Oh all the Cato institute retards here can scream and masturbate about free commerce and competition but the real kernel of truth is that US telcos buy and are granted exclusive or near exclusive monopolies in the markets they want to play in. The FCC may grant a few tiny mom-n-pop companies the right to squabble over 3% of the regional market but by and large all of the telcos are given feudal rights. They can charge what they want, where they want and they can cover what they want. They only sigificant progress that 'competition' had created in the cell phone market in the past 10 years is a gradual conversion from analog to digital in cities, where rural customers still only get analog, and, automatic roaming billing that does not require you to manually enter the local calling company. Saves time and trouble, a little bit. You still have to reenter the phone number, hit a bunch of extra keys and pay about 10 or 15x more per minute than you normally would. And if you are not along a major interstate - the key calling areas of most telcos then you are doubly screwed because you will be roaming in an analog local company which is effectively unregulates vis a vis interconnections and they can charge you $5 a minute if they so wish. You're not their customer so what are you going to do?
Uh dude, Europe the continent is pretty damn huge too and my family can use the same phone w/o roaming charges anywhere from Norway to North Africa from Spain the the Ukraine. That's about twice the number of people as the US or didn't they tell you that at Rush school?
The late 80's? Hell you might as well print it out, scan it and save the pictures to DVD. Or, just get medicated to relieve yourself of these obsessions.
..or something like that? Seriously if FOSS software wants to be taken seriously it has to bite the bullet and at least number things 1.0 or higher. But all of the free tools, or almost all of them at least as pertains to burners are all labeled some kind of scary sounding 0.97b BETA or something like that. Which might not be a bad thing in and of itself but with SO MANY things that CAN go wrong with burning, right down to the brand of blank disc you use, it would seem at least counterproductive to hesitate calling something production quality, if in fact the author thinks it is. This is a great example of letting engineers overengineer and control the release of products until it's 'perfect'. Trust me it will never be perfect nor will it ever need to be perfect so just call it what it is Production Good-Enough version X.
I've done several hundred dollars in rebates on eMachines through Best Buy and they work. They take so damn long you forget but they work. Just be prepared to wait about 6 months.
When we bought Lotus and by default Ray Ozzie and the Notes creators we inherited a tiny development culture that was utterly impenetrable. As much as Lotus kept us at arms length and did everything their own way, the Notes dudes wouldn't even let us on site. Hell they wouldn't let Lotus on site either. They just stayed locked up in Ray Ozzie's barn, crunching code. A big part of Notes failure to grow and develop and frankly, thrive, the way we wanted was the technical brilliance and organizational paralysis that the Ozzie-ites created. Eventually we found it easier to bypass them and this is why Notes 6 came out 2 years after Notes 5 which was 4 years late and is why Notes 7 is more than a year late and there are serious discussions over whether Notes itself won't be submerged into Workplace.
I tend to think they saw adults prancing around in costumes and telling each other they really WERE all the strange and fanciful characters they claimed to be, what was tipped them off.
At least that's what we're planning for the huge flag on the side of the building to greet our new Overlords.
The funniest irony of all was that the PC Division, that rathole they poured billions down which rarely if ever made a profit finally made a huge chunk of change selling itself off and as a result those employees are getting the largest bonuses in the company, on a division by division basis. Lesson learned? Fuck your business up until someone buys it at firesale prices then claim a huge a victory, rake in your pile of cash. All the other IBM divisions should learn from this.
Lots of distros like Peanut and a bunch of others I forget have some pretty good installation scripts built in that handle an installation to the hard drive straight from a version running on your liveCD right at that moment.
It really doesn't matter if it 'really' is hacking or HBS left the letters open on the bus. If they say you are not entitled to the information then you are not in fact entitled to that information. It seems like a cold cruel world out there that won't allow you to profit from your own ethical lapses but that's kind of the point of having ethnics, isn't it?
Puppy is an odd distro isn't it? It looks and feels more like Win than any other lightweight liveCD but unlike most of them Puppy notes that the way it handles or expects to handle your hard drive there is no easy way to install it there. Apparently you have to copy it to one FAT partition, run it and install it into another FAT partition, according to the notes. I note this because running and distro straight off the liveCD is very very slow. They should have taken the time to write a better method to install it to the hard drive instead of trying to write/rewrite to the CDRW.
Or you could work in your basement with the world's best and only Linux that supports Latin and runs on the thermostat in my living room. That's fine - carve out your own space and do that.
But that's not really the point is it? The point is, in order to have credible version management you need to have a taxonomy and in order to have a taxonomy you will end up with all sorts of basement projects like the Latin Linux Thermostat that are really fascinating projects for one or two people who get to play in that space. But here's the key - when you fork, fork deep and don't look back and don't give back or make suggestions either. Take what you need and you are on your own. Stop complaining and work on that Latin support. The taxonomy will help insure that the distros that are important for a wider audience don't have to worry about Latin Linux Thermostat support in the mainstream kernel or anything else. In fact it never has to worry about you at all which is how it should work.
Then don't complain that it's out of control or that you yourself can't get anyone to get on board with your particular distro. Let's make one billion different distros. That's fine. Why not build entirely different communications protocols too?
You are dead on when you note that forking is a big problem. Version control is a big problem anywhere you don't actually manage it. And we are unable to manage it because we let it lose and tell people "go forth be fruitful and multiply." Which is exactly what they did. And if you look at Distro Watch or LWN today there are 450+ distros out there, probably 70% of them have *someone* working on. And that is the deeper problem. We are spread too thin and we are too tolerant of do-your-own-thing-ism. Dude, I got this BSD kernel to boot on my clock radio and it only took 1200 hrs to do it. Schweeeeet! At the same time SUN, IBM, RH and others are struggling to corral what resources they have and attract enough attention and funding from the suits to make it all hold together. The fact is we really don't need more than 2 dozen at the absolute upper limit, of distros. And of those ~24 maybe half would account for 80% of the total use and utility in the field. That means that 12 core code bases would account for 4/5ths of the total expected penetration of Linux today. And while these are just guesses I think I'm being wildly broadminded. I think in practice the actual usable numbers are half as diverse as that.
Now companies build entirely useful OS's all the time: AIX, Solaris, Windows, z/OS and so on. All built by one company with one ethic and one model and one hand on the change management lever. And with only a few thousand people at most. But the problem is that all corporate entities like those very same IBM, SUN. etc companies see Linux and the open model as a way to short circuit their OWN development dollars and use what other people have graciously done. They are willing to take on the noise and clutter and forking because they don't care or think they don't care. What they care about is attempting to cut their own costs out of the development cycle. Building an OS is very expensive as IBM can attest. But they hope that the benefits that accrue to them by spending all that money on products like AIX 5L are worth it because it allows them to differentiate themselves and sell their hardware. They see Linux as a second tier to sell into smaller corporate accounts riding piggyback on cheaper hardware.
But the key problem is that they see it as being 'found work, found benefit'. And the fact that there are 3,000 people out there doing essentially the same work is of absolutely no importance to them. Their interests are strictly parochial. And if you have a bunch of different companies each with their own stovepipes then not only do you promote forking you actually hamper your own customers. We used to thing that hippy-code was a good thing. If I wanted to run it my way and I was the only person on earth who wanted to do that - here's the code, dude, have at it. Multiply that by a million and you don't have freedom, you have anarchy.
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Oh all the Cato institute retards here can scream and masturbate about free commerce and competition but the real kernel of truth is that US telcos buy and are granted exclusive or near exclusive monopolies in the markets they want to play in. The FCC may grant a few tiny mom-n-pop companies the right to squabble over 3% of the regional market but by and large all of the telcos are given feudal rights. They can charge what they want, where they want and they can cover what they want. They only sigificant progress that 'competition' had created in the cell phone market in the past 10 years is a gradual conversion from analog to digital in cities, where rural customers still only get analog, and, automatic roaming billing that does not require you to manually enter the local calling company. Saves time and trouble, a little bit. You still have to reenter the phone number, hit a bunch of extra keys and pay about 10 or 15x more per minute than you normally would. And if you are not along a major interstate - the key calling areas of most telcos then you are doubly screwed because you will be roaming in an analog local company which is effectively unregulates vis a vis interconnections and they can charge you $5 a minute if they so wish. You're not their customer so what are you going to do?
Uh dude, Europe the continent is pretty damn huge too and my family can use the same phone w/o roaming charges anywhere from Norway to North Africa from Spain the the Ukraine. That's about twice the number of people as the US or didn't they tell you that at Rush school?
The late 80's? Hell you might as well print it out, scan it and save the pictures to DVD. Or, just get medicated to relieve yourself of these obsessions.
..or something like that? Seriously if FOSS software wants to be taken seriously it has to bite the bullet and at least number things 1.0 or higher. But all of the free tools, or almost all of them at least as pertains to burners are all labeled some kind of scary sounding 0.97b BETA or something like that. Which might not be a bad thing in and of itself but with SO MANY things that CAN go wrong with burning, right down to the brand of blank disc you use, it would seem at least counterproductive to hesitate calling something production quality, if in fact the author thinks it is. This is a great example of letting engineers overengineer and control the release of products until it's 'perfect'. Trust me it will never be perfect nor will it ever need to be perfect so just call it what it is Production Good-Enough version X.
or it will all be uddnerly irrelevant
Because I honestly can't understand why this is here otherwise.
We host many Gubmint sites. I wonder if we'll get special treatment. Somehow I think not.
I've done several hundred dollars in rebates on eMachines through Best Buy and they work. They take so damn long you forget but they work. Just be prepared to wait about 6 months.
Read his resume - he's a lobbyist with a science degree. Does this amaze anyone?
or notice or hear you telling them this.
When we bought Lotus and by default Ray Ozzie and the Notes creators we inherited a tiny development culture that was utterly impenetrable. As much as Lotus kept us at arms length and did everything their own way, the Notes dudes wouldn't even let us on site. Hell they wouldn't let Lotus on site either. They just stayed locked up in Ray Ozzie's barn, crunching code. A big part of Notes failure to grow and develop and frankly, thrive, the way we wanted was the technical brilliance and organizational paralysis that the Ozzie-ites created. Eventually we found it easier to bypass them and this is why Notes 6 came out 2 years after Notes 5 which was 4 years late and is why Notes 7 is more than a year late and there are serious discussions over whether Notes itself won't be submerged into Workplace.
I tend to think they saw adults prancing around in costumes and telling each other they really WERE all the strange and fanciful characters they claimed to be, what was tipped them off.
At least that's what we're planning for the huge flag on the side of the building to greet our new Overlords.
The funniest irony of all was that the PC Division, that rathole they poured billions down which rarely if ever made a profit finally made a huge chunk of change selling itself off and as a result those employees are getting the largest bonuses in the company, on a division by division basis. Lesson learned? Fuck your business up until someone buys it at firesale prices then claim a huge a victory, rake in your pile of cash. All the other IBM divisions should learn from this.
Concerned geeks need to know.
Lots of distros like Peanut and a bunch of others I forget have some pretty good installation scripts built in that handle an installation to the hard drive straight from a version running on your liveCD right at that moment.
It really doesn't matter if it 'really' is hacking or HBS left the letters open on the bus. If they say you are not entitled to the information then you are not in fact entitled to that information. It seems like a cold cruel world out there that won't allow you to profit from your own ethical lapses but that's kind of the point of having ethnics, isn't it?
Puppy is an odd distro isn't it? It looks and feels more like Win than any other lightweight liveCD but unlike most of them Puppy notes that the way it handles or expects to handle your hard drive there is no easy way to install it there. Apparently you have to copy it to one FAT partition, run it and install it into another FAT partition, according to the notes. I note this because running and distro straight off the liveCD is very very slow. They should have taken the time to write a better method to install it to the hard drive instead of trying to write/rewrite to the CDRW.
I mean blogger.
The big difference is that journalists have editors and ethical canons. Bloggers have a computer and an opinion.
I just love vendors who shrug and say "This is gonna hurt you a lot more than it's gonna hurt me. Sucks to be you."
What's the name of this company, 'Lumburg'?
Or call me flamebait, whichever twitches your stupid fucking magical invisible free penis of commerce the most, bitches.
If you can't and won't regulate the crminals at eBay and PrayPal just tax the hell out of it.
What with the coming militarization of space we won't need people in space anyway so there's no mission, is there?
Or you could work in your basement with the world's best and only Linux that supports Latin and runs on the thermostat in my living room. That's fine - carve out your own space and do that.
But that's not really the point is it? The point is, in order to have credible version management you need to have a taxonomy and in order to have a taxonomy you will end up with all sorts of basement projects like the Latin Linux Thermostat that are really fascinating projects for one or two people who get to play in that space. But here's the key - when you fork, fork deep and don't look back and don't give back or make suggestions either. Take what you need and you are on your own. Stop complaining and work on that Latin support. The taxonomy will help insure that the distros that are important for a wider audience don't have to worry about Latin Linux Thermostat support in the mainstream kernel or anything else. In fact it never has to worry about you at all which is how it should work.
Then don't complain that it's out of control or that you yourself can't get anyone to get on board with your particular distro. Let's make one billion different distros. That's fine. Why not build entirely different communications protocols too?
You are dead on when you note that forking is a big problem. Version control is a big problem anywhere you don't actually manage it. And we are unable to manage it because we let it lose and tell people "go forth be fruitful and multiply." Which is exactly what they did. And if you look at Distro Watch or LWN today there are 450+ distros out there, probably 70% of them have *someone* working on. And that is the deeper problem. We are spread too thin and we are too tolerant of do-your-own-thing-ism. Dude, I got this BSD kernel to boot on my clock radio and it only took 1200 hrs to do it. Schweeeeet! At the same time SUN, IBM, RH and others are struggling to corral what resources they have and attract enough attention and funding from the suits to make it all hold together. The fact is we really don't need more than 2 dozen at the absolute upper limit, of distros. And of those ~24 maybe half would account for 80% of the total use and utility in the field. That means that 12 core code bases would account for 4/5ths of the total expected penetration of Linux today. And while these are just guesses I think I'm being wildly broadminded. I think in practice the actual usable numbers are half as diverse as that.
Now companies build entirely useful OS's all the time: AIX, Solaris, Windows, z/OS and so on. All built by one company with one ethic and one model and one hand on the change management lever. And with only a few thousand people at most. But the problem is that all corporate entities like those very same IBM, SUN. etc companies see Linux and the open model as a way to short circuit their OWN development dollars and use what other people have graciously done. They are willing to take on the noise and clutter and forking because they don't care or think they don't care. What they care about is attempting to cut their own costs out of the development cycle. Building an OS is very expensive as IBM can attest. But they hope that the benefits that accrue to them by spending all that money on products like AIX 5L are worth it because it allows them to differentiate themselves and sell their hardware. They see Linux as a second tier to sell into smaller corporate accounts riding piggyback on cheaper hardware.
But the key problem is that they see it as being 'found work, found benefit'. And the fact that there are 3,000 people out there doing essentially the same work is of absolutely no importance to them. Their interests are strictly parochial. And if you have a bunch of different companies each with their own stovepipes then not only do you promote forking you actually hamper your own customers. We used to thing that hippy-code was a good thing. If I wanted to run it my way and I was the only person on earth who wanted to do that - here's the code, dude, have at it. Multiply that by a million and you don't have freedom, you have anarchy.