Damn, that rat bastard Shanoyu beat me to it. I will be forced to go undercover and use my arsenal of AOL CDs to assinate him. --------------------------------------------
other uses for AOL CDs: -coffee saucer so you don't stain your desk with your morning cup o joe. -donut holder...mmmmm donuts -area 51 prototype toy for all the cheap bastards at Xmas and birthdays -stack em. They make a great booster chair for your cat -Wall coverings. Goodness knows that I get enough of them in the mail that I could have some really cool CD wallpaper (label in of course). Imagine that with a disco ball in the middle of the room. Neato. Im sure there are more, but Im to tired to think of them now. --------------------------------------------
I live in the Las Vegas area also and know EXACTLY what this AC means about high ambient temps. In my room I have 2 computers, a large stereo and a 27" TV. With all of these on and in full power they have been known to raise the temp of my room as much as 12F. During the summer here this can be quite annoying since the A/C doesn't always cool the house down to comfortable levels during peak temp hours (about 2:00pm until 5:30pm). Writing code in my room can be quite a perspiring experience. I think that a desktop grade Crusoe will be very nice, and it will help me keep my elec bill down at the same time. --------------------------------------------
Yet another argument that I think is valid is that the "novelty" has worn off. Two Xmas's ago my mom thought that shopping on the net was the coolest thing, and bought about half of my presents on-line even though she could have easily gone to a shop an bought the same things.
My mom still shops on the net, but she doesn't have that "wow this is cool" glow in her eyes when she is done. Now it is more of a matter of convenience.
The internet and e-business (sorry about the buzzword) are not going away, they are here to stay. Now it is a matter of turning it into a profitable business. If you aren't making money, then you aren't a legitimate business. Same with technology and all of the other sectors that really came into their own within the last several years. It is darwininan business - only the strong survive. You are seeing a sort of cleansing of the tech gene pool that is getting rid of the weak companies.
if this is indeed fact, then someone needs to moderate this up.
It is articles and posts like this that are the reason that I read/. The trolls (although sometimes annoying) are often funny. It is the diversity of comments that I love about slashdot. And when I read an article that leaves something obscured, I often want more information. I find this post to be very interesting and useful. It answered one of my questions.
I also agree with this AC (in some sense) that recognition and promotion of early skills can indeed have its rewards. I really wish that my HS had required me to take some sort of advanced computing class (besides the standard "this is a mouse" class). --------------------------------------------
Due to the overwhelming popularity of the recent appearence of the Son of God, we here at JesusOne are offering something completely off the bandwagon of the newly founded Chriatian Community: Christ Soap.
It is a revolutionary new concept in bathing experience. All of your sins can be washed away with one shower with Christ Soap.
end of parody
Now do you see why people are a little upset with the LinuxOne IPO. They are cashing in on the naive people who think that everything that Linux touches turns to gold. Linux is a great operating system, and yes our "community" is a bit fanatical about how our beliefs are used and shared. If someone went out and bastardized the name of Jesus Christ then you can bet that the Bible Belt would speak up about this. Along with the Catholic Church and many other "communities." When someone tries to take advantage of our sense of identity and use it for a purpose that we feel is not within the bounds of our personal beliefs, then we call foul. ------------------------------------------- -
This is a couple of questions all relating to one:
1) what happened to the laptops? You all had them for sale, then stopped. I may have missed the reason, but could you restate the reason that you stopped selling laptops?
2) are you going to sell them again? If so, when? If not, why?
As a side note, (IMHO) I think that it would be a very good idea to start selling them again. From a business standpoint, if you can get IT managers more mobile without the hassle of setting up often incompatible laptop h/w on a schweet Linux laptop, there would be a lot of happy geeks out there, myself included.
Also, thanks for helping out the community.
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I think that I was one of the many skeptics that were around when I found out that Red Hat was going public. As many people thought (my self being one of them), there was a genuine fear that Red Hat was in it purely for the sake of making LOTS of money. I think that Red Hat is making some good moves that are very true to the heart of the Open Source / Free Software movement. While simply throwing money at a problem / issue is not always the solution, I think that Red Hat is doing more than just that. They are not only providing monetary incentives for people to program in OSS projects, but they are spawning more resources. As one of the earlier posts mentioned, as long as they don't make it "Red Hat centric" I think that the benefit of having Red Hat on the side of the OSS/FS could be astronomical. There is definately some potential there. This is a move that I see as very encouraging. It also shows me that Red Hat is not out there to assimilate the market place, but to make it better. ----------------------------------------- ---
...despite this rather dismal post. Compared to last year the improvement in the representation of Linux/BSD/OpenSource was incredible.
-last year the Linux "pavillion" was in the basement of the Sands Expo Center. The Sands to me was where the Comdex people put all of those who either didn't matter, or weren't important to the show. It was a bunch of vendors with mediocore products.
-last year Linux was hardly a blip on the COMDEX radar (thus the wonderful location in the basement of the sands)
-most of the booths looked like 6th grade science fair projects. They were small, had very few people there to answer questions and they were unimpressive.
-Compare that to this year where Linux/BSD/OpenSource had its own section in the COMDEX handout, it had its own sponsors, it had a very nice convention space (albeit off the main floor)
I walked through the Linux Business Expo and felt a sense of pride. I felt that the community was being recognized. We weren't on the main floor, but we were in a convention center that was very close to the main convention center (as opposed to the Sands which was a long walk). In fact I parked at the LV Convention Center and walked (didn't feel like paying $20 to park at the Hilton vs $5 at the LVCC). The thing to keep in mind is that we are a growing community, we cannot expect to be recognized immediately. While I feel the frustrations of not having vendor support, we are still making a name for ourselves. Microsoft has assimilated the minds of many of the people that we would like to have on our side of the revolution. The key is to free those minds and to show them that we have a product that is as good, and actually better than what they are currently working on. I think that a round of polite and poignant (sp?) letters to some of these vendors might get them to at least look at Linux/BSD/OpenSource as a viable alternative. Don't give up yet fellas
I think that all of the above comments are written by ignorant fools. (typical of the average slashdot reader) I think that they read the first paragraph and then made their mind up on that piece. I actually laughed my A$$ off at the paragraph stating all of the m$ stuff that he and his family uses.
Hey slashdot people read the whole thing and learn all of the news before you open your mouth. This was a piece of sarcasm, that was right on the money, unless of course you are a borg. Eric --------------------------------------------
Dont get me wrong, these people have done an incredible job, and without their big ideas on how to make things work Free Software would not be anywhere near where it would be today. I am a huge fan of ESR (I am NOT a member of the secret Eric Conspiracy group;) ), I am only starting on reading about RMS, I am using Perl more and more, I am on the emacs side of the fence (even use it for winders), I think that gcc/g++ are the most convenient and complete compilers ever made (even if they are a little slow)....I think that you get the point.. However I just wanted to give credit to the people who have taken these big ideas from the big people and expanded upon them and really pushed the meaning of FREE/OPEN Software. It is the open source community...that was where I wanted to put the emphasis, not on taking credit away from the people you mentioned (and others). ---------------------------------------- ----
I don't know about you, but I only see maybe 15 -20 names on this page, and afterall it is the people of the open source community that have made it the success that it is. If it weren't for their hard work (much of it in their free time), and their blatant fanatacism about creating things that work and are free then there would be no open source / free software movement. I think that it is funny when a big star wins an award and they say "I'd like to thank all the people who made this happen..." Why not actaully give an award to the people who actually DID make this happen for once instaead of just some figure head. That's my $2*(10^-2) worth. ------------------------------------------ --
I think that it would be a great idea if everyone just all at once said "Screw crypto laws," but the reality is - Kevin Mitnick. The gov't would take in some oddball schmuck so that the "hacker" (cringe) community would take notice. We would have another myrtar on our hands and still no resolution. The government is the only authourity in this country with a monopoly on power, if the people try to take away that power, they will essentially hold a public execution. They made the laws, so who better to go above them. This is why our country is crap - we have laws made by people who know little to nothing about the necessity of good security and the importance of cryptography. If people start disobeying the laws, then an example must be set. The gov't uses its power to set this example. (warning , shameless Microsoft slandering ahead) Of course if crypto did get thrown out, then M$ would develop yet another program to overthrow MP3....I think that would would be a good crack for distributed.net:) --------------------------------------------
YAACWHBBBM$ (yet another AC who has been brainwashed by M$) WOW, so Microsoft can take someone else's designs and (feebly)attempt to improve on them. Lets take a closer look shall we, sports fans? Expedia: Well, I'll be damned if it isnt Travelocity.com with a powered by M$ sticker on it. MSNBC: wait a minute, you mean that M$ does the news too? I seriously doubt that they would ever put a spin on anything on that channel. It's called mindshare...any place that they can put their name into they will. Last I checked M$ is a bunch of programmers and marketing people, they are not reporters. They bought a station and a website so that people would recognize the M$ name. Slate: The stuff that they forgot to put into the MSNBC channel Carpoint: Wow, another original M$ idea, selling cars on the internet. A search on Altavista for "car dealers" only returns 28,416 returns. Another M$ original production.
Who cares about Sidesquawk and all the other M$ crap that they have crea^H^H^Hcopied. The point of the article in this is that M$'s brainwashed little boy that they planted inside of SGI failed in his conquest to assimilate them. So now M$ is taking him back for reprogramming and is probably going to send him out again in a couple of months once the brainwashing is complete. If you are going to post about proM$ stuff, check you references, M$ is NOT #1 in those websites. If you are going to get something wrong, at least get it right. ------------------------------------------ --
I am taking an operating systems course. For the first 3/4 of the book they talk about theory behind OS's and different techniques. The last 1/4 of the class is spent studying specific OSs and how they implement the theory. We look at UNIX, Linux and NT. The first paragraph pretty much sums it up in the NT section, they say something to the extent of -NT moved some critical portions of the OS into the kernel, while the lead to enormous speed increases over NT3.1, it caused for a serious lack of stability issues in NT4. (end semi quote)
I wish I had that verbatum, if I find it I will post it later on (always cite your sources boys and girls).
Anyways, as I was saying, you wil find that when you get to college you will play with Linux more. Not because it is better and blah blah blah, but because it is open source. You wouldn't become a doctor by looking at screen shots of the inside of a human body would you? I certainly hope not. Personally I think that it is better and more educational to have an open source OS, so that we can dabble on the inside of the OS and learn from the mistakes of our predecessors (yes even Linux is not perfect....it is close though)
I am getting off topic now, but.... If itterrations of M$ OSs are getting faster, but less reliable, then how does M$ expect to move up in the server market? Win2k demonstrated that it is not the answer. Linux definately has a place, and it is getting a lot more press lately than in past months (it is OK to give Red Hat some credit on this one - they made the first big step towards funding their ad campaign). It is only a matter of time before the mindshare changes, and with win2k faltering and (dare I say it) on the ropes, it is time for someone to step up and give the knockout blow.
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....ecause it is a little bit faster than my Jeep Wrangler will go - which is a measley 1.85*10^(-7)c (assuming that it goes 120MPH downhill with a tail wind). --------------------------------------------
Call it evolution, call it adaptation, call it what you will. I personally call it life. To me they all are terms for the same thing. The weak traits die out and the strong traits survive. It is not always the prettiest way to handle things, but it works. How do I know that it works? If it didn't would life have continued, and even propigated on this planet for the last billion or so years? I think that the answer to that is obvious. I am a little offended that people refuse to teach evolution in the classroom. That means that they are not promoting the education of life. I guess that they expect man to handle all evolution, after all that is what people are preached to about day after day. "Man is dominant. It is man's duty to take over the world." I disagree, but apparently there are some people in KAnsas who disagree with me. Alas, what a truly blind world we live in. Check out this book, it is very interesting: "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn - it will change the way you look at man. --------------------------------------------
I havn't tried Xfig, so I can't speak on behalf of that one. But I too would love to see a vectored/OO drawing program for Linux. I am a big fan of Macromedia's Freehand (I use AI a lot too, but Freehand suits me just fine - not trying to start another holy war here:) ) and would love to see something like that implemented in Linux. I feel that GIMP is a more than adequate tool for image manipulation, however like most people I find that the UI gets a little awkward, especially for an old school Photoshop user. Like some of the above mentioned problems (layer movement / floating selection) are where I get frustrated. I find that GIMP tends to have great basic features and great advanced feature(awesome filters/scripts), but seems to lack some of the intermediate features IMHO (I can never tell the size of a selected area). I have considered getting some sort of book to help with some of the minor discrepencies that I have, and it sounds like this is a good one. Cheers ------------------------------------------ --
The "utter reality" is that microsoft has two reasons going for it, neither of which is going to make them last in the long haul. Reason number one: Microsoft was there first. They have been aroun dlonger than Linux (or most any other current OS for that matter) and have made name recognition a strong point for themselves. Reason number two: Microsoft has spent milions (if not billions) of dollars in marketing to support reason number one. Look at Ford, do you think that people buy their cars because they are quality cars and will last. No, they were there first (orgy porgy Henry Ford) and they have spent a lot of money keeping their name in front of the consumer. I think of Linux as the Import car, it doesn't need all the money to convince the consumer, it sells because of reputation. I am not trying to start a car debate here, I am trying to show a simple analogy. I am sure that as Linux gains in popularity there will be a lot of people switching over to it. However there will still be some people that are going to be suckers for a good marketing campaign and will stick with their windows. That is fine, because we all know where the tow trucks make more of their money from break downs....(its not on the imports.):) --------------------------------------------
I am sure that, like most college aged people who easily fill the shoes of the "GEEK" definition, there are others out there who have computers in their room. I would be less than impressed if my roommate had a computer that had a flood light on the front of it. I typically turn off my monitor before I go to bed because my mouse is REALLY sensitive and it has been known to kill the screen saver with just the radio at medium volume. If I had a computer in my room that the flood light on the front came on every time that the mouse polled an interrupt I would get a little annoyed ----------------------------------------- ---
There was an article in our paper (Saturday's Las Vegas Review Journal for those interested - don't know if there is a link to it) the day after I saw it. I kept wondering if this was based on actual events or if it was a well concocted piece of fiction (kinda like the War of the Worlds sort of thing) It turns out that after the movie was pre-released in select cities a lot of people decided to go up to the City formerly known as Blair to inquire about it. Turns out that nobody in the town has heard of it and it was completely a work of fiction. HAD ME FOOLED!!! I went to the website and checked out the interviews and all of the extra follow up stuff that was there and really thought that this was based on actualy events. If I am wrong on this please let me know, but the article in the paper lead me to believe otherwise. If you could provide a link or newspaper article supporting this it would be coo'. Excelent movie though, I found it to be long, but it built nicely for the SUPER CLIMACTIC ending. 9/10 starts from me:) --------------------------------------------
There was an article in our paper (Saturday's Las Vegas Review Journal for those interested - don't know if there is a link to it) the day after I saw it. I kept wondering if this was based on actual events or if it was a well concocted piece of fiction (kinda like the War of the Worlds sort of thing) It turns out that after the movie was pre-released in select cities a lot of people decided to go up to the City formerly known as Blair to inquire about it. Turns out that nobody in the town has heard of it and it was completely a work of fiction. HAD ME FOOLED!!! I went to the website and checked out the interviews and all of the extra follow up stuff that was there and really thought that this was based on actualy events. If I am wrong on this please let me know, but the article in the paper lead me to believe otherwise. If you could provide a link or newspaper article supporting this it would be coo'. Excelent move though, I found it to be long, but it built nicely for the SUPER CLIMACTIC ending. 9/10 starts from me:) --------------------------------------------
Slashdot Mirror
(yet another slashdot nerd with a probably wrong correction)
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I thought that it was Bernoulli that found out that sh*znit could float
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Damn, that rat bastard Shanoyu beat me to it. I will be forced to go undercover and use my arsenal of AOL CDs to assinate him.-
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other uses for AOL CDs:-
-coffee saucer so you don't stain your desk with your morning cup o joe.
-donut holder...mmmmm donuts
-area 51 prototype toy for all the cheap bastards at Xmas and birthdays
-stack em. They make a great booster chair for your cat
-Wall coverings. Goodness knows that I get enough of them in the mail that I could have some really cool CD wallpaper (label in of course). Imagine that with a disco ball in the middle of the room. Neato.
Im sure there are more, but Im to tired to think of them now.
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I live in the Las Vegas area also and know EXACTLY what this AC means about high ambient temps. In my room I have 2 computers, a large stereo and a 27" TV. With all of these on and in full power they have been known to raise the temp of my room as much as 12F. During the summer here this can be quite annoying since the A/C doesn't always cool the house down to comfortable levels during peak temp hours (about 2:00pm until 5:30pm). Writing code in my room can be quite a perspiring experience. I think that a desktop grade Crusoe will be very nice, and it will help me keep my elec bill down at the same time.
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Yet another argument that I think is valid is that the "novelty" has worn off. Two Xmas's ago my mom thought that shopping on the net was the coolest thing, and bought about half of my presents on-line even though she could have easily gone to a shop an bought the same things.
My mom still shops on the net, but she doesn't have that "wow this is cool" glow in her eyes when she is done. Now it is more of a matter of convenience.
The internet and e-business (sorry about the buzzword) are not going away, they are here to stay. Now it is a matter of turning it into a profitable business. If you aren't making money, then you aren't a legitimate business. Same with technology and all of the other sectors that really came into their own within the last several years. It is darwininan business - only the strong survive. You are seeing a sort of cleansing of the tech gene pool that is getting rid of the weak companies.
if this is indeed fact, then someone needs to moderate this up.
/. The trolls (although sometimes annoying) are often funny. It is the diversity of comments that I love about slashdot. And when I read an article that leaves something obscured, I often want more information. I find this post to be very interesting and useful. It answered one of my questions.
It is articles and posts like this that are the reason that I read
I also agree with this AC (in some sense) that recognition and promotion of early skills can indeed have its rewards. I really wish that my HS had required me to take some sort of advanced computing class (besides the standard "this is a mouse" class).
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Hypothetical Situation based around 40BC:
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Due to the overwhelming popularity of the recent appearence of the Son of God, we here at JesusOne are offering something completely off the bandwagon of the newly founded Chriatian Community: Christ Soap.
It is a revolutionary new concept in bathing experience. All of your sins can be washed away with one shower with Christ Soap.
end of parody
Now do you see why people are a little upset with the LinuxOne IPO. They are cashing in on the naive people who think that everything that Linux touches turns to gold. Linux is a great operating system, and yes our "community" is a bit fanatical about how our beliefs are used and shared. If someone went out and bastardized the name of Jesus Christ then you can bet that the Bible Belt would speak up about this. Along with the Catholic Church and many other "communities." When someone tries to take advantage of our sense of identity and use it for a purpose that we feel is not within the bounds of our personal beliefs, then we call foul.
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This is a couple of questions all relating to one:
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1) what happened to the laptops? You all had them for sale, then stopped. I may have missed the reason, but could you restate the reason that you stopped selling laptops?
2) are you going to sell them again? If so, when? If not, why?
As a side note, (IMHO) I think that it would be a very good idea to start selling them again. From a business standpoint, if you can get IT managers more mobile without the hassle of setting up often incompatible laptop h/w on a schweet Linux laptop, there would be a lot of happy geeks out there, myself included.
Also, thanks for helping out the community.
eric
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will we EVER be able to moderate him down???- ---
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I think that I was one of the many skeptics that were around when I found out that Red Hat was going public. As many people thought (my self being one of them), there was a genuine fear that Red Hat was in it purely for the sake of making LOTS of money. I think that Red Hat is making some good moves that are very true to the heart of the Open Source / Free Software movement. While simply throwing money at a problem / issue is not always the solution, I think that Red Hat is doing more than just that. They are not only providing monetary incentives for people to program in OSS projects, but they are spawning more resources. As one of the earlier posts mentioned, as long as they don't make it "Red Hat centric" I think that the benefit of having Red Hat on the side of the OSS/FS could be astronomical. There is definately some potential there. This is a move that I see as very encouraging. It also shows me that Red Hat is not out there to assimilate the market place, but to make it better.- ---
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...despite this rather dismal post. Compared to last year the improvement in the representation of Linux/BSD/OpenSource was incredible.
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-last year the Linux "pavillion" was in the basement of the Sands Expo Center. The Sands to me was where the Comdex people put all of those who either didn't matter, or weren't important to the show. It was a bunch of vendors with mediocore products.
-last year Linux was hardly a blip on the COMDEX radar (thus the wonderful location in the basement of the sands)
-most of the booths looked like 6th grade science fair projects. They were small, had very few people there to answer questions and they were unimpressive.
-Compare that to this year where Linux/BSD/OpenSource had its own section in the COMDEX handout, it had its own sponsors, it had a very nice convention space (albeit off the main floor)
I walked through the Linux Business Expo and felt a sense of pride. I felt that the community was being recognized. We weren't on the main floor, but we were in a convention center that was very close to the main convention center (as opposed to the Sands which was a long walk). In fact I parked at the LV Convention Center and walked (didn't feel like paying $20 to park at the Hilton vs $5 at the LVCC).
The thing to keep in mind is that we are a growing community, we cannot expect to be recognized immediately. While I feel the frustrations of not having vendor support, we are still making a name for ourselves. Microsoft has assimilated the minds of many of the people that we would like to have on our side of the revolution. The key is to free those minds and to show them that we have a product that is as good, and actually better than what they are currently working on.
I think that a round of polite and poignant (sp?) letters to some of these vendors might get them to at least look at Linux/BSD/OpenSource as a viable alternative. Don't give up yet fellas
Eric
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I think that all of the above comments are written by ignorant fools. (typical of the average slashdot reader) I think that they read the first paragraph and then made their mind up on that piece. I actually laughed my A$$ off at the paragraph stating all of the m$ stuff that he and his family uses.
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Hey slashdot people read the whole thing and learn all of the news before you open your mouth. This was a piece of sarcasm, that was right on the money, unless of course you are a borg. Eric
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Dont get me wrong, these people have done an incredible job, and without their big ideas on how to make things work Free Software would not be anywhere near where it would be today. I am a huge fan of ESR (I am NOT a member of the secret Eric Conspiracy group ;) ), I am only starting on reading about RMS, I am using Perl more and more, I am on the emacs side of the fence (even use it for winders), I think that gcc/g++ are the most convenient and complete compilers ever made (even if they are a little slow)....I think that you get the point..- ----
However I just wanted to give credit to the people who have taken these big ideas from the big people and expanded upon them and really pushed the meaning of FREE/OPEN Software. It is the open source community...that was where I wanted to put the emphasis, not on taking credit away from the people you mentioned (and others).
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I don't know about you, but I only see maybe 15 -20 names on this page, and afterall it is the people of the open source community that have made it the success that it is. If it weren't for their hard work (much of it in their free time), and their blatant fanatacism about creating things that work and are free then there would be no open source / free software movement. I think that it is funny when a big star wins an award and they say "I'd like to thank all the people who made this happen..." Why not actaully give an award to the people who actually DID make this happen for once instaead of just some figure head. That's my $2*(10^-2) worth.- --
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I think that it would be a great idea if everyone just all at once said "Screw crypto laws," but the reality is - Kevin Mitnick. The gov't would take in some oddball schmuck so that the "hacker" (cringe) community would take notice. We would have another myrtar on our hands and still no resolution. The government is the only authourity in this country with a monopoly on power, if the people try to take away that power, they will essentially hold a public execution. They made the laws, so who better to go above them. This is why our country is crap - we have laws made by people who know little to nothing about the necessity of good security and the importance of cryptography. If people start disobeying the laws, then an example must be set. The gov't uses its power to set this example. :)
( warning , shameless Microsoft slandering ahead) Of course if crypto did get thrown out, then M$ would develop yet another program to overthrow MP3....I think that would would be a good crack for distributed.net
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looks like panix.com did just that...I am guessing that manglefish is getting panixed 30 times over.
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YAACWHBBBM$ (yet another AC who has been brainwashed by M$)
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WOW, so Microsoft can take someone else's designs and (feebly)attempt to improve on them. Lets take a closer look shall we, sports fans?
Expedia: Well, I'll be damned if it isnt Travelocity.com with a powered by M$ sticker on it.
MSNBC: wait a minute, you mean that M$ does the news too? I seriously doubt that they would ever put a spin on anything on that channel. It's called mindshare...any place that they can put their name into they will. Last I checked M$ is a bunch of programmers and marketing people, they are not reporters. They bought a station and a website so that people would recognize the M$ name.
Slate: The stuff that they forgot to put into the MSNBC channel
Carpoint: Wow, another original M$ idea, selling cars on the internet. A search on Altavista for "car dealers" only returns 28,416 returns. Another M$ original production.
Who cares about Sidesquawk and all the other M$ crap that they have crea^H^H^Hcopied. The point of the article in this is that M$'s brainwashed little boy that they planted inside of SGI failed in his conquest to assimilate them. So now M$ is taking him back for reprogramming and is probably going to send him out again in a couple of months once the brainwashing is complete.
If you are going to post about proM$ stuff, check you references, M$ is NOT #1 in those websites. If you are going to get something wrong, at least get it right.
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I am taking an operating systems course. For the first 3/4 of the book they talk about theory behind OS's and different techniques. The last 1/4 of the class is spent studying specific OSs and how they implement the theory. We look at UNIX, Linux and NT. The first paragraph pretty much sums it up in the NT section, they say something to the extent of -NT moved some critical portions of the OS into the kernel, while the lead to enormous speed increases over NT3.1, it caused for a serious lack of stability issues in NT4. (end semi quote)
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I wish I had that verbatum, if I find it I will post it later on (always cite your sources boys and girls).
Anyways, as I was saying, you wil find that when you get to college you will play with Linux more. Not because it is better and blah blah blah, but because it is open source. You wouldn't become a doctor by looking at screen shots of the inside of a human body would you? I certainly hope not. Personally I think that it is better and more educational to have an open source OS, so that we can dabble on the inside of the OS and learn from the mistakes of our predecessors (yes even Linux is not perfect....it is close though)
I am getting off topic now, but....
If itterrations of M$ OSs are getting faster, but less reliable, then how does M$ expect to move up in the server market? Win2k demonstrated that it is not the answer. Linux definately has a place, and it is getting a lot more press lately than in past months (it is OK to give Red Hat some credit on this one - they made the first big step towards funding their ad campaign). It is only a matter of time before the mindshare changes, and with win2k faltering and (dare I say it) on the ropes, it is time for someone to step up and give the knockout blow.
sometimes I sound a little too much like Katz...weird.
Eric
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....ecause it is a little bit faster than my Jeep Wrangler will go - which is a measley 1.85*10^(-7)c (assuming that it goes 120MPH downhill with a tail wind).
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Call it evolution, call it adaptation, call it what you will. I personally call it life. To me they all are terms for the same thing. The weak traits die out and the strong traits survive. It is not always the prettiest way to handle things, but it works. How do I know that it works? If it didn't would life have continued, and even propigated on this planet for the last billion or so years? I think that the answer to that is obvious.-
I am a little offended that people refuse to teach evolution in the classroom. That means that they are not promoting the education of life. I guess that they expect man to handle all evolution, after all that is what people are preached to about day after day. "Man is dominant. It is man's duty to take over the world." I disagree, but apparently there are some people in KAnsas who disagree with me. Alas, what a truly blind world we live in. Check out this book, it is very interesting: "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn - it will change the way you look at man.
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I havn't tried Xfig, so I can't speak on behalf of that one. But I too would love to see a vectored/OO drawing program for Linux. I am a big fan of Macromedia's Freehand (I use AI a lot too, but Freehand suits me just fine - not trying to start another holy war here :) ) and would love to see something like that implemented in Linux. I feel that GIMP is a more than adequate tool for image manipulation, however like most people I find that the UI gets a little awkward, especially for an old school Photoshop user. Like some of the above mentioned problems (layer movement / floating selection) are where I get frustrated. I find that GIMP tends to have great basic features and great advanced feature(awesome filters/scripts), but seems to lack some of the intermediate features IMHO (I can never tell the size of a selected area). I have considered getting some sort of book to help with some of the minor discrepencies that I have, and it sounds like this is a good one. Cheers- --
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The "utter reality" is that microsoft has two reasons going for it, neither of which is going to make them last in the long haul. Reason number one: Microsoft was there first. They have been aroun dlonger than Linux (or most any other current OS for that matter) and have made name recognition a strong point for themselves. Reason number two: Microsoft has spent milions (if not billions) of dollars in marketing to support reason number one. Look at Ford, do you think that people buy their cars because they are quality cars and will last. No, they were there first (orgy porgy Henry Ford) and they have spent a lot of money keeping their name in front of the consumer. :)
I think of Linux as the Import car, it doesn't need all the money to convince the consumer, it sells because of reputation. I am not trying to start a car debate here, I am trying to show a simple analogy.
I am sure that as Linux gains in popularity there will be a lot of people switching over to it. However there will still be some people that are going to be suckers for a good marketing campaign and will stick with their windows. That is fine, because we all know where the tow trucks make more of their money from break downs....(its not on the imports.)
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I am sure that, like most college aged people who easily fill the shoes of the "GEEK" definition, there are others out there who have computers in their room. I would be less than impressed if my roommate had a computer that had a flood light on the front of it. I typically turn off my monitor before I go to bed because my mouse is REALLY sensitive and it has been known to kill the screen saver with just the radio at medium volume. If I had a computer in my room that the flood light on the front came on every time that the mouse polled an interrupt I would get a little annoyed- ---
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There was an article in our paper (Saturday's Las Vegas Review Journal for those interested - don't know if there is a link to it) the day after I saw it. I kept wondering if this was based on actual events or if it was a well concocted piece of fiction (kinda like the War of the Worlds sort of thing) It turns out that after the movie was pre-released in select cities a lot of people decided to go up to the City formerly known as Blair to inquire about it. Turns out that nobody in the town has heard of it and it was completely a work of fiction. HAD ME FOOLED!!! I went to the website and checked out the interviews and all of the extra follow up stuff that was there and really thought that this was based on actualy events. If I am wrong on this please let me know, but the article in the paper lead me to believe otherwise. If you could provide a link or newspaper article supporting this it would be coo'. :)
Excelent movie though, I found it to be long, but it built nicely for the SUPER CLIMACTIC ending. 9/10 starts from me
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There was an article in our paper (Saturday's Las Vegas Review Journal for those interested - don't know if there is a link to it) the day after I saw it. I kept wondering if this was based on actual events or if it was a well concocted piece of fiction (kinda like the War of the Worlds sort of thing) It turns out that after the movie was pre-released in select cities a lot of people decided to go up to the City formerly known as Blair to inquire about it. Turns out that nobody in the town has heard of it and it was completely a work of fiction. HAD ME FOOLED!!! I went to the website and checked out the interviews and all of the extra follow up stuff that was there and really thought that this was based on actualy events. If I am wrong on this please let me know, but the article in the paper lead me to believe otherwise. If you could provide a link or newspaper article supporting this it would be coo'. :)
Excelent move though, I found it to be long, but it built nicely for the SUPER CLIMACTIC ending. 9/10 starts from me
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