and, like all too many people, particularly We The [lawsuit-happy] People, they refuse to take the responsibility that comes with living in a world with free speech.
You know _why_ Americans don't take responsibility for anything? My guess is that it has something to do with the prevalence of the Christian church in this country. Think about it: The dominant form of religious thinking goes, "It doesn't matter what you do, you will always be forgiven." This pretty much gives people carte blanche to do _anything_ with no real worry of the consequences. "When I die, I'm going to heaven, regardless of how many people I've absolutely f*cked over in life." When you've got this many people thinking like that, the idiocy rises to the top. And unfortunately, since they're a very vocal minority (and politically active), they can manage to permanently screw things up for the rest of us.
The other downside to this fact is that since the faith basically teaches them to stop thinking, that there are things beyond their understanding (which, BTW, it utter bullsh*t), they tend to not question authority, even when that authority has them do really idiot things.
I'm sorry if I'm stepping on people's toes, but IMO the Xtian faith is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated on humanity, and is most likely the leading cause of cruelty and suffering in the world. (there's alot of research that went into this opinion, and too many references to list here. check http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/index.html for more info...
I'll tell you why they're changing things. Someone else noticed it too, the sudden huge market for 3d hardware acceleration on the desktop.
Since 3d hardware has pretty much become a commodity, they can't charge inordinate sums of money for their product, when you can walk down the stree to the local Best Buy and get a $99 card with fill- and polygon rates to match an Octane. (granted, CPU power is a different matter, but I digress) Why dou you think they pitched the low-end IRIX-based platforms in favor of a Wintel solution? Because all the really fast-paced, forward looking development in 3d hardware is occuring over there.
unfortunately, they've decided to reposition themselves as a server vendor, a task which (unfortunately) neither IRIX nor the O2K platform are really prepared to handle. They may be able to make fantastic rendering farms, but for heavy, sustained, I/O intensive server-type tasks, there are better solutions out there.
So who's glamorizing their situation? I don't want to go live in a shack, have my car catch fire FIVE TIMES, be an outcast in general, etc. It's a people story, "Local Youths Make Good." It's a tale of two guys going nowhere in life because they didn't fit the societal "norms" of high school and the town where they grew up. They had enormous talent for troubleshooting and logical thought, abilities that probably got them shunned in school, abilities that now make them very attractive to corporate IT departments.
I can't wait to go to my reunion and laugh at all the redneck schmucks still working at Minyard's (local grocery chain).
Didn't IBM used to provide source to their mainframe operating systems?
Hell, my original IBM PC (8088) came with the source for the BIOS.
Linux Conspiracy #326 - Microsoft will break Samba
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Could Microsoft break Samba in some subtle way? Probably, but they'd also be breaking WfW, DOS clients, OS/2, and everything else that's ever used SMB. Microsoft's customers would form a lynch mob.
they already did this. If you install SP3 on NT4 and then try to connect with Win95/98, it won't work. Then some bright guy with a sniffer traced some SMB packets and discovered the format had changed. That's why Samba works again.
"I suspect the US population growth rate has more to do with a LACK of Gun Control than an abundance of Birth Control ( or of a society with better control of their sexual urges!). "
WHAT??!?!?
Ahem. If the US population growth was being held to such low rates by gun accidents/attacks/muggings, you'd be dead by now. 66% of the public would be dead too.
And since Japan's population is actually _decreasing_, well, boy they must have one hell of a crime problem.
I think you need to check your facts before posting crap like this (obviously advocating some kind of political rhetoric) on a/. forum.
On the subject of Open Source, tho, MS opening up the NT kernel doesn't buy users anything, as we'd simply be fixing bugs that they've decided to ignore for FIVE MAJOR REVISIONS.
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and, like all too many people, particularly We The [lawsuit-happy] People, they refuse to take the responsibility that comes with living in a world with free speech.
You know _why_ Americans don't take responsibility for anything? My guess is that it has something to do with the prevalence of the Christian church in this country. Think about it: The dominant form of religious thinking goes, "It doesn't matter what you do, you will always be forgiven." This pretty much gives people carte blanche to do _anything_ with no real worry of the consequences. "When I die, I'm going to heaven, regardless of how many people I've absolutely f*cked over in life." When you've got this many people thinking like that, the idiocy rises to the top. And unfortunately, since they're a very vocal minority (and politically active), they can manage to permanently screw things up for the rest of us.
The other downside to this fact is that since the faith basically teaches them to stop thinking, that there are things beyond their understanding (which, BTW, it utter bullsh*t), they tend to not question authority, even when that authority has them do really idiot things.
I'm sorry if I'm stepping on people's toes, but IMO the Xtian faith is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated on humanity, and is most likely the leading cause of cruelty and suffering in the world. (there's alot of research that went into this opinion, and too many references to list here. check http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/index.html
for more info...
you forgot about electromagneteic repulsion of the electron clouds. That'll keep the volume of the mass above zero.
And hell, what exactly happens to the nuclei of the gas? As I recall, it takes something on the order of 1.5 solar masses to crush them to nothing...
Ya, ya, I know, everything in the universe sucks: It's the law, ya know.
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No, nothing sucks. It just blows inversely.
I'll tell you why they're changing things. Someone else noticed it too, the sudden huge market for 3d hardware acceleration on the desktop.
Since 3d hardware has pretty much become a commodity, they can't charge inordinate sums of money for their product, when you can walk down the stree to the local Best Buy and get a $99 card with fill- and polygon rates to match an Octane. (granted, CPU power is a different matter, but I digress) Why dou you think they pitched the low-end IRIX-based platforms in favor of a Wintel solution? Because all the really fast-paced, forward looking development in 3d hardware is occuring over there.
unfortunately, they've decided to reposition themselves as a server vendor, a task which (unfortunately) neither IRIX nor the O2K platform are really prepared to handle. They may be able to make fantastic rendering farms, but for heavy, sustained, I/O intensive server-type tasks, there are better solutions out there.
hell, the GUI _is_ the OS. all of win32 is emulated on top of the NT executive.
So who's glamorizing their situation? I don't want to go live in a shack, have my car catch fire FIVE TIMES, be an outcast in general, etc. It's a people story, "Local Youths Make Good." It's a tale of two guys going nowhere in life because they didn't fit the societal "norms" of high school and the town where they grew up. They had enormous talent for troubleshooting and logical thought, abilities that probably got them shunned in school, abilities that now make them very attractive to corporate IT departments.
I can't wait to go to my reunion and laugh at all the redneck schmucks still working at Minyard's (local grocery chain).
Didn't IBM used to provide source to their mainframe operating systems?
Hell, my original IBM PC (8088) came with the source for the BIOS.
Could Microsoft break Samba in some subtle way? Probably, but they'd also be breaking WfW, DOS clients, OS/2, and everything else that's ever used SMB. Microsoft's customers would form a lynch mob.
they already did this. If you install SP3 on NT4 and then try to connect with Win95/98, it won't work. Then some bright guy with a sniffer traced some SMB packets and discovered the format had changed. That's why Samba works again.
(I may be horribly wrong, correct me, people)
"I suspect the US population growth rate has more to do with a LACK of Gun Control than an abundance of Birth Control ( or of a society with better control of their sexual urges!). "
/. forum.
WHAT??!?!?
Ahem. If the US population growth was being held to such low rates by gun accidents/attacks/muggings, you'd be dead by now. 66% of the public would be dead too.
And since Japan's population is actually _decreasing_, well, boy they must have one hell of a crime problem.
I think you need to check your facts before posting crap like this (obviously advocating some kind of political rhetoric) on a
On the subject of Open Source, tho, MS opening up the NT kernel doesn't buy users anything, as we'd simply be fixing bugs that they've decided to ignore for FIVE MAJOR REVISIONS.