You talk about it like it's some kind of personal corruption on his part - that, Billstr78, is about as mistaken a view as the opinion that the Bush administration is not stepping over the bounds of ethics and clean government proceedure to confer blessings on big business interests.
Whatever. He does plenty for people he wishes to pay back and pretty much screws over the rest of us in the process. Of course it's not entirely personal, it's the way of high-level government to a degree. I just think there seems to be alot more favors floating around during the last 2 years as apposed to the previous 8.
Next time AC, I will consult your opinion before posting anything regarding GWB. sheesh.
I get the sick feeling that Dubbya is just greasing the palms of all the buisiness men who helped put him in office. He is treating his duty as President like a big payback/kick-back session. It's too bad the Open Source community did not fund is campain, then things like the DMCA may have never passed.
"But to the extent that the commission orders access to unbundled network elements in circumstances where there is little or no reason to think that its absence will genuinely impair competition that might otherwise occur, we believe it must point to something a bit more concrete," the decision said.
Right, becuase there are lot's of ISP's with the ability to provide the same large-scale mult-million dollar infrastructure that the baby bells aquired only by being a public utility.
This is a sham to try and boost the economy and keep us po folks from surfing our pr0n !
Doh! Just my early 2 cents, but a company with such broad infrastructure that is essentially a public utillity should be required to share with everyone given a reasonable exchange for services or money. It's not like every mom and pop ISP is going to be able to run FIDDI rings around your local neighborhood to provide high-speed access.
It's very hard to fight laws in foreign countries. Dmitry for example was almost certainly chosen because he was Russian. It's sadly much easier to win a case in almost any country when you use your historical enemies and prejudices to set the precedents. "Foreigner attacking US business interests" just sounds so much better in court than "clever kid helping his grandma read ebooks", especially when someone notices you can easily get a longer sentence for helping grandma read than kicking her down the stairs.
Dmitry was not in hot water just for "helping grandma to read", he made it possible for millions of copywritten works which make up for some people's livleyhoods, to be exploited without proper compensation by 10's of millions of people. If he wanted to help grandma read, he would bring some books from the local library and get grandma some warm tea and a bright light.
I am sure that there were certain portions of the way he was procecuted that were not fair, but this sort of gross exageration does not fool anyone and really does more harm than good.
College in today's competitive society is a must, especially with foreign competition becoming more feirce.
True. If you want to have an even better chance of competing in a cut-throat job market, go to a real school without a 'Software Track' or 'Systems Track' that teaches you to do something you could have learned with a couple years of industry experience.
Enrolling in a University and being taught by faculty immersed in cutting-edge research one of the best ways you ensure that you won't be bound to mindless jobs as a code-monkey. The "systems" classes at real schools teach you how to write a compiler not how to get your programs to compile. They teach you how to write and design Operating Systems not how to maintain them and keep them from crashing.
Most mindless jobs out there these days will quickly be replaced by AI agents and well written programs that will make them truley without human minds!
Becuase Sun could stand to benifit and possibly profit from a version of linux with some of thier well engineered and as of now, closed source OS code. How do you make money with Linux you ask? By selling support for the product. RedHat has been sucessfully doing this for years. Imagine how much better an enterprise version of Linux would sell if it had the Sun stamp of approval on it. Sign me up for beta testing. I have always wondered how the VM on Solaris worked anyway
After all, open source software has been available for years on Linux ISOs...a lot of distros will install on a normal FAT32 filesystem.
The idea proposed is far different from a Free OS that will install on a FAT32 filesystem. It is modestly an introduction to the great big world of free software. Bringing a collection of Free Software that runs on thier existing windows system will allow for a smooth transition and eventual disconnect from the Borg that so many people could benifit from.
It is true that M$ has made a near science of useability and has made software that a well trained monkey could use. However, the Free Software distrubuted on this CD also has many of the "help systems" and useability features that the M$ bloatware has levreged to gain so much of the market share. There is no reason why any open-minded person would not swithch, or at least try out the software on this CD. They may even find that they can get just as much done for about $600 less than they could with thier M$ alternatives.
High density magnetic storage for the purposes of building very large storage systems will hopefully soon be replaced by optical hollographic crystal storage. Once these systems reach production it will be possible to store hundreds of billions of bytes of data, transfer them at a rate of a billion or more bits per second and select a randomly chosen data element in 100 microseconds or less.
This will pretty much make all the obtuse magnetic data bricks and high density RDRAM obsolete! I would image that IBM knows this, but wants to make 32TB data storage systems a reality today and for now, only has magnetic disks at thier disposal.
If we legislated recycling but allowed aftermarket payment, we'd find the roadsides littered with abandoned PC's
NO, it would just require budget allocation and more attention/money be paid to envirnomental issues, but who wants that to happen. We would not find roadsides littered with PC's there are plenty of/. readers ready to snarf up old machines and make a beowolf cluster out of them
This is no way to win over the K-12 education crowd. Apple did it in the 80's by offering quality, easy-to-use computers at discounted prices.
Bullying the local school children mob style probably won't win them the following they were after in the first place. I wonder if the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will start to pick on all the Public Libraries they have pushed Windows on.
Now the site is just comming up with a blank page. Again, WTF? Sounds like a Junior SysAdmin just got sent to the corner for mixing up the vhosting configuration.
Sure, because asking a co-worker to help you out or collaboration in general never happens in the real world.
I am sure it does. I am also sure that a student who got used to solving problems this way in a liberal college would eventually bug the hell out of the talented developers and eventually be demoted or working the same job for 5 years.
The preparation that Universities do is evident in the way most students can be self-sufficient on what he/she knows well and will ask questions on the hard stuff.
As long as students in the group all do thier part and contribute to the discussion this works well. The problem is that students when given the chance will often suck off the other members in the group and just get the answers then leave.
I am sure you do not have that problem at the UICU where each student has already proven him/herself to be bright and talented, but at other schools where students would rather smoke pot that study this model of collaboration has proven itself to be troublesome.
Everyone knows that Universities do not encourage students to code like programmers in the industry. If they did nobody would ever learn how to write a simple linked list, they would just use the STL or java.util interface.
The point of the do-it-yourself and do-it-by-yourself mentality at Universities is that knowledge it is nothing without integrity and a student who just knows the API's and interfaces will be obsoleted with those API's in 5 years. However a student who learns the fundamentals and reasoning behind these API's, will stand a chance at learning the new and interesting things the industry churns out.
I like the rule some of the upper-division classes at my University has adopted. It's called the Gilligan's Island rule and is a nice comprimise between collaboration and cheating.
You may discuss programming projects with your friends, but you are expected to abide by the Gilligan's Island rule3--the only thing you may bring to such a discussion is you, and no written notes may be taken away from the meeting. Looking at, modifying, or copying each other's files or solutions is forbidden. If you are unsure of what is and is not allowed by this policy, please talk to the professor before doing something that might be considered cheating.
3The Gilligan's
Island rule states that following a discussion of the project, a break
must be taken for at least a half hour before coding. Watching something
inane like Gilligan's
Island on television satisfies this rule.
There may be commercially available solid state technology in a couple of years, but for now, you have to be a Carnegie Mellon grad to get your hands on one
Does anyone else wonder if this press release was strangly timed to coordinate nicley with last night's episode of Alias, where they were trying to swipe a cryogenically frozen solid state storage device that was kept 100 feet underground in a terrorist bunker?
It might use a technology known as MEMS which is probe based storage. Probe-based storage system supports probe-based reading and writing of bits, is based on non-rotating media and initially expected to support storage densities on the order of 100 to 300 Gbit/inch2. The storage devices are envisioned as two rectangular sleds, one with storage media and the other with a sparse array of very small read-write heads, in the range of thousands to millions. Seeks will require x and y motion of one of the sleds relative to the other. These devices are intrinsically highly parallel because some or all of the heads will be able to operate simultaneously. [MEMS Modeling]
I think something on a smaller scale would be entirely possible. Currently many home machines are busy hacking away at the RC5 keyspace which may be cracked around the time they come up with a larger key. There is also a prime number hunting project that is underway.
Someone with a higher degree than I may be able to comment on the particulars, but I am pretty sure that network latency would kill the hopes of doing any seriously parrallel computing using a broadly distrubted system.
I wonder how many LOC it takes to simulate a nuculear explosion. Makes you wander what else you could simulate with 12 trillion calculations per second. Maybe we should try to represent the conflict in the Middle East as a couple of fortran routines and see where we will be after a couple more years of fighting.
I guess it's a good thing all of my web apps still use server-side appliction code for all serious error checking. Complete platform/browser independence has not been accomplished for even most of the major manufactures and platforms. Javascript could brobably be attributed to most of the errors on (poorly written) web pages out there.
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Whatever. He does plenty for people he wishes to pay back and pretty much screws over the rest of us in the process. Of course it's not entirely personal, it's the way of high-level government to a degree. I just think there seems to be alot more favors floating around during the last 2 years as apposed to the previous 8.
Next time AC, I will consult your opinion before posting anything regarding GWB. sheesh.
I get the sick feeling that Dubbya is just greasing the palms of all the buisiness men who helped put him in office. He is treating his duty as President like a big payback/kick-back session. It's too bad the Open Source community did not fund is campain, then things like the DMCA may have never passed.
Right, becuase there are lot's of ISP's with the ability to provide the same large-scale mult-million dollar infrastructure that the baby bells aquired only by being a public utility.
This is a sham to try and boost the economy and keep us po folks from surfing our pr0n !
Doh! Just my early 2 cents, but a company with such broad infrastructure that is essentially a public utillity should be required to share with everyone given a reasonable exchange for services or money. It's not like every mom and pop ISP is going to be able to run FIDDI rings around your local neighborhood to provide high-speed access.
It's very hard to fight laws in foreign countries. Dmitry for example was almost certainly chosen because he was Russian. It's sadly much easier to win a case in almost any country when you use your historical enemies and prejudices to set the precedents. "Foreigner attacking US business interests" just sounds so much better in court than "clever kid helping his grandma read ebooks", especially when someone notices you can easily get a longer sentence for helping grandma read than kicking her down the stairs.
Dmitry was not in hot water just for "helping grandma to read", he made it possible for millions of copywritten works which make up for some people's livleyhoods, to be exploited without proper compensation by 10's of millions of people. If he wanted to help grandma read, he would bring some books from the local library and get grandma some warm tea and a bright light.
I am sure that there were certain portions of the way he was procecuted that were not fair, but this sort of gross exageration does not fool anyone and really does more harm than good.
well it would be if it wasn't for that darn 20 second rule.
College in today's competitive society is a must, especially with foreign competition becoming more feirce.
True. If you want to have an even better chance of competing in a cut-throat job market, go to a real school without a 'Software Track' or 'Systems Track' that teaches you to do something you could have learned with a couple years of industry experience.
Enrolling in a University and being taught by faculty immersed in cutting-edge research one of the best ways you ensure that you won't be bound to mindless jobs as a code-monkey. The "systems" classes at real schools teach you how to write a compiler not how to get your programs to compile. They teach you how to write and design Operating Systems not how to maintain them and keep them from crashing.
Most mindless jobs out there these days will quickly be replaced by AI agents and well written programs that will make them truley without human minds!
Becuase Sun could stand to benifit and possibly profit from a version of linux with some of thier well engineered and as of now, closed source OS code. How do you make money with Linux you ask? By selling support for the product. RedHat has been sucessfully doing this for years. Imagine how much better an enterprise version of Linux would sell if it had the Sun stamp of approval on it. Sign me up for beta testing. I have always wondered how the VM on Solaris worked anyway
After all, open source software has been available for years on Linux ISOs...a lot of distros will install on a normal FAT32 filesystem.
The idea proposed is far different from a Free OS that will install on a FAT32 filesystem. It is modestly an introduction to the great big world of free software. Bringing a collection of Free Software that runs on thier existing windows system will allow for a smooth transition and eventual disconnect from the Borg that so many people could benifit from.
It is true that M$ has made a near science of useability and has made software that a well trained monkey could use. However, the Free Software distrubuted on this CD also has many of the "help systems" and useability features that the M$ bloatware has levreged to gain so much of the market share. There is no reason why any open-minded person would not swithch, or at least try out the software on this CD. They may even find that they can get just as much done for about $600 less than they could with thier M$ alternatives.
High density magnetic storage for the purposes of building very large storage systems will hopefully soon be replaced by optical hollographic crystal storage. Once these systems reach production it will be possible to store hundreds of billions of bytes of data, transfer them at a rate of a billion or more bits per second and select a randomly chosen data element in 100 microseconds or less.
This will pretty much make all the obtuse magnetic data bricks and high density RDRAM obsolete! I would image that IBM knows this, but wants to make 32TB data storage systems a reality today and for now, only has magnetic disks at thier disposal.
If we legislated recycling but allowed aftermarket payment, we'd find the roadsides littered with abandoned PC's
/. readers ready to snarf up old machines and make a beowolf cluster out of them
NO, it would just require budget allocation and more attention/money be paid to envirnomental issues, but who wants that to happen. We would not find roadsides littered with PC's there are plenty of
This is no way to win over the K-12 education crowd. Apple did it in the 80's by offering quality, easy-to-use computers at discounted prices.
Bullying the local school children mob style probably won't win them the following they were after in the first place. I wonder if the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will start to pick on all the Public Libraries they have pushed Windows on.
Now the site is just comming up with a blank page. Again, WTF? Sounds like a Junior SysAdmin just got sent to the corner for mixing up the vhosting configuration.
Sounds like another option for the 'Schadenfreude' poll.
Sure, because asking a co-worker to help you out or collaboration in general never happens in the real world.
I am sure it does. I am also sure that a student who got used to solving problems this way in a liberal college would eventually bug the hell out of the talented developers and eventually be demoted or working the same job for 5 years.
The preparation that Universities do is evident in the way most students can be self-sufficient on what he/she knows well and will ask questions on the hard stuff.
As long as students in the group all do thier part and contribute to the discussion this works well. The problem is that students when given the chance will often suck off the other members in the group and just get the answers then leave.
I am sure you do not have that problem at the UICU where each student has already proven him/herself to be bright and talented, but at other schools where students would rather smoke pot that study this model of collaboration has proven itself to be troublesome.
Everyone knows that Universities do not encourage students to code like programmers in the industry. If they did nobody would ever learn how to write a simple linked list, they would just use the STL or java.util interface.
The point of the do-it-yourself and do-it-by-yourself mentality at Universities is that knowledge it is nothing without integrity and a student who just knows the API's and interfaces will be obsoleted with those API's in 5 years. However a student who learns the fundamentals and reasoning behind these API's, will stand a chance at learning the new and interesting things the industry churns out.
I like the rule some of the upper-division classes at my University has adopted. It's called the Gilligan's Island rule and is a nice comprimise between collaboration and cheating.
You may discuss programming projects with your friends, but you are expected to abide by the Gilligan's Island rule3--the only thing you may bring to such a discussion is you, and no written notes may be taken away from the meeting. Looking at, modifying, or copying each other's files or solutions is forbidden. If you are unsure of what is and is not allowed by this policy, please talk to the professor before doing something that might be considered cheating.
3The Gilligan's
Island rule states that following a discussion of the project, a break
must be taken for at least a half hour before coding. Watching something
inane like Gilligan's
Island on television satisfies this rule.
There may be commercially available solid state technology in a couple of years, but for now, you have to be a Carnegie Mellon grad to get your hands on one
Does anyone else wonder if this press release was strangly timed to coordinate nicley with last night's episode of Alias, where they were trying to swipe a cryogenically frozen solid state storage device that was kept 100 feet underground in a terrorist bunker?
Maybe they are using cheap Wintel hardware to host the site, like M$ used freeBSD to host thier "We have the way out" site.
It might use a technology known as MEMS which is probe based storage. Probe-based storage system supports probe-based reading and writing of bits, is based on non-rotating media and initially
expected to support storage densities on the order of 100 to 300 Gbit/inch2. The storage
devices are envisioned as two rectangular sleds, one with storage media and the other
with a sparse array of very small read-write heads, in the range of thousands to millions.
Seeks will require x and y motion of one of the sleds relative to the other. These devices
are intrinsically highly parallel because some or all of the heads will be able to operate
simultaneously. [MEMS Modeling]
Someone with a higher degree than I may be able to comment on the particulars, but I am pretty sure that network latency would kill the hopes of doing any seriously parrallel computing using a broadly distrubted system.
I wonder how many LOC it takes to simulate a nuculear explosion. Makes you wander what else you could simulate with 12 trillion calculations per second. Maybe we should try to represent the conflict in the Middle East as a couple of fortran routines and see where we will be after a couple more years of fighting.
I guess it's a good thing all of my web apps still use server-side appliction code for all serious error checking. Complete platform/browser independence has not been accomplished for even most of the major manufactures and platforms. Javascript could brobably be attributed to most of the errors on (poorly written) web pages out there.