Meanwhile, Verizon has halted most FiOS buildouts, is trying to get out of more, and is requiring copper removal where they're doing it because the install costs are so high. Hybrid fiber/coax with DOCCIS 3 will push 300Mbps and is cheaper to install and maintain. Cable isn't afrid of FTTH.
Hey, I upvoted the other sumission on this on the firehose, but expected this flamebait version to be accepted. And, predictabaly, there's a big thread debating the flamebait about the merits of being an early adopter (again...).
The Slashdot community gets the editing it deserves.
The interesting thing is that Amazon will most likely steer the TI chips towards designs ideally suited for the ereader market. B&N might be most successful buying Amazon chips, if they have the option. Perhaps they ought to focus on differentiating on software, product, and service now.
Amazon probably benefits more from a massive, vibrant ereader market than they would trying to own an entire smaller, more stagnant one, so I bet they do continue to sell to B&N.
Is nepomuk outside of KDE now? 'Cause the developers must all have SSD's, based on the way it thrashes my machines at login. KDE is not alone; my Android phone goes about downloading updates and such when I wake it up to make a phone call. Mozilla apps hang, etc.
I never expetected we'd have multi-gigahertz machines that were too busy to take our keyboard input in realtime.
Seconded - my kids love it and it scales nicely to different talent / skill levels. As a bonus, their school uses it for teaching computing so they started knowing lots of the tricks and enjoyed teaching their classmates.
you could probably randomly assign slashdot editorship to anyone with an internet connection
That's smart. Open the doors to those with good comment karma and then track their editor karma separately. Lord knows, there's no lack of willingness to provide feedback on editorial quality here.
Believing that writing to Obama to change things will do any good requires a higher level of ignoring all available evidence than does belief in any given diety.
lol you think the US 'lured' Japan into attacking Hawaii? Seriously?
Hrm, the gp said 'lured'. The oil embargo created the conditions where Japan wanted to seize the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies. Roosevelt said this himself. Then he moved the only fleet that could stop them from San Diego to Honolulu. They had radio intel on Japanese movements and kept some of that info from the Navy by Presidential order. (see some good comments here or buy the books)
Roosevelt wanted war and had big trouble selling it (both matters of fact) and these conditions got him an attack which got him what he wanted.
But that doesn't mean the Japanese had to maintain their empire or that the People had to accept a Japanese attack on Hawaii as a reason to go to war in Europe. Plenty of blame to spread around, but one can't cast Roosevelt as completely surprised or ignorant of the conditions in the region.
So many of the answers took the form, "that use doesn't fit my personal needs, so people who have those needs are crazy/uncool/idiots." It's very good that Linux is now in a position to ensure quality code, not decide on what code will be included.
He also needs to do a bit more refactoring on
that whole "using the law for harassment" in the US is a separate issue independent of the copyright issues.
if he thinks there's a non-fragile way to implement such a system. Or, even better, do a git and find the primitives that would allow such a system - nobody else in history has managed to do so, but that only makes the odds of success highly unlikely, not necessarily impossible.
CPU architectures should support the same instruction sets for 30 years, because backwards compatibility is king, but hardware vendors should expect to jump every time one of the kernel devs feels like making changes.
yeah, if car enthusiasts boards are complaining, finger oil isn't the cause.
Frankly the whole thing seems silly - on my older Subaru (RIP) I needed to do something about the anemic headlights, and I wound up having to install a harness with a relay which powered heavier gauge cable which then powered special-order bulbs which could use the higher current.
Everything in the stores is spec'ed to run at the same current to avoid burning through the stock wiring. There's not really much of a difference between a $5 bulb and a $20 bulb. Buy the $5 bulb, or upgrade your wiring to handle the $25 bulbs, and then there is a significant difference.
To argue the contrary, sometimes I'm reminded of something from so long ago, that it unlocks memories that I've literally not thought of for decades. I would have expected that stuff to have been garbage collected by now, but it's not. Frankly, it's neat, but I wouldn't be worse off it it had been garbage collected and replaced with new memories.
I have to imagine that Ray's speech is misrepresented here, or else he's really off the rails this time. He has many misses, but his batting average is slightly above normal.
I miss the days when the nutballs were easily identified by the tinfoil skull caps and end is near signs.... No they had to find a horribly written book by a incredibly untalented author that was universally panned as horrible in her time and all time after that and start their new religion on that piece of Science fiction..
I'm actually trying to figure out what you meant here. Are you trying to suggest that Objectivists are a religion along the lines of Scientology? The book may be five times too long and the Objectivists silly, but 'universally panned' is different than bestseller and we see few Objectivists engaging in coordinated thuggish behavior. They're the "leave us alone" types, aren't they?
Yes, so let it burn. I think it's more likely that a learning algorithm will corner/own the market by exploiting an unforseen path than crash the market, but either way a situation will arise that has people calling for a Mulligan. In the meantime, get all of your assets out and into real things - don't stake your future life on some numbers in a computer in a game you clearly are prevented from understanding or participating in in a meaningful way.
If I could figure out a good way to cash out my 401K without getting ass-raped by the government
You made a bad bet and now you're in denial. You know the USD-denominated 401k is being inflated away to worthlessness anyway. You could roll it over into an IRA backed by hard assets but you'd have to trust the rule of men folks not to sieze that when convenient. Why not just take your lumps, pay it over three years, and invest in hard assets you can actually control? Remember, it's just a number on a computer right now.
Surely to get those companies together, there must be some nefarious agenda afoot.
The footer logos, the testimonials section, etc. all lack Apple. But then they're on the list.
I'd guess they joined at the last minute. Maybe they were a target at one point? Which would be ironic as the pre iOS-SDK days were all about "no native apps".
I read this in the official statement too - I'm guessing it makes perfect sense to rocket scientists.
My best guestimate: because of the sudden lack of exhaust gasses from the engine, the pressure inside the fairing changed extremely significantly and quickly, and the fairing couldn't take the pressure delta, so it ripped apart.
Some of these concerns have already been addressed and solved. Check out Tonika which uses crypto front-to-back, for example. They've already solved problems I'd never even understood to be present.
So many people here are assuming they understand your requirements better than you do, and those are the ones who could successfully parse TFS.
I run an opensource stack in-house because I need to customize what it does for my needs. None of the hosted products would work for me, and software freedom isn't something I throw under the bus for short-term gain. Currently it's a postfix/MailScanner/SpamAssassin/sqlgrey/dovecot/sasl/davical/asterisk/freepbx stack, but I've also never seen Sogo before, so thanks for linking that. I've been meaning to integrate Fumambol/SyncML and that does it built-in, so cool.
The other product I've considered is formerly-BBS-software Citadel, but I'm sufficiently suspicious of monolithic software to have not tried it out in production (the Unix way seems better). Sogo does more, though, so that raises the activation energy a bit.
On the phones side, I'm looking to replace the FreePBX system because it's increasingly buggy as new versions come out. There was a good interview with the 2600Hz folks on FLOSS Weekly recently about Kazoo. Their docs are very targeted towards a cloud-hosted version, which is fine, but I also haven't put in the energy yet to do a local install without docs. But it's on my very short-term list.
They seem to be headed in the right direction at least. Intergrating Sogo with Kazoo might be a nice direction and it doesn't seem like either community would be adverse.
Grandstream phones have the best bang for the buck, but aren't always quirk-free. That said, with a few tweaks they're very reliable and very cheap compared to Avaya. Their better models also embed linux, so I like to support them with my cash for doing so.
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Meanwhile, Verizon has halted most FiOS buildouts, is trying to get out of more, and is requiring copper removal where they're doing it because the install costs are so high. Hybrid fiber/coax with DOCCIS 3 will push 300Mbps and is cheaper to install and maintain. Cable isn't afrid of FTTH.
Hey, I upvoted the other sumission on this on the firehose, but expected this flamebait version to be accepted. And, predictabaly, there's a big thread debating the flamebait about the merits of being an early adopter (again...).
The Slashdot community gets the editing it deserves.
The interesting thing is that Amazon will most likely steer the TI chips towards designs ideally suited for the ereader market. B&N might be most successful buying Amazon chips, if they have the option. Perhaps they ought to focus on differentiating on software, product, and service now.
Amazon probably benefits more from a massive, vibrant ereader market than they would trying to own an entire smaller, more stagnant one, so I bet they do continue to sell to B&N.
Is nepomuk outside of KDE now? 'Cause the developers must all have SSD's, based on the way it thrashes my machines at login. KDE is not alone; my Android phone goes about downloading updates and such when I wake it up to make a phone call. Mozilla apps hang, etc.
I never expetected we'd have multi-gigahertz machines that were too busy to take our keyboard input in realtime.
But the damage to my ego if other people pass me on the road!
Seconded - my kids love it and it scales nicely to different talent / skill levels. As a bonus, their school uses it for teaching computing so they started knowing lots of the tricks and enjoyed teaching their classmates.
you could probably randomly assign slashdot editorship to anyone with an internet connection
That's smart. Open the doors to those with good comment karma and then track their editor karma separately. Lord knows, there's no lack of willingness to provide feedback on editorial quality here.
Believing that writing to Obama to change things will do any good requires a higher level of ignoring all available evidence than does belief in any given diety.
lol you think the US 'lured' Japan into attacking Hawaii? Seriously?
Hrm, the gp said 'lured'. The oil embargo created the conditions where Japan wanted to seize the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies. Roosevelt said this himself. Then he moved the only fleet that could stop them from San Diego to Honolulu. They had radio intel on Japanese movements and kept some of that info from the Navy by Presidential order. (see some good comments here or buy the books)
Roosevelt wanted war and had big trouble selling it (both matters of fact) and these conditions got him an attack which got him what he wanted.
But that doesn't mean the Japanese had to maintain their empire or that the People had to accept a Japanese attack on Hawaii as a reason to go to war in Europe. Plenty of blame to spread around, but one can't cast Roosevelt as completely surprised or ignorant of the conditions in the region.
... property taxes alone on an American are higher than the annual living wage in many countries. How this can be defies explanation!
So many of the answers took the form, "that use doesn't fit my personal needs, so people who have those needs are crazy/uncool/idiots." It's very good that Linux is now in a position to ensure quality code, not decide on what code will be included.
He also needs to do a bit more refactoring on
if he thinks there's a non-fragile way to implement such a system. Or, even better, do a git and find the primitives that would allow such a system - nobody else in history has managed to do so, but that only makes the odds of success highly unlikely, not necessarily impossible.
asks about stable ABI...
CPU architectures should support the same instruction sets for 30 years, because backwards compatibility is king, but hardware vendors should expect to jump every time one of the kernel devs feels like making changes.
yeah, if car enthusiasts boards are complaining, finger oil isn't the cause.
Frankly the whole thing seems silly - on my older Subaru (RIP) I needed to do something about the anemic headlights, and I wound up having to install a harness with a relay which powered heavier gauge cable which then powered special-order bulbs which could use the higher current.
Everything in the stores is spec'ed to run at the same current to avoid burning through the stock wiring. There's not really much of a difference between a $5 bulb and a $20 bulb. Buy the $5 bulb, or upgrade your wiring to handle the $25 bulbs, and then there is a significant difference.
To argue the contrary, sometimes I'm reminded of something from so long ago, that it unlocks memories that I've literally not thought of for decades. I would have expected that stuff to have been garbage collected by now, but it's not. Frankly, it's neat, but I wouldn't be worse off it it had been garbage collected and replaced with new memories.
I have to imagine that Ray's speech is misrepresented here, or else he's really off the rails this time. He has many misses, but his batting average is slightly above normal.
I miss the days when the nutballs were easily identified by the tinfoil skull caps and end is near signs.... No they had to find a horribly written book by a incredibly untalented author that was universally panned as horrible in her time and all time after that and start their new religion on that piece of Science fiction..
I'm actually trying to figure out what you meant here. Are you trying to suggest that Objectivists are a religion along the lines of Scientology? The book may be five times too long and the Objectivists silly, but 'universally panned' is different than bestseller and we see few Objectivists engaging in coordinated thuggish behavior. They're the "leave us alone" types, aren't they?
Every couch potato has already verified that at zero velocity, mass becomes infinite.
Yes, so let it burn. I think it's more likely that a learning algorithm will corner/own the market by exploiting an unforseen path than crash the market, but either way a situation will arise that has people calling for a Mulligan. In the meantime, get all of your assets out and into real things - don't stake your future life on some numbers in a computer in a game you clearly are prevented from understanding or participating in in a meaningful way.
If I could figure out a good way to cash out my 401K without getting ass-raped by the government
You made a bad bet and now you're in denial. You know the USD-denominated 401k is being inflated away to worthlessness anyway. You could roll it over into an IRA backed by hard assets but you'd have to trust the rule of men folks not to sieze that when convenient. Why not just take your lumps, pay it over three years, and invest in hard assets you can actually control? Remember, it's just a number on a computer right now.
It's the last three minutes of a multi-day rocket maneuver ... life isn't like a Michael Bay movie (thankfully).
Surely to get those companies together, there must be some nefarious agenda afoot.
The footer logos, the testimonials section, etc. all lack Apple. But then they're on the list.
I'd guess they joined at the last minute. Maybe they were a target at one point? Which would be ironic as the pre iOS-SDK days were all about "no native apps".
due to the pressure release of the engine
I read this in the official statement too - I'm guessing it makes perfect sense to rocket scientists.
My best guestimate: because of the sudden lack of exhaust gasses from the engine, the pressure inside the fairing changed extremely significantly and quickly, and the fairing couldn't take the pressure delta, so it ripped apart.
Somebody correct me.
Some of these concerns have already been addressed and solved. Check out Tonika which uses crypto front-to-back, for example. They've already solved problems I'd never even understood to be present.
So, how much time do you spend tinkering with your IT, and how much does that take away from growing your business?
You forgot to quote this part:
My business isn't possible with proprietary software.
So many people here are assuming they understand your requirements better than you do, and those are the ones who could successfully parse TFS.
I run an opensource stack in-house because I need to customize what it does for my needs. None of the hosted products would work for me, and software freedom isn't something I throw under the bus for short-term gain. Currently it's a postfix/MailScanner/SpamAssassin/sqlgrey/dovecot/sasl/davical/asterisk/freepbx stack, but I've also never seen Sogo before, so thanks for linking that. I've been meaning to integrate Fumambol/SyncML and that does it built-in, so cool.
The other product I've considered is formerly-BBS-software Citadel, but I'm sufficiently suspicious of monolithic software to have not tried it out in production (the Unix way seems better). Sogo does more, though, so that raises the activation energy a bit.
On the phones side, I'm looking to replace the FreePBX system because it's increasingly buggy as new versions come out. There was a good interview with the 2600Hz folks on FLOSS Weekly recently about Kazoo. Their docs are very targeted towards a cloud-hosted version, which is fine, but I also haven't put in the energy yet to do a local install without docs. But it's on my very short-term list.
They seem to be headed in the right direction at least. Intergrating Sogo with Kazoo might be a nice direction and it doesn't seem like either community would be adverse.
Grandstream phones have the best bang for the buck, but aren't always quirk-free. That said, with a few tweaks they're very reliable and very cheap compared to Avaya. Their better models also embed linux, so I like to support them with my cash for doing so.
What about the rest of the world?
Hey, that's what the legal system and copyright law get you. 196 different settlements required.
Oh, another bulllet point for the "IP is damaging" list.