That sounds like a cool idea, and thats all it is, a cool idea. Seriously now, dumping funding into asteroid detection... and then asteroid prevention, almost sounds like a 'skin cancer detection and prevention' scheme. Every time I hear about an asteroid near miss or a meteor shower I get the impression that a group of astronomers somewhere need to pay some bills so write some report on how vulnerable we are to scrape up millions of dollars in funding to keep there jobs secure for the next 5 years. It happens in academia all the time.
*sigh* avoiding the question, posting anonymously and responding with some abuse.. enough of this incoherant drivel - you've proven a point in your own mind but have contributed anything to this thread. It's the choice of real compsci dept's.. so this means what??
Hrmm, the question was in terms of where UNIX stood in general, not what was famous at the time, anyway you didn't respond to the rest of my reply Anonymous Coward.
What I was trying to get at is without linux unix was slowly losing common interest. Whether UNIX would be as popular now with or without linux is probably not so debatable, the answer is that it wouldn't be and even Sun has gone as far as admitting that linux has sparked interest in UNIX. Therefore, where was UNIX before linux?
And where was UNIX before linux stepped in? It was slowly losing popularity and was becoming less mainstream than ever. I think you missed a point, but UNIX companies bash each other and I am not looking down at anyone. I was listening to Scott McNealy speak on Fox Business the other day and I was certainly standing by what he said. Maybe you can call Sun's intervention with open source a debacle, or a success? Either way I think it's a chapter left wide open only now they are taking it more seriously.
Considering that Australia has a population of 20 million, and the U.S has a population of 280 million, that is _alot of tapping. Over here the phone lines are not well maintained, so if you detect a degrading in the quality of your phone calls chances are your being tapped.
It seems to be that Pine Gap is facing the wrong way.
I don't know if this is the case overseas, but in roller coaster rides in.au there is a sign that says what might happen if you go on this ride, ie don't go on it if you have a heart condition etc More so, it isn't like you don't know what your going on, the freakin coaster is right in front of you and you can see ppl screaming on it. I think what will come out of this is a longer warning sign before you go on the ride. The same thing as warning packets on cigarettes and big macs if they get there way.
I heard of someone doing this - hire a secretary and pay her to attend all your lectures, writing notes and answering your questions that you have. Then there will be little need to go into the place, except to do exams and hand stuff in.
Harhar, thats exactly my thoughts too. He is pushing the war on iraq and it's freakin obvious. I'm not a paranoid conspiracy theorist but I recently found this page http://www.hermes-press.com/impintro.htm... read the part about Dick Cheney and his natural resources company Haliburton, pretty scary.. I just hope that one would not take an entire country to war and possibly put an entire region in dissarray for a self centred benefit of a couple of ppl in the natural resources business.
follows the idea of hydro-electricity I guess? How about a 'SETI' at home like application that utilizes the power produced by our cpu fans - only problem is how tunnelling of energy over IP?
At least while napster was still in action (the good old days) these cartoons were still funny. Nevertheless if you hadn't seen them here the are - Beer GOOD - Napster BAD!
alot of ppl got rich out of napster, and alot of other ppl got happy - the only groups that weren't happy was the music industry, doesn't mean they didn't get rich. I think everyone has an artist[s] they found through p2p that went out and bought there cd. Nevertheless a whole new breed of p2p systems are up and running, testing the legal system and giving alot of lawyers work. Basically business models that operate until the lawyers shut them down, then a new system that finds a legal loophole in the old.
I want to see the day when broadband or better runs side by side electrical cables(so long as they don't interfere with each other) and internet bills are just another household bill When can we see this happen? or will anti competitive behaviour get the better?
Exactly my thoughts (posted somewhere above) - this whole annoucement is an investor relations marketing stunt. Redhat is a listed company, ppl seem to forget about that and they too have a business model - probably one that is very similar to a proven winning formula, Microsoft's.
The more and more I hear about meteor showers, ways in which to bounce asteroids out of earth's path the more I believe that these ideas come to exist to milk some funding out of some sucker or to sell who knows which book. This is all schumacher levy 9's fault.
This is going to sound like a bullshit story, but I was walking down my street one night on my way home when not too far from my house I saw a meteorite streak not to far in front of me (30-40 metres in the air) and land on a roof. Since I was the only one around I ran home before they would think I was pegging rocks at there roof.
This doesn't sound right, before the census the officially announce that jedi is a religion - and it was on the news too. I don't see how one would cop a fine for putting that on, in fact, I believe that because it was on the news that is the sole reason why so many ppl put it down.
hrmm, I wasn't complaining about the lack of themes, I was wondering why theren't more themes out there seeing as so many ppl use mozilla, don't you think??? In fact I like orbit and pinball themes and are good enough.
hrmm, I wasn't complaining about the lack of themes, I was wondering why theren't more themes out there seeing as so many ppl use mozilla, don't you think???
What would managers be doing if they had to put a case to the big wigs to buy free software? Right, they wouldn't have anything to do. More so, they like drawing up Service License Agreements to keep them more busy, and since they're not programmers, they probably think that if something is free there is a catch to it. So the big tech companies flash a few marketing gimmicks here and there, get a representative in and away they go with a purchasing agreement. It is up to us the programmers to put the case foward to upper management as to why we should use free software and not sit on our hands and whinge and whine about it.
lol. in my original post I was saying that someone would do anything for money, I might of left out that someone is equally dumb enough to fall for it and they almost deserve to fall for it. But the thing that gets to me is sending out a few million emails in the hope that it will land on one of these dumb ppls inboxes, and that is the basis of spam.
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Whoops that was intended for a reply to someone's 'let's put it in asteroid detction' post.
That sounds like a cool idea, and thats all it is, a cool idea. Seriously now, dumping funding into asteroid detection ... and then asteroid prevention, almost sounds like a 'skin cancer detection and prevention' scheme. Every time I hear about an asteroid near miss or a meteor shower I get the impression that a group of astronomers somewhere need to pay some bills so write some report on how vulnerable we are to scrape up millions of dollars in funding to keep there jobs secure for the next 5 years. It happens in academia all the time.
*sigh* avoiding the question, posting anonymously and responding with some abuse.. enough of this incoherant drivel - you've proven a point in your own mind but have contributed anything to this thread. It's the choice of real compsci dept's .. so this means what??
Hrmm, the question was in terms of where UNIX stood in general, not what was famous at the time, anyway you didn't respond to the rest of my reply Anonymous Coward.
What I was trying to get at is without linux unix was slowly losing common interest. Whether UNIX would be as popular now with or without linux is probably not so debatable, the answer is that it wouldn't be and even Sun has gone as far as admitting that linux has sparked interest in UNIX. Therefore, where was UNIX before linux?
And where was UNIX before linux stepped in? It was slowly losing popularity and was becoming less mainstream than ever. I think you missed a point, but UNIX companies bash each other and I am not looking down at anyone. I was listening to Scott McNealy speak on Fox Business the other day and I was certainly standing by what he said. Maybe you can call Sun's intervention with open source a debacle, or a success? Either way I think it's a chapter left wide open only now they are taking it more seriously.
after a few years swinging in and out of the open source community with hidden agendas, maybe Sun is serious this time?
Considering that Australia has a population of 20 million, and the U.S has a population of 280 million, that is _alot of tapping. Over here the phone lines are not well maintained, so if you detect a degrading in the quality of your phone calls chances are your being tapped.
It seems to be that Pine Gap is facing the wrong way.
Yah, ppl are stupid and lawyers get rich.
I don't know if this is the case overseas, but in roller coaster rides in .au there is a sign that says what might happen if you go on this ride, ie don't go on it if you have a heart condition etc More so, it isn't like you don't know what your going on, the freakin coaster is right in front of you and you can see ppl screaming on it. I think what will come out of this is a longer warning sign before you go on the ride. The same thing as warning packets on cigarettes and big macs if they get there way.
I heard of someone doing this - hire a secretary and pay her to attend all your lectures, writing notes and answering your questions that you have. Then there will be little need to go into the place, except to do exams and hand stuff in.
Harhar, thats exactly my thoughts too. He is pushing the war on iraq and it's freakin obvious. I'm not a paranoid conspiracy theorist but I recently found this page http://www.hermes-press.com/impintro.htm ... read the part about Dick Cheney and his natural resources company Haliburton, pretty scary.. I just hope that one would not take an entire country to war and possibly put an entire region in dissarray for a self centred benefit of a couple of ppl in the natural resources business.
follows the idea of hydro-electricity I guess? How about a 'SETI' at home like application that utilizes the power produced by our cpu fans - only problem is how tunnelling of energy over IP?
At least while napster was still in action (the good old days) these cartoons were still funny. Nevertheless if you hadn't seen them here the are -
Beer GOOD - Napster BAD!
alot of ppl got rich out of napster, and alot of other ppl got happy - the only groups that weren't happy was the music industry, doesn't mean they didn't get rich. I think everyone has an artist[s] they found through p2p that went out and bought there cd. Nevertheless a whole new breed of p2p systems are up and running, testing the legal system and giving alot of lawyers work. Basically business models that operate until the lawyers shut them down, then a new system that finds a legal loophole in the old.
I want to see the day when broadband or better runs side by side electrical cables(so long as they don't interfere with each other) and internet bills are just another household bill When can we see this happen? or will anti competitive behaviour get the better?
Exactly my thoughts (posted somewhere above) - this whole annoucement is an investor relations marketing stunt. Redhat is a listed company, ppl seem to forget about that and they too have a business model - probably one that is very similar to a proven winning formula, Microsoft's.
The more and more I hear about meteor showers, ways in which to bounce asteroids out of earth's path the more I believe that these ideas come to exist to milk some funding out of some sucker or to sell who knows which book. This is all schumacher levy 9's fault.
This is going to sound like a bullshit story, but I was walking down my street one night on my way home when not too far from my house I saw a meteorite streak not to far in front of me (30-40 metres in the air) and land on a roof. Since I was the only one around I ran home before they would think I was pegging rocks at there roof.
A new type of cremation, 90 degree angle stellar re-entry.
This doesn't sound right, before the census the officially announce that jedi is a religion - and it was on the news too. I don't see how one would cop a fine for putting that on, in fact, I believe that because it was on the news that is the sole reason why so many ppl put it down.
hrmm, I wasn't complaining about the lack of themes, I was wondering why theren't more themes out there seeing as so many ppl use mozilla, don't you think??? In fact I like orbit and pinball themes and are good enough.
hrmm, I wasn't complaining about the lack of themes, I was wondering why theren't more themes out there seeing as so many ppl use mozilla, don't you think???
What would managers be doing if they had to put a case to the big wigs to buy free software? Right, they wouldn't have anything to do. More so, they like drawing up Service License Agreements to keep them more busy, and since they're not programmers, they probably think that if something is free there is a catch to it. So the big tech companies flash a few marketing gimmicks here and there, get a representative in and away they go with a purchasing agreement. It is up to us the programmers to put the case foward to upper management as to why we should use free software and not sit on our hands and whinge and whine about it.
before you could apply themes without rebooting, but that 'feature' has been taken away, why aren't there many themes either? can't be that hard?
lol. in my original post I was saying that someone would do anything for money, I might of left out that someone is equally dumb enough to fall for it and they almost deserve to fall for it. But the thing that gets to me is sending out a few million emails in the hope that it will land on one of these dumb ppls inboxes, and that is the basis of spam.