It seems to me and perhaps I am an idiot but Microsoft could buy Apple with the money that it has and combine Vista and OS-X together to make the best OS ever. It would have all the bells and whistles of OS-X, including reliability and functionality of the system and the software compatibility and corporate contracts that Windows has. As well they would get the iPod and iTunes business. The only problem is or us, Microsoft would surely screw everything up!
The big difference in Solaris, when compared to Linux is that Linux was designed for hackers on old hardware and is being constantly improved for better systems. Solaris was designed to be infinitely scalable and completely redundant for systems running 24/7/365 driving Fortune 500 companies. What this means is better multi-threading (hybrid user-kernel space instead of kernel or user space), better SMP, and resources specifically designed to work with Enterprise level hardware / systems. Though Linux may one day implement these things over time, there is really little reason to if Solaris has these things completed and updates in Solaris track the big SPARC Solaris updates demanded by industry. It seems a no brainer to embrace this offer from Sun. The reason we didn't take Solaris as our primary system was that the early x86 deployments had crappy driver support. It is really a chicken and the egg problem. Drivers don't get written until a lot of people use the OS and the OS is used if the driver supprt sucks. If all the drivers and tools were available on Solaris like they are in Linux, there is no question in this developers mind that Solaris is better, hands down.
Home netwroking can be a pain the ass. I don't want to open up someone's computer to put in a Wifi card, I hate USB devices that really should be PCI devices. I love when a laptop has the Wifi built in. What is the drawback? $10 more for a new computer is well worth it when you don't have to go to the parts store, get a Wifi NIC, install it, troubleshoot it, and maintain it. That makes sense to me.
So you are saying the your cantidate (Bush I am assuming by your post) didn't do the honorable thing 4 years ago when he lost? Oh yeah, one of his election staff was the Secretary of State and counted a win for her cantidate. SO I guess you could say Bush lost before he stole the election last time.
What song would you want that is covered by an Irish Tenor? Sounds like you have some pretty crappy taste in music or you are a total square. Very funny.:p
I ask chicks to come over and look at my collectable blow up dolls at least once a week and I don't understand why I get the cold shoulder. Girls can be so cruel some times..
I think we all learned our lesson when it comes to censorship for the movie OLD SCHOOL:
Mitch:...and all I want to do is get some fucking sleep. Beanie: Whoa. Whoa. Why the F-ing? Why in front of the kid? All ya gotta do is say "earmuffs" to him, and you can say "Fuck, shit, bitch." Frank: Cock. Balls.
This is an interesting point. There are many clusters of information that is relevant to a user based on their information context. To move forward with the Apple example, how would we know if someone is interested in fruit more often or at the present moment than the company. You could search the documents that have been written by the user or you could keep track of the information the user has searched for / looked at in the past. This is what my college research project was about and we successfully pulled information about created content and viewed web content and used bayesian analysis of the results to create a user context, and from there our professors have modified the idea to be more paper writing oriented and it has been published at CHI & IUI http://cs.usfca.edu/~wolber/Research/WebTop/webtop.html. Please read the paper if you would like to see how information clusters are dealt with.
Berfore you link a web page you might want to read it. The page says that this thing is a rack full of the ramsan-320s and not a new fangled device. Probably the order is for 2.5 racks of these connected by some connector, but it is made up of Ramsan-320s.
Microsoft would just buy the rights to Linux from SCO, except the FTC would not allow them to have a monopoly having two of the three comsumer PC OSs. So instead, they made acontract signed in blood with SCO, where SCO is going to make the only free OS, Linux, cost more than Windows ($699 per license). I think that this is a great idea for MS as a business with a revenue stream that is extraordinary and only really threatened by Linux.
The Internet Archive has a copy of the whole internet for the last decade. Under this law, does this mean that they own the content or just that they own their copy of their database & thus people must pay to use their copy of the Internet. If so, we can proclaim that Archive.org owns a copy of the entire Internet.
I read Darl's letter and was appaled that he misses the point of the GPL entirely. Though the copywrite laws are there to encourage commercial growth and the ability to create wealth from IP and brand names, you should inversely be able to ensure your work will not be used for profit for the good of humanity / the general public. The GPL, rather than ensuring a stiffling of cemmercial work, ensures the prosperity of public works. The GPL makes software freely available because those who contribute are excercizing their rights to allow people access to use and distribute their work, without the ability to with hold their work on GPL projects and make money from those changes without redistributing source changes under the GPL. This ensures that the creators interest in keeping their work protected is safe from commercial theft or commercial managment.
I think Darl should look at the fact that many PhDs, Graduate Students would love to work on AIX, Solaris, or any other flavor of commercial UNIX to make modifications, do research, or improve their product merely for the fact of learning. Operating on these systems is impossible for most students and professionals and this is the reason Linux was created and the reason that it continues to be a force in the software world. People are tired of spending money to Companies for a product that they would rather create and contribute to themselves. If we live in a country where you cannot create a free product without profit motive (many companied make money selling and supporting Linux by the way), I am suprised and shocked at our greed. This is like saying you cannot make art that people can view frrely or you cannot have a pot luck and not charge the guests for eating it. The fact that this is software has little to do with the issue unless A) Foriegners make a supercomputer using Linux, in a situation where they could not circumvent the law and use another UNIX, B) We are using a commercial UNIX to copy code from and the vendor that created the code is unwilling to let that information go. I think in the case of B), that SCO does not have a case bacuase IBM never copied the snippets of code from Sys V, because everyone knew through work on BSD and Minix in college what the Sys V code ideas were that made a real Unix like OS. IBM copied their own work and used their developers to make the changes to Linux that they made to AIX. These changes are what make AIX a powerhouse and will bring Linux to the next level.
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At leat I have a clan. I used to play without a clan and it was the worst, Farva get the cofee, Farva clean the bathrooms, Farva get on the radio. Now I have a clan... crying...Oh I am such a loser.
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I wish I had 250 hours to spend making the coolest Star Trek nerd case in the world. I would go on a trip somewhere nice or read a friggen book.
I have been saying all along that it is stupid for MS not to make a PVR on the XBox, it makes sense that they would put this on the XBox2. You can currently buy a PC and install XP Media Center or Linux with MythTV, but you cannot buy an XBox with any PVR? What is up with this. I know that M$ has written the code for XP Media Center that should work on the Xbox (A normal PC with a closed architecture) that does all the PVR stuff, but they will not allow us to use it as a PVR. I say that they should release two models of the XBox2, one for just gaming and one for a few bucks more that works like a Media Center and has a hard disk, PVR, ability to manage pictures and music locally and on the network.
The other thing that sucks about the XBox is incompatibility of game saves with other consoles. I am having a Tiger Woods 2004 tournament with my friends and my golfer is maxed on all of its attributes, way beyond any of my PS2 friends, but since the hard drive has all the game saves and even if I bought a memory card, it would not work on the PS2. I would be so stoked if the game saves worked between consoles on games that they have written for both consoles.
I used to be in charge of all of teh woring at USF and helped lay most of the Cat5+ Cable that was layed in the 90's. I can tell you that they could link Harney 5th floor to the 2nd floor BDF near the elevator & entrance. There is a cable that runs from the BDF to the switch room. In the switch room, there is a line that goes out to the basement of the gym, where the fitness department is. From the basement, running cables upstairs shouldn't be too hard. You could feasably run 1-10 100BaseT switched links direct to the gynasium through the system I have described, if things haven't changed all that much since I graduated in 2000.
We already put this system in place in the movie SPIES LIKE US and Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd showed us in great detail the disaterous effect of these weapons with out source controlled guidance. Perhaps they will find a way for us to improve upon late '80 technology, but they tried this once and the fricken laser beam missed its target.
Also in regards to huge laser beams in space. Val Kilmer showed us that putting a large laser beam in a plane to kill people would not work in the movie REAL GENIUS. People trying to profit from weapons in space will always get outsmarted by engineers with silly a sense of humor. Perhaps this foiling will result in tremendous amounts of popcorn being popped, perhaps liquify the Stay Puff Marchmallow Man, or even cook a hot dog the size of a bus.
I think they should watch some movies before they start spending billions or even trillions of dollors. I think we have gone down these roads before.
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It seems to me and perhaps I am an idiot but Microsoft could buy Apple with the money that it has and combine Vista and OS-X together to make the best OS ever. It would have all the bells and whistles of OS-X, including reliability and functionality of the system and the software compatibility and corporate contracts that Windows has. As well they would get the iPod and iTunes business. The only problem is or us, Microsoft would surely screw everything up!
I thought they were talking about my member, the wanker down under, my Howard Johnson, Longjohn Silver, the high hard one, the wang doodle ...
sometimes I think it is harder than diamonds.
The big difference in Solaris, when compared to Linux is that Linux was designed for hackers on old hardware and is being constantly improved for better systems. Solaris was designed to be infinitely scalable and completely redundant for systems running 24/7/365 driving Fortune 500 companies. What this means is better multi-threading (hybrid user-kernel space instead of kernel or user space), better SMP, and resources specifically designed to work with Enterprise level hardware / systems. Though Linux may one day implement these things over time, there is really little reason to if Solaris has these things completed and updates in Solaris track the big SPARC Solaris updates demanded by industry. It seems a no brainer to embrace this offer from Sun. The reason we didn't take Solaris as our primary system was that the early x86 deployments had crappy driver support. It is really a chicken and the egg problem. Drivers don't get written until a lot of people use the OS and the OS is used if the driver supprt sucks. If all the drivers and tools were available on Solaris like they are in Linux, there is no question in this developers mind that Solaris is better, hands down.
That is fucking frightening!!!
There is a great website that has a video about voter fraud. It is called www.bush-flipflop.com.
Home netwroking can be a pain the ass. I don't want to open up someone's computer to put in a Wifi card, I hate USB devices that really should be PCI devices. I love when a laptop has the Wifi built in. What is the drawback? $10 more for a new computer is well worth it when you don't have to go to the parts store, get a Wifi NIC, install it, troubleshoot it, and maintain it. That makes sense to me.
So you are saying the your cantidate (Bush I am assuming by your post) didn't do the honorable thing 4 years ago when he lost? Oh yeah, one of his election staff was the Secretary of State and counted a win for her cantidate. SO I guess you could say Bush lost before he stole the election last time.
What song would you want that is covered by an Irish Tenor? Sounds like you have some pretty crappy taste in music or you are a total square. Very funny. :p
I ask chicks to come over and look at my collectable blow up dolls at least once a week and I don't understand why I get the cold shoulder. Girls can be so cruel some times..
I think we all learned our lesson when it comes to censorship for the movie OLD SCHOOL:
...and all I want to do is get some fucking sleep.
Mitch:
Beanie: Whoa. Whoa. Why the F-ing? Why in front of the kid? All ya gotta do is say "earmuffs" to him, and you can say "Fuck, shit, bitch."
Frank: Cock. Balls.
Fuck
Sex
Shit
Pussy
Cock
Balls
Nuts
Anal
Rape
Howard Stern
But will it play Org Vorbis?
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these things.
This is an interesting point. There are many clusters of information that is relevant to a user based on their information context. To move forward with the Apple example, how would we know if someone is interested in fruit more often or at the present moment than the company. You could search the documents that have been written by the user or you could keep track of the information the user has searched for / looked at in the past. This is what my college research project was about and we successfully pulled information about created content and viewed web content and used bayesian analysis of the results to create a user context, and from there our professors have modified the idea to be more paper writing oriented and it has been published at CHI & IUI http://cs.usfca.edu/~wolber/Research/WebTop/webtop .html. Please read the paper if you would like to see how information clusters are dealt with.
Imagine a Raid 0 of these things.
Berfore you link a web page you might want to read it. The page says that this thing is a rack full of the ramsan-320s and not a new fangled device. Probably the order is for 2.5 racks of these connected by some connector, but it is made up of Ramsan-320s.
http://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-320/
Microsoft would just buy the rights to Linux from SCO, except the FTC would not allow them to have a monopoly having two of the three comsumer PC OSs. So instead, they made acontract signed in blood with SCO, where SCO is going to make the only free OS, Linux, cost more than Windows ($699 per license). I think that this is a great idea for MS as a business with a revenue stream that is extraordinary and only really threatened by Linux.
The Internet Archive has a copy of the whole internet for the last decade. Under this law, does this mean that they own the content or just that they own their copy of their database & thus people must pay to use their copy of the Internet. If so, we can proclaim that Archive.org owns a copy of the entire Internet.
Cool deal for the Wayback Machine
I Quantum Loop Gravity how they got Sam to Quantum Leap in the show Quantum Leap? This is what I am dying to know from the worlds top scientists!
I read Darl's letter and was appaled that he misses the point of the GPL entirely. Though the copywrite laws are there to encourage commercial growth and the ability to create wealth from IP and brand names, you should inversely be able to ensure your work will not be used for profit for the good of humanity / the general public. The GPL, rather than ensuring a stiffling of cemmercial work, ensures the prosperity of public works. The GPL makes software freely available because those who contribute are excercizing their rights to allow people access to use and distribute their work, without the ability to with hold their work on GPL projects and make money from those changes without redistributing source changes under the GPL. This ensures that the creators interest in keeping their work protected is safe from commercial theft or commercial managment.
I think Darl should look at the fact that many PhDs, Graduate Students would love to work on AIX, Solaris, or any other flavor of commercial UNIX to make modifications, do research, or improve their product merely for the fact of learning. Operating on these systems is impossible for most students and professionals and this is the reason Linux was created and the reason that it continues to be a force in the software world. People are tired of spending money to Companies for a product that they would rather create and contribute to themselves. If we live in a country where you cannot create a free product without profit motive (many companied make money selling and supporting Linux by the way), I am suprised and shocked at our greed. This is like saying you cannot make art that people can view frrely or you cannot have a pot luck and not charge the guests for eating it. The fact that this is software has little to do with the issue unless A) Foriegners make a supercomputer using Linux, in a situation where they could not circumvent the law and use another UNIX, B) We are using a commercial UNIX to copy code from and the vendor that created the code is unwilling to let that information go. I think in the case of B), that SCO does not have a case bacuase IBM never copied the snippets of code from Sys V, because everyone knew through work on BSD and Minix in college what the Sys V code ideas were that made a real Unix like OS. IBM copied their own work and used their developers to make the changes to Linux that they made to AIX. These changes are what make AIX a powerhouse and will bring Linux to the next level.
At leat I have a clan. I used to play without a clan and it was the worst, Farva get the cofee, Farva clean the bathrooms, Farva get on the radio. Now I have a clan... crying ...Oh I am such a loser.
I wish I had 250 hours to spend making the coolest Star Trek nerd case in the world. I would go on a trip somewhere nice or read a friggen book.
I have been saying all along that it is stupid for MS not to make a PVR on the XBox, it makes sense that they would put this on the XBox2. You can currently buy a PC and install XP Media Center or Linux with MythTV, but you cannot buy an XBox with any PVR? What is up with this. I know that M$ has written the code for XP Media Center that should work on the Xbox (A normal PC with a closed architecture) that does all the PVR stuff, but they will not allow us to use it as a PVR. I say that they should release two models of the XBox2, one for just gaming and one for a few bucks more that works like a Media Center and has a hard disk, PVR, ability to manage pictures and music locally and on the network.
The other thing that sucks about the XBox is incompatibility of game saves with other consoles. I am having a Tiger Woods 2004 tournament with my friends and my golfer is maxed on all of its attributes, way beyond any of my PS2 friends, but since the hard drive has all the game saves and even if I bought a memory card, it would not work on the PS2. I would be so stoked if the game saves worked between consoles on games that they have written for both consoles.
I used to be in charge of all of teh woring at USF and helped lay most of the Cat5+ Cable that was layed in the 90's. I can tell you that they could link Harney 5th floor to the 2nd floor BDF near the elevator & entrance. There is a cable that runs from the BDF to the switch room. In the switch room, there is a line that goes out to the basement of the gym, where the fitness department is. From the basement, running cables upstairs shouldn't be too hard. You could feasably run 1-10 100BaseT switched links direct to the gynasium through the system I have described, if things haven't changed all that much since I graduated in 2000.
We already put this system in place in the movie SPIES LIKE US and Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd showed us in great detail the disaterous effect of these weapons with out source controlled guidance. Perhaps they will find a way for us to improve upon late '80 technology, but they tried this once and the fricken laser beam missed its target.
Also in regards to huge laser beams in space. Val Kilmer showed us that putting a large laser beam in a plane to kill people would not work in the movie REAL GENIUS. People trying to profit from weapons in space will always get outsmarted by engineers with silly a sense of humor. Perhaps this foiling will result in tremendous amounts of popcorn being popped, perhaps liquify the Stay Puff Marchmallow Man, or even cook a hot dog the size of a bus.
I think they should watch some movies before they start spending billions or even trillions of dollors. I think we have gone down these roads before.