I think it's actually POO-POOs, but who's spel checkin'.
Also, it seems to me that I saw that in a War Games once, that they wanted to get the men out of the loop and let computers start making decisions on their own. Basically, in the movie, that was a bad idea.
In the end, compare these values with what it costed companies such as Sun, Apple or Microsoft and you'll get its actual cost...
Ah, the cost is going to actually be higher for Linux due to some paradoxes within Economics, opportunity cost, economies of scale. But I'm quite sure you would have come to the same conclusion. Not really a good way to compare the two....
This is Chaos Theory 101 if I'm not correct (INAM::I'm not a mathematician)? The class CT example is having weather scensors 100 feet covering the earth and still storm prediction would be impossible due to small variations of unpredicatability.
So if someones says something about dinosours on an island, just remember I told you so...
I'm not suggesting you are not a true-blue American. But you could make a case for legal status in the RoK. I, on the other hand, have absolutely no legal standing in another country. I think we could argue the gray area all day, which is why its so much easier to keep the naturalization requirement in the constitution. It draws a line in the sand. I also find it funny that no one argues the 35 year age limit which is much more arbitrary.
Good point. But I still think I have the more solid argument.
Democracy should be as inclusive as possible. Our country is made up of immigrants. Your place of birth should not disqualify someone from serving as president or vice president.
Actually, our current specification for President is quite immigrant friendly. Remember, this was put into place because, as it is in the UK's house of Lords, your title, or seat, is handed down from father to son.
Regardless of what you do, you can never be elected to this house. But the US system is different, it says that regardless of the heritage of your father, so long as your are born here in the US (to insure you have no title and or allegiance to another country) - you can hold the highest office. It is actually quite profound once you realize why it is the way it is.
As a person of non-color, I've been upset for sometime at the advertisements on Slashdot by the sponser SYBASE. The offending advertisement in question shows a monster pounding a person of non-color into the ground with a spike club, literally as a spike of somesort.
If this were any other minority we would assume racism. However, what is good for the goose... is slashdot and or sybase racist? Does sybase hate white people?
I have fever and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL. I mean your gonna want that COWBELL. If Bruce Dickenson says MORE COWBELL then I think we ought to listen to Bruce and give him what he wants MORE COWBELL. Really try to explore this space with your COWBELL, really let loose. Seriously, love that COWBELL.
For a fleeting moment he had meaning. As the great Google spotlight flooded his small part of the world, he felt alive. He stood there at the Nexus, information flowing around him, through him, he was some Great Information God. His crappy site/photo/video gave meaning to others. And at the apex, when his Google page-rank was increasing like the US deficit he actually felt its heat, its beauty...
... and then just as quickly as it came, the light dimmed, the spotlight moved on. The all seeing Eye of Sauron moves away searching, searching, searching. It is all left dim, dark, and hollow...
My pet peeve is articles that paint a lot of wild brush strokes. My company is seriously considering a Linux strategy, but a big MS shop currently. I think this article dumbs down the debate too much.
The pioneers of open source were more interested in building software that helped them achieve both social and technical goals than in taking advantage of the business aspects of open source.
-- I hear this argument alot, I assume the social goals are reducing crime, homelessness, poverty, etc. What social goals can you achieve through an operating system? This goes for Microsoft as well. Seems a little overreaching.
The open source model offers the promise to help businesses thrive in an Internet-based economy provided there is an understanding of the economic, cultural, and political factors that comprise an effective open source strategy.
-- Does it offer the promise or deliver on it? Microsoft offers a lot of promises too!
Providing greater value to customers than competitors can is the key to building a successful business. A successful software business model requires a number of elements that are just as important for open source software as for proprietary software.
-- So open source operates under the laws of economics. I actually applaud this paragraph, shows some realism.
Standards: To promote collaboration.
-- I'm beginning to decry standards. With standards you wouldn't get the giraffe or the duck-billed platypus. OS should evolve.
External contributors are usually motivated by the prospect of working with software that solves important problems for them and others, by the possibility of future gain via the provision of related service and products, by the opportunity to increase their own personal knowledge, or by the satisfaction of building a good reputation among their peers.
-- so we are motivated by intellectual pursuits, money, learning, and ego.
Open source promotes standards and interoperability to the degree that we have not seen in the past.
-- I think I could argue either way on this one.
This usually leads to competition for resources and talent with each software development group acting as a separate company. Open source re-unites development efforts because people throughout a company have access to code.
-- So at RedHat they don't compete for internal resources -- there are no politics? -- and people have access to DEVELOPMENT code. I think you underestimate the power of the dark side. People are people.
This creates high efficiencies in the development of software products and reduces time-to-market.
-- Again, money is a good motivator. Early you said OS operates under the law of economics. Why wouldn't a PS (proprietary sofware) company?
Open source, when it works well, can produce high value, high quality, low cost, portable, and no vendor lock-in software that can be exploited by a number of business models.
--What happens when it works badly? Can it turn out the same garbage I get from MS?
As a result, Red Hat developed a business model to exploit the commodity business.
--Probably the single greatest sentence to be uttered in any article anywhere on the topic of technology. So much could be said about that...
This allows customers to continue to scale their infrastructure at a lower cost than before, and in some cases at a lower cost than they were predicting six or even three months ago. The business value provided by open source translates into savings for the customer.
Developers receive value from open source, but it is more personal value than business value.
--Are we talking Indian programmers or US programmers?
Open source developers have the opportunity to influence technology that is being used by companies and do it on a global scale in a way that cannot occur with any other type of software.
--So the guy who came up with Internet Explorer doesn't influence technology?
With the TI-84 Plus, all students can now share their work by connecting their TI-84 Plus to any TI presentation tools for the whole class to see, fostering a collaborative learning environment.*
(*) Kids can now network to the smart kid in class and steal answers via infrared USB. No longer do you have to seat near the geek to get good grades!
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical?" Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky. Rivers and seas boiling. Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave. Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
Is it just me, or does that guy with the TRON outfit look like the dude in Office Space always talking about his Swingline stapler? I'm serious, I think they're the same dood.
For some reason, which someone in the network group at my company would have to explain, is that with RealPlayer I get an access denied message when trying to playing RealPlayer content. However, with Windows Media Player, it asks for "authentication" which already has my NT Account information cached. It almost seems like RealPlayer cannot negotiate with my proxy client... anyway seems like I can get passed all the road-blocks with WRP.
As an aside, I don't think there's anything special going on in the network group that's blocking RealPlayer, I just think there is something different between the clients.
I like Bob, but invariably he always argues the economics from the business side. What about what you and I paid for this legal battle? What is the average cost of an anti-trust proceeding?
What they needed in this, and many other anti-trust cases, is to think outside the box: why not use the RICO statutes? What not have the Federal Trade Commission declare Microsoft OS defective and pull it from shelves? Why not go after Bill and Steve like they did with Enron's Skilling and Lay?
I think Bob is a good at prognosticating, but seriously, every time he starts talking BUSINESS he simply misses the point.
I recently tried out the Wal-Mart 99c per song download and found it pretty cool, DRM and all. I was able to download to my work computer and then copy to my home computer (with the license). So both are viable in both locations.
The only downer is the fact that if you lose the licenses you're screwed.
Also worked on my MP3-player so I can take the song running.
The interesting note is I charged the song. So it ended up being 99c. This was the only charge for the month on my credit card. However, my balance for the month was zero! Wal-Mart had given me a 'Small Balance Credit' which I assume is that it's probably less of a loss (99c) then some transaction fee (several dollors) from the credit card company.
So I guess you get twelve free songs a year if you handle this correctly!
I have only install Linux once; sometime ago. This is not about Linux, but about my thought on interfaces. There has been a few slashdot articles recently about it. But it's funny how we are standardizing in some respects: clock lower right with other current running program icons. Start somewhere left, with a menu of some sort. Upper left Icons concerning Networking, My Computer, etc.
I guess it's really that it's like the phone. The design is so simple and elegant that it's hard to radically change something so right from a design perspective. I guess regardless of OS we have some general sense of where things should go on the real-estate. I think this is, as Martha would say, a good thing.
I have often found that cell-phone (mobile) carriers have the vast array of plans which overlap and seem to not really give you feeling that you have a well-fitting plan.
Also, it's that Coke in a 1-liter bottle versus 6-cans versus 6 glass-bottles versus...
I tend to re-buy crap for this very reason: the first purchase I realize now why it was so cheap, the second purchase while more expensive I realize it's just over-hyped. The third typically is a good cost-to-quality ratio.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's actually POO-POOs, but who's spel checkin'.
Also, it seems to me that I saw that in a War Games once, that they wanted to get the men out of the loop and let computers start making decisions on their own. Basically, in the movie, that was a bad idea.
Peace Out.
In the end, compare these values with what it costed companies such as Sun, Apple or Microsoft and you'll get its actual cost...
....
Ah, the cost is going to actually be higher for Linux due to some paradoxes within Economics, opportunity cost, economies of scale. But I'm quite sure you would have come to the same conclusion. Not really a good way to compare the two
This is Chaos Theory 101 if I'm not correct (INAM::I'm not a mathematician)? The class CT example is having weather scensors 100 feet covering the earth and still storm prediction would be impossible due to small variations of unpredicatability.
...
So if someones says something about dinosours on an island, just remember I told you so
Someone had a case of the Mondays. I hear he got fed up with a guy named Lumbergh.
I'm not suggesting you are not a true-blue American. But you could make a case for legal status in the RoK. I, on the other hand, have absolutely no legal standing in another country. I think we could argue the gray area all day, which is why its so much easier to keep the naturalization requirement in the constitution. It draws a line in the sand. I also find it funny that no one argues the 35 year age limit which is much more arbitrary.
Good point. But I still think I have the more solid argument.
Peace Out.
Democracy should be as inclusive as possible. Our country is made up of immigrants. Your place of birth should not disqualify someone from serving as president or vice president.
Actually, our current specification for President is quite immigrant friendly. Remember, this was put into place because, as it is in the UK's house of Lords, your title, or seat, is handed down from father to son.
Regardless of what you do, you can never be elected to this house. But the US system is different, it says that regardless of the heritage of your father, so long as your are born here in the US (to insure you have no title and or allegiance to another country) - you can hold the highest office. It is actually quite profound once you realize why it is the way it is.
As a person of non-color, I've been upset for sometime at the advertisements on Slashdot by the sponser SYBASE. The offending advertisement in question shows a monster pounding a person of non-color into the ground with a spike club, literally as a spike of somesort.
... is slashdot and or sybase racist? Does sybase hate white people?
If this were any other minority we would assume racism. However, what is good for the goose
I have fever and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL. I mean your gonna want that COWBELL. If Bruce Dickenson says MORE COWBELL then I think we ought to listen to Bruce and give him what he wants MORE COWBELL. Really try to explore this space with your COWBELL, really let loose. Seriously, love that COWBELL.
The question, which has remained until now, unanswered: do nerds look like nerds at 1000 feet?
I believe, after reviewing the photographic evidence...yes.
MOD parent up, quite funny. The four stages of acceptance in such a short post: DENIAL, DEPRESSION, ANGER, ACCEPTANCE.
.... "can I see?" post ...
Kind of "oh my"
For a fleeting moment he had meaning. As the great Google spotlight flooded his small part of the world, he felt alive. He stood there at the Nexus, information flowing around him, through him, he was some Great Information God. His crappy site/photo/video gave meaning to others. And at the apex, when his Google page-rank was increasing like the US deficit he actually felt its heat, its beauty ...
... and then just as quickly as it came, the light dimmed, the spotlight moved on. The all seeing Eye of Sauron moves away searching, searching, searching. It is all left dim, dark, and hollow ...
My pet peeve is articles that paint a lot of wild brush strokes. My company is seriously considering a Linux strategy, but a big MS shop currently. I think this article dumbs down the debate too much.
The pioneers of open source were more interested in building software that helped them achieve both social and technical goals than in taking advantage of the business aspects of open source.
-- I hear this argument alot, I assume the social goals are reducing crime, homelessness, poverty, etc. What social goals can you achieve through an operating system? This goes for Microsoft as well. Seems a little overreaching.
The open source model offers the promise to help businesses thrive in an Internet-based economy provided there is an understanding of the economic, cultural, and political factors that comprise an effective open source strategy.
-- Does it offer the promise or deliver on it? Microsoft offers a lot of promises too!
Providing greater value to customers than competitors can is the key to building a successful business. A successful software business model requires a number of elements that are just as important for open source software as for proprietary software.
-- So open source operates under the laws of economics. I actually applaud this paragraph, shows some realism.
Standards: To promote collaboration.
-- I'm beginning to decry standards. With standards you wouldn't get the giraffe or the duck-billed platypus. OS should evolve.
External contributors are usually motivated by the prospect of working with software that solves important problems for them and others, by the possibility of future gain via the provision of related service and products, by the opportunity to increase their own personal knowledge, or by the satisfaction of building a good reputation among their peers.
-- so we are motivated by intellectual pursuits, money, learning, and ego.
Open source promotes standards and interoperability to the degree that we have not seen in the past.
-- I think I could argue either way on this one.
This usually leads to competition for resources and talent with each software development group acting as a separate company. Open source re-unites development efforts because people throughout a company have access to code.
-- So at RedHat they don't compete for internal resources -- there are no politics? -- and people have access to DEVELOPMENT code. I think you underestimate the power of the dark side. People are people.
This creates high efficiencies in the development of software products and reduces time-to-market.
-- Again, money is a good motivator. Early you said OS operates under the law of economics. Why wouldn't a PS (proprietary sofware) company?
Open source, when it works well, can produce high value, high quality, low cost, portable, and no vendor lock-in software that can be exploited by a number of business models.
--What happens when it works badly? Can it turn out the same garbage I get from MS?
As a result, Red Hat developed a business model to exploit the commodity business.
--Probably the single greatest sentence to be uttered in any article anywhere on the topic of technology. So much could be said about that...
This allows customers to continue to scale their infrastructure at a lower cost than before, and in some cases at a lower cost than they were predicting six or even three months ago. The business value provided by open source translates into savings for the customer.
Developers receive value from open source, but it is more personal value than business value.
--Are we talking Indian programmers or US programmers?
Open source developers have the opportunity to influence technology that is being used by companies and do it on a global scale in a way that cannot occur with any other type of software.
--So the guy who came up with Internet Explorer doesn't influence technology?
sweet!
sweet!
With the TI-84 Plus, all students can now share their work by connecting their TI-84 Plus to any TI presentation tools for the whole class to see, fostering a collaborative learning environment.*
(*) Kids can now network to the smart kid in class and steal answers via infrared USB. No longer do you have to seat near the geek to get good grades!
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical?"
Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
Is it just me, or does that guy with the TRON outfit look like the dude in Office Space always talking about his Swingline stapler? I'm serious, I think they're the same dood.
Seriously. Discuss.
Yes I'll add this to my list of other things I don't understand, right under Adaptive Computing HP (tm).
Born in 1970. So I'll take the MTV/ADD/BD comment as not applying. Discuss.
Thanks.
For some reason, which someone in the network group at my company would have to explain, is that with RealPlayer I get an access denied message when trying to playing RealPlayer content. However, with Windows Media Player, it asks for "authentication" which already has my NT Account information cached. It almost seems like RealPlayer cannot negotiate with my proxy client ... anyway seems like I can get passed all the road-blocks with WRP.
As an aside, I don't think there's anything special going on in the network group that's blocking RealPlayer, I just think there is something different between the clients.
I like Bob, but invariably he always argues the economics from the business side. What about what you and I paid for this legal battle? What is the average cost of an anti-trust proceeding?
What they needed in this, and many other anti-trust cases, is to think outside the box: why not use the RICO statutes? What not have the Federal Trade Commission declare Microsoft OS defective and pull it from shelves? Why not go after Bill and Steve like they did with Enron's Skilling and Lay?
I think Bob is a good at prognosticating, but seriously, every time he starts talking BUSINESS he simply misses the point.
I recently tried out the Wal-Mart 99c per song download and found it pretty cool, DRM and all. I was able to download to my work computer and then copy to my home computer (with the license). So both are viable in both locations.
The only downer is the fact that if you lose the licenses you're screwed.
Also worked on my MP3-player so I can take the song running.
The interesting note is I charged the song. So it ended up being 99c. This was the only charge for the month on my credit card. However, my balance for the month was zero! Wal-Mart had given me a 'Small Balance Credit' which I assume is that it's probably less of a loss (99c) then some transaction fee (several dollors) from the credit card company.
So I guess you get twelve free songs a year if you handle this correctly!
I don't want to rent...I want to OWN.
I have only install Linux once; sometime ago. This is not about Linux, but about my thought on interfaces. There has been a few slashdot articles recently about it. But it's funny how we are standardizing in some respects: clock lower right with other current running program icons. Start somewhere left, with a menu of some sort. Upper left Icons concerning Networking, My Computer, etc.
I guess it's really that it's like the phone. The design is so simple and elegant that it's hard to radically change something so right from a design perspective. I guess regardless of OS we have some general sense of where things should go on the real-estate. I think this is, as Martha would say, a good thing.
I have often found that cell-phone (mobile) carriers have the vast array of plans which overlap and seem to not really give you feeling that you have a well-fitting plan.
Also, it's that Coke in a 1-liter bottle versus 6-cans versus 6 glass-bottles versus...
I tend to re-buy crap for this very reason: the first purchase I realize now why it was so cheap, the second purchase while more expensive I realize it's just over-hyped. The third typically is a good cost-to-quality ratio.
That's good, but too high-brow for this crowd. They'll never get the Borg/Hebrew Communal farming reference. Suggest not posting again.