If you want cheap Xbox games, move to the Seattle area, make friends with a MS employee, and get him or her to buy you games at the Microsoft Store at $10 each.:)
The interviewer asked him if he could speak at all about his present job, (I forget which company.)
That would be Transmeta, makers of the Crusoe CPU. It's quite typical for a start-up company to be very hush-hush until they've actually released a product, especially in a highly competitive field.
Transmeta is a hardware company. He doesn't work on closed source software there--he works on the Linux kernel. --
The original post I responded to was regarding hardware configuration--linuxconf, Harddrake, etc--tools that mimic things like Windows device manager and that crap mmc shit that comes with Win2k.
Hardware configuration is not an everyday task. You'll do it once, and then a couple years later when you upgrade some piece of hardware, you'll do it again. For low level admin-type tasks like a hardware upgrade, I'd much rather deal with clean text files than mess with a GUI device manager. Text-based configuration typically gives you far greater control than a GUI-based system.
Windows looks pretty and all for admnistration, until something goes wrong. Then it's goddamn nearly impossible to troubleshoot and fix.
However, most Windows users coming over to Unix don't see things like this. They want to be able to point and click their way through system admistration because that's what their familiar with. They don't realize how much easier a Unix system can be to adminstrate. That's the point I was trying to make...
Of course, for user-level configuration, GUI tools are quite nice and every major linux window manager has them. So what's the problem here?
Just because MS Windows fools the user into thinking that system administration is on the same level as user configuration doesn't mean that's the way it should be. --
> If I were new to Linux, I'd be looking to these control panels...
Well, that's the key, isn't it? Because in MS Windows, you could change some system settings in a GUI control panel, you expect to be able to do the same thing in Linux.
Guess what? Linux isn't Windows.
It's funny, most old-school Unix people don't seem to have any trouble with textfile-based communication. It's only the Windows users that switch over and expect to do everything in Linux the same way as in Windows.
It's almost as if they assume the Microsoft way is the best way... Seems logical, right?
Nuclear power is very efficient, and does not pollute much. Sure, the pollutants are highly toxic, but there is a smaller proportion of it, than to coal power (as an example). I'd rather have nuclear than coal. Coal pollutes the atmosphere and is far worse than nuclear power, as is oil, and other fossil-fuel based power sources.
Nope, nuclear power isn't very efficient. You're producing huge amounts of heat just to boil water, just like coal power plants.
Converting heat energy to mechanical energy is really hard to do efficiently, and it doesn't matter if the heat comes from oil, coal, the sun...
Fusion power is not economical yet either, although there are projects in the works.
Ummm, last I checked, it wasn't just economically impossible, it's technologically impossible. We can't yet sustain a fusion reaction.
Right in the abstract, the author lays down his bias: "Unsolicited Electronic Mail, also called 'spam'". Not all unsolicited electronic mail is spam!
Ok, but all unsolicited *commercial* email (ie., one with the intent of making money off you) is spam. Every single god damn one.
In the same vein, e-commerce companies emailing their loyal customers about limited time offers and promotions is far different from the crapflood-esque pyramid schemes from.nl addresses that put 10,000 emails in your box by raping a mail relay, or porn promotions that include web bugs to check when you've opened the email and start spamming you with a message a minute.
No. If it's unsolicited, it's no different. It's only ok if you agreed to their mailings.
Only commercial offers are spam? Come ON. Direct marketing is as American as apple pie. The Internet is no different.
Bullshit. All unsolicited marketing should be illegal. If I want to hear about your product, I'll find about it myself. Otherwise, fuck off. I deserve the freedom to be left alone from you fucks.
Why is this +5? This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
The Mach number is defined as M = v / a, where a is the speed of sound. a is defined as:
a^2 = gamma * p / ro
where gamma is the ratio of specific heats
p is the pressure
ro is the density
So, to say the mach number varies greatly with density isn't exactly true.
The difference between scramjets and ramjets is the mach number of the flow in the combustor. A ramjet has approx. 0 mach number in the combustor, and a scramjet has >1 mach (supersonic combustion... SCramjet... get it?)
And your descriptions of super/hyper/etc flows are inaccurate. The definitions are largely based on the shockwave behavior in the intakes (not that flows are "untrue" to each other). That stuff's confusing though, so I'm not gonna try to explain it.
A much simpler and more effective approach are proxy servers run by isp's. They significantly reduce the/. effect because the server will cache a site after the first user behind the proxy hits it, and then all the rest of the users get the cached content.
Now if only people would use the proxy servers their isp's provide...
Increases in sales won't actually mean greater revenue, just greater gross profits. The revenue would be offset by the development and maintainence costs of the registration system. Small increases in sales could mean that MS would be losing money...
Hahaha, Mandrake Spelunker... Didn't anyone else find this funny?
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It's an interesting concept, but I don't see it ever happening. Currently, we can't manufacture anything and everything at no cost, but we can do it pretty damn cheaply. And, we have plenty of things in our civilization that are somewhat akin to open-source. For example, you can buy an automobile, crack open the hood, and tinker and hack away to your heart's content. You are (more or less) free to modify it however you like.
In fact, software is one of the few things that tends to be closed.
However, we are not anywhere near communism. We probably have the technology to support a society of equals, provided each person worked only 5 or so hours a week. Instead, we are working harder than ever. 40 hours/week is the minimum. 50 or 60 is common. And it's not because they enjoy working. The vast majority of people hate their jobs.
Basically, we, as a society, work way too hard, which gives us too much wealth, drives up inflation, and ultimately ends up in huge amounts of wealth for the people at the top. Consequently, we have multibillionaires like Bill Gates. Hell, we have so much wealth that we pay athletes enormous sums of money just to watch them play a game.
Most people are sheep. They don't have a clue what to do and need a higher authority to command them. That's why they'll spend 90% of their waking time doing stuff they hate no matter how illogical. And that's why equal societies unfortunately will never work.
"This makes me absolutely irate - when did "Person" and "Society" get replaced with "Consumer" and "Market"?!?! And when did it become necessary to measure everything by a 'dollar yardstick'?!?"
When corporate America became too powerful, took over the government, and started feeding us the "capitalism == freedom" bullshit. Free business and personal freedom are mutually exclusive, and tend to work against each other. The propaganda machine won't ever tell you that though.
If this world was run my way, spam in any form would be illegal. I should only receive spam if I ask for it. I shouldn't ever have to decline spam. I should never receive a phone call from a telemarketer, or an unsolicited phone call from any other jackass asking for anything. I shouldn't be bothered by a salesman who asks if I need help. If I need fucking help, I'll ask for it, thank you.
Should someone I don't know get jail time for sending me an email after reading a post of mine on a message board? No. Personal contact is acceptable. But, if he annoys me and I ask him not to bother me again but he keeps sending me shit, then yes, he should be jailed.
To me, this is freedom. I should be free to live life without being constantly harrassed. I can do whatever I damn well please as long as I don't bother anyone else. Freedom is not sending millions of people crap email. That's an encroachment on the freedom of all those people.
What if all unsolicited contact was banned for *commercial* use only, if it was be illegal to bother people if you were trying to make money from them? Why should any business have the same freedom and priviledges that an individual has?
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If you want cheap Xbox games, move to the Seattle area, make friends with a MS employee, and get him or her to buy you games at the Microsoft Store at $10 each. :)
I've never seen Mac Opera, but I'm sure it uses the Qt toolkit on the Mac, like it does on Windows and Linux.
The service, originally code-named Hailstorm and later renamed My Services, was to be the clearest example of the company's ambitious .Net strategy.
That would be Transmeta, makers of the Crusoe CPU. It's quite typical for a start-up company to be very hush-hush until they've actually released a product, especially in a highly competitive field.
Transmeta is a hardware company. He doesn't work on closed source software there--he works on the Linux kernel.
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Now that's the most logical statement I've seen on /. in a loooong time.
Black & White sucks. Gesture controls suck. Get a fucking clue people.
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The original post I responded to was regarding hardware configuration--linuxconf, Harddrake, etc--tools that mimic things like Windows device manager and that crap mmc shit that comes with Win2k.
Hardware configuration is not an everyday task. You'll do it once, and then a couple years later when you upgrade some piece of hardware, you'll do it again. For low level admin-type tasks like a hardware upgrade, I'd much rather deal with clean text files than mess with a GUI device manager. Text-based configuration typically gives you far greater control than a GUI-based system.
Windows looks pretty and all for admnistration, until something goes wrong. Then it's goddamn nearly impossible to troubleshoot and fix.
However, most Windows users coming over to Unix don't see things like this. They want to be able to point and click their way through system admistration because that's what their familiar with. They don't realize how much easier a Unix system can be to adminstrate. That's the point I was trying to make...
Of course, for user-level configuration, GUI tools are quite nice and every major linux window manager has them. So what's the problem here?
Just because MS Windows fools the user into thinking that system administration is on the same level as user configuration doesn't mean that's the way it should be.
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> If I were new to Linux, I'd be looking to these control panels...
Well, that's the key, isn't it? Because in MS Windows, you could change some system settings in a GUI control panel, you expect to be able to do the same thing in Linux.
Guess what? Linux isn't Windows.
It's funny, most old-school Unix people don't seem to have any trouble with textfile-based communication. It's only the Windows users that switch over and expect to do everything in Linux the same way as in Windows.
It's almost as if they assume the Microsoft way is the best way... Seems logical, right?
Hmmm...
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Nope, nuclear power isn't very efficient. You're producing huge amounts of heat just to boil water, just like coal power plants.
Converting heat energy to mechanical energy is really hard to do efficiently, and it doesn't matter if the heat comes from oil, coal, the sun...
Fusion power is not economical yet either, although there are projects in the works.
Ummm, last I checked, it wasn't just economically impossible, it's technologically impossible. We can't yet sustain a fusion reaction.
At least you got the safety stuff right...
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Ok, but all unsolicited *commercial* email (ie., one with the intent of making money off you) is spam. Every single god damn one.
In the same vein, e-commerce companies emailing their loyal customers about limited time offers and promotions is far different from the crapflood-esque pyramid schemes from .nl addresses that put 10,000 emails in your box by raping a mail relay, or porn promotions that include web bugs to check when you've opened the email and start spamming you with a message a minute.
No. If it's unsolicited, it's no different. It's only ok if you agreed to their mailings.
Only commercial offers are spam? Come ON. Direct marketing is as American as apple pie. The Internet is no different.
Bullshit. All unsolicited marketing should be illegal. If I want to hear about your product, I'll find about it myself. Otherwise, fuck off. I deserve the freedom to be left alone from you fucks.
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Why is this +5? This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
The Mach number is defined as M = v / a, where a is the speed of sound. a is defined as:
a^2 = gamma * p / ro
where gamma is the ratio of specific heats
p is the pressure
ro is the density
So, to say the mach number varies greatly with density isn't exactly true.
The difference between scramjets and ramjets is the mach number of the flow in the combustor. A ramjet has approx. 0 mach number in the combustor, and a scramjet has >1 mach (supersonic combustion... SCramjet... get it?)
And your descriptions of super/hyper/etc flows are inaccurate. The definitions are largely based on the shockwave behavior in the intakes (not that flows are "untrue" to each other). That stuff's confusing though, so I'm not gonna try to explain it.
Hope this clears some things up.
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Jesus, someone please mod this moron down.
Gnutella, peer-to-peer, blah blah...
/. effect because the server will cache a site after the first user behind the proxy hits it, and then all the rest of the users get the cached content.
A much simpler and more effective approach are proxy servers run by isp's. They significantly reduce the
Now if only people would use the proxy servers their isp's provide...
Actually, I thought that the MGS produced images with a surface resolution of about 2 meters. Therefore, the MPL would appear as a single pixel.
That's what I remember a Cornell professor who was involved in the MPL project saying anyway...
Increases in sales won't actually mean greater revenue, just greater gross profits. The revenue would be offset by the development and maintainence costs of the registration system. Small increases in sales could mean that MS would be losing money...
Did I say that right? I sucked at econ...
Hahaha, Mandrake Spelunker... Didn't anyone else find this funny?
It's an interesting concept, but I don't see it ever happening. Currently, we can't manufacture anything and everything at no cost, but we can do it pretty damn cheaply. And, we have plenty of things in our civilization that are somewhat akin to open-source. For example, you can buy an automobile, crack open the hood, and tinker and hack away to your heart's content. You are (more or less) free to modify it however you like.
In fact, software is one of the few things that tends to be closed.
However, we are not anywhere near communism. We probably have the technology to support a society of equals, provided each person worked only 5 or so hours a week. Instead, we are working harder than ever. 40 hours/week is the minimum. 50 or 60 is common. And it's not because they enjoy working. The vast majority of people hate their jobs.
Basically, we, as a society, work way too hard, which gives us too much wealth, drives up inflation, and ultimately ends up in huge amounts of wealth for the people at the top. Consequently, we have multibillionaires like Bill Gates. Hell, we have so much wealth that we pay athletes enormous sums of money just to watch them play a game.
Most people are sheep. They don't have a clue what to do and need a higher authority to command them. That's why they'll spend 90% of their waking time doing stuff they hate no matter how illogical. And that's why equal societies unfortunately will never work.
"This makes me absolutely irate - when did "Person" and "Society" get replaced with "Consumer" and "Market"?!?! And when did it become necessary to measure everything by a 'dollar yardstick'?!?"
When corporate America became too powerful, took over the government, and started feeding us the "capitalism == freedom" bullshit. Free business and personal freedom are mutually exclusive, and tend to work against each other. The propaganda machine won't ever tell you that though.
If this world was run my way, spam in any form would be illegal. I should only receive spam if I ask for it. I shouldn't ever have to decline spam. I should never receive a phone call from a telemarketer, or an unsolicited phone call from any other jackass asking for anything. I shouldn't be bothered by a salesman who asks if I need help. If I need fucking help, I'll ask for it, thank you.
Should someone I don't know get jail time for sending me an email after reading a post of mine on a message board? No. Personal contact is acceptable. But, if he annoys me and I ask him not to bother me again but he keeps sending me shit, then yes, he should be jailed.
To me, this is freedom. I should be free to live life without being constantly harrassed. I can do whatever I damn well please as long as I don't bother anyone else. Freedom is not sending millions of people crap email. That's an encroachment on the freedom of all those people.
What if all unsolicited contact was banned for *commercial* use only, if it was be illegal to bother people if you were trying to make money from them? Why should any business have the same freedom and priviledges that an individual has?