Just because a spammed offer is, in your opinion, generous, does not make it not spam to the hundreds of people who received it unwillingly. It is still unsolicited commercial email.
It's still spam. It's somewhat better directed spam (i.e. the people they sent it to have a better than 5% chance of being interested), but still spam. As a webmaster I get offers from people wanting me to put their ad banners on my page for money. I can make money from this, and it's reasonably well-directed (I do have a webpage after all), but it's still spam. RedHat's offer is not any different.
If they wanted to do this, they should've had it up at a webpage where people could sign up to voluntarily have their email box cluttered.
The point is that they're not offering him any sort of reward, since he can't get in on the IPO anyway. They're just cluttering up his mailbox with useless spam.
IPO shares do not always immediately jump up. It's the job of the company to pick the price that it thinks is reasonable. If the company knows that it'll go up immediately, it'll pick a higher price to begin with. Picking a purposely lower price knowing that it'll go up immediately could get you in trouble with the SEC after a few of your close friends make a bunch of money.
Then perhaps Linux and Alan Cox need to take some lessons from Red Hat. I'd rather run a stable 2.2.5 that has some of the 2.2.6+ features than run a 2.2.10 (with very few additional features) that's a lot less stable.
Yeah, but the problem is that vinyl doesn't keep its sound quality. My 15-year-old CD, as long as I don't scratch it, will sound the same as a new CD. A 15-year-old vinyl will not. My parents' 35-year-old vinyls sound absolutely terrible (warped surfaces from heat changes and deepened needle grooves from excessive play).
Sure, I understand that there's some limit to the testing that can be done, but more than is currently done is possible. With companies like RedHat, Caldera, and VA having quite a bit of money, they could at least try out 10 or 15 different hardware configurations, not just what they happen to have on their personal boxes at the moment. Also, no new features should be added to 2.2.x. They should go into 2.3.x.
That's why I consider the current Linux release cycle to be a failure. You should not have to have a list of which kernels are stable or not, since 2.2.x is supposedly the stable tree. ALL kernels released in 2.2.x should be 99.9% stable. In other words, more ac prepatches would be nice, and delay the "official" kernel releases until you really have something worthy of the "stable" label.
When you have a stable tree with severe bugs, that doesn't make people confident in your product. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody use anything higher than 2.0.37 for any important applications, since the 2.2.x line is simply not stable enough.
So? 6 years ago, Linux had virtually no mindshare, very few developers maintaining it, and virtually no momentum. That didn't stop people from using it.
Sounds like a problem with either Netscape or your particular setup. A browser should not crash under any circumstances, no matter how badly formed the HTML is.
Get a good pair of headphones, and then encode some nine inch nails music. The mp3 lossy compression really messes up nine inch nails, especially stuff from The Downward Spiral. Stuff like white/grey noise, fuzzy synthesizers, harmonics, and large volume changes all get messed up with mp3 at 128kbps. 192kbps sounds pretty good, however. I've noticed similar problems with a lot of other industrial music, but even with normal rock music I can tell the difference between 128kbps and 192kbps with a good pair of headphones.
Lower prices? The prices I've seen for the K7 are anything but "low prices." I could get a comparable Pentium III for less, which removes AMD's main selling point.
You *cannot* run Quake3 in excess of 100 fps with a laptop, unless you have a heretofore unknown multi-gigahertz CPU in it. The type of graphics current 3d games have are impossible to render without either a prohibitively fast CPU or a specialized 3d hardware (which is why most choose the latter). You can run quake1 on your laptop, sure, but we're talking about modern games.
You don't play 3d games on a laptop. If you want 3d games, buy a desktop with a 3d accelerator.
It's simply not possible to make these games run with software rendering with less than a quad 600 MHz Xeon, and I doubt your laptop has that either.
So, basically, your comment makes no sense. Laptops were never designed for 3d games, and virtually none of the current 3d games run on them. You can't play kingpin on them, and you can't play quake3, halflife, or most other modern 3d games on them.
So? Nearly all 3d games that've come out in the last year require a 3d accelerator card, and those that don't are pretty much unplayable without one. Stop whining and go spend the $25 to pick up a voodoo1 (less if you buy it used).
So? Nearly all 3d games that've come out in the last year require a 3d accelerator card, and those that don't are pretty much unplayable without one. Stop winding and go spend the $25 to pick up a voodoo1 (less if you buy it used).
Using the term cracker to refer to people who break into computer systems is indeed "newbie BS," dating from around the mid 80s. Using the term "hacker" to refer to these same people dates from the 70s, and using the term "cracker" to refer to people who break copy protection dates from the early 80s at the latest, so both predate the Jargon File's circa 1985 misuse of the term "cracker."
That still doesn't give you an excuse for misusing the term "cracker" to apply to people who break into systems. The term "hacker" applied to such people dates from the late 70s, which the term "cracker" to apply to such people dates from around 1985, according to the Jargon File.
Most games have a whole lot of assembly in them to optimize the speed-critical routines. Not as much as they did ten years ago, but hand-coded assembly is still as important part.
First of all, NOFX did already leave Epitaph for their own label. However, there are still 3 or 4 of the older NOFX CDs that Epitaph has the rights to. Epitaph also has the rights to two Offspring CDs and around 6 or 7 Bad Religion CDs. They also still have Rancid, Pennywise, and quite a few other good bands.
As for Brett Gurewitz, he was never the lead singer of Bad Religion. He was the lead guitarist and co-songwriter (he wrote about 1/2 the songs, with the other half being written by the lead singer, Greg Graffin). He's been on and off of various drugs for the last 20 years. However, I don't think he personally runs the label much anymore. He was particularly upset when The Offspring left his label before the end of their contract (he finally agreed to let them go in return for some payments in order to avoid having to sue them). Rumor has it he's going to be rejoining Bad Religion for their 20th-anniversary album in 2000.
Offspring didn't rerelease the Epitaph stuff on their new label (Columbia). Their first (self-titled) album from 1989 was originally self-released, and they rereleased it in 1995 on Nitro Records (their own label) which is distributed by Epitaph (hence the Epitaph logo on it). Their two Epitaph records (Ignition and Smash) are still only sold by Epitaph.
Well, I wouldn't bet on AOL going downhill anytime soon. Maybe Amazon, but not AOL. AOL has indeed made a profit several times in its long (for an internet-related company) history. It also has extremely good management, who have managed to keep up with changes in technology. Look what happened to Prodigy, CompuServe, and all the other old nationwide-BBS type systems. Only AOL made a successful transition from BBS to internet provider. Now they own WinAmp, Netscape, CompuServe, and a few other companies, so for AOL to fail, all these would have to fail, not to mention the fact that they have over 8.5 million subscribers.
1) The United States isn't paying to rebuild Serbia, since the US Congress refuses to appropriate money while Milosevic remains in office. The only thing the U.S. payed for was to bomb it.
2) The U.S. is only bailing out Russia because it's afraid that Russian nukes will be sold to terrorists to get the money if it doesn't. It really doesn't have any choice. This isn't some sort of altruistic deal.
3) Foreign aid is a joke. Over 75% of the US's foreign aid expenditures are for military aid, almost all of it to Israel and Egypt (who get $3 billion and $2 billion annually, respectively). This is just money that goes from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers to U.S. weapons manufacturers.
So, no, the U.S. is not "fixing the world's problems" with its expenditures. The little it gives to the U.N. funds programs such as UNICEF and the United Nations Development Fund that do solve problems, which is why it should pay its dues in full.
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The US is one of the biggest contributors to the IMF. The us is practically the imf.
Incorrect. The US gives approximately $7 billion annually to the IMF, while Japan, which has a much lower GDP than the US, gives approximately $15 billion.
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Just because a spammed offer is, in your opinion, generous, does not make it not spam to the hundreds of people who received it unwillingly. It is still unsolicited commercial email.
It's still spam. It's somewhat better directed spam (i.e. the people they sent it to have a better than 5% chance of being interested), but still spam. As a webmaster I get offers from people wanting me to put their ad banners on my page for money. I can make money from this, and it's reasonably well-directed (I do have a webpage after all), but it's still spam. RedHat's offer is not any different.
If they wanted to do this, they should've had it up at a webpage where people could sign up to voluntarily have their email box cluttered.
The point is that they're not offering him any sort of reward, since he can't get in on the IPO anyway. They're just cluttering up his mailbox with useless spam.
IPO shares do not always immediately jump up. It's the job of the company to pick the price that it thinks is reasonable. If the company knows that it'll go up immediately, it'll pick a higher price to begin with. Picking a purposely lower price knowing that it'll go up immediately could get you in trouble with the SEC after a few of your close friends make a bunch of money.
Then perhaps Linux and Alan Cox need to take some lessons from Red Hat. I'd rather run a stable 2.2.5 that has some of the 2.2.6+ features than run a 2.2.10 (with very few additional features) that's a lot less stable.
Yeah, but the problem is that vinyl doesn't keep its sound quality. My 15-year-old CD, as long as I don't scratch it, will sound the same as a new CD. A 15-year-old vinyl will not. My parents' 35-year-old vinyls sound absolutely terrible (warped surfaces from heat changes and deepened needle grooves from excessive play).
Sure, I understand that there's some limit to the testing that can be done, but more than is currently done is possible. With companies like RedHat, Caldera, and VA having quite a bit of money, they could at least try out 10 or 15 different hardware configurations, not just what they happen to have on their personal boxes at the moment. Also, no new features should be added to 2.2.x. They should go into 2.3.x.
That's why I consider the current Linux release cycle to be a failure. You should not have to have a list of which kernels are stable or not, since 2.2.x is supposedly the stable tree. ALL kernels released in 2.2.x should be 99.9% stable. In other words, more ac prepatches would be nice, and delay the "official" kernel releases until you really have something worthy of the "stable" label.
When you have a stable tree with severe bugs, that doesn't make people confident in your product. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody use anything higher than 2.0.37 for any important applications, since the 2.2.x line is simply not stable enough.
then go read freshmeat
So? 6 years ago, Linux had virtually no mindshare, very few developers maintaining it, and virtually no momentum. That didn't stop people from using it.
Sounds like a problem with either Netscape or your particular setup. A browser should not crash under any circumstances, no matter how badly formed the HTML is.
Get a good pair of headphones, and then encode some nine inch nails music. The mp3 lossy compression really messes up nine inch nails, especially stuff from The Downward Spiral. Stuff like white/grey noise, fuzzy synthesizers, harmonics, and large volume changes all get messed up with mp3 at 128kbps. 192kbps sounds pretty good, however. I've noticed similar problems with a lot of other industrial music, but even with normal rock music I can tell the difference between 128kbps and 192kbps with a good pair of headphones.
Lower prices? The prices I've seen for the K7 are anything but "low prices." I could get a comparable Pentium III for less, which removes AMD's main selling point.
You *cannot* run Quake3 in excess of 100 fps with a laptop, unless you have a heretofore unknown multi-gigahertz CPU in it. The type of graphics current 3d games have are impossible to render without either a prohibitively fast CPU or a specialized 3d hardware (which is why most choose the latter). You can run quake1 on your laptop, sure, but we're talking about modern games.
You don't play 3d games on a laptop. If you want 3d games, buy a desktop with a 3d accelerator.
It's simply not possible to make these games run with software rendering with less than a quad 600 MHz Xeon, and I doubt your laptop has that either.
So, basically, your comment makes no sense. Laptops were never designed for 3d games, and virtually none of the current 3d games run on them. You can't play kingpin on them, and you can't play quake3, halflife, or most other modern 3d games on them.
So? Nearly all 3d games that've come out in the last year require a 3d accelerator card, and those that don't are pretty much unplayable without one. Stop whining and go spend the $25 to pick up a voodoo1 (less if you buy it used).
So? Nearly all 3d games that've come out in the last year require a 3d accelerator card, and those that don't are pretty much unplayable without one. Stop winding and go spend the $25 to pick up a voodoo1 (less if you buy it used).
Using the term cracker to refer to people who break into computer systems is indeed "newbie BS," dating from around the mid 80s. Using the term "hacker" to refer to these same people dates from the 70s, and using the term "cracker" to refer to people who break copy protection dates from the early 80s at the latest, so both predate the Jargon File's circa 1985 misuse of the term "cracker."
That still doesn't give you an excuse for misusing the term "cracker" to apply to people who break into systems. The term "hacker" applied to such people dates from the late 70s, which the term "cracker" to apply to such people dates from around 1985, according to the Jargon File.
Most games have a whole lot of assembly in them to optimize the speed-critical routines. Not as much as they did ten years ago, but hand-coded assembly is still as important part.
First of all, NOFX did already leave Epitaph for their own label. However, there are still 3 or 4 of the older NOFX CDs that Epitaph has the rights to. Epitaph also has the rights to two Offspring CDs and around 6 or 7 Bad Religion CDs. They also still have Rancid, Pennywise, and quite a few other good bands.
As for Brett Gurewitz, he was never the lead singer of Bad Religion. He was the lead guitarist and co-songwriter (he wrote about 1/2 the songs, with the other half being written by the lead singer, Greg Graffin). He's been on and off of various drugs for the last 20 years. However, I don't think he personally runs the label much anymore. He was particularly upset when The Offspring left his label before the end of their contract (he finally agreed to let them go in return for some payments in order to avoid having to sue them). Rumor has it he's going to be rejoining Bad Religion for their 20th-anniversary album in 2000.
Offspring didn't rerelease the Epitaph stuff on their new label (Columbia). Their first (self-titled) album from 1989 was originally self-released, and they rereleased it in 1995 on Nitro Records (their own label) which is distributed by Epitaph (hence the Epitaph logo on it). Their two Epitaph records (Ignition and Smash) are still only sold by Epitaph.
Well, I wouldn't bet on AOL going downhill anytime soon. Maybe Amazon, but not AOL. AOL has indeed made a profit several times in its long (for an internet-related company) history. It also has extremely good management, who have managed to keep up with changes in technology. Look what happened to Prodigy, CompuServe, and all the other old nationwide-BBS type systems. Only AOL made a successful transition from BBS to internet provider. Now they own WinAmp, Netscape, CompuServe, and a few other companies, so for AOL to fail, all these would have to fail, not to mention the fact that they have over 8.5 million subscribers.
1) The United States isn't paying to rebuild Serbia, since the US Congress refuses to appropriate money while Milosevic remains in office. The only thing the U.S. payed for was to bomb it.
2) The U.S. is only bailing out Russia because it's afraid that Russian nukes will be sold to terrorists to get the money if it doesn't. It really doesn't have any choice. This isn't some sort of altruistic deal.
3) Foreign aid is a joke. Over 75% of the US's foreign aid expenditures are for military aid, almost all of it to Israel and Egypt (who get $3 billion and $2 billion annually, respectively). This is just money that goes from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers to U.S. weapons manufacturers.
So, no, the U.S. is not "fixing the world's problems" with its expenditures. The little it gives to the U.N. funds programs such as UNICEF and the United Nations Development Fund that do solve problems, which is why it should pay its dues in full.
The US is one of the biggest contributors to the IMF. The us is practically the imf.
Incorrect. The US gives approximately $7 billion annually to the IMF, while Japan, which has a much lower GDP than the US, gives approximately $15 billion.