GNU/Linux COULD run without GNU, but it's not easy to develop the basic GNU tools (awk, sed, make, etc and GCC most of all), and not many people have the time or expertice to rewrite those programs.
Most languages end up being decoded by future civilizations. We can mostly read the egyptian writings, and can read most of the ancient languages. We can read pretty much any language from AD 0 to present date. People remember languages, still speak them, or someone can go and decode it.
Whether or not someone speaks it is pretty much irrelivent, the language will last MUCH longer than the media will.
"What's the chance of failure," he added, "when you have a pressurized vessel with water, compressed air, and a cork in the bottom? Probably higher than he admits.
However, once the rocket reaches a certain height, it doesn't matter what it does, becuase he has a parachute on anyways and is expecting to use it.
I am not a rocket scientist, but I know that he'll have to have some pretty light stuff (and a light passenger), because he's going to need A LOT of the stuff.
That being said, I wish him the best of luck, and hope he takes his rockets to even higher heights.
The American people basically have a say, it's called polls. Do you think we would have gone to war if the support was, say, 10%? I don't think so. When we went to war, there was overwhelming support (70% in a poll is a HUGE margin). Politicans aren't stupid, if there isn't support for it, they won't do it.
You can bet that NSA demanded the source code. I don't think they'd trust something they can't see the source to for their security. As for them buying a closed-source or open-source, to them it doesn't matter, they'll get the source anyways.
Other linux distros? I'm sure if this was a real CD drive problem, it would show up on other distros, or is the Mandrake CD the only one expecting the CD-ROM drive to work?
I'll be that the LG CD-ROM is a WinCDROM, kinda like some modems are WinModems. Mabye the drive knows how to get boot info off of the cd, but nothing else. It may rely on a windows driver to do its work for it. If it is a WinCDROM, what does that mean for other hardware? Are we now going to see WinHardDrives? This could cause a major problem in the desktop linux world.
I haven't a clue if this is right; it could be a start, but probably isn't.
The kids are wearing these on a name badge around their neck, so it's not getting implanted into their skin. That's the bood part.
It's still not good. Its potential for abuse, from BOTH sides, is tremendous. There's bound to be lots of problems with implementation, and people can discreetly carry around other's badges for them.
There are open-source java implementations, and while sun COULD go change java drastically and break backwards-compatibility, it's not going to happen. There are also enough people who have copies of the Java library source (It ships with every JDK, I think) that if Sun went under, people would still be able to use Java.
Where you hire a lawyer. Seriously. Someone has the source, and the VAR's have been ripped off. This is when you go hire a lawyer and sue the guys. You're not out for big bucks (you might be), but you want the stuff they were supposed to give you. You need someone to check the bankrupcy filings, and you also need someone that these people CAN'T blow off. Alone, they will ignore you. With a lawyer, things suddenly get serious.
This is Isreal, and you are free to not answer their questions. It's very simple: You DON'T fly. Isreal has a large problem with suicide bombings, and they'll be darned if one happens on their airplanes. If you tell off the security guards, you're in for lots of questions.
People in Isreal are normal people. They just don't like being blown up. Wben you're flying a US airline, you get security-searched, even though they don't have 'evidence'.
I'm sure their security system has been challenged in court, and it's stood up. Isreali airline security is second to none, and the US needs to learn some lessons from them.
No. Let's look at two cases: 1) Closed source. You write b/c you get paid, not necessarily b/c you like to. You may or may not care about your product. You write crap code, people may or may not see, and the probably don't care. If it squeaks past QA, it's good to go. If it has a hole, no one remembers that you wrote it, and no one cares.
1) Open source. You write it because you want to (99% of the time). For most major projects, it gets checked out before it is let into the cvs. Smaller projects may be different, but we're not talking about those. If your code turns out to be crap, people remember it, and that DOES affect your reputation.
I'm not saying that all open-source code is good and all closed-source is bad, I'm just giving the different environments in which they are written.
Small projects may take crap code, but the larger ones (ones that are used more often) don't take crap code.
Many of these things are done by the hard drive. One of the big reasons SCSI is expensive is because the disks are made much better. That probably makes up most of the difference, but most IDE disks are made to be big and cheap, not fast and reliable. If a hard drive is going to be fast and reliable, it's going to be with SCSI.
I somewhat agree with your point, but some (most?) of the SCSI-IDE difference is in the physical hard drive.
They list 'Management tools could be better' as a problem with linux. What, do the admins not like vi? (or emacs)
Here's my response to some of the linux 'problems':
Lack of an integrated software environment- What is that supposed to mean? Does it mean that I can choose what stuff I want to use? With MS, there's one choice. With linux, there's multiple choices for software to use. I don't quite get what they're saying with this one. If someone knows, then I'd like to understand better.
Lack of a clear roadmap- Well, the idea with linux is to make it more stable, faster, and more secure (not necessarily in that order). What more of a 'product map' do you want? MS isn't going to come up with the next killer app of the internet. All of the other big applications have come out of open-source groups.
Accountability if problems arise- This means that the top IT person wants some one else to take the blame if something bad happens. Everyone knows MS stuff doesn't work perfectly, so if it screws up, it's not the admin's fault. With linux, if it screws up, most people (correctly) blame the admin.
I bet a lot of problems come up becaue when a company switches from windows to linux, the admins expect it to work the same, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Linux uses different programs, and often times, the best way to configure it is vi and a man page or two. With windows, it's all point-and-click.
This is kinda unethical. Open-Source ISN'T about helping a company out. AMD could help, but having gcc be 'biased' towards a company isn't the open-source philosphy. If RMS saw this, he'd have a panic attack.
However, people are welcome to write gcc backends to optimize for the K9. AMD could even write them, and if they were open source, they'd be used. You also mention 'for an efficient subset of x86', but gcc compiles for more than just x86.
Optimizing gcc for amd isn't a bad idea, but we're not locking ourselves into amd products.
You must be a hungry troll, and new to Slashdot at that.
First of all, many people around here don't consider VB a real programming language. And you claim you don't like C, but you need to realize that there is A LOT of code out there written in C.
Linux doesn't support SMP or Journaling file systems? Where did you come from? And Apache is used on servers that serve lots of pages, wheras IIS is used by pages that get defaced.
How did you "integrate" the servers into the server pool? Did you have both linux and windows trying to share the workload? That isn't a bright idea, pick one and stick with it.
If you have a MSCE, you may be able to run windows, but it takes more than that to run Linux. And you're suggesting win98 as a stable server OS? Give me a break, if you're using 98 to run a serious server, you're in serious trouble.
About your hardware problems: 1) Windows has better support for hardware than Linux does. If you want to run linux, make sure linux supports your hardware.
The parent has been moderated funny, but it deserves a +1, Everyone come look at the moron.
The SMB protocol covers only some very basic stuff. NetBIOS covers some more stuff, and those two protocols are known fairly well.
The problem is when you get to stuff that MS has invented themselves. You get into some problems with users and passwords, but most of the problem comes with domain browsers. The Samba team has reverse-engineered some of the stuff, and they're doing a great job.
You're russian history is incorrect. They have had several mishaps. The ones that I can think of off the top of my head are Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11. They have probably had somewhere between 150-200 manned launches. We'll hav change your definition of "launch mishap" to "the rocket went up but the people didn't come down alive". We have had two accidents in our space program (3 if you count Apollo I, but in the above definition, it doesn't count) The Russians do more launches than we do. In the past, they've done more manned launches than we did. Since the past 5 years, I'd say that we've probably done about the same number of manned launches.
Kazaa could theoritically sue, but that would be shooting themselves in the foot. Spyware in Kazaa is no secret, and I bet a lot of people wouldn't use Kazaa, but they'll use Kazaa Lite. Kazaa's strength is in the sheer number of users and amount of files being shared. Cutting off at least 30% of your users isn't going to help your network. And besides, it'd probably aleniate their users, and so no one would use it anymore, and it'd be on to the next program.
The bottom line is that Verisign's DNS behavior screws up lots of other systems. If I go to a domain registration site, and ask it "is this domain registered?", it will go see if there is an IP for that domain. Verisign's behavior screws this up, because now all.com and.net domains will return an IP address.
And it's being very disrespectful to the computer industry. Verisign is no better than Microsoft here; they are snubbing their noses at what they agreed on. They need more than just a slap on the wrist. They need to learn that they DO NOT have the right to do whatever they decided. Microsoft does it, but it doesn't mean that they can do it.
4.95 may be hard to compare with 0.00, but I bet a lot of people would go back to CD's. P2P is cheap, but it takes time and bandwith. If you can find what you're looking for quickly, then it'll take you a LONG time to finally get the entire CD. For most people, the $5 wouldn't be too much, would be faster, and then you get the warm fuzzy feeling of being 100% legal.
If it's just making a copy, would you care to copy your financial records, jucy personal mails, and other information that we'd like to see, onto Slashdot? I don't think so.
Copying music and copying personal information are similar, but different. First of all, anyone can get a copy of the music, and the person selling the music doesn't care who buys it. But I sure as heck bet that you don't want anyone reading your personal info. And I wouldn't trust ANY corporation to keep it private.
Two answers: I don't know, and NO! I don't know enough about Linux to tell you if there is application-level filtering. However, Linux is by FAR more secure. First of all, most linux programs are OSS, and you can't pirate them, so they don't phone home. And when's the last time a virus hit linux systems and clogged them up?
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GNU/Linux COULD run without GNU, but it's not easy to develop the basic GNU tools (awk, sed, make, etc and GCC most of all), and not many people have the time or expertice to rewrite those programs.
Most languages end up being decoded by future civilizations. We can mostly read the egyptian writings, and can read most of the ancient languages. We can read pretty much any language from AD 0 to present date. People remember languages, still speak them, or someone can go and decode it.
Whether or not someone speaks it is pretty much irrelivent, the language will last MUCH longer than the media will.
"What's the chance of failure," he added, "when you have a pressurized vessel with water, compressed air, and a cork in the bottom? Probably higher than he admits. However, once the rocket reaches a certain height, it doesn't matter what it does, becuase he has a parachute on anyways and is expecting to use it. I am not a rocket scientist, but I know that he'll have to have some pretty light stuff (and a light passenger), because he's going to need A LOT of the stuff. That being said, I wish him the best of luck, and hope he takes his rockets to even higher heights.
The American people basically have a say, it's called polls. Do you think we would have gone to war if the support was, say, 10%? I don't think so. When we went to war, there was overwhelming support (70% in a poll is a HUGE margin). Politicans aren't stupid, if there isn't support for it, they won't do it.
You can bet that NSA demanded the source code. I don't think they'd trust something they can't see the source to for their security. As for them buying a closed-source or open-source, to them it doesn't matter, they'll get the source anyways.
Other linux distros? I'm sure if this was a real CD drive problem, it would show up on other distros, or is the Mandrake CD the only one expecting the CD-ROM drive to work?
I'll be that the LG CD-ROM is a WinCDROM, kinda like some modems are WinModems. Mabye the drive knows how to get boot info off of the cd, but nothing else. It may rely on a windows driver to do its work for it. If it is a WinCDROM, what does that mean for other hardware? Are we now going to see WinHardDrives? This could cause a major problem in the desktop linux world.
I haven't a clue if this is right; it could be a start, but probably isn't.
The kids are wearing these on a name badge around their neck, so it's not getting implanted into their skin. That's the bood part.
It's still not good. Its potential for abuse, from BOTH sides, is tremendous. There's bound to be lots of problems with implementation, and people can discreetly carry around other's badges for them.
Technology is schools is way over-hyped.
There are open-source java implementations, and while sun COULD go change java drastically and break backwards-compatibility, it's not going to happen. There are also enough people who have copies of the Java library source (It ships with every JDK, I think) that if Sun went under, people would still be able to use Java.
Where you hire a lawyer. Seriously. Someone has the source, and the VAR's have been ripped off. This is when you go hire a lawyer and sue the guys. You're not out for big bucks (you might be), but you want the stuff they were supposed to give you. You need someone to check the bankrupcy filings, and you also need someone that these people CAN'T blow off. Alone, they will ignore you. With a lawyer, things suddenly get serious.
This is Isreal, and you are free to not answer their questions. It's very simple: You DON'T fly. Isreal has a large problem with suicide bombings, and they'll be darned if one happens on their airplanes. If you tell off the security guards, you're in for lots of questions.
People in Isreal are normal people. They just don't like being blown up. Wben you're flying a US airline, you get security-searched, even though they don't have 'evidence'.
I'm sure their security system has been challenged in court, and it's stood up. Isreali airline security is second to none, and the US needs to learn some lessons from them.
No. Let's look at two cases:
1) Closed source. You write b/c you get paid, not necessarily b/c you like to. You may or may not care about your product. You write crap code, people may or may not see, and the probably don't care. If it squeaks past QA, it's good to go. If it has a hole, no one remembers that you wrote it, and no one cares.
1) Open source. You write it because you want to (99% of the time). For most major projects, it gets checked out before it is let into the cvs. Smaller projects may be different, but we're not talking about those. If your code turns out to be crap, people remember it, and that DOES affect your reputation.
I'm not saying that all open-source code is good and all closed-source is bad, I'm just giving the different environments in which they are written.
Small projects may take crap code, but the larger ones (ones that are used more often) don't take crap code.
Many of these things are done by the hard drive. One of the big reasons SCSI is expensive is because the disks are made much better. That probably makes up most of the difference, but most IDE disks are made to be big and cheap, not fast and reliable. If a hard drive is going to be fast and reliable, it's going to be with SCSI.
I somewhat agree with your point, but some (most?) of the SCSI-IDE difference is in the physical hard drive.
If you have a good linux admin, you're probably running debian instead of red hat, and you won't pay anything for linux.
They list 'Management tools could be better' as a problem with linux. What, do the admins not like vi? (or emacs)
Here's my response to some of the linux 'problems':
Lack of an integrated software environment- What is that supposed to mean? Does it mean that I can choose what stuff I want to use? With MS, there's one choice. With linux, there's multiple choices for software to use. I don't quite get what they're saying with this one. If someone knows, then I'd like to understand better.
Lack of a clear roadmap- Well, the idea with linux is to make it more stable, faster, and more secure (not necessarily in that order). What more of a 'product map' do you want? MS isn't going to come up with the next killer app of the internet. All of the other big applications have come out of open-source groups.
Accountability if problems arise- This means that the top IT person wants some one else to take the blame if something bad happens. Everyone knows MS stuff doesn't work perfectly, so if it screws up, it's not the admin's fault. With linux, if it screws up, most people (correctly) blame the admin.
I bet a lot of problems come up becaue when a company switches from windows to linux, the admins expect it to work the same, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Linux uses different programs, and often times, the best way to configure it is vi and a man page or two. With windows, it's all point-and-click.
Just my 0.02
This is kinda unethical. Open-Source ISN'T about helping a company out. AMD could help, but having gcc be 'biased' towards a company isn't the open-source philosphy. If RMS saw this, he'd have a panic attack.
However, people are welcome to write gcc backends to optimize for the K9. AMD could even write them, and if they were open source, they'd be used. You also mention 'for an efficient subset of x86', but gcc compiles for more than just x86.
Optimizing gcc for amd isn't a bad idea, but we're not locking ourselves into amd products.
This just goes to further prove the pattern:
When it comes to computers, the people making laws and doling out punishment haven't the slightest clue what they're doing.
This is seen over and over, such as DMCA, proabbly parts of the Patriot act, this case, SCO, and I'm sure that there's thousands others.
Politicals (and lawyers) tend to be PHBs when it comes to computers. They know the buzzwords, as well as "Computer == Windows == Microsoft".
You must be a hungry troll, and new to Slashdot at that.
First of all, many people around here don't consider VB a real programming language. And you claim you don't like C, but you need to realize that there is A LOT of code out there written in C.
Linux doesn't support SMP or Journaling file systems? Where did you come from? And Apache is used on servers that serve lots of pages, wheras IIS is used by pages that get defaced.
How did you "integrate" the servers into the server pool? Did you have both linux and windows trying to share the workload? That isn't a bright idea, pick one and stick with it.
If you have a MSCE, you may be able to run windows, but it takes more than that to run Linux. And you're suggesting win98 as a stable server OS? Give me a break, if you're using 98 to run a serious server, you're in serious trouble.
About your hardware problems: 1) Windows has better support for hardware than Linux does. If you want to run linux, make sure linux supports your hardware.
The parent has been moderated funny, but it deserves a +1, Everyone come look at the moron.
Time to blow my karma!
The SMB protocol covers only some very basic stuff. NetBIOS covers some more stuff, and those two protocols are known fairly well.
The problem is when you get to stuff that MS has invented themselves. You get into some problems with users and passwords, but most of the problem comes with domain browsers. The Samba team has reverse-engineered some of the stuff, and they're doing a great job.
I'll bet that the license is for the CD-ROM that's enclosed, not for the book.
You're russian history is incorrect. They have had several mishaps. The ones that I can think of off the top of my head are Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11. They have probably had somewhere between 150-200 manned launches. We'll hav change your definition of "launch mishap" to "the rocket went up but the people didn't come down alive".
We have had two accidents in our space program (3 if you count Apollo I, but in the above definition, it doesn't count)
The Russians do more launches than we do. In the past, they've done more manned launches than we did. Since the past 5 years, I'd say that we've probably done about the same number of manned launches.
Kazaa could theoritically sue, but that would be shooting themselves in the foot. Spyware in Kazaa is no secret, and I bet a lot of people wouldn't use Kazaa, but they'll use Kazaa Lite. Kazaa's strength is in the sheer number of users and amount of files being shared. Cutting off at least 30% of your users isn't going to help your network. And besides, it'd probably aleniate their users, and so no one would use it anymore, and it'd be on to the next program.
The bottom line is that Verisign's DNS behavior screws up lots of other systems. If I go to a domain registration site, and ask it "is this domain registered?", it will go see if there is an IP for that domain. Verisign's behavior screws this up, because now all .com and .net domains will return an IP address.
And it's being very disrespectful to the computer industry. Verisign is no better than Microsoft here; they are snubbing their noses at what they agreed on. They need more than just a slap on the wrist. They need to learn that they DO NOT have the right to do whatever they decided. Microsoft does it, but it doesn't mean that they can do it.
4.95 may be hard to compare with 0.00, but I bet a lot of people would go back to CD's. P2P is cheap, but it takes time and bandwith. If you can find what you're looking for quickly, then it'll take you a LONG time to finally get the entire CD. For most people, the $5 wouldn't be too much, would be faster, and then you get the warm fuzzy feeling of being 100% legal.
If it's just making a copy, would you care to copy your financial records, jucy personal mails, and other information that we'd like to see, onto Slashdot? I don't think so.
Copying music and copying personal information are similar, but different. First of all, anyone can get a copy of the music, and the person selling the music doesn't care who buys it. But I sure as heck bet that you don't want anyone reading your personal info. And I wouldn't trust ANY corporation to keep it private.
Two answers: I don't know, and NO!
I don't know enough about Linux to tell you if there is application-level filtering. However, Linux is by FAR more secure. First of all, most linux programs are OSS, and you can't pirate them, so they don't phone home. And when's the last time a virus hit linux systems and clogged them up?