Or go green - the libertarian party with some foresight. Similar in personal freedom/economic/governmental stucture issues, with an emphasis on a sustainable future. Live Free && Green or die from lung cancer at age 30 because a government-subsdized industry polluted, unchecked, the air everyone breathes.
Evil ties aside - is this a bad thing? It gets linux into the enterprise environment, providing CIO's the piece of mind they need to roll out a whole new production environment. Granted, in the sort term it could take market share away from Red Hat and Novel/SuSE, but in the long term if those two companies provide a support solution that is proven, for cheap, and all this SCO garbage quiets down...which it will..they stand to profit. This could be a very good thing for the future of linux.
Yup. On my BSD machines I only use linux binaries for a few applications - flash is the only thing that comes to mind. Actually, the first thing that came to mind when i read that was FreeBSD's linuxulator. I wonder if sun used any code from FreeBSD's solution or not. Not that there's anything wrong with that...just a curiosity.
You found one, right? If not, i've been using gentoo without a hitch for about 3 weeks now, and all the x86 binary FPS games, that i've tried, in portage work great (As long as you remember to use the 32 bit libs, not the 64 bit libs...since you have both on your system). Which distro are you using? Just out of curiosity..
I'm a BSD nut, and I still installed linux on my ibook for a while. Why? Because I wanted to. It's something to do just to see how it feels. Of course, the first thing i dual booted was Darwin and OS X. Oh man, that makes even less sense than dual booting linux and OS X...but i wanted to do it. So I did. Yeah, I used it less than 10 times.
You've got to be more precise than BSD 4.4...because that was a realease of BSD back in the early 90's as I recall, and just about every version of *BSD after that is some what based on "4.4 BSD".
The current stable 4.x version of FreeBSD is 4.10. So, did you mean they based their code on FreeBSD 4.4? Because..i mean...to a certain extent Solaris is based on 4.4 BSD...but not at all on FreeBSD 4.4...and uh...whatnot.
No one cites Newton/Leibnitz every time they differentiate an equation in a physics paper, to take an extreme example.
Actually, I just read a paper (Kuczera - Journal of Hydrology, 94 1987 p215 - 236) where the author DID cite Newton/Leibnitz when he differentiated an equation.
I'm actually suprised the Karma hasn't gotten more press on slashdot. It's seriously the geek's mp3 player. The parent mentioned the webserver, but didn't mention that you can download a java app from the karma, and then upload music to it from any OS that has a working java implementation. I've been able to ass songs to mine from Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux this way. For me this is a HUGE advantage and shows a little bit of creativity/foresight on the side of Rio. Also the inclusion of open-source standard codecs like ogg and FLAC (For real audiophiles) is a huge plus. Yet, everyone on here is enamoured with the ipod.
$750 - my brother did it, and the movie came out pretty good. Unfortunately my brother can't write an original script for crap, thus the movie was just a cheap knock off of evil dead.
We don't have cultural achievements any more. We have sequels to remakes of movies based on books that might have been cultural achievements.
This is like saying no good music exists anymore. Good movies, literature, "cultural achievements" are out there if you look for them. I would say films like Dark City, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Pulp Fiction, etc are closer to cultural acheivements than one might think. I'm as cynical as the next guy about pop media/culture, but culture DOES exist. You have to remember, too, that cultural Achievments tend to be judged by other cultures, not the native culture itself. Was the Itallian Renaissance viewed by most people as an extraordinary time, or did western culture label it that decades, if not ceturies, after? Perhaps sometime in the future some professor in some ivy legue college will look back on the turn of the 21st century and say, "Goddamn, that era was FULL of cultural Achievements. I'm going to write a paper on it." And perhaps with that one thesis, current culture's seeming lackluster cultural timeline will be forever looked upon as glorious and revolutionary.
I guess what I'm saying is culture is completely subjective. There's no truth or fact to it. If you don't think we have cultural Achievements, then we don't in your world. Personally I think we're just as clever and have just as much potential as those Itallian guys way back when...and we smell better.
Ah, someone after my own heart. Did you know that sporks existed before good ol' JC walked the earth? Granted, not in the form they are today, but they existed! I actually have a titanium spork, it's the best utensil i've ever used, not to mention extremely light. I believe the name spork has been around for a while, foon is of course its close rival. I'm not sure if it's a trademark or not.
They're simply relational units, rather than arbitrary ones (ie, bits and bytes). Most people have no freaking clue what a bit or a byte is, only how it relates to their life...they know a bit is probably pretty small, and 900 gigabytes is probably enough to store quite a bit of porn and mp3's. People also realize that a crapload of hardisks where made this year which translates to a several large craploads of disk space, and the universe is at least 6000 years old, but probably a whole lot older...so that means the storage corresponds to..
(several large craploads of diskspace)*(X), where X is >= 6000
of course, what this really means is, "a whole lot." So much so that if they were to quantify it your head would explode and your spinal chord would shoot out your ass.
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Or go green - the libertarian party with some foresight. Similar in personal freedom/economic/governmental stucture issues, with an emphasis on a sustainable future. Live Free && Green or die from lung cancer at age 30 because a government-subsdized industry polluted, unchecked, the air everyone breathes.
Evil ties aside - is this a bad thing? It gets linux into the enterprise environment, providing CIO's the piece of mind they need to roll out a whole new production environment. Granted, in the sort term it could take market share away from Red Hat and Novel/SuSE, but in the long term if those two companies provide a support solution that is proven, for cheap, and all this SCO garbage quiets down...which it will..they stand to profit. This could be a very good thing for the future of linux.
Pfftt. Linux doesn't run on anything - it doesn't have legs. It's a kernel. Have you ever seen a popcorn kernel run? I, for one, have not.
Yup. On my BSD machines I only use linux binaries for a few applications - flash is the only thing that comes to mind. Actually, the first thing that came to mind when i read that was FreeBSD's linuxulator. I wonder if sun used any code from FreeBSD's solution or not. Not that there's anything wrong with that...just a curiosity.
You found one, right? If not, i've been using gentoo without a hitch for about 3 weeks now, and all the x86 binary FPS games, that i've tried, in portage work great (As long as you remember to use the 32 bit libs, not the 64 bit libs...since you have both on your system). Which distro are you using? Just out of curiosity..
I'm a BSD nut, and I still installed linux on my ibook for a while. Why? Because I wanted to. It's something to do just to see how it feels. Of course, the first thing i dual booted was Darwin and OS X. Oh man, that makes even less sense than dual booting linux and OS X...but i wanted to do it. So I did. Yeah, I used it less than 10 times.
which is dumb and stupid. I know it's true...but it's lame-ass mass marketing taking a toll on our society.
Stupid business majors.
And that non-zero amount of crap is exactly me.
Barring the crap in my bowels.
I've honestly never considered any GUI in *nix, "Point-and-drool".
Point-and-hey-that-looks-kinda-neat maybe....Point-and-huh-that's-pretty-usable, probably. But never point-and-drool.
ba-zing!
You've got to be more precise than BSD 4.4...because that was a realease of BSD back in the early 90's as I recall, and just about every version of *BSD after that is some what based on "4.4 BSD".
The current stable 4.x version of FreeBSD is 4.10. So, did you mean they based their code on FreeBSD 4.4? Because..i mean...to a certain extent Solaris is based on 4.4 BSD...but not at all on FreeBSD 4.4...and uh...whatnot.
No one cites Newton/Leibnitz every time they differentiate an equation in a physics paper, to take an extreme example.
Actually, I just read a paper (Kuczera - Journal of Hydrology, 94 1987 p215 - 236) where the author DID cite Newton/Leibnitz when he differentiated an equation.
parent is far more insightful than grandparent.
I'm actually suprised the Karma hasn't gotten more press on slashdot. It's seriously the geek's mp3 player. The parent mentioned the webserver, but didn't mention that you can download a java app from the karma, and then upload music to it from any OS that has a working java implementation. I've been able to ass songs to mine from Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux this way. For me this is a HUGE advantage and shows a little bit of creativity/foresight on the side of Rio. Also the inclusion of open-source standard codecs like ogg and FLAC (For real audiophiles) is a huge plus. Yet, everyone on here is enamoured with the ipod.
$750 - my brother did it, and the movie came out pretty good. Unfortunately my brother can't write an original script for crap, thus the movie was just a cheap knock off of evil dead.
Except, of course, the Nobel Prize awarded to Franklin Groichlund in 1962, 10 years after his death.
I wasn't being a grammar nazi.
We don't have cultural achievements any more. We have sequels to remakes of movies based on books that might have been cultural achievements.
This is like saying no good music exists anymore. Good movies, literature, "cultural achievements" are out there if you look for them. I would say films like Dark City, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Pulp Fiction, etc are closer to cultural acheivements than one might think. I'm as cynical as the next guy about pop media/culture, but culture DOES exist. You have to remember, too, that cultural Achievments tend to be judged by other cultures, not the native culture itself. Was the Itallian Renaissance viewed by most people as an extraordinary time, or did western culture label it that decades, if not ceturies, after? Perhaps sometime in the future some professor in some ivy legue college will look back on the turn of the 21st century and say, "Goddamn, that era was FULL of cultural Achievements. I'm going to write a paper on it." And perhaps with that one thesis, current culture's seeming lackluster cultural timeline will be forever looked upon as glorious and revolutionary.
I guess what I'm saying is culture is completely subjective. There's no truth or fact to it. If you don't think we have cultural Achievements, then we don't in your world. Personally I think we're just as clever and have just as much potential as those Itallian guys way back when...and we smell better.
GRE? Graduate Record Exam?
huh. I thought it would be more powerful than that.
hee hee....420
Psh. YOU'RE running a story for discussion....uh....DUMB HEAD!
Ah, someone after my own heart. Did you know that sporks existed before good ol' JC walked the earth? Granted, not in the form they are today, but they existed! I actually have a titanium spork, it's the best utensil i've ever used, not to mention extremely light. I believe the name spork has been around for a while, foon is of course its close rival. I'm not sure if it's a trademark or not.
Perception is Reality.
They're simply relational units, rather than arbitrary ones (ie, bits and bytes). Most people have no freaking clue what a bit or a byte is, only how it relates to their life...they know a bit is probably pretty small, and 900 gigabytes is probably enough to store quite a bit of porn and mp3's. People also realize that a crapload of hardisks where made this year which translates to a several large craploads of disk space, and the universe is at least 6000 years old, but probably a whole lot older...so that means the storage corresponds to..
(several large craploads of diskspace)*(X), where X is >= 6000
of course, what this really means is, "a whole lot." So much so that if they were to quantify it your head would explode and your spinal chord would shoot out your ass.