People, OSX is NOT UNIX. It is a proprietary OS, which has some Unix-like properties but is not UNIX by any means. Besides, FreeBSD does not claim it is UNIX, just that it's derived from one. Apple did claim that OS X was "UNIX technology", which it is clearly not.
Well, DON'T put that kind of shit on the resume. The only purpose of a resume is to get past trained HR monkeys and get an interview with someone who has a clue. If it doesn't do that, try to fix it. Try to make it easy for HR people to see that you meet the requirements for a given job -- even if it's something as basic as "proficient with MS Word". Use bulleted lists and make it easy to skim / sort. However, don't make yourself appear overqualified for a position -- if you are applying for an entry-level job, having too many extra qualifications can hurt you. The company might think you will leave as soon as you find another job.
If you do get interviews, that may be a good time to point out various skills that may impress the person who is actually hiring. The person hiring is often a project manager, and relevant skills and cool job-related hobbies may distinguish you from other candidates. Be careful, though.
With all that said, it must nevertheless be recognized that the best way to find a job is through networking. If someone you know can recommend you personally to fill a position, that will carry much more weight than anything an HR department can say. Of course, it depends on the organization, but keep in mind that the hiring manager can often request a position or fudge some requirements to favor a candidate. In fact, many advertised jobs are filled before they are even advertised -- that's why you may not even get an interview when you reply to job ads.
The problem is - where to find the documentation to get started.
Ever hear of those unusual places called bookstores? There, you can buy processed dead trees with information printed on them. They are called books. Strange, huh?
Web sites are a special case. They usually don't change often, so a cluster can run them as well as a single box. However, this is not really a big database. If you want an example, think of the database that a company like Walmart would use to keep track of every item of merchandise in the stores, every truck trailer and its contents, every employee, every shopper, every item sold for the last few years, et cetera. Usually, it's a single HUGE database that runs on some serious iron. If it goes down, the company is in deep shit. That's basically what I was referring to.
Given that 99% of Word users do little other than changing fonts and sizes, I think OO.org reads the vast majority of word documents out there perfectly. The rest are usually readable, as well, though the formatting may be screwy.
Actually, I doubt this has anything to do with display postscript. KDE has had this exact thing for ages, before OS X was even released. I think it has more to do with the printing system they use -- isn't it a modified version of CUPS?
How many Joe Sixpacks are there with $1M in the bank? Why the hell do Americans always think that the class they actually belong to is several notches higher than it really is? Maybe 5% of the population save that much. Given that many/most Americans get into heavy debt (mortgages, credit cards, etc), I would say that it is unlikely that anyone except very rich people save that much cash. In fact, most of the middle class probably spends all of what it earns. Unless you earn a ton of money but live in a shitty house and drive a shitty car and have your kids go to a community college, you simply aren't going to save much money.
Also, I don't see anything wrong with a healthy percentage being subtracted from the inheritance. After all, that does lead to equality of opportunity. Don't you think that if I inherit $10K in cash and my friend inherits $10M in cash I wouldn't have the same opportunities as my friend?
You should look at Myke Predko's book about programming Microchip PIC controller chips. I think he went through and replaced every instance of 'PIC' with 'Microchip PICmicro(TM) MCU(R)'. I shit you not.
I agree, Debian would work equally well. Both Debian and RH give you tested, pre-compiled packages and upgrades, even if you don't use the RH enterprise package. With Gentoo, you are on your own, and it takes pretty long to swap versions of packages since you have to recompile them. Furthermore, you have to put up with the fact that nobody tested your packages or your configuration for stability. Sometimes even different versions of the compiler can introduce weird bugs, especially if optimizations are enabled. I would feel safer with a pre-compiled and tested distro.
Also, I'd say that an office fileserver is a pretty mission-critical device. After all, you can't do much work when you don't have access to your files. Of course, with the profliteration of Windows NT and its chronic stability problems, many people have come to accept interruptions in service as something normal, but it's really not. I think that a server should not go down more often than the phone system or the electricity does.
By "mission-critical" I don't necessarily mean stuff that would cause a company to lose millions for every minute it's down. My understanding is that something is mission-critical when the business needs it to work to operate more-or-less normally. That will include fileservers, perhaps cluster nodes, and probably some desktops.
Besides, I would never use Linux or BSD for a large DB server -- that's a job for a mainframe computer with a mainframe OS, like Sun or IBM big iron. Some of those things have hundreds of processors, and I don't think Linux can handle that as well as some commercial operating systems.
My signature is not in cursive. It's actually in a sort of block print that's connected with pen strokes. Works just fine, mind you, and is more readable than many cursive signatures.
Actually, I'm almost positive that google filters mp3 and warez searches. A lot of times, other engines find what google doesn't. Anyway, try finding an illegal MP3 file with google in less than 30 minutes. I haven't been able to do that. AFAIK, the student's search engine was specifically designed to find MP3s, so that's quite different.
Gentoo or LFS? Are you crazy? Only a nutcase would put Gentoo on an even remotely mission-critical production box. The thing is incredibly unstable and uses untested beta versions of software -- that you have to compile, no less! Here's a tip: if you try this, and the server crashes, you will be fired.
If you need reasonable uptime, you need to use a tested, stable distribution with strong administration tools, easy software upgrades, and a vendor that provides good support. Sure, you may very well think that you can manage it yourself, but you sure as hell don't want to be in the situation where a kernel bug or, say, a Samba bug prevents the server from working or causes it to crash once in a blue moon. When you get the Enterprise version, you have someone to yell at.
Also, with BSD, it might be harder to find experts to run the show. Linux is much more popular and has a bigger user community. Also, I haven't seen BSD distributors with the same level of support AND pricing as Redhat. But then, I'm not much of an expert there.
What are you, a millionaire? The RIAA has deep pockets, and they might actually have a case here. Given the illegality of services such as Napster, I don't see how this can be legal. Therefore, this wouldn't be a simple summary judgment case, it would probably end up pretty long, and the defendant would have a good chance of losing.
A good lawyer would cost him much more than $12k, given that most lawyers charge hundreds of dollars PER HOUR. In other words, it's best to avoid getting sued, period, even if it means giving up your freedom.
If you do get sued, a settlement is usually your best option. A good lawyer WOULD advise you to settle unless the case is blatantly frivolous and there is at least an 80% chance it will be dismissed outright. This does not look like such a case.
So, what exactly are a bunch of low-power radio transmitters going to do? You need hundreds of watts at close range to do any real damage. Those devices typically transmit in the hundreds of MILLIwatts. Hell, you probably get the equivalent power density from your local radio or TV stations, not to mention cell phones, car keys, and whatnot. This is a non-issue.
RTFA better. It says nothing about seed values and whatnot. They are saying that when you play a high/low gamble thing on a machine, it's impossible to win -- the machine picks a number that's dependent on the input, not random chance. If you pick high, it will pick a low number and vice versa. The emulator allows you to verify that.
Reverse-engineering drivers is one of the most difficult things you can possibly do. I can assure you that ATI cannot heavily reverse-engineer the drivers -- that's too hard.
First, even a 20 kbyte DOS program is a bitch to disassemble and understand. A 5 MByte driver is pretty much impossible to understand at all from the raw disassembly. Second, disassembly is usually prohibited by the driver EULA, so you have to tread carefully. Third, reverse-engineering is prohibitively expensive due to the time and expertise required and ATI likely does not do a whole lot of it.
In short, not having the source pretty much stops most reverse-engineering attempts, for both technical and legal reasons. Hell, with the source you don't have to do any reverse-engineering. You just read it and re-use the good code in your own open-source driver, thereby saving money and undercutting the competitor.
I think ATI would get a huge competitive advantage if they could just download the competitors' drivers and modify them to work with their own cards. I'm sure that pieces like the GL implementation are quite reusable. So, where is the competitive advantage for nVidia here? The only people who benefit are the consumers interested in using the source -- clearly not a large group, given that even most Linux users don't particularly care if they have the source code.
I sure as heck wouldn't mind having open-source graphics drivers, but to expect that is downright unreasonable. The field is too competitive for that to happen.
Nice logic. By your argument, if I teach someone to drive a car (and provide the car), I'm entitled to having them work for me as a taxi driver for the rest of their life, without getting paid. Sorry, that's not the way it works.
Go make some drivers and STFU. Then you might realize that writing drivers takes effort. Also, read the article. ATI was "examining" the drivers when they found the cheat. What, does nVidia want to make it easier for them to reverse-engineer by providing full source / specs? Think a little before whining.
However, just because an employee makes a deal outside of their authority doesn't automatically reverse the deal. The test is whether the other party to the deal in good faith believed that the employee had the authority, or should have known that something was amiss. That's a tough question and would likely take a judge to answer completely...
Not true, except when you are dealing with liability. You may not be LIABLE for doing something in good faith, but by no means can you continue to do so after you find out that it was not legitimate. By your logic, if a single Microsoft employee leaks the Windows license with a GPL sticker on it Windows would become GPL. Nothing could be further from the truth. Disclaimer: IANAL.
The difference is simple. With Mozilla, AOL managers, lawyers, and executives were all notified about the decision and probably all had to approve it. In other words, it was official. With WASTE, apparently Justin simply stuck some AOL-owned code on a public website without anyone's permission or knowledge. This was certainly not offical, and AOL understandably decided to correct the problem.
I was not saying that everyone should use vinyl records. In 10 years, most people will probably be using a more modern, DVD-based format. 24 bits/96 KHz IS enough for all intents and purposes. Let's just hope they don't fuck it up with watermarks and copy protection garbage.
Actually, there was a LOT of various types of distortion in the first transistor equpiment. Both the components themselves and the circuits they were in were quite horrible.
Unless you're comparing fifteen-year old listening to carefully mastered vinyl in a quiet environment, to thirty year old listening to a crappy CD on a cheapo boom-box in an average living room... for the same amount of money and care, CDs are much better than vinyl.
I agree. CDs give you more bang for the buck. They don't give you the same sound. It just depends on what your priorities are. My post was mostly a rebuttal for various bullshit pushers, not a cost/benefit analysis.
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People, OSX is NOT UNIX. It is a proprietary OS, which has some Unix-like properties but is not UNIX by any means. Besides, FreeBSD does not claim it is UNIX, just that it's derived from one. Apple did claim that OS X was "UNIX technology", which it is clearly not.
Well, DON'T put that kind of shit on the resume. The only purpose of a resume is to get past trained HR monkeys and get an interview with someone who has a clue. If it doesn't do that, try to fix it. Try to make it easy for HR people to see that you meet the requirements for a given job -- even if it's something as basic as "proficient with MS Word". Use bulleted lists and make it easy to skim / sort. However, don't make yourself appear overqualified for a position -- if you are applying for an entry-level job, having too many extra qualifications can hurt you. The company might think you will leave as soon as you find another job.
If you do get interviews, that may be a good time to point out various skills that may impress the person who is actually hiring. The person hiring is often a project manager, and relevant skills and cool job-related hobbies may distinguish you from other candidates. Be careful, though.
With all that said, it must nevertheless be recognized that the best way to find a job is through networking. If someone you know can recommend you personally to fill a position, that will carry much more weight than anything an HR department can say. Of course, it depends on the organization, but keep in mind that the hiring manager can often request a position or fudge some requirements to favor a candidate. In fact, many advertised jobs are filled before they are even advertised -- that's why you may not even get an interview when you reply to job ads.
The problem is - where to find the documentation to get started.
Ever hear of those unusual places called bookstores? There, you can buy processed dead trees with information printed on them. They are called books. Strange, huh?
Web sites are a special case. They usually don't change often, so a cluster can run them as well as a single box. However, this is not really a big database. If you want an example, think of the database that a company like Walmart would use to keep track of every item of merchandise in the stores, every truck trailer and its contents, every employee, every shopper, every item sold for the last few years, et cetera. Usually, it's a single HUGE database that runs on some serious iron. If it goes down, the company is in deep shit. That's basically what I was referring to.
Given that 99% of Word users do little other than changing fonts and sizes, I think OO.org reads the vast majority of word documents out there perfectly. The rest are usually readable, as well, though the formatting may be screwy.
Actually, I doubt this has anything to do with display postscript. KDE has had this exact thing for ages, before OS X was even released. I think it has more to do with the printing system they use -- isn't it a modified version of CUPS?
How many Joe Sixpacks are there with $1M in the bank? Why the hell do Americans always think that the class they actually belong to is several notches higher than it really is? Maybe 5% of the population save that much. Given that many/most Americans get into heavy debt (mortgages, credit cards, etc), I would say that it is unlikely that anyone except very rich people save that much cash. In fact, most of the middle class probably spends all of what it earns. Unless you earn a ton of money but live in a shitty house and drive a shitty car and have your kids go to a community college, you simply aren't going to save much money.
Also, I don't see anything wrong with a healthy percentage being subtracted from the inheritance. After all, that does lead to equality of opportunity. Don't you think that if I inherit $10K in cash and my friend inherits $10M in cash I wouldn't have the same opportunities as my friend?
AFAIK, you can't annul a court judgment by declaring bankruptcy. IANAL, but that's what I always thought.
You should look at Myke Predko's book about programming Microchip PIC controller chips. I think he went through and replaced every instance of 'PIC' with 'Microchip PICmicro(TM) MCU(R)'. I shit you not.
I agree, Debian would work equally well. Both Debian and RH give you tested, pre-compiled packages and upgrades, even if you don't use the RH enterprise package. With Gentoo, you are on your own, and it takes pretty long to swap versions of packages since you have to recompile them. Furthermore, you have to put up with the fact that nobody tested your packages or your configuration for stability. Sometimes even different versions of the compiler can introduce weird bugs, especially if optimizations are enabled. I would feel safer with a pre-compiled and tested distro.
Also, I'd say that an office fileserver is a pretty mission-critical device. After all, you can't do much work when you don't have access to your files. Of course, with the profliteration of Windows NT and its chronic stability problems, many people have come to accept interruptions in service as something normal, but it's really not. I think that a server should not go down more often than the phone system or the electricity does.
By "mission-critical" I don't necessarily mean stuff that would cause a company to lose millions for every minute it's down. My understanding is that something is mission-critical when the business needs it to work to operate more-or-less normally. That will include fileservers, perhaps cluster nodes, and probably some desktops.
Besides, I would never use Linux or BSD for a large DB server -- that's a job for a mainframe computer with a mainframe OS, like Sun or IBM big iron. Some of those things have hundreds of processors, and I don't think Linux can handle that as well as some commercial operating systems.
I printed the honor pledge. I always printed it, on all College Board tests I took. Nobody gave a shit.
My signature is not in cursive. It's actually in a sort of block print that's connected with pen strokes. Works just fine, mind you, and is more readable than many cursive signatures.
Actually, I'm almost positive that google filters mp3 and warez searches. A lot of times, other engines find what google doesn't. Anyway, try finding an illegal MP3 file with google in less than 30 minutes. I haven't been able to do that. AFAIK, the student's search engine was specifically designed to find MP3s, so that's quite different.
Gentoo or LFS? Are you crazy? Only a nutcase would put Gentoo on an even remotely mission-critical production box. The thing is incredibly unstable and uses untested beta versions of software -- that you have to compile, no less! Here's a tip: if you try this, and the server crashes, you will be fired.
If you need reasonable uptime, you need to use a tested, stable distribution with strong administration tools, easy software upgrades, and a vendor that provides good support. Sure, you may very well think that you can manage it yourself, but you sure as hell don't want to be in the situation where a kernel bug or, say, a Samba bug prevents the server from working or causes it to crash once in a blue moon. When you get the Enterprise version, you have someone to yell at.
Also, with BSD, it might be harder to find experts to run the show. Linux is much more popular and has a bigger user community. Also, I haven't seen BSD distributors with the same level of support AND pricing as Redhat. But then, I'm not much of an expert there.
What are you, a millionaire? The RIAA has deep pockets, and they might actually have a case here. Given the illegality of services such as Napster, I don't see how this can be legal. Therefore, this wouldn't be a simple summary judgment case, it would probably end up pretty long, and the defendant would have a good chance of losing.
A good lawyer would cost him much more than $12k, given that most lawyers charge hundreds of dollars PER HOUR. In other words, it's best to avoid getting sued, period, even if it means giving up your freedom.
If you do get sued, a settlement is usually your best option. A good lawyer WOULD advise you to settle unless the case is blatantly frivolous and there is at least an 80% chance it will be dismissed outright. This does not look like such a case.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
So, what exactly are a bunch of low-power radio transmitters going to do? You need hundreds of watts at close range to do any real damage. Those devices typically transmit in the hundreds of MILLIwatts. Hell, you probably get the equivalent power density from your local radio or TV stations, not to mention cell phones, car keys, and whatnot. This is a non-issue.
RTFA better. It says nothing about seed values and whatnot. They are saying that when you play a high/low gamble thing on a machine, it's impossible to win -- the machine picks a number that's dependent on the input, not random chance. If you pick high, it will pick a low number and vice versa. The emulator allows you to verify that.
Reverse-engineering drivers is one of the most difficult things you can possibly do. I can assure you that ATI cannot heavily reverse-engineer the drivers -- that's too hard.
First, even a 20 kbyte DOS program is a bitch to disassemble and understand. A 5 MByte driver is pretty much impossible to understand at all from the raw disassembly. Second, disassembly is usually prohibited by the driver EULA, so you have to tread carefully. Third, reverse-engineering is prohibitively expensive due to the time and expertise required and ATI likely does not do a whole lot of it.
In short, not having the source pretty much stops most reverse-engineering attempts, for both technical and legal reasons. Hell, with the source you don't have to do any reverse-engineering. You just read it and re-use the good code in your own open-source driver, thereby saving money and undercutting the competitor.
I think ATI would get a huge competitive advantage if they could just download the competitors' drivers and modify them to work with their own cards. I'm sure that pieces like the GL implementation are quite reusable. So, where is the competitive advantage for nVidia here? The only people who benefit are the consumers interested in using the source -- clearly not a large group, given that even most Linux users don't particularly care if they have the source code.
I sure as heck wouldn't mind having open-source graphics drivers, but to expect that is downright unreasonable. The field is too competitive for that to happen.
Nice logic. By your argument, if I teach someone to drive a car (and provide the car), I'm entitled to having them work for me as a taxi driver for the rest of their life, without getting paid. Sorry, that's not the way it works.
Go make some drivers and STFU. Then you might realize that writing drivers takes effort. Also, read the article. ATI was "examining" the drivers when they found the cheat. What, does nVidia want to make it easier for them to reverse-engineer by providing full source / specs? Think a little before whining.
However, just because an employee makes a deal outside of their authority doesn't automatically reverse the deal. The test is whether the other party to the deal in good faith believed that the employee had the authority, or should have known that something was amiss. That's a tough question and would likely take a judge to answer completely...
Not true, except when you are dealing with liability. You may not be LIABLE for doing something in good faith, but by no means can you continue to do so after you find out that it was not legitimate. By your logic, if a single Microsoft employee leaks the Windows license with a GPL sticker on it Windows would become GPL. Nothing could be further from the truth. Disclaimer: IANAL.
The difference is simple. With Mozilla, AOL managers, lawyers, and executives were all notified about the decision and probably all had to approve it. In other words, it was official. With WASTE, apparently Justin simply stuck some AOL-owned code on a public website without anyone's permission or knowledge. This was certainly not offical, and AOL understandably decided to correct the problem.
I was not saying that everyone should use vinyl records. In 10 years, most people will probably be using a more modern, DVD-based format. 24 bits/96 KHz IS enough for all intents and purposes. Let's just hope they don't fuck it up with watermarks and copy protection garbage.
Actually, there was a LOT of various types of distortion in the first transistor equpiment. Both the components themselves and the circuits they were in were quite horrible.
Unless you're comparing fifteen-year old listening to carefully mastered vinyl in a quiet environment, to thirty year old listening to a crappy CD on a cheapo boom-box in an average living room... for the same amount of money and care, CDs are much better than vinyl.
I agree. CDs give you more bang for the buck. They don't give you the same sound. It just depends on what your priorities are. My post was mostly a rebuttal for various bullshit pushers, not a cost/benefit analysis.