I'd rate it at a low level for efficiency, features, ease of use, etc. The list goes on and on.
Hey, this is Slashdot. Why don't you just say that you rate it at a low level because it's a Microsoft product? No-one's going to call you a bigot or something...
offer is rescinded due to massive take-up and skyrocketing costs?
I don't think this is due to "massive take-up" and subsequent skyrocketing costs. It's because RedHat decided, which is their right, that there is more money to be made with the server/high-end clients and desktop services should be dropped.
It's OK. I just hope that I can get my information out of RedHat's database so that I won't get spammed to death by them or anyone else to whom RedHat sells the list when they eventually go bankcrupt.
So where do I go from here. Well, from now on I'll just tell all my friends, clients and any stranger to avoid RedHat at all costs. No big deal. I was betrayed by them. I'll be glad to do all the possible damage I can.
I love apt-get, but I also love bleeding edge hardware. As a matter of fact, right now I am contemplating on buying a four-way Opteron machine based on Tyan's forthcoming S4880 quadboard.
As far as I know, only RedHat and SuSE have 64-bit distros and Debian is notorious for its slow-as-molasses development.
Your demo service up2date has been "disabled due to high load" for the last week and there's a Linux kernel vulnerability in the wild. In other words, I cannot upgrade my kernel and have to run a vulnerable version.
Compile my own kernel from the vanilla tree? Can't do. I would have to know what modules the RedHat init requires and even then it is questionable if it would work. It's the same thing as with rpm packages versus compiling your own software. You can have either one but not both. If you compile your own stuff (like updated Mesalib) RedHat's package management doesn't know about it. If you only use RedHat's packages, you're locked in running old software or - even worse - vulnerable software.
If one considers the millions of dollars that are poured into developing electronic voting systems
R&D.
and the millions of dollars spent on half-baked propaganda attempting to convince an ignorant public that such things are inherently secure
Marketing.
and the millions of dollars that are spent covering up for any flaws found in the system
Company PR.
Quite frankly, most corporations do R&D, have marketing people dreaming up ads to convince ignorant public to buy their products and try to spin bad PR into good ("It's not a bug, it's a feature").
How's Diebold any different? Sounds like circular reasoning to me. "Diebold is evil and therefore their R&D/Marketing/PR is suspicious. Because their R&D/Marketing/PR looks suspicious they must be evil."
In the end, nobody's forcing the states to buy Diebold's machines.
It's always about the whole package. A bad scenario can ruin the underlying game engine and vice versa.
It is notable that the elements of videogames least amenable to opensource-style production are the non-software parts: maps, models, pictures, and sounds.
Exactly. That was my point. Producing a great game requires money because you have to hire people to do the bulk of the work (maps, models, pictures, animation and sounds/voice-acting). Coding pales in comparison to the amount of that work.
Well, for you the words may have well defined meanings but I don't think that's true in general.
Human communication is, in fact, very ambiguous by nature. A tone of your voice may change the message. Words have many meanings and can be understood completely differently depending on, for instance, the mood of the listener.
I personally love ambiguity and freeform expression. I feel more comfortable with loose or no structure than with the strict metric and rhyming as in the poem by Frost you quote. Rhyming, particularly, is a real turn-off. A rhyming poem just doesn't breath.
I'm also very sensitive to a poem that tries to get a message across. I am not interested in what feelings/thoughts the author himself is trying to get across. To me all good art is like a reflecting surface that shows YOU, the audince, in a different, surprising light. Sometimes you like what you see, sometimes you don't like what you see.
You also imply that writing modern poetry does not require effort or talent. The same has been said about modern art and music. I would say that it is much harder to write/compose in a new form than just conforming to an existing form.
Ok, so where is the first open source tactical shooter (Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Operation Flashpoint,...)?
I didn't play games for the a bout six years when I was running Linux only. Then, out of a whim, I bought and installed Ghost Recon and was completely blown away by the experience. I just could not believe how immersive a game could be.
If anything, that - and experimenting with user created GR scenarious with abyssmal voice-acting and scenarios - taught me that sometimes it just is worth paying for quality game software.
Just make sure the killbots have a preset kill limit...
"Zapp: You see Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them. Until they reached their limit and shutdown. Kif. Show them the medal I won. [Kif sighs and points to a medal on Zapp's uniform.] Afterwards the Killbots were actually quite friendly. Right Corpse-A-Tron?"
you have to code available to you without restrictions, and can make change
Believe me, I'm not trying to troll, but I find it hard to understand why you would first pay for someone to write the code for your application and then you would waste your own time fixing the bugs.
Having the source code available is completely irrelevant. You shouldn't be fixing the code. The company should be fixing the bugs.
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Just like kings and feudal lords would have fought democracy.
Face it. If we wish to progress as a human race, we must abandon silly and artificial concepts like "national sovereignity" and national borders.
Like not serving as a platform for nazis and war criminals?
Freedom of speech can never be absolute.
If anything I want our governments to crack down on nazis.
Hey, this is Slashdot. Why don't you just say that you rate it at a low level because it's a Microsoft product? No-one's going to call you a bigot or something...
I don't think this is due to "massive take-up" and subsequent skyrocketing costs. It's because RedHat decided, which is their right, that there is more money to be made with the server/high-end clients and desktop services should be dropped.
It's OK. I just hope that I can get my information out of RedHat's database so that I won't get spammed to death by them or anyone else to whom RedHat sells the list when they eventually go bankcrupt.
So where do I go from here. Well, from now on I'll just tell all my friends, clients and any stranger to avoid RedHat at all costs. No big deal. I was betrayed by them. I'll be glad to do all the possible damage I can.
So, no hard feelings. Just business.
If by moral you mean bait-and-switch, you're absolutely right.
Is there any free-as-beer software for Windows that would let me access (rw) my ext2 and ext3 partitions from Windows?
As far as I know, only RedHat and SuSE have 64-bit distros and Debian is notorious for its slow-as-molasses development.
Like the US citizen Jose Padilla?
Well, the tv network executives have already gone public to say that recording and watching tv shows without ads is theft.
"If you do the crime, you've gotta do the time."
Your demo service up2date has been "disabled due to high load" for the last week and there's a Linux kernel vulnerability in the wild. In other words, I cannot upgrade my kernel and have to run a vulnerable version.
Compile my own kernel from the vanilla tree? Can't do. I would have to know what modules the RedHat init requires and even then it is questionable if it would work. It's the same thing as with rpm packages versus compiling your own software. You can have either one but not both. If you compile your own stuff (like updated Mesalib) RedHat's package management doesn't know about it. If you only use RedHat's packages, you're locked in running old software or - even worse - vulnerable software.
R&D.
and the millions of dollars spent on half-baked propaganda attempting to convince an ignorant public that such things are inherently secure
Marketing.
and the millions of dollars that are spent covering up for any flaws found in the system
Company PR.
Quite frankly, most corporations do R&D, have marketing people dreaming up ads to convince ignorant public to buy their products and try to spin bad PR into good ("It's not a bug, it's a feature").
How's Diebold any different? Sounds like circular reasoning to me. "Diebold is evil and therefore their R&D/Marketing/PR is suspicious. Because their R&D/Marketing/PR looks suspicious they must be evil."
In the end, nobody's forcing the states to buy Diebold's machines.
I think there is way too much hysteria around electronic voting.
So why don't you pay the money and let them develop the product all the way?
I always hated Knoppix. Don't ask me why. It was just hate at first sight.
If you "get what you pay for", what do you get with open software then?
It's always about the whole package. A bad scenario can ruin the underlying game engine and vice versa.
It is notable that the elements of videogames least amenable to opensource-style production are the non-software parts: maps, models, pictures, and sounds.
Exactly. That was my point. Producing a great game requires money because you have to hire people to do the bulk of the work (maps, models, pictures, animation and sounds/voice-acting). Coding pales in comparison to the amount of that work.
Human communication is, in fact, very ambiguous by nature. A tone of your voice may change the message. Words have many meanings and can be understood completely differently depending on, for instance, the mood of the listener.
I personally love ambiguity and freeform expression. I feel more comfortable with loose or no structure than with the strict metric and rhyming as in the poem by Frost you quote. Rhyming, particularly, is a real turn-off. A rhyming poem just doesn't breath.
I'm also very sensitive to a poem that tries to get a message across. I am not interested in what feelings/thoughts the author himself is trying to get across. To me all good art is like a reflecting surface that shows YOU, the audince, in a different, surprising light. Sometimes you like what you see, sometimes you don't like what you see.
You also imply that writing modern poetry does not require effort or talent. The same has been said about modern art and music. I would say that it is much harder to write/compose in a new form than just conforming to an existing form.
I didn't play games for the a bout six years when I was running Linux only. Then, out of a whim, I bought and installed Ghost Recon and was completely blown away by the experience. I just could not believe how immersive a game could be.
If anything, that - and experimenting with user created GR scenarious with abyssmal voice-acting and scenarios - taught me that sometimes it just is worth paying for quality game software.
"Zapp: You see Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them. Until they reached their limit and shutdown. Kif. Show them the medal I won. [Kif sighs and points to a medal on Zapp's uniform.] Afterwards the Killbots were actually quite friendly. Right Corpse-A-Tron?"
Yet another win for religious upbringing.
Why would a client hire someone in the first place if they could understand/write the code by themselves?
Believe me, I'm not trying to troll, but I find it hard to understand why you would first pay for someone to write the code for your application and then you would waste your own time fixing the bugs.
Having the source code available is completely irrelevant. You shouldn't be fixing the code. The company should be fixing the bugs.
So if you wish to ship hardware, you'll also have to hire a software department not only for the application but also for the GUI and OS.
Why would you use OS that you yourself have to fiddle with in the first place?