As another poster has already pointed out, EISA wasn't proprietary. But, MicroChannel wasn't proprietary either; IBM successfully licensed it to other companies. For example, for a long time, a lot of DEC Alphas came with microchannel.
The clones never really licensed it for two reasons:
a) the clone would have cost an extra $5, and b) people who buy PC clones would do anything to save $5.
The last time I bought a laptop, none advertised that they were compatible with Mini-PCI cards. They all had the option of including factory installed Mini-PCI card, but none made any claim that it worked with anything other than the card that came with the system.
I've very suprised that companies have begun to advertise otherwise, especially if they're required by the FCC to lock out untested wireless networking cards.
Your Mini-PCI slot was never intended to be user upgradeable. Frankly, I always assumed they wouldn't be compatible between laptop vendors, models, or nescessarily even between two laptops of the same model that came off the assembly line on different days.
If you want to upgrade to a better wireless connection, use a PMCIA card.
Yet over here, all Indians I've worked with do just barely enough to get by. Copy & paste is their preferred coding method, and architecture and proper design are nowhere to be found.
The same can be said for most of the American programmers I've worked with, too.
Seriously, 90% of everything is shit. 90% of Indian programmers are shit; 90% of Bulgarian programmers are shit; 90% of American programmers are shit.
Well, the author cleary says "ratio," but as you point out, he didn't mean ratio. Basically, the author uses the word incorrectly. If you read what he writes, it's gibberish. If you read what you think he was tring to say, it makes sense.
Now, I'll argue that "reading what's actually written" is reading correctly. You'll argue that "reading what you think the author was trying to say" is reading correctly.
I work for Blockbuster as a manager. I think it's about damned time someone started complaining. They've been engaging in deceptive business practices for years now. I'll outline this new policy for you guys:
Dude, have they kidnapped your children and threatened to feed them to wolves if you quit? If not, why do you keep working there? The market is picking up; you should be able to find another job as good as blockbuster in about four hours.
Beverage coolers are not designed to be run like that.
Err, yeah. I suspect that the coolers without doors are designed to be run without doors. And the compressors and condensors are usually on the store's roof; I'm not sure what kind of moisture you think is "coming in from outside."
You'd be better off closing the fridge and turning on the AC.
Thanks; I'll let the HVAC engineers give the cost analysis.
This isn't pro-business. This is pro-existing-business.
A long, long, long time ago, American politicians pretended to be interested in small business owners and startups. Then, it turned out that new small businesses often compete with existing businesses. They often don't compete directly, but thats not a chance anyone really wants to take. Well, you can probably figure out what happened -- a company with 100,000 employees can afford many more laws than a 1,000 companies with 100 employees each.
Don't worry, though, these things go in cycles; it's a self-correcting problem. For example, fuedalism only lasted a 1,000 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
GPL has an important restriction -- you MUST give your changes back to the community if you want to distribute them.
No, it does not. You have to give the rights under the GPL to anyone to who you give the program. But, you can be as selective as you like about who gets your code; you don't ever have to give it back, and you can give it only to the people you want to give it to.
Of course, those people are free to do with it what they want...
Even as a cyclist, I agree with him about the bike path thing.
People who ride bicyles on bike paths are morons. They are absolutely, positively, the most dangerous place to ride a bicycle. I feel bad for little kids who get killed on those things at intersections, but I don't feel sorry for grownups.
If you want to ride your bicycle safely, ride on the road. End of story.
Yeah, because anyone with a couple grand for a commercial photographer should be able to shut down the space for his or her own amusement.
Your photographer wasn't a tourist taking a few snaps. He or she was a professional photographer who is making a living taking photos of people. If he's charging a couple of grand for photos of you, that's one thing. If he's charging a couple of grand for photos of you in the conservatory, that's another thing entirely.
You should be pissed at your photographer for telling you that he could sell you photos of you in a certain place, when he couldn't. He lied to you, not the city.
The truth is, you're probably never going to reverse engineer a decent driver.
If the linux driver is flakey, it's probably because the printer's firmware is itself flakey, and the Windows driver just contains innumerable hacks to get around the problems that keep cropping up.
Take the thing back, complain that you can't get it working under Linux, and buy a different one.
I don't understand the comments or the code. Translating from the machine-specific byte ordering to network byte ordering depends (mostly) on your underlying architecture, not on your operating system. So, why would the comments indicate that the "strange byte ordering" depends on the operating system?
I wonder if you're not looking at something else; This looks like userland code that's dealing with packet headers that are handled inconsistently by different operating systems.
Especially since it seems odd to have an #ifdef BSD inside the Kernel itself...
Sheesh! The way you guys talk you'd think it's a good idea to have everybody try to remember 15 different passwords to get at your enterprise.
This is slashdot. Most posters here think that upgrading their servers by compiling tarballs -- on the the server -- is a good idea.
But seriously, everyone knows that the more passwords you have, the more important you are to the organization. Just like the most important person at your company has hundreds of keys...
No. You are right. Back when Chrysler was an American company, there may have been a Chrysler dealership, somewhere on this earth, not staffed by incompetent criminals. But I certainly didn't visit them all to find out. I assume that Chrysler themselves sent representatives to visit all of their dealerships, looking for non-criminal ones, so that they could revoke their franchise.
If you're really a geek, you find out. Don't whine about it. Just do some research. Suck it up.
I agree with you that whining about the shitty editing on slashdot is pretty damned pointless. I don't agree that as a "geek" I should have to lower my expectations. Using an undefined acronym like "SFF" is simply sloppy; when I read slashdot I appeciate the ability to skip articles I'm not interested in.
I sure as hell don't appreciate wasting my time trying to read an article about Science Fiction and Fantasy publishing, only to discover that it's really a shitty review of a hideously ugly hybrid clock-radio/PC. Thanks, but no thanks.
Chrysler dealerships have been staffed by lazy, incompentent, and boderline criminal bastards for a long, long time.
Your jeep wasn't going to get better overnight just because it's now technically a European car. The dealerships aren't going to get better, either, even though they now technically sell "imports" (whatever that means).
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As another poster has already pointed out, EISA wasn't proprietary. But, MicroChannel wasn't proprietary either; IBM successfully licensed it to other companies. For example, for a long time, a lot of DEC Alphas came with microchannel.
The clones never really licensed it for two reasons:
a) the clone would have cost an extra $5, and
b) people who buy PC clones would do anything to save $5.
The last time I bought a laptop, none advertised that they were compatible with Mini-PCI cards. They all had the option of including factory installed Mini-PCI card, but none made any claim that it worked with anything other than the card that came with the system.
I've very suprised that companies have begun to advertise otherwise, especially if they're required by the FCC to lock out untested wireless networking cards.
Your Mini-PCI slot was never intended to be user upgradeable. Frankly, I always assumed they wouldn't be compatible between laptop vendors, models, or nescessarily even between two laptops of the same model that came off the assembly line on different days.
If you want to upgrade to a better wireless connection, use a PMCIA card.
Yet over here, all Indians I've worked with do just barely enough to get by. Copy & paste is their preferred coding method, and architecture and proper design are nowhere to be found.
The same can be said for most of the American programmers I've worked with, too.
Seriously, 90% of everything is shit. 90% of Indian programmers are shit; 90% of Bulgarian programmers are shit; 90% of American programmers are shit.
Well, the author cleary says "ratio," but as you point out, he didn't mean ratio. Basically, the author uses the word incorrectly. If you read what he writes, it's gibberish. If you read what you think he was tring to say, it makes sense.
Now, I'll argue that "reading what's actually written" is reading correctly. You'll argue that "reading what you think the author was trying to say" is reading correctly.
To-mae-toe/Toh-mah-ta, etc.
I work for Blockbuster as a manager. I think it's about damned time someone started complaining. They've been engaging in deceptive business practices for years now. I'll outline this new policy for you guys:
Dude, have they kidnapped your children and threatened to feed them to wolves if you quit? If not, why do you keep working there? The market is picking up; you should be able to find another job as good as blockbuster in about four hours.
The latter makes no sense as you were saying, which is why you need to read it correctly.
Actually, 5 to 10 is a ratio. Between 5 and 10 is not a ratio.
I think what you mean is that you need to read it incorrectly.
Beverage coolers are not designed to be run like that.
Err, yeah. I suspect that the coolers without doors are designed to be run without doors. And the compressors and condensors are usually on the store's roof; I'm not sure what kind of moisture you think is "coming in from outside."
You'd be better off closing the fridge and turning on the AC.
Thanks; I'll let the HVAC engineers give the cost analysis.
This isn't pro-business. This is pro-existing-business.
A long, long, long time ago, American politicians pretended to be interested in small business owners and startups. Then, it turned out that new small businesses often compete with existing businesses. They often don't compete directly, but thats not a chance anyone really wants to take. Well, you can probably figure out what happened -- a company with 100,000 employees can afford many more laws than a 1,000 companies with 100 employees each.
Don't worry, though, these things go in cycles; it's a self-correcting problem. For example, fuedalism only lasted a 1,000 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Yeah, that works great for Star Trek. It works great for all video-game and comic book crossovers, too.
No, face the truth... 90% of everything is crap. George Lucas hit the lottery giving the reins to someone else twice. It will never happen again.
GPL has an important restriction -- you MUST give your changes back to the community if you want to distribute them.
No, it does not. You have to give the rights under the GPL to anyone to who you give the program. But, you can be as selective as you like about who gets your code; you don't ever have to give it back, and you can give it only to the people you want to give it to.
Of course, those people are free to do with it what they want...
Even as a cyclist, I agree with him about the bike path thing.
People who ride bicyles on bike paths are morons. They are absolutely, positively, the most dangerous place to ride a bicycle. I feel bad for little kids who get killed on those things at intersections, but I don't feel sorry for grownups.
If you want to ride your bicycle safely, ride on the road. End of story.
I will always be paid to write software to fill someone's needs. And paid pretty damned well, I might add.
If you think my job will ever go away from "free software", you're obviously not a programmer.
Strange... I use "I love [inert your mom's name]"
Yeah, because anyone with a couple grand for a commercial photographer should be able to shut down the space for his or her own amusement.
Your photographer wasn't a tourist taking a few snaps. He or she was a professional photographer who is making a living taking photos of people. If he's charging a couple of grand for photos of you, that's one thing. If he's charging a couple of grand for photos of you in the conservatory, that's another thing entirely.
You should be pissed at your photographer for telling you that he could sell you photos of you in a certain place, when he couldn't. He lied to you, not the city.
The truth is, you're probably never going to reverse engineer a decent driver.
If the linux driver is flakey, it's probably because the printer's firmware is itself flakey, and the Windows driver just contains innumerable hacks to get around the problems that keep cropping up.
Take the thing back, complain that you can't get it working under Linux, and buy a different one.
I get comped for averaging a $100 bet over the course of an hour, even if it is the first visit.
Holy cow. I don't even make $100 an hour at my job. How much are these comps worth, that you're willing to spend so much to get them?
I don't understand the comments or the code. Translating from the machine-specific byte ordering to network byte ordering depends (mostly) on your underlying architecture, not on your operating system. So, why would the comments indicate that the "strange byte ordering" depends on the operating system?
I wonder if you're not looking at something else; This looks like userland code that's dealing with packet headers that are handled inconsistently by different operating systems.
Especially since it seems odd to have an #ifdef BSD inside the Kernel itself...
Sheesh! The way you guys talk you'd think it's a good idea to have everybody try to remember 15 different passwords to get at your enterprise.
This is slashdot. Most posters here think that upgrading their servers by compiling tarballs -- on the the server -- is a good idea.
But seriously, everyone knows that the more passwords you have, the more important you are to the organization. Just like the most important person at your company has hundreds of keys...
When God was figuring out the initial conditions of the Big Bang, He used an RPN calculator. ;-)
No way. God toggled a lisp compiler into the console.
it is important for the game world to have it's own economy independant of the real world. It is essential for virtual economies to exitst.
Why?
No. You are right. Back when Chrysler was an American company, there may have been a Chrysler dealership, somewhere on this earth, not staffed by incompetent criminals. But I certainly didn't visit them all to find out. I assume that Chrysler themselves sent representatives to visit all of their dealerships, looking for non-criminal ones, so that they could revoke their franchise.
If you're really a geek, you find out. Don't whine about it. Just do some research. Suck it up.
I agree with you that whining about the shitty editing on slashdot is pretty damned pointless. I don't agree that as a "geek" I should have to lower my expectations. Using an undefined acronym like "SFF" is simply sloppy; when I read slashdot I appeciate the ability to skip articles I'm not interested in.
I sure as hell don't appreciate wasting my time trying to read an article about Science Fiction and Fantasy publishing, only to discover that it's really a shitty review of a hideously ugly hybrid clock-radio/PC. Thanks, but no thanks.
Jesus, this thing looks like a cheap-ass clock radio.
Chrysler dealerships have been staffed by lazy, incompentent, and boderline criminal bastards for a long, long time.
Your jeep wasn't going to get better overnight just because it's now technically a European car. The dealerships aren't going to get better, either, even though they now technically sell "imports" (whatever that means).