Aparently, VOLVO is well known as a maker of one of the safest vehicles around. Win98, while may be causing some operational problems to VOLVO drivers, won't be able to hurt them much - VOLVO are tough babys.
I would be much more concerned about the health of the rest of us, not driving VOLVOs.
Well, I attempted to but instead of/i it was i/. I have a good excuse, though - I've done my MCSE some years ago and despite the fact it was the proper, not a paper one, I am 'Einstein' for life.
I understand this and agree to the extent of looking at life as we know it.
However, we cannot assume that the only life form possible would be based on proteins and chains of amino acids, simply because that form of life is the only one available for our research.
Human knowledge, although tremendously improved during last several hundred years, is still very limited by our simple inability to move farther than we can at this point in time.
Given the size of the Universe and number of systems/suns/planets of the similar size in there (well, even in the part of it known to us), it would be just short of ridiculous not to assume that there is a very similar type of 'life' elsewhere. To me, it's just a common sense.
Making assumptions based solely on a knowledge that we, intelligent beings posses, seems wrong, though. Why does the life/intelligence have to be in a form known to us? Wouldn't this make a possibility of ET Life even greater then?
they can now choose what they think is the best software for the job....which in great majority of situations, MS software is not. Good on them, more will follow, I am sure.
Well, knowing what he's been focusing on so far, it would be something like pushing bugs/fud/bloatware/security holes over the pipes, requiring big $$$ + passport info. That process is, however, interactive - Bill is providing, we are paying for provided, so it's not a real dillema.
On the serious note, this whole story sounds more like screenplay than something that can happen in actual life. There's just too much attention focused on Bill and MS for buyout of these proportions to be allowed.
I asked the same question myself when my 11 year old son came home after watching the movie.
He started reading the trilogy when he was 9 and hasn't lost a bit of energy to read it again and again. He was (is) absolutelly fascinated by Tolkein's masterpiece. I was very surprised when he told me how disappointed he was with the movie. Explanation? Very simple and sincere - someone else has completely ruined the world my son was imagining, creating and dreaming of for over two years - his words.
Nothing helps now - telling him about the freedom of artistic impression/expression, amazing technology that made all this possible, nothing. He can't start reading LoTR anymore.
I don't know, seems too much - doesn't help even knowing that most of it was engineered on Linux.
Limbo is just the first beta release of, dare I say, RH 8.0. New version of gcc may be pretty obvious indication of the next major release. Since it's been released 3 months after 7.3, that would give us a window of about 3 months to beta test this one, beta 2, RC1, perhaps RC2. 3 months doesn't sound as a helluva lot time - my money for this release is on December 2002.
Since I use RH product extensivelly for quite some time now, predominantly as a server platform on a decently sized WAN, I want to take this opportunity to respond to all people in Limbo thread that have been bitching RH again, like they always do, without any apparent reason or, God forbid, technically biased justification.
How can desktop oriented system be changed and improved in a way that IBM, HPQ, Oracle and the likes are supporting it as an Enterprise Class product? How does good chunk of Wall Street transactions get processed every minute of every day on desktop systems? What you're saying is so rediculous that it makes me wonder how would I run a WAN on say, Win98SE.
On the other hand, I am more than pleased, hell - I'm extatic!!! - about all the desktop goodies included in the latest distro. If fine people from RH concentrate enough on this (and looks like they might, according to latest happenings around the embedded product), taking into account all negative publicity Microsoft keeps generating in last couple years, I would be expecting near future with a lot more confidence in possible desktop market earthquakes.
Isn't this exactly what majority of/. geeks say about Linux distros when compared to WinDOS? So, you see, beside sport lovers within the/. community, there is a technical justification for mentioning big sport events in/. headlines as well.
These are all from random sites returned by Google - I believe fairly close to correct figures. The area up there on Mars is bigger than Black and K(C)aspian Sea together.
Black Sea is not an 'inland' sea. It's naturally connected to Mediterannean Sea.
One example of an 'inland' sea would be Kaspian Sea.
I agree with your point, though - water surface that would cover the area of Texas + New Mexico is definitely large enough to deserve a name of Sea, rather than Lake.
The question here is about what is regarded 'basic knowledge' and where to find it.
For general purpose / basic sysadmin, MCSE books are fine. Some of the matter covered by them is transparent to some extent. They also cover few generic sysadmin principles, applicable to all systems. However, this would be sufficient as an informative reading only.
No flaming intended, NT 4 books helped to get the foot into IT in my case. Now I'm MS free at home and to fair extent at work, happily running on RH.
Regardless of what you do or don't do on the certification path, they are still OK but (you've got that right) NOTHING is worth as experience is.
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Now, that's the revolutionary feature none would be able to resist.
Need some $$$? No problem - just go buy 64bit AMD CPU. If you get dual CPU machine, you'll get rid of your mortgage in no time!!!
Let's just /. the bastards.
I would be much more concerned about the health of the rest of us, not driving VOLVOs.
Was this supposed to be part of the all new Mid Year Slashback feature, covering highlights of last 6 months?
So, you wouldn't suggest man info to learn how to use info?
No hard feelings, I hope.
See, even tags are correct now!
Doooh, Einstein. Have you ever heard what does it take to admin *nix box, as opposed to getting Engineer qualification by just memorising braindumps?
Or to me, if talking about HTML tags...
Thus, moron qualification is more appropriate if assigned to you.
However, we cannot assume that the only life form possible would be based on proteins and chains of amino acids, simply because that form of life is the only one available for our research.
Human knowledge, although tremendously improved during last several hundred years, is still very limited by our simple inability to move farther than we can at this point in time.
Making assumptions based solely on a knowledge that we, intelligent beings posses, seems wrong, though. Why does the life/intelligence have to be in a form known to us? Wouldn't this make a possibility of ET Life even greater then?
they can now choose what they think is the best software for the job. ...which in great majority of situations, MS software is not. Good on them, more will follow, I am sure.
On the serious note, this whole story sounds more like screenplay than something that can happen in actual life. There's just too much attention focused on Bill and MS for buyout of these proportions to be allowed.
Man, if those two need visa, then post 9-11 US is really paranoid.
He started reading the trilogy when he was 9 and hasn't lost a bit of energy to read it again and again. He was (is) absolutelly fascinated by Tolkein's masterpiece. I was very surprised when he told me how disappointed he was with the movie. Explanation? Very simple and sincere - someone else has completely ruined the world my son was imagining, creating and dreaming of for over two years - his words.
Nothing helps now - telling him about the freedom of artistic impression/expression, amazing technology that made all this possible, nothing. He can't start reading LoTR anymore.
I don't know, seems too much - doesn't help even knowing that most of it was engineered on Linux.
Heh, thanks for this - I had no idea. Haven't read the whole thing - where's '7' coming from? Was it suppose to implement 7 bytes long addresses?
Wooo-hooo! Is that the version of IP protocol that's been secretly developed during 25th hour every day?
Am I just dumb or everybody here is drunk? Or, perhaps both?
Limbo is just the first beta release of, dare I say, RH 8.0. New version of gcc may be pretty obvious indication of the next major release. Since it's been released 3 months after 7.3, that would give us a window of about 3 months to beta test this one, beta 2, RC1, perhaps RC2. 3 months doesn't sound as a helluva lot time - my money for this release is on December 2002.
Since I use RH product extensivelly for quite some time now, predominantly as a server platform on a decently sized WAN, I want to take this opportunity to respond to all people in Limbo thread that have been bitching RH again, like they always do, without any apparent reason or, God forbid, technically biased justification.
How can desktop oriented system be changed and improved in a way that IBM, HPQ, Oracle and the likes are supporting it as an Enterprise Class product? How does good chunk of Wall Street transactions get processed every minute of every day on desktop systems? What you're saying is so rediculous that it makes me wonder how would I run a WAN on say, Win98SE.
On the other hand, I am more than pleased, hell - I'm extatic!!! - about all the desktop goodies included in the latest distro. If fine people from RH concentrate enough on this (and looks like they might, according to latest happenings around the embedded product), taking into account all negative publicity Microsoft keeps generating in last couple years, I would be expecting near future with a lot more confidence in possible desktop market earthquakes.
Again, hats of all colours down to Red Hat!
Let me do it once again: - they_just_run!
Isn't this exactly what majority of /. geeks say about Linux distros when compared to WinDOS? So, you see, beside sport lovers within the /. community, there is a technical justification for mentioning big sport events in /. headlines as well.
Black Sea = 432000 km^2
Texas = 695671 km^2
New Mexico = 314309 km^2
These are all from random sites returned by Google - I believe fairly close to correct figures. The area up there on Mars is bigger than Black and K(C)aspian Sea together.
Definitely qualifies to be named 'sea'.
One example of an 'inland' sea would be Kaspian Sea.
I agree with your point, though - water surface that would cover the area of Texas + New Mexico is definitely large enough to deserve a name of Sea, rather than Lake.
I also often find myself wondering if even that annoying paperclip assistant (or MSBob for that matter) is their 'invention'.
Generally, this would be missleading, since it is an oxymoron. Not in this case, though.
For general purpose / basic sysadmin, MCSE books are fine. Some of the matter covered by them is transparent to some extent. They also cover few generic sysadmin principles, applicable to all systems. However, this would be sufficient as an informative reading only.
No flaming intended, NT 4 books helped to get the foot into IT in my case. Now I'm MS free at home and to fair extent at work, happily running on RH.
Regardless of what you do or don't do on the certification path, they are still OK but (you've got that right) NOTHING is worth as experience is.
Put that way, 'last mile' gets a whole new meaning.
If you haven't yet, I'd say you better start planning a family.