The experience with the G5 has been that it runs far too hot, and simply can't be clocked up as well as originally anticipated. As far as portables go, it's a dead end. Assuming Apple really does make this switch, it's the last nail in the coffin for G5 Powerbooks and Minis.
My post is not anti-labor. It is anti-union, in the case of software developers and systems administrators.
In case you've forgotten, labor and unions are not interchangeable.
Perhaps unions in Europe are different from those in the U.S. -- here, they exist to crush unaffiliated labor, bribe lawmakers, and wipe out merit-based promotion and hiring. Their primary purpose is the assimilation of more members and the perpetuation of their own strangle-hold on the labor supply. The workers are simply the hostages of a different organization now.
Unfortunately, the Teamsters et al. have already purchased a system of legislation that strongly favors unions that operate in such a manner. It would be difficult to avoid a descent into corruption and greed -- better just to avoid the union altogether.
I, for one, won't be joining any sort of Linux Labor Union. I was drawn to Linux-based operating systems because of the freedom and diversity they offered -- why would I join an organization that promotes a skill-set monoculture, restrictions on my work and others', and then charges me for it?
Open source hackers -- the old "cathedral" FUD notwithstanding -- have always been a collection of individuals who relied upon their own unique skills to bring new ideas to the table and to share them with others.
Perhaps this union would better suit the MCSE crowd.
they can in fact charge for the code -- and the binaries. just as long as they make the source available freely to anyone to whom they distribute the binaries.
the kessel run, allegedly, was a test of maneuverability -- not of speed. a ship that could navigate a shorter route through a mess of spatial anomalies, asteroids, black holes, etc., was an admirable ship.
language derives its meaning from mutual consent. you can't "evolve a new shade of meaning" by yourself. before new forms enter a language, many people must use them for quite a while. we've formalized the lexicon and grammar so that people can actually use language to communicate predictably.
well, I guess part of the problem is that you're trying to think of star wars as a science-fiction series. I suppose that would make it pretty disappointing!
you seem to have confused ethics and legality. "unethical" is something like "using lobbying dollars to gain legal protection for a false economy". "illegal" is something like "violating laws purchased by the MPAA".
an industry whose purpose is the distribution of media recordings has been obsolete since the late 1990's. it is now cheaper and easier for people to do it themselves. by sticking blindly to their business model, the MPAA is simply refusing to accept changes that they have no control over.
at the moment we have a rack with Dell PowerEdge 1750's. They're very nice for our OpenSSI cluster, with the exception of the disk controller. Despite assurances by Dell that the MegaRAID unit is "linux supported", we're now stuck with what's got to be the worst SCSI RAID controller in the history of computing.
we're hoping that upgrading to OpenSSI 1.9 (which uses a 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 kernel in the current stable release) will show better disk performance... but... yeah.
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I think you're missing the point... It's for those times when you need to get in, restart apache, and get out... and it's nice to have macros for that stuff too.
of course a qwerty keyboard is better for interacting with a shell, but T9 is better than nothing at all!
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I think your frustration is with Motorola's infamously poor firmware, rather than with the features they've chosen to include. My brother recently picked up one of the "Razr" models, and honestly, I was shocked to see how poor the menu layouts, font rendering, and input response time were on a phone that has supposedly been the subject of so much development and engineering.
Once you've used a phone with an intuitive keypad lock (a Nokia, for example), you'll begin to wonder why you ever dealt with the cheap, flimsy hinges on flip phones that manufacturers just can't seem to get right.
as for games... there are quite a few open source java games that will do you just fine, particularly if you don't mind having your ass kicked at backgammon by a cell phone:-)
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For far too long we have been overpowered by extras we don't need
speak for yourself; i for one am quite glad to be able to run midpSSH anywhere there's a tower within range!
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I mean, have you tried it in the past 18 months?
The experience with the G5 has been that it runs far too hot, and simply can't be clocked up as well as originally anticipated. As far as portables go, it's a dead end. Assuming Apple really does make this switch, it's the last nail in the coffin for G5 Powerbooks and Minis.
In case you've forgotten, labor and unions are not interchangeable.
Perhaps unions in Europe are different from those in the U.S. -- here, they exist to crush unaffiliated labor, bribe lawmakers, and wipe out merit-based promotion and hiring. Their primary purpose is the assimilation of more members and the perpetuation of their own strangle-hold on the labor supply. The workers are simply the hostages of a different organization now.
Unfortunately, the Teamsters et al. have already purchased a system of legislation that strongly favors unions that operate in such a manner. It would be difficult to avoid a descent into corruption and greed -- better just to avoid the union altogether.
Open source hackers -- the old "cathedral" FUD notwithstanding -- have always been a collection of individuals who relied upon their own unique skills to bring new ideas to the table and to share them with others.
Perhaps this union would better suit the MCSE crowd.
I can see why they call it the "Blue" line!
it's all in good fun :-)
for serious.
I think he's just mad nokia didn't pick his kernel.
they can in fact charge for the code -- and the binaries. just as long as they make the source available freely to anyone to whom they distribute the binaries.
gecko-based browsers far outnumber khtml-based browsers.
i think i'll wait for 2.6.12.
accurate... but never anything even approaching precise.
the kessel run, allegedly, was a test of maneuverability -- not of speed. a ship that could navigate a shorter route through a mess of spatial anomalies, asteroids, black holes, etc., was an admirable ship.
McAfee AVERT Stinger is a great tool to keep on such a CD or thumbdrive.
i don't see it.
language derives its meaning from mutual consent. you can't "evolve a new shade of meaning" by yourself. before new forms enter a language, many people must use them for quite a while. we've formalized the lexicon and grammar so that people can actually use language to communicate predictably.
well, I guess part of the problem is that you're trying to think of star wars as a science-fiction series. I suppose that would make it pretty disappointing!
one clue to this phenomenon is samuel l. jackson's less than stellar performances in episodes 1-3...
we're even using their disk arrays. i wasn't here when that purchasing decision was made, but man oh man, these things are crap.
an industry whose purpose is the distribution of media recordings has been obsolete since the late 1990's. it is now cheaper and easier for people to do it themselves. by sticking blindly to their business model, the MPAA is simply refusing to accept changes that they have no control over.
we're hoping that upgrading to OpenSSI 1.9 (which uses a 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 kernel in the current stable release) will show better disk performance... but... yeah.
of course a qwerty keyboard is better for interacting with a shell, but T9 is better than nothing at all!
Once you've used a phone with an intuitive keypad lock (a Nokia, for example), you'll begin to wonder why you ever dealt with the cheap, flimsy hinges on flip phones that manufacturers just can't seem to get right.
as for games... there are quite a few open source java games that will do you just fine, particularly if you don't mind having your ass kicked at backgammon by a cell phone :-)
speak for yourself; i for one am quite glad to be able to run midpSSH anywhere there's a tower within range!