If DOS was a full modern multitasking OS that supported and utilized all new modern hardware, with a fairly uniform system layout and configuration - then sure, why not?
Yea, SMS is nice to have. Actually USING it is another story.
It's a big PITA to set up package installations and deployments with SMS. The interface and configuration is somewhat counter-intuitive to boot.
There's software out there that's *so much better* then SMS, such as Marimba.
But on to the other points - Apache is very easy to configure. And all it takes is a couple file copies to duplicate your configuration to any number of servers. It's not hard because there's no GUI - I think apache configurations are significantly easier then IIS. Such is the way for almost all Unix server software; it's very easy to configure, it makes sense, and it's almost all scriptable. Is clicking a mouse easier then changing a configuration file? I really don't think so, personally. Navigating through all sorts of GUI windows, tabs, and buttons? You still need to know what you're doing to make it happen either way.
I'm not sure why some people think it's hard. I mean, really, I'd love to know because I've never seen a good arguement for why it's hard.
RIS is good if you are bald and don't have any hair to pull out.
Otherwise, you'll be pulling it out in clumps. It's a pain in the ass. Sure, you can make it work, but whenever you need to update your RIS images it's back to the crap again.
Ghost isn't all that much better.
Windows just isn't nearly as easy to deploy to different hardware as Linux is. You can move a linux box to completely new hardware with a single command line statement and a few conf file changes. It doesn't take 600GB of space to store all your different configurations either.
Ohh, I like a good GUI. Note the fact that I said "good." The very thing I love about UNIX is that you can, and probably should, do everything via a text/command interface. It's a lot faster and easier to admin large numbers of UNIX boxes then Windows, in my experience. Not to mention UNIX is quite a bit more flexible when it comes to networking and data sharing.
However, there's some things that gain great benefit from a GUI. Any sort of large scale user management, especially with a directory services type system, tends to be easier on the admin when you can visualize the directory and user account placement within a GUI.
I also like GUI based reporting - you get a much better sense of what's happening when you can see it in a chart or graph in front of you. Data visualization is good stuff. Being trapped in a GUI for administrative tasks isn't.
Windows 2000 and 2003 server have both made a lot of progress when it comes to doing things on the command line but they still fall short of UNIX because of the fact that it's non-trivial to tie the various (and completely different syntaxed) tools together. UNIX shell scripts are easy- learning windows scripting is a lot less easy and more difficult to impliment on many machines.
I'd rather start with a command-line based system and build a GUI on top of it, instead of the other way around. That way, you can always admin things 100% with ssh, customized to your organization.
I put a lot of thought into my reply, and I didn't think I needed to explain it any further.
So what you're saying now is that you completely back out of your original "trendy and popular to say TV sucks" statement. You're trying to lead us to believe that you actually meant that re-runs and infomercials were the target of your complaint.
Explain to me, please: how do re-runs and infomercials cost billions of dollars? As far as I can tell, they're both cash cows. They've already been paid for and they bring in revenue.
How and why do you think this man would become a "lab rat?" That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
If he were truly willing to help out, I'm sure they'd make it as comfortable and easy as possible - probably several blood tests over the course of a year or two.
I like Sun hardware, always have. But what happens when in "just a couple of years", these Sun chips aren't all that fast anymore? Do you keep them around just because you paid a lot for them?
That's the *benefit* of the so-called throw away machines. They're cheap. They are pretty fast. Lots and lots of bang for the buck. If you go with a really expensive Sun box, you can't do that.
Yes, I'm fully aware of the technical details of MIDI, including the fact that MIDI is a transport, and General MIDI is a definition of a standard for instrumentation.
I'll say "MIDI Song" or "MIDI Music" because everyone knows what I'm talking about. It's not correct, however, to assume that all MIDI music is General MIDI, of course.
So thanks for clearing all that up but asfofar I don't think it was necessary.
Eh. While a song may be technically defined as "music with words" in some cases, it's a very grey area and most people don't differentiate between a "song" and an "instrumental piece."
Of course, no matter what samples you use, it'll sound cheezy if you're not a good MIDI composer. I've heard some MIDI music files on my old Gravis Ultrasound that were unbelievable, and it was a 6MB patch set of consumer quality. And I've heard terrible - *terrible* MIDI renditions on a multi thousand dollar MIDI station.
But if you put the two together - great composer and great patch sets - you'll quickly believe that MIDI is still alive and strong. Not to mention it's uses as a controller bus.
While I agree with the sentiment, just because it wouldn't do any harm doesn't make it legal. If you duplicate a song, be it in MIDI or otherwise, it's still copywrited and not legal to distribute in any form. Of course, all it takes is a few modifications to sheet music and it's no longer the same song, but if you go for a "as close as you can get with MIDI" rendition, you're probably infringing.
It's 2.5 kids dammit! I like to say that because it sounds trendy!
But seriously, I aggree with you 100%, but I also agree that you could get into some bad luck, get stuck with big bills because you couldn't find good work no matter how hard you tried, and up to this point you've tried to live your life in a fairly moral manner.
Even as a 26 year old with a pretty good paying job in IT, I wouldn't exactly just up and quit my job because of something like this. I would, however, raise serious objections that would probably get me put on the shit list eventually. But I wouldn't quit.
If the company were developing a way to secretly kill babies, I'd quit in a moment. But in the case of a rootkit for the purpose of copy-protecting a music CD? Well, I can live with that I suppose.
I'm fairly certain that people do CPU inserts, not machines, even at places like Dell. Maybe even especially at dell, since one line of machines might change from month to month depending on who they get the board or parts from.
Either way, the point the poster was making is moot. Intel changes their sockets just as much as AMD, and the new CPU's (with the pins on the board) go in almost the same way mechanically as the ones with pins- put CPU in, pull down on a lever of some sort. I don't see how or why AMD would have to "get with Intel" on this issue.
It's all about renting, subscribing, paying per view, etc these days. It sucks. It's not for convienence. It's not for price. It's to milk the consumer for as much as possible.
You can make the arguement that they ARE a business and should do what it takes to make more money but I would argue that the entertainment business goes far beyond that by using monopoly tactics, litigation, and lobbying politicians to make their money. This isn't a better service, and eventually we'll be forced into it.
The copy protection schemes going into media these days is a lot different then the old Macrovision on your VCR. These days, things are encrypted. Strongly. There's no way around it, we're screwed out of our fair use and there's not much we can do about it besides pay, or not watch.
Eventually I do feel as though these models will fail, as most people still prefer to own rather then rent. You buy houses, not rent them. You buy DVD's so you can have them forever. I know I like having hard copies of my stuff, accessable whenever I want for no extra charge.
I wish that more people that were using iTunes would understand how screwed they'd be if iTunes closed, and nobody supported all their music files anymore. All that investment - gone.
Yes, that's been how it's been. There was a statement from Linus about it, something to the effect of "There's no need to continue on like that" and that there would be no dev 2.7.
But that said, if they did do dev 2.7, it would be the release. Just because it's still dev/testing, doesn't mean it's not a release.
Because his comment about his video game idea was out in left field, not funny, and certainly not ironic - I don't know why you think it's dead. Maybe the irony is that after dozens of his submissions that may have been very funny, they picked the one that was very unfunny.
You can try to pull some great hidden meaning out of it. Obviously, he was trying to be funny. I thought it was really nerdy and stupid; thus my comment. It was my opinion and this is a message board of opinions and comments.
So, there's no morbidly obese people in other parts of the world? Bullshit. While there may be some indication that the average weight of the average american may be rising - that statistic has absolutely *nothing* to do with an extremely overweight person with an obvious mental condition.
How can you even call someone like this *typical*?
Your post smells of so much bullshit I can smell it over the web. If you really believe what you said, instead of just repeating what someone else has said, you wouldn't have posted anonymously. Personal responsibility? Yea, good showing.
Fucktard.
Ohh, and PS. Buying nice things doesn't make us fat. It just means we're not impoverished.
"I think there is a good chance now that sony will re-release the PSP with a tv out, if they did I would definitely pick one up."
I seriously doubt it. Sony wants you to buy multiple copies for everything you own, so allowing you to hook the PSP up to the TV might get you thinking that you don't also need to buy the DVD. And as we know, that's blasphemy. Sony doesn't care that the iPod lets you play TV shows on the TV.
As soon as the HD players hit the shelves, they'll want you to buy yet another copy of all your stuff. Same movies + different format = $$$.
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If DOS was a full modern multitasking OS that supported and utilized all new modern hardware, with a fairly uniform system layout and configuration - then sure, why not?
Yea, SMS is nice to have. Actually USING it is another story.
It's a big PITA to set up package installations and deployments with SMS. The interface and configuration is somewhat counter-intuitive to boot.
There's software out there that's *so much better* then SMS, such as Marimba.
But on to the other points - Apache is very easy to configure. And all it takes is a couple file copies to duplicate your configuration to any number of servers. It's not hard because there's no GUI - I think apache configurations are significantly easier then IIS. Such is the way for almost all Unix server software; it's very easy to configure, it makes sense, and it's almost all scriptable. Is clicking a mouse easier then changing a configuration file? I really don't think so, personally. Navigating through all sorts of GUI windows, tabs, and buttons? You still need to know what you're doing to make it happen either way.
I'm not sure why some people think it's hard. I mean, really, I'd love to know because I've never seen a good arguement for why it's hard.
RIS is good if you are bald and don't have any hair to pull out.
Otherwise, you'll be pulling it out in clumps. It's a pain in the ass. Sure, you can make it work, but whenever you need to update your RIS images it's back to the crap again.
Ghost isn't all that much better.
Windows just isn't nearly as easy to deploy to different hardware as Linux is. You can move a linux box to completely new hardware with a single command line statement and a few conf file changes. It doesn't take 600GB of space to store all your different configurations either.
Ohh, I like a good GUI. Note the fact that I said "good." The very thing I love about UNIX is that you can, and probably should, do everything via a text/command interface. It's a lot faster and easier to admin large numbers of UNIX boxes then Windows, in my experience. Not to mention UNIX is quite a bit more flexible when it comes to networking and data sharing.
However, there's some things that gain great benefit from a GUI. Any sort of large scale user management, especially with a directory services type system, tends to be easier on the admin when you can visualize the directory and user account placement within a GUI.
I also like GUI based reporting - you get a much better sense of what's happening when you can see it in a chart or graph in front of you. Data visualization is good stuff. Being trapped in a GUI for administrative tasks isn't.
Windows 2000 and 2003 server have both made a lot of progress when it comes to doing things on the command line but they still fall short of UNIX because of the fact that it's non-trivial to tie the various (and completely different syntaxed) tools together. UNIX shell scripts are easy- learning windows scripting is a lot less easy and more difficult to impliment on many machines.
I'd rather start with a command-line based system and build a GUI on top of it, instead of the other way around. That way, you can always admin things 100% with ssh, customized to your organization.
I put a lot of thought into my reply, and I didn't think I needed to explain it any further.
So what you're saying now is that you completely back out of your original "trendy and popular to say TV sucks" statement. You're trying to lead us to believe that you actually meant that re-runs and infomercials were the target of your complaint.
Explain to me, please: how do re-runs and infomercials cost billions of dollars? As far as I can tell, they're both cash cows. They've already been paid for and they bring in revenue.
I guess it all comes down to: One man's crap is another man's favorite show. Not everyone has to like what you like, ya dig?
How and why do you think this man would become a "lab rat?" That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
If he were truly willing to help out, I'm sure they'd make it as comfortable and easy as possible - probably several blood tests over the course of a year or two.
I like Sun hardware, always have. But what happens when in "just a couple of years", these Sun chips aren't all that fast anymore? Do you keep them around just because you paid a lot for them?
That's the *benefit* of the so-called throw away machines. They're cheap. They are pretty fast. Lots and lots of bang for the buck. If you go with a really expensive Sun box, you can't do that.
OHH NOS my bubble has been BURSTEDED
Yes, I'm fully aware of the technical details of MIDI, including the fact that MIDI is a transport, and General MIDI is a definition of a standard for instrumentation.
I'll say "MIDI Song" or "MIDI Music" because everyone knows what I'm talking about. It's not correct, however, to assume that all MIDI music is General MIDI, of course.
So thanks for clearing all that up but asfofar I don't think it was necessary.
Eh. While a song may be technically defined as "music with words" in some cases, it's a very grey area and most people don't differentiate between a "song" and an "instrumental piece."
Of course, no matter what samples you use, it'll sound cheezy if you're not a good MIDI composer. I've heard some MIDI music files on my old Gravis Ultrasound that were unbelievable, and it was a 6MB patch set of consumer quality. And I've heard terrible - *terrible* MIDI renditions on a multi thousand dollar MIDI station.
But if you put the two together - great composer and great patch sets - you'll quickly believe that MIDI is still alive and strong. Not to mention it's uses as a controller bus.
While I agree with the sentiment, just because it wouldn't do any harm doesn't make it legal. If you duplicate a song, be it in MIDI or otherwise, it's still copywrited and not legal to distribute in any form. Of course, all it takes is a few modifications to sheet music and it's no longer the same song, but if you go for a "as close as you can get with MIDI" rendition, you're probably infringing.
Greetings, Mr. Noculture. There's a such thing as music without vocals.
Just FYI.
It's 2.5 kids dammit! I like to say that because it sounds trendy!
But seriously, I aggree with you 100%, but I also agree that you could get into some bad luck, get stuck with big bills because you couldn't find good work no matter how hard you tried, and up to this point you've tried to live your life in a fairly moral manner.
Even as a 26 year old with a pretty good paying job in IT, I wouldn't exactly just up and quit my job because of something like this. I would, however, raise serious objections that would probably get me put on the shit list eventually. But I wouldn't quit.
If the company were developing a way to secretly kill babies, I'd quit in a moment. But in the case of a rootkit for the purpose of copy-protecting a music CD? Well, I can live with that I suppose.
You didn't fail to see the humor if you had the mind to write option 2.
How do you know when someone's been reading too much Slashdot?
When they spell it SIGarette instead of cigarette.
I'm fairly certain that people do CPU inserts, not machines, even at places like Dell. Maybe even especially at dell, since one line of machines might change from month to month depending on who they get the board or parts from.
Either way, the point the poster was making is moot. Intel changes their sockets just as much as AMD, and the new CPU's (with the pins on the board) go in almost the same way mechanically as the ones with pins- put CPU in, pull down on a lever of some sort. I don't see how or why AMD would have to "get with Intel" on this issue.
It's all about renting, subscribing, paying per view, etc these days. It sucks. It's not for convienence. It's not for price. It's to milk the consumer for as much as possible.
You can make the arguement that they ARE a business and should do what it takes to make more money but I would argue that the entertainment business goes far beyond that by using monopoly tactics, litigation, and lobbying politicians to make their money. This isn't a better service, and eventually we'll be forced into it.
The copy protection schemes going into media these days is a lot different then the old Macrovision on your VCR. These days, things are encrypted. Strongly. There's no way around it, we're screwed out of our fair use and there's not much we can do about it besides pay, or not watch.
Eventually I do feel as though these models will fail, as most people still prefer to own rather then rent. You buy houses, not rent them. You buy DVD's so you can have them forever. I know I like having hard copies of my stuff, accessable whenever I want for no extra charge.
I wish that more people that were using iTunes would understand how screwed they'd be if iTunes closed, and nobody supported all their music files anymore. All that investment - gone.
Yes, that's been how it's been. There was a statement from Linus about it, something to the effect of "There's no need to continue on like that" and that there would be no dev 2.7.
But that said, if they did do dev 2.7, it would be the release. Just because it's still dev/testing, doesn't mean it's not a release.
Exactly what tools are involved in installing a CPU, with any style socket?
Because his comment about his video game idea was out in left field, not funny, and certainly not ironic - I don't know why you think it's dead. Maybe the irony is that after dozens of his submissions that may have been very funny, they picked the one that was very unfunny.
You can try to pull some great hidden meaning out of it. Obviously, he was trying to be funny. I thought it was really nerdy and stupid; thus my comment. It was my opinion and this is a message board of opinions and comments.
Ohh the humanity!
I thought that was a joke, and it was pretty funny until I realized that it was actually meant to be serious.
All I can say is... Jesus Fucking Christ.
So, there's no morbidly obese people in other parts of the world? Bullshit. While there may be some indication that the average weight of the average american may be rising - that statistic has absolutely *nothing* to do with an extremely overweight person with an obvious mental condition.
How can you even call someone like this *typical*?
Your post smells of so much bullshit I can smell it over the web. If you really believe what you said, instead of just repeating what someone else has said, you wouldn't have posted anonymously. Personal responsibility? Yea, good showing.
Fucktard.
Ohh, and PS. Buying nice things doesn't make us fat. It just means we're not impoverished.
"I think there is a good chance now that sony will re-release the PSP with a tv out, if they did I would definitely pick one up."
I seriously doubt it. Sony wants you to buy multiple copies for everything you own, so allowing you to hook the PSP up to the TV might get you thinking that you don't also need to buy the DVD. And as we know, that's blasphemy. Sony doesn't care that the iPod lets you play TV shows on the TV.
As soon as the HD players hit the shelves, they'll want you to buy yet another copy of all your stuff. Same movies + different format = $$$.