i believe that gnu is going to use savannah to manage alot of the gnu stuff eventually. so i would think things like gcc, glibc-not to mention the basics like 'ls'- would carry more weight "importance" than alot of the stuff on sourceforge.
gold is considered by some to be wealth, and at high enough temperatures it to can evaporate. really though what disappeared was percieved wealth (or rather worth). the money made from this perception was spent on toys (pool tables, fast cars, nice offices, etc) which were leased. this and money spent on other services was used to employ people making things with no real definate wealth (software, website).
so, when the company goes out of business and all they have to sell is two year old hardware (we know how that depreciates), and software that can be really specific to the task at hand.
as long as they dont use any gpl'ed software in the boxes they could do this. if they start using gpl'ed stuff then they would be required to at least provide the sourcecode-that is if anyone asked. i'm sure that at least one person would though.
i really dont understand how redhat forces people to pay for stuff. i download updates nightly from them to our file server. then i use apt4rpm to update the programs i choose on the workstations using a nightly script.
sorry. i have a soundcard, but i dont have a console cdplayer, diskman or otherwise. I only have a cdrom drive in a computer, along with other common things in a computer with the exception of windows.
my father does. when i explained what cookies were, he didnt have a clue that such a thing exsisted. once i explained how they worked, he asked me how to turn them off.
my dad is what i would consider a normal end user. he just got his first computer in december.
i agree with you on the presidential side. we had to get rid of him some way. i thought an angry husband of one of his concubines would have take care of him first. otherwise it's a pretty nice place to live.
the poster could possibly be talking about taking advantage of what we already know in a more automated sense.
probing will not give us any more information about hardware other than identifying it if we already know what it is. for hardware we are already knowlegeable of, we can use this autoconfiguration tool to compile, modules for the kernel with little user input.
so instead of me getting the source, running make menuconfig slecting alot of crap, compiling, rebooting and getting a kernel panic because i compiled ide in as a module or somesuch; the autoconf thing would take advantage of info we already have to compile the kernel (or perhaps just the modules) in a more automated way.
i think the original poster was referring to redhat releasing a dist with an unstable kernel. this being a reference to them releasing an entire version based on an unstable snapshot of gcc.
i really wish people would get off this "jump to conclusions" bandwagon.
Assuming that by _great_ you were being sarcastic.
We have good farmland, nice rivers for boating, and forests for camping and hiking to name a few. There is very little polution also. Unlike the bridge in Brooklyn you can actually sell the land in Arkansas, so what's so bad about it.
Living in a large city isn't for everyone. While city life may have alot of positive aspects, there are certain drawbacks which some find to be enough not to merit that lifestyle.
Linux the source code isnt proprietary, but linus owns the trademark onlinux. in order to use the term 'linux' in a name such as a company name or a product you have to get the ok from him. at least that is my understanding. if microsoft started a company called mslinux linus might not approve of that.
they should have taken advantage of their own users inability to apply security patches and made a worm to go out and vote from them. at least it wouldn't have seemed so suspect... that is until their worm is so effective that they effectively get all the votes.
isaac asimov wrote a neat book called a choice of catastrophes. it basically talks about the different ways humanity could be destroyed. he addresses being hit by an asteroid or other objects from space. while it is statistically possible it is highly unlikely. he concluded that we will most likely destroy ourselves with disease, famine, and war. this would be caused by overpopulation.
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i believe that your default score is based on your karma. so if you managed to get some mod points at -1 i would assume your default posting score would increase. i have never personally witnessed such an even. perhaps because most people who are posting at -1 really are trolls and the likelyhood of me noticing the one person who isn't a troll getting out of the -1 hold is very slim.
perhaps a test is in order. create an account, troll a bit, then try to get out of the hole?
personally i would rather be held responsible for upbringing my children than to turn that over to the government.
note the "you" in the following sentences refers to a more generic you and not necessarly the person i'm responding to.
why should i loose my rights because more people dont take the time to plan things like parenthood. right now i cannot afford (wrt money and time) to have children, so i'm not having any. if you have kids you should be willing to put the time and effort into teaching them. the magical box is not a nanny, and unrestricted access to the internet probably isnt a good idea either. but these are my opinions and others are allowed to ignore them and let the tv raise their kids while they meet nice men on the internet.
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once a troll's karma drops below a certain level he starts posting at 0 (and eventually at -1 i believe). so there is already a mechanism in place for this, it's a self correcting system.
if you finished the sentence they stated it fairly clearly:
... hysteria, beginning in 1999, with the sky-high initial public stock offerings of Linux distributor Red Hat and server manufacturer VA Linux Systems--now VA Software. As a result of those IPOs, anything with "Linux" in its name could soon find large amounts of funding, and scores of Linux companies sprang up out of the woodwork.
i believe the poster is trying to think 'out of the box'. while i hate that term, it does have some uses. in engineering we are taught methods to approach problems. these are very procedural and also very useful. the problem with this is that we tend to get stuck in a rut and are unable to see other perspectives.
i think the person who submitted the article wants some insight on how to look at engineering problems differently. by looking at problems in a different light (eg. variable transformation) you can make an untractable problem solveable, or you can simplify something that was very complex.
it could be that oop will not help this person. alot of the tools we are taught as engineers have no immediate benefit, but rather their applicability becomes obvious in the future. if you are never exposed to these tools then you might not be able to solve the problems when they present themselves.
it's not that the thought police can charge you directly for the posession of mp3's. the mp3 standard is patented by the fraunhofer folks. this means that when someone like rio wants to add mp3 decoding ability to their devices they have to pay fraunhofer royalties. also if you want to do any encoding the person who make the encoder has to pay them royalties.
so if you want to listen to mp3's on a commercial player these costs get transferred to you the user. also people who have developed free encoders (like bladeenc) have been threatened by the mp3 thought police for giving away the encoder without paying the mp3 hordes.
i would be interested in your perspective on the contrasts between this and a traditional education? how are group projects conducted? does this type of education impact the communication skills that would develop more naturally in an environment with more interaction?
for example: as an undergrad every class in my major had a group projet of sorts and a lot of them had presentations also. while this doesnt really apply directly to my major, it is important in the real world where you have to work with others.
really though. do you think he started off out of highschool at 40k a year with not degree? he probably started off at somewhere around 20k, and he is probably exagerating the 50% a year.
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i believe that gnu is going to use savannah to manage alot of the gnu stuff eventually. so i would think things like gcc, glibc-not to mention the basics like 'ls'- would carry more weight "importance" than alot of the stuff on sourceforge.
sourceforge is indeed something special. if they can market it that will ne nice. that is unless savannah takes off.
gold is considered by some to be wealth, and at high enough temperatures it to can evaporate. really though what disappeared was percieved wealth (or rather worth). the money made from this perception was spent on toys (pool tables, fast cars, nice offices, etc) which were leased. this and money spent on other services was used to employ people making things with no real definate wealth (software, website).
so, when the company goes out of business and all they have to sell is two year old hardware (we know how that depreciates), and software that can be really specific to the task at hand.
as long as they dont use any gpl'ed software in the boxes they could do this. if they start using gpl'ed stuff then they would be required to at least provide the sourcecode-that is if anyone asked. i'm sure that at least one person would though.
i really dont understand how redhat forces people to pay for stuff. i download updates nightly from them to our file server. then i use apt4rpm to update the programs i choose on the workstations using a nightly script.
perhaps i'm missing something here.
sorry. i have a soundcard, but i dont have a console cdplayer, diskman or otherwise. I only have a cdrom drive in a computer, along with other common things in a computer with the exception of windows.
thats nice, but i only have a cdrom drive. plus i dont have windows, so i guess i wouldnt see their eula anyways.
my father does. when i explained what cookies were, he didnt have a clue that such a thing exsisted. once i explained how they worked, he asked me how to turn them off.
my dad is what i would consider a normal end user. he just got his first computer in december.
i agree with you on the presidential side. we had to get rid of him some way. i thought an angry husband of one of his concubines would have take care of him first. otherwise it's a pretty nice place to live.
the poster could possibly be talking about taking advantage of what we already know in a more automated sense.
probing will not give us any more information about hardware other than identifying it if we already know what it is. for hardware we are already knowlegeable of, we can use this autoconfiguration tool to compile, modules for the kernel with little user input.
so instead of me getting the source, running make menuconfig slecting alot of crap, compiling, rebooting and getting a kernel panic because i compiled ide in as a module or somesuch; the autoconf thing would take advantage of info we already have to compile the kernel (or perhaps just the modules) in a more automated way.
i think the original poster was referring to redhat releasing a dist with an unstable kernel. this being a reference to them releasing an entire version based on an unstable snapshot of gcc.
i really wish people would get off this "jump to conclusions" bandwagon.
Assuming that by _great_ you were being sarcastic.
We have good farmland, nice rivers for boating, and forests for camping and hiking to name a few. There is very little polution also. Unlike the bridge in Brooklyn you can actually sell the land in Arkansas, so what's so bad about it.
Living in a large city isn't for everyone. While city life may have alot of positive aspects, there are certain drawbacks which some find to be enough not to merit that lifestyle.
Linux the source code isnt proprietary, but linus owns the trademark onlinux. in order to use the term 'linux' in a name such as a company name or a product you have to get the ok from him. at least that is my understanding. if microsoft started a company called mslinux linus might not approve of that.
i prefer enough.
they should have taken advantage of their own users inability to apply security patches and made a worm to go out and vote from them. at least it wouldn't have seemed so suspect... that is until their worm is so effective that they effectively get all the votes.
isaac asimov wrote a neat book called a choice of catastrophes. it basically talks about the different ways humanity could be destroyed. he addresses being hit by an asteroid or other objects from space. while it is statistically possible it is highly unlikely. he concluded that we will most likely destroy ourselves with disease, famine, and war. this would be caused by overpopulation.
i believe that your default score is based on your karma. so if you managed to get some mod points at -1 i would assume your default posting score would increase. i have never personally witnessed such an even. perhaps because most people who are posting at -1 really are trolls and the likelyhood of me noticing the one person who isn't a troll getting out of the -1 hold is very slim.
perhaps a test is in order. create an account, troll a bit, then try to get out of the hole?
personally i would rather be held responsible for upbringing my children than to turn that over to the government.
note the "you" in the following sentences refers to a more generic you and not necessarly the person i'm responding to.
why should i loose my rights because more people dont take the time to plan things like parenthood. right now i cannot afford (wrt money and time) to have children, so i'm not having any. if you have kids you should be willing to put the time and effort into teaching them. the magical box is not a nanny, and unrestricted access to the internet probably isnt a good idea either. but these are my opinions and others are allowed to ignore them and let the tv raise their kids while they meet nice men on the internet.
once a troll's karma drops below a certain level he starts posting at 0 (and eventually at -1 i believe). so there is already a mechanism in place for this, it's a self correcting system.
if you finished the sentence they stated it fairly clearly:
... hysteria, beginning in 1999, with the sky-high initial public stock offerings of Linux distributor Red Hat and server manufacturer VA Linux Systems--now VA Software. As a result of those IPOs, anything with "Linux" in its name could soon find large amounts of funding, and scores of Linux companies sprang up out of the woodwork.
i believe the poster is trying to think 'out of the box'. while i hate that term, it does have some uses. in engineering we are taught methods to approach problems. these are very procedural and also very useful. the problem with this is that we tend to get stuck in a rut and are unable to see other perspectives.
i think the person who submitted the article wants some insight on how to look at engineering problems differently. by looking at problems in a different light (eg. variable transformation) you can make an untractable problem solveable, or you can simplify something that was very complex.
it could be that oop will not help this person. alot of the tools we are taught as engineers have no immediate benefit, but rather their applicability becomes obvious in the future. if you are never exposed to these tools then you might not be able to solve the problems when they present themselves.
it's not that the thought police can charge you directly for the posession of mp3's. the mp3 standard is patented by the fraunhofer folks. this means that when someone like rio wants to add mp3 decoding ability to their devices they have to pay fraunhofer royalties. also if you want to do any encoding the person who make the encoder has to pay them royalties.
so if you want to listen to mp3's on a commercial player these costs get transferred to you the user. also people who have developed free encoders (like bladeenc) have been threatened by the mp3 thought police for giving away the encoder without paying the mp3 hordes.
i dont know if this is necessary but i have a mirror here:
o dd sock.org/vorbisrc3/files/rc3/
http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/mirrors//www.
i would be interested in your perspective on the contrasts between this and a traditional education? how are group projects conducted? does this type of education impact the communication skills that would develop more naturally in an environment with more interaction?
for example: as an undergrad every class in my major had a group projet of sorts and a lot of them had presentations also. while this doesnt really apply directly to my major, it is important in the real world where you have to work with others.
1.5^5*40,000 = 303,750
really though. do you think he started off out of highschool at 40k a year with not degree? he probably started off at somewhere around 20k, and he is probably exagerating the 50% a year.