Recently we launched a statement of direction - Open Source Architecture for the enterprise. As more large customers move to distributed computing architectures, firms will want to leverage the flexibility and independence a integrated stack can create for a business. Our product line is being built through the delivery of software sold modularly. For example, our cluster suite.
I don't think you're allowed to use the Dilbert mission statement generator in an interview.
Well, my initial thought was that it should be called "Propeller Beanie", but given the short and unhappy history of Fedora Linux thus far, I think "Crash Helmet" is probably more appropriate.
Yeah, but does this make it safe enough to operate without a secondary coolant loop? I just cringe seeing all those turbines in the primary coolant loop. That's a lot of places to leak.
Also- what's the deal with no internal control rods? Is the idea behnid the design to replace fuel density with moderation (making the few neutrons that are produced more likely to sustain reaction), and using control rods in the graphite structure to control how much it moderates the reaction?
And you missed the Linux security holes, and the Mac Updates in the past month while installing that printer as well.
Code Red, SQL slammer, etc. etc. etc. were NOT security holes. They were major worldwide security events. Nothing in any other platform has come close.
You must have also missed Windows2k and WindowsXP, where the BSOD of has become virtually extinct.
Well, you got me there. Win2k gives you error boxes on its way to crash and burn, XP just reboots instead of showing you the error.
I think Microsoft sucks half the time, but I also see a lot of good things they have brought to the industry.
Agreed on both points. But that is a far cry from the statement "The NT code base, especially since Win2k is very secure..."
How can I respond to someone that thinks Windows is crap and evil. I won't convince you based on my knowledge or experience or independent facts, no matter how many times I type them.
Which would be zero so far.
But I'm sure your installation of Windows95 four years ago or botched Win2k installation is the definitive proof that Windows sucks and I can't compete with that.
Yes. I am singlehandedly responsible for the acronym "BSOD". And I'm sure that public knowledge of the latest round of Microsoft mega-viruses is soley due to my inability to get a USB printer working.
The NT code base, especially since Win2k is very secure...
That statement isn't true. I've used windows, you've used windows. I know it's not true, and you know it's not true. It goes well beyond bordering on the absurd.
Given that anyone who reads this and who have used windows know that it's bullshit, I wonder what it is you are hoping to accomplish. Do you really think this is 1994, and decisionmakers are still completely ignorant to reality, wandering listlessly through trade mags and newsgroups trying to come up with information on which to base a purchasing decision?
So I wonder, why are devices like Hubble not built to be retooled - built with some type of standard socket connections so batteries, comupters, lenses, etc. could be more easily upgraded by swapping out major units and bolting them together on a frame just like a computer?
AFAIK, it is. I know that they've replaced several modules on it, particularly on the "eyepiece" side of the system, and I think they've also replaced several mission-critical components such as reaction wheels. Hubble's real problem is that we've come up with other ways of getting the resolution formerly possible only with space-based solutions.
I'd like very much for them to recover the telescope, but the question that plagues the future of manned space exploration - Is it worth risking lives - will prevent us from ever seeing Hubble in a museum.
It would be good to educate them on good morals, things of character and integrity rather than on bad symptoms that come from poor character and integrity.
How, exactly, does this concept play into pornography? Given that one is not married and therefore has not made a commitment with regard to their sexual appetite, what is really wrong with it? I can hear the answer now - it's pornography! Yeah, I know, but what is actually really wrong with it?
I teach my kids not to view pornography for the same reason I tell them not to use marijuana- because they are illegal (it is actually impossible to view internet porn and not accidentally acquire illegal images), not because I personally believe those behaviors have any affect on their character.
This is exactly why slashdot is fucked up. Flamebait != saying something that might be offensive. It's saying something that is extremely, obviously, and deliberately offensive. If someone's choice of words is poor or otherwise not to your liking, the idea is not to mod it up.
Ack! Eschew the green gnu! Friends don't let friends use mouseover events, but if you must put a mouseover event on the gnu, at least do something fun with it, like make his eyes glow red.
Sure, becoming the #1 company in the world and the richest man on earth just proves your point, doesn't it?:-)
Are you suggesting that the users, writers, and adherents of free software are trying to accomplish those things? Your argument to someone considering free software instead of Microsoft is that Microsoft will make more money if they do?
If a developer leaves behind a bug, is he required to fix it without pay, or does he get paid to fix it?
I guess my point is that if a developer leaves behind a bug, people will choose to use other software. Moreover, the history of free software does not demonstrate the need for an artificial economy of quality - free software is already consistently better than that produced by the commercial marketplace. The point about user focus can be made, however, which is why I addressed it.
Here's a question - if you construct a market with arbitrary, artificial rules, such as "software developers paid for code should be required to debug it to perfection" or "you should have to pay every time you listen to a song", is it actually a free market? Figure out a way to answer that question truthfully, and you'll be a millionaire in the next economy.
The OCM introduces into the Free/Open Source movement an economic incentive, to help align the priorities of Free/Open Source developers with those of the end users.
The one thing Microsoft has done well is focus on end users. They are able to hock woefully inferior file, database, and mail server solutions because they make sure that Word's macro engine can cook your breakfast for you if you want it to. If users want a feature, it will be in the release product - performance, stability, and security be damned.
I don't necessarily think we should follow MS in this regard. It doesn't seem to have really worked out for them. Let's focus on what is really attracting people to free software - choice.
The real problem is that people freak when you use the words "nuclear" or "radioactive". Maybe we should call them "magic" batteries?
Are you still using archaic and dangerous chemcial reaction batteries to power your personal electronic devices? Depending on dangerous chemical reactions can have disastrous consequences... (insert video of lithium being thrown into a lake here)... and because chemical reactions are very ineffecient, they can have a negative impact on the environment and your sanity...(insert video of frustrated cellphone user dropping a call due to a dead battery)...
But now, thanks to new patented Microparticle (tm) technology, you can get more from your batteries, and get it more safely. Batteries derive their power from energetic particles (...insert video of dots floating around inside a rectangle...) but with out new patented Microparticle design (...zoom back to half-screen, add a new rectangle with many more tiny dots, pulsating happily...), you can get up to 6.023X1023 times more particles! And without any harmful chemicals!
Try it risk-free today, and keep our free gift - the stick-o-matic antenna booster - guaranteed to keep harmful high energy RF radiation away from you - even if you decide not to buy! Call now!
...Federal Aviation Administration's Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
Now that's what I call a job title. But are we setting a dangerous precedent here with regard to FAA authority? Do they have full authority of all known space farther than 6370km from Earth's core?
Running a MAIL SERVER has fuck all to do with running Outlook. Have you used spambayes?
A NASA engineer need not have ridden a tricycle to understand the physics of its use. Using Outlook in no place or time imparts any technical credibility to you whatsoever.
The fact is that the myth has been perpetuated by "gurus", such I yourself, I venture, who don't know how to actually solve problems and say "format Windows, it fucks itself after a couple of months".
That's a good line. Are you guys finding that anyone buys it yet?
Bayesian training: What is SO hard about pressing the "This is spam" button instead of "delete". Give people some credit, it's not like you or I have some kind of superintelligence that allows us to excel where others fail miserably.
I run a mail server that uses bayesian filtering and have first-hand knowledge of the pitfalls of allowing a user population to control filter training.
Updating: I don't understand what the hell you're talking about here. You're saying that Microsoft updates regularly fuck up your computer?...Do you even use Windows? And if not, what is the point of your reply?
That's a pretty amazing juxtopposition of ideas, considering that any windows user knows that it shits itself every six months or so, requiring a complete format and reinstall.
Whilst reading all of the recent dropping of Red Hat Linux and purchasing of SuSE etc. I did wonder if this would lead to a boost for Debian.
Our company has used Linux for years. We went to Mandrake after Bluecurve, and have thus been spared most of the nightmares of late. The problem is that Mandrake, although not currently Evil (tm), is a commercial company and might become evil or nonexistent overnight.
As such, I am at this very moment learning Gentoo. I plan to get a Debian box up and running at some point thereafter.
Cool. Now fix homepage hijacking and other activeX evils.
Spam: Install spambayes.
Ah, yes. Bayesian filter training on the client side among a user population whose VCR flashes 12:00. Genius.
Updating and patching: Use automatic update.
"Updating and patch" in the windows world is a euphamism for the regular 6 month cycle of format and reinstall. Maybe that's what all the supplemental EULAs were all about.
Virus eradication: All antivirus programs download updates automatically.
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Recently we launched a statement of direction - Open Source Architecture for the enterprise. As more large customers move to distributed computing architectures, firms will want to leverage the flexibility and independence a integrated stack can create for a business. Our product line is being built through the delivery of software sold modularly. For example, our cluster suite.
I don't think you're allowed to use the Dilbert mission statement generator in an interview.
Or they could call it Fez
Well, my initial thought was that it should be called "Propeller Beanie", but given the short and unhappy history of Fedora Linux thus far, I think "Crash Helmet" is probably more appropriate.
Yeah, but does this make it safe enough to operate without a secondary coolant loop? I just cringe seeing all those turbines in the primary coolant loop. That's a lot of places to leak.
Also- what's the deal with no internal control rods? Is the idea behnid the design to replace fuel density with moderation (making the few neutrons that are produced more likely to sustain reaction), and using control rods in the graphite structure to control how much it moderates the reaction?
Even if you moved at near-infinite speed, you would still get wet in the rain,
Yeah, but the real question is, if you throw punches in the rain, does your opponent's face turn into silly putty?
And you missed the Linux security holes, and the Mac Updates in the past month while installing that printer as well.
Code Red, SQL slammer, etc. etc. etc. were NOT security holes. They were major worldwide security events. Nothing in any other platform has come close.
You must have also missed Windows2k and WindowsXP, where the BSOD of has become virtually extinct.
Well, you got me there. Win2k gives you error boxes on its way to crash and burn, XP just reboots instead of showing you the error.
I think Microsoft sucks half the time, but I also see a lot of good things they have brought to the industry.
Agreed on both points. But that is a far cry from the statement "The NT code base, especially since Win2k is very secure..."
First of all, I'm not the AC above.
How can I respond to someone that thinks Windows is crap and evil. I won't convince you based on my knowledge or experience or independent facts, no matter how many times I type them.
Which would be zero so far.
But I'm sure your installation of Windows95 four years ago or botched Win2k installation is the definitive proof that Windows sucks and I can't compete with that.
Yes. I am singlehandedly responsible for the acronym "BSOD". And I'm sure that public knowledge of the latest round of Microsoft mega-viruses is soley due to my inability to get a USB printer working.
The NT code base, especially since Win2k is very secure...
That statement isn't true. I've used windows, you've used windows. I know it's not true, and you know it's not true. It goes well beyond bordering on the absurd.
Given that anyone who reads this and who have used windows know that it's bullshit, I wonder what it is you are hoping to accomplish. Do you really think this is 1994, and decisionmakers are still completely ignorant to reality, wandering listlessly through trade mags and newsgroups trying to come up with information on which to base a purchasing decision?
So I wonder, why are devices like Hubble not built to be retooled - built with some type of standard socket connections so batteries, comupters, lenses, etc. could be more easily upgraded by swapping out major units and bolting them together on a frame just like a computer?
AFAIK, it is. I know that they've replaced several modules on it, particularly on the "eyepiece" side of the system, and I think they've also replaced several mission-critical components such as reaction wheels. Hubble's real problem is that we've come up with other ways of getting the resolution formerly possible only with space-based solutions.
I'd like very much for them to recover the telescope, but the question that plagues the future of manned space exploration - Is it worth risking lives - will prevent us from ever seeing Hubble in a museum.
It would be good to educate them on good morals, things of character and integrity rather than on bad symptoms that come from poor character and integrity.
How, exactly, does this concept play into pornography? Given that one is not married and therefore has not made a commitment with regard to their sexual appetite, what is really wrong with it? I can hear the answer now - it's pornography! Yeah, I know, but what is actually really wrong with it?
I teach my kids not to view pornography for the same reason I tell them not to use marijuana- because they are illegal (it is actually impossible to view internet porn and not accidentally acquire illegal images), not because I personally believe those behaviors have any affect on their character.
This is exactly why slashdot is fucked up. Flamebait != saying something that might be offensive. It's saying something that is extremely, obviously, and deliberately offensive. If someone's choice of words is poor or otherwise not to your liking, the idea is not to mod it up.
Ack! Eschew the green gnu! Friends don't let friends use mouseover events, but if you must put a mouseover event on the gnu, at least do something fun with it, like make his eyes glow red.
Sure, becoming the #1 company in the world and the richest man on earth just proves your point, doesn't it? :-)
Are you suggesting that the users, writers, and adherents of free software are trying to accomplish those things? Your argument to someone considering free software instead of Microsoft is that Microsoft will make more money if they do?
If a developer leaves behind a bug, is he required to fix it without pay, or does he get paid to fix it?
I guess my point is that if a developer leaves behind a bug, people will choose to use other software. Moreover, the history of free software does not demonstrate the need for an artificial economy of quality - free software is already consistently better than that produced by the commercial marketplace. The point about user focus can be made, however, which is why I addressed it.
Here's a question - if you construct a market with arbitrary, artificial rules, such as "software developers paid for code should be required to debug it to perfection" or "you should have to pay every time you listen to a song", is it actually a free market? Figure out a way to answer that question truthfully, and you'll be a millionaire in the next economy.
The OCM introduces into the Free/Open Source movement an economic incentive, to help align the priorities of Free/Open Source developers with those of the end users.
The one thing Microsoft has done well is focus on end users. They are able to hock woefully inferior file, database, and mail server solutions because they make sure that Word's macro engine can cook your breakfast for you if you want it to. If users want a feature, it will be in the release product - performance, stability, and security be damned.
I don't necessarily think we should follow MS in this regard. It doesn't seem to have really worked out for them. Let's focus on what is really attracting people to free software - choice.
Oh, come on. Stop milking it. :)
HAHA! RTFM!
classic.
The real problem is that people freak when you use the words "nuclear" or "radioactive". Maybe we should call them "magic" batteries?
Are you still using archaic and dangerous chemcial reaction batteries to power your personal electronic devices? Depending on dangerous chemical reactions can have disastrous consequences... (insert video of lithium being thrown into a lake here)... and because chemical reactions are very ineffecient, they can have a negative impact on the environment and your sanity...(insert video of frustrated cellphone user dropping a call due to a dead battery)...
But now, thanks to new patented Microparticle (tm) technology, you can get more from your batteries, and get it more safely. Batteries derive their power from energetic particles (...insert video of dots floating around inside a rectangle...) but with out new patented Microparticle design (...zoom back to half-screen, add a new rectangle with many more tiny dots, pulsating happily...), you can get up to 6.023X1023 times more particles! And without any harmful chemicals!
Try it risk-free today, and keep our free gift - the stick-o-matic antenna booster - guaranteed to keep harmful high energy RF radiation away from you - even if you decide not to buy! Call now!
That's probably the most comprehensive and complete answer to a question that I have ever seen on Slashdot.
...Federal Aviation Administration's Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
Now that's what I call a job title. But are we setting a dangerous precedent here with regard to FAA authority? Do they have full authority of all known space farther than 6370km from Earth's core?
Running a MAIL SERVER has fuck all to do with running Outlook. Have you used spambayes?
A NASA engineer need not have ridden a tricycle to understand the physics of its use. Using Outlook in no place or time imparts any technical credibility to you whatsoever.
The fact is that the myth has been perpetuated by "gurus", such I yourself, I venture, who don't know how to actually solve problems and say "format Windows, it fucks itself after a couple of months".
That's a good line. Are you guys finding that anyone buys it yet?
Bayesian training: What is SO hard about pressing the "This is spam" button instead of "delete". Give people some credit, it's not like you or I have some kind of superintelligence that allows us to excel where others fail miserably.
I run a mail server that uses bayesian filtering and have first-hand knowledge of the pitfalls of allowing a user population to control filter training.
Updating: I don't understand what the hell you're talking about here. You're saying that Microsoft updates regularly fuck up your computer?...Do you even use Windows? And if not, what is the point of your reply?
That's a pretty amazing juxtopposition of ideas, considering that any windows user knows that it shits itself every six months or so, requiring a complete format and reinstall.
Whilst reading all of the recent dropping of Red Hat Linux and purchasing of SuSE etc. I did wonder if this would lead to a boost for Debian.
Our company has used Linux for years. We went to Mandrake after Bluecurve, and have thus been spared most of the nightmares of late. The problem is that Mandrake, although not currently Evil (tm), is a commercial company and might become evil or nonexistent overnight.
As such, I am at this very moment learning Gentoo. I plan to get a Debian box up and running at some point thereafter.
- better CD burning tools
You must mean graphical interfaces. I have yet to burn a coaster since switching from Nero to cdrecord.
- better attachment handling in email
Are you talking about ms-tnef woes?
Pop-ups: Install google search bar.
Cool. Now fix homepage hijacking and other activeX evils.
Spam: Install spambayes.
Ah, yes. Bayesian filter training on the client side among a user population whose VCR flashes 12:00. Genius.
Updating and patching: Use automatic update.
"Updating and patch" in the windows world is a euphamism for the regular 6 month cycle of format and reinstall. Maybe that's what all the supplemental EULAs were all about.
Virus eradication: All antivirus programs download updates automatically.
That will be $60, please. Annually.