Not the 3rd book. Didn't bother to read beyond the 3rd. The third had the sister of Muaddib taking over. Then tried to do something blasphemous that eventually either destroyed her or her government. The only cool aspect of the book was the Bene Geserit and other factions scheming to take her down, but the story was mostly told from the viewpoint of Aliyah(?). It was so bad, boring, and read over twenty years ago, I don't remember it.
I and countless others are getting fed up with all the "this is a dupe" reporters out there
And haven't you noticed you are now one of those people? Not the "This story is a dupe", but the "I'm sick of you dupe complainers" (whining, redundant, cowardly jerk.)
Are you submitting plenty of original articles to slashdot yourself?
Actually, two days ago, I submitted a story about how bioresearchers at the University of Oxford released a distributed computing screensaver to help scan for protein agents to fight smallpox.
I was quite thorough in checking the text and the working links. In hours, they rejected it. It really bummed me out. At the time, I thought they didn't like my blurb, but that the story would be important enough to pick up someone else's submission. Nope, instead, they decided to run the capacitor story yet again.
So, the researchers could really use some CPUs, and some leech here probably could use the karma, so go submit this story again. Beats another dupe, IMO.
if you notice a dupe...fine...notice it and then shut the fsck up and go masturbate over some pr0n or something.
Don't you think if the editors can't seem to avoid duping stories within days (or extreme cases hours) from another, that they may need some help in having it pointed out to them?
Its a potentially brilliant move by the Japanese government. They get screwed by GATT if they subsidize product manufacture for export. Also, roughly 5-10 year ago, they had a really screwed up computer infrastructure (picture 5 types of PCs but all incompatible to each other) which they probably unified by going Microsoft.
Japanese makes major money from appliances and cars. They know that embedded programming to "smarten" up the products is the future. If the gov't gives the money to the keiretsus to invest in this direction, the US sends their lawyers to bitch that the Japanese manufacturers are "dumping" their Japanese gov't subsidized products.
Instead, they put the money into embedded linux development. It ends up being an infrastructure building investment. The car and appliances manufacturers then pluck the finished development and incorporate it into their products. Furthermore, by having a desktop linux, they end up "unifying" their PC products without the decisions being made in Redmond, USA.
Here's the kicker: their investment may not be poached by foreign competitors. Sure its GPL, and everyone has access to it. But perhaps they hope that Microsoft will supress adoption of Linux throughout the market. The investment is for the taking, but the Microsoft dominated markets can't use it. Its saves the Japanese industry all that software money that would be going to Microsoft for development infrastructure. It also results in cheaper products, because it doesn't have the Microsoft tax for each item. USG can't point to a gov't subsidy to support their claims of "dumping".
Too bad for the Japanese that their government is too corrupt to clean up their banking problem.
This $20 download scheme is dwarfed by the costs of developement, validation, and support. If solaris intel was the cash cow you claim it was why did they try to kill it?
Read. I never claimed Solaris x86 was a cash cow. I agree, its development, validation, and support dwarfs whatever money they could make charging $20 for downloading. I really think the $20 is to defer operation costs to make it available AND discourage non-contract sun users from downloading it.
They don't need to charge for Sparc. Why? Who the hell is going to download Sparc Solaris? The contract users that they already sucked dry, and the 0.00001 percent of their user base that didn't pay for a service contract. Boo hoo. The OS is not where they make their money. Contrast a thousand rogue sparc machines with a couple hundred million PCs trying to download Solaris x86 without having paid Sun through service contracts. They lose money on x86 Solaris bigtime.
Why offer Solaris x86 at all? You f**king stumped me with that one! I thought they should have never released Solaris 9 x86, and just kept supporting Solaris 8. By the time Solaris 10 comes around, Solaris itself may become economically unviable. It certainly won't seem like the same beast, with Gnome2, Grid computing, that "New Network" thing, etc.
Well, enough customers bellyached for Solaris 9 x86 and Sun caved. Why don't they charge full price and profit on the beast? I have no f**king idea, unless enough of those bellyaching customers added x86 CPUs to their service contracts. They should chose close to its full price. The Sparc customers would say "This is no deal" and chuck it for Sun Linux for GUI apps, or a Blade for cheap development platforms. And then they could kill the beast. I've speculated elsewhere perhaps they think it could be come a replacement desktop for XP.
Why only charge a $20 handling fee? Why does Radio Shack charge $3 bucks for a catalog I used to grab for free. Once a year I would buzz by my Radio Schlock for the catalog. Didn't like the products, just wanted parts, cables, tool, and occasionally a goofy gadget I couldn't get elsewhere. Now they can't even get me to go there for parts. The geniuses that decided to charge for the catalog belong to Marketing. Ask them why they wanted to discourage my business. Same thing with $20 Solaris x86. My guess was that if it was too high, Microsoft would claim their OS is cheaper by the CPU. If they charged too low, the Sparc people would try to bang down their support contracts, or migrate to x86. So the Marketing answer is to not charge for it at all. It doesn't muck up the service contract pricing (per CPU). Sun doesn't want to be sucked dry by 100 million downloads, so they stick $20 on downloader, BUT CALL IT A SERVICE CHARGE. I've said this already in the previous post. If it isn't clear now, you're not going to get it.
As for moving to media, I believe Solaris can read ext2 filesystems (or linux with ufs filesystem, when patched) so I beleive you save a step there.
As a developer, I would not presume that running anything under a VMWARE environment would represent a valid test of a target environment. (Only a native test would suffice.) Also, as a professional developer, I would still prefer two machines running, or develop exclusively in the native environment. But I never understood Java developers, and I can sort of see an efficiency in not rebooting.
Originally, I wrote "potentially" jeopardizing your rights. I know there is a temporary restriction on certain citizen rights while in the military, but the jeopardy is involved in the legal power to call you back to service under certain conditions. Being a conspiracy buff, I like to think if an individual became politically dangerous to power group, the executive branch could conscript the former serviceman, and stick them somewhere they wouldn't be able to communicate out of, or have legal redress. And most important, all of this being legal.
You're telling me, with the volunteer army contract, they cannot conscript you at will after your term of service. I do not have a copy of the contract (or superceding military codes), so I don't know if there is fine print. (And if the conscription condition is during martial law, it becomes moot because no one has civil rights at that point.)
At a time where the US Attorney General can remove the legal rights of a US Citizen by rationalization, and the Supreme Court can select a President without recount, if there are no conditions to conscription, then yes, your citizen rights are in jeopardy, just from fulfillment of your patriotic duty. Then again, every citizens' rights are in jeopardy anyway.
Thank You! Someone who actually understands the market enough to ask a relevant question!
I like Sun and its equipment. It kills me that they are pissing away resources to support a product that cannot make them money. They should not have released Solaris 9 for Intel.
Supposedly the reason why they decided to resurrect Solaris x86 was that enough paying customers were banging the doors when they heard the impending execution. But I have no clue why those customers needed Solaris 9 for x86.
You can't really develop Solaris on x86 platforms and port the code to Sparc. Its not binary compatible, or even 100% internally compatible. So they aren't saving money there. And the plan would have to include using gcc, because I don't think Sun offers an x86 compiler. Whatever patch maintenance support they hoped to keep could have been maintained in Solaris 8 x86. In fact, its highly unlikely customers will want to migrate platforms to Solaris 9 (x86) given its precarious state. Did they really plan on running Sun One on x86s? Perhaps they know they cannot move to Linux, and wanted to knock down Microsoft on the XP licenses by implying they'd move to Solaris x86. But I have not heard that being cited once as a strategy.
My guess is there are a lot of legacy trading systems using CDE/Motif/OpenLook interfaces, and they decided to cut corners by using x86 PCs, rather than Sparc workstations. It'll be cheaper for them to pay Sun for the software support costs, rather than port the legacy code to linux/windoze. But it still doesn't make sense to lobby Sun to release Solaris 9. They'll never port to it, and by the time Solaris 8 x86 goes EOL, they'd have to move it to a newer system anyway. I speculated it might be cost effective as a Java platform, but you're better off developing on a windoze client, or linux if you were planning to move away from windoze. Until someone presents a credible scenario, I'm guessing more than one large company has an idiot for a COO/CIO, who's operations/cost plan is dependent on x86 Solaris clients.
Sun does not make money on Solaris x86. Sun does not want to piss away its limited financial resources to market Solaris x86 as an alternative to Linux or Microsoft! Sun does not plan on attracting developers using its Solaris x86 product! If Sun tried to make a push to dominate the x86 platform, in a few quarters Sun would be out of business!
Sun (on some level) has decided its a hardware company. They do not make make their money on hardware, they do not make their money off their OS. They make a SYSTEM, a finished computing product that touts higher reliability, scalability, and reasonable system maintenance cost, and makes their money on support contracts!
Sun (at the moment) has a cushy deal. They have a market niche that Microsoft cannot currently enter, and have been able to fend off IBM. If they went x86, they would have to deal with x86 market realities. They would not be able to make a profit on their hardware, they could not sell their OS at a higher profit margin than Microsoft, and because its such a stable product, anyone who would run x86 would not bother paying for a usurious service contract.
Sun planned to kill x86 Solaris. The only reason they did not was because enough service contract paying customers told them not to. Sun is not stupid enough to be losing money on a product they did not want to invest in. So they charge $20 for the CDs, and that pays for the server/bandwidth bills. I'm guessing the reason why they didn't charge more is that Marketing did not want to give customers the idea that it is a cheaper (thus lower quality) OS than Microsoft. So they call the $20 a handling charge, rather than imply that Solaris is worth $20-100. The reason they do not charge for Sparc is because only a handful of people (outside of corporations) own Sparc hardware. Its a hassle-free door for service contract customers who need to grab a copy of it. They've already made their money on the Sparc OS (from service contracts).
No developer capable of writing a sellable product would consider making a business writing Solaris software on non-Sparc equipment. There is, and there will be, no market share for x86 Solaris. The pro, at minimum, will buy a used Ultra 2/5/10 off of ebay, and work from there.
The product does not exist as a strategic solution to Microsoft, or anyone else. It exists purely because some of their customers thought they had to have it (Lord knows why). Sun was prepared to discontinue the x86 version, and it is what they should have done.
It should be great for OSS developers, who can compile and test their applications on their desktop, even though they don't have the SPARC hardware. It's source compatible, baby!
What are you babbling about? How can you even imply that you're a programmer?
You can't really use Solaris x86 as a testbed for Sparc platforms. They are binary incompatible and aren't even 100% structurally compatible. You can't get a threaded piece of code to work on x86 and expect no problems when porting it to Sparc. Hell, I don't think Sun even offers an x86 version of their C/C++ compiler. You'd have to develop with gcc, and that will run like a dog on Sparc (compared to a Sparc specific professional product written by a competent programmer).
Also, I write about system administration and security topics, and it's nice to try out certain procedures.
Now THAT is the only selling feature of x86 Solaris.
I don't have a SPARC at home, so using the Intel version under VMWare is a lifesaver.
Why are people so intent on running their machines so slow? Hasn't anyone ever heard of dual-boot?
I heard that Solaris was faster and more scalable than Linux.
It is, on Sparc machines. (And I've even heard rumors to the effect that Linux is faster on old sparc hardware.)
Slowlaris on Intel is a big waste of time for Sun. The only reason they did not kill it is because enough of their large customers insisted they keep it in place. I hope they are charging them an arm and a leg for it, because x86 Slowlaris will only drain resources they need to apply elsewhere (like Sparc Solaris and Cobalt).
Plus you are not bothered with kernel recompilations etc.
Apparently you've never had to deal with patching Solaris.
No as a veteran I am more pissed about subversive govt than I am about finacially irresponsible govt
So contracting a debilitating illness while in combat in Kuwait, and then having the USG tell the patriotic American to drop dead rather that cover the medical bill is fiscal irresponsibility? Not an unconscionable betrayal to the serviceman who will now either die or be physically crippled for life, unable to hold a job, and lose whatever money he and his family has on medical treatment the gov't is legally and morally obliged to cover?
The DoI is irrelevant. No court in the land will decide a case on criteria contained in the DoI. Its catchy, but that's it. If you still don't realize that, I can't help you.
I am sorry that I am so bourgeoise.
Actually, I wouldn't consider you bourgeois. Its a common trait of the majority of citizens of this country which needed to be added to my diatribe. Not all citizens are uninformed, but they are certainly bourgeois if they would trade freedom for security.
BTW, I did not "risk my rights" to serve in the military.
Well lets see. While in the military, you could not publicly make the statement you just did. I would be considered treason against your Commander-In-Chief, and could result in prison. That's called the Freedom of Speech. Then the government can compell you to take life-threatening, potentially tainted vaccine shots, or throw you into prison. Now you don't even have jurisdiction over your own body. Finally, you must know as a serviceman, the gov't can forcibly re-enlist you at any time if they deem it necessary. (And those are only the catch-22s that I am aware of.) Myself, I'm not in their files; I'm never was a serviceman. They'll have to break laws to get me.
As a former paratrooper (3/505th PIR / 82d abn) I would like to remind people of this
I applaud your willingness to risk your life and jeopardize the rights you're entitled to as an American citizen to ensure the physical safety of everyone in this country.
(possibly paraphrasing) "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and all men have certain inalienable rights"
I applaud that you can almost remember the jingle.
Now I weep that the public school system did not do a better job of educating you, and that you did not develop better critical thinking skills.
The phrase originates from the Declaration of Independence. Technically speaking, its nothing more than a propaganda document. (Or a communication to the government of England to go screw themselves.) It has no legal standing in the US Judicial System. Only the Constitution of the USA still possesses legal relevance in the US Judicial System. The DoI has as much relevance to current government as the Articles of Confederation. (A while back, some southerners had a difference of opinion about that, but I digress...)
The Constitution does not recognise "inalienable" rights of foreign nationals. In fact, it does not recognize a right of life (death penalty), liberty
(from gov't), or "the pursuit of happiness" (way too much to provide a good snide example) to its own US citizens.
It is only Padilla (and the other traitor who went to Afghanistan) that I consider an apparent abrogation of the Constitution. The puppetmasters probably could have strung me along if they had just processed those American citizens through the US courts like a law abiding government is supposed to do.
To sum up, the other two didn't count. The ideas in the DoI has no relevance in the US government.
You risked life & liberty on propaganda, and not actual legal rights you thought were embodied by the US government. I agree with you that Ashcroft has probably committed a crime subject to impeachment. As long as Padilla (and the other US citizen) are not being processed through the US Court System, we know that this country's claim of being a nation governed by law and principles to be a lie.
Oh, and if you need to blame someone, you can look into a mirror. Its our own ignorance, lack of critical analysis and insight, apathy, and burgeoisie character that allows this subversion of the country's principles to continue. At very least, we should have kicked out all the incumbent clowns in Congress in the last election.
Frankly, I would have thought you would have been more pissed at the USG telling its Gulf War veterans to drop dead rather than to pay their medical bills incurred in that military action.
Yes, but you shouldn't be thanking him for being the sacrificial lawbreaker that discouraged some kids from being crackers. That would enoble the judicial system for trying to enprison a bunko artiste for life to discourage kids from "cracking". (Funny, they don't seem to show the same zeal for murderers. Must be the entertainment media in this country skewing the values of the public.)
Kevin's legal crucifixion warns us that the US judicial system is capable of subverting its principles of due process, innocent till proven guilty, and legal prosecution based on facts, rather than innuendo. And the US Judicial branch of government is not only the whore of the executive branch bureacracy. It is also the whore of monied interests. (Just ask Bill Gates.) If you're not on Fortune 100's richest people, you're not safe from the judicial system. (Just ask the hippies at Waco.)
Be careful about any interaction with the legal system and government officials. I wish I could present a solution to fix the problem. But that could get me in trouble too. (Just ask any "militia" group.)
I won't even touch the NYT part beyond saying it's laughable.
Yeah, its laughable that people think the NYT as a news source beyond reproach.
As for not suing, Mitnick's (libel) lawyer would NOT have to prove a negative. (And you are presenting a strawman argument). He would merely need to present a case that would establish Markoff/NYT committed the crime of LIBEL. Its generally defined as publicizing untruths about a person AND stated them in a deliberate intent to defame the person (or deliberately not verifing the information reported is accurate. But IANAL. I'm not even sure if latter case is relevant to winning a libel case.)
Mitnick's (libel) lawyer would have little problem demonstrating that Markoff stated inaccuracies in his reporting. But its unlikely any lawyer would take Mitnick's case. Libel is a "civil" offense. Punishment is generally only monetary in nature. Libel (in the US) against a news periodical is one of the most difficult cases to win, primarily because the law is slanted in favor of news agencies. The newspaper can publish flat out lies against anyone and not be punished. The lawyer has to establish a deliberate intent to publish untruths in order to WIN the libel case. That's probably why Mitnick can't sue for libel; he won't be able to find a lawyer that will spend 10 years of his life pursuing the case on a contingency basis IF its not a slam dunk winner. (And libel is never a sure thing against a news periodical or its journalists.)
I dunno, doesn't look like its slowed down Microsoft that much. (Or do you really think the MPAA can generate more legal heat than the Dept. of Justice?)
Guns, tanks, death, amphetamine, heroin, Wagner, Sousa. Violent revolution, real drugs, and real music. [...] We will return to more complex music, especially militaristic music
I agree with the general premise of your statement, but you are off on a couple points.
I wonder just how he will be able to defend himself without access to systems that have been manipulated by his accusers.
The legal mechanism is called discovery. Basically, well before a case goes to trial, the prosecutor sends to the defendant's lawyer the printed data containing all the evidence they plan to present to court to prove the defendant is guilty. There is none of this Perry Mason surprise witness/evidence crap in real life trials because it can be grounds for a mistrail (acquittal for the defendant). The defendant can even request access to certain evidence (like backup tapes) though I'm not sure how accommodating the prosecutor/plaintiff is required to be (IANAL).
The key indicator is when he procured the put options. Sure, someone else could have ghosted as the admin to put into place the logic bombs. But he/she would also have to purchase the put options while masquarading as them (tougher to do). (Note there would also have to be either person or phone transactions for the transaction to take place.)
Frame-ups have occurred before, but I don't think the computer age has made it MUCH easier for MNCs or governments or "The Net" type villians to sucessfully frame people. The courts still require prosecutors to proceed in the same "impartial" manner, with the same access to evidence by the defendant, as before the computer age.
There's a rather clear and definable moment where Star Trek's quality suffered a containment breach. The moment Gene Roddenberry died.
Excuse me for committing blasphemy, but when Roddenberry got too ill to produce, that's when TNG started to get good. The first two years sucked eggs. Recycled TOS plots, situation management by committee, boring stereotyped PC characters, no space battles, and Wesley. Roddenberry wanted to inject his vision of the future, but entertaining scripts did not appear to be the overriding goal of the show. I think he was dead before DS9 started showing episodes. But if I'm wrong, its a convincing explanation (to me) why the 1st year of DS9 was pretty mediocre too.
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Not the 3rd book. Didn't bother to read beyond the 3rd. The third had the sister of Muaddib taking over. Then tried to do something blasphemous that eventually either destroyed her or her government. The only cool aspect of the book was the Bene Geserit and other factions scheming to take her down, but the story was mostly told from the viewpoint of Aliyah(?). It was so bad, boring, and read over twenty years ago, I don't remember it.
nope it was Children of Dune (3rd book) that really sucked.
I and countless others are getting fed up with all the "this is a dupe" reporters out there
And haven't you noticed you are now one of those people? Not the "This story is a dupe", but the "I'm sick of you dupe complainers" (whining, redundant, cowardly jerk.)
Are you submitting plenty of original articles to slashdot yourself?
Actually, two days ago, I submitted a story about how bioresearchers at the University of Oxford released a distributed computing screensaver to help scan for protein agents to fight smallpox. I was quite thorough in checking the text and the working links. In hours, they rejected it. It really bummed me out. At the time, I thought they didn't like my blurb, but that the story would be important enough to pick up someone else's submission. Nope, instead, they decided to run the capacitor story yet again.
So, the researchers could really use some CPUs, and some leech here probably could use the karma, so go submit this story again. Beats another dupe, IMO.
if you notice a dupe...fine...notice it and then shut the fsck up and go masturbate over some pr0n or something.
Don't you think if the editors can't seem to avoid duping stories within days (or extreme cases hours) from another, that they may need some help in having it pointed out to them?
It's a pretty lame attempt to undermine the voting system which this country has had since it was founded.
Funny, I find a voting system that can elect someone who loses the popular vote to be pretty lame. And I mean that statement in both senses.
Bush won anyway. Looks like their attempt to sabotage the electoral college failed.
No, Gore won. In popular, and in the final Florida vote count across the state. Bush STOLE the presidency, fair & square.
Its a potentially brilliant move by the Japanese government. They get screwed by GATT if they subsidize product manufacture for export. Also, roughly 5-10 year ago, they had a really screwed up computer infrastructure (picture 5 types of PCs but all incompatible to each other) which they probably unified by going Microsoft.
Japanese makes major money from appliances and cars. They know that embedded programming to "smarten" up the products is the future. If the gov't gives the money to the keiretsus to invest in this direction, the US sends their lawyers to bitch that the Japanese manufacturers are "dumping" their Japanese gov't subsidized products.
Instead, they put the money into embedded linux development. It ends up being an infrastructure building investment. The car and appliances manufacturers then pluck the finished development and incorporate it into their products. Furthermore, by having a desktop linux, they end up "unifying" their PC products without the decisions being made in Redmond, USA.
Here's the kicker: their investment may not be poached by foreign competitors. Sure its GPL, and everyone has access to it. But perhaps they hope that Microsoft will supress adoption of Linux throughout the market. The investment is for the taking, but the Microsoft dominated markets can't use it. Its saves the Japanese industry all that software money that would be going to Microsoft for development infrastructure. It also results in cheaper products, because it doesn't have the Microsoft tax for each item. USG can't point to a gov't subsidy to support their claims of "dumping".
Too bad for the Japanese that their government is too corrupt to clean up their banking problem.
This $20 download scheme is dwarfed by the costs of developement, validation, and support. If solaris intel was the cash cow you claim it was why did they try to kill it?
Read. I never claimed Solaris x86 was a cash cow. I agree, its development, validation, and support dwarfs whatever money they could make charging $20 for downloading. I really think the $20 is to defer operation costs to make it available AND discourage non-contract sun users from downloading it.
They don't need to charge for Sparc. Why? Who the hell is going to download Sparc Solaris? The contract users that they already sucked dry, and the 0.00001 percent of their user base that didn't pay for a service contract. Boo hoo. The OS is not where they make their money. Contrast a thousand rogue sparc machines with a couple hundred million PCs trying to download Solaris x86 without having paid Sun through service contracts. They lose money on x86 Solaris bigtime.
Why offer Solaris x86 at all? You f**king stumped me with that one! I thought they should have never released Solaris 9 x86, and just kept supporting Solaris 8. By the time Solaris 10 comes around, Solaris itself may become economically unviable. It certainly won't seem like the same beast, with Gnome2, Grid computing, that "New Network" thing, etc.
Well, enough customers bellyached for Solaris 9 x86 and Sun caved. Why don't they charge full price and profit on the beast? I have no f**king idea, unless enough of those bellyaching customers added x86 CPUs to their service contracts. They should chose close to its full price. The Sparc customers would say "This is no deal" and chuck it for Sun Linux for GUI apps, or a Blade for cheap development platforms. And then they could kill the beast. I've speculated elsewhere perhaps they think it could be come a replacement desktop for XP.
Why only charge a $20 handling fee? Why does Radio Shack charge $3 bucks for a catalog I used to grab for free. Once a year I would buzz by my Radio Schlock for the catalog. Didn't like the products, just wanted parts, cables, tool, and occasionally a goofy gadget I couldn't get elsewhere. Now they can't even get me to go there for parts. The geniuses that decided to charge for the catalog belong to Marketing. Ask them why they wanted to discourage my business. Same thing with $20 Solaris x86. My guess was that if it was too high, Microsoft would claim their OS is cheaper by the CPU. If they charged too low, the Sparc people would try to bang down their support contracts, or migrate to x86. So the Marketing answer is to not charge for it at all. It doesn't muck up the service contract pricing (per CPU). Sun doesn't want to be sucked dry by 100 million downloads, so they stick $20 on downloader, BUT CALL IT A SERVICE CHARGE. I've said this already in the previous post. If it isn't clear now, you're not going to get it.
In the USA, men don't get drafted either. (Ever hear of Volunteer Army?) In Israel, women are drafted.
What the hell are you talking about?
As for moving to media, I believe Solaris can read ext2 filesystems (or linux with ufs filesystem, when patched) so I beleive you save a step there.
As a developer, I would not presume that running anything under a VMWARE environment would represent a valid test of a target environment. (Only a native test would suffice.) Also, as a professional developer, I would still prefer two machines running, or develop exclusively in the native environment. But I never understood Java developers, and I can sort of see an efficiency in not rebooting.
Originally, I wrote "potentially" jeopardizing your rights. I know there is a temporary restriction on certain citizen rights while in the military, but the jeopardy is involved in the legal power to call you back to service under certain conditions. Being a conspiracy buff, I like to think if an individual became politically dangerous to power group, the executive branch could conscript the former serviceman, and stick them somewhere they wouldn't be able to communicate out of, or have legal redress. And most important, all of this being legal.
You're telling me, with the volunteer army contract, they cannot conscript you at will after your term of service. I do not have a copy of the contract (or superceding military codes), so I don't know if there is fine print. (And if the conscription condition is during martial law, it becomes moot because no one has civil rights at that point.)
At a time where the US Attorney General can remove the legal rights of a US Citizen by rationalization, and the Supreme Court can select a President without recount, if there are no conditions to conscription, then yes, your citizen rights are in jeopardy, just from fulfillment of your patriotic duty. Then again, every citizens' rights are in jeopardy anyway.
Thank You! Someone who actually understands the market enough to ask a relevant question!
I like Sun and its equipment. It kills me that they are pissing away resources to support a product that cannot make them money. They should not have released Solaris 9 for Intel.
Supposedly the reason why they decided to resurrect Solaris x86 was that enough paying customers were banging the doors when they heard the impending execution. But I have no clue why those customers needed Solaris 9 for x86.
You can't really develop Solaris on x86 platforms and port the code to Sparc. Its not binary compatible, or even 100% internally compatible. So they aren't saving money there. And the plan would have to include using gcc, because I don't think Sun offers an x86 compiler. Whatever patch maintenance support they hoped to keep could have been maintained in Solaris 8 x86. In fact, its highly unlikely customers will want to migrate platforms to Solaris 9 (x86) given its precarious state. Did they really plan on running Sun One on x86s? Perhaps they know they cannot move to Linux, and wanted to knock down Microsoft on the XP licenses by implying they'd move to Solaris x86. But I have not heard that being cited once as a strategy.
My guess is there are a lot of legacy trading systems using CDE/Motif/OpenLook interfaces, and they decided to cut corners by using x86 PCs, rather than Sparc workstations. It'll be cheaper for them to pay Sun for the software support costs, rather than port the legacy code to linux/windoze. But it still doesn't make sense to lobby Sun to release Solaris 9. They'll never port to it, and by the time Solaris 8 x86 goes EOL, they'd have to move it to a newer system anyway. I speculated it might be cost effective as a Java platform, but you're better off developing on a windoze client, or linux if you were planning to move away from windoze. Until someone presents a credible scenario, I'm guessing more than one large company has an idiot for a COO/CIO, who's operations/cost plan is dependent on x86 Solaris clients.
AAAAaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!
Doesn't anyone understand?!?!?
Sun does not make money on Solaris x86. Sun does not want to piss away its limited financial resources to market Solaris x86 as an alternative to Linux or Microsoft! Sun does not plan on attracting developers using its Solaris x86 product! If Sun tried to make a push to dominate the x86 platform, in a few quarters Sun would be out of business!
Sun (on some level) has decided its a hardware company. They do not make make their money on hardware, they do not make their money off their OS. They make a SYSTEM, a finished computing product that touts higher reliability, scalability, and reasonable system maintenance cost, and makes their money on support contracts!
Sun (at the moment) has a cushy deal. They have a market niche that Microsoft cannot currently enter, and have been able to fend off IBM. If they went x86, they would have to deal with x86 market realities. They would not be able to make a profit on their hardware, they could not sell their OS at a higher profit margin than Microsoft, and because its such a stable product, anyone who would run x86 would not bother paying for a usurious service contract.
Sun planned to kill x86 Solaris. The only reason they did not was because enough service contract paying customers told them not to. Sun is not stupid enough to be losing money on a product they did not want to invest in. So they charge $20 for the CDs, and that pays for the server/bandwidth bills. I'm guessing the reason why they didn't charge more is that Marketing did not want to give customers the idea that it is a cheaper (thus lower quality) OS than Microsoft. So they call the $20 a handling charge, rather than imply that Solaris is worth $20-100. The reason they do not charge for Sparc is because only a handful of people (outside of corporations) own Sparc hardware. Its a hassle-free door for service contract customers who need to grab a copy of it. They've already made their money on the Sparc OS (from service contracts).
No developer capable of writing a sellable product would consider making a business writing Solaris software on non-Sparc equipment. There is, and there will be, no market share for x86 Solaris. The pro, at minimum, will buy a used Ultra 2/5/10 off of ebay, and work from there.
It will not affect Microsoft one whit.
The product does not exist as a strategic solution to Microsoft, or anyone else. It exists purely because some of their customers thought they had to have it (Lord knows why). Sun was prepared to discontinue the x86 version, and it is what they should have done.
It should be great for OSS developers, who can compile and test their applications on their desktop, even though they don't have the SPARC hardware. It's source compatible, baby!
What are you babbling about? How can you even imply that you're a programmer?
You can't really use Solaris x86 as a testbed for Sparc platforms. They are binary incompatible and aren't even 100% structurally compatible. You can't get a threaded piece of code to work on x86 and expect no problems when porting it to Sparc. Hell, I don't think Sun even offers an x86 version of their C/C++ compiler. You'd have to develop with gcc, and that will run like a dog on Sparc (compared to a Sparc specific professional product written by a competent programmer).
Also, I write about system administration and security topics, and it's nice to try out certain procedures.
Now THAT is the only selling feature of x86 Solaris.
I don't have a SPARC at home, so using the Intel version under VMWare is a lifesaver.
Why are people so intent on running their machines so slow? Hasn't anyone ever heard of dual-boot?
I heard that Solaris was faster and more scalable than Linux.
It is, on Sparc machines. (And I've even heard rumors to the effect that Linux is faster on old sparc hardware.)
Slowlaris on Intel is a big waste of time for Sun. The only reason they did not kill it is because enough of their large customers insisted they keep it in place. I hope they are charging them an arm and a leg for it, because x86 Slowlaris will only drain resources they need to apply elsewhere (like Sparc Solaris and Cobalt).
Plus you are not bothered with kernel recompilations etc.
Apparently you've never had to deal with patching Solaris.
No as a veteran I am more pissed about subversive govt than I am about finacially irresponsible govt
So contracting a debilitating illness while in combat in Kuwait, and then having the USG tell the patriotic American to drop dead rather that cover the medical bill is fiscal irresponsibility? Not an unconscionable betrayal to the serviceman who will now either die or be physically crippled for life, unable to hold a job, and lose whatever money he and his family has on medical treatment the gov't is legally and morally obliged to cover?
The DoI is irrelevant. No court in the land will decide a case on criteria contained in the DoI. Its catchy, but that's it. If you still don't realize that, I can't help you.
I am sorry that I am so bourgeoise.
Actually, I wouldn't consider you bourgeois. Its a common trait of the majority of citizens of this country which needed to be added to my diatribe. Not all citizens are uninformed, but they are certainly bourgeois if they would trade freedom for security.
BTW, I did not "risk my rights" to serve in the military.
Well lets see. While in the military, you could not publicly make the statement you just did. I would be considered treason against your Commander-In-Chief, and could result in prison. That's called the Freedom of Speech. Then the government can compell you to take life-threatening, potentially tainted vaccine shots, or throw you into prison. Now you don't even have jurisdiction over your own body. Finally, you must know as a serviceman, the gov't can forcibly re-enlist you at any time if they deem it necessary. (And those are only the catch-22s that I am aware of.) Myself, I'm not in their files; I'm never was a serviceman. They'll have to break laws to get me.
For example, you could fire CowboyNeal.
It'll never happen. What would we do with the obligatory poll option?
Besides, why would Mitnick want a job from /.? How long can it stay in business?
As a former paratrooper (3/505th PIR / 82d abn) I would like to remind people of this
I applaud your willingness to risk your life and jeopardize the rights you're entitled to as an American citizen to ensure the physical safety of everyone in this country.
(possibly paraphrasing) "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and all men have certain inalienable rights"
I applaud that you can almost remember the jingle.
Now I weep that the public school system did not do a better job of educating you, and that you did not develop better critical thinking skills.
The phrase originates from the Declaration of Independence. Technically speaking, its nothing more than a propaganda document. (Or a communication to the government of England to go screw themselves.) It has no legal standing in the US Judicial System. Only the Constitution of the USA still possesses legal relevance in the US Judicial System. The DoI has as much relevance to current government as the Articles of Confederation. (A while back, some southerners had a difference of opinion about that, but I digress...)
The Constitution does not recognise "inalienable" rights of foreign nationals. In fact, it does not recognize a right of life (death penalty), liberty (from gov't), or "the pursuit of happiness" (way too much to provide a good snide example) to its own US citizens.
It is only Padilla (and the other traitor who went to Afghanistan) that I consider an apparent abrogation of the Constitution. The puppetmasters probably could have strung me along if they had just processed those American citizens through the US courts like a law abiding government is supposed to do.
To sum up, the other two didn't count. The ideas in the DoI has no relevance in the US government. You risked life & liberty on propaganda, and not actual legal rights you thought were embodied by the US government. I agree with you that Ashcroft has probably committed a crime subject to impeachment. As long as Padilla (and the other US citizen) are not being processed through the US Court System, we know that this country's claim of being a nation governed by law and principles to be a lie.
Oh, and if you need to blame someone, you can look into a mirror. Its our own ignorance, lack of critical analysis and insight, apathy, and burgeoisie character that allows this subversion of the country's principles to continue. At very least, we should have kicked out all the incumbent clowns in Congress in the last election.
Frankly, I would have thought you would have been more pissed at the USG telling its Gulf War veterans to drop dead rather than to pay their medical bills incurred in that military action.
Yes, but you shouldn't be thanking him for being the sacrificial lawbreaker that discouraged some kids from being crackers. That would enoble the judicial system for trying to enprison a bunko artiste for life to discourage kids from "cracking". (Funny, they don't seem to show the same zeal for murderers. Must be the entertainment media in this country skewing the values of the public.)
Kevin's legal crucifixion warns us that the US judicial system is capable of subverting its principles of due process, innocent till proven guilty, and legal prosecution based on facts, rather than innuendo. And the US Judicial branch of government is not only the whore of the executive branch bureacracy. It is also the whore of monied interests. (Just ask Bill Gates.) If you're not on Fortune 100's richest people, you're not safe from the judicial system. (Just ask the hippies at Waco.)
Be careful about any interaction with the legal system and government officials. I wish I could present a solution to fix the problem. But that could get me in trouble too. (Just ask any "militia" group.)
I won't even touch the NYT part beyond saying it's laughable.
Yeah, its laughable that people think the NYT as a news source beyond reproach.
As for not suing, Mitnick's (libel) lawyer would NOT have to prove a negative. (And you are presenting a strawman argument). He would merely need to present a case that would establish Markoff/NYT committed the crime of LIBEL. Its generally defined as publicizing untruths about a person AND stated them in a deliberate intent to defame the person (or deliberately not verifing the information reported is accurate. But IANAL. I'm not even sure if latter case is relevant to winning a libel case.)
Mitnick's (libel) lawyer would have little problem demonstrating that Markoff stated inaccuracies in his reporting. But its unlikely any lawyer would take Mitnick's case. Libel is a "civil" offense. Punishment is generally only monetary in nature. Libel (in the US) against a news periodical is one of the most difficult cases to win, primarily because the law is slanted in favor of news agencies. The newspaper can publish flat out lies against anyone and not be punished. The lawyer has to establish a deliberate intent to publish untruths in order to WIN the libel case. That's probably why Mitnick can't sue for libel; he won't be able to find a lawyer that will spend 10 years of his life pursuing the case on a contingency basis IF its not a slam dunk winner. (And libel is never a sure thing against a news periodical or its journalists.)
Success of trek (proportional to) minutes of wheaton. eh???
Can't be true. Hated the first two years of ST:TNG. Also like First Contact, don't remember Wesley there.
I dunno, doesn't look like its slowed down Microsoft that much. (Or do you really think the MPAA can generate more legal heat than the Dept. of Justice?)
What nightmare? They went to work for AMD, and are helping to put out Sledgehammer(?).
Guns, tanks, death, amphetamine, heroin, Wagner, Sousa. Violent revolution, real drugs, and real music. [...] We will return to more complex music, especially militaristic music
Rammstein! NIN! YEAH! YeeeeeaaaaahhHHHHH!I agree with the general premise of your statement, but you are off on a couple points.
I wonder just how he will be able to defend himself without access to systems that have been manipulated by his accusers.
The legal mechanism is called discovery. Basically, well before a case goes to trial, the prosecutor sends to the defendant's lawyer the printed data containing all the evidence they plan to present to court to prove the defendant is guilty. There is none of this Perry Mason surprise witness/evidence crap in real life trials because it can be grounds for a mistrail (acquittal for the defendant). The defendant can even request access to certain evidence (like backup tapes) though I'm not sure how accommodating the prosecutor/plaintiff is required to be (IANAL).
The key indicator is when he procured the put options. Sure, someone else could have ghosted as the admin to put into place the logic bombs. But he/she would also have to purchase the put options while masquarading as them (tougher to do). (Note there would also have to be either person or phone transactions for the transaction to take place.)
Frame-ups have occurred before, but I don't think the computer age has made it MUCH easier for MNCs or governments or "The Net" type villians to sucessfully frame people. The courts still require prosecutors to proceed in the same "impartial" manner, with the same access to evidence by the defendant, as before the computer age.
There's a rather clear and definable moment where Star Trek's quality suffered a containment breach. The moment Gene Roddenberry died.
Excuse me for committing blasphemy, but when Roddenberry got too ill to produce, that's when TNG started to get good. The first two years sucked eggs. Recycled TOS plots, situation management by committee, boring stereotyped PC characters, no space battles, and Wesley. Roddenberry wanted to inject his vision of the future, but entertaining scripts did not appear to be the overriding goal of the show. I think he was dead before DS9 started showing episodes. But if I'm wrong, its a convincing explanation (to me) why the 1st year of DS9 was pretty mediocre too.