No it is not . If they want to avoid the huge licensing costs of windows they must abide by the licensing terms of the OS they select (in this case linux). If they want something witch they can turn into a propitary system then they should go with one of the BSDs , if they chose linux then they dam well better abide by the rules.
What do you have against TeX? TeX is god [ok maybe not $DIETY god , but fairly high up there]. TeX , along with latex , allows me to do wonderful things with documents generating into multiple formats. Although I have had some eps integration problems (who knew plot utils used some funky ass default font that know one has ever heard of before) it was my fault for not checking to make sure that I had the right fonts installed. TeX is wonderful for typesetting , it puts the control back in the user .
Java sucks. Its slow , its all touted "cross platform compatability" is a bunch of hogwash . Sure if everyone is running the same JVM fine , it works . But people dont and Sun doesnt even properly test there different JVMs . They tend to all be incompatability and require little workarounds (hello porting C to different languages) . Java imposes guadafual OO require menets ; sure OO makes sense , but they take it way to far . Then java load times are just plain horrible , and quite often can lead to users just saying "fuck it ; lets try competitor XYZs app". Anyone who uses java does so because they are lazy . Java is for and by lazy programmers who dont even bother to properly make sure things work from one release to the next. Sun distributed (use google to find it) an internal memo telling its staff not to write important programs in java because it was inherently unreable and unstable. Plain and simple ; Java sucks .
maybe you should RTFM. If they open the e-mail that is not exactly interaction (most people open the e-mail when they receive it) . Vunreable machines are automatically infected . Patched machines are infected if the user is stupid enough to run the attached program. It it can infect vunreable computers in what I would consider normal operation and non-vunreable computers In what I like to call luser mode .
While that would be nice , it is more likely that they might stipulate that verisign must conform to RFCs to continue to hold on to the.com and.net registry.
Here here. The page says a number of the components (entry rounds and what not) will be timed . For a quick little job perl can cut hours of off C/C++ style work .
If I write C code that compiles under C++ would that be considerd "C++" (for the purpose of said competition . While I can program C++ if its a timed competition C would be faster for me).
Bell owned by americans? What have you been smokeing? All of our common carriers have expressed legislation witch restricts the foreign ownership to non controlling portions of the shares. Both Telus and bell disclose this in the footnotes of there annual and quarterly reports . While a small percentage of BCE (bells quasi parent company) and some bell ventures (like yellow pages) have ownership by americans ; any action on the part of american courts to interfer with canadian telecomunications would result in stiff opposition by the CRTC (our version of your FCC) . The CRTC is paraniod about foriengors controlling our countries infrastructure and requires that all telecomunication companies whishing to operate in Canada be owned (by a majourity not 100%) by Canadians .
The site is most obviously US centric. There is a lot of censoring* taking place in other countries (including other democratic countries like canada) *Not so mutch by the goverment any more in western countries but by the owners of the media. In eastern countries it is more of a combination of both.
They started blocking 20 through 25 and some other random prots . At first I thought I had fubard my connection , but no . When I phoned they denied it at first untill I pointed out that I had connected the same computer with a different connection and everything worked . After bitching at them for just over 1/2 an hour ; they agreed to reopen port 22 (ssh is your friend:-) . However here I am a couple of months later and guess what port has been blocked again.. I'm even on a "premium" connection. I dont have anything against default port blocking ; but let me opt-out . I'm smart enough to know wtf is happening*. *Most o' the time .
Most people dont bother to patch there systems unless there is a virus . A virus tends to not to do mutch damage (compared to what a cracker could do (like steel your personal files , black mail you , etc.) ) and it keeps everyone on there toes. All in all viruses tend to be better than having a cracker break into your system ; sure some of them wipe your harddrive clean but compared to what could be done that is a blessing .
IANAL there a goverment agency . If they are to be sued they must be sued under british law.They can be sued in the US , however they must be showed to be "doing business in the US" . Past legal precedent shows that meerly offering something for free download to people in the US does not establish you as doing business in the US.
On a side note british law (along with canadian law) imposes a mutch shorter period in witch a public agency must be challanged than that of an individual (its a couple of months in some situations) .
Thats more due to a number of things. Caffine speeds up the reaction time of most medicines (I take my pain killers with coffee and it works a bit faster.).Some pain killers can make you very drowsy , caffine helps to counter act those affects temporarly. Caffine in and off its self doesnt help a headache , if any thing in can make it worse (if you forget to drink enough water. Caffine causes you to become dehyradated in large amounts and dehydration isnt the best way to make the pain in your head go away) .
Public peering is the solution. If enough subscribers demand access to the content and the BBC refuses to transmit over links they pay to they will have ISPs connecting to them . Although it would make sense to maybe have a server on each contient mirrioring the material , and bittorrent probably wouldnt hurt , I dont think the BBC has to worry about bandwith .
And yes minister:-) I am in Canada and I have read the books , I understand they were based of a BBC show (radio or television , cant rememeber) ; but I would really like to see/hear those .
Did you know there are places outside of america? The UK is not in america so the RIAA and MPAA have very little say there . Plus its the BBC , they are the british broadcastin service . You f with them and you can bet if your company does any shady business practices everyone will know (not just the UK , thats the miracle of syndication:-) . I tend to listen to the BBC world service on shortwave becuase the local media (CBC) is crap. As for BBC produced , those will probably happen first and then any witch the BBC has a license to rebroadcast in any format. I do agree with you though , I can hardly wait for this archive to come:-)
A couple of things wrong with that: Your link doesnt actually say that (it comes up 404 unless you remove the space , even then it does not say 38% market share). Second : How did they calculate there market share? Box's/licenses sold versus other boxes/license sold? Most other distributions dont require people to by a box set to use there OS , (debian doesnt even sell one) . Then on top of that , that only takes into account installs , I installed SuSe once , but it sucked royally so I replaced with another distro (debian). Anecdotaly : Most of my friends (who use linux) were at one point or another using RH , or mandrake , but have since switched to other distributions (like debian , gentoo , and a whole bunch of lesser known ones). While I do agree debian is probably good for interfacing on the web and not for home use , the CEO in the article was talking about migrating from unix servers to linux servers . While they might not be web servers unix boxes arent that likely to be desktop machines.
It depends actually. If you are coming here to set up a business its not that hard . If you are comming here to work for some one or the goverment make sure you have a job before you come over. If you show the immigration people the job offer they are a lot more likely to let you in and you are a lot more likely to have a nice job when you get here (a lot of people who dont plan end up spending a year or 2 looking for work , it is very hard to get certain credentials recognized , it all depends).It is very important to make sure your credentials can be recognized. What university is your PHD from? If you have a certain amount of capital and a good education (it sounds like you do) and a good idea for a business it very easy to get in .
thanks . As a matter of fact I love apt (I use debian) . But it seems like a bit of a hack getting apt to work with rpms , if I remember correctly the package repository for apt4rpm is not very large (I could be wrong) . What are the new tools?
Bah. Emigrating to canada is nothing like that. You need 2 PHDs to work in a pizarrea. More seriously though , the provincial goverment of ontario and the federal goverment (probably some other provinces as well) are currently working to have forieng credientials more easily recognized by the professional organizations with witch one must be registered with . Right now they are focusing on engineering , nursing and doctor stuff ; but they plan to include other professions as well .
I dont know , maybe I'm just missing it . But to me RPM is a fairly crappy package management program . The CPAN shell appears to be far supperior , hell it actually works and resolves dependancies . Now I have not used redhat since 7 (except at work were I deal with a hodge podge of systems some redhat , some debain , some misc) , so if rpm has improved vastly please correct me . Otherwise this just seems like a waist o time to me.
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No it is not . If they want to avoid the huge licensing costs of windows they must abide by the licensing terms of the OS they select (in this case linux) . .
If they want something witch they can turn into a propitary system then they should go with one of the BSDs , if they chose linux then they dam well better abide by the rules
I did almost the same thing and instead a got a nice reply back saying that it was not a service I could opt out of :-(
What do you have against TeX? .
TeX is god [ok maybe not $DIETY god , but fairly high up there]
TeX , along with latex , allows me to do wonderful things with documents generating into multiple formats. Although I have had some eps integration problems (who knew plot utils used some funky ass default font that know one has ever heard of before) it was my fault for not checking to make sure that I had the right fonts installed. TeX is wonderful for typesetting , it puts the control back in the user .
Java sucks. Its slow , its all touted "cross platform compatability" is a bunch of hogwash . Sure if everyone is running the same JVM fine , it works . But people dont and Sun doesnt even properly test there different JVMs . They tend to all be incompatability and require little workarounds (hello porting C to different languages) . Java imposes guadafual OO require menets ; sure OO makes sense , but they take it way to far . Then java load times are just plain horrible , and quite often can lead to users just saying "fuck it ; lets try competitor XYZs app" . .
Anyone who uses java does so because they are lazy . Java is for and by lazy programmers who dont even bother to properly make sure things work from one release to the next.
Sun distributed (use google to find it) an internal memo telling its staff not to write important programs in java because it was inherently unreable and unstable
Plain and simple ; Java sucks .
maybe you should RTFM .
If they open the e-mail that is not exactly interaction (most people open the e-mail when they receive it) . Vunreable machines are automatically infected . Patched machines are infected if the user is stupid enough to run the attached program.
It it can infect vunreable computers in what I would consider normal operation and non-vunreable computers In what I like to call luser mode .
While that would be nice , it is more likely that they might stipulate that verisign must conform to RFCs to continue to hold on to the .com and .net registry.
Hmmm , to see the insperation of python ...
Seriously though , why does this meret a slashdot posting?
Here here .
The page says a number of the components (entry rounds and what not) will be timed . For a quick little job perl can cut hours of off C/C++ style work .
If I write C code that compiles under C++ would that be considerd "C++" (for the purpose of said competition . While I can program C++ if its a timed competition C would be faster for me) .
$0.77 is the pruposed tax . Right now it something like $0.05 or something .
Bell owned by americans?
What have you been smokeing?
All of our common carriers have expressed legislation witch restricts the foreign ownership to non controlling portions of the shares. Both Telus and bell disclose this in the footnotes of there annual and quarterly reports . While a small percentage of BCE (bells quasi parent company) and some bell ventures (like yellow pages) have ownership by americans ; any action on the part of american courts to interfer with canadian telecomunications would result in stiff opposition by the CRTC (our version of your FCC) . The CRTC is paraniod about foriengors controlling our countries infrastructure and requires that all telecomunication companies whishing to operate in Canada be owned (by a majourity not 100%) by Canadians .
The site is most obviously US centric .
There is a lot of censoring* taking place in other countries (including other democratic countries like canada)
*Not so mutch by the goverment any more in western countries but by the owners of the media. In eastern countries it is more of a combination of both.
They started blocking 20 through 25 and some other random prots . At first I thought I had fubard my connection , but no . When I phoned they denied it at first untill I pointed out that I had connected the same computer with a different connection and everything worked . After bitching at them for just over 1/2 an hour ; they agreed to reopen port 22 (ssh is your friend :-) . However here I am a couple of months later and guess what port has been blocked again .. I'm even on a "premium" connection .
I dont have anything against default port blocking ; but let me opt-out . I'm smart enough to know wtf is happening*.
*Most o' the time .
Most people dont bother to patch there systems unless there is a virus . A virus tends to not to do mutch damage (compared to what a cracker could do (like steel your personal files , black mail you , etc.) ) and it keeps everyone on there toes .
All in all viruses tend to be better than having a cracker break into your system ; sure some of them wipe your harddrive clean but compared to what could be done that is a blessing .
Newer editions have XP turned on by default and older editions have it turned of by default.
IANAL .They can be sued in the US , however they must be showed to be "doing business in the US" . Past legal precedent shows that meerly offering something for free download to people in the US does not establish you as doing business in the US .
there a goverment agency . If they are to be sued they must be sued under british law
On a side note british law (along with canadian law) imposes a mutch shorter period in witch a public agency must be challanged than that of an individual (its a couple of months in some situations) .
Thats more due to a number of things . .) .Some pain killers can make you very drowsy , caffine helps to counter act those affects temporarly .
Caffine speeds up the reaction time of most medicines (I take my pain killers with coffee and it works a bit faster
Caffine in and off its self doesnt help a headache , if any thing in can make it worse (if you forget to drink enough water. Caffine causes you to become dehyradated in large amounts and dehydration isnt the best way to make the pain in your head go away) .
Public peering is the solution .
If enough subscribers demand access to the content and the BBC refuses to transmit over links they pay to they will have ISPs connecting to them . Although it would make sense to maybe have a server on each contient mirrioring the material , and bittorrent probably wouldnt hurt , I dont think the BBC has to worry about bandwith .
And yes minister :-)
I am in Canada and I have read the books , I understand they were based of a BBC show (radio or television , cant rememeber) ; but I would really like to see/hear those .
Did you know there are places outside of america? :-) . I tend to listen to the BBC world service on shortwave becuase the local media (CBC) is crap. . :-)
The UK is not in america so the RIAA and MPAA have very little say there . Plus its the BBC , they are the british broadcastin service . You f with them and you can bet if your company does any shady business practices everyone will know (not just the UK , thats the miracle of syndication
As for BBC produced , those will probably happen first and then any witch the BBC has a license to rebroadcast in any format
I do agree with you though , I can hardly wait for this archive to come
A couple of things wrong with that: . . .
Your link doesnt actually say that (it comes up 404 unless you remove the space , even then it does not say 38% market share)
Second : How did they calculate there market share?
Box's/licenses sold versus other boxes/license sold?
Most other distributions dont require people to by a box set to use there OS , (debian doesnt even sell one) . Then on top of that , that only takes into account installs , I installed SuSe once , but it sucked royally so I replaced with another distro (debian)
Anecdotaly : Most of my friends (who use linux) were at one point or another using RH , or mandrake , but have since switched to other distributions (like debian , gentoo , and a whole bunch of lesser known ones)
While I do agree debian is probably good for interfacing on the web and not for home use , the CEO in the article was talking about migrating from unix servers to linux servers . While they might not be web servers unix boxes arent that likely to be desktop machines.
It depends actually . .It is very important to make sure your credentials can be recognized .
If you are coming here to set up a business its not that hard . If you are comming here to work for some one or the goverment make sure you have a job before you come over. If you show the immigration people the job offer they are a lot more likely to let you in and you are a lot more likely to have a nice job when you get here (a lot of people who dont plan end up spending a year or 2 looking for work , it is very hard to get certain credentials recognized , it all depends)
What university is your PHD from?
If you have a certain amount of capital and a good education (it sounds like you do) and a good idea for a business it very easy to get in .
thanks . As a matter of fact I love apt (I use debian) . But it seems like a bit of a hack getting apt to work with rpms , if I remember correctly the package repository for apt4rpm is not very large (I could be wrong) . What are the new tools?
Bah . .
Emigrating to canada is nothing like that.
You need 2 PHDs to work in a pizarrea
More seriously though , the provincial goverment of ontario and the federal goverment (probably some other provinces as well) are currently working to have forieng credientials more easily recognized by the professional organizations with witch one must be registered with . Right now they are focusing on engineering , nursing and doctor stuff ; but they plan to include other professions as well .
I dont know , maybe I'm just missing it . But to me RPM is a fairly crappy package management program . The CPAN shell appears to be far supperior , hell it actually works and resolves dependancies . Now I have not used redhat since 7 (except at work were I deal with a hodge podge of systems some redhat , some debain , some misc) , so if rpm has improved vastly please correct me . Otherwise this just seems like a waist o time to me.