Briefly explain why you feel that the U.S. Government and the American people can trust you to oversee such a large operation. Furthermore, do you feel that you can accurately monitor the operations of a company that has the financial resources and manpower to conceal much, if not most of its operations from a small, federally regulated group.
someone should mod you down to -1.
"ummm, no it doesn't, you troll."
what are you refering to here? it? what is it?
"Redhat has very little actual product or identity,..."
Redhat's product is a Linux distribution. Their product may not be developed entirely by the company (no where near so), but it is a commercial product. That's what I'm refering to.
"Its free SW that you can get from other companies - i.e. linux."
Firstly, Linux isn't a company, nor is it developed solely by any company, nor is it owned by any one company or a series of companies. Linux is in NO way related to a company or companies. What are you talking about here?
"...mainly [redhat] can only hope to do something in the embedded ecos world."
Damn, if you are trying to argue pro-redhat here you shouldn't make such negative accusations. Beyond that, this is your opinion and is in no way a fact.
Dude, if anyone is trolling here, it's you. I welcome anyone to refute my opinions, but you aren't making any sense. It seems to me that you are pissed off that I compared Redhat's move to Microsoft. What's the deal with that?
Ok, it's a generous offer by RedHat. This sort of behavior does mimick Microsoft's practices in a way, though. Primarily, by giving redhat software to schools, RedHat is promoting its product in an educational environment. Once schools start hiring Linux sys admin's, why change over in the long run? It just wouldn't be financialy sane, so they will be more inclined to stick with Redhat. Secondly, as a previous poster pointed out, RedHat has complete control over these schools in the future. Sure, the current software is free, but what about the next release? Is RedHat really going to provide media and technical support infinitely? I seriously doubt it. Really, this is a win-win situation for RedHat, because even if they completely lose out on all future techniques to increase revenue from the educational sector with respect to the schools they are supplying the software to, they will increase their advertisement in the educational environment. Students will use RedHat at school, decide they want it on their home systems and run out and buy the $49.95 commercial copy. Other schools will see the positive financial impact of running redhat in labs, and run out and purchase the software for their schools as well. Or, at least this is probably what RedHat believes. The only problem with Linux is that it fails (IMO) to meet the demands of corporate users and inevitably schools. What decent office suite exists for Linux that will hold up against MS Office? StarOffice is the closest competitor I can think of, and IMO its not good enough to compete. StarOffice has memory issues and cross-compatibility issues. Another point I'd like to make is the fact that a majority of businesses in this country are using MS Office. In my high school, they made a point to drill lessons about MS Office into our heads. They knew that having the skills to use MS Office would be a deffinite plus in the work world. For these K-12 students, they won't have the oppurtunity to learn how to use Office, and thus may lack important skills. Even though it appears I have gone way off topic here, I think that we should recognize the importance of a very good office suite for Linux. I think that even if the suite was a commercial solution (possibly even closed-source) it would still make a major impact in the Linux world. If we open up doors for Linux in the coporate sector, we open up doors for Linux in the educational sector. This, in turn, would open up doors for Linux in the home use sector.
Oh, and one last off-topic point. Does anyone else find the lack of DRI support for Linux (i.e. a very limited base of supported chipsets) a problem? It's impossible to open up to gamers without serious 3D support with XF86. Just a thought.
The feds need to shutdown most of the news media. It seems to me that they are the ones providing most of the information the "highly intelligent terrorists" are using to attack America. By the way, would someone show me one thing that the terrorists have done so far that requires an I.Q. over 10?
The idea is to convince the mind that time is moving at a different "pace". I guess, at least in theory, it would be much easier to slow down the senses to make a short amount of time appear to last forever (virtual jail anyone?). But to convince the mind that a particular time frame is longer in the virtual world than in the real world (i.e. 2 week virtual vacation in 1 minute) would require speeding the senses up. The only limiting factor there would be the mind itself (since you could simulate physical activity). I'm wondering if our current ability to process information (speed) is at or near its peak. Anyone know anything about it?
I don't think VR is dead. Perhaps most realize that VR is just a concept a little above our time. Calling a headset with earphones and a display that makes a game's depth a little more realistic isn't what I would consider VR. When we have the technology to actually monitor and manipulate senses in the brain, we can "simulate" anything we want.
Here's a question. If what we consider as the perception of time is relative (i.e. the very definition of something being long or short is relative to our experience and opinion) and that the calculation of time is based only one definitions that we have set (we define one second as a unit of time and the only way to convince to someone how "long" a second is by either using another unit of time as a comparison or by giving an example (i.e. setting a starting point and announcing an ending point when the actual length of a second is over)), then is it possible to adjust our perception of time by convincing the brain that we are spending 24 hours in some virtual reality when in fact we only spent a few seconds? By slowing down the reaction time of the brain and adjusting conditions in our virtual reality to convince the brain that time is moving slower or faster, the possibilities would be endless. 2 week vacations in a virtual Bahamas in only 5 minutes? Maybe a 2 year stay in virtual France in only 1 second. Just a thought. Heck, even if it isn't theoretically possible, it would make a great movie.
If they have an older Piii (or some of the late Pii's) you could track them by the ID on the processor. It would be interesting to see, but totally immoral. I'm wondering when microsoft is going to add client ID's into IE (such as a permanent id that's added on registration), or have they already? I believe they have a similar tracking feature in Office. Office documents are "tagged" and if you were crazy enough to register with MS, they have your id. Otherwise, if you were crazy to put in your real name at registration, they know who you are. Anyone want to confirm this?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Who the hell could write code that bad? Just one more reason to stay out of the OS X BSD arena and stick with a true winner, FreeBSD.
This article mentioned that webpads don't sell well. Maybe it's because people don't want a device that has an easily scratchable screen and is (generally) fragile. A webpad would be used for mobile purposes obviously. If you want to throw the webpad into your backpack and take it somewhere, why in the world should you have to worry about breaking it? Plus, when was the last time anyone saw a PDA/webpad that didn't have an easily scratchable screen. Find a way to protect the screen and make the device very shock obsorbant and you'd have a winner. Otherwise, if you're like me, $500+ devices that are broken two or three weeks down the road isn't on your the top of your wish list.
I think the FreeBSD classes are a great idea. I'm waiting for the classes to form on the East Coast (D.C. anyone?). It would be nice to have a seperate advanced system administration couse that covers more than we'll probably see in the 4 day sysadmin course they are offering. Including information about TrustedBSD would be pretty cool as well.
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Briefly explain why you feel that the U.S. Government and the American people can trust you to oversee such a large operation. Furthermore, do you feel that you can accurately monitor the operations of a company that has the financial resources and manpower to conceal much, if not most of its operations from a small, federally regulated group.
someone should mod you down to -1. "ummm, no it doesn't, you troll." what are you refering to here? it? what is it? "Redhat has very little actual product or identity,..." Redhat's product is a Linux distribution. Their product may not be developed entirely by the company (no where near so), but it is a commercial product. That's what I'm refering to. "Its free SW that you can get from other companies - i.e. linux." Firstly, Linux isn't a company, nor is it developed solely by any company, nor is it owned by any one company or a series of companies. Linux is in NO way related to a company or companies. What are you talking about here? "...mainly [redhat] can only hope to do something in the embedded ecos world." Damn, if you are trying to argue pro-redhat here you shouldn't make such negative accusations. Beyond that, this is your opinion and is in no way a fact. Dude, if anyone is trolling here, it's you. I welcome anyone to refute my opinions, but you aren't making any sense. It seems to me that you are pissed off that I compared Redhat's move to Microsoft. What's the deal with that?
Ok, it's a generous offer by RedHat. This sort of behavior does mimick Microsoft's practices in a way, though. Primarily, by giving redhat software to schools, RedHat is promoting its product in an educational environment. Once schools start hiring Linux sys admin's, why change over in the long run? It just wouldn't be financialy sane, so they will be more inclined to stick with Redhat. Secondly, as a previous poster pointed out, RedHat has complete control over these schools in the future. Sure, the current software is free, but what about the next release? Is RedHat really going to provide media and technical support infinitely? I seriously doubt it. Really, this is a win-win situation for RedHat, because even if they completely lose out on all future techniques to increase revenue from the educational sector with respect to the schools they are supplying the software to, they will increase their advertisement in the educational environment. Students will use RedHat at school, decide they want it on their home systems and run out and buy the $49.95 commercial copy. Other schools will see the positive financial impact of running redhat in labs, and run out and purchase the software for their schools as well. Or, at least this is probably what RedHat believes. The only problem with Linux is that it fails (IMO) to meet the demands of corporate users and inevitably schools. What decent office suite exists for Linux that will hold up against MS Office? StarOffice is the closest competitor I can think of, and IMO its not good enough to compete. StarOffice has memory issues and cross-compatibility issues. Another point I'd like to make is the fact that a majority of businesses in this country are using MS Office. In my high school, they made a point to drill lessons about MS Office into our heads. They knew that having the skills to use MS Office would be a deffinite plus in the work world. For these K-12 students, they won't have the oppurtunity to learn how to use Office, and thus may lack important skills. Even though it appears I have gone way off topic here, I think that we should recognize the importance of a very good office suite for Linux. I think that even if the suite was a commercial solution (possibly even closed-source) it would still make a major impact in the Linux world. If we open up doors for Linux in the coporate sector, we open up doors for Linux in the educational sector. This, in turn, would open up doors for Linux in the home use sector.
Oh, and one last off-topic point. Does anyone else find the lack of DRI support for Linux (i.e. a very limited base of supported chipsets) a problem? It's impossible to open up to gamers without serious 3D support with XF86. Just a thought.
The feds need to shutdown most of the news media. It seems to me that they are the ones providing most of the information the "highly intelligent terrorists" are using to attack America. By the way, would someone show me one thing that the terrorists have done so far that requires an I.Q. over 10?
whoops... that should be "Make a long amount of time appear to last only a few seconds"
The idea is to convince the mind that time is moving at a different "pace". I guess, at least in theory, it would be much easier to slow down the senses to make a short amount of time appear to last forever (virtual jail anyone?). But to convince the mind that a particular time frame is longer in the virtual world than in the real world (i.e. 2 week virtual vacation in 1 minute) would require speeding the senses up. The only limiting factor there would be the mind itself (since you could simulate physical activity). I'm wondering if our current ability to process information (speed) is at or near its peak. Anyone know anything about it?
I don't think VR is dead. Perhaps most realize that VR is just a concept a little above our time. Calling a headset with earphones and a display that makes a game's depth a little more realistic isn't what I would consider VR. When we have the technology to actually monitor and manipulate senses in the brain, we can "simulate" anything we want. Here's a question. If what we consider as the perception of time is relative (i.e. the very definition of something being long or short is relative to our experience and opinion) and that the calculation of time is based only one definitions that we have set (we define one second as a unit of time and the only way to convince to someone how "long" a second is by either using another unit of time as a comparison or by giving an example (i.e. setting a starting point and announcing an ending point when the actual length of a second is over)), then is it possible to adjust our perception of time by convincing the brain that we are spending 24 hours in some virtual reality when in fact we only spent a few seconds? By slowing down the reaction time of the brain and adjusting conditions in our virtual reality to convince the brain that time is moving slower or faster, the possibilities would be endless. 2 week vacations in a virtual Bahamas in only 5 minutes? Maybe a 2 year stay in virtual France in only 1 second. Just a thought. Heck, even if it isn't theoretically possible, it would make a great movie.
If they have an older Piii (or some of the late Pii's) you could track them by the ID on the processor. It would be interesting to see, but totally immoral. I'm wondering when microsoft is going to add client ID's into IE (such as a permanent id that's added on registration), or have they already? I believe they have a similar tracking feature in Office. Office documents are "tagged" and if you were crazy enough to register with MS, they have your id. Otherwise, if you were crazy to put in your real name at registration, they know who you are. Anyone want to confirm this?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Who the hell could write code that bad? Just one more reason to stay out of the OS X BSD arena and stick with a true winner, FreeBSD.
This article mentioned that webpads don't sell well. Maybe it's because people don't want a device that has an easily scratchable screen and is (generally) fragile. A webpad would be used for mobile purposes obviously. If you want to throw the webpad into your backpack and take it somewhere, why in the world should you have to worry about breaking it? Plus, when was the last time anyone saw a PDA/webpad that didn't have an easily scratchable screen. Find a way to protect the screen and make the device very shock obsorbant and you'd have a winner. Otherwise, if you're like me, $500+ devices that are broken two or three weeks down the road isn't on your the top of your wish list.
I think the FreeBSD classes are a great idea. I'm waiting for the classes to form on the East Coast (D.C. anyone?). It would be nice to have a seperate advanced system administration couse that covers more than we'll probably see in the 4 day sysadmin course they are offering. Including information about TrustedBSD would be pretty cool as well.
haha. $1000? Too bad .NET isn't going to be worth the waste of a good $0.05 CD-R.
Kenwood makes crappy CD-ROM drives. I've had two drives (one RMA) still doesn't work very well.
So, you are saying that the bar sucks? Yeah I agree... that bar sucks.