I can argure both sides of this delemma, but common sense tells me to drop it and just buy a machine with MS, then reformat to your liking. I know the thought of supporting MS is painful, but my wallet rules over my priciples. Not everyone lives that way, but I'm sure many would agree with me.
If it was me, I'd buy the Sony vao and reformat the drive. Although you said you won't run MS software, I'd probably go the Wine route and use the Microsoft DLLs from the OEM windows copy for complete compatibility. This would be MY solution if you're looking for a small, x86, slick looking solution (I love those Sony's). If you're a die hard principle man and priciples mean more than money, I'd go with someone's suggestion of just buying a Mac. I'd concider just running OSX and use the Free UNIX addon utilities. If you really wanted a Linux only machine, I think the arguement of standard hardware for Mac platforms is very important. I for one hate all the inconcistancies I have with Linux on x86 machines.
Let's not forget DarkReign2. Sure, some people liked that new (aka copied) 3D look, but DarkReign2 was a far cry from what DarkReign was. Surprizing that Auran (makers of the original DarkReign) were never given as much credit for ground breaking AI as makers like CaveDog were given credit for ground breaking graphics. The AI for the original DarkReign is STILL way ahead of the strategy games of today.
To know what I mean, you have to compair unit movement between games like DarkReign, CC, TA, and SC. The units in DR always took the smarted path. You could also set individual AI per unit. Almost 6years old and I still see the unit interface of DR as revolutionary.
Agreed, but I suppose you can say pretty much the same thing for WarCraft, WarCraft2, StartCraft, WarCraft3,... Sure, Blizzard made some pretty big changes, but face it, isn't the interface the same? Don't all four games have a catapult device?
Needless to say, I would agree that Westwood does repeat itself far too much. I loved RedAlert, then bought TiberianSun. Although the graphics were better, I had to force myself to finish the single player missions. After that, I never played the game again. I can't say I'll miss Westwood as much as I miss CaveDog (Total Anihillation) and Auran (the original Dark Reign). I guess all I have left is Blizzard, and I can honestly say that I still like StarCraft far more than WarCraft3. An itch on the back of my neck tells me that StarCraft2 will be a disappointment, but Blizzard hasn't failed me yet...
On a side note, the music from Westwood will be the most missed. Maybe it's just me, but the soundtrack from RedAlert (and expansions) was the best music score I've ever heard. I mean I actually enjoyed LISTENING to the music while playing the game. I know the music was all techno, but it was perfect for that type of game. Sure, Blizzard and CaveDog had some nice music, but Westwood's music really pumped you up. I love StarCraft, but I NEVER listen to the music anymore. For most games, the music is background noise. To me, the westwood music was background enjoyment. I use to time my attacks to the "Hell March" tune. At the time, I just that it was the greatest.
Honestly, the technology could work quite well, but I think the power companies need to provide a hybrid solution. Run fiber down to the street transformers, then piggy back onto the powerline from there. Unfortunately, this solution still leaves the rual customer out in the snow, but leakage is too hard to fight and using relay devices I see as a nightmare.
Sure the solution won't benifit or swoon the rual types, but it would provide an alternative for the rest. It's bigger than just TCP/IP. Just like the cable companies can now provice a viable phone service and phone companies can provide internet service, a power company, via powerline technology could provice phone and internet (tv broadcast would be a stretch under the current technology). The speed would be slightly less and many high speed users would balk, but imagine if all computers made started incorporating powerline technology. Now imagine all corded phones having powerline technology. The ease of use and simplification of home wiring would be VERY appealing for the average home user.
I feel powerline technology SHOULD be the future for ALL residential broadband. Maybe the delivery of signal could differ (fiber, cable, dish,...), but inside the home just having one universal outlet for power and networking. No longer the need to wire a home for (power, phone, cable, 10baseT, and maybe fiber). Just wire for power and you're all done. Consumer manufacturers would no longer need to create a product with 10 different plugs on the back for interfacing.
Is this a dream? For years....yes! But the powerline technology is NOT the technology it was 5 years ago. It's very different and if slightly interested, you owe it to yourself to read up on it. I'll admit the technology is fair now at 14Mbps, but that's plenty for residential use. If that gets upped to 100+Mbps, then cable over powerline may be an option.
The big competition could be moved outside the home. How the content is delivered would be where the competition would be, but at least internal to the home, everything could be standarized.
I've got a beter idea for you...how about ripping all the net cable out all together and building a Mac with Power Line networking built in? Ok, I know Power Line is very slow compaired to 100baseT or even 10baseT, but I don't think a machine could be any easier to self configure.
I don't have the source, but I thought I remember reading NetBSD was used in space for some of the specialized computer systems. Something about how NetBSD could be ported to most anything and being very robust too. I'm sure this was for the odd ball computer systems with home brew processors and the like, but I thought it was interesting and put NetBSD in really good light for fast prototyping systems.
To tell the truth, I loved the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series. I thought it was a great piece of work. I think the only thing that killed the book(s) for me was the main character. The story starts out with him being a cry baby. So much so you just want to slap the kid, but then by the end of the story, he has all this karma and he's supposedly made something great of himself, but he's still a cry baby and in the end, he doesn't amount to anything when it came to the fight of good and evil. I just couldn't understand the point of the main character. That and his slut bag girlfriend. She was as dumb as a stick and somehow she saves the day? Sorry Tad, great story but horrible, just horrible main characters. BTW, the other characters in the book were great!
Because I was so burned by the dopy characters in MST, I'm hesitant apon reading Otherland. I will add that Tad's one book "Tailchasers Song" was pretty good. If you're a "Watership Down" lover, then you must read Tailchasers. It's just one book, but pretty interesting.
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Ask Kevin Mitnick
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Now that you got all this fame from being a hacker weeny, are you now trying to push books and start a consulting buisness because you finally realized that's where the money is? Did you need to be so distructive just to get that start in life? Frankly, a lepord CAN'T change it's spots and that's how I see this 'snake oil' campain you're on now. The typical/. luser may fall for it and even grovel at your feet, but I'm not biting.
In all honesty, I really do hope you change your ways, and I really do hope you can persuade other hacker weenies from following your path. I'm not holding my breath on preaching to the hacker weenie world tho.
I hope other people didn't take your response as sarcastic, because YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
I've always done my own taxes and I don't see what the big deal is. The only hard part is getting all the W2 forms and such from various employers, banks, and stocks. Once you have all the necessary papers, filling out the forms is easy.
Personally, I find all that tax software to be a rip off. I once did my taxes via the web with TurboTax. The MATH didn't add up. Even with rounding errors, the MATH was still off. I ended up copying the forms and doing it by hand instead.
I'm not a religious buff or anything, and I do enjoy the violence and especially sex in a game or two, but I have alot of respect for any game (or movie) that can rise in fame without the cheap sex and violence angle.
Yes, I'm sure the US does have the upper hand in trading with foreign counties, but do the actions surprize you? Say you were the employer of a company. You have a hard worker who has done good work for you for the past 5 years. You get this urge for a new car...you find another worker who'll do the same job for half the pay...do you make that buisness decision to let the high paid empoyee go in favor of the new cheap labor? It's not a black and white answer and depending on the person and circumstances, the outcome could go either way. Morally, you may do the right thing, but if your company was in major debt, you may have to make a cold handed buisness decision.
Agreed, some policies are very bad. I do not agree with the support of Isreal either. Isreal itself was nothing but a group of terroists before they got tanks. But other policies seem good. We supported a slave free South Africa. You can take most any policy and find good and bad in it. Just look at our support of Twain. I initially agreed with us supporting Twain's freedom, but if you look at it from a Chineese point of view, it's very different. You could argue that we should keep out of other peoples buisness or you could argue that we should help them strive for independence. I still don't know which to believe. That's our government. Every issue has good and bad. Hell, I support the Republicans, but look what they're doing to the clean air act. I'm so pissed, I may vote Demmocratic next. Why all the rambling? Just so you get the picture that US is not all about buisness. Believe it or not, world issues are about what's right and wrong and in general, I think we try to do the right thing. No body is perfect. One thing I don't believe, not even for a second, is that we're out to screw the world. Anyone who thinks that is just a fool.
Yes, and we enslave other countries to do our work? If they didn't make our cheap crap, we'd somehow go to war with them? It's a global economy and work generally flows to the lowest bidder. How is that exploiting? If anything, it spreads the common wealth. Think of it this way: Say an American refuses to work for little pay. The job then goes over seas. This continues until all jobs leave the country. Great, we now have all this stuff imported from over seas but now that very American can't buy it because he has no job and no money to pay for it. Hmmm, things must equalize somehow...You seem to think that just because 3rd world countries make products for the USA that we're somehow exploiting them. Did you ever think that it's better then having no job at all?
You also have to understand that sometimes people just hate other people out of envy. PersonA sits on his ass all day in their shack and hates PersonB because PersonB works hard and has a nice house. I know it's not that simple, but jealousy does play a role. I think the world looks at the USA like we're all rich and they(some) hate us for it. Truth is, the average American works their ass off to make a living.
Not to start a flame war, but I do find some value in the actions the government is taking. In hind site, sure it looks bad and probably prejudice, but put yourself in power and tell me what you would do? The country is treatened mostly by terrorists from the Middle East. Their background indicates most took advantage of student visas. Where would you start plugging the holes. Yeah, it may be prejudice, but it's just common sense.
To a certain degree, I don't think prejudism can be avoided. If a group of 100 aliens from PlanetX attacked PlanetY and you only had one week to secure PlanetY from another attack, would it not make sense to check ids for PlanetX folks. Oh yes, highly prejudice, but would this not make sense? Now, to launch a hate crime attack against all PlanetX aliens would most definitely be wrong, but I see nothing wrong with profiling your enemy.
You guys work for companies way to lax. When I worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, you definitely needed to sign all paper work before starting. I can't imagine a company not following through on it's NDA paperwork.
In defense of the employee's though, I think many of those NDA's are too general. Some of them basically say any thought you have on or off the job is owned by them. Granted, you have the right NOT to sign these documents and take employment elsewhere, but I can't help to think there's some personal rights being violated by these bogus NDA's.
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Sun vs. OpenBSD?
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Don't be a clown. Do keep things in perspective. Sun is a large company and they do try to work openly with competition. Be it opensource or commercial, point is they do TRY to promote standards for all to follow.
The difference between Sun and Microsoft is that Sun trys to standardize on protocols and Microsoft tries to standardize on applications. Obviously Sun trys to work with the community whereas Microsoft trys to take over the community.
In some cases Sun may appear to control the community (ala strict control over Java), but that's where you have to keep things in perspective. They are foremost a company. They have employees to pay. In fairness, they are a MUCH better company when it comes to working with the community than most. Anyone who disses Sun just makes me sick.
This coming from one of those overpaid sysadmins? At one time, being a sysadmin was a big deal. Now days, it's a dime a dozen profession. Supply and demand has brought the sysadmin's salary down to what it should be. Very analogus to tech stocks. If you're still sweeping in the cash as a sysadmin, then count yourself lucky for holding on to your overpaid job. Trust me, your day will come where your value will truely be known. Now, if the same could only happen to CEO's....
Yes, I saw that 20/20 too and to this day my wife and I will never visit Louisiana.
I have a Lousiana story too. A college bud walking the street in New Orleans and a cop asked him to show his id. He pulled out is license and the cop hauled him off to jail. He was from Upstate, NY. The cop charged him with harrasing some girl. They put him in a line up and he was told that he was positively id'ed by the girl. As you can imagine, this was a pretty freaky incident. His folks wired the money to get him out on bail. I think it was a couple thousand or so. So anyway, I'm not sure the details, but the case was dropped or he was let go. He wasn't proven innocent, but he wasn't convicted. Whatever the case, because he wan't proven innocent, the family never got the bond money back. He ended up out a couple thousand and with a criminal record. This was a strait aced kid. The whole thing was pretty suspicious and didn't sound right, but he couldn't fight it. I think it was just a setup scheme with the cops and the bonds man. This was all the same time as the 20/20 thing with out of state drivers. I will never travel to Louisiana because of this.
That's why I only use ASCII for my resume. Pretty low tech, but to me the content is more important that the flash.
Whenever a recruiter asks me for a "Word" formatted resume, I first remind him I'm a UNIX SA and then instruct them if a "Word" format is that important, they can cut and paste it themself.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand the "free crap" mentallity. I mean, why would anyone want the crap they give out anyway? A dorky cheap T-shirt I wouldn't even wear to fix my car in. Why bother? All the stuff they give out just ends up in a land fill. Why would anyone want to be a part of that cycle?
If they'd just stop giving out "free crap" and start offering lap dances from the boot babes, I bet you'd see attendence pick up.
You panic like this is a bad thing...the creation of cyber terrorism laws...honestly, I'm all for a tight crackdown on the internet.
There's too many crack weenies and spammers out there already. I'd gladly give up some of my rights in exchange for a faster, more robust, and safer net to surf on.
Mind you, that's just my feelings. I also prefer to live in the nice neighborhoods where zoning laws are strictly enforced. Yeah, so I can't have a pink elephant in the front yard. It's worth the trade off to be surrounded by nice houses and yards and well maintained streets. If I wanted that total freedom of living, I'd go live in a unzoned area. You know...the ones with a nice classic cobble stone house right next to the trailer with a broken car in the yard with the porn shop across the street where all the child molesters hand out. People hang their bedsheets from the windows and neighbors blast their music to all hours of the night....Yeah, you can keep preaching freedom of rights all you want...I'd happily live with some restrictions with the trade off that others must abide to the same.
Oh, and don't critizise me for my poor analogy of neighborhood zoning and the internet. I'm not contrasting rich and poor. You can take ANY poor neighborhood and enforce a strict zoning on what you can and can't do. You'ld be amazed and just how nice old dumpy hoods can get with alittle tighter control. Mind you, it's a trade off of freedom and control. For me, I tend to like the benifits of control as freedom sometimes has a way of making many things look like crap. The best solution is a balance of the two.
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I can argure both sides of this delemma, but common sense tells me to drop it and just buy a machine with MS, then reformat to your liking. I know the thought of supporting MS is painful, but my wallet rules over my priciples. Not everyone lives that way, but I'm sure many would agree with me.
If it was me, I'd buy the Sony vao and reformat the drive. Although you said you won't run MS software, I'd probably go the Wine route and use the Microsoft DLLs from the OEM windows copy for complete compatibility. This would be MY solution if you're looking for a small, x86, slick looking solution (I love those Sony's). If you're a die hard principle man and priciples mean more than money, I'd go with someone's suggestion of just buying a Mac. I'd concider just running OSX and use the Free UNIX addon utilities. If you really wanted a Linux only machine, I think the arguement of standard hardware for Mac platforms is very important. I for one hate all the inconcistancies I have with Linux on x86 machines.
Let's not forget DarkReign2. Sure, some people liked that new (aka copied) 3D look, but DarkReign2 was a far cry from what DarkReign was. Surprizing that Auran (makers of the original DarkReign) were never given as much credit for ground breaking AI as makers like CaveDog were given credit for ground breaking graphics. The AI for the original DarkReign is STILL way ahead of the strategy games of today.
To know what I mean, you have to compair unit movement between games like DarkReign, CC, TA, and SC. The units in DR always took the smarted path. You could also set individual AI per unit. Almost 6years old and I still see the unit interface of DR as revolutionary.
Agreed, but I suppose you can say pretty much the same thing for WarCraft, WarCraft2, StartCraft, WarCraft3,... Sure, Blizzard made some pretty big changes, but face it, isn't the interface the same? Don't all four games have a catapult device?
Needless to say, I would agree that Westwood does repeat itself far too much. I loved RedAlert, then bought TiberianSun. Although the graphics were better, I had to force myself to finish the single player missions. After that, I never played the game again. I can't say I'll miss Westwood as much as I miss CaveDog (Total Anihillation) and Auran (the original Dark Reign). I guess all I have left is Blizzard, and I can honestly say that I still like StarCraft far more than WarCraft3. An itch on the back of my neck tells me that StarCraft2 will be a disappointment, but Blizzard hasn't failed me yet...
On a side note, the music from Westwood will be the most missed. Maybe it's just me, but the soundtrack from RedAlert (and expansions) was the best music score I've ever heard. I mean I actually enjoyed LISTENING to the music while playing the game. I know the music was all techno, but it was perfect for that type of game. Sure, Blizzard and CaveDog had some nice music, but Westwood's music really pumped you up. I love StarCraft, but I NEVER listen to the music anymore. For most games, the music is background noise. To me, the westwood music was background enjoyment. I use to time my attacks to the "Hell March" tune. At the time, I just that it was the greatest.
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...), but inside the home just having one universal outlet for power and networking. No longer the need to wire a home for (power, phone, cable, 10baseT, and maybe fiber). Just wire for power and you're all done. Consumer manufacturers would no longer need to create a product with 10 different plugs on the back for interfacing.
Honestly, the technology could work quite well, but I think the power companies need to provide a hybrid solution. Run fiber down to the street transformers, then piggy back onto the powerline from there. Unfortunately, this solution still leaves the rual customer out in the snow, but leakage is too hard to fight and using relay devices I see as a nightmare.
Sure the solution won't benifit or swoon the rual types, but it would provide an alternative for the rest. It's bigger than just TCP/IP. Just like the cable companies can now provice a viable phone service and phone companies can provide internet service, a power company, via powerline technology could provice phone and internet (tv broadcast would be a stretch under the current technology). The speed would be slightly less and many high speed users would balk, but imagine if all computers made started incorporating powerline technology. Now imagine all corded phones having powerline technology. The ease of use and simplification of home wiring would be VERY appealing for the average home user.
I feel powerline technology SHOULD be the future for ALL residential broadband. Maybe the delivery of signal could differ (fiber, cable, dish,
Is this a dream? For years....yes! But the powerline technology is NOT the technology it was 5 years ago. It's very different and if slightly interested, you owe it to yourself to read up on it. I'll admit the technology is fair now at 14Mbps, but that's plenty for residential use. If that gets upped to 100+Mbps, then cable over powerline may be an option.
The big competition could be moved outside the home. How the content is delivered would be where the competition would be, but at least internal to the home, everything could be standarized.
I've got a beter idea for you...how about ripping all the net cable out all together and building a Mac with Power Line networking built in? Ok, I know Power Line is very slow compaired to 100baseT or even 10baseT, but I don't think a machine could be any easier to self configure.
I don't have the source, but I thought I remember reading NetBSD was used in space for some of the specialized computer systems. Something about how NetBSD could be ported to most anything and being very robust too. I'm sure this was for the odd ball computer systems with home brew processors and the like, but I thought it was interesting and put NetBSD in really good light for fast prototyping systems.
To tell the truth, I loved the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series. I thought it was a great piece of work. I think the only thing that killed the book(s) for me was the main character. The story starts out with him being a cry baby. So much so you just want to slap the kid, but then by the end of the story, he has all this karma and he's supposedly made something great of himself, but he's still a cry baby and in the end, he doesn't amount to anything when it came to the fight of good and evil. I just couldn't understand the point of the main character. That and his slut bag girlfriend. She was as dumb as a stick and somehow she saves the day? Sorry Tad, great story but horrible, just horrible main characters. BTW, the other characters in the book were great!
Because I was so burned by the dopy characters in MST, I'm hesitant apon reading Otherland. I will add that Tad's one book "Tailchasers Song" was pretty good. If you're a "Watership Down" lover, then you must read Tailchasers. It's just one book, but pretty interesting.
Now that you got all this fame from being a hacker weeny, are you now trying to push books and start a consulting buisness because you finally realized that's where the money is? Did you need to be so distructive just to get that start in life? Frankly, a lepord CAN'T change it's spots and that's how I see this 'snake oil' campain you're on now. The typical /. luser may fall for it and even grovel at your feet, but I'm not biting.
In all honesty, I really do hope you change your ways, and I really do hope you can persuade other hacker weenies from following your path. I'm not holding my breath on preaching to the hacker weenie world tho.
I hope other people didn't take your response as sarcastic, because YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
I've always done my own taxes and I don't see what the big deal is. The only hard part is getting all the W2 forms and such from various employers, banks, and stocks. Once you have all the necessary papers, filling out the forms is easy.
Personally, I find all that tax software to be a rip off. I once did my taxes via the web with TurboTax. The MATH didn't add up. Even with rounding errors, the MATH was still off. I ended up copying the forms and doing it by hand instead.
Honestly, let's hope so.
I'm not a religious buff or anything, and I do enjoy the violence and especially sex in a game or two, but I have alot of respect for any game (or movie) that can rise in fame without the cheap sex and violence angle.
Yes, I'm sure the US does have the upper hand in trading with foreign counties, but do the actions surprize you? Say you were the employer of a company. You have a hard worker who has done good work for you for the past 5 years. You get this urge for a new car...you find another worker who'll do the same job for half the pay...do you make that buisness decision to let the high paid empoyee go in favor of the new cheap labor? It's not a black and white answer and depending on the person and circumstances, the outcome could go either way. Morally, you may do the right thing, but if your company was in major debt, you may have to make a cold handed buisness decision.
Agreed, some policies are very bad. I do not agree with the support of Isreal either. Isreal itself was nothing but a group of terroists before they got tanks. But other policies seem good. We supported a slave free South Africa. You can take most any policy and find good and bad in it. Just look at our support of Twain. I initially agreed with us supporting Twain's freedom, but if you look at it from a Chineese point of view, it's very different. You could argue that we should keep out of other peoples buisness or you could argue that we should help them strive for independence. I still don't know which to believe. That's our government. Every issue has good and bad. Hell, I support the Republicans, but look what they're doing to the clean air act. I'm so pissed, I may vote Demmocratic next. Why all the rambling? Just so you get the picture that US is not all about buisness. Believe it or not, world issues are about what's right and wrong and in general, I think we try to do the right thing. No body is perfect. One thing I don't believe, not even for a second, is that we're out to screw the world. Anyone who thinks that is just a fool.
Agreed, and my comment (right or wrong) was a generality. My impression (generality) from the foreigners I've met tend to think that way.
Yes, and we enslave other countries to do our work? If they didn't make our cheap crap, we'd somehow go to war with them? It's a global economy and work generally flows to the lowest bidder. How is that exploiting? If anything, it spreads the common wealth. Think of it this way: Say an American refuses to work for little pay. The job then goes over seas. This continues until all jobs leave the country. Great, we now have all this stuff imported from over seas but now that very American can't buy it because he has no job and no money to pay for it. Hmmm, things must equalize somehow...You seem to think that just because 3rd world countries make products for the USA that we're somehow exploiting them. Did you ever think that it's better then having no job at all?
You also have to understand that sometimes people just hate other people out of envy. PersonA sits on his ass all day in their shack and hates PersonB because PersonB works hard and has a nice house. I know it's not that simple, but jealousy does play a role. I think the world looks at the USA like we're all rich and they(some) hate us for it. Truth is, the average American works their ass off to make a living.
Not to start a flame war, but I do find some value in the actions the government is taking. In hind site, sure it looks bad and probably prejudice, but put yourself in power and tell me what you would do? The country is treatened mostly by terrorists from the Middle East. Their background indicates most took advantage of student visas. Where would you start plugging the holes. Yeah, it may be prejudice, but it's just common sense. To a certain degree, I don't think prejudism can be avoided. If a group of 100 aliens from PlanetX attacked PlanetY and you only had one week to secure PlanetY from another attack, would it not make sense to check ids for PlanetX folks. Oh yes, highly prejudice, but would this not make sense? Now, to launch a hate crime attack against all PlanetX aliens would most definitely be wrong, but I see nothing wrong with profiling your enemy.
You guys work for companies way to lax. When I worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, you definitely needed to sign all paper work before starting. I can't imagine a company not following through on it's NDA paperwork. In defense of the employee's though, I think many of those NDA's are too general. Some of them basically say any thought you have on or off the job is owned by them. Granted, you have the right NOT to sign these documents and take employment elsewhere, but I can't help to think there's some personal rights being violated by these bogus NDA's.
Don't be a clown. Do keep things in perspective. Sun is a large company and they do try to work openly with competition. Be it opensource or commercial, point is they do TRY to promote standards for all to follow.
The difference between Sun and Microsoft is that Sun trys to standardize on protocols and Microsoft tries to standardize on applications. Obviously Sun trys to work with the community whereas Microsoft trys to take over the community.
In some cases Sun may appear to control the community (ala strict control over Java), but that's where you have to keep things in perspective. They are foremost a company. They have employees to pay. In fairness, they are a MUCH better company when it comes to working with the community than most. Anyone who disses Sun just makes me sick.
This coming from one of those overpaid sysadmins? At one time, being a sysadmin was a big deal. Now days, it's a dime a dozen profession. Supply and demand has brought the sysadmin's salary down to what it should be. Very analogus to tech stocks. If you're still sweeping in the cash as a sysadmin, then count yourself lucky for holding on to your overpaid job. Trust me, your day will come where your value will truely be known. Now, if the same could only happen to CEO's....
Yes, I saw that 20/20 too and to this day my wife and I will never visit Louisiana.
I have a Lousiana story too. A college bud walking the street in New Orleans and a cop asked him to show his id. He pulled out is license and the cop hauled him off to jail. He was from Upstate, NY. The cop charged him with harrasing some girl. They put him in a line up and he was told that he was positively id'ed by the girl. As you can imagine, this was a pretty freaky incident. His folks wired the money to get him out on bail. I think it was a couple thousand or so. So anyway, I'm not sure the details, but the case was dropped or he was let go. He wasn't proven innocent, but he wasn't convicted. Whatever the case, because he wan't proven innocent, the family never got the bond money back. He ended up out a couple thousand and with a criminal record. This was a strait aced kid. The whole thing was pretty suspicious and didn't sound right, but he couldn't fight it. I think it was just a setup scheme with the cops and the bonds man. This was all the same time as the 20/20 thing with out of state drivers. I will never travel to Louisiana because of this.
That's why I only use ASCII for my resume. Pretty low tech, but to me the content is more important that the flash.
Whenever a recruiter asks me for a "Word" formatted resume, I first remind him I'm a UNIX SA and then instruct them if a "Word" format is that important, they can cut and paste it themself.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand the "free crap" mentallity. I mean, why would anyone want the crap they give out anyway? A dorky cheap T-shirt I wouldn't even wear to fix my car in. Why bother? All the stuff they give out just ends up in a land fill. Why would anyone want to be a part of that cycle?
If they'd just stop giving out "free crap" and start offering lap dances from the boot babes, I bet you'd see attendence pick up.
Oh lordy! I cried laughing at your comment. My new word of the day, "asshat". Freaking halarious. Good post you homophobic freak.
You panic like this is a bad thing...the creation of cyber terrorism laws...honestly, I'm all for a tight crackdown on the internet.
There's too many crack weenies and spammers out there already. I'd gladly give up some of my rights in exchange for a faster, more robust, and safer net to surf on.
Mind you, that's just my feelings. I also prefer to live in the nice neighborhoods where zoning laws are strictly enforced. Yeah, so I can't have a pink elephant in the front yard. It's worth the trade off to be surrounded by nice houses and yards and well maintained streets. If I wanted that total freedom of living, I'd go live in a unzoned area. You know...the ones with a nice classic cobble stone house right next to the trailer with a broken car in the yard with the porn shop across the street where all the child molesters hand out. People hang their bedsheets from the windows and neighbors blast their music to all hours of the night....Yeah, you can keep preaching freedom of rights all you want...I'd happily live with some restrictions with the trade off that others must abide to the same.
Oh, and don't critizise me for my poor analogy of neighborhood zoning and the internet. I'm not contrasting rich and poor. You can take ANY poor neighborhood and enforce a strict zoning on what you can and can't do. You'ld be amazed and just how nice old dumpy hoods can get with alittle tighter control. Mind you, it's a trade off of freedom and control. For me, I tend to like the benifits of control as freedom sometimes has a way of making many things look like crap. The best solution is a balance of the two.
There's pros and cons for "open source". This would definitely be a con.