Yet how dare we criticize Bush for snorting crack...
Just to clarify - he was snorting "coke". One snorts coke and smokes crack. Not that I'd know personally, of course, but something I'm sure our commander in chief could tell you...
Although I am happy to see IBM give users the option to run Linux on their existing hardware, I can't figure out why anyone would want to take their iSeries and turn it into a Linux box. After all, they already have an OS on it that's much more secure, efficient, scalable, and easy to maintain. I run Linux on my boxes at home and I see the potential advantage to replace AIX with Linux on a pSeries (except when you get to large clusters), but I just don't see what advantage one gets out of running Linux on an iSeries.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people's IRAs and portfolios are heading for a crash
I don't think so. The fact is that most mutual funds have a fair number of rules about what securities they may invest in and SCO doesn't make the cut. In addition, most mutual funds are not allowed to put too much if their holdings into any one security. About the only type of fund that could place large quantities of SCO stock in their portfolios are private hedge funds, whose investors are supposedly liquid enough and smart enough not to get into this mess. In general, the only people who will suffer because of SCO tanking is (a) people dumb enough to actually invest their private holdings in this stock and (b) Darl & Co.
There are a lot of reasons that IRAs and portfolios might crash (Federal Deficit and Trade Deficit for two), but SCO is unlikely to be an influence.
Not that someone shouldn't give them a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, anyhow...
Damn it, Carly, quit posting on Slashdot and get the hell back to running HP! We don't pay you $150M to hobnob with the hoi polloi. Get back on the phone to the analysts and make our stock price go up. The buzzword of the day is "ultra-flexible". Now get to it, girl...
The asteroid with your name on it does not give one single flying high-impact shit about your way of life, nor your fears of alien invasion, nor your "not giving a fuck".
Well, let me answer you this way... After me, my kids, and my grandkids (assumiung my offspring breed) are gone, I don't give a flying fart. I'll be dead and gone, as will be those I knew and loved. As for the survival of some bit of crappy genetic material, why don't we just freeze it and launch it into orbit for whoever comes along to rebuild the species? That solution we can do and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than to spread our genetic carrying system all over hell and back. In fact, why don't we build our robotic successors and let them strap rockets onto their electronic asses to go to Mars - they won't need life support. There are a whole lot of ways to insure "our future". You just want to spend money on some of the least efficient.
I have an employee who habitually shows up an hour late, takes 2 hour lunches, and leaves when the clock strikes 5:00.
I believe that continuing to have this employee on your payroll might be one of the factors contributing to the "company not doing very well". It's hell having to employ your wife's nephew, ain't it?
Realistically, can you think of anything else that could be so little used by normal people but be a big status symbol for the CxO set? I think that this will be a big seller to the 7-figure high-tech exec crowd. It's pretty clear that NEC has a winner on its hands here (BTW, do I get extra karma for using it's and its right?).
Just like Barney, the Dinosaur to decorate his bachelor pad like that. Purple and green are such happy colors! I wonder if he invited Baby Bop over for playtime, too.
...they do know that that unibody car just dosen't feel solid when they drive it, they know that that front wheel drive just dosen't have the feel they want when they make a turn...
Dude, 90% of the drivers out there have NO clue as to how a car feels, drives, responds, etc. The only thing they're paying attention to is what's happening on their cell phone.
The only reasons that SUV's are selling to 90% of the populace is that they're being advertised up the butt by the auto manufacturers who get a better margin on them and that people are getting steered towards them by the salespeople who get bigger comissions on them. Saying elsewise shows that you don't understand the actual level of driving/car knowledge of most of the idiots out there.
I've long since put my trust in anti-viral software and AdAware.
The main problem is that many AV/Anti-crapware vendors are going to be reluctant to continue support for their products on an unsupported platform. Even if, for marketshare reasons, they did want to suport obsolete platforms, many of them have code that is dependent on Microsoft's development tools for those platforms. As they want to add features for newer Windows versions, their cost to support compilation on older compilers goes through the roof.
Having worked for an AV company, I'll tell you that sales of products that work for obsolete platforms will last (at most) for about a year after DC of support by the platform vendor. After that, it's a crapshoot whether definition updates (especially engine updates) will continue to work or protect properly.
Start preparing you relatives for Mac land (they'll probably be happier, anyhow:-).
Arrgh, why does this awful legend still exist? Canopy owns a very, very small stake in Trolltech, while the employees hold more than 2/3 (IIRC) of the stock.
Because it's true?
Every penny paid to a successful company that Canopy owns acts as financial backing for Canopy's more... let us say... unsavory activities. Even if Canopy holds a minority portion, each of the dollars held in a worthwhile stock acts as part of the collateral for loans/bonds/deals and, ultimately, solvency for Canopy. When you sell your stock to dogs, you get fleas. Don't try to rewrite the rules of finance just because you happen to like the company that the symbiote is hanging with...
Yeah, it's called looking out for your nation's best interests, and EVERY nation does it.
Yes, but some country's leaders are smart enough to do so without being obvious enough to turn the rest of the world's countries against them. Our current leader, sadly, does not appear to be that capable. He does seem to be crudely effective at bombing relatively defenseless countries into rubble, though, so that's something. On the other hand, I don't see much benefit from doing that without some additional international political action, so unless you get off on watching rubble bounce, there ain't much good to say about our current leadership. I didn't feel much threatened after 9/11 and I don't feel much threatened now, so I guess I just don't fit neatly within the parameters of their political strategies.
Even if every outside investor were merely a shell corporation controlled by Canopy, they'd still have nowhere near the votes to influency anything at Trolltech.
It doesn't matter about control. Every time you give a quarter to Trolltech, letting the stock price rise, you give a penny to Canopy and its blood-sucking weasels. That's a really good reason to support Gnome. Since it's not controlled by a public corporation, you don't have to convince yourself that you're isolated from the antics of its major stockholders.
KDE will always be available in UserLinux, because UserLinux will be a subset of Debian.
This is so correct. You know, this is Linux. You still have a choice. You can even start with the UserLinux environment, add KDE, repackage it and sell it as "Now with KDE!!!!" Simply put, if you don't like it, go fork yourselves.
All of you folks wanking about choice should remember that a choice has been made. It is a choice to simplify at the expense of having only a single desktop. It simply happens to be a choice you don't like. Too bad. There are already a ton of distros offering choice of both KDE and Gnome - Debian, Knoppix, SuSe, Mandrake, and Fedora all come to mind. Stop whining because your favorite didn't get picked for the beauty pageant...
... the earliest editions of Unix and C, they were operating on teletype terminals that ran at 110 baud (kinda humbling in this day and age, ain't it?). 110 baud translates to roughly 13 characters per second...
And about 200 dB at a foot from said terminal.
...so a program that was too chatty wasted precious bandwidth
Why, the use of Slahdot to display goatse.cx, of course!
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So can I get an "Invention of the year" award for my idea of using one of the moons of Jupiter (i am sure the greenies would whine about using ours) as an extrasolar vehicle/colony so that humans can explore the local region of our galaxy? The propulsion idea still requires some "clever engineering"
Who wants that sort of crap... If you can get it to move around, back it up a few yards and then slam it into Jupiter! Even better, do it while hosting a reverse Survivor show where, every week before impact, people get to vote on who gets rescued! And then leave the cameras on during the last couple weeks while the last person copes with his situation!
That's the sort of thing to tantalize the minds of the discriminating public!
And a lot of True SF Geeks who evangelize repeatedly about Do Androids Dream? and Man in the High Castle are probably bored to tears by something like Valis or Divine Invasion.
Probably true.
Myself, I found Valis stunning. I always remember Valis' answer about the cat.
I'd rather hire a good Project Manager and o.k. Programmers than an o.k. Project Manager and good Programmers. But maybe that's just me, thinking too business-like for the/. community.
I'd rather hire a good PM and good programmers - in the final analysis, it would probably save me money. But that's probably just me thinking too smart to be "business-like".
My kudos to Scientific American for this ground-breaking bit of science writing. GOd knows who would want to think about molecular biology or astrophysics when there's shopping to be done!
Sigh... I remember when Scientific American actually carried articles about science rather than consumption. Nice meaty ones, too, with pictures of molecules and stars and everything. Of course, you can say the same thing about Communications of the ACM and IEEE Spectrum, too. Of course, that was back in the 60's & early 70's. I guess they've been growing people a lot dumber since then. Gotta spend the money on eye-candy and dumbed-down writing or the stupid won't buy/read.
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Just to clarify - he was snorting "coke". One snorts coke and smokes crack. Not that I'd know personally, of course, but something I'm sure our commander in chief could tell you...
Although I am happy to see IBM give users the option to run Linux on their existing hardware, I can't figure out why anyone would want to take their iSeries and turn it into a Linux box. After all, they already have an OS on it that's much more secure, efficient, scalable, and easy to maintain. I run Linux on my boxes at home and I see the potential advantage to replace AIX with Linux on a pSeries (except when you get to large clusters), but I just don't see what advantage one gets out of running Linux on an iSeries.
I don't think so. The fact is that most mutual funds have a fair number of rules about what securities they may invest in and SCO doesn't make the cut. In addition, most mutual funds are not allowed to put too much if their holdings into any one security. About the only type of fund that could place large quantities of SCO stock in their portfolios are private hedge funds, whose investors are supposedly liquid enough and smart enough not to get into this mess. In general, the only people who will suffer because of SCO tanking is (a) people dumb enough to actually invest their private holdings in this stock and (b) Darl & Co.
There are a lot of reasons that IRAs and portfolios might crash (Federal Deficit and Trade Deficit for two), but SCO is unlikely to be an influence.
Not that someone shouldn't give them a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, anyhow...
Damn it, Carly, quit posting on Slashdot and get the hell back to running HP! We don't pay you $150M to hobnob with the hoi polloi. Get back on the phone to the analysts and make our stock price go up. The buzzword of the day is "ultra-flexible". Now get to it, girl...
Well, let me answer you this way... After me, my kids, and my grandkids (assumiung my offspring breed) are gone, I don't give a flying fart. I'll be dead and gone, as will be those I knew and loved. As for the survival of some bit of crappy genetic material, why don't we just freeze it and launch it into orbit for whoever comes along to rebuild the species? That solution we can do and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than to spread our genetic carrying system all over hell and back. In fact, why don't we build our robotic successors and let them strap rockets onto their electronic asses to go to Mars - they won't need life support. There are a whole lot of ways to insure "our future". You just want to spend money on some of the least efficient.
I believe that continuing to have this employee on your payroll might be one of the factors contributing to the "company not doing very well". It's hell having to employ your wife's nephew, ain't it?
Realistically, can you think of anything else that could be so little used by normal people but be a big status symbol for the CxO set? I think that this will be a big seller to the 7-figure high-tech exec crowd. It's pretty clear that NEC has a winner on its hands here (BTW, do I get extra karma for using it's and its right?).
Nuff said...
Just like Barney, the Dinosaur to decorate his bachelor pad like that. Purple and green are such happy colors! I wonder if he invited Baby Bop over for playtime, too.
Dude, 90% of the drivers out there have NO clue as to how a car feels, drives, responds, etc. The only thing they're paying attention to is what's happening on their cell phone.
The only reasons that SUV's are selling to 90% of the populace is that they're being advertised up the butt by the auto manufacturers who get a better margin on them and that people are getting steered towards them by the salespeople who get bigger comissions on them. Saying elsewise shows that you don't understand the actual level of driving/car knowledge of most of the idiots out there.
The main problem is that many AV/Anti-crapware vendors are going to be reluctant to continue support for their products on an unsupported platform. Even if, for marketshare reasons, they did want to suport obsolete platforms, many of them have code that is dependent on Microsoft's development tools for those platforms. As they want to add features for newer Windows versions, their cost to support compilation on older compilers goes through the roof.
Having worked for an AV company, I'll tell you that sales of products that work for obsolete platforms will last (at most) for about a year after DC of support by the platform vendor. After that, it's a crapshoot whether definition updates (especially engine updates) will continue to work or protect properly.
Start preparing you relatives for Mac land (they'll probably be happier, anyhow :-).
Because it's true?
Every penny paid to a successful company that Canopy owns acts as financial backing for Canopy's more... let us say... unsavory activities. Even if Canopy holds a minority portion, each of the dollars held in a worthwhile stock acts as part of the collateral for loans/bonds/deals and, ultimately, solvency for Canopy. When you sell your stock to dogs, you get fleas. Don't try to rewrite the rules of finance just because you happen to like the company that the symbiote is hanging with...
I think you're thinking of this, you /. guy, you...
Yes, but some country's leaders are smart enough to do so without being obvious enough to turn the rest of the world's countries against them. Our current leader, sadly, does not appear to be that capable. He does seem to be crudely effective at bombing relatively defenseless countries into rubble, though, so that's something. On the other hand, I don't see much benefit from doing that without some additional international political action, so unless you get off on watching rubble bounce, there ain't much good to say about our current leadership. I didn't feel much threatened after 9/11 and I don't feel much threatened now, so I guess I just don't fit neatly within the parameters of their political strategies.
It doesn't matter about control. Every time you give a quarter to Trolltech, letting the stock price rise, you give a penny to Canopy and its blood-sucking weasels. That's a really good reason to support Gnome. Since it's not controlled by a public corporation, you don't have to convince yourself that you're isolated from the antics of its major stockholders.
This is so correct. You know, this is Linux. You still have a choice. You can even start with the UserLinux environment, add KDE, repackage it and sell it as "Now with KDE!!!!" Simply put, if you don't like it, go fork yourselves.
All of you folks wanking about choice should remember that a choice has been made. It is a choice to simplify at the expense of having only a single desktop. It simply happens to be a choice you don't like. Too bad. There are already a ton of distros offering choice of both KDE and Gnome - Debian, Knoppix, SuSe, Mandrake, and Fedora all come to mind. Stop whining because your favorite didn't get picked for the beauty pageant...
And about 200 dB at a foot from said terminal.
To heck with bandwidth! It wasted hearing!
Flying's the easy part. It's the soft landing that's the bitch to get right...
Why, the use of Slahdot to display goatse.cx, of course!
Who wants that sort of crap... If you can get it to move around, back it up a few yards and then slam it into Jupiter! Even better, do it while hosting a reverse Survivor show where, every week before impact, people get to vote on who gets rescued! And then leave the cameras on during the last couple weeks while the last person copes with his situation!
That's the sort of thing to tantalize the minds of the discriminating public!
Probably true.
Myself, I found Valis stunning. I always remember Valis' answer about the cat.
I'm waiting for the remake of Galactica 1980!
I'd rather hire a good PM and good programmers - in the final analysis, it would probably save me money. But that's probably just me thinking too smart to be "business-like".
Sigh... I remember when Scientific American actually carried articles about science rather than consumption. Nice meaty ones, too, with pictures of molecules and stars and everything. Of course, you can say the same thing about Communications of the ACM and IEEE Spectrum, too. Of course, that was back in the 60's & early 70's. I guess they've been growing people a lot dumber since then. Gotta spend the money on eye-candy and dumbed-down writing or the stupid won't buy/read.
Steel cage death match!!!