The number of duplicate stories is now 1,000,000.
You obviously don't know how to count. It's actually only 500,000 duplicate stories. When counting dupes, don't count the dupes.... simple principle, really.
RedHat is much more than yet another distro... though it's the biggest distro by a distance. And a database is not the only thing that a distro is used for....
How can one trust Oracle to look after businesses developed and serviced by RedHat - that has NOTHING to do with databases at all? Or even middleware / ERP?
RHEL might be the biggest Linux OS for (supported) Oracle deployments, but RedHat is much more than just an RHEL or Linux services company. In fact, one could argue that the success of RedHat Linux and the JBoss / JEMS platform might indeed be a serious threat to Oracle's survival... once other databases are made part of RedHat's application stack.
By undercutting and subsequently angling for a takeover of RedHat, Oracle is getting into a business which is not beneficial to customers and end-users.... the focal point of the entire Open Source and Free Software movements.
If Oracle wants to offer support Linux-based database solutions, it ought to come up with it's own distro. NOT kill RedHat.. the no. 1 distro. What would happen to RedHat's non-database successes... middleware, applications, hardware collaboration, education and research, training and services... solutions partners etc.? It would appear these are threats to Oracle's long-term survival.. but they are the most valuable things for customers (not just servers and infrastructure).
HP took over Compaq took over Digital... and now, the Unix businesses of Compaq and Digital (both very valuable for customers) have been lost forever.
Oracle might compete... but must not be allowed to takeover RedHat. In many ways they are bigger stumbling blocks to the Open Source revolution than even Microsoft.
How many can expect to get hired by Google? A very tiny miniscule microscopic fraction of CS and IT graduates... that's about all. For the rest of us, this is non-news.
And again, it's not like Google's methods and philosophies can be adopted by other firms. Totally useless article, waste of time, IMO.
1998: Windows 98 is 38% faster than Windows 95
2001: Windows 2000 is faster and more stable than Win98
2003: Windows XP is twice as secure as Win2K, and faster as well
2007: Windows Vista will be the most secure OS ever...
Try running Vista on a Pentium 166MHz with 32 MB of RAM...
I think Google ought to predict the accuracy levels of such statements... they'd be more useful in practice.
Personally, I won a book of Gerald Durrell as a prize in school, and that got me hooked onto nature and animals. Those line diagrams and illustrations in those books are far more captivating for a real enthusiast, rather than these 'live' videos and 'personal' encounters. Lying on top of a crocodile... there was the other video of a scantily clad lass suckling a baby deer with a feeding bottle held under her knee... what value do these videos have?
We hear a lot about debates in Parliament on fox-hunting, yet the same populace fly in every year to Zimbabwe and Mozambique to hunt down wilder and endangered species every year. Do we need to motivate such people with realistic videos?
Why not keep a respectful distance and stick to portraits and illustration sketches? Are such exoeditions really worth the trouble and harm?
There's nothing much in the so-called study, merely an assertion of what's in the headline. The summary and the linked article are almost the same. The only thing noteworthy was, another article from this page appeared on Slashdot recently as well... something to do with "When can I get my email?" or something like that.
"the Communist government in India's southern state of Kerala "
It is a democrtically elected coalition government in Kerala, led by a Communist party. And communism has no bearing on the discussion.
"The Education Ministry has an annual budget of 40 million rupees, or $1.86 million, to promote computer technology among the one million students"
One US dollar is about 45 Indian rupees or thereabouts. So, 40 million rupees would be less than a million dollars.
"Financial, rather than ideological, reasons may be at the root of the state's decision to promote free software."
Again, not true. People in Kerala have been using computers since the mid '80s actually. The VSSC (Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre) in Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala has lots of Sun graphic workstations supplied by Wipro in the late '80s. Many public sector undertakings, banks and the Railways have been users of Unix based systems for decades now. Many companies in India have realised that it's a total waste of time, money and effort to invest in Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco equipment and their closed-source zero-innovation ideologies for their computing needs.
The Indian branch of the Free Software Foundation is located in Kerala, again because of the high literacy rates, and the forward-thinking, proud and practical people of Kerala. Even if Windows Vista is released free for all the students in Kerala, they would not be inclined to waste their time.
Apparently this is NYT's way of saying that if you're smart enough to be using Linux, and diligent enough to go beyond the front page, then New York Times isn't meant for you! It could be their strategy to cater to only the dumber sections of the poulace, perhaps?
Your solution lacks accessibilty options...
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for the morally challenged, that is. Until this bug is rectified, your technically superior solution is useless.
From Palo Alto in 1999.... ""Early e-toilets forced users to keep a lot of windows open, so e-dumpers lacked the kind of privacy you want while doing your business," said designer Peter Cheng, a self-described "whiz kid"
IT Spending cannot be directly related to the spread of IT and it's benefits. Let's take the case of the Indian Railways (the biggest employer in the World) and the Indian Insurance business (a mammoth organisation).
The ticket reservation system in Indian Railways uses a dumb-terminal front end attached to dot-matrix printers, with Unix systems in the backend... I'm not sure about the databse and the progrmming language though. Now, IT spending-wise, the Railways probably spends about 1% (no kidding) of the money that would've been needed for a Windows-Citirx-thinclient-IBM consulting-broadband-interconnect-firewall-data-ce nter solution for the same performance. IBM's efforts to sell multi-purpose thin-clients and migrate to DB2 on AIX have failed. (The online reservation system allegedly runs.Net and Flash, and is quite slow and clumsy though).
The Life Insurance Corporation of India recently decided to shut down Windows on all their systems and networks (they were fed up with the ServicePack Oriented Architecture) and tied up with RedHat for thousands of PCs. A ten-fold savings on licensing costs (and IT spending) ensued.
So basically, I would reckon the study methodology and criteria were flawed. Asia has a much bigger ratio of Linux and Unix systems (and Lotus Notes as well, surprisingly) compared to the rest of the World. The much higher GDP and purchasing power distorts the study method.
For instance, a licensed version of MS Office Professional would easily be 3-months wages of a middle-class Indian. This is NOT the right way to compare IT penetration and usage.
Some of my most profound thoughts have occurred during periods of depression. How else can one get a better perspective on things usually taken for granted? Depression even helps me prioritise things... without it I wouldn't have discovered the energy and motivation to change things I ought to.
I would think it axiomatic that most thinkers like Einstein and Newton have had long and frequent bouts of depression. An uncaring, nonchalant, ever-smiling drone is useless in real life - unless one is a politician, that is. Or a lawyer, perhaps.
Looks like WinFS got released as part of Small Biz Server... remember it was withdrawn from Vista, but was supposed to be packaged with SQL Server instead? My guess is that Small Biz Server will not have WinFS... customers will have to buy the separate SQL Servr most probably...
Why is it that the customer has to suffer? A while ago, when Microsoft lost a patent dispute, they urged customers to apply a Service Pack for Office, and stop using the version that got shipped on purchase!
What fault is it of the customer, if the vendor from who he purchsaed some product / service is found guilty of patent abuse? If Echostar has abused TiVo's patents and sold a few millions of their products... I think a more equitable judgement ought to be along the lines... like, Echostar to pay TiVo the requisite license money so that existing customers may continue to use their products and services uninterrupted.
A patent should not imply that one single company has exclusive rights to implement, sell and support products based out of the said patent. The true purpose of patents is in fact, to spur innovation... not to build monopolies. Echostar might be directed NOT TO sell future products in violation of patents... it appears UNJUST that existing customers suffer a loss of functionality because of this. What if a patent violation happened in a medicinal drug? Patients must vomit already ingested medicines and die?
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We're talking about whether expertise is innate or learned.
The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made, not born.
You have the answer right there in the summary, even without reading TFA.
Try to follow along.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting nerds ought to be doing. Instead of a mere theoretical discussion on the topic, nerds would be better off focussing on technologies that would be available and relevant over a decade atleast. Hence the choice of Open Source tools.
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I was reading the story, and thought I was going to see something interesting, and it was like "beep beep beep". It's kinda... a bummer.
Welcome to Slashdot.... most 'stories' here just go beep beep beep.... or dupe dupe dupe. And the comments are mostly bummers.. like this one!
"Ellen seems to have figured out where fanboys come from."
Not from Slashdot, at any rate.... BTW, she says No Comment, wrt her availability. Any PC users on Slashdot like to switch?
Stop with the "PC sucks" nonsense.
Maybe the PC isn't synonymous with IBM, Microsoft or Windows anymore?
I think Linux has changed the face of the PC, and what we expect out of them... for the better.
So Apple better say "Windows" or "Office" in their switcher ads, I guess...
"I wasn't stoned when I saw the ad either!"
Getting stoned for watching Mac ads is so 5 years ago... these days you get 'chaired'.
6 more people have shown interest in space exploration, and the NASA in particular.
Seriously... NASA's credibility and image is diminishing by the hour, despite 'breakthrough' announcements every other day.
The number of duplicate stories is now 1,000,000. You obviously don't know how to count. It's actually only 500,000 duplicate stories. When counting dupes, don't count the dupes.... simple principle, really.
"may the best distro win."
RedHat is much more than yet another distro... though it's the biggest distro by a distance. And a database is not the only thing that a distro is used for....
How can one trust Oracle to look after businesses developed and serviced by RedHat - that has NOTHING to do with databases at all? Or even middleware / ERP?
RHEL might be the biggest Linux OS for (supported) Oracle deployments, but RedHat is much more than just an RHEL or Linux services company. In fact, one could argue that the success of RedHat Linux and the JBoss / JEMS platform might indeed be a serious threat to Oracle's survival... once other databases are made part of RedHat's application stack.
By undercutting and subsequently angling for a takeover of RedHat, Oracle is getting into a business which is not beneficial to customers and end-users.... the focal point of the entire Open Source and Free Software movements.
If Oracle wants to offer support Linux-based database solutions, it ought to come up with it's own distro. NOT kill RedHat.. the no. 1 distro. What would happen to RedHat's non-database successes... middleware, applications, hardware collaboration, education and research, training and services... solutions partners etc.? It would appear these are threats to Oracle's long-term survival.. but they are the most valuable things for customers (not just servers and infrastructure).
HP took over Compaq took over Digital... and now, the Unix businesses of Compaq and Digital (both very valuable for customers) have been lost forever.
Oracle might compete... but must not be allowed to takeover RedHat. In many ways they are bigger stumbling blocks to the Open Source revolution than even Microsoft.
How many can expect to get hired by Google? A very tiny miniscule microscopic fraction of CS and IT graduates... that's about all. For the rest of us, this is non-news.
And again, it's not like Google's methods and philosophies can be adopted by other firms. Totally useless article, waste of time, IMO.
In other words, about nine out of ten systems using Vista crashed at some point. And that's counting just those who sent the crash reports. :-)
:-)
Or it could be that 1 out of every Vista system crashed 9 times.... and the remaining systems went into BSOD before the reports got dispatched
Did you notice ALL the chairs AND Tables are taken? The developers seem to have learnt their lessons!
Looking at the picture.... http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/09/bu siness/09vista.xlarge1.jpg
looks like the so-called developers are having a LAN party. Certainly not like professional bug fixers who know what they're doing.
Besides, did anyone notice ALL the chairs are taken? Even some of the tables too, just in case!!!!
1998: Windows 98 is 38% faster than Windows 95 2001: Windows 2000 is faster and more stable than Win98 2003: Windows XP is twice as secure as Win2K, and faster as well 2007: Windows Vista will be the most secure OS ever... Try running Vista on a Pentium 166MHz with 32 MB of RAM... I think Google ought to predict the accuracy levels of such statements... they'd be more useful in practice.
Personally, I won a book of Gerald Durrell as a prize in school, and that got me hooked onto nature and animals. Those line diagrams and illustrations in those books are far more captivating for a real enthusiast, rather than these 'live' videos and 'personal' encounters. Lying on top of a crocodile... there was the other video of a scantily clad lass suckling a baby deer with a feeding bottle held under her knee... what value do these videos have?
We hear a lot about debates in Parliament on fox-hunting, yet the same populace fly in every year to Zimbabwe and Mozambique to hunt down wilder and endangered species every year. Do we need to motivate such people with realistic videos?
Why not keep a respectful distance and stick to portraits and illustration sketches? Are such exoeditions really worth the trouble and harm?
There's nothing much in the so-called study, merely an assertion of what's in the headline. The summary and the linked article are almost the same. The only thing noteworthy was, another article from this page appeared on Slashdot recently as well... something to do with "When can I get my email?" or something like that.
Slow news day?
"the Communist government in India's southern state of Kerala "
It is a democrtically elected coalition government in Kerala, led by a Communist party. And communism has no bearing on the discussion.
"The Education Ministry has an annual budget of 40 million rupees, or $1.86 million, to promote computer technology among the one million students"
One US dollar is about 45 Indian rupees or thereabouts. So, 40 million rupees would be less than a million dollars.
"Financial, rather than ideological, reasons may be at the root of the state's decision to promote free software."
Again, not true. People in Kerala have been using computers since the mid '80s actually. The VSSC (Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre) in Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala has lots of Sun graphic workstations supplied by Wipro in the late '80s. Many public sector undertakings, banks and the Railways have been users of Unix based systems for decades now. Many companies in India have realised that it's a total waste of time, money and effort to invest in Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco equipment and their closed-source zero-innovation ideologies for their computing needs.
The Indian branch of the Free Software Foundation is located in Kerala, again because of the high literacy rates, and the forward-thinking, proud and practical people of Kerala. Even if Windows Vista is released free for all the students in Kerala, they would not be inclined to waste their time.
Apparently this is NYT's way of saying that if you're smart enough to be using Linux, and diligent enough to go beyond the front page, then New York Times isn't meant for you! It could be their strategy to cater to only the dumber sections of the poulace, perhaps?
for the morally challenged, that is. Until this bug is rectified, your technically superior solution is useless.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29225/
From Palo Alto in 1999.... ""Early e-toilets forced users to keep a lot of windows open, so e-dumpers lacked the kind of privacy you want while doing your business," said designer Peter Cheng, a self-described "whiz kid"
Q: What do toilets and iPods have in common?
A: Both are used for downloading crap!
IT Spending cannot be directly related to the spread of IT and it's benefits. Let's take the case of the Indian Railways (the biggest employer in the World) and the Indian Insurance business (a mammoth organisation).
e nter solution for the same performance. IBM's efforts to sell multi-purpose thin-clients and migrate to DB2 on AIX have failed. (The online reservation system allegedly runs .Net and Flash, and is quite slow and clumsy though).
The ticket reservation system in Indian Railways uses a dumb-terminal front end attached to dot-matrix printers, with Unix systems in the backend... I'm not sure about the databse and the progrmming language though. Now, IT spending-wise, the Railways probably spends about 1% (no kidding) of the money that would've been needed for a Windows-Citirx-thinclient-IBM consulting-broadband-interconnect-firewall-data-c
The Life Insurance Corporation of India recently decided to shut down Windows on all their systems and networks (they were fed up with the ServicePack Oriented Architecture) and tied up with RedHat for thousands of PCs. A ten-fold savings on licensing costs (and IT spending) ensued.
So basically, I would reckon the study methodology and criteria were flawed. Asia has a much bigger ratio of Linux and Unix systems (and Lotus Notes as well, surprisingly) compared to the rest of the World. The much higher GDP and purchasing power distorts the study method.
For instance, a licensed version of MS Office Professional would easily be 3-months wages of a middle-class Indian. This is NOT the right way to compare IT penetration and usage.
Some of my most profound thoughts have occurred during periods of depression. How else can one get a better perspective on things usually taken for granted? Depression even helps me prioritise things... without it I wouldn't have discovered the energy and motivation to change things I ought to.
I would think it axiomatic that most thinkers like Einstein and Newton have had long and frequent bouts of depression. An uncaring, nonchalant, ever-smiling drone is useless in real life - unless one is a politician, that is. Or a lawyer, perhaps.
Upon audit, the license was found to contain non-final wordings.
Looks like WinFS got released as part of Small Biz Server... remember it was withdrawn from Vista, but was supposed to be packaged with SQL Server instead? My guess is that Small Biz Server will not have WinFS... customers will have to buy the separate SQL Servr most probably...
Why is it that the customer has to suffer? A while ago, when Microsoft lost a patent dispute, they urged customers to apply a Service Pack for Office, and stop using the version that got shipped on purchase!
What fault is it of the customer, if the vendor from who he purchsaed some product / service is found guilty of patent abuse? If Echostar has abused TiVo's patents and sold a few millions of their products... I think a more equitable judgement ought to be along the lines... like, Echostar to pay TiVo the requisite license money so that existing customers may continue to use their products and services uninterrupted.
A patent should not imply that one single company has exclusive rights to implement, sell and support products based out of the said patent. The true purpose of patents is in fact, to spur innovation... not to build monopolies. Echostar might be directed NOT TO sell future products in violation of patents... it appears UNJUST that existing customers suffer a loss of functionality because of this. What if a patent violation happened in a medicinal drug? Patients must vomit already ingested medicines and die?
We're talking about whether expertise is innate or learned.
The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made, not born.
You have the answer right there in the summary, even without reading TFA.
Try to follow along.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting nerds ought to be doing. Instead of a mere theoretical discussion on the topic, nerds would be better off focussing on technologies that would be available and relevant over a decade atleast. Hence the choice of Open Source tools.