Ive never had a virus, I have been clicking away at a console for over 20 years, I have owned a personal computer since 1978. I have never had a virus on my computer, knock on wood. It is I must say proabably a combination of sheer dumb luck and the fact that I dont click on emails that say BRITTANYNAKEDPICS.EXE.....But so be it I am lucky.
That said my mom was in the same boat, the lan at her store has now 8 nodes and is pretty killer for a rare bookshop. Last saturday I get a call, half afraid to tell me whats going on, the line is slow, this that the other come down and look. Frigging virus variants running amok. I can say my Aunt felt bad it was her and she knew it. Being a family diplomat in the brady bunch land family I live in , all I could say was "No , its my fault for not keeping the AV server updated" then I realized the crap I just said so she wouldnt feel bad was true. They are firewalled to hell and back. They have AV clients on all the systems, and still they got nailed, why ? human error. not hers , mine.
It was nothing to clean and had just started the night before. but were talking a catalog of 250000 volumes at risk totaling over 4000 man hours of entry to create. Whew.....I lucked out, It wasnt corrupted (the most recent backup was 1 week ago) but they are spending over 150 hours per week cataloging all the volumes they have. Its tediouis work all hand research and grading. Not like a first edition signed copy of "Steal this Book" is something that has an ISBN. (They actually put one on their front shelf, I said, hmm a 500$ book that says steal me on it, they walked over and grabbed it putting it in a safer location)
All this work could have been EASILY lost, but there was a recent backup and 2 the damage was minimal at the point I snagged it. The potential for disaster here was big. Until last week I would laugh when someone got a virus doing untold damage. I think this one hit a little closer to home, I am the protector and architect f their IT enviroment. Basically if it happens on your systems or systems you take care of its your fault one way or another its your fault.
That pretty much explains all I need to know. The south is lovely to visit, but god in heaven I cant stand it(just me) I have traveled the world, I have lived in 30 different places, Ive seen it , well most of it, turkey italy, england south america, I like Ohio, odd but for some reason I do. Living in the georgia climate, bugs, poisionous shit bugs and snakes. Yeachhh.
All a preference. I preffer to live in Ohio, where I live an Average home is 100-120k, say your mortgage is 650, car ins (required) is 150 a month, electric about 70 a month, Gas about 90 a month. Throw a pair of 300$ a month+ cars on it and hell 50-60 would get you living pay to pay.
I never went to school, hell I never actually graduated High School. I do have skills , in this area they are worth upwards of 80k a year (at a minimum). I could drive 40 miles a day to Cleveland and make in excess of 120k but I hate driving and am willing to take the cut to stay local, although the Job market is more limited for my niche development skill.
I do have a joke for you, feel free to change the state to suit your location
Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"
God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made." Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.
God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth, "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot. Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over there is a continent of black people." God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a large land mass and said, "What's that one?"
"Ah," said God. "That's OHIO, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful lakes, rivers, sunsets and rolling hills. The people from OHIO are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be extremely sociable, hard working and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about balance, God? You said there would be balance!"
God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots I'm putting around them in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania."
Uhhh no, actually I know only one black woman at current a very educated person, my mothers best friend.
The person I was reffering to was the Daughter of an Employer I had about 10 years ago. White.
I live in a rural area that isnt very ethnically diverse if you want to be a PC wimp about it. She came from a good family, she had a good education, and her family was well off and willing to help her at every juncture. She CHOSE the course she did, THAT is my definition of trash, when you boss asks you ino his office and asks that when you are on client calls you drive through the less savory parts of town looking for his daughter hooking for crack, who the police are after because she left her children at home for 3 days with no food and water. THAT is TRASH.
I know more asian people than black. I am , and was raised colorblind, I dont care what race you are, Nationaliy is a different matter, Nationality for the most part is a choice, you can in this day and age do whatever it takes to move elsewhere, im not saying it will be better but you can move. My family did, we are now in America:) (of course closed countries like China this is probably not an option)
So if your definition of a nigger inludes white people of european descent then yes otherwise no, Ill be honest the whole time I was reading and thinking a black person never crossed my mind.
I will say If your intent was to aggravate me you suceeded. I think the problem lies less with people like me. People who make assumptions about what other people are thinking, even though the thought never crossed my mind.......
Ill be honest, in a LARGE company ANYWHERE on the planet that will hold true, either apathy or what you said.
In the US though LARGE companies (F1000 and the like) Employ less than 30% of the population.
"I'm sure you can take care of yourself in a total free market, but many people can not. Should they be left on the roadside or should we take care of them together? That's really what it's all about."
Ughhhh, I am not a philantropist for one, and it should be my choice. I am not keen on my taxes going to people who are in general to fu****g lazy to work. Handicapped or people who are UNABLE to work are taken care of and thats good they should be. BUT in the US you can simply decide you dont want to work, draw welfare at nearly 800 a month have subsidised section 8 housing and have more kids which incedentally gets you more money. I know of women, trash who have had more children simply in order to get more welfare.
Then again it could be my particular neck of the woods so to say.
I do live in Ohio..... I am certain that the Devil has a hold here of some sort(tounge in cheek, In the movie "Needfull Things" when Ed Harris asked Max Van Sydow(Satan) where he was from ? , Akron...Ohio....(I live here) But when you look at the number of politicians, presidents, actors, sports legends, etc that come from Ohio it seems a little odd.....
Libertarianism is a WONDERFULL thing Imho, I just wish they would change the name, it seems to people who are not familiar with it to alighn your political beliefs to Jimmy Carter or worse Bill Clinton. If in europe say they came up with a new political party , completley pure of intent and benevolent in function and called it say...Nazipuffism, I doubt it would garner much of a following.
I see the same with Libertarianism, my boss jokes he would be a Libertarian if he actually thought they could win anything.....
I see you have already been enlightened on the fact most here in the states work under no contract whatsoever. Generally only 2 types do, executive managment and union jobs.
There is no contract to breach, NOW that said if you are in a stiff economy (I dont personally think we are) would YOU rather have the CHOICE of a 50% pay cut or just plain losing you job ?
A goverment telling a company how to conduct business is no good.
I disagree with the last statement, in tough times (the 20's) certain social programs were put into place that are and have been eliminated or changed. We have no major govt ownership or real regulation of business. The govt dosent own the train systems, as in england, or the airlines, or....well whatever.
The prevailing belief here is Govt need to be reduced in size, the politicians accept this and change is happening, social security is being phased out as a mandate, etc. that regulation isnt neccesary unless there is a problem, this view is diametrically opposed to a socalist govt where the govt assumes the people arent smart enought to do for themselves and has to weed its influence into every facet of life before a problem occurs.
We have had our socalist programs, they are going away at a rapid pace, to the joy of everyone, except those who cannot do for themselves.
I dont need, or want the goverment to make my employer keep me, that sucks, and it is evident in counrties that make people keep or hire people, the quality of work is lower and there is no incentive to strive for excellence, the same happened here in the 40's-70's with unions and organized labor, see where they are in the US anymore, nearly nonexistent and impotent at best.
I have in the last week been offered a job at a significantly higher sum than their cutoff number, and as a counteroffer I have been offered by my current employer a 24% share in a spinoff of ourselves dedicated to the sales and development in my area of expertise.
The coffers of companies marketing and purchasing budgets are ovrflowing since the 911 hold on most big dollar activities. Companies are gearing up to spend.
If you have a product/service that sucks, or if managment of that company is so blind to have had too much belief in an idea and over employed based on those misconceptions of the product or its marketplace youre screwed.
Big money is moving, you just need to be in the right place to catch it. If youre not its managments fault. PERIOD. Now with that said, managment will find any excuse they can to mask their involvment in your current situation, the first is to blame the economy, but even that one is wearing thin with most.
Overexpansion, Overmanagment, Underselling, Overpaid salaries (although 60k isnt much for even a howler monkey)
I looked at the company in this article, I still cannot see what tangible product or service the sell clearly, THAT is a problem in my opinion and probably has something to do with their current situation.
I wonder how much of a Pay-Cut managment is taking ?
Or perhaps the fact I speak 4 languages fluently and have better things to do than spellcheck a Slasdot post is more accutate. I use Slash to clear my mind between meeting, all his nonsensical dribble wears off, perfect for meetings with execs......
I have, and have for the last 7 years been in position of trust. I have earned that trust, I have never "screwed" any of my former employers even though I am generally so rooted into their systems , removing any and all access can be nearly impossible. BUT I wouldnt ever screw anyoneover and they know it. I am, the biggest potential hazzard to any company I work for, I once had a company take out 250,000 insurance policy on me for th company, It was matched by a personal policy of the same amount, they figured that was about what they would lose in 1-3 months following an early demise on my part.
My (ex-wifes) Uncle was a VP of a F-250 in HR, He had been out of work almost a year when he got the Job and was only there 2 years, He quit, we all thought him quite mad. He was going to start a company specifically for consulting of HR risk managment, it had an IT Slant, all the major companies putting these 200 million dollar implementations of ERP's in place made for a lot of problems if a 6$ an hour lackey ordered 10000 of something by accident and didnt catch it, the real time nature of the transactions througouth the company from purchasing to production to HR makes for a lot of fear on the corprate side. Fear SELLS Simply put. He is now about 40 and worth well over 5 million, 7 years ago he couldnt pay his morgate, all money made on the fears, and(solutions) to fear based on employee liability.
The company is made by employees, it can be broken by the employees, very simple........
"Exchange connector costs almost $70 - which means your Redhat 7.3 package will costs you something around ~$130.."
True, BUT bulk liscencing for redistribution is MUCH cheaper to the end customer, remember things like TriTeal CDE or something or another RH packaged, it was over 200 in the store and the whole RH with it was less than 75$ , same for stonghold, and other things RH bundles, Ximian sells 100 times more than they ever would on their own and RH gets a great prodcut
"Another thing - Ximian RPMS simply break things (although I heard from one of the developers there that this will be fixed very soon)"
True again, this is a reason Ximian and RH working in tandem could completley eliminate this problem while making both their products better.
"Also, don't forget - they ARE competitors - both sell competing services (up2date VS. Red-Carpet) to their clients at the same prices, so why would RedHat bundle their competitor stuff into their distribution? that doesn't makes any sence.."
RH has before packaged a competitiors product. I dont see this as much of a problem, They are a half a dozen ways to work around it to both RH and Ximians satisfaction I am sure.
So I , as I have done for years downloaded disk 1 and started to install, it asked for 2, I dl and burned it, put it in, and then, and this is a first, It asked for 3.
I can figure out for the life of me what the he** takes up 3 disks.
But if you are going to do anything other than a MINIMAL install do yourself a favor, download and burn all 3 Disks, you will need em.
Another thing I found interesting , albeit a pain since Ive never had a problem, is the CD integrity check, although you can bypass it.
Why dosent RedHat partner with Ximian and put the whole jobber together with the exchange connector and Ximian Gnome in a nice premium edition, hell I'd buy it....But then again I bought an Apple Lisa when they were new.....
First of all its not like any slashdotters are hacking nano in their basements here, we talking about the majority being govt funded university projects in the first place, this is no different that a half a dozen other similar things the govt has done.
We slashdotters for the most part are tech-heads, the same guys that a couple of generations before came up with dynamite and made nuclear fission a possibility, neither in its inception was anything other than an experiment or theory, and YES it is the use that becomes evil no the technology, but thats our problem, we are blinded by our views and say but its just science.
Its science at a crossroads, where VERY easily it could be turned for purposes other than the utopian ones us slashdotters first envision, we see medical uses, technololgical uses, another may very well see a quicker undetectable way of killing as many people they can while inflicting the most pain and suffering.
In the end there is no difference between a quelch on this technology and nuclear science. It will go on, the same people will be doing it but under different guidlines of research and collaboration. Since the Govt. is footing the bill for the majority of this research (over 90% at this point) isnt it fair they decide how its disclosed ?
If you are, as I am a liscenced MS OEM Reseller, You get a CD called OPK (Oem Preintall) Tools for XP, what this CD contains is a BOOTABLE (Yes even Graphic enviroment to setup windows installs from, it runs ONLY off the CD, if you reburn it and edit the registries (as ms says you should to meet your OEM needs) You can run anything under it you want, explorer, netscape, winamp, you name it, Now it is lacking certain vid and sound drivers by default but you can put them in the directories on the new CD you are buring, make the reg edits and run live off a CDROM Only, no hard drive needed, networking via DHCP is even on by defalut, I have CD Here that I can boot and surf any office computer here with.
It runs a little slow ( it has no swap remeber) But it runs at about 70% of the speed of the system should feel like. I sent all this information to the AG of CT, one of the original dissenters.....
It already friggin exists if you know what you are looking for, no not XP imbedded, its based on it I belive, lacks explorer by default and will run on any x86 even detects what HW and Networking you need, looks like a good start to me, but then again Ive already dont it using this CD
But NVIDIA IS Doing pretty amazing things at a driver level, they have a unified driver architecture, speaking in common with ALL their hardware, a blah chip from last year and a supernew Ti??? speak the same to the driver. They have some other name for what I speak of, but from a driver level, having my TNT2 driver be the SAME as my Ti400 driver says something pretty spectacular about the very architecture itself. I bet ATI would love to have all the specs on it, and IM betting 10 to 1 if Nvidia released the source the would.
"There just simply aren't any excuses for keeping their driver binary-only. The only ones that I can come up with is either, terribly hacked-kludged-bastardized hebrew code that would only give them bad name OR fucked-up management that fails to see the benefits in opening up the code."
It isnt. I hasnt been for damm near a Year now, the source is there go download it.
The source to the kernel module is open.
The userspace part is in binary only.
I think most people, and I have been wondering this for some time , since I looked through their sources. Have looked latley, or actually even know what they are looking for...
I was going to post links to the sources, but the damm Nvidia site is down (Yes they are there)from here.....If you need em email me....
Im about ready to come up with an E(nd)V(endor)A(ccess)A(greement) For my computer that superceeds any EULA and the vendors acceptance will be gained prior (on a click through link at in the signature of the email I order software through.
Order X program from the author At the bottom of the email is a link stating something like (and of course be just as obstuficating) as the EULA's are that any software being installed on the computer this mail is originating from must accept the terms in the EVAA (access to MY , get it MY f***ing computer) and that sale or distribution of any software to this computer(the same one you are purchasing the software from) is an acceptance of the EVAA (and a link to the same)
Wrap up and invert a EULA , one of the nasties most un-understandable ones you can find, and post it at that link, keep copies of the email correspondence and buy it.
At this point your EVAA WILL in fact superceed the EULA, is this legal, yep !
Will it hold up in court ? Let me just say just as much as a click through EULA will..
If a EULA says I have to let them suck my toes, do I have to allow it ? No ! Why not ? Same reasons as "not responsible for lost stolen article" signs arent worth the plastic theyre printed on. You can say whatever the hell you want holding it up in court is another story.
Next time your rearview mirror or antenna gets ripped off in an automatic car wash and the manager say but the sign is right there say, ok fine, write it down. I took this to court once, on a new car I was dammed if I'd pay 250$ deductible on....guess what the judge told the car wash owner, wou can say whatever you want on a sign posted however conspicuosly you want, you are in fact still legally responsible, UNLESS Mr...signed a piece of paper waiving that right in FRONT of a witness, did Mr....do this ? Uhhh no your honor....Judgment in favor of plantiff $490.....next case!
The fact, however, is that that's mostly bullshit. For 95 (maybe more like 99.5) percent of the ideas out there, a competent designer"
I agree 100% with that, but the problem isnt the 99% its the 1% that they are afraid and rightfully so, of releasing.
"As for patents, they are allowed to release those details. In fact, the whole point of a patent is to give a monopoly in exchange for public disclosure of how something works."
True BUT, my point was actully the IMPLEMENTAION of theose patents, some of which are covered as Trade Secrets, and there are NDA's to given implementations, a patent doesent have to give you the process leading to the implmentation of something. You can patent a chemical WITHOUT releasing the manufacture method.
I guess the singly most important statement you made is "It's true that small market segments are often ignored, and justifiably so, but that does't mean that the people in those segments aren't entitled to notice that the support they get is substandard."
The truth is FOR THIS GIVEN MARKET SEGMENT, their support is not substandard, it may in your eyes be substandard to windows support, but as 3d accells on Linux go its far from substandard. Dont even bark about the ATI stuff, its crap up toll the last gen and they dont release ALL of the details of what they have released in the last 6 months in competition with Nvidia.
Standard and Substandard are RELATIVE terms,I think in a area(hardware) where most compaies dont support Linux to any Extent Nvidias support is far from substandard, if you comparing Linux to Windows support I would agree. But then again apples and oranges.....
My argument is be friggin gratefull for what they give you. That is drivers that work under most normal circumstances. Dual Dual Head cards under Linux is NOT a normal situation.
Their windows drivers arent perfect either, noones are.
Sure they sould give away core information that they have spent 10 of millions of dollars in R&D , and by giving that information to write drivers for an OS that accounts for less than 3 percent of their sales, (and Im bettign your circumstance is less tha 1 in 100k)on just for the guy running Linux and Dual Dual head cards.....Oh and dont forget the information they have just given can be used quite readily by a compeetitor to clone or improve their product ?
Hardware compaines are NOT software companies, there are different forces at work in the "OpenSourcing" of hardware. Hell some of it is even covered by patents Nvidia dosent own and liscences, they are not ALLOWED to release those details, and quite frankly without some of them , the rest is pretty useless....
Yeah this is real cool right up till the point someone hooks some type of scanning laser up to the grid and digitizes a person and sucks em into the grid. Though admittely that wouldn take long to suck the brains of a typical slashdotter up....
Oh wait that was the movie TRON..... Forget it.....
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Ive never had a virus, I have been clicking away at a console for over 20 years, I have owned a personal computer since 1978. I have never had a virus on my computer, knock on wood. It is I must say proabably a combination of sheer dumb luck and the fact that I dont click on emails that say BRITTANYNAKEDPICS.EXE.....But so be it I am lucky.
That said my mom was in the same boat, the lan at her store has now 8 nodes and is pretty killer for a rare bookshop. Last saturday I get a call, half afraid to tell me whats going on, the line is slow, this that the other come down and look. Frigging virus variants running amok. I can say my Aunt felt bad it was her and she knew it. Being a family diplomat in the brady bunch land family I live in , all I could say was "No , its my fault for not keeping the AV server updated" then I realized the crap I just said so she wouldnt feel bad was true. They are firewalled to hell and back. They have AV clients on all the systems, and still they got nailed, why ? human error. not hers , mine.
It was nothing to clean and had just started the night before. but were talking a catalog of 250000 volumes at risk totaling over 4000 man hours of entry to create. Whew.....I lucked out, It wasnt corrupted (the most recent backup was 1 week ago) but they are spending over 150 hours per week cataloging all the volumes they have. Its tediouis work all hand research and grading. Not like a first edition signed copy of "Steal this Book" is something that has an ISBN. (They actually put one on their front shelf, I said, hmm a 500$ book that says steal me on it, they walked over and grabbed it putting it in a safer location)
All this work could have been EASILY lost, but there was a recent backup and 2 the damage was minimal at the point I snagged it. The potential for disaster here was big. Until last week I would laugh when someone got a virus doing untold damage. I think this one hit a little closer to home, I am the protector and architect f their IT enviroment. Basically if it happens on your systems or systems you take care of its your fault one way or another its your fault.
I think it would seem everyone in this useless conversation needs to add a color to a simple definition in one way or another, except me.
If someone thows a big-mac wrapper in your yard do you bitch to your wife you have to go out in the rain and pick up 'yellow trash' ????
Why such the need to associate a color with a socioeconomic standing or lifestyle ?
He, with a question like that maybe I missed my calling as a Shrink......
That pretty much explains all I need to know. The south is lovely to visit, but god in heaven I cant stand it(just me) I have traveled the world, I have lived in 30 different places, Ive seen it , well most of it, turkey italy, england south america, I like Ohio, odd but for some reason I do. Living in the georgia climate, bugs, poisionous shit bugs and snakes. Yeachhh.
All a preference. I preffer to live in Ohio, where I live an Average home is 100-120k, say your mortgage is 650, car ins (required) is 150 a month, electric about 70 a month, Gas about 90 a month. Throw a pair of 300$ a month+ cars on it and hell 50-60 would get you living pay to pay.
I never went to school, hell I never actually graduated High School. I do have skills , in this area they are worth upwards of 80k a year (at a minimum). I could drive 40 miles a day to Cleveland and make in excess of 120k but I hate driving and am willing to take the cut to stay local, although the Job market is more limited for my niche development skill.
I do have a joke for you, feel free to change the state to suit your location
Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired of God, "Where
have you been?"
God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made."
Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm going to call
it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.
God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth, "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot. Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over there is a continent of black people." God continued, pointing to different countries.
"This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a large land mass and said, "What's that one?"
"Ah," said God. "That's OHIO, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful lakes, rivers, sunsets and rolling hills. The people from OHIO are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be extremely sociable, hard working and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about balance, God? You said there would be balance!"
God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots I'm putting around them in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania."
Uhhh no, actually I know only one black woman at current a very educated person, my mothers best friend.
:) (of course closed countries like China this is probably not an option)
The person I was reffering to was the Daughter of an Employer I had about 10 years ago. White.
I live in a rural area that isnt very ethnically diverse if you want to be a PC wimp about it. She came from a good family, she had a good education, and her family was well off and willing to help her at every juncture. She CHOSE the course she did, THAT is my definition of trash, when you boss asks you ino his office and asks that when you are on client calls you drive through the less savory parts of town looking for his daughter hooking for crack, who the police are after because she left her children at home for 3 days with no food and water. THAT is TRASH.
I know more asian people than black. I am , and was raised colorblind, I dont care what race you are, Nationaliy is a different matter, Nationality for the most part is a choice, you can in this day and age do whatever it takes to move elsewhere, im not saying it will be better but you can move. My family did, we are now in America
So if your definition of a nigger inludes white people of european descent then yes otherwise no, Ill be honest the whole time I was reading and thinking a black person never crossed my mind.
I will say If your intent was to aggravate me you suceeded. I think the problem lies less with people like me. People who make assumptions about what other people are thinking, even though the thought never crossed my mind.......
Ill be honest, in a LARGE company ANYWHERE on the planet that will hold true, either apathy or what you said.
In the US though LARGE companies (F1000 and the like) Employ less than 30% of the population.
"I'm sure you can take care of yourself in a total free market, but many people can not. Should they be left on the roadside or should we take care of them together? That's really what it's all about."
Ughhhh, I am not a philantropist for one, and it should be my choice. I am not keen on my taxes going to people who are in general to fu****g lazy to work. Handicapped or people who are UNABLE to work are taken care of and thats good they should be. BUT in the US you can simply decide you dont want to work, draw welfare at nearly 800 a month have subsidised section 8 housing and have more kids which incedentally gets you more money. I know of women, trash who have had more children simply in order to get more welfare.
Where the hell are YOU living, maybe Ill retire there.
Ohio on my end.
Interesting, I see the oppisite happening....
Then again it could be my particular neck of the woods so to say.
I do live in Ohio.....
I am certain that the Devil has a hold here of some sort(tounge in cheek, In the movie "Needfull Things" when Ed Harris asked Max Van Sydow(Satan) where he was from ? , Akron...Ohio....(I live here) But when you look at the number of politicians, presidents, actors, sports legends, etc that come from Ohio it seems a little odd.....
Libertarianism is a WONDERFULL thing Imho, I just wish they would change the name, it seems to people who are not familiar with it to alighn your political beliefs to Jimmy Carter or worse Bill Clinton. If in europe say they came up with a new political party , completley pure of intent and benevolent in function and called it say...Nazipuffism, I doubt it would garner much of a following.
I see the same with Libertarianism, my boss jokes he would be a Libertarian if he actually thought they could win anything.....
I see you have already been enlightened on the fact most here in the states work under no contract whatsoever. Generally only 2 types do, executive managment and union jobs.
....well whatever.
There is no contract to breach, NOW that said if you are in a stiff economy (I dont personally think we are) would YOU rather have the CHOICE of a 50% pay cut or just plain losing you job ?
A goverment telling a company how to conduct business is no good.
I disagree with the last statement, in tough times (the 20's) certain social programs were put into place that are and have been eliminated or changed. We have no major govt ownership or real regulation of business. The govt dosent own the train systems, as in england, or the airlines, or
The prevailing belief here is Govt need to be reduced in size, the politicians accept this and change is happening, social security is being phased out as a mandate, etc. that regulation isnt neccesary unless there is a problem, this view is diametrically opposed to a socalist govt where the govt assumes the people arent smart enought to do for themselves and has to weed its influence into every facet of life before a problem occurs.
We have had our socalist programs, they are going away at a rapid pace, to the joy of everyone, except those who cannot do for themselves.
I dont need, or want the goverment to make my employer keep me, that sucks, and it is evident in counrties that make people keep or hire people, the quality of work is lower and there is no incentive to strive for excellence, the same happened here in the 40's-70's with unions and organized labor, see where they are in the US anymore, nearly nonexistent and impotent at best.
Lemme guess youre a communist (oh sorry PC:Socialist) or live in a pseudo democratic country somewhere in Europe.......
Could just as easily fire 50% of the employees !
Or would that be illegal too in the country you live in ?
I cannot see any other imaginiable explanation.
I have in the last week been offered a job at a significantly higher sum than their cutoff number, and as a counteroffer I have been offered by my current employer a 24% share in a spinoff of ourselves dedicated to the sales and development in my area of expertise.
The coffers of companies marketing and purchasing budgets are ovrflowing since the 911 hold on most big dollar activities. Companies are gearing up to spend.
If you have a product/service that sucks, or if managment of that company is so blind to have had too much belief in an idea and over employed based on those misconceptions of the product or its marketplace youre screwed.
Big money is moving, you just need to be in the right place to catch it. If youre not its managments fault. PERIOD. Now with that said, managment will find any excuse they can to mask their involvment in your current situation, the first is to blame the economy, but even that one is wearing thin with most.
Overexpansion, Overmanagment, Underselling, Overpaid salaries (although 60k isnt much for even a howler monkey)
I looked at the company in this article, I still cannot see what tangible product or service the sell clearly, THAT is a problem in my opinion and probably has something to do with their current situation.
I wonder how much of a Pay-Cut managment is taking ?
Perhaps,
Or perhaps the fact I speak 4 languages fluently and have better things to do than spellcheck a Slasdot post is more accutate. I use Slash to clear my mind between meeting, all his nonsensical dribble wears off, perfect for meetings with execs......
I have, and have for the last 7 years been in position of trust. I have earned that trust, I have never "screwed" any of my former employers even though I am generally so rooted into their systems , removing any and all access can be nearly impossible. BUT I wouldnt ever screw anyoneover and they know it. I am, the biggest potential hazzard to any company I work for, I once had a company take out 250,000 insurance policy on me for th company, It was matched by a personal policy of the same amount, they figured that was about what they would lose in 1-3 months following an early demise on my part.
My (ex-wifes) Uncle was a VP of a F-250 in HR, He had been out of work almost a year when he got the Job and was only there 2 years, He quit, we all thought him quite mad. He was going to start a company specifically for consulting of HR risk managment, it had an IT Slant, all the major companies putting these 200 million dollar implementations of ERP's in place made for a lot of problems if a 6$ an hour lackey ordered 10000 of something by accident and didnt catch it, the real time nature of the transactions througouth the company from purchasing to production to HR makes for a lot of fear on the corprate side. Fear SELLS Simply put. He is now about 40 and worth well over 5 million, 7 years ago he couldnt pay his morgate, all money made on the fears, and(solutions) to fear based on employee liability.
The company is made by employees, it can be broken by the employees, very simple........
Actually no charge for desktop even if redhat felt like bundling it now, its all GPL
So is evolution, which is included in 7.3
The only thing in need of a purchase of a mass liscence on RHats part would be the connector.
Heres why.
"Exchange connector costs almost $70 - which means your Redhat 7.3 package will costs you something around ~$130.."
True, BUT bulk liscencing for redistribution is MUCH cheaper to the end customer, remember things like TriTeal CDE or something or another RH packaged, it was over 200 in the store and the whole RH with it was less than 75$ , same for stonghold, and other things RH bundles, Ximian sells 100 times more than they ever would on their own and RH gets a great prodcut
"Another thing - Ximian RPMS simply break things (although I heard from one of the developers there that this will be fixed very soon)"
True again, this is a reason Ximian and RH working in tandem could completley eliminate this problem while making both their products better.
"Also, don't forget - they ARE competitors - both sell competing services (up2date VS. Red-Carpet) to their clients at the same prices, so why would RedHat bundle their competitor stuff into their distribution? that doesn't makes any sence.."
RH has before packaged a competitiors product. I dont see this as much of a problem, They are a half a dozen ways to work around it to both RH and Ximians satisfaction I am sure.
Well I touhgt I would DL and play with it.
So I , as I have done for years downloaded disk 1 and started to install, it asked for 2, I dl and burned it, put it in, and then, and this is a first, It asked for 3.
I can figure out for the life of me what the he** takes up 3 disks.
But if you are going to do anything other than a MINIMAL install do yourself a favor, download and burn all 3 Disks, you will need em.
Another thing I found interesting , albeit a pain since Ive never had a problem, is the CD integrity check, although you can bypass it.
Why dosent RedHat partner with Ximian and put the whole jobber together with the exchange connector and Ximian Gnome in a nice premium edition, hell I'd buy it....But then again I bought an Apple Lisa when they were new.....
Send me an email at cwertman@yahoo.com
It cost me NOTHING to sign up to be an OEM, hell Im a Linux guy by nature I just wanted all the free cool shit.
Drop me a mail and Ill drop you an extra CD and the info on the VAR OEM, program, and how of course to sign up for free......
First of all its not like any slashdotters are hacking nano in their basements here, we talking about the majority being govt funded university projects in the first place, this is no different that a half a dozen other similar things the govt has done.
We slashdotters for the most part are tech-heads, the same guys that a couple of generations before came up with dynamite and made nuclear fission a possibility, neither in its inception was anything other than an experiment or theory, and YES it is the use that becomes evil no the technology, but thats our problem, we are blinded by our views and say but its just science.
Its science at a crossroads, where VERY easily it could be turned for purposes other than the utopian ones us slashdotters first envision, we see medical uses, technololgical uses, another may very well see a quicker undetectable way of killing as many people they can while inflicting the most pain and suffering.
In the end there is no difference between a quelch on this technology and nuclear science. It will go on, the same people will be doing it but under different guidlines of research and collaboration. Since the Govt. is footing the bill for the majority of this research (over 90% at this point) isnt it fair they decide how its disclosed ?
I do.....
If you are, as I am a liscenced MS OEM Reseller, You get a CD called OPK (Oem Preintall) Tools for XP, what this CD contains is a BOOTABLE (Yes even Graphic enviroment to setup windows installs from, it runs ONLY off the CD, if you reburn it and edit the registries (as ms says you should to meet your OEM needs) You can run anything under it you want, explorer, netscape, winamp, you name it, Now it is lacking certain vid and sound drivers by default but you can put them in the directories on the new CD you are buring, make the reg edits and run live off a CDROM Only, no hard drive needed, networking via DHCP is even on by defalut, I have CD Here that I can boot and surf any office computer here with.
It runs a little slow ( it has no swap remeber)
But it runs at about 70% of the speed of the system should feel like. I sent all this information to the AG of CT, one of the original dissenters.....
It already friggin exists if you know what you are looking for, no not XP imbedded, its based on it I belive, lacks explorer by default and will run on any x86 even detects what HW and Networking you need, looks like a good start to me, but then again Ive already dont it using this CD
Cool thanks for the link,
Nice to know other people think like I do....
Then again this could be a sign of the Armageddon.....
But seriously thanks
True to some extent.
But NVIDIA IS Doing pretty amazing things at a driver level, they have a unified driver architecture, speaking in common with ALL their hardware, a blah chip from last year and a supernew Ti??? speak the same to the driver. They have some other name for what I speak of, but from a driver level, having my TNT2 driver be the SAME as my Ti400 driver says something pretty spectacular about the very architecture itself. I bet ATI would love to have all the specs on it, and IM betting 10 to 1 if Nvidia released the source the would.
"There just simply aren't any excuses for keeping their driver binary-only. The only ones that I can come up with is either, terribly hacked-kludged-bastardized hebrew code that would only give them bad name OR fucked-up management that fails to see the benefits in opening up the code."
It isnt. I hasnt been for damm near a Year now, the source is there go download it.
The source to the kernel module is open.
The userspace part is in binary only.
I think most people, and I have been wondering this for some time , since I looked through their sources. Have looked latley, or actually even know what they are looking for...
I was going to post links to the sources, but the damm Nvidia site is down (Yes they are there)from here.....If you need em email me....
Im about ready to come up with an
....guess what the judge told the car wash owner, wou can say whatever you want on a sign posted however conspicuosly you want, you are in fact still legally responsible, UNLESS Mr...signed a piece of paper waiving that right in FRONT of a witness, did Mr....do this ? Uhhh no your honor....Judgment in favor of plantiff $490.....next case!
E(nd)V(endor)A(ccess)A(greement)
For my computer that superceeds any EULA and the vendors acceptance will be gained prior (on a click through link at in the signature of the email I order software through.
Order X program from the author
At the bottom of the email is a link stating
something like (and of course be just as obstuficating) as the EULA's are that any software being installed on the computer this mail is originating from must accept the terms in the EVAA (access to MY , get it MY f***ing computer) and that sale or distribution of any software to this computer(the same one you are purchasing the software from) is an acceptance of the EVAA (and a link to the same)
Wrap up and invert a EULA , one of the nasties most un-understandable ones you can find, and post it at that link, keep copies of the email correspondence and buy it.
At this point your EVAA WILL in fact superceed the EULA, is this legal, yep !
Will it hold up in court ? Let me just say just as much as a click through EULA will..
If a EULA says I have to let them suck my toes, do I have to allow it ? No ! Why not ? Same reasons as "not responsible for lost stolen article" signs arent worth the plastic theyre printed on. You can say whatever the hell you want holding it up in court is another story.
Next time your rearview mirror or antenna gets ripped off in an automatic car wash and the manager say but the sign is right there say, ok fine, write it down. I took this to court once, on a new car I was dammed if I'd pay 250$ deductible on
Well....Here goes one last time....
The fact, however, is that that's mostly bullshit. For 95 (maybe more like 99.5) percent of the ideas out there, a competent designer"
I agree 100% with that, but the problem isnt the 99% its the 1% that they are afraid and rightfully so, of releasing.
"As for patents, they are allowed to release those details. In fact, the whole point of a patent is to give a monopoly in exchange for public disclosure of how something works."
True BUT, my point was actully the IMPLEMENTAION of theose patents, some of which are covered as Trade Secrets, and there are NDA's to given implementations, a patent doesent have to give you the process leading to the implmentation of something. You can patent a chemical WITHOUT releasing the manufacture method.
I guess the singly most important statement you made is "It's true that small market segments are often ignored, and justifiably so, but that does't mean that the people in those segments aren't entitled to notice that the support they get is substandard."
The truth is FOR THIS GIVEN MARKET SEGMENT, their support is not substandard, it may in your eyes be substandard to windows support, but as 3d accells on Linux go its far from substandard. Dont even bark about the ATI stuff, its crap up toll the last gen and they dont release ALL of the details of what they have released in the last 6 months in competition with Nvidia.
Standard and Substandard are RELATIVE terms,I think in a area(hardware) where most compaies dont support Linux to any Extent Nvidias support is far from substandard, if you comparing Linux to Windows support I would agree. But then again apples and oranges.....
My argument is be friggin gratefull for what they give you. That is drivers that work under most normal circumstances. Dual Dual Head cards under Linux is NOT a normal situation.
Their windows drivers arent perfect either, noones are.
Sure they sould give away core information that they have spent 10 of millions of dollars in R&D , and by giving that information to write drivers for an OS that accounts for less than 3 percent of their sales, (and Im bettign your circumstance is less tha 1 in 100k)on just for the guy running Linux and Dual Dual head cards.....Oh and dont forget the information they have just given can be used quite readily by a compeetitor to clone or improve their product ?
Hardware compaines are NOT software companies, there are different forces at work in the "OpenSourcing" of hardware. Hell some of it is even covered by patents Nvidia dosent own and liscences, they are not ALLOWED to release those details, and quite frankly without some of them , the rest is pretty useless....
Yeah this is real cool right up till the point someone hooks some type of scanning laser up to the grid and digitizes a person and sucks em into the grid. Though admittely that wouldn take long to suck the brains of a typical slashdotter up....
Oh wait that was the movie TRON.....
Forget it.....