Why GNU at the beginning? Linus has succeeded at what GNU has failed to do after 10 years, to build a kernel usable for real world application (the Hurd is half-done toy for computer scientists at best). Yes, the C compiler and utilities are grand achievements - so lets call it "Linux *GNU built" or something. I can't help thinking Linux would get even more acceptance in the business world if they were built with an alternative compiler not subject to Stallman's extreme world view. Then we could have "Liberated Business Linux", include your source code when you sell your software, or not !
nope - it is the male who is the superfluous throwback if it happens in humans! This was a FEMALE shark - only females have the plumbing to pull off pregnancy and childbirth. We've already proven that years of sexual intercourse by over-intelligent males with their right hand produces no offspring.
Right on! I have cable television, and a cable modem that lets my Linux or IRIX box pull down HUGE files at >320 Mbits/sec. But I'm still a NetFlix subscriber - for $20/month, I get to have 3 movies out at a time, and if I'm in a movie-watching-binge mode, can watch over 15 movies in a month. My whole family can watch those with full roarin' quad channel sound on my 32" TV........screw upgrading my PC to do that, ain't worth the money.
Hahah! you must be a young-un'! Novell Netware was THE workgroup network file/print server for the late 80's. The version 3.x of it had a stability and ease of administration that puts most Unix systems to shame (then Novell ruined it in the 4.x versions with unstable add-ons to do interoperation with other platforms)
They had market share because they could do what Microsoft could not at that time - make a server OS.
amen to tha! - the best time & place to buy is on eBay 3 or more years after the thing came out! I love my $250 Indigo^2 (originally $37K) and $190 Sun UltraSparc 170e Creator 3D ($32K)
right, it's not Debian, Microsoft claims to make stable, enterprise-grade business software with patches and support for the money they receive. All of the *profitable* businesses I have worked at want software to be supported for more than 5 years. I don't know of too many mid sized companies that would want to pay $80,000 or more for a package if they were told in 5 years the selling company would not provide patches or fix security holes that endanger proprietary data.
any *serious* install of network Windows also requires parameters corresponding to each of the configuration items you are complaining about. Of course, if you're one of those who just plops in the CD and runs through the wizards taking the simplest/shortest/least effort path, then you are one who doesn't know how to set up Windows either.
No, Linus and company did not design the kernel with artwork like this.
>> its called iterative design
Well, visualisations could be part of an iterative design process, but not ones like this - merely showing that there are loops and forks within a piece of code, without really knowing WHAT the loops and forks do, is just artwork - no functional purpose as far as software design.
Much of the RUP is like this, spending great amounts of time making pretty elaborate diagrams so that people with the skills of a mediocre COBOL programmer can "get in on" OOD - better to have well written functional specifications & implementation plans, and programmers who can make mental representations using SOURCE CODE (in the end, the diagrams don't mean jack, only how well the code performs and meets the business requirements)
....but nitrogen has the wonderful property of being inert and not detonating from microscopic sparks. Liquid propane in an open bottle on my CPU? or worse, a homebrew recirculating system with compressor? *shudder*
this will work wonderfully if the U.S. declares a war on Chicago and the surrounding suburbs or other area with 1,000's of mobile phone users and hundreds of cells, and deploys stealth aircraft against it. I don't think the cell tower spacing on most of planet earth makes this much of a concern.
There is equipment (CD-RAO burners, etc.) that can read the "subtrack" data on which this copy protection scheme (and most others) relies. There are tons of web pages on the subject, including safedisc2 duplication.
I was only making the point that data on a CD or DVD *can* be duplicated exactly, and thus any copy protection scheme that relies on that data can easily be thwarted by someone willing to buy the equipment and software to do so, or has the expertise to modify duplication equipment.
rather than hacking the playback equipment, the prirate/thief or good citizen making archival copy of his software hacks the CD burner firmware to pass invalid checksums, rather than correcting them or altering file size.
I just educated myself (in 3 minutes) on how copy protection works on the Playstation(tm). Invalid checksums are written into some of the tracks. These I can duplicate.
heh, I was referring to disks readable my existing audio CD player and CD player in my computer. I can make an exact readable duplicate of disks for those.
from the article: "The keys are not copied properly when software on the disk is copied to a CD-R or CD-RW disk, thus thwarting illegal duplication, the companies said."
Somehow, I have a hard time believing that.....I can make an exact duplicate (sector interleaving, etc.) of a CD-R or CD-RW with the proper software, hidden keys and all.
Between-Arm Travelers are now advised a state of war now exists between the Federation and the inhabitants of the third innermost mostly saltwater covered iron/nickel planet of the Sol system. The Friendship Ambassador and his delegation were killed when the Peace Ship was struck with a kinetic energy weapon projectile, an astounding achievement in warfare for so primative a society. Even stranger is that forensic evidence suggests the iron alloy projectile was not launched by electromagnetic means, but chemical. Though it is expected that the galaxy will soon be rid of this menance, for now travelers in the Between-Arms of the Milky Way postpone their vacations.
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Had to laugh at linked article's sentence: "But McNealy admitted yesterday that Sun's dismissal of 32-bit processing was a mistake."
Most enterprises run their 64 bit capable Sun boxes in 32 bit mode (Solaris 2.5, 2.6 and the 32 bit kernel of 8.0). 64 bit mode breaks too many things for most businesses.
Not much left for our imagination to do in the modern version of storytelling which is TV drama and movies. What's next, just wiring up the pleasure, pain and emotion centers of our brains to be sure we not only *see* the story one way, but the *feel* about it one way as well?
Reading a good story makes your own brain the special effects generator, and surely involves more parts of the brain than having everything imagined for you.
Good grief, now we have "reality shows" where we watch other people live & do things, rather than doing things ourselves. Watching someone have fun or interesting experiences *for you* rather than *by you*, is that really healthy?
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Why GNU at the beginning? Linus has succeeded at what GNU has failed to do after 10 years, to build a kernel usable for real world application (the Hurd is half-done toy for computer scientists at best). Yes, the C compiler and utilities are grand achievements - so lets call it "Linux *GNU built" or something. I can't help thinking Linux would get even more acceptance in the business world if they were built with an alternative compiler not subject to Stallman's extreme world view. Then we could have "Liberated Business Linux", include your source code when you sell your software, or not !
If the methanol (what this article says powers the cells) comes from plant matter, there would be no net increase in CO2, H2O, or heat for the planet.
Computers HAVE taken over the western world, too bad you missed it. They don't need to be robots, because they're already everywhere and networked.
Mwuuuuhahahaha!
nope - it is the male who is the superfluous throwback if it happens in humans! This was a FEMALE shark - only females have the plumbing to pull off pregnancy and childbirth. We've already proven that years of sexual intercourse by over-intelligent males with their right hand produces no offspring.
I use IE 5.5 on my Win 98 tax/photo/scanner machine and see ads off to side but no "popunder", but ignore them.....maybe you should downgrade
Right on! I have cable television, and a cable modem that lets my Linux or IRIX box pull down HUGE files at >320 Mbits/sec. But I'm still a NetFlix subscriber - for $20/month, I get to have 3 movies out at a time, and if I'm in a movie-watching-binge mode, can watch over 15 movies in a month. My whole family can watch those with full roarin' quad channel sound on my 32" TV........screw upgrading my PC to do that, ain't worth the money.
Erica, don't get pissed, get yourself some of THIS:
http://www.sapdb.org/
SAP's enterprise grade database management system is now open source!
Hahah! you must be a young-un'! Novell Netware was THE workgroup network file/print server for the late 80's. The version 3.x of it had a stability and ease of administration that puts most Unix systems to shame (then Novell ruined it in the 4.x versions with unstable add-ons to do interoperation with other platforms)
They had market share because they could do what Microsoft could not at that time - make a server OS.
amen to tha! - the best time & place to buy is on eBay 3 or more years after the thing came out! I love my $250 Indigo^2 (originally $37K) and $190 Sun UltraSparc 170e Creator 3D ($32K)
right, it's not Debian, Microsoft claims to make stable, enterprise-grade business software with patches and support for the money they receive. All of the *profitable* businesses I have worked at want software to be supported for more than 5 years. I don't know of too many mid sized companies that would want to pay $80,000 or more for a package if they were told in 5 years the selling company would not provide patches or fix security holes that endanger proprietary data.
any *serious* install of network Windows also requires parameters corresponding to each of the configuration items you are complaining about. Of course, if you're one of those who just plops in the CD and runs through the wizards taking the simplest/shortest/least effort path, then you are one who doesn't know how to set up Windows either.
shadows don't line up.....many light sources
good post - just wanted to add there are at least 3 bright light sources on the part of the moon where the astronauts were (moon itself, earth, sun)
>> it's something that DESIGNERS DO
No, Linus and company did not design the kernel with artwork like this.
>> its called iterative design
Well, visualisations could be part of an iterative design process, but not ones like this - merely showing that there are loops and forks within a piece of code, without really knowing WHAT the loops and forks do, is just artwork - no functional purpose as far as software design.
Much of the RUP is like this, spending great amounts of time making pretty elaborate diagrams so that people with the skills of a mediocre COBOL programmer can "get in on" OOD - better to have well written functional specifications & implementation plans, and programmers who can make mental representations using SOURCE CODE (in the end, the diagrams don't mean jack, only how well the code performs and meets the business requirements)
I remember seeing demos of this in the late 60's. It's a 40+ year old idea that no one really wants.
>> Audio-only communications simplifies interactions nicely
yes, and chat/messaging and e-mail even more so!
....but nitrogen has the wonderful property of being inert and not detonating from microscopic sparks. Liquid propane in an open bottle on my CPU? or worse, a homebrew recirculating system with compressor? *shudder*
this will work wonderfully if the U.S. declares a war on Chicago and the surrounding suburbs or other area with 1,000's of mobile phone users and hundreds of cells, and deploys stealth aircraft against it. I don't think the cell tower spacing on most of planet earth makes this much of a concern.
There is equipment (CD-RAO burners, etc.) that can read the "subtrack" data on which this copy protection scheme (and most others) relies. There are tons of web pages on the subject, including safedisc2 duplication. I was only making the point that data on a CD or DVD *can* be duplicated exactly, and thus any copy protection scheme that relies on that data can easily be thwarted by someone willing to buy the equipment and software to do so, or has the expertise to modify duplication equipment.
rather than hacking the playback equipment, the prirate/thief or good citizen making archival copy of his software hacks the CD burner firmware to pass invalid checksums, rather than correcting them or altering file size.
I just educated myself (in 3 minutes) on how copy protection works on the Playstation(tm). Invalid checksums are written into some of the tracks. These I can duplicate.
heh, I was referring to disks readable my existing audio CD player and CD player in my computer. I can make an exact readable duplicate of disks for those.
from the article: "The keys are not copied properly when software on the disk is copied to a CD-R or CD-RW disk, thus thwarting illegal duplication, the companies said." Somehow, I have a hard time believing that.....I can make an exact duplicate (sector interleaving, etc.) of a CD-R or CD-RW with the proper software, hidden keys and all.
the Internet has the same problem
Between-Arm Travelers are now advised a state of war now exists between the Federation and the inhabitants of the third innermost mostly saltwater covered iron/nickel planet of the Sol system. The Friendship Ambassador and his delegation were killed when the Peace Ship was struck with a kinetic energy weapon projectile, an astounding achievement in warfare for so primative a society. Even stranger is that forensic evidence suggests the iron alloy projectile was not launched by electromagnetic means, but chemical. Though it is expected that the galaxy will soon be rid of this menance, for now travelers in the Between-Arms of the Milky Way postpone their vacations.
Had to laugh at linked article's sentence: "But McNealy admitted yesterday that Sun's dismissal of 32-bit processing was a mistake."
Most enterprises run their 64 bit capable Sun boxes in 32 bit mode (Solaris 2.5, 2.6 and the 32 bit kernel of 8.0). 64 bit mode breaks too many things for most businesses.
Not much left for our imagination to do in the modern version of storytelling which is TV drama and movies. What's next, just wiring up the pleasure, pain and emotion centers of our brains to be sure we not only *see* the story one way, but the *feel* about it one way as well? Reading a good story makes your own brain the special effects generator, and surely involves more parts of the brain than having everything imagined for you. Good grief, now we have "reality shows" where we watch other people live & do things, rather than doing things ourselves. Watching someone have fun or interesting experiences *for you* rather than *by you*, is that really healthy?