It is now official. Netcraft confirms: SCO Unixware is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO Unixware market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be an amazing psychic random number generator to determine SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO Unixware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SCO developers Ben Dover and Rod Inasse only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
GNU leader Richard Stallman states that there are 20 users of NetBSD. How many users of OpenBSD are there? Let's see. The number of NetBSD versus OpenBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 20/5 = 4 OpenBSD users. SCO posts on Usenet are about 1/200,000 of the volume of homoerotic love story posts. Therefore there are about 5 million gay geeks. A recent article put homoerotic geeks at about 80 percent of the SCO market. Therefore there are (40+20+15)/2*(X+i^5) = 37.5 SCO users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, SCO went out of business and was taken over by Sun who sell another troubled OS. Now Sun is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: SCO Unixware is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO Unixware market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be an amazing psychic random number generator to determine SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO Unixware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SCO developers Ben Dover and Rod Inasse only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
GNU leader Richard Stallman states that there are 20 users of NetBSD. How many users of OpenBSD are there? Let's see. The number of NetBSD versus OpenBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 20/5 = 4 OpenBSD users. SCO posts on Usenet are about 1/200,000 of the volume of homoerotic love story posts. Therefore there are about 5 million gay geeks. A recent article put homoerotic geeks at about 80 percent of the SCO market. Therefore there are (40+20+15)/2*(X+i^5) = 37.5 SCO users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, SCO went out of business and was taken over by Sun who sell another troubled OS. Now Sun is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
When queried about the future of the Microsoft Corporation, the miraculous prophetic computer, now named The Vision(tm) responded about sensing the "distinct scent of rot" along with "outlook not so good."
In a frenzied storm of predictions T.V. also predicted the death of BSD, of which Netcraft aparantly has recently confirmed, as well as 2007 being (finally) the year of the Linux desktop.
Researchers also noted that when they asked several times about the future of the US economy all the machine would respond with was the cryptic phrase: "When pieces of paper have values that are weighted in strength against other pieces of paper, what do you ultimately have?"
Feeling somewhat emboldened by their successes the team felt compelled to ask about some very questionable futures.
When asked about the possibility of a complete world wide nuclear war, T.V. responded that while the probability would seemingly be rather high, the real numbers are actually much lower.
However T.V. may have generated the currect future sequence of events, and if what it says becomes truth and eventually histroy, we are facing an immediate crisis of immense proportions.
Now please try to be calm, but if this technology is right, and it has been so far......... Saudi Arabia will launch a nuclear attack against the United States in 2012.
President Bush has made the following statement:
"This is a clear act of future war. We must act now and make a preemptive strike against this axis of evil. We will bring freedom and democracy and take out all who fear or despise what they know not of. If we do not act now the future of America is in peril. We must invade this country not for their oil, but, because they are not a free people."
What I find really intersting about this is that a 800mhz processor performed nearly on par with a 1.5ghz Athlon, even though it did use a good deal more system (kernel) time. Considering the much smaller FSB potential of the G3, this is not suprising. Its really intersting to see how various CPUs perform different tasks and how mhz really isn't even remotely indicative of performance. As fancy things like vector units are added to commodity processors it will be interesting to see when eventually common compilers can optimize code effectively for parallel processing.
I once heard that the PowerPC's were designed to only add numbers in rapid succession because it could complete a bunch of adds a lot faster than a simple multiply. IBM really needs to push the PowerPC further, it would be sad to see it only exist in expensive hardware.
Is that a real picasso quote? I saw that and was thinking about my sig. Austin Osman Spare wrote "Art is the realization of truth." He embedded much of his working knowledge of witchcraft and magick in his paintings. In fact they speak a great deal more about what he knew than what he actually wrote. People that see his art describe seeing heads turning and eyes moving in his paintings. You should check out some of his art, it is very unsettling. He claimed it was what he termed automatic art, that he drew and painted while under the influence of beings that he invoked or under his own subconcious expression. (Pretty much the same thing in a lot of ways) His work is very etherial, and if he didn't see into the spirit realm, I really don't know who has.
Sorry about this useless ramble, but the quote was so close to AOS's that it made me pause and wonder if you used it in response to my sig. Go google for AOS and check him out, he is certainly interesting at least. He was also one of the first surrealists (and was never really recognized as such, at least historically). Dali was much later. Jimmy Page and Genesis P. Orridge were the largest two collectors of AOS's artwork and his stuff has finally made its way into quite a few british museum collections.
Also, as someone that was once homeless for a period of over a year it warms my heart to no end that you would buy a homeless guy a sandwhich or something. I've had so many people help me out in my time that now all I do is try to help others as much as I can. You'll find in life that good karma pays off in spades whether you expect it to or not.
Oh, btw, don't get so reactionary on slashdot. Whatever you say can and will be rebutted pretty quickly around here, and people are oh so quick to pass judgement. Don't let it get to you.
Good luck with school! Its probably the best thing anyone can do with themselves in a lot of ways.
Did they make cell phone calls? Were you there? Have you ever heard a recording of what was said? How do you know that the government didn't make all of this up to put a positive media spin on, instead of admitting that they shot down the plane? Remember that they had F-16s scrambled and chasing after the plane. Wouldn't it be oh so convienient to say that passengers tried to stop the hijackers and that is why the plane went down, instead of admitting that they shot down a plane full of our own?
Think about it. Eyewitnesses described seeing something like a missile hitting the plane. Were they just hallucinating?
Preview is your friend. It takes what, 5 seconds to look at your formatting? Secondly you should really try to break up your writing into paragraphs anyways with the first sentence defining the rest of the paragraph.
Oh and you don't have to use line breaks. Just format the text how you would like it and post it as plaintext. Slashcode will recognize carriage returns and such from the text box.
Tr y something like debian stable or even testing (its frozen right now). If you are looking for a stable developing environment that is not constantly changing why on earth would you pick gentoo?
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Why on earth would anyone who has to get work done with their computer pick gentoo? Especially a developer...think of all the wasted time eating up CPU that constantly compiling new versions of your software. So your gay ass pimped KDE desktop opens up 15 seconds faster, big whoop. Why the hell do you need to load up your whole system and window manager more than say like once a month or even a week? Even if you log off, chances are a good portion of that data is cached and it will load faster the next time. I suspect that a good number of gentoo users are also the people that put watercooling units on their CPUs for the marginal 10-20% clock increase. I also suspect that a great number of these freaks put "Hot Wheels" and "NISMO" stickers on the side of their boxes neon and black lights glowing inside. Developing on the official "ricer" linux distro. What a joke.
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In all honesty I really wanted to like gentoo. I thought the concept was super cool. I tried installing gentoo and spent a few hours just going through the steps (and misteps) of setting up the system and then started compiling the basics. 8 hours later I still didn't even have GCC or even bash yet. I started to think about how long it would compile KDE if GCC took that fscking long.
With debian I can already install.rpms and.debs. Do I really need to support other packages? If I need something that isn't offered by the distro it is usually trivial to download source and compile. All apt really needs is a yum like interface to it and it would be so wonderful, yummy even. I still don't get this dependency hell thing with linux that people get. Dependencies are usually only broken by the user not really knowing what they are doing. Lets say to compile program X you need library Y installed and the makefile in X is not finding Y. Is this a dependency hell issue? What if you have the proper version of Y installed and X is still not seeing Y? Is this dependency hell going on here? I mean is it that hard to go into the fscking makefile and change the location, name, etc of those libraries? Most distros do a good job of symlinking to the version numbered file, but sometimes a makefile expects it to be called something different or find the lib in a different place. Linux is so easy when you figure it all out and get used to it. Sure its not easy for granny to install solitare, but if you are building 500 desktops all at once, I can't think of a better way than to roll your own packages and run your own apt repository, via FTP no less. Hell you could network boot each machine and have it configured and installed automatically once you go through the process of setting up a single client.
Package managers are a great idea (some would argue that BSD's ports and gentoo's portage is better, but I digress), but it seems like RPM has taken over as the recognized standard when it comes to distributing binaries, which is unfortunate, because I honestly think there are better solutions out there. I tried Fedora Core the other day and I was really disappointed at how little options I had when it came to deciding what was installed. For all the slick GUIness you really can't change a whole lot. I guess less is more.
I wish more applications had installers like Firefox's. That was actually really simple. It worked just like a windows installer! Shocking!
As much as I disliked AI, it should be noted that the "weird alien thing" at the end of the movie was actually fellow robots that have evolved over thousands of years, aparantly outliving humans for whatever reasons. AI was indeed a crappy movie, but not because the robot life forms discovered him like an ancient relic. I personally do not think that AI ending any earlier would have made it any better. In fact that scene at the end is so necessary to give the movie *some* sort of closure, and without that the story would have absolutely none.
The robots win, evolve and take over the world. It really isn't that confusing.
The wi-fi capabilities are going to sell millions of these things to little kids. Think about how big the IM market is with these guys. Haven't you ever seen the little faux PDA's that actually have some wireless text messenging built in?
Think about it this way. When little 10 year old Johny wants a new handheld cuz his GBA broke, what's his mom gonna buy him? My guess is that a DS would only make sense if she wanted to get him something new. Nintendo sold us all as kids with the NES, and has continued to do so with the gameboy for many years. They really have no competition. The PSP will either sink or become a niche item for 20 somethings with money. I can't see many people spending $200-300 for a portable console, especially on kids. How many times do you think one of those finely sculpted bricks will take a 4 foot drop.....with the drive spinning?
I'm getting nearer to 30 and I love the SP, but I think that is probably not the norm. I really liked the classic SP and seeing the familliar grey lines on black definately imparted some sense of nostalgia. When I get on the bus and I fire my SP up, usually the only other people actually playing video games on the bus are the really greasy fat nerdy kids (oh, no offense intended to 60% of you here) and 5-10 year olds. For some reason adults sometimes try to watch me play because I think it bewilders them that someone other than a kid would be playing video games in public.
The gameboy will certainly take this round because Nintendo knows its market so incredibly well and have always pushed for what it considers the golden pricepoint. >=$100
While the DS is $150, remember that the SP and maybe even the GBA started out at $120 or so and has slowly fallen to $100.
Clamshell is a great design too. It protects the pricey LCD screens that so easily scratch and break.
I mean really. Is there any debate over who will end up with the lion's share of the market here?
This guy is right. Who cares if your GAME system has to be reset between games/pda functions/system setting changes/menu exit, etc. Is 2 SECONDS too long for you?
I'm sure it probably even has a soft reset. I know my GBA SP does. It is L+R+SELECT+START. Comes in handy. Oh and the DS sleeps when you close it? That's awesome! I totally wish the SP did that!
Going from stage 1 to stage 2 takes some CPU power as well as disk access. Going from 2 to 3 is probably a lot easier on the system, even if the system memory has been paged out (just page back in, no significant CPU cycles used, just a bit of latency).
By hitting the pagefile, the resulting memory space is swapped. It would take it a very long time for it to be passed from the hard drive back into RAM. Probably it would occur somewhere around 33-66 MB/sec. Compared to the hundreds of megabytes per second that DDR memory can pump out. A hard drive is a whole lot slower than just having that data cached in RAM. The last thing you would want to do is swap it out, and it would be more likely that the operating system's components would be swapped out before an actively running task's would. Ever let windows sit idle when running apps that eat up most of your physical ram? When you close that application and let the system swap back in, it can take a few good minutes for the system to be responsive again. While the preemptive tasking in Windows leaves a lot to be desired for (IMHO), it still tries to balance I/O with user interactivity, however I have seen W2K choke with just a 10% cpu kernel load, while heavy paging is happening. If you are pulling information off of the drive (happens a whole lot in 3D games), you would certainly not want the drive to accessing paged memory at the same time. Sound starts stuttering because it is not being cached fast enough, etc.
Sorry just a ramble. Swapping is and likely will always be a very large performance hit.
Seriously guys, we need a law firm dedicated to fighting for OSS projects. I know that companies like IBM have pitched in and fought for our side, but what happens when the liabilities start sliding in the direction of OSS? For example, look at the massive amount of software patents that have been awarded lately. If you don't think that Microsoft and just about all the other commercial comapnies are trying to build up a warchest, a cache of PMDs (Patents of Mass Destruction[tm]), then you need to wake the hell up.
The OSS crowd needs to start playing the game. Hell maybe some OSS projects should look at patenting their methods. You gotta fight if you want to be in the war. CherryOS and its ilk should have already had lawsuits sitting on their doorstep. Considering that in general OSS is mostly comprised of volunteer developers, there really is not any sort of cost involved in its development. How can you claim damages on something that is free to the public to use and distribute? What is copyright violation worth when the software has no value in dollars?
I'm sure that some lawyers may read slashdot, and hopefully this post. To this I say to you. Join our side! OSS and the GPL are going to face some of the hardest trials in court yet. That little SCO dispute was small fries compared to the challenges ahead. Wait until an 800lb gorilla steps in.......
(a) Criminal Infringement.-- Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either-- (1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or (2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000, shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
2319. Criminal infringement of a copyright
Release date: 2004-08-06
(a) Whoever violates section 506 (a) (relating to criminal offenses) of title 17 shall be punished as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section and such penalties shall be in addition to any other provisions of title 17 or any other law. (b) Any person who commits an offense under section 506 (a)(1) of title 17-- (1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500; (2) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and (3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, in any other case.
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Why play Rage Racer when R4 was so much better graphically and gameplay wise? The cars looked a lot cooler too.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: SCO Unixware is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO Unixware market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be an amazing psychic random number generator to determine SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO Unixware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SCO developers Ben Dover and Rod Inasse only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
GNU leader Richard Stallman states that there are 20 users of NetBSD. How many users of OpenBSD are there? Let's see. The number of NetBSD versus OpenBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 20/5 = 4 OpenBSD users. SCO posts on Usenet are about 1/200,000 of the volume of homoerotic love story posts. Therefore there are about 5 million gay geeks. A recent article put homoerotic geeks at about 80 percent of the SCO market. Therefore there are (40+20+15)/2*(X+i^5) = 37.5 SCO users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, SCO went out of business and was taken over by Sun who sell another troubled OS. Now Sun is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: SCO Unixware is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO Unixware market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be an amazing psychic random number generator to determine SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SCO Unixware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SCO developers Ben Dover and Rod Inasse only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
GNU leader Richard Stallman states that there are 20 users of NetBSD. How many users of OpenBSD are there? Let's see. The number of NetBSD versus OpenBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 20/5 = 4 OpenBSD users. SCO posts on Usenet are about 1/200,000 of the volume of homoerotic love story posts. Therefore there are about 5 million gay geeks. A recent article put homoerotic geeks at about 80 percent of the SCO market. Therefore there are (40+20+15)/2*(X+i^5) = 37.5 SCO users. This is consistent with the number of SCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, SCO went out of business and was taken over by Sun who sell another troubled OS. Now Sun is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
Fact: SCO is dying
When queried about the future of the Microsoft Corporation, the miraculous prophetic computer, now named The Vision(tm) responded about sensing the "distinct scent of rot" along with "outlook not so good."
In a frenzied storm of predictions T.V. also predicted the death of BSD, of which Netcraft aparantly has recently confirmed, as well as 2007 being (finally) the year of the Linux desktop.
Researchers also noted that when they asked several times about the future of the US economy all the machine would respond with was the cryptic phrase: "When pieces of paper have values that are weighted in strength against other pieces of paper, what do you ultimately have?"
Feeling somewhat emboldened by their successes the team felt compelled to ask about some very questionable futures.
When asked about the possibility of a complete world wide nuclear war, T.V. responded that while the probability would seemingly be rather high, the real numbers are actually much lower.
However T.V. may have generated the currect future sequence of events, and if what it says becomes truth and eventually histroy, we are facing an immediate crisis of immense proportions.
Now please try to be calm, but if this technology is right, and it has been so far......... Saudi Arabia will launch a nuclear attack against the United States in 2012.
President Bush has made the following statement:
"This is a clear act of future war. We must act now and make a preemptive strike against this axis of evil. We will bring freedom and democracy and take out all who fear or despise what they know not of. If we do not act now the future of America is in peril. We must invade this country not for their oil, but, because they are not a free people."
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What I find really intersting about this is that a 800mhz processor performed nearly on par with a 1.5ghz Athlon, even though it did use a good deal more system (kernel) time. Considering the much smaller FSB potential of the G3, this is not suprising. Its really intersting to see how various CPUs perform different tasks and how mhz really isn't even remotely indicative of performance. As fancy things like vector units are added to commodity processors it will be interesting to see when eventually common compilers can optimize code effectively for parallel processing. I once heard that the PowerPC's were designed to only add numbers in rapid succession because it could complete a bunch of adds a lot faster than a simple multiply. IBM really needs to push the PowerPC further, it would be sad to see it only exist in expensive hardware.
Is that a real picasso quote? I saw that and was thinking about my sig. Austin Osman Spare wrote "Art is the realization of truth." He embedded much of his working knowledge of witchcraft and magick in his paintings. In fact they speak a great deal more about what he knew than what he actually wrote. People that see his art describe seeing heads turning and eyes moving in his paintings. You should check out some of his art, it is very unsettling. He claimed it was what he termed automatic art, that he drew and painted while under the influence of beings that he invoked or under his own subconcious expression. (Pretty much the same thing in a lot of ways) His work is very etherial, and if he didn't see into the spirit realm, I really don't know who has.
Sorry about this useless ramble, but the quote was so close to AOS's that it made me pause and wonder if you used it in response to my sig. Go google for AOS and check him out, he is certainly interesting at least. He was also one of the first surrealists (and was never really recognized as such, at least historically). Dali was much later. Jimmy Page and Genesis P. Orridge were the largest two collectors of AOS's artwork and his stuff has finally made its way into quite a few british museum collections.
Also, as someone that was once homeless for a period of over a year it warms my heart to no end that you would buy a homeless guy a sandwhich or something. I've had so many people help me out in my time that now all I do is try to help others as much as I can. You'll find in life that good karma pays off in spades whether you expect it to or not.
Oh, btw, don't get so reactionary on slashdot. Whatever you say can and will be rebutted pretty quickly around here, and people are oh so quick to pass judgement. Don't let it get to you.
Good luck with school! Its probably the best thing anyone can do with themselves in a lot of ways.
You spent 13 years in High School?!
Did they make cell phone calls? Were you there? Have you ever heard a recording of what was said? How do you know that the government didn't make all of this up to put a positive media spin on, instead of admitting that they shot down the plane? Remember that they had F-16s scrambled and chasing after the plane. Wouldn't it be oh so convienient to say that passengers tried to stop the hijackers and that is why the plane went down, instead of admitting that they shot down a plane full of our own?
Think about it. Eyewitnesses described seeing something like a missile hitting the plane. Were they just hallucinating?
You must be new around here. :)
Uh, the links in the mirror point to the original website, so the page is not browseable, unless I'm missing something. Isn't there a way to fix this?
Child.
Preview is your friend. It takes what, 5 seconds to look at your formatting? Secondly you should really try to break up your writing into paragraphs anyways with the first sentence defining the rest of the paragraph.
Oh and you don't have to use line breaks. Just format the text how you would like it and post it as plaintext. Slashcode will recognize carriage returns and such from the text box.
I for one welcome our new human-sheep chimera overlords.
Please mod up. IRC is plain text and therefore extremely loggable at nearly any point along a trunk.
More like a "Engrish" translation....
With debian I can already install .rpms and .debs. Do I really need to support other packages? If I need something that isn't offered by the distro it is usually trivial to download source and compile. All apt really needs is a yum like interface to it and it would be so wonderful, yummy even. I still don't get this dependency hell thing with linux that people get. Dependencies are usually only broken by the user not really knowing what they are doing. Lets say to compile program X you need library Y installed and the makefile in X is not finding Y. Is this a dependency hell issue? What if you have the proper version of Y installed and X is still not seeing Y? Is this dependency hell going on here? I mean is it that hard to go into the fscking makefile and change the location, name, etc of those libraries? Most distros do a good job of symlinking to the version numbered file, but sometimes a makefile expects it to be called something different or find the lib in a different place. Linux is so easy when you figure it all out and get used to it. Sure its not easy for granny to install solitare, but if you are building 500 desktops all at once, I can't think of a better way than to roll your own packages and run your own apt repository, via FTP no less. Hell you could network boot each machine and have it configured and installed automatically once you go through the process of setting up a single client.
Package managers are a great idea (some would argue that BSD's ports and gentoo's portage is better, but I digress), but it seems like RPM has taken over as the recognized standard when it comes to distributing binaries, which is unfortunate, because I honestly think there are better solutions out there. I tried Fedora Core the other day and I was really disappointed at how little options I had when it came to deciding what was installed. For all the slick GUIness you really can't change a whole lot. I guess less is more.
I wish more applications had installers like Firefox's. That was actually really simple. It worked just like a windows installer! Shocking!
A team of furry rabid scientists have now learned that Valve makes a better single player game than id. Who would have thought?!?!
As much as I disliked AI, it should be noted that the "weird alien thing" at the end of the movie was actually fellow robots that have evolved over thousands of years, aparantly outliving humans for whatever reasons. AI was indeed a crappy movie, but not because the robot life forms discovered him like an ancient relic. I personally do not think that AI ending any earlier would have made it any better. In fact that scene at the end is so necessary to give the movie *some* sort of closure, and without that the story would have absolutely none.
The robots win, evolve and take over the world. It really isn't that confusing.
The wi-fi capabilities are going to sell millions of these things to little kids. Think about how big the IM market is with these guys. Haven't you ever seen the little faux PDA's that actually have some wireless text messenging built in?
Think about it this way. When little 10 year old Johny wants a new handheld cuz his GBA broke, what's his mom gonna buy him? My guess is that a DS would only make sense if she wanted to get him something new. Nintendo sold us all as kids with the NES, and has continued to do so with the gameboy for many years. They really have no competition. The PSP will either sink or become a niche item for 20 somethings with money. I can't see many people spending $200-300 for a portable console, especially on kids. How many times do you think one of those finely sculpted bricks will take a 4 foot drop.....with the drive spinning?
I'm getting nearer to 30 and I love the SP, but I think that is probably not the norm. I really liked the classic SP and seeing the familliar grey lines on black definately imparted some sense of nostalgia. When I get on the bus and I fire my SP up, usually the only other people actually playing video games on the bus are the really greasy fat nerdy kids (oh, no offense intended to 60% of you here) and 5-10 year olds. For some reason adults sometimes try to watch me play because I think it bewilders them that someone other than a kid would be playing video games in public.
The gameboy will certainly take this round because Nintendo knows its market so incredibly well and have always pushed for what it considers the golden pricepoint. >=$100
While the DS is $150, remember that the SP and maybe even the GBA started out at $120 or so and has slowly fallen to $100.
Clamshell is a great design too. It protects the pricey LCD screens that so easily scratch and break.
I mean really. Is there any debate over who will end up with the lion's share of the market here?
This guy is right. Who cares if your GAME system has to be reset between games/pda functions/system setting changes/menu exit, etc. Is 2 SECONDS too long for you?
I'm sure it probably even has a soft reset. I know my GBA SP does. It is L+R+SELECT+START. Comes in handy. Oh and the DS sleeps when you close it? That's awesome! I totally wish the SP did that!
By hitting the pagefile, the resulting memory space is swapped. It would take it a very long time for it to be passed from the hard drive back into RAM. Probably it would occur somewhere around 33-66 MB/sec. Compared to the hundreds of megabytes per second that DDR memory can pump out. A hard drive is a whole lot slower than just having that data cached in RAM. The last thing you would want to do is swap it out, and it would be more likely that the operating system's components would be swapped out before an actively running task's would. Ever let windows sit idle when running apps that eat up most of your physical ram? When you close that application and let the system swap back in, it can take a few good minutes for the system to be responsive again. While the preemptive tasking in Windows leaves a lot to be desired for (IMHO), it still tries to balance I/O with user interactivity, however I have seen W2K choke with just a 10% cpu kernel load, while heavy paging is happening. If you are pulling information off of the drive (happens a whole lot in 3D games), you would certainly not want the drive to accessing paged memory at the same time. Sound starts stuttering because it is not being cached fast enough, etc.
Sorry just a ramble. Swapping is and likely will always be a very large performance hit.
And boy, do I smoke plenty of the stuff!
In another 50 years I doubt I'll have glaucoma at all at this rate!
Legalize it man!
It *does* have medical uses too......
Seriously guys, we need a law firm dedicated to fighting for OSS projects. I know that companies like IBM have pitched in and fought for our side, but what happens when the liabilities start sliding in the direction of OSS? For example, look at the massive amount of software patents that have been awarded lately. If you don't think that Microsoft and just about all the other commercial comapnies are trying to build up a warchest, a cache of PMDs (Patents of Mass Destruction[tm]), then you need to wake the hell up.
The OSS crowd needs to start playing the game. Hell maybe some OSS projects should look at patenting their methods. You gotta fight if you want to be in the war. CherryOS and its ilk should have already had lawsuits sitting on their doorstep. Considering that in general OSS is mostly comprised of volunteer developers, there really is not any sort of cost involved in its development. How can you claim damages on something that is free to the public to use and distribute? What is copyright violation worth when the software has no value in dollars?
I'm sure that some lawyers may read slashdot, and hopefully this post. To this I say to you. Join our side! OSS and the GPL are going to face some of the hardest trials in court yet. That little SCO dispute was small fries compared to the challenges ahead. Wait until an 800lb gorilla steps in.......
TITLE 17 > CHAPTER 5 > 506
506. Criminal offenses
(a) Criminal Infringement.-- Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either--
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, United States Code. For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement.
2319. Criminal infringement of a copyright
Release date: 2004-08-06
(a) Whoever violates section 506 (a) (relating to criminal offenses) of title 17 shall be punished as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section and such penalties shall be in addition to any other provisions of title 17 or any other law.
(b) Any person who commits an offense under section 506 (a)(1) of title 17--
(1) shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense consists of the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;
(2) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, if the offense is a second or subsequent offense under paragraph (1); and
(3) shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both, in any other case.