Can anyone explain why this would cost such an enormous amount?
Ah, to be young and naive again. You don't deal with many big government contracts do you?:-) It is called pork. When a massive government contract gets awarded, tons of little piggies try to gather around the tit to get some of that action. A few million dollars on a contract the size of Boston's Big Dig is tenths of a penny on the dollar. It has costs billions and billions of dollars so far. On the plus side, it does keep American workers employed.
No idiot moderator, it's not a troll, it's the truth. X11 sucks and Gnome is a buggy window manager for it. Get over it. Mod me the fuck down all you want, I really couldn't care less anymore, I'll just use another account.
Now if IBM could jump on the Blu-Ray bandwagon we'd be set!! We (the OSS croud, linux personally) would see a lot more support with HP, Apple plus IBM's support...
IBM is irrelevent in the desktop arena these days. Perhaps you meant to say Lenovo now that they acquired IBM's PC division. Unfortunately 90% of consumers have no idea who Lenovo is which is why they will continue to slap an IBM badge on desktops for a few years.
You really do need to get out more. That sound you heard before moderating was the joke swooshing over the top of your head. People like you need to lose your moderation privileges permanently because you do not read the FAQ. If you would have you would see that you're supposed to moderate things up and are discouraged from moderating things down. When I moderate I never moderate anything down unless it's a blatant troll (goatse.cx, penis bird guy, GNAA, etc.). People that use the moderation system and their limited grasp of humor to make a political statement piss me the fuck off. Slashdot used to actually be fun before they made people register for accounts you know. You probably don't remember those days when you could post funny inline images and witty remarks. No, you're just a hand-wringing worry-wart aren't you?
More seriously there are a number of possible reasons for this. I would hazord a guess that a large number of women entered IT for the sake of the $ and now that the $ is harder to get they are moving to other fields.
A good friend of ours recently did just that. She went to college and got a BSCIS during the same time I was there and recently she quit her job and bought a small local flower shop. I don't think she was ever really happy in the IT field, but it paid the bills for her and her son (single mom).
DVDs do the same thing though. I don't remember what I was watching, but it was prefixed by 5 minutes of unskippable ads. My DVD player wouldn't let me jump past it. Now, I could go the "illegal" route and rip the movie and reauthor it to a new disc, but I don't want to be a criminal just to avoid commercials on DVDs I bought.
That way you don't have to have an ugly USB device outside the case.
Who cares how many USB devices you have hanging off your backend system? Just use a separate frontend for the living room. My encoder box is in the basement in a closet with 800GB of storage on on it and I just use a diskless Via EPIA M10000 system running MiniMyth on the frontend. It's a much more modular way to go than having to have a big honking box in the living room with the drives and encoders.
Darwin is free though at Apple's developer connection. The part of it that is not free is the GUI, but since you're used to Linux this probably doesn't interest you anyway and you can just run an X11 server instead.
I second the 3Ware recommendation. I've got 3 3Ware controllers at home and 9 of them at work and all of them work flawlessly with vanilla Linux kernels. The volume just shows up as a big SCSI disk. Plus you can move a bunch of disks from one controller to another and not lose your volume. They are seriously the best ATA RAID controllers I've found... pricey, but you get what you pay for.
5 years ago I would've kicked you in the teeth for saying that, but these days I realize you're entirely correct. I can't wait to get out of this state.
They can do anything they want if the seller is in the state as the article mentions. Ohio also has a Use Tax where you must state how much you spent out of state and then report it on your income taxes and pay the same tax rate as the county you live in. For example, if I purchase a $2000 computer from a little company in California and they ship it to me and I live in Ohio, I need to pay Ohio $160 (8% county tax rate where I live) for the privilege of using my shiny new computer in Ohio because I screwed an Ohio store out of the business and the sales tax.
I know most of it is humour (of some sort), but don't you think this is being just a bit insensitive? Mod me down if you must, but there must be a limit to self-centredness, even for Americans.
Look, I know exactly two things about Indians: They stole our tech jobs and they constantly try to screw over hard working gambling-addicted Americans by building casinos on their reservations.
I'm not sure what software companies you're dealing with that do that, but all the commercial software companies we have contracts with are more than helpful at solving our issues and a ticket rarely sits in a queue for a week without being escalated to their senior developers. Granted, these are smaller security-oriented companies we buy products from and not Microsoft, but commercial software vendors aren't all completely useless.
once you get licenses in the picture, you disempower the smaller entities and empower the larger entities. And I think that most Americans are starting to see that whenever larger entities gain power over small entities and citizens, then things start to go sour...
Like those rascally ham radio people with their deep pockets and expensive equipment. What the heck are you talking about? Licensing doesn't automatically mean big corporations, it just means more responsible users. I'd rather see a licensed frequency range that could be used for wireless computer access by licensed individuals similar to ham radio but with the addition of allowing encryption (which ham radio does not allow). Think of it like Wifi on steroids. 100 watt access points and clients or more run by responsible licensed individuals. Ban commercial organizations from using the frequencies, etc.
Well, in the defense of these practices, it really isn't a viable answer to say "Well, I realize your software isn't working, I'll go post the question on Usenet or their Bugzilla system and wait a few days to see if anyone responds with a non-sarcastic response to RTFM." When shit hits the fan badly most companies (and the government) are more than willing to pay to get a warm body on the other end of a phone to take the heat.. even if they are in Banglore.
Do not consider music from Allofmp3 as legal! You're stealing from the artist.
Slight correction... you're stealing from the record companies. The artist only sees a tiny percentage of that 99 cent iTunes download while the record company gets the vast majority of it to pocket for taking such a risk on publishing and promoting the artist.
That would turn the BBC into just another commercial station, which is not what you want.
That's EXACTLY what you want. The people that WANT the BBC will pay for it. You can make a law that says they can't put up advertisements or commercials either like our god damn PBS does for a week a month around here doing "pledge drives". Forcing people to pay for crappy TV that only appeals to a small minority of citizens is ridiculous.
I am wondering, not to troll, but what kinds of uses does Solaris still find itself filling?
When you need a system to stay up for years at a time, you run Solaris on SPARC hardware. When you need UNIX on a simple server that can be rebooted from time to time to correct errors then you can run Linux. As usual someone will stroll out their Red Hat 5.2 box that's been up since they installed it, but that's the exception to the rule. Every single one of my Solaris servers has been up at least 2 years straight without a reboot.
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$160? For $160 I better get the board with a CPU included. That's way overpriced.
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Ah, to be young and naive again. You don't deal with many big government contracts do you? :-) It is called pork. When a massive government contract gets awarded, tons of little piggies try to gather around the tit to get some of that action. A few million dollars on a contract the size of Boston's Big Dig is tenths of a penny on the dollar. It has costs billions and billions of dollars so far. On the plus side, it does keep American workers employed.
No idiot moderator, it's not a troll, it's the truth. X11 sucks and Gnome is a buggy window manager for it. Get over it. Mod me the fuck down all you want, I really couldn't care less anymore, I'll just use another account.
People could do what I did and buy a Mac and run MacOS X. It's nice having a "real" GUI on top of BSD rather than a buggy X11 window manager.
They'll either be white with a transparent layer of plastic over that to make it look more spiffy or they'll be brushed aluminum.
IBM is irrelevent in the desktop arena these days. Perhaps you meant to say Lenovo now that they acquired IBM's PC division. Unfortunately 90% of consumers have no idea who Lenovo is which is why they will continue to slap an IBM badge on desktops for a few years.
You really do need to get out more. That sound you heard before moderating was the joke swooshing over the top of your head. People like you need to lose your moderation privileges permanently because you do not read the FAQ. If you would have you would see that you're supposed to moderate things up and are discouraged from moderating things down. When I moderate I never moderate anything down unless it's a blatant troll (goatse.cx, penis bird guy, GNAA, etc.). People that use the moderation system and their limited grasp of humor to make a political statement piss me the fuck off. Slashdot used to actually be fun before they made people register for accounts you know. You probably don't remember those days when you could post funny inline images and witty remarks. No, you're just a hand-wringing worry-wart aren't you?
A good friend of ours recently did just that. She went to college and got a BSCIS during the same time I was there and recently she quit her job and bought a small local flower shop. I don't think she was ever really happy in the IT field, but it paid the bills for her and her son (single mom).
DVDs do the same thing though. I don't remember what I was watching, but it was prefixed by 5 minutes of unskippable ads. My DVD player wouldn't let me jump past it. Now, I could go the "illegal" route and rip the movie and reauthor it to a new disc, but I don't want to be a criminal just to avoid commercials on DVDs I bought.
Who cares how many USB devices you have hanging off your backend system? Just use a separate frontend for the living room. My encoder box is in the basement in a closet with 800GB of storage on on it and I just use a diskless Via EPIA M10000 system running MiniMyth on the frontend. It's a much more modular way to go than having to have a big honking box in the living room with the drives and encoders.
Darwin is free though at Apple's developer connection. The part of it that is not free is the GUI, but since you're used to Linux this probably doesn't interest you anyway and you can just run an X11 server instead.
I second the 3Ware recommendation. I've got 3 3Ware controllers at home and 9 of them at work and all of them work flawlessly with vanilla Linux kernels. The volume just shows up as a big SCSI disk. Plus you can move a bunch of disks from one controller to another and not lose your volume. They are seriously the best ATA RAID controllers I've found... pricey, but you get what you pay for.
5 years ago I would've kicked you in the teeth for saying that, but these days I realize you're entirely correct. I can't wait to get out of this state.
They can do anything they want if the seller is in the state as the article mentions. Ohio also has a Use Tax where you must state how much you spent out of state and then report it on your income taxes and pay the same tax rate as the county you live in. For example, if I purchase a $2000 computer from a little company in California and they ship it to me and I live in Ohio, I need to pay Ohio $160 (8% county tax rate where I live) for the privilege of using my shiny new computer in Ohio because I screwed an Ohio store out of the business and the sales tax.
Look, I know exactly two things about Indians: They stole our tech jobs and they constantly try to screw over hard working gambling-addicted Americans by building casinos on their reservations.
I'm not sure what software companies you're dealing with that do that, but all the commercial software companies we have contracts with are more than helpful at solving our issues and a ticket rarely sits in a queue for a week without being escalated to their senior developers. Granted, these are smaller security-oriented companies we buy products from and not Microsoft, but commercial software vendors aren't all completely useless.
Like those rascally ham radio people with their deep pockets and expensive equipment. What the heck are you talking about? Licensing doesn't automatically mean big corporations, it just means more responsible users. I'd rather see a licensed frequency range that could be used for wireless computer access by licensed individuals similar to ham radio but with the addition of allowing encryption (which ham radio does not allow). Think of it like Wifi on steroids. 100 watt access points and clients or more run by responsible licensed individuals. Ban commercial organizations from using the frequencies, etc.
Well, in the defense of these practices, it really isn't a viable answer to say "Well, I realize your software isn't working, I'll go post the question on Usenet or their Bugzilla system and wait a few days to see if anyone responds with a non-sarcastic response to RTFM." When shit hits the fan badly most companies (and the government) are more than willing to pay to get a warm body on the other end of a phone to take the heat.. even if they are in Banglore.
Your grammatics are week.
*snort*. You owe me a new keyboard.
Netscape is that dialup service that competes with Netzero right?
Slight correction... you're stealing from the record companies. The artist only sees a tiny percentage of that 99 cent iTunes download while the record company gets the vast majority of it to pocket for taking such a risk on publishing and promoting the artist.
Microsoft is an adjective. Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, microsoft Penis, etc.
That's EXACTLY what you want. The people that WANT the BBC will pay for it. You can make a law that says they can't put up advertisements or commercials either like our god damn PBS does for a week a month around here doing "pledge drives". Forcing people to pay for crappy TV that only appeals to a small minority of citizens is ridiculous.
When you need a system to stay up for years at a time, you run Solaris on SPARC hardware. When you need UNIX on a simple server that can be rebooted from time to time to correct errors then you can run Linux. As usual someone will stroll out their Red Hat 5.2 box that's been up since they installed it, but that's the exception to the rule. Every single one of my Solaris servers has been up at least 2 years straight without a reboot.
$160? For $160 I better get the board with a CPU included. That's way overpriced.