I don't think they will - the article is full on conjecture, and delivers no hard facts - it all seems based on some guy at Ovum (a bunch hyperbole generators) saying "Now that would be cool"
dude, I call bullshit on this whole thread. Hitler wasn't great, he was a fucking psychopath. I don't care who you want to have around your house, but I do care who you call a visionary. Hitler wasn't a visionary - you are confusing the ideas of the sycophants hanging around him (and some of those were into medical experimentation, rocketry, and all sorts of other stuff) with his own ideas. Hitler never had a halfway coherent idea in his life, other then "lets take over the world", and it is a stretch to call that idea coherent to begin with. There exists a methodology to define A "Great Person" and both Hitler as well as Bush fail those tests.
The only confusion I see is you confusing "shooting your mouth off in what seems a relatively coherent fashion" with "facts, inteligence and research". If you would have done your homework, you would have known how to spot the Great Person.
Unless you *really* think Hitler was onto something, in which case you simply need help. Oh, and I'm sure RMS is really thrilled about you mentioning him in the same lineup as Bush and Hitler.....
The fact that linux sees more use outside of the states as opposed to within the states makes no difference to you, I assume? Why does an american have to be the linux maintainer? re-read your post and then think about how it sounds to non americans.
Most great people didn't get there by being nice. Visionaries tend to be stubborn assholes Steven Hawking is another well know asshole, and look at Bush or Hitler.
Neither Bush (either of them) nor Hitler are "visionaries", or "great people". They are just assholes. The only thing great about them is their asshole-ness. I would just qualify them them as "Great Assholes". And another thing - what thought-process made you go "hmmm... great people.... now, who would be great people? Ghandi?... nahhh, Lincoln?.... nahhh.... I know! Bush! and Hitler! they were GREAT!
I am somewhat involved in product development for portable machines for law-enforcement, so have a bit of an idea about what is what in portable land these days. First of all, "cheap" is a relative term - with these things, much like all else, you get what you pay for. If this would be your employers only reliable bridge with the outside world, I would have a good think about system criticality, and the relative worth of such.
Secondly, I assume from your question that you are looking for an off-the shelf solution in terms of software. There are plenty of off-the shelf systems that do TTS, but you may need to look at custom stuff, depending on the physical state and limitations of your employer.You may want to consider getting something done in-house, so to speak.
Hardware wise, in terms of form-factor, functionality and ruggedness, you may want to look at any of the current crop of handtops out there. However, they may be a bit expensive in terms of value for money. Tablet PC's are a bit expensive, and can be a bit fragile. They are also unwieldy. On the other hand, they give you a very good price/performance ratio, so could equate well in terms of value for money. Battery life may also be an issue. Finally, you can look at using wearable systems - they have come a long way, and with the right kind of setup, they can really be what you are looking for. From that link, you may want to look at the MA-TC system or the Xyberkids system. both have pro's and con's. However - they are really, really expensive - but I would probably go with the MA-TC platform, with a good HMD system.
Software wise, I would go with Linux as the core OS - can't beat value for money, stability, and software availability. I would combine that with Dasher for the input system, linked perhaps with Festival.
Also, to your employer: don't underestimate the value of working with professionals that know what they are talking about.
They are all half assed patches. I find, time and time again, that it is better, faster, and cheaper to remove the dependency on IE - like, re-write the app or use a vendor that actually supports decent, secure software.
Citrix?!? Just to run Internet Explorer?!? Absolute rubbish. Fix the real issue instead just doing a half assed patchjob like that. What's wrong with you whippersnappers....
so, hang on, let me get my head wrapped around this - it is somehow okay to rip off somebodies hard work ("just a simple copyright violation"), but to rip off his *logo* is somehow mean and nasty and below the belt? dude, you have some serious prioritisation issues.....
That would be Class IV lasers that are the most dangerous. I have worked with with many class IV laser on account of having run an entertainment laser show outfit for some time. I do believe the article linked to (the FAQ from the Sam bloke) is a bit hysterical though. I used to get guys over from Coherent to get the core optics a proper cleaning, and they always used to freak out about the fact we didn't have goggles. Although I have quite a few burn scars on the side of my arms from working on live optics tables in crammed conditions, neither me, nor anyone I know of, have ever had any eye issues. I did have some cowboys work with me a few times, but they usually get asked to leave real quick. When you work with 10, 15 or 20 Watt argon/krypton tubes you have got to simply take care of what you are doing. In the conditions we worked in (sometimes hoisting the bloody things into the trees), it is a general rule that if you need goggles, you are not right for the job.
Got one the other day. PowerPC platform, runs linux out of the box. Lots of interesting projects going on around it. Very hackable. Dirt cheap. Love it.
"My inventory table reached three million records and access keeled over"
You should be sacked for that alone. Either you are talking about IT inventory, in which case you should have used a proper tool for the job (and thus you deserve to get sacked), or you are talking about your companies inventory, in which case it should be part of either your erp or your accounting program, and thus you should be sacked.
Save us from "tech-savvy" higher management, please!
Wrong about what, exactly? I make various points in my comment. I am assuming you are talking about membership requirements. Well on this page it says: "OSC regulated Open Source consultancies must comply with our strict financial rules. These rules are to protect your money and allow us to make sure that claims are paid in the event of a company failure."
However, it does not state anywhere what these rules are, or who made them, etc. The whole OSC site raises more questions then answers, and the whole thing lacks transparency.
It is an open source consortium, not-for-profit? Well, where are the articles of incorporation? where are the financial plans? who is running this thing? Who the hell is Mark Taylor and what, exactly are his open source credentials? or his business credentials for that matter. Lack of transparency, dude!
As a member of the OSC, your "assurance that I am wrong" is meaningless in the face of this overwhelming mountain of non-evidence. Why don't you show some real open source spirit, instead of hiding behind useless template websites.
Not only an overgenralisation, it is a redundant idea to boot. OSDL already provides a lot of the stuff they publicly talk about - code quality etc. The real purpose of the organisation comes to light when you read deeper into the site.
You need to be skilled in their "consulting framework" and you need to conform to some "financial framework" as well. Their membership criteria are mysterious (hint, you probably need to be a member of their club of buddies) and some of the organisations that are members (and knowing those organisations intimately, they probably are the drivers behind this thing as well) are decidedly dodgy - Open Forum Europe has publicly spoken as "Open Source Representatives" and as such, have signed a declaration supporting software patents. Looks to me like just another group of people trying to corner a market. Anyone remember the Open Group, and the "good" they did for UNIX? (another hint - a lot of the same people are involved)
This is so much the wrong crowd to hang out with....
You need a Layer 7 Firewall, a.k.a. an application level firewall. Something like Zorp is a good start, but you probably need something with a bit more intelligence about the applications you are talking about though.
L7 Firewalls usually get a bad rap because they tend to be pretty fussy in setup, something you can't really avoind with this kind of stuff. Also, if I was in your shoes, I would learn to stop worrying and start loving tight-ass SLA's...
I don't think so. No real commercial flightschool training 747 pilots would use flightgear or something like that. They use realflight simulators, not something aimed at the consumer market. On the other hand, if you learned flying with flightgear, and then get into a Cessna, you will get what you deserve....
It's a game. It is as realistic as shooting evil devil-possessed demons on a martian base. It is not an urban-planning training tool, it's mild enternainment. This has as much credibility as extraterestrial rights campaigners complaining that Alf was lock in his room all the time and deprived of deeper socio-political stimulatory contact.
The pople who actually use SimCity as part of any real life planning scenario should be sacked. And forbidden to work on anything, ever again.
yeah - and the photos of geeks hanging out in front of some parliament building are....interesting. Nobody *inside* the building is aware that there is an actual demonstration going on outside. A quick poll conducted just after the event measured the perception of those within the building:
* 45% thought the new desktops were about to be implemented, and the geeks were hanging around outside waiting for the job to start; * 32% thought that new Active Directory system broke down again, and that this was the vendors' final "big push" to get everything working, hence all the geeks thronging outside, trying to get it; * 42% thought the geeks outside were waiting to get in to fix Excels' buggy statistics module.
Maybe next time we need to arrange for more screaming people outside, being dragged away by the police. We can always hack some anti-globalisation webservers to make them think the G13 is on or something... ;-) (for the truly clueless)
Heh - it's worse then that. The story is a finely crafted troll, and it has all the hallmarks of such. I never thought I would see the day that Slashdot had to import it's trolls from outside;-)
Yeah, and since these are cars, unlike software, they becomy my property whan I buy them. Who is to stop me from just ripping the fucking stuff out? bypassing the lot? I am sure some eager beaver ricer hotrodder will happily downgrade your car to pre-1984 specs.
You are an idiot. Hurd is not a prequel to QNX - first of all, QNX has been an actual product for some time now. Secondly, just because hurd and QNX both share some high-level, overall design characteristics, doesn't make QNX Stallmans' bitch. "I thought of it first" doesn't count, because the idea of microkernels goes way back before either. finally, if you would have bothered to read TFA, you would have realised that QNX is not unix (hey, where have I heard that before) in that a whole lot of stuff simply works different. Unix and microkernels don't play nice together. Idiot.
real sad thing is - most of those issues have been sorted some time ago - in the shortlist of TFA, all except 8 are happening without problems today, and number 8 is happening but needs engineering. Rather clueless article, if you ask me.....
Who? whao are these people? how is Lycoris relevant? what do they deliver to the community? I read the letter as: "We make commercial software, built on non-commercial software, people don't buy our stuff enough, we messed up big time in a lot of places, and we are going to cut down products" Ly-who?
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I don't think they will - the article is full on conjecture, and delivers no hard facts - it all seems based on some guy at Ovum (a bunch hyperbole generators) saying "Now that would be cool"
he writes about "Securing Sendmail". and then launches into a howto. He got that wrong, as it should have read: "Install Postfix"
dude, I call bullshit on this whole thread. Hitler wasn't great, he was a fucking psychopath. I don't care who you want to have around your house, but I do care who you call a visionary. Hitler wasn't a visionary - you are confusing the ideas of the sycophants hanging around him (and some of those were into medical experimentation, rocketry, and all sorts of other stuff) with his own ideas. Hitler never had a halfway coherent idea in his life, other then "lets take over the world", and it is a stretch to call that idea coherent to begin with. There exists a methodology to define A "Great Person" and both Hitler as well as Bush fail those tests.
The only confusion I see is you confusing "shooting your mouth off in what seems a relatively coherent fashion" with "facts, inteligence and research". If you would have done your homework, you would have known how to spot the Great Person.
Unless you *really* think Hitler was onto something, in which case you simply need help. Oh, and I'm sure RMS is really thrilled about you mentioning him in the same lineup as Bush and Hitler.....
The fact that linux sees more use outside of the states as opposed to within the states makes no difference to you, I assume? Why does an american have to be the linux maintainer? re-read your post and then think about how it sounds to non americans.
Most great people didn't get there by being nice. Visionaries tend to be stubborn assholes Steven Hawking is another well know asshole, and look at Bush or Hitler.
Neither Bush (either of them) nor Hitler are "visionaries", or "great people". They are just assholes. The only thing great about them is their asshole-ness. I would just qualify them them as "Great Assholes". And another thing - what thought-process made you go "hmmm... great people.... now, who would be great people? Ghandi?... nahhh, Lincoln?.... nahhh.... I know! Bush! and Hitler! they were GREAT!
I am somewhat involved in product development for portable machines for law-enforcement, so have a bit of an idea about what is what in portable land these days. First of all, "cheap" is a relative term - with these things, much like all else, you get what you pay for. If this would be your employers only reliable bridge with the outside world, I would have a good think about system criticality, and the relative worth of such.
Secondly, I assume from your question that you are looking for an off-the shelf solution in terms of software. There are plenty of off-the shelf systems that do TTS, but you may need to look at custom stuff, depending on the physical state and limitations of your employer.You may want to consider getting something done in-house, so to speak.
Hardware wise, in terms of form-factor, functionality and ruggedness, you may want to look at any of the current crop of handtops out there. However, they may be a bit expensive in terms of value for money. Tablet PC's are a bit expensive, and can be a bit fragile. They are also unwieldy. On the other hand, they give you a very good price/performance ratio, so could equate well in terms of value for money. Battery life may also be an issue. Finally, you can look at using wearable systems - they have come a long way, and with the right kind of setup, they can really be what you are looking for. From that link, you may want to look at the MA-TC system or the Xyberkids system. both have pro's and con's. However - they are really, really expensive - but I would probably go with the MA-TC platform, with a good HMD system.
Software wise, I would go with Linux as the core OS - can't beat value for money, stability, and software availability. I would combine that with Dasher for the input system, linked perhaps with Festival.
Also, to your employer: don't underestimate the value of working with professionals that know what they are talking about.
They are all half assed patches. I find, time and time again, that it is better, faster, and cheaper to remove the dependency on IE - like, re-write the app or use a vendor that actually supports decent, secure software.
Citrix?!? Just to run Internet Explorer?!? Absolute rubbish. Fix the real issue instead just doing a half assed patchjob like that. What's wrong with you whippersnappers....
so, hang on, let me get my head wrapped around this - it is somehow okay to rip off somebodies hard work ("just a simple copyright violation"), but to rip off his *logo* is somehow mean and nasty and below the belt? dude, you have some serious prioritisation issues.....
That would be Class IV lasers that are the most dangerous. I have worked with with many class IV laser on account of having run an entertainment laser show outfit for some time. I do believe the article linked to (the FAQ from the Sam bloke) is a bit hysterical though. I used to get guys over from Coherent to get the core optics a proper cleaning, and they always used to freak out about the fact we didn't have goggles. Although I have quite a few burn scars on the side of my arms from working on live optics tables in crammed conditions, neither me, nor anyone I know of, have ever had any eye issues. I did have some cowboys work with me a few times, but they usually get asked to leave real quick. When you work with 10, 15 or 20 Watt argon/krypton tubes you have got to simply take care of what you are doing. In the conditions we worked in (sometimes hoisting the bloody things into the trees), it is a general rule that if you need goggles, you are not right for the job.
Got one the other day. PowerPC platform, runs linux out of the box. Lots of interesting projects going on around it. Very hackable. Dirt cheap. Love it.
"My inventory table reached three million records and access keeled over"
You should be sacked for that alone. Either you are talking about IT inventory, in which case you should have used a proper tool for the job (and thus you deserve to get sacked), or you are talking about your companies inventory, in which case it should be part of either your erp or your accounting program, and thus you should be sacked.
Save us from "tech-savvy" higher management, please!
link please for notes on on linux - and please don't come with some rubbish browser based thing - full notes client with all functionality.
Maybe you should update your software, displays just fine with xpdf, dude.
Wrong about what, exactly? I make various points in my comment. I am assuming you are talking about membership requirements. Well on this page it says: "OSC regulated Open Source consultancies must comply with our strict financial rules. These rules are to protect your money and allow us to make sure that claims are paid in the event of a company failure."
However, it does not state anywhere what these rules are, or who made them, etc. The whole OSC site raises more questions then answers, and the whole thing lacks transparency.
It is an open source consortium, not-for-profit? Well, where are the articles of incorporation? where are the financial plans? who is running this thing? Who the hell is Mark Taylor and what, exactly are his open source credentials? or his business credentials for that matter. Lack of transparency, dude!
As a member of the OSC, your "assurance that I am wrong" is meaningless in the face of this overwhelming mountain of non-evidence. Why don't you show some real open source spirit, instead of hiding behind useless template websites.
Not only an overgenralisation, it is a redundant idea to boot. OSDL already provides a lot of the stuff they publicly talk about - code quality etc. The real purpose of the organisation comes to light when you read deeper into the site.
You need to be skilled in their "consulting framework" and you need to conform to some "financial framework" as well. Their membership criteria are mysterious (hint, you probably need to be a member of their club of buddies) and some of the organisations that are members (and knowing those organisations intimately, they probably are the drivers behind this thing as well) are decidedly dodgy - Open Forum Europe has publicly spoken as "Open Source Representatives" and as such, have signed a declaration supporting software patents. Looks to me like just another group of people trying to corner a market. Anyone remember the Open Group, and the "good" they did for UNIX? (another hint - a lot of the same people are involved)
This is so much the wrong crowd to hang out with....
You need a Layer 7 Firewall, a.k.a. an application level firewall. Something like Zorp is a good start, but you probably need something with a bit more intelligence about the applications you are talking about though.
L7 Firewalls usually get a bad rap because they tend to be pretty fussy in setup, something you can't really avoind with this kind of stuff. Also, if I was in your shoes, I would learn to stop worrying and start loving tight-ass SLA's...
looks like the coral cache is slashdotted.... just a blank page.
I don't think so. No real commercial flightschool training 747 pilots would use flightgear or something like that. They use real flight simulators, not something aimed at the consumer market. On the other hand, if you learned flying with flightgear, and then get into a Cessna, you will get what you deserve....
It's a game. It is as realistic as shooting evil devil-possessed demons on a martian base. It is not an urban-planning training tool, it's mild enternainment. This has as much credibility as extraterestrial rights campaigners complaining that Alf was lock in his room all the time and deprived of deeper socio-political stimulatory contact.
The pople who actually use SimCity as part of any real life planning scenario should be sacked. And forbidden to work on anything, ever again.
yeah - and the photos of geeks hanging out in front of some parliament building are....interesting. Nobody *inside* the building is aware that there is an actual demonstration going on outside. A quick poll conducted just after the event measured the perception of those within the building:
* 45% thought the new desktops were about to be implemented, and the geeks were hanging around outside waiting for the job to start;
* 32% thought that new Active Directory system broke down again, and that this was the vendors' final "big push" to get everything working, hence all the geeks thronging outside, trying to get it;
* 42% thought the geeks outside were waiting to get in to fix Excels' buggy statistics module.
Maybe next time we need to arrange for more screaming people outside, being dragged away by the police. We can always hack some anti-globalisation webservers to make them think the G13 is on or something...
;-) (for the truly clueless)
Heh - it's worse then that. The story is a finely crafted troll, and it has all the hallmarks of such. I never thought I would see the day that Slashdot had to import it's trolls from outside ;-)
Yeah, and since these are cars, unlike software, they becomy my property whan I buy them. Who is to stop me from just ripping the fucking stuff out? bypassing the lot? I am sure some eager beaver ricer hotrodder will happily downgrade your car to pre-1984 specs.
You are an idiot. Hurd is not a prequel to QNX - first of all, QNX has been an actual product for some time now. Secondly, just because hurd and QNX both share some high-level, overall design characteristics, doesn't make QNX Stallmans' bitch. "I thought of it first" doesn't count, because the idea of microkernels goes way back before either. finally, if you would have bothered to read TFA, you would have realised that QNX is not unix (hey, where have I heard that before) in that a whole lot of stuff simply works different. Unix and microkernels don't play nice together. Idiot.
real sad thing is - most of those issues have been sorted some time ago - in the shortlist of TFA, all except 8 are happening without problems today, and number 8 is happening but needs engineering. Rather clueless article, if you ask me.....
Who? whao are these people? how is Lycoris relevant? what do they deliver to the community? I read the letter as: "We make commercial software, built on non-commercial software, people don't buy our stuff enough, we messed up big time in a lot of places, and we are going to cut down products" Ly-who?