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While I understand these restrictions are supposed to be in place. Can some one tell me why I keep getting mail from insurance companies offering me insurance to pay off my mortgage if I lose my job, get injured, etc. There mailings include the mortgage loan ammount ! I pretty sure they had to get it from the bank.
NCSU is about 30 minutes away from Duke. I know they have had labs of Linux machines for many many years, and RedHat HQ is actually on the NCSU campus.
So please someone at NCSU comment on the break down of OS's in labs.
Basiclly I think this is done because the effect of doing it is that US currency now has the reputation of being as safe or safer than gold.
In the US when people are scared of market collapse they buy gold. But in many parts of the world people buy $$'s. In the long run this is good for the US (I think).
The dollor is the prefered assest of drug dealers, terrorists, and other organized crime. Although some are switching to the Euro because of the higher value Euro notes means you can store more money in a breif case!
But I'm glad it finnally got more exposure, because poor service from large companies needs all the bad press we can give it. Sadly its the only way they will be motivated to improve, which is good for us all.
North Carolina has law that basiclly limits such contracts to pertaining to work for hire done on company equipment, and company time. That trumps the contract.
In other states IBM get rights to anything you do anywhere, anyhow, etc. Not in NC.
Just another reason NC is better that CA and the Yankee kingdom up north!
All of the ways some one can use to steel your identity, and the fact that it doesn't happen more often (enough to cripple our Credit card supported economy), is in my mind proof that people are basiclly good.
On any given day most people probably provide their credit cards to 2 or 3 other people/companies/machines.
I am > 30 years old and born and spent ~ 99.7% of that time I have spent in the US. But the 3 days I was in the UK I watched cashiers check for fake bills more than all the time I have been in the US.
Here I have seen cashiers check maybe about 20 times, in my life. Granted half of those were in the last 2 or 3 years, so maybe it is becoming SLIGHTLY more commen.
Or maybe cashiers are just confused these days when they see cash, and are just trying to remember what it is....
If you don't like they cost, just pirate it. Oh, wait, you wanted support didn't you?
My problem with Oracle's licensing is that EVERY time I have looked at it, it has changed (it has been 2 or 3 years since I last looked). And it seem to confuse everyone, including their sells folks.
Sun - Has had a rocky love/hate relationship with Linux since the early days.
Dell - Sells Linux, but isn't very vocal about it.
Cisco - Every print server in Cisco has been a linux server for years. (Probably close to a decade now.)
EMC - Many of their compeditors are using Linux as the heart of their new storage products in the low and medium end of the SAN/NAS/I-scsi market.
Really don't know about the rest of the Alliance companies, which doesn't appear to include Oracle. I would be suprised if Oracle were a party to this as Oracle has in recent years become a big Linux cheerleader. Oracle pushes Linux over Solaris on a regular basis.
Sun's chips will have eight cores while Intel and AMD are talking about dual-cores: Finannly Sun will have a chip that is comparable to AMD Opteron in performance!
Given the clock rate difference between AMD/Intel processors and the Sparc line, it will take a 4x parallelism for Sun to beable to hold their own.:-)
Ok lets face it, 98.9% of the time these decisions are made by either the OS, the compiler, or the VM. Very few programmers out there are really capable of making these decisions, and even fewer work in an environment where they are allowed to make them.
This is of interest to the OS developers, the compiler developers, and people who work on Beowolf Clusters.
Uses who are running an application mix with a lot of different threads (or processes) will see a benefit as well.
That mindset leads to lazy programmers who A - Can't optimize to save their jobs; and B - Don't actually understand what multithreading really does.
I always thought Microsoft's Visual"X" developer products did the same thing. That is they lead to lazy (and often unskilled) programmers who A - Can't optimize to save their jobs; and B - Can't debug to save their jobs either.
About 7 years ago a co-worker held up a dat tape and said "Never under estimate the bandwidth of FedEx". That was after 3 days of failed attempts to ftp a tar file about the size of a DVD movie. With netflix you could say "never underestimate the bandwith of the postal service." The point is still the same.
Each of the 6 stars of freinds were paid $1,000,000 per episode the last season. Assuming all the 100's of other people worked for free, that would be 6 episodes of freinds.
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While I understand these restrictions are supposed to be in place. Can some one tell me why I keep getting mail from insurance companies offering me insurance to pay off my mortgage if I lose my job, get injured, etc. There mailings include the mortgage loan ammount ! I pretty sure they had to get it from the bank.
So please someone at NCSU comment on the break down of OS's in labs.
Frankly I wouldn't be suprised if that alone wouldn't regect 70% of applications.
Also for more info, read this link: http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba280.html
In the US when people are scared of market collapse they buy gold. But in many parts of the world people buy $$'s. In the long run this is good for the US (I think).
The dollor is the prefered assest of drug dealers, terrorists, and other organized crime. Although some are switching to the Euro because of the higher value Euro notes means you can store more money in a breif case!
But I'm glad it finnally got more exposure, because poor service from large companies needs all the bad press we can give it. Sadly its the only way they will be motivated to improve, which is good for us all.
Read the subject line....
It helps to add special effects from StarWars.
In other states IBM get rights to anything you do anywhere, anyhow, etc. Not in NC.
Just another reason NC is better that CA and the Yankee kingdom up north!
If not for the bad spelling I would have thought real news had made it through the April Fools foder.... :-)
I would never buy a product with a brand name of XPlode. (Well maybe if my field were in demolition or in the military I might.)
He is right the "Author is on crack" only he didn't mention he was talking about himself. (The Author of the post.)
I agree, if I owned a company I'd be buying mac mini's like hot cakes....
On any given day most people probably provide their credit cards to 2 or 3 other people/companies/machines.
Are their any machines sold where the default isn't to automaticly boot from CD? I mean how would those damn "windows restore" CD's work then?
With windose you could probably set the auto run to automaticly reboot into Linux.
Here I have seen cashiers check maybe about 20 times, in my life. Granted half of those were in the last 2 or 3 years, so maybe it is becoming SLIGHTLY more commen.
Or maybe cashiers are just confused these days when they see cash, and are just trying to remember what it is....
My problem with Oracle's licensing is that EVERY time I have looked at it, it has changed (it has been 2 or 3 years since I last looked). And it seem to confuse everyone, including their sells folks.
I sign all digitizers as Mickey Mouse, with a date.
Really don't know about the rest of the Alliance companies, which doesn't appear to include Oracle. I would be suprised if Oracle were a party to this as Oracle has in recent years become a big Linux cheerleader. Oracle pushes Linux over Solaris on a regular basis.
The "Not Oracle" posting needs a score of +5.
Given the clock rate difference between AMD/Intel processors and the Sparc line, it will take a 4x parallelism for Sun to beable to hold their own. :-)
50% funny and more than 50% true
Ok lets face it, 98.9% of the time these decisions are made by either the OS, the compiler, or the VM. Very few programmers out there are really capable of making these decisions, and even fewer work in an environment where they are allowed to make them.
This is of interest to the OS developers, the compiler developers, and people who work on Beowolf Clusters.
Uses who are running an application mix with a lot of different threads (or processes) will see a benefit as well.
I always thought Microsoft's Visual"X" developer products did the same thing. That is they lead to lazy (and often unskilled) programmers who A - Can't optimize to save their jobs; and B - Can't debug to save their jobs either.
About 7 years ago a co-worker held up a dat tape and said "Never under estimate the bandwidth of FedEx". That was after 3 days of failed attempts to ftp a tar file about the size of a DVD movie. With netflix you could say "never underestimate the bandwith of the postal service." The point is still the same.
Each of the 6 stars of freinds were paid $1,000,000 per episode the last season. Assuming all the 100's of other people worked for free, that would be 6 episodes of freinds.