You are correct sir. I have an three original Lehrer records on vinyl that my dad gave me in 78, i was 8 years old. Harvard professor, political satirist, pianist.
Odd you should mention that, as i plan on blaring that same track out of my car today on the way to Compusa and the grocery store. Always puts me in a good mood, brings me back to great time in music. Will help soothe me before the compusa staff pisses me off.
But a great track, white musicians who dug the funk, give out shout outs, throw together a catchy beat with funny lyrics. Unfortunately Mariah Carey stole the track for one of her songs. I bought mine from ALLOFMP3.
Here are the lyrics for you young bucks.
What you gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some fun What do you consider fun? Fun, natural fun
I'm in heaven With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend There's no beginning and there is no end Time isn't present in that dimension He'll take my arm When we're walkin', rolling and rocking It's one time I'm glad I'm not a man Feels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleeping
I'm in heaven With the maven of funk mutation Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins Raise expectations to a new intention No one can sing Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson Wailin' and shakin' to Bob Marley Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie
All the weekend Boyfriend was missing I surely miss him The way he'd hold me in his warm arms We went insane when we took cocaine.
Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow Who needs to think when your feet just go With a hiditihi and a hipitiho Who needs to think when your feet just go...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Who needs to think when your feet just go...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon James Brown, James Brown James Brown, James Brown
If you see him Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend Well he's the genius of love He's got a greater depth of feeling Well he's the genius of love He's so deep.
I skimmed the article, and honestly, as someone who was a software consultant from the mid 90s, to 2002, it reads like a consultant from Informix of CA from the year 2000 wrote it.
First, you never have to sign a patent deal to use a database with your software. I worked for a company that if you used our stuff, you could use Oracle, DB2, Postegres, MySQL, or MSSQL. Just depending on what you wanted to do with it, and how robust your needs were.
And for a great deal of things, MSSQL, ORACLE, DB2, and Postregres hands Mysql its ass. For CRM services, Mysql is fine, so why pay for a database, when there is a free one that suits it just fine.
Our sales cycle, to major clients. Paramount Studios, Maxis, Sun Microsystems, never took 9 months. HP for about a 60k a month retainer deal was done in three. Did I mention we were a proprietary, closed source shop? Longest was Universal, but was a deal for USA Networks, Sci Fi, and Trio combined.
Also, the guy fails to realize if you do business with big business, sales cycle is longer. You have approval through departments, testing, etc.
Open Source has nothing to do with the sales cycle.
He says "is we don't commission our solutions engineers, our sales engineers, at all." then a paragraph later he says "And it means that we commission our sales people on renewals as well. " Thought you did not commission them at all.
The article is an advertisement, and the guy being interviewd should realize he sounds like a sales 101 pamphlet.
You make valid points but you really should read Gibsons works and read about the man. Gibson is anti technology, always has been. I think his first books were written on a typewriter. And with very little technical knowledge his gaze into the future of technology and how it plays out within the human element is truly amazing.
Gibson's books are all about the grey areas. You should check out the short story the New Rose Hotel, even a pretty decent movie adaptation.
His earlier works focused on AI, and human nature. Pattern Recognition focused on trends, seeing the wave, and riding it.
Gibson is an author, and considered Sci-Fi, but if you read him, you will know, he could write in any genre.
I dunno, but I know when I lived in Colombia I watched Futurama, the Simpsons, and South Park in Spanish. Of course it was the Mexican translation, not the best, but funny hearing Bart say Vato and simon.
I think the problem with the translation of the show is that they are so so rooted in US culture that much of the subtleness is lost.
Puto
You mean all of the innovative stuff based on research done by NASA over the years?
NASA might be a big lumbering beast, but without the incredible amount of science they have dumped into our laps the private companies and individuals would not even be near to where they are. And wait, the private companies and individuals have not made it into space.
And theres more. the Stuff we use in our every day lives, that came from NASA.
1.Kidney dialysis machines were developed as a result of a NASA developed chemical process that could remove toxic waste from used dialysis fluid. 2. Cat Scanner. Blame NASA for finding your tumor.
As a matter of fact, you might be kind of too young to remember Tang And Teflon.
The below link will show you all of the research that has filtered back into our lives. And we owe it all to NASA
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home.html
You sir, are a DOUCHEBAG.
what north america are you talking about?
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North Americans are anything but frugal! Here in the USA and in Canada people spend money like water, let food spoil, spend money on car detailing, botox, and sleepaway camp.
And all though I spend an large amount of time in the arcade in the 1980s there were better places to be social.
Skating Rink, corner store, the shopping center.
Of course in my day you could smoke in the arcade, buy dope, and check out rat tails and members only jackets and listen to Pat Benatar. Maybe that is why we do not go to them.
Slashdot might have a multinational following, but in the end it is a US site. And we all have a right to be patriotic about our own countries? So let Slashdot us the flag for their own country.
I might not like some of things my country does, but I still love it, still like seeing the flag.
I work for a company out of San Francisco but live in Jacksonville, Florida.
I looked at homes compared to what I have here, and when you see a 1200 square foot shack for 800k to a million, you think, where is the quality of life? And besides the good food, San Fran ain't all that fun.
Keep on whining San Fran, California, with your double standards for the rest of the country. We should deed you over to Canada.
You are an admited Apple flag waver, and even have close ties to Apple. And I will admit apple has some great products, and some not so great ones. I am not a fan boy either way.
But in al honesty, if it is released without 3g at first, do you think it was a wise move, or does it mean it is something they are tooling up to.
It is cheaper perhaps to make a cheap gsm phone. But cost subsidized or no, 400-500 dollars without 3g is a big pill to swallow.
I know Jobs is banking on the Apple fan base to move and buy it, and then buy the 3g release months later, but honestly, this is business, not about the consumer.
Your opinion would be appreciated.
The phone is not subsidized is cause steve wants a share of the profits. I am former Cingular employee, and still have pretty deep ties. Apple has been arrogant on the Iphone front.
And I worked for the company for Ichat, that apple bought the name from. Long before I anything.
I would call the 3.2 megapixel camera,(iphone does not have) 3G(iphone does not have). All killing the iphone right there. Should not have been released without 3g, but hey second generation you can give apple another 700 bucks for technology that every other phone has now.
Everyone quotes Star Wars, nerds, regular people, jocks, you name it. I do not know your age but I am 37 amd saw it in the theater, and for at least 5 years after the first one, my very non nerd father quoted it, and at age 76 still does.
I understand it is possible to be disconnected from certain spheres of popular culture. But for the first three "The Holy Trilogy" everyone watched them.
Outside of being set in space, they originals were an epic adventure of good against evil, underdog prevails, and some good ol swashbuckling.
But a 20 year old, or even a 30 year old, might not connect on a movie that was released years before they were born.
And this blurb from the index. Amazing what is out there.
Welcome to the Dell Linux Community Web. This site is dedicated to providing any information that may be useful regarding your usage of Linux on your Dell equipment. While Dell primarily works with and officially supports Red Hat and Novell / SuSE Linux, many of our customers choose to run other distributions. Though we cannot have telephone support for all of the different flavors and configurations and patches you may be using, since these have not gone through our standard testing practices, we certainly can foster other methods that may provide you with help and resources. This website, along with our highly popular mailing lists, allow us to help you use your Dell equipment however you choose.
Hey, the guy said he bought it with closed source, or did they buy them initially with windows? If they did with windows and decided to switch Os's mid stream. Is its fault.
1. IT guy could have asked dell before hand. Could have researched on the web. Found out which companies had support if not open source drivers for the dell.
Personally, servers need to special drivers, no graphics.
Wait there is more. from the dell Site. On the 1950.
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v4, AS EM64T Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v4, Advanced Server Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v3, ES Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v3, Advanced Server Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v3, WS Novell® NetWare® 6.5 SP5 (No Open Manage support)
A list of all the Os's they support. Two MS Choices, 4 different Red hats, and one Novell. Cleary states what is certified on it, and if you specify one of the the ones they support, they will supply with app. controllers, nics, etc. Too time consuming and costly to support every flavor of linux out there.
And after searching the web, there are not that many problems under the supported versions and many work arounds. Also people running Free BSD and a host of other unices.
Guy fails to mention what Linux, and what specfic problems
And you know what? Could have bought one server, tested it with whatever linux he was working with, and if it didnt work, send it back. Or use it in another capacity.
Just sounds like some young buck made a bad decision without due dilligence and is passing the buck to Dell.
So sounds like someone without a lot of knowledge and poor problem resolution skills.
And for shits and grins, I called some our it guys, and we have have about 15 of that particular model in production. Running redhat.
Hell, even clues on how to get it working under Centos.
So it is other fud, or just someone who has not made their bones in it.
I would say that Minority Report then is ablatant rip off of the Guild Captains, or whatever they were in Dune, that guild that had the pilots floating in the big vats of water, spice laced so they could use the psychic powers it provided to guide the ships through space, and they orginally men but evolved into something else.
to quote wikipedia"The Spacing Guild has a monopoly on imperial banking and interstellar travel: with the use of melange, Guild Navigators are the only beings capable of piloting the massive Guild Heighliners safely through space. The heightened awareness and prescience the spice grants allows the navigator to plot a safe course between the stars. Contrary to popular belief, the navigators do not themselves 'fold' space, allowing a nearly instantaneous trip. The space-folding is accomplished by Holtzman drive units activated from the navigator's chamber. In the original novels by Frank Herbert, the Navigators are humans who have adapted to life in zero-gravity. They have slim builds, with large webbed hands and prehensile feet. They must spend their time in an artificial zero-gravity chamber when visiting a planetary surface, as exposure to full earth gravity would be (at best) highly uncomfortable, and potentially lethal. Whether this adaptation is the result of artificial engineering or many millenia of selective breeding is not stated in the books"
Well although my nick is Puto, which is technically male whore in spanish, and for the umpteenth time I am not gay and I know what it means it some countries.
But when in the hell did hookers become "sex workers"? What happened to prostitute?
Whore, escort, streetwalker, lady of the night, etc. Sex workers?
I guess this is like the "sanitation engineers"(garbagemen) or "network engineers"(i got a website and a linksys router and have 15 workstations to manage at work.)
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You are correct sir. I have an three original Lehrer records on vinyl that my dad gave me in 78, i was 8 years old. Harvard professor, political satirist, pianist.
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/
Check the above for his lyrics.
puto
Odd you should mention that, as i plan on blaring that same track out of my car today on the way to Compusa and the grocery store. Always puts me in a good mood, brings me back to great time in music. Will help soothe me before the compusa staff pisses me off.
...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon
But a great track, white musicians who dug the funk, give out shout outs, throw together a catchy beat with funny lyrics. Unfortunately Mariah Carey stole the track for one of her songs. I bought mine from ALLOFMP3.
Here are the lyrics for you young bucks.
What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I'm gonna have some fun
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun
I'm in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
There's no beginning and there is no end
Time isn't present in that dimension
He'll take my arm
When we're walkin', rolling and rocking
It's one time I'm glad I'm not a man
Feels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleeping
I'm in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin' and shakin' to Bob Marley
Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie
All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he'd hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.
Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go
Who needs to think when your feet just go
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown
If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he's the genius of love
He's got a greater depth of feeling
Well he's the genius of love
He's so deep.
I skimmed the article, and honestly, as someone who was a software consultant from the mid 90s, to 2002, it reads like a consultant from Informix of CA from the year 2000 wrote it.
First, you never have to sign a patent deal to use a database with your software. I worked for a company that if you used our stuff, you could use Oracle, DB2, Postegres, MySQL, or MSSQL. Just depending on what you wanted to do with it, and how robust your needs were.
And for a great deal of things, MSSQL, ORACLE, DB2, and Postregres hands Mysql its ass. For CRM services, Mysql is fine, so why pay for a database, when there is a free one that suits it just fine.
Our sales cycle, to major clients. Paramount Studios, Maxis, Sun Microsystems, never took 9 months. HP for about a 60k a month retainer deal was done in three. Did I mention we were a proprietary, closed source shop? Longest was Universal, but was a deal for USA Networks, Sci Fi, and Trio combined.
Also, the guy fails to realize if you do business with big business, sales cycle is longer. You have approval through departments, testing, etc.
Open Source has nothing to do with the sales cycle.
He says "is we don't commission our solutions engineers, our sales engineers, at all." then a paragraph later he says "And it means that we commission our sales people on renewals as well. " Thought you did not commission them at all.
The article is an advertisement, and the guy being interviewd should realize he sounds like a sales 101 pamphlet.
You make valid points but you really should read Gibsons works and read about the man. Gibson is anti technology, always has been. I think his first books were written on a typewriter. And with very little technical knowledge his gaze into the future of technology and how it plays out within the human element is truly amazing.
Gibson's books are all about the grey areas. You should check out the short story the New Rose Hotel, even a pretty decent movie adaptation.
His earlier works focused on AI, and human nature. Pattern Recognition focused on trends, seeing the wave, and riding it.
Gibson is an author, and considered Sci-Fi, but if you read him, you will know, he could write in any genre.
Puto
I dunno, but I know when I lived in Colombia I watched Futurama, the Simpsons, and South Park in Spanish. Of course it was the Mexican translation, not the best, but funny hearing Bart say Vato and simon. I think the problem with the translation of the show is that they are so so rooted in US culture that much of the subtleness is lost. Puto
You mean all of the innovative stuff based on research done by NASA over the years?
NASA might be a big lumbering beast, but without the incredible amount of science they have dumped into our laps the private companies and individuals would not even be near to where they are. And wait, the private companies and individuals have not made it into space.
And theres more. the Stuff we use in our every day lives, that came from NASA.
1.Kidney dialysis machines were developed as a result of a NASA developed chemical process that could remove toxic waste from used dialysis fluid.
2. Cat Scanner. Blame NASA for finding your tumor.
As a matter of fact, you might be kind of too young to remember Tang And Teflon.
The below link will show you all of the research that has filtered back into our lives. And we owe it all to NASA
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home.html
You sir, are a DOUCHEBAG.
North Americans are anything but frugal! Here in the USA and in Canada people spend money like water, let food spoil, spend money on car detailing, botox, and sleepaway camp.
And all though I spend an large amount of time in the arcade in the 1980s there were better places to be social.
Skating Rink, corner store, the shopping center.
Of course in my day you could smoke in the arcade, buy dope, and check out rat tails and members only jackets and listen to Pat Benatar. Maybe that is why we do not go to them.
Define awhile? How long have you been?
I am 37, and have been fiddling since I was 10. And i do no consider my 27 years in the computer world a long time.
Puto
Seriously,
Slashdot might have a multinational following, but in the end it is a US site. And we all have a right to be patriotic about our own countries? So let Slashdot us the flag for their own country.
I might not like some of things my country does, but I still love it, still like seeing the flag.
Puto
God damn right. Glad you pointed it out.
I work for a company out of San Francisco but live in Jacksonville, Florida.
I looked at homes compared to what I have here, and when you see a 1200 square foot shack for 800k to a million, you think, where is the quality of life? And besides the good food, San Fran ain't all that fun.
Keep on whining San Fran, California, with your double standards for the rest of the country. We should deed you over to Canada.
Puto
Dave,
You are an admited Apple flag waver, and even have close ties to Apple. And I will admit apple has some great products, and some not so great ones. I am not a fan boy either way.
But in al honesty, if it is released without 3g at first, do you think it was a wise move, or does it mean it is something they are tooling up to.
It is cheaper perhaps to make a cheap gsm phone. But cost subsidized or no, 400-500 dollars without 3g is a big pill to swallow.
I know Jobs is banking on the Apple fan base to move and buy it, and then buy the 3g release months later, but honestly, this is business, not about the consumer.
Your opinion would be appreciated.
The phone is not subsidized is cause steve wants a share of the profits. I am former Cingular employee, and still have pretty deep ties. Apple has been arrogant on the Iphone front.
And I worked for the company for Ichat, that apple bought the name from. Long before I anything.
Puto
I do 500-700k with my 3g currently. As opposed to edge at 40k. So a little more than somewhat faster.
I do not use it all the time. But it i there when I need it. And it was not at a 500 dollar premium.
I like apple, and honestly, I think they will sell a shit ton of phones. Just for the wrong reasons.
Puto
Lets see.
My cingular Rzr lets me blue tooth stuff on an off the phone. But I usually use motorola phone tools.
My cingular sx66 has wifi, and lets me blue tooth stuff off the phone.
And as someone who used to work there, can't recall all that many phones that were locked out, if any at all.
Verizon is the company that changes the phones to lock the features.
And my new blackjack, lets me do all of the above to.
Puto
Well,
"closest thing to an ipod killer" cracks me up.
I would call the 3.2 megapixel camera,(iphone does not have) 3G(iphone does not have). All killing the iphone right there. Should not have been released without 3g, but hey second generation you can give apple another 700 bucks for technology that every other phone has now.
Puto
Everyone quotes Star Wars, nerds, regular people, jocks, you name it. I do not know your age but I am 37 amd saw it in the theater, and for at least 5 years after the first one, my very non nerd father quoted it, and at age 76 still does.
I understand it is possible to be disconnected from certain spheres of popular culture. But for the first three "The Holy Trilogy" everyone watched them.
Outside of being set in space, they originals were an epic adventure of good against evil, underdog prevails, and some good ol swashbuckling.
But a 20 year old, or even a 30 year old, might not connect on a movie that was released years before they were born.
Puto
Dell Dimension 9200 with 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo, 1GB Dual Channel DDR2, 80GB HD, CDRW/DVDROM, 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE, and 20" Widescreen LCD Monintor for $699 with FREE Shipping!
www.gotapex.com
Always has links to dell with the best prices. Not a corporate bulk price.
Puto
Spanish has many sayings about infidelity, and being vaguely colombian, we are a horny bunch.
"Amor de lejos, amor de pendehos" Long distance love, is the love of the idiot.
but my grandmother says
"amor de lejos. feliz los cuatro" Long distance relationships makes for four happy people.
"mi esposa es casada, pero yo no" my wife is married, but I am not.
Just thought I would add a little levity.
Puto
see link in title.
And this blurb from the index. Amazing what is out there.
Welcome to the Dell Linux Community Web. This site is dedicated to providing any information that may be useful regarding your usage of Linux on your Dell equipment. While Dell primarily works with and officially supports Red Hat and Novell / SuSE Linux, many of our customers choose to run other distributions. Though we cannot have telephone support for all of the different flavors and configurations and patches you may be using, since these have not gone through our standard testing practices, we certainly can foster other methods that may provide you with help and resources. This website, along with our highly popular mailing lists, allow us to help you use your Dell equipment however you choose.
Puto
Hey, the guy said he bought it with closed source, or did they buy them initially with windows? If they did with windows and decided to switch Os's mid stream. Is its fault.
1. IT guy could have asked dell before hand. Could have researched on the web. Found out which companies had support if not open source drivers for the dell.
Personally, servers need to special drivers, no graphics.
Wait there is more. from the dell Site. On the 1950.
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v4, AS EM64T
Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v4, Advanced Server
Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v3, ES
Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v3, Advanced Server
Red Hat® Linux® Enterprise v3, WS
Novell® NetWare® 6.5 SP5 (No Open Manage support)
A list of all the Os's they support. Two MS Choices, 4 different Red hats, and one Novell. Cleary states what is certified on it, and if you specify one of the the ones they support, they will supply with app. controllers, nics, etc. Too time consuming and costly to support every flavor of linux out there.
And after searching the web, there are not that many problems under the supported versions and many work arounds. Also people running Free BSD and a host of other unices.
Guy fails to mention what Linux, and what specfic problems
And you know what? Could have bought one server, tested it with whatever linux he was working with, and if it didnt work, send it back. Or use it in another capacity.
Just sounds like some young buck made a bad decision without due dilligence and is passing the buck to Dell.
So sounds like someone without a lot of knowledge and poor problem resolution skills.
And for shits and grins, I called some our it guys, and we have have about 15 of that particular model in production. Running redhat.
Hell, even clues on how to get it working under Centos.
So it is other fud, or just someone who has not made their bones in it.
Puto
Actually no,
t -8722.html
w ww.ichat.com/
I worked for a Chatroom software company that owned a product called ichat. Apple bought the trademark and the name, so they did not come up with it.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/
Even discussed on appleforums.
The company changed its name to globalchat. Which was then bought by digi-net.com who owns digichat. Ichat was sold as rooms.
Ichat was WAAAAAAAAAAAAY before apple I'ed anything. 1996
http://web.archive.org/web/19961106085604/http://
The ichat site at apple used to explain this with a link, but have since used the distortion field to take it down.
If I were jobs, I would come up with a different name.
Puto
t-mobile subcontracts a great deal of the cingular and old att gsm network, it recognizes sims and sids and routes to the appropriate call centers.
as someone who was a tech for cingular for three years, I can tell you t-mobile has roaming and local agreements with cingular.
I would say 50% or more runs subcontracted across cingular.
And this is from someone who sat in front of call routing.
Puto
I would say that Minority Report then is ablatant rip off of the Guild Captains, or whatever they were in Dune, that guild that had the pilots floating in the big vats of water, spice laced so they could use the psychic powers it provided to guide the ships through space, and they orginally men but evolved into something else.
to quote wikipedia"The Spacing Guild has a monopoly on imperial banking and interstellar travel: with the use of melange, Guild Navigators are the only beings capable of piloting the massive Guild Heighliners safely through space. The heightened awareness and prescience the spice grants allows the navigator to plot a safe course between the stars. Contrary to popular belief, the navigators do not themselves 'fold' space, allowing a nearly instantaneous trip. The space-folding is accomplished by Holtzman drive units activated from the navigator's chamber. In the original novels by Frank Herbert, the Navigators are humans who have adapted to life in zero-gravity. They have slim builds, with large webbed hands and prehensile feet. They must spend their time in an artificial zero-gravity chamber when visiting a planetary surface, as exposure to full earth gravity would be (at best) highly uncomfortable, and potentially lethal. Whether this adaptation is the result of artificial engineering or many millenia of selective breeding is not stated in the books"
about 80 million people in the US use GSM. It is the predominant service here.
Cingular, T-Mobile, AllTell, and a umpteen little prepaid companies. Most using Cingulars network.
Get your facts straight. www.gsmworld.com
Puto
Well although my nick is Puto, which is technically male whore in spanish, and for the umpteenth time I am not gay and I know what it means it some countries.
But when in the hell did hookers become "sex workers"? What happened to prostitute?
Whore, escort, streetwalker, lady of the night, etc. Sex workers?
I guess this is like the "sanitation engineers"(garbagemen) or "network engineers"(i got a website and a linksys router and have 15 workstations to manage at work.)
Puto
Not that I have a problem with either, but the majority of the traffic has to be to the escorts, swinging, and deciant listings.
I work for a company out of san francisco, and our employees have some quite funny Craigslist stories.
Check out "ouchie(ouchy) the clown. Your very own ball gag, sm, party clown.
Puto