Dumb idea. Whether you love Notes or hate it, open sourcing it would just be dumb when there's already 800 engineers working on it inside IBM.
I've worked for IBM in the past. IBM has some very smart people, but also plenty of idiots. I wouldn't assume that 800 programmers = 800 average-or-better programmers.
Ya, real democracy, wonderful. So that a 90% Christian nation can impose its morals on everyone. No, we need to remove blue laws, not give people the chance to make more. Our republic is supposed to be setup so that the majority can't run roughshod over minorities. Democracy is nothing more than codified mob rule.
Look around yourself. Do you really believe that 90% of the people you see are serious Christians? I suspect that 90% of the people who self-identify as Christians are BS'ing for various reasons.
I think the problem with your idea is that it while it would add to the internal busy-ness of our country, and to our own entertainment, you haven't listed anything that would help us with international trade.
I think with our unimaginably huge year-to-year trading deficits, we should focus on building infrastructure that actually helps our country get out of foreign debt, which means the investments should help us produce products or services that other countries want, or let us produce products/services for ourselves that we currently buy from overseas.
As for responding to that clown on your last day, I tend to say something along the lines of "your approval is neither sought nor required" in such a situation.
-jcr
It's too bad circumstances have led you to have a "tend to" regarding this kind of conversation.
When the metro newspapers finally figure out that a lot of folks actually like non-national stories again, they may be able to save themselves. Uniqueness and specialization are the drivers of everything online. Just running AP feeds will NOT bring in quality revenue.
If that's true, then do you have a theory for why newspapers, which have been racking their brains non-stop regarding this crisis, haven't latched onto the local-coverage solution?
If you're theory is correct, then I would expect a few newspapers to have tried it, made lots more money (or lost much less) then the others, and then every other paper would flock to the local-coverage approach.
Even if poor local coverage is an area where newspapers can get better, it may not be enough. Papers are also hurting baldy from the loss of classified ads, real estate listings, and car ads, all of which are migrating to the web (i.e., craigslist). The truth is, the web is just a better advertising medium than printed paper for most/all of those items and services. And newspapers really need ad revenue as well as subscription revenue.
This issue scares me. We need more, not fewer, journalists to watch over our government and businesses.
Hopefully, people will eventually realize that one way or another, we need to pay for reporting to get done.
My fear is that we won't realize that, and figure out a way to pay for it, until too late. That is, until legions of seasoned investigative journalists have left for greener pastures, and many good journalism schools have been shut down.
I really like the benefits of Linux, and I think that given a little more time to mature, it could really take off with less-technical users. I wouldn't mind Windows 7 sucking just to give Linux a bit more of an incubation period.
(And, given the things MS has pulled in the past, I still think it's got a big karma deficit to work off. I'm still overwhelmed with a sense of schadenfreude against MS.)
So could this thing power my house for about five hours when a power line gets cut? If so, that might not be a bad investment for the house, depending on cost, of course.
This is a little morbid, but if you want to see a bunch of journalists wringing their hands about this, recriminating each other and their "stupid, greedy" employers for the downfall of newspapers, etc., look here:
Generally what I've done is preferred Intel for my work laptops, because I wanted to good quality of the Intel open source drivers.
But on my home computers, which I sometimes use for gaming in Linux and/or Windows, it's really a choice between nVidia and ATI. I don't care much wether I use the open or closed source drivers on those cards, as long as they work well.
The problem for now seems to be that at least in KDE 4, nVidia's closed drivers aren't a good match for the implementation of KDE 4, but ATI is okay.
That's a bit of a reversal from past years when the ATI linux drivers (both open and closed) were far behind the functionality and speed of nVidia's closed drivers. So the question in my mind, when buying new hardware, is whether ATI's current lead in driver quality is a long-term trend as well.
But in all seriousness, I agred with your point. It seems like their Linux drivers have taken a shit compared to previous releases. Personally for me, I have a lot of artifacting issues in KDE4 that are apparently related directly to nVidia's drivers from what I've read.
Performance issues, by any chance? I've been baffled why my KDE 4 performance is so terrible compared to my Gnome performance, and I have a reasonable nVidia notebook chip (Quadro NVS 140M).
A lot of the forums have similar complaints, but most people seem to indicate that their problems went away with the 177.80 drivers, which I have installed.
I was hoping the forthcoming nVidia driver will help, but from how people are talking, I've got to wonder if it's even wise to install it when it's released.
With Pearl Harbor, the civilians living in Hawaii could see the smoking ships and Japanese bombers. Newspaper reporters could do interviews.
With cyber-warfare, none of the relevant parties will typically admit what's going on. It's also hard to know whom to counter-attack. - Attack source locations can be spoofed. - (Relatively) innocent people's computers can be taken over and used in an attack. - Victims are often unwilling to admit they've been attacked. - Unlike Pearl Harbor, the attack can be perpetrated by jerky private citizens or criminal organizations within (or across) a country. It's always been hard to decide whether or not to hold a country's government responsible for that country's criminals. (For example, terrorists trained in Pakistan, or suicide bombers trained in Iran.)
And for some reason, the U.S. government often takes a surprisingly passive role when China acts aggressively towards it. So we're unlikely to see the U.S. government hold a press conference showing evidence that China has been intentionally attacking U.S. business and military networks. Not that we'd believe a statement like that until January 21, 2009 anyway.
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Model M was awesome. (Way) back in the day I thought typing code quickly was the same as being a good programmer.
Making my keyboard sound like a machine gun convinced me that I was God's gift to high-school programmers.
A friend of mine wants to know what keyboard would be the best for watching p0rn.
Dumb idea. Whether you love Notes or hate it, open sourcing it would just be dumb when there's already 800 engineers working on it inside IBM.
I've worked for IBM in the past. IBM has some very smart people, but also plenty of idiots. I wouldn't assume that 800 programmers = 800 average-or-better programmers.
Ya, real democracy, wonderful. So that a 90% Christian nation can impose its morals on everyone. No, we need to remove blue laws, not give people the chance to make more. Our republic is supposed to be setup so that the majority can't run roughshod over minorities. Democracy is nothing more than codified mob rule.
Look around yourself. Do you really believe that 90% of the people you see are serious Christians? I suspect that 90% of the people who self-identify as Christians are BS'ing for various reasons.
I think the problem with your idea is that it while it would add to the internal busy-ness of our country, and to our own entertainment, you haven't listed anything that would help us with international trade.
I think with our unimaginably huge year-to-year trading deficits, we should focus on building infrastructure that actually helps our country get out of foreign debt, which means the investments should help us produce products or services that other countries want, or let us produce products/services for ourselves that we currently buy from overseas.
Yeah, a bunch of Hamas guys in Palestine followed that career path last week, and look where it got them.
Worst. Bubble. Ever.
As for responding to that clown on your last day, I tend to say something along the lines of "your approval is neither sought nor required" in such a situation.
-jcr
It's too bad circumstances have led you to have a "tend to" regarding this kind of conversation.
> Not to be pedantic, but rendered webpages containing news are also physical publications.
Let me know when you figure a way to line your bird cage and wrap fish with a rendered page, thanks.
Or, if you wanted a real answer, here it is. If a rendered webpage isn't physical, then how does it make an impression on your retinas?
> Not to be pedantic, but rendered webpages containing news are also physical publications.
Let me know when you figure a way to line your bird cage and wrap fish with a rendered page, thanks.
Believe me, after visiting foxnews.com, I have top men working on it.
Indianna Jones: who?
Top. Men.
The quick and the easy = AP, Reuters
The long and difficult = Local Reportage
When the metro newspapers finally figure out that a lot of folks actually like non-national stories again, they may be able to save themselves. Uniqueness and specialization are the drivers of everything online. Just running AP feeds will NOT bring in quality revenue.
If that's true, then do you have a theory for why newspapers, which have been racking their brains non-stop regarding this crisis, haven't latched onto the local-coverage solution?
If you're theory is correct, then I would expect a few newspapers to have tried it, made lots more money (or lost much less) then the others, and then every other paper would flock to the local-coverage approach.
Even if poor local coverage is an area where newspapers can get better, it may not be enough. Papers are also hurting baldy from the loss of classified ads, real estate listings, and car ads, all of which are migrating to the web (i.e., craigslist). The truth is, the web is just a better advertising medium than printed paper for most/all of those items and services. And newspapers really need ad revenue as well as subscription revenue.
This issue scares me. We need more, not fewer, journalists to watch over our government and businesses.
Hopefully, people will eventually realize that one way or another, we need to pay for reporting to get done.
My fear is that we won't realize that, and figure out a way to pay for it, until too late. That is, until legions of seasoned investigative journalists have left for greener pastures, and many good journalism schools have been shut down.
Not to be pedantic, but rendered webpages containing news are also physical publications.
I really like the benefits of Linux, and I think that given a little more time to mature, it could really take off with less-technical users. I wouldn't mind Windows 7 sucking just to give Linux a bit more of an incubation period.
(And, given the things MS has pulled in the past, I still think it's got a big karma deficit to work off. I'm still overwhelmed with a sense of schadenfreude against MS.)
My house = 100 amps (max) * 110V = 11 kW.
So could this thing power my house for about five hours when a power line gets cut? If so, that might not be a bad investment for the house, depending on cost, of course.
This is a little morbid, but if you want to see a bunch of journalists wringing their hands about this, recriminating each other and their "stupid, greedy" employers for the downfall of newspapers, etc., look here:
Angry Journalist.
A hitherto unknown scientist offers an easy solution to greenhouse gases that's actually going to wipe out humanity?
Where's the Doctor???
Generally what I've done is preferred Intel for my work laptops, because I wanted to good quality of the Intel open source drivers.
But on my home computers, which I sometimes use for gaming in Linux and/or Windows, it's really a choice between nVidia and ATI. I don't care much wether I use the open or closed source drivers on those cards, as long as they work well.
The problem for now seems to be that at least in KDE 4, nVidia's closed drivers aren't a good match for the implementation of KDE 4, but ATI is okay.
That's a bit of a reversal from past years when the ATI linux drivers (both open and closed) were far behind the functionality and speed of nVidia's closed drivers. So the question in my mind, when buying new hardware, is whether ATI's current lead in driver quality is a long-term trend as well.
But in all seriousness, I agred with your point. It seems like their Linux drivers have taken a shit compared to previous releases. Personally for me, I have a lot of artifacting issues in KDE4 that are apparently related directly to nVidia's drivers from what I've read.
Performance issues, by any chance? I've been baffled why my KDE 4 performance is so terrible compared to my Gnome performance, and I have a reasonable nVidia notebook chip (Quadro NVS 140M).
A lot of the forums have similar complaints, but most people seem to indicate that their problems went away with the 177.80 drivers, which I have installed.
I was hoping the forthcoming nVidia driver will help, but from how people are talking, I've got to wonder if it's even wise to install it when it's released.
I've still been buying nVidia for my Linux boxes. Is ATI finally a better choice?
Can we somehow turn the extra energy coming through that hole into electricity? If so, can regular solar panels do it?
I was going to joke that a game I've wanted to work in Wine for a long time, Astral Masters, will still not work, but in a more glorious way.
But that joke felt petty. The truth is, these guys have pulled of something pretty amazing. Congrats, guys.
You're doing a heck of a job, Griffie!
ensuring them a light source at all times.
Except those 90 seconds.
In which you will be eaten by a grue.
I come on. Is it really that likely?
Shakespear worded that better.
With Pearl Harbor, the civilians living in Hawaii could see the smoking ships and Japanese bombers. Newspaper reporters could do interviews.
With cyber-warfare, none of the relevant parties will typically admit what's going on. It's also hard to know whom to counter-attack.
- Attack source locations can be spoofed.
- (Relatively) innocent people's computers can be taken over and used in an attack.
- Victims are often unwilling to admit they've been attacked.
- Unlike Pearl Harbor, the attack can be perpetrated by jerky private citizens or criminal organizations within (or across) a country. It's always been hard to decide whether or not to hold a country's government responsible for that country's criminals. (For example, terrorists trained in Pakistan, or suicide bombers trained in Iran.)
And for some reason, the U.S. government often takes a surprisingly passive role when China acts aggressively towards it. So we're unlikely to see the U.S. government hold a press conference showing evidence that China has been intentionally attacking U.S. business and military networks. Not that we'd believe a statement like that until January 21, 2009 anyway.