In the great tradition of Western civilization - lets ship felons out!
Surely a lot of enterpreneual people would gladly exchange 10 years in jail for 3 years of back breaking work mining Ceres or whatever for the chance of complete reabilitation and possible fortune.
It is cheaper - less safety precautions needed.
So NASA should just provide minimum transports and expertise and private prison management companies will do the rest.
Along the same lines, let those who want to leave Earth. Freaks, sects, religious minorities, music downloaders.
Just like America, Australia, etc. space will be initially populated by the official scam of the Earth.
I have last year Fujitsu E7110. Everything works (donno about the winmodem - never needed one).
Built in wireless card works as well, different distros' configuration tools have different degrees of success with WAP but command line config always works.
I think we need to speed up process of finding new email solution or Microsoft will do it for you.
I believe they are about to use the public outcry about spam to push switching to proprietary, Exchange based email format. They are perfectly positioned to do so.
My favorite anti-spam compaign would be simply to agree to reject all the messages that are not signed with PGP/GPG. Friend to a friend, coworker to coworker, this CAN take off.
In this new world it would be simple to compile database of known spammers, take legal action (esig is legally bonding in many states) and filter incoming email.
>>Oracle abandoned this misfeature long ago
Must be some other Oracle, not the one I have been using for 12 years.
raw file systems in Oracle provide 10-15% performance improvement. Of course the downside is they are pain to maintain.
But for something like Oracle online log files this is still the way to go.
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Instead of a random vulnerability every couple days - round them up and release once a month. SCO Tuesdays anyone?
This is a problem not with just databases / RAD tools but in general.
The issue is that you can find scores of OSS developers that are driven by "cool, Windows / OS X has it, Linux does not, let's port / write for it" mentality.
But there are very few who are actually capable to come up with something truly new.
I have been saying all along; lets stop playing catch-up to Windows, Oracle, etc. Open Source truly shines when applied to something revolutionary new.
There has been a shortage of new ideas in OSS.
Maybe because the innovation is very individualistic and Open Source is community - based?
>>the most overworked and definitely the most productive in the western world.
Definitely true.
My original post was to be taken literally - due to better education there are more talent to be found in equivalent groups of Indian / Chinese than Americans.
As far as the buying power, most of the foreign born IT workers in US actually contribute more to the economy than Americans simply because they arrive in the country with just their clothes on their backs and start changing cars / houses etc as their disposable income grows.
Because the best of them, Postgres, today is roughly equivalent to Oracle v6 (popular about 10 years ago), maybe 7.1 in some areas, and Oracle is at version 10 now - 7 major releases ahead.
IMHO, on average, a group of IT people from India / China / Taiwan produces better talents than same number of Americans.
Larry and Oracle recognized this fact early and cashed on it.
>>I cannot help but notice how running into the wrong person [politically correct employer, boy/girlfriend, football coach, bad cop, etc.] with excellent
>> Googling skills can easily manage to ruin your life completely.
Last year I had series of excellent interviews with major major employer who most of the/.ers would LOVE to work for. Their technical people liked me a lot.
The job did not go thru because of the comment I made to certain computer magazine back in 1997 about company in question. This comment still comes up on Google if you search for "company name my name".
It was far from "ruining my life", but it was my first chance to get into the big league immediately.
there is no such thing as "US property tax".
If you own piece of land you pay in pieces to your local government (for schools, hospitals, etc) and in some cases to your state. Not to feds - IRS.
I wish I had the mod points for you.
Over the years I faithfully installed various current distributions ony my laptops and desktops.
But I still use 2000/XP for most of the real work reverting to Linux only for some specific tasks (such as cdrecord).
Mandrake and Redhat 9 and now Fedora made huge advancements on the desktop but still Linux is not even close to be usable mainstream.
For example I have common and well-supported PCI wireless card in my laptop. Mandrake 9.1 GUI configured and recognized the card correctly but it never worked. RedHat 9 required manual edition of some config files. Fedora GUI did not work because, I suspect, it did not like space in the WEP key - worked after entering key in hex. This is precisely kind of shit ordinary user will not put up with.
I suppose Doc Searls appreciates true plug and forget nature of his OS just like the other guy. We all got work to do.
I must say I believe open-source Linux desktop will never succeed. Notice I say "open source".
Successful GUI will require dedication and relentless QA effort only large, streamlined corporation can afford. It is entirely possible that there will emerge some kind of project using Linux the same way Apple used FreeBSD and it will deliver the consumer-friendly OS but it will not be Linux as we know it today.
only some 15 billion of the Iraqi package would go directly to Iraqi people. The rest of it simply the upkeeping of the military occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. All this money will eventually go full circle and land in the hands of Boeing and Lockheed in your very own backyard and feed them and also 1000s of American businesses depending on them.
War is always good for economy as we are beginning to see now.
There is no market for commercial Linux applications.
Delphi etc. tools are dumbed-down (that is not a bad thing!) to be appealing to the mass market developer.
The cutting edge stuff in Linux world happens on the server. On the desktop there are either very specialized projects (like some professional graphics software) or more or less hobby projects. Hobby projects are typically lead by people who are not afraid of C++ and can enjoy coding in Qt, WxWindows, etc.
There is no killer Linux desktop market / application that would justify the attention of run-of-the-mill programmer who would embrace Delphi -for-Linux tool.
I said it before - face the reality people. Instead of playing catch-up game with Windows and silently bleeding desktop users to Mac, Linux needs to find itself, needs to break thru into something so new and wonderful where the benefits of the platform would matter and the shortcomings of the platform would not.
not only the trojan but the actual exploit (virus, worm, or whatever) will be GPLed - derivative works.
So by default it could not be used at certain corporate or government installations prohibiting GPL software - I feel much better now.
That's what I thought last week when some of my recordings had "spots" in them but then I realized that some tree-like crap grew tall enough to block my dish, cut it down and everything was back to normal.
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Clay tablets won't work. The IO throughput is just not there.
In the great tradition of Western civilization - lets ship felons out!
Surely a lot of enterpreneual people would gladly exchange 10 years in jail for 3 years of back breaking work mining Ceres or whatever for the chance of complete reabilitation and possible fortune.
It is cheaper - less safety precautions needed. So NASA should just provide minimum transports and expertise and private prison management companies will do the rest.
Along the same lines, let those who want to leave Earth. Freaks, sects, religious minorities, music downloaders.
Just like America, Australia, etc. space will be initially populated by the official scam of the Earth.
I have last year Fujitsu E7110. Everything works (donno about the winmodem - never needed one). Built in wireless card works as well, different distros' configuration tools have different degrees of success with WAP but command line config always works.
.. if "written for other OS" can be interpreted as "copy protection" so something like this can be stopped under DMCA.
I think we need to speed up process of finding new email solution or Microsoft will do it for you.
I believe they are about to use the public outcry about spam to push switching to proprietary, Exchange based email format. They are perfectly positioned to do so.
My favorite anti-spam compaign would be simply to agree to reject all the messages that are not signed with PGP/GPG. Friend to a friend, coworker to coworker, this CAN take off.
In this new world it would be simple to compile database of known spammers, take legal action (esig is legally bonding in many states) and filter incoming email.
they have not added that yet, that would be another $130 next year - the real innovation ;-)
>>Oracle abandoned this misfeature long ago
Must be some other Oracle, not the one I have been using for 12 years.
raw file systems in Oracle provide 10-15% performance improvement. Of course the downside is they are pain to maintain.
But for something like Oracle online log files this is still the way to go.
Instead of a random vulnerability every couple days - round them up and release once a month. SCO Tuesdays anyone?
This is a problem not with just databases / RAD tools but in general.
The issue is that you can find scores of OSS developers that are driven by "cool, Windows / OS X has it, Linux does not, let's port / write for it" mentality.
But there are very few who are actually capable to come up with something truly new.
I have been saying all along; lets stop playing catch-up to Windows, Oracle, etc. Open Source truly shines when applied to something revolutionary new. There has been a shortage of new ideas in OSS.
Maybe because the innovation is very individualistic and Open Source is community - based?
>>the most overworked and definitely the most productive in the western world.
Definitely true.
My original post was to be taken literally - due to better education there are more talent to be found in equivalent groups of Indian / Chinese than Americans.
As far as the buying power, most of the foreign born IT workers in US actually contribute more to the economy than Americans simply because they arrive in the country with just their clothes on their backs and start changing cars / houses etc as their disposable income grows.
Because the best of them, Postgres, today is roughly equivalent to Oracle v6 (popular about 10 years ago), maybe 7.1 in some areas, and Oracle is at version 10 now - 7 major releases ahead.
IMHO, on average, a group of IT people from India / China / Taiwan produces better talents than same number of Americans.
Larry and Oracle recognized this fact early and cashed on it.
could not resist
>> Googling skills can easily manage to ruin your life completely.
Last year I had series of excellent interviews with major major employer who most of the /.ers would LOVE to work for. Their technical people liked me a lot.
The job did not go thru because of the comment I made to certain computer magazine back in 1997 about company in question. This comment still comes up on Google if you search for "company name my name".
It was far from "ruining my life", but it was my first chance to get into the big league immediately.
At some point, I myself figured that if I am paid well enough, I will love what I do ;-)
there is no such thing as "US property tax". If you own piece of land you pay in pieces to your local government (for schools, hospitals, etc) and in some cases to your state. Not to feds - IRS.
Which OS and desktop environments you, your colleagues and friends use every day?
thanks in advance for your honest and direct answer.
I wish I had the mod points for you.
Over the years I faithfully installed various current distributions ony my laptops and desktops. But I still use 2000/XP for most of the real work reverting to Linux only for some specific tasks (such as cdrecord). Mandrake and Redhat 9 and now Fedora made huge advancements on the desktop but still Linux is not even close to be usable mainstream.
For example I have common and well-supported PCI wireless card in my laptop. Mandrake 9.1 GUI configured and recognized the card correctly but it never worked. RedHat 9 required manual edition of some config files. Fedora GUI did not work because, I suspect, it did not like space in the WEP key - worked after entering key in hex. This is precisely kind of shit ordinary user will not put up with.
I suppose Doc Searls appreciates true plug and forget nature of his OS just like the other guy. We all got work to do.
I must say I believe open-source Linux desktop will never succeed. Notice I say "open source". Successful GUI will require dedication and relentless QA effort only large, streamlined corporation can afford. It is entirely possible that there will emerge some kind of project using Linux the same way Apple used FreeBSD and it will deliver the consumer-friendly OS but it will not be Linux as we know it today.
You better believe it - if you have property outside of US and earn something from it, it is taxable.
And she manages to mention her dual overclocked Celeron box in every review for as long as I can remember;-0
I guess BEA WebSphere is a new product whose programmers borrowed from both sources ;-)
only some 15 billion of the Iraqi package would go directly to Iraqi people. The rest of it simply the upkeeping of the military occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. All this money will eventually go full circle and land in the hands of Boeing and Lockheed in your very own backyard and feed them and also 1000s of American businesses depending on them.
War is always good for economy as we are beginning to see now.
There is no market for commercial Linux applications.
Delphi etc. tools are dumbed-down (that is not a bad thing!) to be appealing to the mass market developer.
The cutting edge stuff in Linux world happens on the server. On the desktop there are either very specialized projects (like some professional graphics software) or more or less hobby projects. Hobby projects are typically lead by people who are not afraid of C++ and can enjoy coding in Qt, WxWindows, etc.
There is no killer Linux desktop market / application that would justify the attention of run-of-the-mill programmer who would embrace Delphi -for-Linux tool.
I said it before - face the reality people. Instead of playing catch-up game with Windows and silently bleeding desktop users to Mac, Linux needs to find itself, needs to break thru into something so new and wonderful where the benefits of the platform would matter and the shortcomings of the platform would not.
not only the trojan but the actual exploit (virus, worm, or whatever) will be GPLed - derivative works.
So by default it could not be used at certain corporate or government installations prohibiting GPL software - I feel much better now.
That's what I thought last week when some of my recordings had "spots" in them but then I realized that some tree-like crap grew tall enough to block my dish, cut it down and everything was back to normal.