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So, what made these guys go down this odd, obscure, proprietary route with a company which seems to saddle all their technology with proprietaryness and software patentyness?
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Exactly! As a geek who personally uninstalled all his MS OS & apps and threw away the CD's, I've been getting along great with OSS solutions! It appears SlimDick doesn't have 1/10'th the features that any current Linux distribution contains on the first installation CD. What kind of drugs are these city officials snorting?
Credit due for the MS licensing dodge--but the refusal to even try the likes of Open Office when looking to replace low end licensing is stupidity of the highest order. It's the first solution I offer my clients, and is deeply discounted because I can support 1000's of desktops per technician with linux, versus a hundred per tech with MS.
Sure, right wing nazi's just like that ex-artist wannabe, non-smoking Hitler abortion, right? I don't suppose you'll guess which one of my right wing conservative nicotene stained fingers salutes you, donkey smack wankers.
They don't use slave labor directly, they play the underpaid migrant contract worker angle here in the US. The fact is that the folks who assemble and box these units could'nt afford to buy one of HP's PCs. They receive shit wages.
I know because I was drowned in the HP way, (and paid exhorbitant wages due to a plethora of wankers in IT), and saw exactly how these poor sods were treated, isolated, and worked like peon slaves. Yes, there are people whose skills rate peon slave pay, and they're necessary to keep the retail price down. But when only %8 of the workforce appears to do more than plan meetings about agendas for new, more exciting meetings and lunch platter garnishes, you have to wonder what kind of a mandate management is/was laboring under.
Note: The above opinion is rendered by a die hard, anti-tree hugging hippie conservative who never has or will buy another HP product, and was never happier than the day he resigned.
Depending upon manual type, none of the suggested methods will guarantee more than 90% accuracy when you attempt to turn them into grep-able text. (My assumption is that you're not going to spend a couple grand burning CD / DVD documents that you can't then search.) This effectively renders the output useless, particularly those containing code. Either commit to typing in the important docs in by hand, perhaps scanning the images, or face up to the fact that the technology does not yet exist at the user level.
Note 1: The above comes after months of attempting to turn The C Programming Language, Rev. 2 into searchable text as a test model for a large government project. (Don't worry boys and girls, your paper documents will not be turned into easily referrenced HTML anytime in the near future.) I did, however, do so by hand to run a diff on various Co's output. The aggregate result was closer to 87% accuracy, and the average error rate showed only 5% duplication, meaning that further refinements in the OCR would probably only bring the errors back down to a level of 10% -- 90% accuracy. (Scanning method was left entirely to Co's interested in bidding, with the proviso that this would be used for counties up to 200,000 residents - records, time line of 6 months.)
As an admin/developer who's worked on every SUN box up to 10K, I think what people are missing here is that SUN made a bet against the hardware -- x86 hardware has simply become too cheap, fast and reliable too quickly for SUN to effectively compete against it. x86 *nix is simply leveraged against R&D for the PC market, and therefore by every sale of a personal computer, regardless of what OS it's sold with.
So bitch, moan, rail and beat your chest against Micro Smurfs all you want - they're your greatest unintended supporters; with an Open Source / Free Beer Fountain methodology, I'm afraid that the likes of Linux / *nix will make RSM's dreams and rhetoric seem puny in only a decade.
Note1: This comes from a dyed in the wool Solaris geek, who noticed that all of the innovation in the OS was a rip-off from / "cooperative effort" with GNU/Linux types when the Linux kernel turned 2.0. CAVEAT: That is to say, all of the shit that worked reliably, or that I might actually need to develop anything useful with, not including the possible exception of JAVA.
Yes, the information is easy to understand as presented: usually only 1 neutrino per hour is detected, yet current theory dictates that it should be ~ 3 per hour. Via use of D20 (heavy water) SNO must be detecting the missing 66 1/3% (it's implied, but never clearly stated... odd).
As a debugging freak and mechanical moron, I'm curious why they're so sure that the extra muons and gluons are coming from the sun, versus being sourced from the fusion of a million billion stars in the universe? Do we have proof that detection levels rise when the sun is positioned directly over the NDS's - I doubt even the mass of the earth shields the station from a tiny percentage of such tiny bits, leaving me wondering...
I'm sure that there's some statistical 3D reasoning behind our certainty, like "the sky's dark at night because the universe is expanding, dork!" - same reasoning applies here? If so, we're using the same reasoning which applies to photon saturation to neutrinos, and we can be sure that's a valid assertion? (I.E. dark matter isn't going to present a barrier to nuetrinos, correct? But a sheet of paper will block all of the light from a starry night, so shouldn't the level of neutrino saturation be significantly higher than that of photons?)
Hey, I'm just a backyard mechanic and C code tweaker, but these are questions I don't see being asked in the public domain... maybe a physics geek can explain it. If so, can you also describe the rate at which these suckers are chugging along through the universe, and maybe how we figured what their relative speed is?
- -- Lord of the satanicult: we love everything but science, coding, small fuzzy rodents and the PLO, cuz they bedevil the hell out of our intellect...
"I fear the Geeks, even when bringing gifts"
- Hollings (Circa 2002)
This, boyz and girls, is a politician. He's doing this so he can A) control loopholes and thereby make more $ and or B) make more $ by controlling the loopholes.
In a free, capitalist society you can't possibly suspect him of doing charitable works gratis, can you? (And please stop looking so suprised when demonic minions shove broomsticks up your ass - you're the ones who voted for them.)
The important thing to recognize is that more legislation != more free ever under any circumstances. Consider yourselves warned.
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So, what made these guys go down this odd, obscure, proprietary route with a company which seems to saddle all their technology with proprietaryness and software patentyness?
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Exactly! As a geek who personally uninstalled all his MS OS & apps and threw away the CD's, I've been getting along great with OSS solutions! It appears SlimDick doesn't have 1/10'th the features that any current Linux distribution contains on the first installation CD. What kind of drugs are these city officials snorting?
Credit due for the MS licensing dodge--but the refusal to even try the likes of Open Office when looking to replace low end licensing is stupidity of the highest order. It's the first solution I offer my clients, and is deeply discounted because I can support 1000's of desktops per technician with linux, versus a hundred per tech with MS.
Sure, right wing nazi's just like that ex-artist wannabe, non-smoking Hitler abortion, right? I don't suppose you'll guess which one of my right wing conservative nicotene stained fingers salutes you, donkey smack wankers.
They don't use slave labor directly, they play the underpaid migrant contract worker angle here in the US. The fact is that the folks who assemble and box these units could'nt afford to buy one of HP's PCs. They receive shit wages.
I know because I was drowned in the HP way, (and paid exhorbitant wages due to a plethora of wankers in IT), and saw exactly how these poor sods were treated, isolated, and worked like peon slaves. Yes, there are people whose skills rate peon slave pay, and they're necessary to keep the retail price down. But when only %8 of the workforce appears to do more than plan meetings about agendas for new, more exciting meetings and lunch platter garnishes, you have to wonder what kind of a mandate management is/was laboring under.
Note: The above opinion is rendered by a die hard, anti-tree hugging hippie conservative who never has or will buy another HP product, and was never happier than the day he resigned.
Depending upon manual type, none of the suggested methods will guarantee more than 90% accuracy when you attempt to turn them into grep-able text. (My assumption is that you're not going to spend a couple grand burning CD / DVD documents that you can't then search.) This effectively renders the output useless, particularly those containing code. Either commit to typing in the important docs in by hand, perhaps scanning the images, or face up to the fact that the technology does not yet exist at the user level.
Note 1: The above comes after months of attempting to turn The C Programming Language, Rev. 2 into searchable text as a test model for a large government project. (Don't worry boys and girls, your paper documents will not be turned into easily referrenced HTML anytime in the near future.) I did, however, do so by hand to run a diff on various Co's output. The aggregate result was closer to 87% accuracy, and the average error rate showed only 5% duplication, meaning that further refinements in the OCR would probably only bring the errors back down to a level of 10% -- 90% accuracy.
(Scanning method was left entirely to Co's interested in bidding, with the proviso that this would be used for counties up to 200,000 residents - records, time line of 6 months.)
As an admin/developer who's worked on every SUN box up to 10K, I think what people are missing here is that SUN made a bet against the hardware -- x86 hardware has simply become too cheap, fast and reliable too quickly for SUN to effectively compete against it. x86 *nix is simply leveraged against R&D for the PC market, and therefore by every sale of a personal computer, regardless of what OS it's sold with.
So bitch, moan, rail and beat your chest against Micro Smurfs all you want - they're your greatest unintended supporters; with an Open Source / Free Beer Fountain methodology, I'm afraid that the likes of Linux / *nix will make RSM's dreams and rhetoric seem puny in only a decade.
Note1: This comes from a dyed in the wool Solaris geek, who noticed that all of the innovation in the OS was a rip-off from / "cooperative effort" with GNU/Linux types when the Linux kernel turned 2.0.
CAVEAT: That is to say, all of the shit that worked reliably, or that I might actually need to develop anything useful with, not including the possible exception of JAVA.
Thanks for the 'dented' particle and the checknov radiation explanations; any idea how fast these things are traveling?
Yes, the information is easy to understand as presented: usually only 1 neutrino per hour is detected, yet current theory dictates that it should be ~ 3 per hour. Via use of D20 (heavy water) SNO must be detecting the missing 66 1/3% (it's implied, but never clearly stated... odd).
As a debugging freak and mechanical moron, I'm curious why they're so sure that the extra muons and gluons are coming from the sun, versus being sourced from the fusion of a million billion stars in the universe? Do we have proof that detection levels rise when the sun is positioned directly over the NDS's - I doubt even the mass of the earth shields the station from a tiny percentage of such tiny bits, leaving me wondering...
I'm sure that there's some statistical 3D reasoning behind our certainty, like "the sky's dark at night because the universe is expanding, dork!" - same reasoning applies here? If so, we're using the same reasoning which applies to photon saturation to neutrinos, and we can be sure that's a valid assertion? (I.E. dark matter isn't going to present a barrier to nuetrinos, correct? But a sheet of paper will block all of the light from a starry night, so shouldn't the level of neutrino saturation be significantly higher than that of photons?)
Hey, I'm just a backyard mechanic and C code tweaker, but these are questions I don't see being asked in the public domain... maybe a physics geek can explain it. If so, can you also describe the rate at which these suckers are chugging along through the universe, and maybe how we figured what their relative speed is?
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Lord of the satanicult: we love everything but science, coding, small fuzzy rodents and the PLO, cuz they bedevil the hell out of our intellect...
"I fear the Geeks, even when bringing gifts"
- Hollings (Circa 2002)
This, boyz and girls, is a politician. He's doing this so he can A) control loopholes and thereby make more $ and or B) make more $ by controlling the loopholes.
In a free, capitalist society you can't possibly suspect him of doing charitable works gratis, can you? (And please stop looking so suprised when demonic minions shove broomsticks up your ass - you're the ones who voted for them.)
The important thing to recognize is that more legislation != more free ever under any circumstances. Consider yourselves warned.