Re:Let's make doing the ethical thing easier.
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think that's why we need to teach more people about the ethics that started our community and keep the Free Software community going strong even in the face of SCO questioning the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
That's just the point - most people don't care, and you can't make them care. They just want their stuff to work. They don't know about the GPL, and they don't want to know - they just want email and web and free porn. Your database doesn't address this, so it won't make a difference. Basically, if you want to sell in the hundred millions, you must provide what the customer demands.
Re:I won't subordinate my freedom to their interes
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Then they should have negotiated better licenses for those parts so they could release specifications and/or source code under a free software license. Or perhaps they could have made their own parts so they wouldn't have to work under another's licensing. Apparently other manufacturers do just this. They prove that it is possible to make a business selling video cards and release specifications or free software drivers. I'd rather buy from and recommend manufacturers like that so I can retain my software freedom.
Well, you're in the minority. Most people are willing to accept binary drivers as an alternative to no drivers. Honestly, it makes no business sense to pay extra for licensing in order to sell to the 500 or so zealots that would otherwise not buy your card.
We have rights, they just don't seem to be as nice when you're the one getting let go for no reason. Rights go both ways, unfortunately it's usually the employer that is on the receiving end of the benefit.
The Law, in its boundless equality, forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under a bridge. (-Anatole France)
In order to develop three tier client server apps without having three or more computers.
Just run all 3 tiers on a single box, then add a couple staging environments that more closely reflect the real system. Use these for testing.
In order to experiment with DMZ settings for a web front end and an SQL server back end.
Ok
In order to test your Win98 client, your Win2000 client, and your Linux client against your server while you are in coach flying cross country (laptop with LOTS of memory.)
If you must do this, you're screwed.
In order to download and run the most spyware / virus laden crap on the planet without worrying about it hosing your primary machine.
Works ok, but so does Ghost + second box.
In order to host 6 different instances of application servers without worrying about any of them crashing and killing the other five. On one machine.
We're talking usermode apps? There's this wonderful thing called protected memory...
In order to apply the power of an IBM x440 16CPU server with 32G of memory, because you only get to buy one this year.
BFD. It's a server, use remote sessions.
In order to establish a test environment that replicates the real environment (including data) without endangering the live data.
How's that? You could just share a copy of the data with writing turned off.
To experiment with Linux 9.0 and see if anything new gets broken that works under Linux 8.0 - without bringing down your 8.0 server.
Corporate or home? Corporate should have a couple test boxes for just such a purpose.
To create a new platform to deploy your new application to in about 4 minutes (copy the files that constitute your baseline (clean) install) from one directory to another, start the new one and change the machine name.)
Or just run the app server on another port in another dir.
How is it worse or more error-prone or more insecure than eyeballing the passport photo and comparing with the guy in front of you? How many people actually look unmistakably like their passport photos?
The difference is that when they screw up your passport info, nobody's going to believe it. You really will need a new face.
and far more than 50%, if you eliminate the votes cast by government workers and people on the federal dole as conflict-of-interest votes, BTW
Conflict of interest? You mean that all those gov't workers voted democrat because they wanted to keep their jobs? Let me remind you that Bush is responsible for the largest growth of government in quite a while. But if you really want to whinge about conflict of interest, look at Cheney and Haliburton - who's rebuilding Iraq?
sorry but most companies can afford to blow $300-$500 a month on a computer lackey easier than to down a $5700.00 expense and STILL have to pay for approximately $100-$300 a month for a computer guy to fix user problems/ glitches/uninstall gator again.
So, what you're saying is that if this expenditure saves them $250/wk, they'll break even in about 5 and a half months. Sounds like a great deal.
You don't own anything.. well, own the hardware, but you essentially "load" the software (check the amoral licensens) - how long will it be before Microsoft specifies in the license that you must update after x number of years?
Speak for yourself. I own 4 copies of win2k. I didn't agree to any licenses, I just clicked on a button.
A false positive means a visit from the Feds to the parent/parents of the child flagged as a match for a missing kid (with ensuing investigations and picutres in the paper and whatnot - possible life destroyer there).
With 99.99% accuracy (much better than we have), that means 1 in 10,000 kids will be flagged, give or take. That's something like 50 to 100 kids in a metro area.
Considering that it specifically states that it reads from a list of alleged CHILD ABDUCTORS [...]
Consider that something like half of all child abductions are custody fights gone bad, I don't see this helping too much - it'll just make the custody fights worse.
Now, put these cameras in airports, bus stations, and vacant lots, and maybe you'll help matters.
I've read more stories about guys being arrested for shopping at a store that happens to a lot behind a small daycare center getting arrested and thrown in jail for 5 years... I've never read about one wandering the halls of a school. Maybe there are some stupid enough to do that... but... sheesh. We need $10,000 machines to tell us there's a man wandering the halls who isnt' a teacher?
What about the guy who got charged as a sex offender for taking a piss on the side of the road? I guess he can't pick his son up anymore or, as you said, talk to his son's teacher. And don't forget, if some guy (at 18) had sex with his girlfriend (at 16) and daddy finds out, then he's a sex offender too.
o, assuming I get hold of one of these AMD 64-bit boxes, how hard/easy is it to get Linux compiled for 64-bit. What are the pitfalls with gcc (is an int 64 bit in 64-bit mode ?)
Here is a list of supported distros. And yes, I believe an int is 64 bits in 64 bit mode
It's not that strange if an insignificant percentage of riders crash. I don't know if this is true or not (although I really doubt it). Now on the other hand, if the odds were great of crashing, and the odds of dying after a crash were great, then I'd be questioning your sanity!
Further up the thread, someone said that your odds are 1 in 3 each year, though I'm sure that a large portion of those deaths are the same guys that insist on doing wheelstands up and down the road.
Incidentally, once you've got Windows 2000 64 bit edition running on your 64 bit server, what killer app are you going to run on it? Why, 64-bit SQL Server, of course!
Yeah, I can see how joe sixpack has a need for 4+GB of ram and huge databases. Why take the testing hit for 64-bit until there's a demand for it?
The pope demanded that Galileo present the opposing argument (Copernican theory) in his treatise, as it was favored by the vatican. Galileo did this, but used the voice of a character called idiota. The pope took offense at this, and imprisoned Galileo.
I guess the difference with me is that I'm a Java/C++ hacker with a spec. in protocol and API design. I don't think they make a cert for that. Hope not, anyway, as I'm newly on the market.
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think that's why we need to teach more people about the ethics that started our community and keep the Free Software community going strong even in the face of SCO questioning the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
That's just the point - most people don't care, and you can't make them care. They just want their stuff to work. They don't know about the GPL, and they don't want to know - they just want email and web and free porn. Your database doesn't address this, so it won't make a difference. Basically, if you want to sell in the hundred millions, you must provide what the customer demands.
Then they should have negotiated better licenses for those parts so they could release specifications and/or source code under a free software license. Or perhaps they could have made their own parts so they wouldn't have to work under another's licensing. Apparently other manufacturers do just this. They prove that it is possible to make a business selling video cards and release specifications or free software drivers. I'd rather buy from and recommend manufacturers like that so I can retain my software freedom.
Well, you're in the minority. Most people are willing to accept binary drivers as an alternative to no drivers. Honestly, it makes no business sense to pay extra for licensing in order to sell to the 500 or so zealots that would otherwise not buy your card.
AGP 8x can move 2.1 gigabytes per second (GB/s)
And how fast can it read that data? 133MB/s?
We have rights, they just don't seem to be as nice when you're the one getting let go for no reason. Rights go both ways, unfortunately it's usually the employer that is on the receiving end of the benefit.
The Law, in its boundless equality, forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under a bridge. (-Anatole France)
"You don't like our region codes? Fine--noDVDforyou." And that's all she wrote for Blockbuster.
Sure, cut off a major portion of your income out of spite and watch otherwise profitable movies become money losers. I'm sure the MPAA will do that.
Don't law firms build their business model around litigation?
well, that would make sense, what with them employing all those lawyers. Don't try this if most of your employees are software geeks.
you now must use windows and IE5.5 just to access the support site with this information on it. DSL here I come!
How about that. I only contact them when my service has problems, so I usually end up calling them. They've been pretty good so far.
In order to develop three tier client server apps without having three or more computers.
Just run all 3 tiers on a single box, then add a couple staging environments that more closely reflect the real system. Use these for testing.
In order to experiment with DMZ settings for a web front end and an SQL server back end.
Ok
In order to test your Win98 client, your Win2000 client, and your Linux client against your server while you are in coach flying cross country (laptop with LOTS of memory.)
If you must do this, you're screwed.
In order to download and run the most spyware / virus laden crap on the planet without worrying about it hosing your primary machine.
Works ok, but so does Ghost + second box.
In order to host 6 different instances of application servers without worrying about any of them crashing and killing the other five. On one machine.
We're talking usermode apps? There's this wonderful thing called protected memory...
In order to apply the power of an IBM x440 16CPU server with 32G of memory, because you only get to buy one this year.
BFD. It's a server, use remote sessions.
In order to establish a test environment that replicates the real environment (including data) without endangering the live data.
How's that? You could just share a copy of the data with writing turned off.
To experiment with Linux 9.0 and see if anything new gets broken that works under Linux 8.0 - without bringing down your 8.0 server.
Corporate or home? Corporate should have a couple test boxes for just such a purpose.
To create a new platform to deploy your new application to in about 4 minutes (copy the files that constitute your baseline (clean) install) from one directory to another, start the new one and change the machine name.)
Or just run the app server on another port in another dir.
How is it worse or more error-prone or more insecure than eyeballing the passport photo and comparing with the guy in front of you? How many people actually look unmistakably like their passport photos?
The difference is that when they screw up your passport info, nobody's going to believe it. You really will need a new face.
Try that in a courtroom.
Thst would be a first.
and far more than 50%, if you eliminate the votes cast by government workers and people on the federal dole as conflict-of-interest votes, BTW
Conflict of interest? You mean that all those gov't workers voted democrat because they wanted to keep their jobs? Let me remind you that Bush is responsible for the largest growth of government in quite a while. But if you really want to whinge about conflict of interest, look at Cheney and Haliburton - who's rebuilding Iraq?
sorry but most companies can afford to blow $300-$500 a month on a computer lackey easier than to down a $5700.00 expense and STILL have to pay for approximately $100-$300 a month for a computer guy to fix user problems/ glitches/uninstall gator again.
So, what you're saying is that if this expenditure saves them $250/wk, they'll break even in about 5 and a half months. Sounds like a great deal.
You don't own anything.. well, own the hardware, but you essentially "load" the software (check the amoral licensens) - how long will it be before Microsoft specifies in the license that you must update after x number of years?
Speak for yourself. I own 4 copies of win2k. I didn't agree to any licenses, I just clicked on a button.
A false positive means a visit from the Feds to the parent/parents of the child flagged as a match for a missing kid (with ensuing investigations and picutres in the paper and whatnot - possible life destroyer there).
With 99.99% accuracy (much better than we have), that means 1 in 10,000 kids will be flagged, give or take. That's something like 50 to 100 kids in a metro area.
Considering that it specifically states that it reads from a list of alleged CHILD ABDUCTORS [...]
Consider that something like half of all child abductions are custody fights gone bad, I don't see this helping too much - it'll just make the custody fights worse.
Now, put these cameras in airports, bus stations, and vacant lots, and maybe you'll help matters.
I've read more stories about guys being arrested for shopping at a store that happens to a lot behind a small daycare center getting arrested and thrown in jail for 5 years... I've never read about one wandering the halls of a school. Maybe there are some stupid enough to do that... but... sheesh. We need $10,000 machines to tell us there's a man wandering the halls who isnt' a teacher?
What about the guy who got charged as a sex offender for taking a piss on the side of the road? I guess he can't pick his son up anymore or, as you said, talk to his son's teacher. And don't forget, if some guy (at 18) had sex with his girlfriend (at 16) and daddy finds out, then he's a sex offender too.
o, assuming I get hold of one of these AMD 64-bit boxes, how hard/easy is it to get Linux compiled for 64-bit. What are the pitfalls with gcc (is an int 64 bit in 64-bit mode ?)
Here is a list of supported distros. And yes, I believe an int is 64 bits in 64 bit mode
Isn't there some SUV out there that has a little night vision display on it? AFAIK, that's the only other display like this.
Oh great, now the soccer mom's will be driving around at night with there lights off!
It's not that strange if an insignificant percentage of riders crash. I don't know if this is true or not (although I really doubt it). Now on the other hand, if the odds were great of crashing, and the odds of dying after a crash were great, then I'd be questioning your sanity!
Further up the thread, someone said that your odds are 1 in 3 each year, though I'm sure that a large portion of those deaths are the same guys that insist on doing wheelstands up and down the road.
Incidentally, once you've got Windows 2000 64 bit edition running on your 64 bit server, what killer app are you going to run on it? Why, 64-bit SQL Server, of course!
Yeah, I can see how joe sixpack has a need for 4+GB of ram and huge databases. Why take the testing hit for 64-bit until there's a demand for it?
If someone wants to blow up an airplane it is not nearly as tricky or as expensive as it used to be.
I thought the point of the last 100 years is that it's now harder to blow up a plane, at least on purpose.
what's a treatise exactly
A formal presentation of his theory.
The pope demanded that Galileo present the opposing argument (Copernican theory) in his treatise, as it was favored by the vatican. Galileo did this, but used the voice of a character called idiota. The pope took offense at this, and imprisoned Galileo.
Like the a**hole Galileo who wanted to go his way and say that the earth went round the sun, instead of helping fix the bugs in the current theory...
And he would have been fine, but he was an Asshole, and had to go call the pope an idiot. sounds like a perfect analogy.
I guess the difference with me is that I'm a Java/C++ hacker with a spec. in protocol and API design. I don't think they make a cert for that. Hope not, anyway, as I'm newly on the market.