I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster.
If Papermaster is the true mastermind of antennagate, may the heavens have mercy on his soul... Jobs would be pissed.
...and...so what? Jobs would have a hissy fit and stamp his feet and cry? He'd throw a bamboo latte at him?
Site summary: "We don't have anything really to download, but hey, give us your email address and we'll let you know when we do. No really, it's completely legit. Just type in your email address below. We promise not to use it for anything nefarious. Really, we do."
Weren't there some peacetards who had a license that said "you can use this software, but not for X, Y, and Z"? I seem to recall some piece of software released under such a license but I can't remember it now.
>Prison is supposed to be a loss of freedom, not a loss of basic human rights.
Prison is also supposed supposed to be about rehabilitation... although there's some 25% of Americans who don't believe prisoners should be rehabilitated (which translates into, "don't let them out...")
More like 99%. The rest of us think they should simply execute all felons and save us all a lot of hassle.
My big problem with this is that FreeBSD is an operating system, kernel + userland. If you are just using the Kernel and not the userland, don't call it FreeBSD.
Not relevant specifically to this story, but I always laugh at the story of how a prisoner manpiulated the Elo system via closed pool ratings inflation.
Short summary: said prisoner only played against other prisoners, who he'd trained. Due to careful scheduling of the games, he rose from his true strength (probably sub-master) to being the second-highest rated played in the U.S. in 1996.
Eh... I'll give you that SP 1.0 was a steaming pile, but I can't think of 1.0 of anything Microsoft that was good, honestly.
Some of their mice and keyboards. Microsoft makes excellent mice that almost have a cult following (e.g., the Trackball Explorer) and fantastic keyboards (e.g., the Natural 4000). Microsoft is an excellent hardware company. Too bad they never figured out software.
Sharepoint actually had potential. "We want to do a site like a wiki, only instead of markups, we'd use the Office tools". Unfortunately, they made it godawful clunky and web-based. They should have ditched the "web" part of it altogether and made it a proprietary system. Not that I would have touched it with a ten foot pole, but it would have been more interesting than the junk that is Sharepoint now.
I've never really understood the complaints about eBay sniping. Set your maximum bid at the actual maximum that you want to pay. Whether someone snipes or not, if your bid is the highest you will win. If it's not, you won't.
You are right in principle, but...let's say I see something now and decide I'll pay $50 max for it. If it sells for $50.01, well damn, I would have paid $50.01. I might not have paid $60, but one cent more?
It's really hard to find the exact to-the-penny point where your "no, I won't pay that" mode is tripped. Virtually everyone will pay a few cents more than their maximum bid - and hence, snipers flourish and cause angst. It's not a case of paying 20% more - that's obvious - it's a case of paying.001% more. Most people can't focus their "maximum that you want to pay" that finely.
They're obviously designed to manipulate trading volume in order to fuck with the church of technical analysis believers.
Scientology makes more sense than the ridiculous nonsense that is technical analysis.
"We have here a classic head and shoulders pattern as CSCO is showing support at 23 and some resistance at 25. I'm looking for a breakout once 25 is tested for the third time with momentum in a birthday cake trend over the next four periods..."
Once you abandon the idea that the market gives a damn about the solidity of retirement accounts or the portfolios of the masses,
Easy to "abandon," since that was never the purpose. The stock market exists to marry investors' capital with business opportunities and to provide an easy means for selling and buying ownership shares of corporations. Corporations use the stock market to raise capital. Individuals or organizations use it to buy/trade ownership of corporations. That's it.
The stock market is not designed to be a retirement savings device.
Linux has needed a proper NFS lock manager for many years. If Linux could duplicate its functionality, it would put a LOT of Solaris NFS servers out to pasture.
Who in 2010 is still using a Solaris box as a NFS server? Netapp (and a thousand cheaper NAS clones) of it have put Solaris out of the "NFS server" market.
I hope they decide to use the FreeBSD userland on top of the OpenSolaris kernel. The FreeBSD userland is the premiere UNIX-like userland environment available today, and is also released under an extremely liberal license that maximizes everybody's freedom.
You're aware, of course, that Solaris is based on SysV...sorry, for a moment I overlooked the point that you're just a BSD troll.
Poorly managed IT by definition when only one person knows the passwords to your routers
Budget cuts reduced IT to impossible support levels
So I recommend that Terry Childs be put to death just for being a jerk and to make sure non of us ever have to work with him again/interact with him again. Then we fire the City of San Fran CIO and forbid him from ever working in IT again.
To be pro-wikileaks now is like being pro-assignation
I am utterly opposed to assignation because people use it to assign me tasks to do. However, if you mean a meeting between lovers, that's OK, as long as I'm one of them.
I understand why, but there are a ton of people out there that think OSS is OSS. You wonder why corporations are weary of OSS it's because of this.
I would wonder if they were, but they're clearly not. Corporations love Linux. It's less expensive and commodity. It frees them from expensive proprietary hardware vendors (Sun Sparc, HP Itanium, etc.) and lets them find the right x86/x86-64 servers for them. They can use free versions (e.g., CentOS) in some environments and paid enterprise versions (e.g., RHEL) in others. Most of the big enterprise packages (Oracle, DB/2, Websphere, JBoss, SAP, etc.) are available in Linux. The enterprise data center is a war between Linux and Windows (with the mainframe, AS/400, and other monotowers, though they are rarely growing).
The "SCO scare" is a thing of the past. I can tell you from personal experience after many years in the infrastructure world that the license headaches with Linux distros are nothing compared to the eternal headaches that I've had with companies like Veritas/Symantec, Oracle, etc.
Most of the decision-makers, technical architects, etc. in corporations do not operate at the "why ZFS is better" level. Does $LINUX_DISTRO support RAID, SAN multipath, and other common enterprise storage needs? Great. That's all we need. Frankly, while ZFS is great, it's not enough of a game changer to make someone buy Solaris over Linux.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and i saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. so I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I
said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?" He said, "Baptist Church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum," and pushed him off.
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I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster. If Papermaster is the true mastermind of antennagate, may the heavens have mercy on his soul... Jobs would be pissed .
...and...so what? Jobs would have a hissy fit and stamp his feet and cry? He'd throw a bamboo latte at him?
A five-year-old girl could beat up Steve Jobs.
Site summary: "We don't have anything really to download, but hey, give us your email address and we'll let you know when we do. No really, it's completely legit. Just type in your email address below. We promise not to use it for anything nefarious. Really, we do."
Weren't there some peacetards who had a license that said "you can use this software, but not for X, Y, and Z"? I seem to recall some piece of software released under such a license but I can't remember it now.
>Prison is supposed to be a loss of freedom, not a loss of basic human rights.
Prison is also supposed supposed to be about rehabilitation... although there's some 25% of Americans who don't believe prisoners should be rehabilitated (which translates into, "don't let them out...")
More like 99%. The rest of us think they should simply execute all felons and save us all a lot of hassle.
Mr. Shuttleworth maniacally rubbing his hands together... All your stability are belong to us!
I just hope we can explain it to the girls
My big problem with this is that FreeBSD is an operating system, kernel + userland. If you are just using the Kernel and not the userland, don't call it FreeBSD.
No, we should call it GNU/FreeBSD.
(ducks)
First Bob Moffat, now Mark Hurd.... both got caught in strange sexual histories.... Larry Ellison, better keep your hands where we can see it.
When Larry E plays the field, he plays all the way - he's been married four times.
Not relevant specifically to this story, but I always laugh at the story of how a prisoner manpiulated the Elo system via closed pool ratings inflation.
Short summary: said prisoner only played against other prisoners, who he'd trained. Due to careful scheduling of the games, he rose from his true strength (probably sub-master) to being the second-highest rated played in the U.S. in 1996.
Eh... I'll give you that SP 1.0 was a steaming pile, but I can't think of 1.0 of anything Microsoft that was good, honestly.
Some of their mice and keyboards. Microsoft makes excellent mice that almost have a cult following (e.g., the Trackball Explorer) and fantastic keyboards (e.g., the Natural 4000). Microsoft is an excellent hardware company. Too bad they never figured out software.
Sharepoint actually had potential. "We want to do a site like a wiki, only instead of markups, we'd use the Office tools". Unfortunately, they made it godawful clunky and web-based. They should have ditched the "web" part of it altogether and made it a proprietary system. Not that I would have touched it with a ten foot pole, but it would have been more interesting than the junk that is Sharepoint now.
I've never really understood the complaints about eBay sniping. Set your maximum bid at the actual maximum that you want to pay. Whether someone snipes or not, if your bid is the highest you will win. If it's not, you won't.
You are right in principle, but...let's say I see something now and decide I'll pay $50 max for it. If it sells for $50.01, well damn, I would have paid $50.01. I might not have paid $60, but one cent more?
It's really hard to find the exact to-the-penny point where your "no, I won't pay that" mode is tripped. Virtually everyone will pay a few cents more than their maximum bid - and hence, snipers flourish and cause angst. It's not a case of paying 20% more - that's obvious - it's a case of paying .001% more. Most people can't focus their "maximum that you want to pay" that finely.
They're obviously designed to manipulate trading volume in order to fuck with the church of technical analysis believers.
Scientology makes more sense than the ridiculous nonsense that is technical analysis.
"We have here a classic head and shoulders pattern as CSCO is showing support at 23 and some resistance at 25. I'm looking for a breakout once 25 is tested for the third time with momentum in a birthday cake trend over the next four periods..."
Once you abandon the idea that the market gives a damn about the solidity of retirement accounts or the portfolios of the masses,
Easy to "abandon," since that was never the purpose. The stock market exists to marry investors' capital with business opportunities and to provide an easy means for selling and buying ownership shares of corporations. Corporations use the stock market to raise capital. Individuals or organizations use it to buy/trade ownership of corporations. That's it.
The stock market is not designed to be a retirement savings device.
I have a library. It's free. And unlike television, it makes me smarter.
Kernel is 1 tab, which is always 8 spaces. This is completely different from 8 space indent.
Thank you. People who indent with spaces should be shot. Indent with tabs all you want and I can view it the way I want (2 space, 4 space, etc.).
If you use spaces instead of tabs, I'm going to have to take two seconds to run some elisp to fix it ;-)
the NFS lock manager
Linux has needed a proper NFS lock manager for many years. If Linux could duplicate its functionality, it would put a LOT of Solaris NFS servers out to pasture.
Who in 2010 is still using a Solaris box as a NFS server? Netapp (and a thousand cheaper NAS clones) of it have put Solaris out of the "NFS server" market.
I hope they decide to use the FreeBSD userland on top of the OpenSolaris kernel. The FreeBSD userland is the premiere UNIX-like userland environment available today, and is also released under an extremely liberal license that maximizes everybody's freedom.
You're aware, of course, that Solaris is based on SysV...sorry, for a moment I overlooked the point that you're just a BSD troll.
Taking people's income to pay for government services is exactly what every civilization has done since we moved out of the caves.
Were we still living in caves in 1913? Because that's when the 16th amendment was ratified and the income tax established.
I could have sworn I'd seen pictures of people living in houses, apartments, etc. in the 19th century, but I'm sure you'll enlighten me.
Are you arguing they they shouldn't take your income to provide police and fire protection as well? Society costs.
The income tax doesn't pay for that and never did. So, your point is...?
A couple summations:
Let's see:
Terry Childs:
City of San Fran
So I recommend that Terry Childs be put to death just for being a jerk and to make sure non of us ever have to work with him again/interact with him again. Then we fire the City of San Fran CIO and forbid him from ever working in IT again.
(bangs gavel)
To be pro-wikileaks now is like being pro-assignation
I am utterly opposed to assignation because people use it to assign me tasks to do. However, if you mean a meeting between lovers, that's OK, as long as I'm one of them.
If it involves taking people's income to pay for government services, it's socialism. You're just conditioned to it.
I understand why, but there are a ton of people out there that think OSS is OSS. You wonder why corporations are weary of OSS it's because of this.
I would wonder if they were, but they're clearly not. Corporations love Linux. It's less expensive and commodity. It frees them from expensive proprietary hardware vendors (Sun Sparc, HP Itanium, etc.) and lets them find the right x86/x86-64 servers for them. They can use free versions (e.g., CentOS) in some environments and paid enterprise versions (e.g., RHEL) in others. Most of the big enterprise packages (Oracle, DB/2, Websphere, JBoss, SAP, etc.) are available in Linux. The enterprise data center is a war between Linux and Windows (with the mainframe, AS/400, and other monotowers, though they are rarely growing).
The "SCO scare" is a thing of the past. I can tell you from personal experience after many years in the infrastructure world that the license headaches with Linux distros are nothing compared to the eternal headaches that I've had with companies like Veritas/Symantec, Oracle, etc.
Most of the decision-makers, technical architects, etc. in corporations do not operate at the "why ZFS is better" level. Does $LINUX_DISTRO support RAID, SAN multipath, and other common enterprise storage needs? Great. That's all we need. Frankly, while ZFS is great, it's not enough of a game changer to make someone buy Solaris over Linux.
The original joke:
I was walking across a bridge one day, and i saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. so I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?" He said, "Baptist Church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum," and pushed him off.
Proficiency in ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal makes you stand out from the crowd. Market yourself as a specialist.
Just don't mention the Pascal part.