Possibly, but there are other patterns. For instance, I started off with Mandrake, strayed to redhat and SUSE for a while, but ended up as a paying customer for Mandrake. (Silver club member) I want a distro that's easy to use and just works. Mandrake provides that.
Darl McBride, chief executive of SCO Group Inc., says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, calls SCO 'the most despised company in technology.'
...later...
In January, McBride's unlisted home telephone number was placed on Slashdot.org, a pro-Linux Internet site, which led to harassing phone calls on Super Bowl Sunday. Hackers also targeted the company's Web site with the Mydoom virus earlier this year, causing the company to shut down the site.
McBride said he sometimes carries a gun, declining to specify the type, and travels with armed guards. The gun is licensed, he said. Security officials have told him that convicted felons are behind the death threats, McBride said.
Lookie! It's the juxtaposition trick! Darl says, "I feel threatened," then mention someone (Linus) saying something threatening. Talk about linux advocates attacking making harassing phone calls, then mention unspecified convicted felons making death threats.
A classic example of propaganda I've ever seen one...
IBM has it ports only for Linux/PPC and it's just another source of incompatibility problems.
Dunno about you, but I've used the VMs from Sun, IBM, and Blackdown for years. I've never had incompatibility problems after they were out of beta.
Why? Because normal Java doesn't work on such small memory, and J2EE is not ported to J2ME.
Great, you showed one example of when you wanted to run JMS on a router. Why you couldn't run it on another machine, I don't know, but fair enough.
Now, JMS has a public spec. Go write a version that runs on J2ME. Go on, now! Get crackin'!
Looks like your education is based on repeating after someone else, not on your own thinking.
Making assumptions based on no evidence will get you nowhere, sonny. But, let me take a gander at you. From the 1848 comments you've made on slashdot over the past year and a half, (that's over three per day, with a whole lot of Flamebait, Troll, and Offtopic mods in there) I can see that you talk a lot, but don't have much useful to say.
That is blatantly false. Java runs wherever there is an implementation, just like python.
On small devices you are limited to run Java Micro-Edition, or Java Standard Edition at most. Forget about J2EE.
Are you trying to make a joke? Give me one example where you'd want to run J2EE on an embedded device. If there was a need to run a J2EE appserver with a Micro-Edition VM I'm sure someone would write one. Repeat after me, "J2EE is a spec. You can implement it for any VM you want."
And no, I know what you are thinking, it barely gets warm.
I can attest to that. I recently bought one of these. Blazingly fast and MUCH cooler than my last athlon based viao laptop. In fact, the processor fan is only on about half the time.
During a week when Microsoft admits it sat on the worst flaw ever for 6 months, and MyDoom and friends are rampaging around it's shameful to see an article written with so much fear and so little substance.
Why do you think it's being published now?
To give ammunition, however feeble, to those against open source. They can say, "But, open source is insecure too! And it's WORSE!"
Also, while there's general security anxiety, it's the perfect time to make that anxiety rub off elsewhere. Remember, the anti-OS forces try to convince using emotional arguments and rhetoric, not logic. The best time to use an emotional argument is in times of charged emotion. (Witness our recent war, for example...)
One big problem with BitTorrent is the opposite of normal client/server file sharing: if a file isn't popular, it downloads slower.
Why not extend the concept to a set of files? Who says that the file you download also has to be the file you upload? If a site is offering a set of torrents, maybe while a client is downloading the most popular file of the moment they can be serving portions of less popular files. (9 to 1, popular to unpopular maybe, if another client is uploading them, that is...) Sure, that would take some bandwidth from the popular files, but they have enough to spare.
For example, I just recently downloaded the Mandrake 9.2.1 power pack ISOs for club members. Download time sucked! If that torrent could share bandwith with the public Mandrake 9.2 ISOs, that'd be keen.
I just installed Mandrake 9.2 for the AMD64 on my eMachines M6805 laptop. Works like a champ, no hitches. (Though I'm still running the WXGA screen at 1024x768. HAven't tried that yet...)
Linux is not full of proprietary code. This is lie.
No, it is not a lie. It is an unproven assertion. And, as President Bush has shown us this year, an unproven assertion can be used to justify almost any action. If an unproven assertion can justify a war why can't one be used to outlaw open source?
Slashdot Mirror
I trrew my DVD collection across the room yesterday. That's 1 terabyte per second, right?
I wonder, do we see a pattern here?
Possibly, but there are other patterns. For instance, I started off with Mandrake, strayed to redhat and SUSE for a while, but ended up as a paying customer for Mandrake. (Silver club member) I want a distro that's easy to use and just works. Mandrake provides that.
it's hard for me to imagine how a breakfast cereal agent would work exactly.
Nutritionist.
...old news
This is so over the top!
First lines of the article:
Darl McBride, chief executive of SCO Group Inc., says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, calls SCO 'the most despised company in technology.'
...later...
In January, McBride's unlisted home telephone number was placed on Slashdot.org, a pro-Linux Internet site, which led to harassing phone calls on Super Bowl Sunday. Hackers also targeted the company's Web site with the Mydoom virus earlier this year, causing the company to shut down the site.
McBride said he sometimes carries a gun, declining to specify the type, and travels with armed guards. The gun is licensed, he said. Security officials have told him that convicted felons are behind the death threats, McBride said.
Lookie! It's the juxtaposition trick! Darl says, "I feel threatened," then mention someone (Linus) saying something threatening. Talk about linux advocates attacking making harassing phone calls, then mention unspecified convicted felons making death threats.
A classic example of propaganda I've ever seen one...
At the moment I'm running the packages from here on my eMachines M6805 laptop. (AMD64, Radeon 9600 Mobility) Works wonderfully.
...put up AND shut up. :)
IBM has it ports only for Linux/PPC and it's just another source of incompatibility problems.
Dunno about you, but I've used the VMs from Sun, IBM, and Blackdown for years. I've never had incompatibility problems after they were out of beta.
Why? Because normal Java doesn't work on such small memory, and J2EE is not ported to J2ME.
Great, you showed one example of when you wanted to run JMS on a router. Why you couldn't run it on another machine, I don't know, but fair enough.
Now, JMS has a public spec. Go write a version that runs on J2ME. Go on, now! Get crackin'!
Looks like your education is based on repeating after someone else, not on your own thinking.
Making assumptions based on no evidence will get you nowhere, sonny. But, let me take a gander at you. From the 1848 comments you've made on slashdot over the past year and a half, (that's over three per day, with a whole lot of Flamebait, Troll, and Offtopic mods in there) I can see that you talk a lot, but don't have much useful to say.
Java runs only where Sun decides so
That is blatantly false. Java runs wherever there is an implementation, just like python.
On small devices you are limited to run Java Micro-Edition, or Java Standard Edition at most. Forget about J2EE.
Are you trying to make a joke? Give me one example where you'd want to run J2EE on an embedded device. If there was a need to run a J2EE appserver with a Micro-Edition VM I'm sure someone would write one. Repeat after me, "J2EE is a spec. You can implement it for any VM you want."
IBM's implementation of Java on Linux and Windows is a lot faster than Sun's own
This used to be the case, but I'd say these days the VM implementations are about equally matched, at least for number crunching.
Probably too little, too late
When there are conventions of 25,000 Mono developers, ala JavaOne, you can talk about Java being "too little."
how about making J2EE more sensible?
Java 1.5 now incorporates metadata.
And no, I know what you are thinking, it barely gets warm.
I can attest to that. I recently bought one of these. Blazingly fast and MUCH cooler than my last athlon based viao laptop. In fact, the processor fan is only on about half the time.
I'm assuming that the arrows mean "this person is my friend."
:(
I don't know what's sadder, the people with one arrow in and none out, one out and none in, or none at all.
During a week when Microsoft admits it sat on the worst flaw ever for 6 months, and MyDoom and friends are rampaging around it's shameful to see an article written with so much fear and so little substance.
Why do you think it's being published now?
To give ammunition, however feeble, to those against open source. They can say, "But, open source is insecure too! And it's WORSE!"
Also, while there's general security anxiety, it's the perfect time to make that anxiety rub off elsewhere. Remember, the anti-OS forces try to convince using emotional arguments and rhetoric, not logic. The best time to use an emotional argument is in times of charged emotion. (Witness our recent war, for example...)
You, the downloader, are free to seed any other files you want.
That's a manual process, though. What I'm talking about is making the seeding process automatic and demand based.
One big problem with BitTorrent is the opposite of normal client/server file sharing: if a file isn't popular, it downloads slower.
Why not extend the concept to a set of files? Who says that the file you download also has to be the file you upload? If a site is offering a set of torrents, maybe while a client is downloading the most popular file of the moment they can be serving portions of less popular files. (9 to 1, popular to unpopular maybe, if another client is uploading them, that is...) Sure, that would take some bandwidth from the popular files, but they have enough to spare.
For example, I just recently downloaded the Mandrake 9.2.1 power pack ISOs for club members. Download time sucked! If that torrent could share bandwith with the public Mandrake 9.2 ISOs, that'd be keen.
Here in Texas, if a stranger trespasses on your property and tries to "raid" it, you can legally shoot them.
COME ON, YOU RIAA FELLERS!!
(you ^ must) % chill
My opinion of operator overloading is that it is absolutely bad.
"Then I guess you've never " +
"done this and found it " +
"rather convenient?"
Yep. Start here
I just installed Mandrake 9.2 for the AMD64 on my eMachines M6805 laptop. Works like a champ, no hitches. (Though I'm still running the WXGA screen at 1024x768. HAven't tried that yet...)
...I am very, very grateful that the government is not one gigantic unified son of a bitch...
Realize that now one party controls the executive, legislative, and judicial branch of our government.
Do we have a Two Party System anymore? And if you think we still do, will we for very much longer?
Since when do companies think they have some fundamental, constitutionally protected right to make money.
Since the government bailed out the agricultural industry, the savings and loan industry, the airline industry...
And that's just the last 15 years.
Linux is not full of proprietary code. This is lie.
No, it is not a lie. It is an unproven assertion. And, as President Bush has shown us this year, an unproven assertion can be used to justify almost any action. If an unproven assertion can justify a war why can't one be used to outlaw open source?