Some commenters say that Linux and Open Source have been mainstream tools for a while. That's true -- in the tech world. Whitehurst mentions this, then goes on to explain that more traditional industries are accepting FOSS now. Things like railroads and power utilities, where open source remained a scary, newfangled, and unproven security hole as recently as last year.
I'm sorry, but I clicked through here because I was wondering what the government wanted Twitter to do with Bahamas. I smell a trademark/copyright lawsuit coming somewhere.
1. Debian Rex (cover disk on some computer magazine looong ago -- it was a single floppy) 2. Other early Debian releases, downloaded to Zip disks at college computer lab 3. More Debian, Slink onwards, from burned ISO images 4. Knoppix for a while, then back to 5. Debian Sarge, Etch, Lenny. Still use Squeeze on one virtual Rackspace server. But main squeeze now is, 6. Ubuntu, "current" release since Feisty Fawn.
Yeah, they're all flavors of Debian at heart. I don't really do.rpm packages or Portage compiling.
Take that thought just a bit further to arrive at this even starker conclusion: The associations seem to assume that everyone wants every last little bit of their content -- it's just that some are willing to pay for it and others aren't.
The first patent, granted in 2003, covers the method by which Netflix customers select and receive a certain number of movies at a time, and return them for more titles.
So a common-sense business method is patentable?
Uh, Reuters has it wrong. The other patent is for the design of the DVD mailer envelopes; the one approved yesterday covers basically all of the Netflix business model, not just the stupid queues.
Right, to put all of this into Foolish terms, DogDude is into Inside Value or perhaps Income Investor, while 31415926535897 is more of a Rule Breaker or Hidden Gems miner. My point is, there is no right or wrong here, just different styles of investing.
Invest in RHAT and five more companies like it, and you're likely to see one or two going gangbusters, while the rest may fade away or go out of business entirely. Go with proven, huge businesses like IBM, KO and BRK.A instead, and your returns on each one will be lower, but they will all still be there in ten years, or thirty.
Both portfolios may end up making lots of money, just different ways, and it basically comes down to what level of risk you're willing to take on. It's a personal choice, and a crappy basis for a flame war. Settle down, kids.
When I do listen to radio, it's classic rock, 80's, morning talk shows or PBS:P Nothing on the top 40 stations appeals to me, not even new songs by old favorites like Green Day. Mmm, I guess I'm just getting old and picky. The Orlando one is Thunder 105?
I seriously have a hard time figuring out which stations to put on my six presets in my car because I cannot even find six decent stations. That's a sad commentary on the state of radio.
I second that. 12 presets on my car radio, but I can only fill 5, and even then they all pretty much suck and I end up listening to home-burned mix CDs instead. My wife drives the car with the MP3-capable CD player, darnit. Tampa area, for reference.
It really is evident in the hollywood scheme of things that they have ran out of movie ideas because the corporation is stifling the idealists. People are too busy crunching the numbers on the films instead of spending the money, making it, and learning something from it.
There is a very important line item in this agreement that people seem to miss:
Total creative control.
Sure, the greater profit potential is good, and the risk is rather low (bomb out and lose movie rights to the failed characters), but AFAIK and IMHO horrors like Elektra are products of the stifling effects of old-line studio bigwigs that don't want to take risks. That could have been a good movie, if the people who care about Elektra as a character had loose reins on and could run with their ideas. But no, this should be a SFX action flick, so make one, dammit! Not how you make great art.
For a counter-example, look at what happens when you have a director who loves his material, who runs off to New Zealand to shoot his movies so he can't be touched. Or if your director is a big name, and again he loves this stuff about webcrawling superheroes, so he can use his clout to get his way. Good stuff, people.
I expect great things out of Marvel movies in the next few years. Disclosure: I hold a small amount of Marvel stock. Maybe it will become a big amount if this deal works out like I think.
My former employer did exactly this; they fired a highly skilled team of info security personnel (no advance notice by the way, because then they might have done something vindictive, right?) and outsourced security to a small local company who in turn relied heavily on labor from India. Not only that, but we're talking about the kind of infrastructure company that would be the first to go if anyone attacked the US with any sort of serious effort: one of the four major railroads. This was the product of a megalomaniac technology VP who wanted to save money to tyhe point of removing on-call cell phones, because the cost savings were worth the additional downtime while support personnel looks for a pay phone. The company was on the Forbes top 100 companies to work for in 2000, but so was Enron.
>Isn't there a Java-based client on this page? It >even says "a Java version of the client (also for >Windows)". >-- >Ligaguinggligagiggagoogoog willgo
Maybe it's a piezo-electric device, stiffening through means of generating electricity upon kinetic stimulus. There are tennis rackets (look down a bit, under the heading "Power Surge") that do this. Of course, it would have to be pretty damn efficient in this particular case, but the elves and dwarves might know something we don't.
No. If you have ever tried taking a drive out of one computer and using it to boot up another computer, you will know that your chances are slim to none of it working. Even just changing out your motherboard in the same computer, especially if the new board is based on a different chiopset from the old one, is likely to require either an OS reinstall or at the very least some safe mode booting and mucking around to get it to work. That's Windows, at any rate.
For Linux, it depends on the distribution. A fully installed Redhat or Debian system will have system-specific kernels and drivers, not to mention a ton of configuration files that need to be customized for each system. XFree86 comes to mind here, which would be quite relevant to the discussion. I don't know if Knoppix or something would do what you're suggesting, but it might be a better idea just to keep installation media around for the OS of your choice, and be prepared to use them. Hey, unless you have a secret video-class-graphics capable version of DOS or something.
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On the other hand, cell phones get jostled about quite a bit while we're walking around with the phone in our hand/pocket/belt clip/whatever. Capturing that energy might be worthwhile.
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That Spider-Man ride absolutely rocks, but it does still have some quasi-roller-coaster elements to it. The AV and rocking car allow a molehill to feel like a 200-ft dead drop, so there's no need for huge initial climb hills or anything. That's always a plus, and I suppose there's less of a chance of the Spider-Man ride having a fatal accident happen than most of the "real" coasters have. This looks like the wave of the future, but there'll always be a place for huge monster coasters and 89-degree drops for the real fanatics.
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Some commenters say that Linux and Open Source have been mainstream tools for a while. That's true -- in the tech world. Whitehurst mentions this, then goes on to explain that more traditional industries are accepting FOSS now. Things like railroads and power utilities, where open source remained a scary, newfangled, and unproven security hole as recently as last year.
RTFA, please.
Way too close. I call gerrymandering.
Sounds great... but what if my name isn't Dieter?
Give me nine female robotic engineers -- I need that baby in a month!
I'm sorry, but I clicked through here because I was wondering what the government wanted Twitter to do with Bahamas. I smell a trademark/copyright lawsuit coming somewhere.
1. Debian Rex (cover disk on some computer magazine looong ago -- it was a single floppy)
2. Other early Debian releases, downloaded to Zip disks at college computer lab
3. More Debian, Slink onwards, from burned ISO images
4. Knoppix for a while, then back to
5. Debian Sarge, Etch, Lenny. Still use Squeeze on one virtual Rackspace server. But main squeeze now is,
6. Ubuntu, "current" release since Feisty Fawn.
Yeah, they're all flavors of Debian at heart. I don't really do .rpm packages or Portage compiling.
Take that thought just a bit further to arrive at this even starker conclusion: The associations seem to assume that everyone wants every last little bit of their content -- it's just that some are willing to pay for it and others aren't.
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud
Uh, Reuters has it wrong. The other patent is for the design of the DVD mailer envelopes; the one approved yesterday covers basically all of the Netflix business model, not just the stupid queues.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060405-652
Right, to put all of this into Foolish terms, DogDude is into Inside Value or perhaps Income Investor, while 31415926535897 is more of a Rule Breaker or Hidden Gems miner. My point is, there is no right or wrong here, just different styles of investing.
Invest in RHAT and five more companies like it, and you're likely to see one or two going gangbusters, while the rest may fade away or go out of business entirely. Go with proven, huge businesses like IBM, KO and BRK.A instead, and your returns on each one will be lower, but they will all still be there in ten years, or thirty.
Both portfolios may end up making lots of money, just different ways, and it basically comes down to what level of risk you're willing to take on. It's a personal choice, and a crappy basis for a flame war. Settle down, kids.
When I do listen to radio, it's classic rock, 80's, morning talk shows or PBS :P Nothing on the top 40 stations appeals to me, not even new songs by old favorites like Green Day. Mmm, I guess I'm just getting old and picky. The Orlando one is Thunder 105?
I second that. 12 presets on my car radio, but I can only fill 5, and even then they all pretty much suck and I end up listening to home-burned mix CDs instead. My wife drives the car with the MP3-capable CD player, darnit. Tampa area, for reference.
Total creative control.
Sure, the greater profit potential is good, and the risk is rather low (bomb out and lose movie rights to the failed characters), but AFAIK and IMHO horrors like Elektra are products of the stifling effects of old-line studio bigwigs that don't want to take risks. That could have been a good movie, if the people who care about Elektra as a character had loose reins on and could run with their ideas. But no, this should be a SFX action flick, so make one, dammit! Not how you make great art.
For a counter-example, look at what happens when you have a director who loves his material, who runs off to New Zealand to shoot his movies so he can't be touched. Or if your director is a big name, and again he loves this stuff about webcrawling superheroes, so he can use his clout to get his way. Good stuff, people.
I expect great things out of Marvel movies in the next few years. Disclosure: I hold a small amount of Marvel stock. Maybe it will become a big amount if this deal works out like I think.
Golf is, at best, a "sport," not a real sport.
My former employer did exactly this; they fired a highly skilled team of info security personnel (no advance notice by the way, because then they might have done something vindictive, right?) and outsourced security to a small local company who in turn relied heavily on labor from India. Not only that, but we're talking about the kind of infrastructure company that would be the first to go if anyone attacked the US with any sort of serious effort: one of the four major railroads. This was the product of a megalomaniac technology VP who wanted to save money to tyhe point of removing on-call cell phones, because the cost savings were worth the additional downtime while support personnel looks for a pay phone. The company was on the Forbes top 100 companies to work for in 2000, but so was Enron.
Did I mention this was my former employer? Good.
OK, </rant>
>Isn't there a Java-based client on this page? Itg willgo
.sig! "Jesus Ranch," Tenacious D.
>even says "a Java version of the client (also for
>Windows)".
>--
>Ligaguinggligagiggagoogoo
Hey, nice
Maybe it's a piezo-electric device, stiffening through means of generating electricity upon kinetic stimulus. There are tennis rackets (look down a bit, under the heading "Power Surge") that do this. Of course, it would have to be pretty damn efficient in this particular case, but the elves and dwarves might know something we don't.
*duck*
Agreed.
No. If you have ever tried taking a drive out of one computer and using it to boot up another computer, you will know that your chances are slim to none of it working. Even just changing out your motherboard in the same computer, especially if the new board is based on a different chiopset from the old one, is likely to require either an OS reinstall or at the very least some safe mode booting and mucking around to get it to work. That's Windows, at any rate.
For Linux, it depends on the distribution. A fully installed Redhat or Debian system will have system-specific kernels and drivers, not to mention a ton of configuration files that need to be customized for each system. XFree86 comes to mind here, which would be quite relevant to the discussion. I don't know if Knoppix or something would do what you're suggesting, but it might be a better idea just to keep installation media around for the OS of your choice, and be prepared to use them. Hey, unless you have a secret video-class-graphics capable version of DOS or something.
On the other hand, cell phones get jostled about quite a bit while we're walking around with the phone in our hand/pocket/belt clip/whatever. Capturing that energy might be worthwhile.
That Spider-Man ride absolutely rocks, but it does still have some quasi-roller-coaster elements to it. The AV and rocking car allow a molehill to feel like a 200-ft dead drop, so there's no need for huge initial climb hills or anything. That's always a plus, and I suppose there's less of a chance of the Spider-Man ride having a fatal accident happen than most of the "real" coasters have. This looks like the wave of the future, but there'll always be a place for huge monster coasters and 89-degree drops for the real fanatics.
OK, here's where that post headline came from: City Hall, by Tenacious D. Those guys are such... um... visionaries.
[spoken]
The second decree: no more pollution, no more car exhaust,
or ocean dumpage. From now on, we will travel in tubes!
[sung]
We'll lead as Two Kings, oh, yeah,
We'll fuckin' lead as Two Kings.
[spoken]
Get the scientists working on the tube technology, immediately.
(Tube technology.) Chop, chop, let's go.
Oh stop, my head hurts.
Only if looking for "cop AND goes AND to AND jail". Search for the exact phrase "cop goes to jail" and you get 16 results.
Undergrad major: Creative Writing
Undergrad minor: Film Studies
Graduate: Library Science
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