No one should be allowed to rate movies until one has seen a broad enough range of movies to make a valid judgement. This must include a
Good idea. After all, we can't have unqualified people letting their opinions being known.
For that matter, we should extent it to slashdot as well.
No comments from anyone with a userid higher than 50630. No A/C's either. It's obvious that they haven't been part of the community long enough to know slashdot group think yet.
No comment from anyone who didn't start using Linux before Feb 93 (on a floppy download and at most a 0.99 kernel - otherwise we know you're just jumping on the bandwagon to look 'leet.
No comments from anyone under 35. You young'uns just don't have the life experience to post valid comments.
No comments from anyone who cannot speak at least two languages. Multiple languages gives you more depth and understanding of your mother tongue.
No comments from any Americans, as it's obvious that you never know what you're talking about.
No comments from anyone who doesn't live in Brussles, because you just can't get good fries or waffles anywhere else.
No comments from anyone who doesn't own a black cat called lucifer.
Right, so that appears to leave.... umm.. me.
Ok, slashdot should from now on be called bungodot.
Oracle Financials runs on Linux. Oracle's financials products is also only one part of what they offer on Linux - they also include a full ERP solution.
I've also read some of the other peoples 'informed' comments saying that Linux is not up to running big-time accounting systems. Well, that's just rubbish. I've been installing and setting up Oracle Financial and ERP systems for over 10 years. The latest relaese of Oracle's financial software runs just as well on Linux as it does on Sun Sparc - which both are better than they run on RS/6000 AIX or Win 2000/NT.
Oracle is number 2 in the world for Financials and ERP software, so you can't get much bigger that that. Ok, it's not open source, and it's not cheap (too expensive for small companies), but it's huge and has tens of thousands of users.
No-one can complain that there's nothing good out there for Linux.
So what about high school/college students who are interested in Oracle, SQL Server, Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.? Even at the "discounted" educational price, most apps are way out of budget for
Interesting point.
One correction, you can get a copy of Oracle for free. You just need to sign up to their Technology Network. As long as you don't do anything commerical without first getting the proper licences, then you can do whatever you want.
Internet connections. Yet he can already predict (in the few days he's been browsing the web, presumably) that "Survivor" and "Temptation Island" will be big hits over there. How the hell did he even find out about these shows, let alone learn enough about them to claim
This, I think, does show that Jon was trolled. This is just a little too US-specific, and I think proves that it was someone from the US who has sent it.
I live in Belgium, and I have heard and seen little bits of Survivor, but I have no idea what "Temptation Island" is. It's just not possible for someone in such a short space of time to determine what are the shows currently in the US and know what they're about and if they'd like them.
Hell, only today did I find out what the MST3K actually is, even though I've heard about it for a long time here on slashdot.
>Call me a pessimist, but I no longer believe that it's possible to repair my government
>through established means - including electing the right officials
Cool, so you're anti-US government, so therefore you're un-American and either pro-terrorist or a even terrorist yourself.
Right, where's the phone number of Sen. Mc Ca... or whoever the senetor is these days that is trying to take away all of your freedom. Is there a reward for turning traitors in?
Heh, you think I'm joking, but just wait until the black limos turn up to take you away.
>Afghanistan. Hell, anything's legal there (except women feeding their families). But I am
>CERTAIN they don't care if you make a copy of an N*Sync CD.
I think you're wrong. I'm sure they would care if you had a copy of a N*Sync CD. They would probably consider it an abomination that is not worthy to be listened to.
See, not all things those Afgans believe in are too bad.
If only other countries would ban N*Sync, the world woldbe a better place.
>I am getting so sick of the attitude being expressed regarding pieces like this.....
>All the industry frenzy over this issue has nothing to do with lost sales (which have been
>negligible) and everything to do with preventing independent concerns from commercializing and
>popularizing effective digital music distribution tools.
You may be right, this is probably just to do with crushing the independents and having complete control.
The problem is, they're doing it by having laws passed to take away our rights. Slowly, but surely, they are buying laws and our rights and freedom are going away.
The bigger picture is that, as each of these powerful, rich groups fight for control of their patch of turf, we loose more and more of our freedom, until one day, we wake up and find ourselves with no rights at all.
These domains add confusion and too much generality...
.... I may just be blowing my horn here, but these things are just plain dumb
Ok, they may add confusion, and they may be dumb, but there is one thing they will do very well - adding to the profits of the registars.
Do you really believe that these decisions were made for the good of the people in general? The only reason these came into existance was to make the people in power more money.
The second requires the hacking be used for monetary or material gain beyond just gaining unauthorized access to the computer (unless access is valued over $5000).
And you think that the amount will never be reached? Do you think that the system owners won't inflate any amounts so it becomes over this amount?
How about Randal Schwartz? For what he did he had to pay $68K. Do you really think that stealing a little computer time and access was worth that much?
And how about Kevin Mitnick? One of his crimes was
"downloading of Sun's source code cost the company $80m"
Yes, that right, the same code you can now get for free from Sun. Do you really think that he could have caused that much damage to Sun?
If you attacked my server at home, I could easily make up a figure close to that of $5,000, based on my normal hourly billing rate and making up an amount of time it took to rebuild my system.
If you truly believe that this law will not be used unjustly, then let me tell you about this nice bridge I have for sale.... hardly used, going cheap....
Here in Belgium, about a year or so ago, we all became cashless, although not by choice.
There was a rash of attacks against armored vans carrying cash to/from banks, supermarkets etc. The attacks were very nasty, with gangs using full-automatic weapons to shoot up the vans. All of the van drivers and security guards went on strike until conditions were made more safe. I, nor noone else blamed them and they had alot of support for their strike. Given the situation and the support they got, the strike went on for months until the security companies gave in.
For those months, we all slowly ran out of cash. The only way money was moved around was by headily armed police convoys or police/military helicopters.
The first weeks weren't too bad, as there was alot of cash around, after that, life did get harder, as shops ran out of change - my wife even raided my store of small coins (of which I had alot) to give to a local shop to help keep them with spare change.
Almost all Belgians have EFTPOS cards, and all large shops and alot of smaller ones have EFT systems. This meant that for major purchases (supermarket shopping, fuel), there was no problem and life went on almost as normal. I don't know a single person who doesn't have either and EFT card, or a VISA card, so I don't know anyone who couldn't do their shopping.
The biggest effect was things that required small amounts of money - newspaper, lunch etc.
These days, a type of electronic wallet has been included by all banks onto their EFT cards, so small payments is far less of a problem. Most small shops now have the system, so I can now buy my lunch or newspaper with it.
We all survived quite well during that period, and I think if it happened again, there would be very few problems, and would probably be the push needed to make most cash dissappear. The last strike certainly increased the usage of EFT.
Any other people from Belgium reading care to correct me or add their perceptions of the event?
I'd more like to see a kangaroo which could jump over the Alps (in one jump of course) - a grey wouldn't be able to do it, but maybe a red could if it had a nice tail wind.
Remember, large, profit driver companies are involved here. Think about lightbulbs. It has
been possible for a very long time to create a lightbulb which could last, not for ever, but many years longer than they currently do. What happened? The companies making them realized that making them last only for a short time would make them more money.
My bet would be they would break down and 'die' after 5 years, with the new model being a more pretty colour or some other ground breaking difference.
Mathematica and Matlab are no substitute for a good math teacher. Shockwave Shakespeare is no substitute for a good English Teacher.
That may be true, but the question is, are they better than a bad teacher?
In my final year of highschool, some 20 years ago, I still remember my English teacher. Why? beacause she was crap. Really crap. She was almost the worst English teacher in the school, and the other senior teachers knew it, so she was given the class which contained the worst students, which included me (we were mostly science students for some reason). She called us a class of drop-kicks to the other students. I only passed English due to study I did on my own. I had no assistance from my teacher at all.
I would have loved a computer program to take me through all of the course material. Some feed back, even from a computer, is better than what I recieved.
Until all teachers are better than hopless, there will be a need for computer assistance in the classroom.
By breaking the patent on AIDS drugs, Brazil is definately keeping their long-term interests in mind:
healthier population leads to more human resources
healthier population leads to more grateful constituents who then focus on proactive behavior rather than complaining about their govt
That's just so true. This is in the best interests of the Brazilian politicials.
After all the dead can't vote.
... well, ok, maybe they can if Mircosoft is involved.
So unless your app is a CLI only app, and is a really big help with CLI-type operations, DON'T put it in/bin or/usr/bin. For god sakes, put it in/opt! That's what that directory is for! Put your application in/opt under it's own subdirectory, and don't put anything ANYWHERE else!
No. Please don't put it into/opt. That's just trading one problem for another.
Alot of Solaris software wants to install into/opt - after all, that's why it's there. Well, do you know what happens? Every application ends up with its own directory structure under/opt, with a unique path to its executable.
What you end up with is a $PATH which is impossiblely long, and in some cases too long[1]. This is why alot of pre-complied free software for Solaris installs itself under/usr/local/bin instead.
[1] Too long for some applications. There are problems with some Oracle programs is the $PATH is over a certain length. Removing things and making sure that Oracle executables are near the front can be a real bitch.
Re:Similar but not the same hardware.
on
IBM Wants Linux
·
· Score: 1
Where I work, it's a big IBM shop with mainframe, AS/400s and RS/6000s.
I'll agree that the older AS/400 and RS/6000 product line is different, but from what I've heard from my IBM rep, is that there really isn't much difference between the latest AS/400s and RS/6000s.
If not totally yet, it appears that IBM are moving to make the main difference between the RS/6000s and AS/400s to be the badge on the front and the support/software costs.
I must agree with the other posters and disagree ith you.
I bought a GameBoy Advance without any extra options or games.
Over 20 years ago, I bought an Atari console which didn't come bundled with extras either.
Ok, some companies to it sometime. That's fine - it may, or may not be 'news'.
When a huge monopoly under investigation for illegal business practices does it when trying to
gain control of another market, then I would say, yes that would appear to be an interesting piece
of news.
You, sir are a troll who has been currently modded up to +5. You're just bashing Michael
for no good reason.
Now, if you wanted to bash Michael for a good reason, then you could bash him for a childish
wanker that took down a web site for a project which was not his, not giving it back, and not
responding to questions about it and bitchslapping any discussion about it in/. -
now, that's a good reason but if you did, then it would be off topic.
Given the circumstances of MS business practices, then, whether you're interested or not, this is
a reasonable story for slashdot.
impossible to, say, pick up a DVD in London and play it in Toronto. And guess what. Eight of them had no idea. Of those eight, four refused to believe me. Do the poll yourself and you will probably find the same ratios.
Just checking with the people in the 6 desks around me, every one of them was aware to the
DVD regions.
Of course, the reason is I'm not in North America and therefore I had to get my DVD chipped
to play region 1 DVDs. Most people in region 1 aren't affected by the region encoding, where
as people outside are. DVDs here come out later, are more expensive and usually have less extras than the region 1 DVDs.
Whatever the issue is, I doubt many people who aren't directly affected by it are aware of it.
Now, if they are unaware of an issue, but you make them aware, but it doesn't affect them,
then my guess is they really won't care about it anyway.
As long as the industry manages to hide this stuff, we will never see free media. I do believe that as soon as Joe Public gets inconvenienced, DMCA or not, we will not see these infringements for long. So let's ge tthe word out there.
Well, make the word that they are loosing their freedom of speach, not they they can buy DVDs
in London, and you may have a chance making them care.
Slashdot Mirror
No one should be allowed to rate movies until one has seen a broad enough range of movies to make a valid judgement. This must include a
.... umm.. me.
Good idea. After all, we can't have unqualified people letting their opinions being known.
For that matter, we should extent it to slashdot as well.
No comments from anyone with a userid higher than 50630. No A/C's either. It's obvious that they haven't been part of the community long enough to know slashdot group think yet.
No comment from anyone who didn't start using Linux before Feb 93 (on a floppy download and at most a 0.99 kernel - otherwise we know you're just jumping on the bandwagon to look 'leet.
No comments from anyone under 35. You young'uns just don't have the life experience to post valid comments.
No comments from anyone who cannot speak at least two languages. Multiple languages gives you more depth and understanding of your mother tongue.
No comments from any Americans, as it's obvious that you never know what you're talking about.
No comments from anyone who doesn't live in Brussles, because you just can't get good fries or waffles anywhere else.
No comments from anyone who doesn't own a black cat called lucifer.
Right, so that appears to leave
Ok, slashdot should from now on be called bungodot.
It's it nice that I'm not elitist.
Hey its a duplicate from saturday! Guess I shouldn't post while planning my trek to see LotR tomorrow. Go ahead, flame on.
Please don't flame. This story is about CPU fans.
... And we all know that you shouldn't flame the fans.
Hmm, I haven't seen anyone mention Oracle.
Oracle Financials runs on Linux. Oracle's financials products is also only one part of what they offer on Linux - they also include a full ERP solution.
I've also read some of the other peoples 'informed' comments saying that Linux is not up to running big-time accounting systems. Well, that's just rubbish. I've been installing and setting up Oracle Financial and ERP systems for over 10 years. The latest relaese of Oracle's financial software runs just as well on Linux as it does on Sun Sparc - which both are better than they run on RS/6000 AIX or Win 2000/NT.
Oracle is number 2 in the world for Financials and ERP software, so you can't get much bigger that that. Ok, it's not open source, and it's not cheap (too expensive for small companies), but it's huge and has tens of thousands of users.
No-one can complain that there's nothing good out there for Linux.
So what about high school/college students who are interested in Oracle, SQL Server, Photoshop, Visual Studio, etc.? Even at the "discounted" educational price, most apps are way out of budget for
Interesting point.
One correction, you can get a copy of Oracle for free. You just need to sign up to their Technology Network. As long as you don't do anything commerical without first getting the proper licences, then you can do whatever you want.
I think there's a similar deal for DB2.
Internet connections. Yet he can already predict (in the few days he's been browsing the web, presumably) that "Survivor" and "Temptation Island" will be big hits over there. How the hell did he even find out about these shows, let alone learn enough about them to claim
This, I think, does show that Jon was trolled. This is just a little too US-specific, and I think proves that it was someone from the US who has sent it.
I live in Belgium, and I have heard and seen little bits of Survivor, but I have no idea what "Temptation Island" is. It's just not possible for someone in such a short space of time to determine what are the shows currently in the US and know what they're about and if they'd like them.
Hell, only today did I find out what the MST3K actually is, even though I've heard about it for a long time here on slashdot.
>Call me a pessimist, but I no longer believe that it's possible to repair my government
>through established means - including electing the right officials
Cool, so you're anti-US government, so therefore you're un-American and either pro-terrorist or a even terrorist yourself.
Right, where's the phone number of Sen. Mc Ca... or whoever the senetor is these days that is trying to take away all of your freedom. Is there a reward for turning traitors in?
Heh, you think I'm joking, but just wait until the black limos turn up to take you away.
I am corrupt an greedy, so therefore I'd like my slice of the cake as well.
What is your procedure for including a patent of mine into the standard?
Do we go 50/50, or do you normally take a bigger cut?
I'm willing to go 80/20 in your favour, but only this if you can make it a key part of the standard so we can fleece a whole lot of people.
I don't currently have a patent, nor any good ideas, but that doesn't really matter, does it?
One more question, how do you deal with the men with nice suits and Italian accents trying to muscle into your turf?
>Afghanistan. Hell, anything's legal there (except women feeding their families). But I am
>CERTAIN they don't care if you make a copy of an N*Sync CD.
I think you're wrong. I'm sure they would care if you had a copy of a N*Sync CD. They would probably consider it an abomination that is not worthy to be listened to.
See, not all things those Afgans believe in are too bad.
If only other countries would ban N*Sync, the world woldbe a better place.
>I am getting so sick of the attitude being expressed regarding pieces like this .....
>All the industry frenzy over this issue has nothing to do with lost sales (which have been
>negligible) and everything to do with preventing independent concerns from commercializing and
>popularizing effective digital music distribution tools.
You may be right, this is probably just to do with crushing the independents and having complete control.
The problem is, they're doing it by having laws passed to take away our rights. Slowly, but surely, they are buying laws and our rights and freedom are going away.
The bigger picture is that, as each of these powerful, rich groups fight for control of their patch of turf, we loose more and more of our freedom, until one day, we wake up and find ourselves with no rights at all.
(No, I'm not Jon Katz using anonther login.)
These domains add confusion and too much generality ...
.... I may just be blowing my horn here, but these things are just plain dumb
Ok, they may add confusion, and they may be dumb, but there is one thing they will do very well - adding to the profits of the registars.
Do you really believe that these decisions were made for the good of the people in general? The only reason these came into existance was to make the people in power more money.
The second requires the hacking be used for monetary or material gain beyond just gaining unauthorized access to the computer (unless access is valued over $5000).
And you think that the amount will never be reached? Do you think that the system owners won't inflate any amounts so it becomes over this amount?
How about Randal Schwartz? For what he did he had to pay $68K. Do you really think that stealing a little computer time and access was worth that much?
And how about Kevin Mitnick? One of his crimes was
"downloading of Sun's source code cost the company $80m"
Yes, that right, the same code you can now get for free from Sun. Do you really think that he could have caused that much damage to Sun?
If you attacked my server at home, I could easily make up a figure close to that of $5,000, based on my normal hourly billing rate and making up an amount of time it took to rebuild my system.
If you truly believe that this law will not be used unjustly, then let me tell you about this nice bridge I have for sale.... hardly used, going cheap....
Here in Belgium, about a year or so ago, we all became cashless, although not by choice.
There was a rash of attacks against armored vans carrying cash to/from banks, supermarkets etc. The attacks were very nasty, with gangs using full-automatic weapons to shoot up the vans. All of the van drivers and security guards went on strike until conditions were made more safe. I, nor noone else blamed them and they had alot of support for their strike. Given the situation and the support they got, the strike went on for months until the security companies gave in.
For those months, we all slowly ran out of cash. The only way money was moved around was by headily armed police convoys or police/military helicopters.
The first weeks weren't too bad, as there was alot of cash around, after that, life did get harder, as shops ran out of change - my wife even raided my store of small coins (of which I had alot) to give to a local shop to help keep them with spare change.
Almost all Belgians have EFTPOS cards, and all large shops and alot of smaller ones have EFT systems. This meant that for major purchases (supermarket shopping, fuel), there was no problem and life went on almost as normal. I don't know a single person who doesn't have either and EFT card, or a VISA card, so I don't know anyone who couldn't do their shopping.
The biggest effect was things that required small amounts of money - newspaper, lunch etc.
These days, a type of electronic wallet has been included by all banks onto their EFT cards, so small payments is far less of a problem. Most small shops now have the system, so I can now buy my lunch or newspaper with it.
We all survived quite well during that period, and I think if it happened again, there would be very few problems, and would probably be the push needed to make most cash dissappear. The last strike certainly increased the usage of EFT.
Any other people from Belgium reading care to correct me or add their perceptions of the event?
> Jesus H. Christ I hope you're wrong.
>
>I'm curious, what's his middle name?
That'd be Harold.
You know....
Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name....
I'd more like to see a kangaroo which could jump over the Alps (in one jump of course) - a grey wouldn't be able to do it, but maybe a red could if it had a nice tail wind.
Do you really think that they would live forever?
Remember, large, profit driver companies are involved here. Think about lightbulbs. It has
been possible for a very long time to create a lightbulb which could last, not for ever, but many years longer than they currently do. What happened? The companies making them realized that making them last only for a short time would make them more money.
My bet would be they would break down and 'die' after 5 years, with the new model being a more pretty colour or some other ground breaking difference.
No, you're wrong.
I went there skiing (in Innsbruk) last winter, and I didn't see a single kangaroo.
And I drove there through southern Germany, so at least I should have seen some along the way if
they existed....
... oh, of course the Alps could be a bit too high for them to jump over, which is why they don't
make it into Germany.
Mathematica and Matlab are no substitute for a good math teacher. Shockwave Shakespeare is no substitute for a good English Teacher.
That may be true, but the question is, are they better than a bad teacher?
In my final year of highschool, some 20 years ago, I still remember my English teacher. Why? beacause she was crap. Really crap. She was almost the worst English teacher in the school, and the other senior teachers knew it, so she was given the class which contained the worst students, which included me (we were mostly science students for some reason). She called us a class of drop-kicks to the other students. I only passed English due to study I did on my own. I had no assistance from my teacher at all.
I would have loved a computer program to take me through all of the course material. Some feed back, even from a computer, is better than what I recieved.
Until all teachers are better than hopless, there will be a need for computer assistance in the classroom.
By breaking the patent on AIDS drugs, Brazil is definately keeping their long-term interests in mind:
healthier population leads to more human resources
healthier population leads to more grateful constituents who then focus on proactive behavior rather than complaining about their govt
That's just so true. This is in the best interests of the Brazilian politicials.
After all the dead can't vote.
... well, ok, maybe they can if Mircosoft is involved.
So unless your app is a CLI only app, and is a really big help with CLI-type operations, DON'T put it in /bin or /usr/bin. For god sakes, put it in /opt! That's what that directory is for! Put your application in /opt under it's own subdirectory, and don't put anything ANYWHERE else!
/opt. That's just trading one problem for another.
/opt - after all, that's why it's there. Well, do you know what happens? Every application ends up with its own directory structure under /opt, with a unique path to its executable.
/usr/local/bin instead.
No. Please don't put it into
Alot of Solaris software wants to install into
What you end up with is a $PATH which is impossiblely long, and in some cases too long[1]. This is why alot of pre-complied free software for Solaris installs itself under
[1] Too long for some applications. There are problems with some Oracle programs is the $PATH is over a certain length. Removing things and making sure that Oracle executables are near the front can be a real bitch.
Where I work, it's a big IBM shop with mainframe, AS/400s and RS/6000s.
I'll agree that the older AS/400 and RS/6000 product line is different, but from what I've heard from my IBM rep, is that there really isn't much difference between the latest AS/400s and RS/6000s.
If not totally yet, it appears that IBM are moving to make the main difference between the RS/6000s and AS/400s to be the badge on the front and the support/software costs.
I must agree with the other posters and disagree ith you.
/. -
I bought a GameBoy Advance without any extra options or games.
Over 20 years ago, I bought an Atari console which didn't come bundled with extras either.
Ok, some companies to it sometime. That's fine - it may, or may not be 'news'.
When a huge monopoly under investigation for illegal business practices does it when trying to
gain control of another market, then I would say, yes that would appear to be an interesting piece
of news.
You, sir are a troll who has been currently modded up to +5. You're just bashing Michael
for no good reason.
Now, if you wanted to bash Michael for a good reason, then you could bash him for a childish
wanker that took down a web site for a project which was not his, not giving it back, and not
responding to questions about it and bitchslapping any discussion about it in
now, that's a good reason but if you did, then it would be off topic.
Given the circumstances of MS business practices, then, whether you're interested or not, this is
a reasonable story for slashdot.
impossible to, say, pick up a DVD in London and play it in Toronto. And guess what. Eight of them had no idea. Of those eight, four refused to believe me. Do the poll yourself and you will probably find the same ratios.
Just checking with the people in the 6 desks around me, every one of them was aware to the
DVD regions.
Of course, the reason is I'm not in North America and therefore I had to get my DVD chipped
to play region 1 DVDs. Most people in region 1 aren't affected by the region encoding, where
as people outside are. DVDs here come out later, are more expensive and usually have less extras than the region 1 DVDs.
Whatever the issue is, I doubt many people who aren't directly affected by it are aware of it.
Now, if they are unaware of an issue, but you make them aware, but it doesn't affect them,
then my guess is they really won't care about it anyway.
As long as the industry manages to hide this stuff, we will never see free media. I do believe that as soon as Joe Public gets inconvenienced, DMCA or not, we will not see these infringements for long. So let's ge tthe word out there.
Well, make the word that they are loosing their freedom of speach, not they they can buy DVDs
in London, and you may have a chance making them care.
Damn!
So that's why Nader didn't make to be president.
>A cute little *nix variant with a 4 button keyboard.
>Up, Down, Forward, Back.
That sounds great!
Now, if I enter UP UP DOWN DOWN FORWARD FORWARD BACK, will I get the magic power up
that will make Nader president?
>Last time I checked Microsoft for all the shit they pull can't put me in jail.
What? A large software company can't put someone in jail?
That's a relief.
I'll pop over and tell Dimitry that he can take his passport back and go home then.