Really, aren't you getting sick of people who envade your privacy and violate your right not to hear their goddamn phone conversations. No matter where you go, there are people who constantly jabber on their cells; moreover, their talks are hardly useful. What was the last time you heard somebody talk about something important on their phone while standing in line or at a coffee shop? Please, all these stupid calls about girl/boy issues and personal problems can be postponed until you get home.
As for the cell phones and airlines... Nobody will do anything until at least one major airplane crashes. Remeber, nobody could even think of terrorist acts in the U.S. until they happened.
Just the fact that RH had a salesperson pushing your for a more expensive product suggests that you probably do not need it (otherwise you would know what to do, right?). Unless you have applications that absolutely depend on RH I would not consider them at all. Why? Because there are better and cheaper alternatives with less bugs and more bang for a buck, especially if you have enough talent and resources. I found that from management point of view FreeBSD beats RedHat at least in updates and application management via ports. I would strongly suggest that rather than tons of money down the drain.
it was alright but in a lot of ways it seemed to be cursed in the same way as all BSDs in assuming it knew better than I did how I wanted my own system to run.
Well, duh! Out of the box, FreeBSD has a standard setup that anyone can change if that person wants to do so. All you have to do is to read a well written tutorial located here. Same thing goes for upgrades and ports. Have you heard of getting the latest source via cvs and updating your system that way? I started running FreeBSD since version 3.something and I have never had problems updating the system; all I had to do was to read the docs and release notes.
Has FreeBSD gotten any friendlier lately?
FreeBSD IS friendly, its just picky about its friends. I've experienced almost every Linux distor and compared to FreeBSD they suck big time in terms of maintenance, updating, and management. Once you learn it, it will work for you forever! Finally, I it is X, not X-windows(!), and I do not know why you were not able to get it running. However, I know hundreds of people who run it with no problems.
I am sorry for sounding pissed off, but I hate when people start bitching about something without reading proper docs. I constantly meet people who don't read documents or install CURRENT branch and then complain about errors. If you really want to start a war "FreeBSD vs. Linux" please use some other facts to back up your statements.
Recording companies bitch about losing their profits all the time and in order to shut them up we can do several things; here is one idea. How about outsourcing our entertainment industry? If recording companies are able to find people who will perform for less while keeping CD prices the same, they will receive their profits and forget about all copyright issues of today. I bet you we can find a lot of people in Asia and Eastern Europe that will sing, dance and do whaterver the industry wants them for like $4/day. All you have to do is to give them clean water, brand name clothing from thrift stores and some food. That's it. No red carpets, no news about their love affairs, no diamonds and other crap that comes with fame. At the end, we might end up with better performers, less idoitism and lower costs! I bet you: as long as money's floowing to record companies we'll get away with p2p, copyright and other crap issues that pollute/.
I want more outsourcing! In fact, I want companies to start outsourcing managers, exects, QAs, designers, and accountants. I want those people to feel the results of unemployment and I can't wait to see guys in Armani suits bitch about it! Why? Because I want them to feel what thousdands of American IT workers feel right now. I want them to wonder about all the years they spent in college, all the loans, morgages, families, kids and their future. This is how I feel whenever I start cutting out coupons and wonder if I have enough money to pay my rent this month.
Until the issue of foreign labor hits the hightest steps of corporate ladder nothing is going to be done. The funny thing is that if outsourcing is going to continue at this pace, pretty soon we'll end up in a world where only a few people will have buying power. Both American and foreign workers will not have capital; just watch the world's economy go down the crapper.
Our beloved government will never solve a problem with spam! Hell, it can't find Bin Laden, do you really think that Uncle Sam will be able to find thousands of people who stand behind unsolicited e-mails? Give me a break! Spam is profitable (otherwise who would do it?), but what about anti-spam? If there are so many people who hate spam then I am sure that they can become potenial customers of a business which can provide a spam-free email accounts. Because this type of business will depend on customer loyalty chances are that such a solution will be far more beneficial rather than a bunch of laws that we won't be able to enforce. If anybody is interested in this sort of idea, reply to me: I am unemployed and desperate for money:)
Are they still trying to come up with an operating system? Well, I guess its better than AOL revolutionary ideas like a spam blocker or an address book.
The system described in the article is doomed from the beginning. Some people, like my mom, do not dislike spam to a high degree; they simply delete it when/if they get it. For these users it is much easier to erase irrelevant messages rather than use a method that will slow them down. The spam vs. anti-spam issue is just another variant of the famous cop vs. criminal deal: both sides get more and more advanced with time without completely winning or losing. In order to make spam less efficient it will be wise to educate users. For example, I found that as I started to replace my email address blah@blah.com with 'blah at blah dot com' I almost eliminated all my spam that was a result of web crawlers which went through message boards and all the other places where people would normally put their email address. Finally, if ISPs are worried about bandwidth, won't this new method generate more load?
The problem is that if a challange is in a form of image, like text that is sent in a JPG file, there no simple Perl script will determine what is the challange.
Interesting, then I might have been using a different version of Red Hat 9, because in my version some of KDE apps crashed on save, java apps crashed or grabbed screen focus without letting it go and every time I tried to update an rpm package I ended up with a list of dependencies that had to be removed/updated and it went on an on. Linux and Unix are awesome as servers, but they are too far away from the desktop world. For past 7 years of using Linux I haven't figured an easy way to use software like scanners, digital cameras and printers without consulting a list of supported drivers first. When I finally got a Mac everything worked out as magic. Go figure.
It is not all about savings. The thing is that, like it or not, *NIX is not ready to be a stable desktop due to the lack of applications, stability and being friendly to beginners. Even KDE and GNOME are buggy with questionable support. For everyday user that does not want to be a system administrator using Linux is a freaking nightmare.
There is stable desktop on Linux? Shit, I must have been using a different kind of Linux, because everything that I had (KDE, GNOME, WM, Enlightenment, etc.) mananged to lock and core dump at least once in a while. Most programs that came with KDE or GNOME desktop were buggy and lacked support. Were they fee? Yes, if you do not consider the amount of time that I spent on fixing, upgrading and configuring them. I am a *NIX fan, but unfortunately, I can't use Linux or my favorite FreeBSD for what I need: a stable desktop that allows me to develop and have a set of functional applications. While linuxoids are trying to shove Linux hype down our throats, I am going to use Mac OS X. Sure, I paid for the Mac and the OS, suprisingly it works and there is stable software for it. If Open Source advocates want to see *NIX systems that can provide stable desktops, they have to put more usable applications and proper code behind the well known "Linux rocks and its free!" statement.
It is just picky about its friends. I am reading this book and to be honest with you, everything that is said about UNIX can be applied to Windows OS just as well. As far as I am concerned Apple Inc. is one of the very few companies that may claim user friendliness and MS should be the last one to judge. Additionally, my personal experience suggests that Windows if a greater nightmare by far.
Stands for 'shit out of luck.' Unfortunately there are more sites that they should NOT look at than sites that they should visit. But if you want to keep them busy go to www.ratemycan.com. It can keep them enterntained for hours and they can learn a lot about what is hot and what is not:)
After watching some Al Jazeera footage of United States prisoners of war and young guys shot in their foreheads I wonder why that site is still up. How long will it take for us to launch a missle attack at their station?
For every action there is a counter reaction, right? Fight back! You can do it passively by setting up filters (Mozilla does an excellent job in that department) or spam back the spammers. The trick is to find spam that originates from a legid address. Send an email to that address and see if it goes through. Then set up a script on every single computer on your home network (which in my case is several FreeBSD boxes) and mail random crap to spammers (a cron entry works beautifully). Believe it or not I actually got a reply from a person saying that they got the point and removed me from the list. The other guys were persistent. In order to get rid of them (they did have actual usernames in the email address) I had to go to every goddamn gay porn site and subscribe them to free porn and a newsletter. I know, some of you will say that I have a lot of free time on my hands and may be I do. But every person who gets spam does something about it, including calling a senator and pushing for laws, I think we can fight it.
God, no one could have said it better. Thank you thank you thank you! Whenever I say things like that people call me a not experienced (I am still a student) bastard who hates foreigners. No, I do not. I was born in Europe, moved to the United States and received my high school / college education here. I had the same situation as you described in your article: guys from India working on XML/JSP project. None of them spoke English, the quality of code was pretty shitty and it took months to learn how to communicate with them. I am not saying that we have to kill all the imported labor, but there is so much potential here! The company would not hire me just because I was a student (although I have been working in the field for the past 4 years) and the preferred to hire a guy form India. Later on, they realized that they were screwed and they had to lay all of our Indian buddies off. I felt bad for the people, they got dragged into this mess, did not succeed and were laid off. Nobody benefited except for the comany who provided the consultans from India.
Before China or India or any other no-septic-systems-and-our-kids-are-starving country wants to go to the moon they have to get their goddamn economies straight. The only way Chinese would ever afford going to the Moon is if they start burning their own people as fuel. I am sick and tired hearing about some countries that are alomost at the bottom of the shitter have big plans for space exploration. Would not spending money on improving the quality of living be more reasonable?
I strongly disagree on the idea of having people with visas working for our government agencies (Do we really want Osama Bin Laden to be the chief of Homeland Security?). Moreover, I think its time we close our borders to all foreign labor until we manage to get our economy straight. Why? Becuause there are tons of smart students who can become the future of our economy, yet they are not given a chance because my friend from _____ (insert India, China, Taiwan, etc.) is willing to work here for $5/year. Instead of exploring our potential, we like to educate people who are not even remotely interested in improving our economy. Most of them want to go back home after earning some money; then they come back for more. And then we have tons of talented youth without jobs. IT execs should take their heads out of their asses and start looking at what we have here and what we are able to achieve. May be there is a way to reduce production costs by reducing their salaries and premiums; then make technology available to a broader range of consumers.
Books say that it is not how fast your cycle is, it is how much you can do per cycle (and how well you do it). But this is NOT the case with Wintel. For all I care, they can put girls jumping on tramplins on every goddamn CPU that they make and it will still suck. Intel seems to work on thier CPUs the same way a couple of guys next door work on their civics; both of them want to make something slow to go fast. You do not have to go very far to see that x86 has inherit bugs that one can fix only by a complete redesign that has not been done since the first x86 was realease. All they do is patch their chips and mark them differently. If Intel and really wanted to get a better chip they would do what Apple has done to its old chips: throw the design away and start from scratch. But then again, its all about marketing and a box that says "includes a videochip on CPU for better game experiences" reads much better than "now with a CPU that includes vector processing" to an average joe.
There is no way you want AOL to die right now. With the economy down the crapper all this country needs is another company going belly up. Although I do not like them personally, I realize that they are a pretty big employer. As long as AOL can pay its employees they should try and reorganize/review their business, but not go out of it. During the past fiscal year we had enough Enrons. Let's not make it a habit:)
I think that most of the debugging tools on the market are pretty good and users (developers) should be improved on the first place. For example in most of the colleges students get zero experience with debugging. Sure, the teachers tell us to use gdb or some other debuggers (that come with VC++), but nobody takes it too seriously. Most of my friends laugh when I start talking about debugging, testing and quality assurance. I am using gdb for my daily debugging and although it was pretty easy to learn, I wish somebody offeren a course on mordern debuggers in my computer science program.
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Intel: more than one billion served!
How long will it take them to realize that x86 is outdated and we want something new and affordable?
Really, aren't you getting sick of people who envade your privacy and violate your right not to hear their goddamn phone conversations. No matter where you go, there are people who constantly jabber on their cells; moreover, their talks are hardly useful. What was the last time you heard somebody talk about something important on their phone while standing in line or at a coffee shop? Please, all these stupid calls about girl/boy issues and personal problems can be postponed until you get home.
As for the cell phones and airlines... Nobody will do anything until at least one major airplane crashes. Remeber, nobody could even think of terrorist acts in the U.S. until they happened.
Just the fact that RH had a salesperson pushing your for a more expensive product suggests that you probably do not need it (otherwise you would know what to do, right?). Unless you have applications that absolutely depend on RH I would not consider them at all. Why? Because there are better and cheaper alternatives with less bugs and more bang for a buck, especially if you have enough talent and resources. I found that from management point of view FreeBSD beats RedHat at least in updates and application management via ports. I would strongly suggest that rather than tons of money down the drain.
it was alright but in a lot of ways it seemed to be cursed in the same way as all BSDs in assuming it knew better than I did how I wanted my own system to run.
Well, duh! Out of the box, FreeBSD has a standard setup that anyone can change if that person wants to do so. All you have to do is to read a well written tutorial located here. Same thing goes for upgrades and ports. Have you heard of getting the latest source via cvs and updating your system that way? I started running FreeBSD since version 3.something and I have never had problems updating the system; all I had to do was to read the docs and release notes.
Has FreeBSD gotten any friendlier lately?
FreeBSD IS friendly, its just picky about its friends. I've experienced almost every Linux distor and compared to FreeBSD they suck big time in terms of maintenance, updating, and management. Once you learn it, it will work for you forever! Finally, I it is X, not X-windows(!), and I do not know why you were not able to get it running. However, I know hundreds of people who run it with no problems.
I am sorry for sounding pissed off, but I hate when people start bitching about something without reading proper docs. I constantly meet people who don't read documents or install CURRENT branch and then complain about errors. If you really want to start a war "FreeBSD vs. Linux" please use some other facts to back up your statements.
Recording companies bitch about losing their profits all the time and in order to shut them up we can do several things; here is one idea. How about outsourcing our entertainment industry? If recording companies are able to find people who will perform for less while keeping CD prices the same, they will receive their profits and forget about all copyright issues of today. I bet you we can find a lot of people in Asia and Eastern Europe that will sing, dance and do whaterver the industry wants them for like $4/day. All you have to do is to give them clean water, brand name clothing from thrift stores and some food. That's it. No red carpets, no news about their love affairs, no diamonds and other crap that comes with fame. At the end, we might end up with better performers, less idoitism and lower costs! I bet you: as long as money's floowing to record companies we'll get away with p2p, copyright and other crap issues that pollute /.
I want more outsourcing! In fact, I want companies to start outsourcing managers, exects, QAs, designers, and accountants. I want those people to feel the results of unemployment and I can't wait to see guys in Armani suits bitch about it! Why? Because I want them to feel what thousdands of American IT workers feel right now. I want them to wonder about all the years they spent in college, all the loans, morgages, families, kids and their future. This is how I feel whenever I start cutting out coupons and wonder if I have enough money to pay my rent this month.
Until the issue of foreign labor hits the hightest steps of corporate ladder nothing is going to be done. The funny thing is that if outsourcing is going to continue at this pace, pretty soon we'll end up in a world where only a few people will have buying power. Both American and foreign workers will not have capital; just watch the world's economy go down the crapper.
Our beloved government will never solve a problem with spam! Hell, it can't find Bin Laden, do you really think that Uncle Sam will be able to find thousands of people who stand behind unsolicited e-mails? Give me a break! Spam is profitable (otherwise who would do it?), but what about anti-spam? If there are so many people who hate spam then I am sure that they can become potenial customers of a business which can provide a spam-free email accounts. Because this type of business will depend on customer loyalty chances are that such a solution will be far more beneficial rather than a bunch of laws that we won't be able to enforce. If anybody is interested in this sort of idea, reply to me: I am unemployed and desperate for money :)
Additionally, enable more hardware support for digital cameras, scanners and all sorts of printers.
Are they still trying to come up with an operating system? Well, I guess its better than AOL revolutionary ideas like a spam blocker or an address book.
The system described in the article is doomed from the beginning. Some people, like my mom, do not dislike spam to a high degree; they simply delete it when/if they get it. For these users it is much easier to erase irrelevant messages rather than use a method that will slow them down. The spam vs. anti-spam issue is just another variant of the famous cop vs. criminal deal: both sides get more and more advanced with time without completely winning or losing. In order to make spam less efficient it will be wise to educate users. For example, I found that as I started to replace my email address blah@blah.com with 'blah at blah dot com' I almost eliminated all my spam that was a result of web crawlers which went through message boards and all the other places where people would normally put their email address. Finally, if ISPs are worried about bandwidth, won't this new method generate more load?
The problem is that if a challange is in a form of image, like text that is sent in a JPG file, there no simple Perl script will determine what is the challange.
Interesting, then I might have been using a different version of Red Hat 9, because in my version some of KDE apps crashed on save, java apps crashed or grabbed screen focus without letting it go and every time I tried to update an rpm package I ended up with a list of dependencies that had to be removed/updated and it went on an on. Linux and Unix are awesome as servers, but they are too far away from the desktop world. For past 7 years of using Linux I haven't figured an easy way to use software like scanners, digital cameras and printers without consulting a list of supported drivers first. When I finally got a Mac everything worked out as magic. Go figure.
It is not all about savings. The thing is that, like it or not, *NIX is not ready to be a stable desktop due to the lack of applications, stability and being friendly to beginners. Even KDE and GNOME are buggy with questionable support. For everyday user that does not want to be a system administrator using Linux is a freaking nightmare.
There is stable desktop on Linux? Shit, I must have been using a different kind of Linux, because everything that I had (KDE, GNOME, WM, Enlightenment, etc.) mananged to lock and core dump at least once in a while. Most programs that came with KDE or GNOME desktop were buggy and lacked support. Were they fee? Yes, if you do not consider the amount of time that I spent on fixing, upgrading and configuring them. I am a *NIX fan, but unfortunately, I can't use Linux or my favorite FreeBSD for what I need: a stable desktop that allows me to develop and have a set of functional applications. While linuxoids are trying to shove Linux hype down our throats, I am going to use Mac OS X. Sure, I paid for the Mac and the OS, suprisingly it works and there is stable software for it. If Open Source advocates want to see *NIX systems that can provide stable desktops, they have to put more usable applications and proper code behind the well known "Linux rocks and its free!" statement.
It is just picky about its friends. I am reading this book and to be honest with you, everything that is said about UNIX can be applied to Windows OS just as well. As far as I am concerned Apple Inc. is one of the very few companies that may claim user friendliness and MS should be the last one to judge. Additionally, my personal experience suggests that Windows if a greater nightmare by far.
Stands for 'shit out of luck.' Unfortunately there are more sites that they should NOT look at than sites that they should visit. But if you want to keep them busy go to www.ratemycan.com. It can keep them enterntained for hours and they can learn a lot about what is hot and what is not :)
After watching some Al Jazeera footage of United States prisoners of war and young guys shot in their foreheads I wonder why that site is still up. How long will it take for us to launch a missle attack at their station?
For every action there is a counter reaction, right? Fight back! You can do it passively by setting up filters (Mozilla does an excellent job in that department) or spam back the spammers. The trick is to find spam that originates from a legid address. Send an email to that address and see if it goes through. Then set up a script on every single computer on your home network (which in my case is several FreeBSD boxes) and mail random crap to spammers (a cron entry works beautifully). Believe it or not I actually got a reply from a person saying that they got the point and removed me from the list. The other guys were persistent. In order to get rid of them (they did have actual usernames in the email address) I had to go to every goddamn gay porn site and subscribe them to free porn and a newsletter. I know, some of you will say that I have a lot of free time on my hands and may be I do. But every person who gets spam does something about it, including calling a senator and pushing for laws, I think we can fight it.
God, no one could have said it better. Thank you thank you thank you! Whenever I say things like that people call me a not experienced (I am still a student) bastard who hates foreigners. No, I do not. I was born in Europe, moved to the United States and received my high school / college education here. I had the same situation as you described in your article: guys from India working on XML/JSP project. None of them spoke English, the quality of code was pretty shitty and it took months to learn how to communicate with them. I am not saying that we have to kill all the imported labor, but there is so much potential here! The company would not hire me just because I was a student (although I have been working in the field for the past 4 years) and the preferred to hire a guy form India. Later on, they realized that they were screwed and they had to lay all of our Indian buddies off. I felt bad for the people, they got dragged into this mess, did not succeed and were laid off. Nobody benefited except for the comany who provided the consultans from India.
Before China or India or any other no-septic-systems-and-our-kids-are-starving country wants to go to the moon they have to get their goddamn economies straight. The only way Chinese would ever afford going to the Moon is if they start burning their own people as fuel. I am sick and tired hearing about some countries that are alomost at the bottom of the shitter have big plans for space exploration. Would not spending money on improving the quality of living be more reasonable?
I strongly disagree on the idea of having people with visas working for our government agencies (Do we really want Osama Bin Laden to be the chief of Homeland Security?). Moreover, I think its time we close our borders to all foreign labor until we manage to get our economy straight. Why? Becuause there are tons of smart students who can become the future of our economy, yet they are not given a chance because my friend from _____ (insert India, China, Taiwan, etc.) is willing to work here for $5/year. Instead of exploring our potential, we like to educate people who are not even remotely interested in improving our economy. Most of them want to go back home after earning some money; then they come back for more. And then we have tons of talented youth without jobs. IT execs should take their heads out of their asses and start looking at what we have here and what we are able to achieve. May be there is a way to reduce production costs by reducing their salaries and premiums; then make technology available to a broader range of consumers.
Books say that it is not how fast your cycle is, it is how much you can do per cycle (and how well you do it). But this is NOT the case with Wintel. For all I care, they can put girls jumping on tramplins on every goddamn CPU that they make and it will still suck. Intel seems to work on thier CPUs the same way a couple of guys next door work on their civics; both of them want to make something slow to go fast. You do not have to go very far to see that x86 has inherit bugs that one can fix only by a complete redesign that has not been done since the first x86 was realease. All they do is patch their chips and mark them differently. If Intel and really wanted to get a better chip they would do what Apple has done to its old chips: throw the design away and start from scratch. But then again, its all about marketing and a box that says "includes a videochip on CPU for better game experiences" reads much better than "now with a CPU that includes vector processing" to an average joe.
There is no way you want AOL to die right now. With the economy down the crapper all this country needs is another company going belly up. Although I do not like them personally, I realize that they are a pretty big employer. As long as AOL can pay its employees they should try and reorganize/review their business, but not go out of it. During the past fiscal year we had enough Enrons. Let's not make it a habit :)
I think that most of the debugging tools on the market are pretty good and users (developers) should be improved on the first place. For example in most of the colleges students get zero experience with debugging. Sure, the teachers tell us to use gdb or some other debuggers (that come with VC++), but nobody takes it too seriously. Most of my friends laugh when I start talking about debugging, testing and quality assurance. I am using gdb for my daily debugging and although it was pretty easy to learn, I wish somebody offeren a course on mordern debuggers in my computer science program.