there are many (true) stories about connecting a clean install of windows 2000 onto the internet, and having it be infected with 15-20 minutes by viruses being spread by unfixed computers... you are darn right a non patched system will be hacked, and fast too!
fedora? i mean, honestly, it is equivelant to redhat 10(i have used fedora, it is a nice upgrade), the difference being that support is community based rather than company based... just like with debian, a community distro with community support.
granted, i think redhat should offer a cheap up2date +support package for the 'almost but not quite free' redhat linux(small companies, wanting official support)
redhat comes with an 'add/remove applications' gui... i would like to see the sytem not rely on having a cd present, but rather use rpms and download them online... It is a very attractice program, with nice categories for different apps, and i would like to see it extended.
WOW there cowboy... an exec who has a no-crashing phone will be AT BEST, content... if an exec has a crashing phone, he will just curse at it, and restart the damn thing. No million dollar migration will come from a cell phone, imo.
why can't we merge them? the redhat (anaconda) installer is great, and could be(is being worked on by someone, if it matters) used as the debian installer of choice...
that is one example of where redhat/fedora is ahead, and debian should use it... it is open source, people, so just share the code!
we should get fedora to start being more debian-like... the redhat/fedora 'add/remove packages' gui app is awesome, but requires the source to be a cd.... could we make it so that the app is internet based, and used rpms/debs? with dependency checking, this would be AWESOME for a pack manager.
yum, btw, is a very cool app that uses rpms in the way apt uses debs... i like choice, but for usability, can't we find some middle ground?
First, the average pro athlete has a career which lasts less than 3 years. So in a career with such low job security it is no wonder that they ask for so much money.
Yes, but the guys that make the multi-millions are generally longer-term players. It is the new guys, making league minimum(1/2 mill?) that don't last long. Ofcourse injuries are also a part of this.
Second, the average joe will say things to the extent of "Why does that guy need to make 2 million a year, nobody needs that much money." Well, why don't you go ask a person who lives in poverty or is homeless how much money they think you need to live?
Wow, that was interesting. Let me tell you, that making 1 million a year will put them in a pretty comfortable life, let alone several million. hell, 200k a year will put them in a nice lifestyle, depending on COL for the area(oregon is MUCH cheaper to live in than cali).
Third, it's not like the money that athletes make comes from your tax dollar. You aren't losing anything because some lucky people are making millions for doing what they love
Ever go to a pro game? how much do hotdogs cost? how about a pepsi? goog god they are expensive, and it is because they owners have to 1. pay the players and 2. make some profit...
Finally, if everyone could be a pro athlete then I'm sure they wouldn't make as much money. Athletes have devoted more time to their careers then most anybody else. From ages as young as 4 or 5 they practice daily, typically for hours on end. It's not just fun for them either. They suffer through grueling physical exertion that would cause most of us to hurt just thinking about.
here i agree, they do something that i never could(and i play baseball, btw). I just don't see that what they are doing is so profound as to justify a job so many, many times larger than the average pay of an American. Please tell me how he would be suffering if A-rod only made 2 mill a year instead of, what, 10-15 mill?
not only more open source apps, (and here i have no experience, just opinions;) but also a standard on how apps can talk with eachother(xml or somesuch?), along with inter-application apis or something. Then again, this may be the case now, and i don't know it, but for the 'next gen' of programming to take off, it has to be pretty easy to start coding in, and very broad reaches, so that you are not limited to programs that are only developed to be used in certain ways.
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how many generations? in human terms, or tech terms? right now, ASIMO is operated BY A REMOTE CONTROL... how long before it can control itself, at a resonable speed? Who knows. a decade sounds good though.
but we need to move from an app-specific system, to an OS-wide scripting language, which i think is what Applescript does nicely.
it shouldn't be just excel, it should be how excel talks with other apps to get info, or fill in data.
You are right, scripting like that is the first step, but i think applescript is a more user-friendly(plain english-like syntax) and it is system wide, so it can talk and interact with many applications.
you are right, so the million+ a year for an 'average' pro player, is well earned, because they practice what they do for a living, and love doing it?
nope, they are still overpayed.
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actually, i would argue the linux and mac users are generally 'safe' from most viruses is because their systems are designed more securely and with moreprecautions than windows.
well, as long as you back things up, you should be able to have your laptop harddrive get nuked(or stolen, since it is suppose to be for security use) and not have a problem...
it is sad though, that such a cool feature is having initial difficulty. hope everything gets ironed out completely by Apple.
o ya, they have OS teams, but i don't think they want them. IBM is like apple(only bigger), a hardware company that creates software to sell their hardware. Yes, they have mainframe OSes that they maintain, but they would rather have a medium size team of linux hackers to port linux to the mainframe, than to create the mainframe OS.
IBM should, and i think are, get rid of all their OSes, all that code that is 'competing' with linux, put all the good stuff into the kernel, and then port linux to any architecture they need. That would make a solid OS with modern features available as an upgrade to older hardware already sold, or to new hardware getting sold.
besides, IBM has stated that they want to be linux distro nuetral, they don't want SuSe.
3 years for an entire rewrite, i think that is overly optomisitic... besides, to save that much time, they would just rewrite what they already have..
joelonsoftware, knows, the worst thing you can do is start from scratch.
MS should however, say to hell with users, expectations, deadlines, or compatability. pick a date, and get a list of everything fundamentally not good about Windows and get as many programmers they can to fix it.
honestly though. grab the slashcode and put it in there... also, while you are at it, auto create a cachce / link to google cache of every website link posted.
better yet, have slashdot check the website links posted, and when it falls below a certain ping time, add the cache, but if not, don't.... that solves the problem of websites who want the advertisement of banners and whatnot, but also leaves the link working during/. effect!
but for the 'common man' to program, we will have to evolve to something more natural than C or C++. something that doesn't focus on the language, and lets the programmer just fricking program. Maybe in the future iterations of Java, or a more natural scripting-like language of Applescript(doubtful, but who knows) we will find something that lets program what they want.
A look forward to the 'age' (a few years off, given today's teen/20's being so computer savvy) where computer compatince is the norm, rather than the evil tech support story users we hear so much about.
ya, the GC can get away with no internet play, this round, and still be really fun. But if the PS3 and GC2 don't have a ethernet port builtin, and a standard online system(ala xbox live), they will be missing out.
The harddrive is nice, and should be included in the GC(a nice mini laptop hdd, please!). The dvd/disc size is nice, for large programs, pretty much needed in GC2.
But seriously, builtin online play should be added. maybe cross console play too?
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...you are right, this may take an act of congress.
government controlled ISP? *gag*
well, the 25 or so MILLION subscribers would convince me pretty damn fast.
there are many (true) stories about connecting a clean install of windows 2000 onto the internet, and having it be infected with 15-20 minutes by viruses being spread by unfixed computers... you are darn right a non patched system will be hacked, and fast too!
fedora? i mean, honestly, it is equivelant to redhat 10(i have used fedora, it is a nice upgrade), the difference being that support is community based rather than company based... just like with debian, a community distro with community support.
granted, i think redhat should offer a cheap up2date +support package for the 'almost but not quite free' redhat linux(small companies, wanting official support)
redhat comes with an 'add/remove applications' gui... i would like to see the sytem not rely on having a cd present, but rather use rpms and download them online... It is a very attractice program, with nice categories for different apps, and i would like to see it extended.
WOW there cowboy... an exec who has a no-crashing phone will be AT BEST, content... if an exec has a crashing phone, he will just curse at it, and restart the damn thing. No million dollar migration will come from a cell phone, imo.
why can't we merge them? the redhat (anaconda) installer is great, and could be(is being worked on by someone, if it matters) used as the debian installer of choice... that is one example of where redhat/fedora is ahead, and debian should use it... it is open source, people, so just share the code!
we should get fedora to start being more debian-like... the redhat/fedora 'add/remove packages' gui app is awesome, but requires the source to be a cd.... could we make it so that the app is internet based, and used rpms/debs? with dependency checking, this would be AWESOME for a pack manager.
yum, btw, is a very cool app that uses rpms in the way apt uses debs... i like choice, but for usability, can't we find some middle ground?
Yes, but the guys that make the multi-millions are generally longer-term players. It is the new guys, making league minimum(1/2 mill?) that don't last long. Ofcourse injuries are also a part of this.
Second, the average joe will say things to the extent of "Why does that guy need to make 2 million a year, nobody needs that much money." Well, why don't you go ask a person who lives in poverty or is homeless how much money they think you need to live?
Wow, that was interesting. Let me tell you, that making 1 million a year will put them in a pretty comfortable life, let alone several million. hell, 200k a year will put them in a nice lifestyle, depending on COL for the area(oregon is MUCH cheaper to live in than cali).
Third, it's not like the money that athletes make comes from your tax dollar. You aren't losing anything because some lucky people are making millions for doing what they love
Ever go to a pro game? how much do hotdogs cost? how about a pepsi? goog god they are expensive, and it is because they owners have to 1. pay the players and 2. make some profit...
Finally, if everyone could be a pro athlete then I'm sure they wouldn't make as much money. Athletes have devoted more time to their careers then most anybody else. From ages as young as 4 or 5 they practice daily, typically for hours on end. It's not just fun for them either. They suffer through grueling physical exertion that would cause most of us to hurt just thinking about.
here i agree, they do something that i never could(and i play baseball, btw). I just don't see that what they are doing is so profound as to justify a job so many, many times larger than the average pay of an American. Please tell me how he would be suffering if A-rod only made 2 mill a year instead of, what, 10-15 mill?
not only more open source apps, (and here i have no experience, just opinions ;) but also a standard on how apps can talk with eachother(xml or somesuch?), along with inter-application apis or something. Then again, this may be the case now, and i don't know it, but for the 'next gen' of programming to take off, it has to be pretty easy to start coding in, and very broad reaches, so that you are not limited to programs that are only developed to be used in certain ways.
a link that works: www.tek-tips.com
how many generations? in human terms, or tech terms? right now, ASIMO is operated BY A REMOTE CONTROL... how long before it can control itself, at a resonable speed? Who knows. a decade sounds good though.
but we need to move from an app-specific system, to an OS-wide scripting language, which i think is what Applescript does nicely.
it shouldn't be just excel, it should be how excel talks with other apps to get info, or fill in data.
You are right, scripting like that is the first step, but i think applescript is a more user-friendly(plain english-like syntax) and it is system wide, so it can talk and interact with many applications.
you said it perfectly right. quite an effective plan by IBM, as well.
i thought halo was originally going to be a mac or mac/pc release.
you are right, so the million+ a year for an 'average' pro player, is well earned, because they practice what they do for a living, and love doing it?
nope, they are still overpayed.
actually, i would argue the linux and mac users are generally 'safe' from most viruses is because their systems are designed more securely and with moreprecautions than windows.
well, as long as you back things up, you should be able to have your laptop harddrive get nuked(or stolen, since it is suppose to be for security use) and not have a problem...
it is sad though, that such a cool feature is having initial difficulty. hope everything gets ironed out completely by Apple.
o ya, they have OS teams, but i don't think they want them. IBM is like apple(only bigger), a hardware company that creates software to sell their hardware. Yes, they have mainframe OSes that they maintain, but they would rather have a medium size team of linux hackers to port linux to the mainframe, than to create the mainframe OS.
IBM should, and i think are, get rid of all their OSes, all that code that is 'competing' with linux, put all the good stuff into the kernel, and then port linux to any architecture they need. That would make a solid OS with modern features available as an upgrade to older hardware already sold, or to new hardware getting sold.
besides, IBM has stated that they want to be linux distro nuetral, they don't want SuSe.
3 years for an entire rewrite, i think that is overly optomisitic... besides, to save that much time, they would just rewrite what they already have..
joelonsoftware, knows, the worst thing you can do is start from scratch.
MS should however, say to hell with users, expectations, deadlines, or compatability. pick a date, and get a list of everything fundamentally not good about Windows and get as many programmers they can to fix it.
honestly though. grab the slashcode and put it in there... also, while you are at it, auto create a cachce / link to google cache of every website link posted.
/. effect!
better yet, have slashdot check the website links posted, and when it falls below a certain ping time, add the cache, but if not, don't.... that solves the problem of websites who want the advertisement of banners and whatnot, but also leaves the link working during
but for the 'common man' to program, we will have to evolve to something more natural than C or C++. something that doesn't focus on the language, and lets the programmer just fricking program. Maybe in the future iterations of Java, or a more natural scripting-like language of Applescript(doubtful, but who knows) we will find something that lets program what they want.
A look forward to the 'age' (a few years off, given today's teen/20's being so computer savvy) where computer compatince is the norm, rather than the evil tech support story users we hear so much about.
a beowulf cluster of slowering things, the end sum of which is more than that which you are testing?
or maybe you can't test it, and they are bluffing the whole thing.
ya, the GC can get away with no internet play, this round, and still be really fun. But if the PS3 and GC2 don't have a ethernet port builtin, and a standard online system(ala xbox live), they will be missing out.
The harddrive is nice, and should be included in the GC(a nice mini laptop hdd, please!).
The dvd/disc size is nice, for large programs, pretty much needed in GC2.
But seriously, builtin online play should be added. maybe cross console play too?