our way, so there's uninterrupted sunlight some... 14 hours a day:-)
All through July and August, the normal, everyday noon-time temperature is over 45 C, 47 C is not really all that surprising. Once I was out in the street at 50 C.
Being a desert, it cools down quickly at nighttime; but when there's no breeze to take away the heat, it sucks evilly to be at 10 PM and still at thirty-something C. So, being at 43 at night is awful. I know how you feel though.
The best part is the faces others make when they find out about summer in Hermosillo: "But, that's impossible!" Naa, just a bit warm.
Actually, "la puta" would be "the whore", or "the slut", and "the bitch" would be "la perra", or "la cabrona", but a "cabra", from where "cabrona" is taken, is a ram, or a goat. Go figure
Media Player 9 is a very good player, although it damn well should be when you consider the millions of development dollars thrown at it.
In that case, even with healthy competition, WMP shouldn't have any trouble keeping user's preference, right?
Microsoft is afraid of competition, that's the point, not that WMP is a superior / inferior product, rather that it's not on a level field with the rest of the media players.
Ever wonder why Quicktime won't work full-screen? Because Apple doesn't want you to play videos full-screen? Or maybe because they lack the technical documentation to make full-screen work correctly?
Damn, I with I had mod points to give you one. This is absolutely the BEST answer I've read in this whole discussion. I can close Slashdot now and return to work.
I was thinking the same thing, though, I don't have a way with words to put it so succintly and clearly as you.
Do you, as a programmer, give up control by developing OSS tools? I'd have though differently, after all, YOU as user/designer/programmer of those tools get to control all of their aspects.
Do you, as a customer, lose control over your IT department by using OSS? I'd have though that you had MORE control over your data and processes, since you have the source to your tools, and because of that, can better tailor those tools to your needs.
Nope. The only ones losing control when a programmer and a customer pick OSS for their solutions are those who would like to dictate which tools to use, not by taking into account the customer's needs, or the programmer's design, but by their own profit.
You relinquish control over your own technology when you use closed-source tools.
Oops, my apologies; I didn't mean to express my ideas in that way, implying that adults should be coddled and treated like ignorant children.
I was trying to express my ideas that the reigns of certain situations should be in the hands of more mature, experienced, wise people, who must sometimes assert their authority, in some cases in some disagreeable manner, in order to maintain social harmony.
Keeping with the theme, younger people are not excempt from responsabilities, and must be forced to follow the norm; they might not like it, but it must be done so that they might learn the rules of the community that they share with other people.
It is through this social boot camp that they learn to channel their talents and passions, in a constructive manner; even though they don't know that they're learning it, they only feel that they're being forced to do stuff against their will.
Only when they're older do they understand Ahhh, now I know... it's that moment of understanding that makes all the change. But they can't arrive to that state until they've graduated from that boot camp.
Plus, by the time you voted someone into office that did care, and they had time to do anything about it, you wouldn't be 18-20 anymore and you wouldn't care either!
Or maybe, by the time you grow up and mature a tad, you'll understand that young adults (18-20) are full of talent and passion, but they lack the experience, maturity and understanding to channel their talents and passions without damaging the social fabric, in a constructive way.
This is a dumb comment; what kind of applications are you talking about? Huge database apps like Oracle or DB2? Then, the cost of the hardware is gonna be negligible compared to software licencing costs, so yes, two machines for two applications, it their requirements are incompatible.
Why is this even a question? I mean, it's downright dumb to ask this. Who's threatening who?? I haven't heard anything from Steve Jobs sounding like "We're really gonna cream that Torvalds geek" or anything like that, so what's your damn fear from? Fear of not using the "Geek-fad of the moment" OS?
If the person who's pondering this kind of thing KNOWS what he/she wants to do with a computer, then maybe he/she'll pick the right OS for the task: Linux, Free/Net/Open BSD, BeOS, etc. AND, if it's a newbie, then either he/she'll use OS-X (if on the right architecture) or get burned/learn with some other OS.
Yeesh people, at least TRY to make a truly intelligent question, and not try and make others do YOUR homework: "What color shirt should I pick on a monday?", "Should I use Netscape or Opera?", "Should I switch to Python or should I keep using Perl?" Damn it all, THINK BY YOURSELVES!! and after a while, then ask an intelligent question ("Which language have you found to be more scalable to large-scale applications, Perl or Python?" or something like that).
-elf
pd: I know, I should chill and not even send this rant, but there's been a rash of downright lazy and stupid questions lately, obviously from people just wanting to stay in fashion with the OS / Language / OO-technique / http-server / db-server of the moment, and lame questions like these really piss me off.
This is a very interesting analogy, and I was waiting for someone to hit on it. All other producers (I count myself as one: a hog farm, and a small dairy count, right?) have to produce constantly, in order to stay in business. What the author's guild is saying would be similar to me claiming that I should still be charging for all that delicious pork that all my customers ate last year, after all, many of those proteins are still in their bodies, as part of their own muscular proteins, to say nothing of assorted minerals, aminoacids, etc.
Which is an utter (udder?:-) idiocy. Writers are idea creators, or storytellers, or any number of things related to creating and/or telling stories; they should be paid by the product according to how valuble it is (according to it's sales?), not being paid and re-paid for every ancient piece of writing they ever had (used book/record/tape/movie sales).
On the contrary, to obtain and maintain freedom, be it in software, in the personal domain, or whatever, one must be prepared to use force. Why? Because there are other people or entities who, under the guise of I'll do this and that for you, don't you worry about this, I'll handle it or Tell me where you live, I'll send you lotsa free stuff... would take a bit here, and a bit there, of your freedom away.
To be free is to be responsible; it's not easy, it's not comfy, and it's not nice; but then, you have the personal, private satisfaction, that you acted responsibly, intelligently, and according to your own interests and thoughts.
BEFORE everyone and {his,her,it's} {dog,cat,gerbil} starts tossing what you're saying is that I can use my freedom to do such-and-such (ugly) things to other people, well, they're free to take retribution on your asses also. Remember: responsibly, intelligently. Which means survival also. So, don't go pissing off a bear or something. Or, if you're stupid enough to want to go piss off a bear, PLEASE do so, the world is already overly populated with stupid people, you'll do us all a favor.
The law already says that obvious stuff is not patentable.
That's right. The problem is that the law does not define what is obvious. A comment on slashdot saying "well duh! I could have thought of that" doesn't count!
Actually, it does specify what it means by obvious, it states that it should be non-obvious to experts in the patent's field.
But, lawyers have been messing with the meaning of expert in the field, so that now, a software developer isn't an expert, only a patent lawyer is an expert. Fsck them.
Agreed. I've read both and a few other articles on Tom's site and he has reminded me how important it is to take all things with a grain of salt. Good, bad or ugly.
What does a good grain of salt look like?
Or a bad one? Or worse, an ugly one? Hmmm...
Methinks I'll take the good grain of salt.
-elf
Re:I know exactly what it means
on
The CPO Cometh
·
· Score: 1
AND, someone to fire/sue when the company gets sued by it's customers over privacy concerns.
This reminds me a lot of ancient Rome's bread and circus era. The fat, happy masses were entertained, and supposedly happy; but were they? Was it right?
Try to look at McDonald's like part of that bread and circus philosophy. Maybe it won't seem so nice.
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Bwahahahaha!!!
:-D
Thanks for the laughs!!!
-gustavo
But then again, if he ends up dying from some bizarre rare disease, I'm going to feel pretty bad about this post.
Yes you will, because you know --even if you don't admit it-- that the medical industry in the US is very, very out of touch with the actual needs of people, and more in touch the the "needs" of big pharma.
I've seen it first-hand, with the death of my brother-in-law, what doctors do in order to not make "controversial" actions, and not make a wrong prognosis (any prognosis, actually).
So, what's happening? No hospital will take Patrick in without a definitive diagnosis, and no doctor will make the diagnosis without proof, and the proof is inside Pat right now (biopsy), so it has to be obtained in a hospital, and no hospital will take Patrick in without a definitive diagnosis... (ad nauseam).
It really sux to be in his situation right now, I hope he finds a real MD which will listen to him, and make actual decisions.
Hang on Pat, you'll find him soon enough.
-gus
Slackware is for people like you.
Simple, clean, unobtrusive, great.
Not to start a distro flamewar, and before any Gentoo fans chime in: no, Gentoo is definitely NOT "Simple, Clean, Unobtrusive".
You can find it here,
hope you finally can understand Linux, it's a great tool/toy/idea.
-gus
Regural x86 has 8 GP-register, AMD64 has 16.
.. EDX), two kinda-
specific-purpose regs (ESI, EDI), one
crippled-kinda-general-purpose-pointer reg (EBP)
and one specific-purpose register (ESP).
Not if you want to actually use the stack pointer and your stack-frame base pointer; you have 4 GP regs (EAX
AND, if you want to do multiplications and divisions (the worst offenders, IMO), then two of the GP registers are already spoken for (EAX, EDX).
So actually, the grandparent poster was right.
-gus
You live in the Kalahari desert?
... 14 hours a day :-)
He might live in Tucson or Phoenix, Arizona; the Sonora-Arizona desert is quite a hot place in summer. Around Hermosillo, Sonora, there's a permanent high-pressure system which pushes off any clouds coming our way, so there's uninterrupted sunlight some
All through July and August, the normal, everyday noon-time temperature is over 45 C, 47 C is not really all that surprising. Once I was out in the street at 50 C.
Being a desert, it cools down quickly at nighttime; but when there's no breeze to take away the heat, it sucks evilly to be at 10 PM and still at thirty-something C. So, being at 43 at night is awful. I know how you feel though.
The best part is the faces others make when they find out about summer in Hermosillo: "But, that's impossible!" Naa, just a bit warm.
-gus
> Funny, I always thought extremists were to blame.
> Interesting note: Al Qaeda is a small group of
> people, not the population of a country.
A small group of people, who's leader has family interests in line with your current president's interests.
Kinda scary.
-gus
Actually, "la puta" would be "the whore", or "the slut", and "the bitch" would be "la perra", or "la cabrona", but a "cabra", from where "cabrona" is taken, is a ram, or a goat. Go figure
-gustavo
Damn cool story :-)
:-)
Keep up the good work.
-gustavo
Actually it does, it's a package called "psyco", if you wish to search for it. In a python script, just:
import psyco
# To JIT compile the whole application.
psyco.full()
- or -
# to accelerate a single slow function.
fast_function = psyco.proxy(slow_function)
Nice and flexible.
-gus
In that case, even with healthy competition, WMP shouldn't have any trouble keeping user's preference, right?
Microsoft is afraid of competition, that's the point, not that WMP is a superior / inferior product, rather that it's not on a level field with the rest of the media players.
Ever wonder why Quicktime won't work full-screen? Because Apple doesn't want you to play videos full-screen? Or maybe because they lack the technical documentation to make full-screen work correctly?
Anywhay, it's a moot point now.
YES!!!
Damn, I with I had mod points to give you one. This is absolutely the BEST answer I've read in this whole discussion. I can close Slashdot now and return to work.
I was thinking the same thing, though, I don't have a way with words to put it so succintly and clearly as you.
Congrats, and thanks.
-gustavo
Who gives up control by developing OSS?
Do you, as a programmer, give up control by developing OSS tools? I'd have though differently, after all, YOU as user/designer/programmer of those tools get to control all of their aspects.
Do you, as a customer, lose control over your IT department by using OSS? I'd have though that you had MORE control over your data and processes, since you have the source to your tools, and because of that, can better tailor those tools to your needs.
Nope. The only ones losing control when a programmer and a customer pick OSS for their solutions are those who would like to dictate which tools to use, not by taking into account the customer's needs, or the programmer's design, but by their own profit.
You relinquish control over your own technology when you use closed-source tools.
Oops, my apologies; I didn't mean to express my ideas in that way, implying that adults should be coddled and treated like ignorant children.
I was trying to express my ideas that the reigns of certain situations should be in the hands of more mature, experienced, wise people, who must sometimes assert their authority, in some cases in some disagreeable manner, in order to maintain social harmony.
Keeping with the theme, younger people are not excempt from responsabilities, and must be forced to follow the norm; they might not like it, but it must be done so that they might learn the rules of the community that they share with other people.
It is through this social boot camp that they learn to channel their talents and passions, in a constructive manner; even though they don't know that they're learning it, they only feel that they're being forced to do stuff against their will.
Only when they're older do they understand Ahhh, now I know... it's that moment of understanding that makes all the change. But they can't arrive to that state until they've graduated from that boot camp.
Sorry for any misunderstanding.
-elf
Plus, by the time you voted someone into office that did care, and they had time to do anything about it, you wouldn't be 18-20 anymore and you wouldn't care either!
Or maybe, by the time you grow up and mature a tad, you'll understand that young adults (18-20) are full of talent and passion, but they lack the experience, maturity and understanding to channel their talents and passions without damaging the social fabric, in a constructive way.
-elf
Wow... insidiously cool! :-)
-elf
This is a dumb comment; what kind of applications are you talking about? Huge database apps like Oracle or DB2? Then, the cost of the hardware is gonna be negligible compared to software licencing costs, so yes, two machines for two applications, it their requirements are incompatible.
Yeesh people, do some homework or something.
-elf
How do you "lose your rights" by getting your damn picture taken when you enter a private building of your own volition?
Sort of like when you lose your soul when your picture's taken.
-elf
Why is this even a question? I mean, it's downright dumb to ask this. Who's threatening who?? I haven't heard anything from Steve Jobs sounding like "We're really gonna cream that Torvalds geek" or anything like that, so what's your damn fear from? Fear of not using the "Geek-fad of the moment" OS?
If the person who's pondering this kind of thing KNOWS what he/she wants to do with a computer, then maybe he/she'll pick the right OS for the task: Linux, Free/Net/Open BSD, BeOS, etc. AND, if it's a newbie, then either he/she'll use OS-X (if on the right architecture) or get burned/learn with some other OS.
Yeesh people, at least TRY to make a truly intelligent question, and not try and make others do YOUR homework: "What color shirt should I pick on a monday?", "Should I use Netscape or Opera?", "Should I switch to Python or should I keep using Perl?" Damn it all, THINK BY YOURSELVES!! and after a while, then ask an intelligent question ("Which language have you found to be more scalable to large-scale applications, Perl or Python?" or something like that).
-elf
pd: I know, I should chill and not even send this rant, but there's been a rash of downright lazy and stupid questions lately, obviously from people just wanting to stay in fashion with the OS / Language / OO-technique / http-server / db-server of the moment, and lame questions like these really piss me off.
This is a very interesting analogy, and I was waiting for someone to hit on it. All other producers (I count myself as one: a hog farm, and a small dairy count, right?) have to produce constantly, in order to stay in business. What the author's guild is saying would be similar to me claiming that I should still be charging for all that delicious pork that all my customers ate last year, after all, many of those proteins are still in their bodies, as part of their own muscular proteins, to say nothing of assorted minerals, aminoacids, etc.
Which is an utter (udder? :-) idiocy. Writers are idea creators, or storytellers, or any number of things related to creating and/or telling stories; they should be paid by the product according to how valuble it is (according to it's sales?), not being paid and re-paid for every ancient piece of writing they ever had (used book /record /tape /movie sales).
I'm glad that someone hit on this.
-elf
On the contrary, to obtain and maintain freedom, be it in software, in the personal domain, or whatever, one must be prepared to use force. Why? Because there are other people or entities who, under the guise of I'll do this and that for you, don't you worry about this, I'll handle it or Tell me where you live, I'll send you lotsa free stuff... would take a bit here, and a bit there, of your freedom away.
To be free is to be responsible; it's not easy, it's not comfy, and it's not nice; but then, you have the personal, private satisfaction, that you acted responsibly, intelligently, and according to your own interests and thoughts.
BEFORE everyone and {his,her,it's} {dog,cat,gerbil} starts tossing what you're saying is that I can use my freedom to do such-and-such (ugly) things to other people, well, they're free to take retribution on your asses also. Remember: responsibly, intelligently. Which means survival also. So, don't go pissing off a bear or something. Or, if you're stupid enough to want to go piss off a bear, PLEASE do so, the world is already overly populated with stupid people, you'll do us all a favor.
-elf
They've no need to wake up, in fact, it's all been working marvelously; you see, they're only protecting they're corporate sponsor's needs.
-elf
Actually, it does specify what it means by obvious, it states that it should be non-obvious to experts in the patent's field.
But, lawyers have been messing with the meaning of expert in the field, so that now, a software developer isn't an expert, only a patent lawyer is an expert. Fsck them.
-elf
What does a good grain of salt look like? Or a bad one? Or worse, an ugly one? Hmmm... Methinks I'll take the good grain of salt.
-elf
AND, someone to fire/sue when the company gets sued by it's customers over privacy concerns.
For the customer's, it won't mean jack squat.
-elf
This reminds me a lot of ancient Rome's bread and circus era. The fat, happy masses were entertained, and supposedly happy; but were they? Was it right?
Try to look at McDonald's like part of that bread and circus philosophy. Maybe it won't seem so nice.
-elf