1. If patented code is in there, its being placed there knowingly/mistakenly by Novell, the project can deny it knew it was patented and further, can take steps to remove the offending code. 2. Is this any different from an employee (ex or current) adding patented code into a GPL project? There is no ban/special treatment of employees of companies with software patents. 3. Code still has to be accepted into a project. Why not let the individual project leaders decide if they trust Novell or not?
>One of the best things that I've done recently is to wipe and randomize a 40-gig partition on one of my drives and set up a 256-bit AES-encrypted ext3 filesystem.
Relax guy, its just pr0n. Trust me, everyone has a directory full of it. Just rename the directory "Taxes" and your mother will never be the wiser.
Seriously, if someone really wanted to get at your data, once they realized you had an entire partition encrypted, they would keylog you to get the passphrase. Who has 40 gigs of personal data that would be encryption worthy anyways?
>Sure, they do the same things the apps I used to write did, they just take 300 lines of macro language running on an 800K-line interpreter/execution environment in 400M of memory to do what I did in 200 lines of C that ran in about 80K.
>But, at least people were able to write these new apps while they were seriously hung over (from the looks of their code...)
I sure hope I get to be as cranky as you when I get older. It must give you limitless possibilites go on and on about how things were better before.
>I am also 50 years old and have never held a job where I had any kind of management responsibilities.
You started programming in 1982? Programming was alot more of a magical/black-box back then. Its a different world out there now. People believe that they can outsource cheaply programming now. People can get a secretary to use Microsoft Office to do what you were programming in 1982, with the help of an animated paper-clip.
As an comparision, auto assembly workers were a job to die for in the early 1980s. Back then, alot of 50 year old auto-plant workers were saying the exact same thing you are now.
Unfortunately this is way too true and its something people in IT miss.
When someone looks at a resume IT people think they have to say what skills do they have; "I have language/skill X with Y years of experience."
What is much more impressive is answering the question "What did you do in Y years with language/skill X that helped the company." I don't do this yet, but I believe it gets you from the "maybe" pile to the "lets call him/her in" pile.
Sometimes its not legal reasons why you shouldn't tell someone why they didn't get the job.
If its something you didn't like, maybe the very next company will. (e.g. He asked for too much money, but the next company is willing to pay it. If he had taken you advice he would have lost out.)
If its something very obvious, e.g. bad attitude, improper clothing, well the person doesn't have a clue and probally wouldn't realize the value of your advice.
>A company that wants to promote its photo app on Google isn't competing with Google in the search market. It's using Google as an advertising medium.
Its the Internet advertising medium.
>This whole "Google won't let me buy the top slot, waah-waah-waah" bullshit is the sound made by people who are too cheap, stupid, or lazy to get out there and do some actual MARKETING.
Thats really funny cause this is what alot of people were saying about Microsoft. Now that its Google, is this now a valid argument?
>Such a system would decrease boot times and quicken application start times while reducing the risk of burning out the flash memory over the average life of the computer/drive.
I have Knoppix on a USB flash drive. I find it does make boot times faster, but still the main bottlenecks are getting OS to detect/initialize all the usb/drives/monitor/other hardware. At least with Knoppix or some other liveCD system.
>You say he gets a lot of flak, but I don't really see it. Most of the (not modded into oblivion) comments I see praise him as being a shrewd businessman.
In what bizzaro, reverse universe do you read slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't this covered before?
1. If patented code is in there, its being placed there knowingly/mistakenly by Novell, the project can deny it knew it was patented and further, can take steps to remove the offending code.
2. Is this any different from an employee (ex or current) adding patented code into a GPL project? There is no ban/special treatment of employees of companies with software patents.
3. Code still has to be accepted into a project. Why not let the individual project leaders decide if they trust Novell or not?
In my day, both teams wore long sleeves.
>No. H.264 is only PART of MPEG 4
But is its the "I can use it to watch pr0n" part of MPEG 4?
>Judging on the 2006 elections, most Americans are not cool with that,
e ction,_2004#Campaign_issues
Care to explain the 2004 elections?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_el
>One of the best things that I've done recently is to wipe and randomize a 40-gig partition on one of my drives and set up a 256-bit AES-encrypted ext3 filesystem.
Relax guy, its just pr0n. Trust me, everyone has a directory full of it. Just rename the directory "Taxes" and your mother will never be the wiser.
Seriously, if someone really wanted to get at your data, once they realized you had an entire partition encrypted, they would keylog you to get the passphrase. Who has 40 gigs of personal data that would be encryption worthy anyways?
Must ... fight ... Google monopoly....
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>Sure, they do the same things the apps I used to write did, they just take 300 lines of macro language running on an 800K-line interpreter/execution environment in 400M of memory to do what I did in 200 lines of C that ran in about 80K.
>But, at least people were able to write these new apps while they were seriously hung over (from the looks of their code...)
I sure hope I get to be as cranky as you when I get older. It must give you limitless possibilites go on and on about how things were better before.
>I am also 50 years old and have never held a job where I had any kind of management responsibilities.
You started programming in 1982? Programming was alot more of a magical/black-box back then. Its a different world out there now. People believe that they can outsource cheaply programming now. People can get a secretary to use Microsoft Office to do what you were programming in 1982, with the help of an animated paper-clip.
As an comparision, auto assembly workers were a job to die for in the early 1980s. Back then, alot of 50 year old auto-plant workers were saying the exact same thing you are now.
Unfortunately this is way too true and its something people in IT miss.
When someone looks at a resume IT people think they have to say what skills do they have; "I have language/skill X with Y years of experience."
What is much more impressive is answering the question "What did you do in Y years with language/skill X that helped the company." I don't do this yet, but I believe it gets you from the "maybe" pile to the "lets call him/her in" pile.
I just visited your site just so I could joke around about being your single weekly hit.
Joke's on me and my poor eyes; I can't believe that you are ranked so high up at 50.
Sometimes its not legal reasons why you shouldn't tell someone why they didn't get the job.
If its something you didn't like, maybe the very next company will. (e.g. He asked for too much money, but the next company is willing to pay it. If he had taken you advice he would have lost out.)
If its something very obvious, e.g. bad attitude, improper clothing, well the person doesn't have a clue and probally wouldn't realize the value of your advice.
>But how did the seasoned professional come to know "it's a bad boss" ?
Because you've worked in summer positions and know what is good work and what isn't.
Because you can compare your work/effort to others within the company and to companies your friends work at.
There is also a point where you have to ask yourself; "Is this the type of person whom I want to listen to/take the advice of?"
>You are aware that not everyone on /. is a native speaker of English, are you?
/. editors are and that do exercise some form of quality assurance.
But you have to assume that the
>A company that wants to promote its photo app on Google isn't competing with Google in the search market. It's using Google as an advertising medium.
Its the Internet advertising medium.
>This whole "Google won't let me buy the top slot, waah-waah-waah" bullshit is the sound made by people who are too cheap, stupid, or lazy to get out there and do some actual MARKETING.
Thats really funny cause this is what alot of people were saying about Microsoft. Now that its Google, is this now a valid argument?
>Evil Empires usually don't last that long once they're in full swing.
Review the modern/recent history of Africa and then tell me that evil doesn't last.
>Such a system would decrease boot times and quicken application start times while reducing the risk of burning out the flash memory over the average life of the computer/drive.
I have Knoppix on a USB flash drive. I find it does make boot times faster, but still the main bottlenecks are getting OS to detect/initialize all the usb/drives/monitor/other hardware. At least with Knoppix or some other liveCD system.
Here you go;
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=206952&thresh
And may I remind you about the Gates-As-Borg icon here.
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicms.gif
http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/11/28/top-10-nak ed-people-on-google-earth/
Newspapers, and old media, are considered a contraian value play.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?
>Any rich guy who leaves his money in a foundation rather than in escrow for a set of objective prize awards, such as the X-Prize,
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The X Prize is a foundation.
http://www.xprizecup.com/go.php?sub=go_xprize_fou
>has no recognition of the failed history of foundations.
PBS, as one example, is heavily funded by foundations. No "prizes" here. Do you consider PBS part of a long history of failure?
>You say he gets a lot of flak, but I don't really see it. Most of the (not modded into oblivion) comments I see praise him as being a shrewd businessman.
In what bizzaro, reverse universe do you read slashdot?
I would buy male model for all my straight male friend's MySpaces.
I'm thinking of Kurt or Justin.
Or anyone who can read.
Get... out ... of ... my ... head!
Is this possible with non-EFI firmware/bios? Could you turn off/restrict more advanced features of an EFI firmware?