Excellent post! I've seen several so far. If I understand the point it's like editing a config file versus edit source code. Editing the config file might get you what you want with fewer complications. Editing the source code might introduce much unexpected results. Results you wanted and those you didn't. Given the complexity between a config file and source code.
Essentially, if mother nature doesn't want something crossbred or developed in a plant species it probably wont happen. Versus GM, which directly modifies the genes and can most certainly produce unexpected results. Like a programmer who might understand the basics of coding but doesn't really understand the language.
Excellent job. That is much closer to what mars really looks like on the surface. Most people forget that mars has a blue sky (except for dust storms). Why nasa continues to cast the pictures with a red hue to everything is beyond me.
"It's planned that Longhorn's GUI will require a graphics card with 128 MB of memory, a rare feature in today's average computer especially when running business applications which are not graphics intensive. The minimum system memory requirement will be 1 GB of RAM, an absolutely absurd amount for just an operating system."
Now I know why Micro$oft need to keep increasing their revenue stream. To pay for all that Crack their smoking.
The more I think about it the more it sounds like an even better idea. Another point could also be made to schools about licensing-hell, or a lack there-of with OSS.
Well, at the time I had started the 2000 track was new. I had been hearing alot about the tests. Some said they were really hard some said they wern't so bad. So, just to be on the safe side I studdied really hard anyway. I made some small networks and messed with those. In the end the tests were not that bad at all. Only two were challenging. The rest were fairly easy, I thought anyway. It just made me wonder about some people having such difficulty with many of the tests. Many people said the infrastructure 70-217 (I think) test was REALLY hard. I found it to be the easiest test of the bunch.
Back in the 60's the USSR launched their own luner rover. One of the Apollo missions found the rover and what did they find inside? Mold (I believe it was) had made its way into the rover on earth and was still alive and growing inside the luner rover on the moon (how exactly is beyond me. I'm not a biologist).
Well, I don't know about other MCSE's on/. but I worked my ass off to get mine. Of course I allready had a little experience before hand and had been using computers for 10+ years. Still, many people in my school shouldn't really have been there. Even after passing their a+,n+ or various M$ tests they still didn't have much of a clue. Keeping in mind that these people (as had myself) had spent 8,10 or 15 thousand dollars just to get certified. Although it really was an excellent school and encouraged hands on as much as possible (they did give every student the tools and resources to succeed), still, the school kept pushing the career/money aspect in their ads. So many of the people going to the school were just in it for the money and not the enjoyment of their future jobs. I went to get certified because of my love and enjoyment for computers/networks/etc.
At a previous employer,NMCI (should be called FUBAR), many of the people they were hiring in droves had certifications (A+,N+,MCSE) and were basiclly clueless. I wound up as the roving toubleshooter who fixed problems. Mainly because I had to show these people just how to run a patch cable between two computers and change ip addresses to copy info between computers (among other things, simple and not). We're not talking rocket science here.
The down turn in the economy was really a blessing in disguise. It shook out much of the dead wood and left the more hardcore/dedicated of the bunch. In the long run it should be a good thing.
I used to work on the NMCI project in San Diego. And yes, it is one big cluster F**k. The first impression you get when you first look at the project is that there was no preplanning done! None! Basicly because there wasn't. User profiles, connectivity, old apps, etc. It's as if a couple of guys were sitting around drinking beer and one of them said, "hey, I know, let's upgrade this sucker". After 2 1/2 weeks of working on this "project", I had had enough. The irony was that I was about to be promoted. I was sick of the procedures changing every day, and not working half the time. The looks of the navy/contracter people every time we showed up to do our work for the day. "Oh god, here they come again. They're STILL not done and I need my computer back. How many days are they going to work on my computer", etc. Not that I blamed them one bit. I wouldn't be happy either. Basicly, this is a very amateurish effort. Which is really to bad as there are some really talented people working on it. There just aren't enough of them.
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Better France than any where else!
I was about to rant and rave the usual rant and rave until I realized what day this is. Doh!
Excellent post! I've seen several so far. If I understand the point it's like editing a config file versus edit source code. Editing the config file might get you what you want with fewer complications. Editing the source code might introduce much unexpected results. Results you wanted and those you didn't. Given the complexity between a config file and source code.
Essentially, if mother nature doesn't want something crossbred or developed in a plant species it probably wont happen. Versus GM, which directly modifies the genes and can most certainly produce unexpected results. Like a programmer who might understand the basics of coding but doesn't really understand the language.
Richie
Hmmmm, so thats what their calling crap nowadays.
It definitely has more of a ut feel to it. Much better than 2k3! I'm starting to drool over the dvd version.
Excellent job. That is much closer to what mars really looks like on the surface. Most people forget that mars has a blue sky (except for dust storms). Why nasa continues to cast the pictures with a red hue to everything is beyond me.
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"Weaseling out of things is what makes us different from animals...except the weasel."
Amen!!!
"Would the world be better off or not if it was illegal to overpromote the functionality or features of software?"
Would Bill Gates be on death row?
"It's planned that Longhorn's GUI will require a graphics card with 128 MB of memory, a rare feature in today's average computer especially when running business applications which are not graphics intensive. The minimum system memory requirement will be 1 GB of RAM, an absolutely absurd amount for just an operating system."
Now I know why Micro$oft need to keep increasing their revenue stream. To pay for all that Crack their smoking.
As for a name for the project/distro, how about:
Open-Ed
The more I think about it the more it sounds like an even better idea. Another point could also be made to schools about licensing-hell, or a lack there-of with OSS.
Well, at the time I had started the 2000 track was new. I had been hearing alot about the tests. Some said they were really hard some said they wern't so bad. So, just to be on the safe side I studdied really hard anyway. I made some small networks and messed with those. In the end the tests were not that bad at all. Only two were challenging. The rest were fairly easy, I thought anyway. It just made me wonder about some people having such difficulty with many of the tests. Many people said the infrastructure 70-217 (I think) test was REALLY hard. I found it to be the easiest test of the bunch.
Richie
Absolutly. As an end user, does DRM really benefit me in any way? No. It only benefits those who want controll. Which is what it's all about any way.
Richie
Back in the 60's the USSR launched their own luner rover. One of the Apollo missions found the rover and what did they find inside? Mold (I believe it was) had made its way into the rover on earth and was still alive and growing inside the luner rover on the moon (how exactly is beyond me. I'm not a biologist).
Weather or not the bill passes depends on who pays Gov. Davis most.
Well, I don't know about other MCSE's on /. but I worked my ass off to get mine. Of course I allready had a little experience before hand and had been using computers for 10+ years. Still, many people in my school shouldn't really have been there. Even after passing their a+,n+ or various M$ tests they still didn't have much of a clue. Keeping in mind that these people (as had myself) had spent 8,10 or 15 thousand dollars just to get certified. Although it really was an excellent school and encouraged hands on as much as possible (they did give every student the tools and resources to succeed), still, the school kept pushing the career/money aspect in their ads. So many of the people going to the school were just in it for the money and not the enjoyment of their future jobs. I went to get certified because of my love and enjoyment for computers/networks/etc.
,NMCI (should be called FUBAR), many of the people they were hiring in droves had certifications (A+,N+,MCSE) and were basiclly clueless. I wound up as the roving toubleshooter who fixed problems. Mainly because I had to show these people just how to run a patch cable between two computers and change ip addresses to copy info between computers (among other things, simple and not). We're not talking rocket science here.
At a previous employer
The down turn in the economy was really a blessing in disguise. It shook out much of the dead wood and left the more hardcore/dedicated of the bunch. In the long run it should be a good thing.
Yes.
I used to work on the NMCI project in San Diego. And yes, it is one big cluster F**k. The first impression you get when you first look at the project is that there was no preplanning done! None! Basicly because there wasn't. User profiles, connectivity, old apps, etc. It's as if a couple of guys were sitting around drinking beer and one of them said, "hey, I know, let's upgrade this sucker". After 2 1/2 weeks of working on this "project", I had had enough. The irony was that I was about to be promoted. I was sick of the procedures changing every day, and not working half the time. The looks of the navy/contracter people every time we showed up to do our work for the day. "Oh god, here they come again. They're STILL not done and I need my computer back. How many days are they going to work on my computer", etc. Not that I blamed them one bit. I wouldn't be happy either. Basicly, this is a very amateurish effort. Which is really to bad as there are some really talented people working on it. There just aren't enough of them.
Such a waste.