I don't know about you, but I think that ad looks awesome. Very creative use of the names. It was worth the wait and will be impossible to miss when reading the paper. I am very pleased with the results. Regards, Steve
Maple has always worked on both linux and windows, its coded it java and even has a linux installer. Although I know of no OSS maple-like solution. Regards, Steve
Actually it was the upper part of the bell curve that went to the states because the people who went there were intelligent enough to realize that their lives sucked and didn't want to be persecuted anymore. Also, some of the most famous and richest europeans came the American for various reasons, some of them are responsible for founding a few of the states in exsitence today. Seems to me that you need to go back and study some American history. Regards, Steve
Moral: We need apps to be certified on linux in order to be taken seriously. This requires the market leader to step foward and provide this, any other smaller player just wouldn't be taken seriosuly.
Technical: Red Hat has written more of the kernel than any other source. IBM has also donated tons of code. They know and understand the kernel inside out. They also have helped to write many of the major popular open source software packages like Apache. Red Hat hires the most intelligent linux hackers in the world. IBM also has some of the brightest people in the world.
Authority: Red Hat and IBM are both considered market leaders. They both have billions in market cap. (although IBM's is of course larger). Red Hat is also the company responsible for pushing Linux into the public eye.
If they don't do it, than who will? Regards, Steve
IBM's relationship with Suse is way overhyped by the Suse crowd. The only reason *at all* they even sell Suse is because Red Hat was gaining a lot of power and IBM didn't want another software company (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) taking advantage of them. Suse just helped to level the playing field a bit more by giving IBM some leverage and threatening power over Red Hat. I wish I could cite sources but you can't cite conversations with the guys working at IBM.
Anyway, another poster to your comment mentioned stocks, this is another good area to look at if you want to see how a company's business plan is accepted in the real world and where they may be going. Red Hat has been upgraded several times by a few major players , most recently Prudential. IIRC, Prudential said that they see enormous growth for no less than the next two years in Red Hat. Novell on the other hand has been downgraded and predicted to underperform, their stock is down and generally their business is going to pieces. Novell's stocks over the past few months have all the traits of a start-up company, and more recently, a start-up company that flops. This is a common trend for Novell though and now Linux is just the new next thing that they want to hop on. Red Hat's business is linux, they have to stay devoted because it's all they have. Novell will drop linux the second something else comes along if they think it'll make them more money. Personally, I like both Suse and Red Hat, but Novell is going to be the downfall of Suse, Suse should have never gotten bought. Regards, Steve
Please code an operating system yourself and test it on 54 different platforms. They have every excuse in the the world to be as behind schedule as they please, no corporation in the world would demand what they are doing. 54 platforms? What the hell do you do when 27 are affected by a bug and 27 aren't? I'll tell you what you do, you go insane:) Regards, Steve
Apple and AOL already have contracts allowing each other to use each other's services, also keep in mind that AOL is a part of Time Warner. In addition to this, 20% of U.S. internet users use AOL. AOL has screwed up *alot*, but maybe the cards are finally falling into place for them? Personally, if they can get that 20% to switch to firefox (the new media player is based on XUL, and they just released a new netscape based on firefox, so this may not be too far off), Internet Explorer's share would instantly drop to around 65-70% (not even accounting for firefox's potential growth over the next few months), and over 1 in every 3 users would be using a firefox based web browser. This could be good for all of us. Regards, Steve
I think you underestimate how many companies are told they have vulnerable software rather than find it themselves. Http-equiv from malware.com finds tons of stuff and the Samba team used to submit a number of vulnerabilites they found in Microsoft's implementation. And all the time vulnerabilities are disclosed, sometimes the company is told before hand and if they don't act quickly enough then they are disclosed publicly, otherwise the company may find out at the same time you do. Regardless, if some thrid party does find a vulnerability and 2 or more people know about it, the world will know about it within a week. "Three can keep a secret if two are dead". So in short, yes companies need to be prepared 24/7 to fix their faulty software as fast as possible. Regards, Steve
Actually, no he's not. It turns out that when comparing Suse and RHEL side by side, RHEL is cheaper, regardless of what the slashbots are saying. Also, the majority of the world uses Red Hat. The only place that has an abundance of Suse is Europe, and ever since Novell, an American company, bought Suse, I don't get why Europeans are still up in arms about it.
In addition to this, WallStreet has repeatedly downgraded Novell saying that they have little to no room in the market and are likely to fail as they have before. Meanwhile, Red Hat has been upgraded several times and has been predicted to nearly double it's subscription rate every year for at least the next two years.
Novell's support is amazingly expensive, when people quote Suse's cheaper pricing its always without included support. Also, Novell has no vested interest specifically in Linux. If something came along that they thought would be bigger, they'd hop right on that bandwagon. Red Hat's business *is* linux, they need the community, the community needs them. Red Hat hires the best and brightest kernel hackers and has more submissions to the major open source projects than any other source. Red Hat is completely devoted to linux, and thats why they'll win. IBM used to only support Red Hat when Red Hat was younger and less powerful. Now Red Hat is considered a market mover and that scares IBM, which is why IBM now also supports Suse. IBM doesn't want to be taken advantage of again like Microsoft did and so whenever a player gets too big, IBM's new policy is to try and keep them down to size. Regards, Steve
Maybe you just went about it the wrong way? Or just caught somebody on a bad day. I've had to deal with their support before and was impressed. The only support that I've seen similar is Veritas.The person on the other line went out of their way to do me favors and find the root of my problem. I'd give details but have to get back to work. Regards, Steve
That's funny because at my university we've got tons of foreign exchange students from the UK. Why? Because the UK's higher education is horrific and they'll admit it. The US may arguably be lacking at the elementary levels in comparison to other countries, but once you get as far as college, there is no other country to get an education at like in the United States. The major and minor "thing" is actually a great idea and allows people to remain focused on their core goals while allowing them to explore other unrelated areas of interest as well. Regards, Steve
That's not Red Hat's market currently. Even Red Hat will tell you that if your running low end machines, just download the OS from them, or from WhiteBox linux, or more recently you might be recommended to use Fedora. Regards, Steve
By math, I meant real math like partial differentiation, number theory, etc... as in advanced mathematics topics. Any math that a typical carpenter or mechanic does is simple addition, subtraction, multplication, division, and I can think of a few rare cases where a carpenter might need an integral, but only in extremely rare cases. Most of the measurements that these jobs use are predefined and for mechanics are all listed in a book, and today can be looked up even faster through computers. These numbers were figured out by that 5% of intelligent people to save the other 95% the hassle. Intelligence by the way is a very subjective topic , I doubt you know half the things a mechanic knows about cars, does that make you less intelligent than him? No, its just a different area of expertise, in contrary he probably couldn't code a simple hello world program, but most on/. could. Regards, Steve
Yea people don't get that it doesnt matter if everyone is good at math or not. The united states has some of the brightest folks in the world. We also have one of the largest populations in the world. If only 5% of students are really good at math, that is still tens of millions of students and thats more than enough to engineer world class materials and products. The other 95% will get jobs to service others, i.e. mechanics, carpenters, etc... We need those other 95% not to be smart in order to survive and have a functioning economy. Having everyone be a genius would be no better than having everybody be rich, all of the sudden it'd mean nothing and be valueless. As long as we have a few smart people, it doesn't matter how many dumb people you have, collective intelligence starts falling rapidly. An example of such is that if a class of 10 honors students that were all allowed to take one test together as a group, they won't do much worse (if any worse) then if 100 honors students worked on the one test together. Once you reach scales of millions of people, its no longer necessary to have millions of intelligent folk,you just need enough. Any way... I'm not worried, I've visited or have researched several of the top colleges in this country and outside of this country and we are doing just fine. Why else do you think the United States has the highest number of foreign exchange students? Everyone comes here, gets educated and then takes it back home. Regards, Steve
Many geeks still do think the ipod is lame. Apple is selling it as fashion trend of sorts, not the most technologically superior product. The Archos AV400 or Gmini 400 are way better and can do a ton more stuff. Granted the ipod does what it does well, I still think it's lame. (Well at least for the price) Regards, Steve
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I don't know about you, but I think that ad looks awesome. Very creative use of the names. It was worth the wait and will be impossible to miss when reading the paper. I am very pleased with the results.
Regards,
Steve
There have been murderers sentenced to one-fourth that length of time. This is ridiculius when people start valuing money over life.
Regards,
Steve
Agreed, it is very nice indeed.
Regards,
Steve
Maple has always worked on both linux and windows, its coded it java and even has a linux installer. Although I know of no OSS maple-like solution.
Regards,
Steve
Its called pdf (portable document format) and OO.o can save to it natively.
Regards,
Steve
Actually it was the upper part of the bell curve that went to the states because the people who went there were intelligent enough to realize that their lives sucked and didn't want to be persecuted anymore. Also, some of the most famous and richest europeans came the American for various reasons, some of them are responsible for founding a few of the states in exsitence today. Seems to me that you need to go back and study some American history.
Regards,
Steve
Moral: We need apps to be certified on linux in order to be taken seriously. This requires the market leader to step foward and provide this, any other smaller player just wouldn't be taken seriosuly.
Technical: Red Hat has written more of the kernel than any other source. IBM has also donated tons of code. They know and understand the kernel inside out. They also have helped to write many of the major popular open source software packages like Apache. Red Hat hires the most intelligent linux hackers in the world. IBM also has some of the brightest people in the world.
Authority: Red Hat and IBM are both considered market leaders. They both have billions in market cap. (although IBM's is of course larger). Red Hat is also the company responsible for pushing Linux into the public eye.
If they don't do it, than who will?
Regards,
Steve
Err Red Hat has a very well documented file system standard and also linux doesn't use dll's.
Regards,
Steve
IBM's relationship with Suse is way overhyped by the Suse crowd. The only reason *at all* they even sell Suse is because Red Hat was gaining a lot of power and IBM didn't want another software company (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) taking advantage of them. Suse just helped to level the playing field a bit more by giving IBM some leverage and threatening power over Red Hat. I wish I could cite sources but you can't cite conversations with the guys working at IBM.
Anyway, another poster to your comment mentioned stocks, this is another good area to look at if you want to see how a company's business plan is accepted in the real world and where they may be going. Red Hat has been upgraded several times by a few major players , most recently Prudential. IIRC, Prudential said that they see enormous growth for no less than the next two years in Red Hat. Novell on the other hand has been downgraded and predicted to underperform, their stock is down and generally their business is going to pieces. Novell's stocks over the past few months have all the traits of a start-up company, and more recently, a start-up company that flops. This is a common trend for Novell though and now Linux is just the new next thing that they want to hop on. Red Hat's business is linux, they have to stay devoted because it's all they have. Novell will drop linux the second something else comes along if they think it'll make them more money. Personally, I like both Suse and Red Hat, but Novell is going to be the downfall of Suse, Suse should have never gotten bought.
Regards,
Steve
A binary search is O(lg(n)).
Regards,
Steve
Please code an operating system yourself and test it on 54 different platforms. They have every excuse in the the world to be as behind schedule as they please, no corporation in the world would demand what they are doing. 54 platforms? What the hell do you do when 27 are affected by a bug and 27 aren't? I'll tell you what you do, you go insane:)
Regards,
Steve
It plays older games, its not natively compatible but there is an adapter.
Regards,
Steve
Apple and AOL already have contracts allowing each other to use each other's services, also keep in mind that AOL is a part of Time Warner. In addition to this, 20% of U.S. internet users use AOL. AOL has screwed up *alot*, but maybe the cards are finally falling into place for them? Personally, if they can get that 20% to switch to firefox (the new media player is based on XUL, and they just released a new netscape based on firefox, so this may not be too far off), Internet Explorer's share would instantly drop to around 65-70% (not even accounting for firefox's potential growth over the next few months), and over 1 in every 3 users would be using a firefox based web browser. This could be good for all of us.
Regards,
Steve
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I think you underestimate how many companies are told they have vulnerable software rather than find it themselves. Http-equiv from malware.com finds tons of stuff and the Samba team used to submit a number of vulnerabilites they found in Microsoft's implementation. And all the time vulnerabilities are disclosed, sometimes the company is told before hand and if they don't act quickly enough then they are disclosed publicly, otherwise the company may find out at the same time you do. Regardless, if some thrid party does find a vulnerability and 2 or more people know about it, the world will know about it within a week. "Three can keep a secret if two are dead". So in short, yes companies need to be prepared 24/7 to fix their faulty software as fast as possible.
Regards,
Steve
This "vulnerability" is not able to be reproduced under firefox on Fedora Core 3. Looks to me like they just want some publicity.
Regards,
Steve
We've still got 200k left over for the party! :-)
Regards,
Steve
If palm lets me run linux, I will buy one the day its released.
Regards,
Steve
Actually, no he's not. It turns out that when comparing Suse and RHEL side by side, RHEL is cheaper, regardless of what the slashbots are saying. Also, the majority of the world uses Red Hat. The only place that has an abundance of Suse is Europe, and ever since Novell, an American company, bought Suse, I don't get why Europeans are still up in arms about it.
In addition to this, WallStreet has repeatedly downgraded Novell saying that they have little to no room in the market and are likely to fail as they have before. Meanwhile, Red Hat has been upgraded several times and has been predicted to nearly double it's subscription rate every year for at least the next two years.
Novell's support is amazingly expensive, when people quote Suse's cheaper pricing its always without included support. Also, Novell has no vested interest specifically in Linux. If something came along that they thought would be bigger, they'd hop right on that bandwagon. Red Hat's business *is* linux, they need the community, the community needs them. Red Hat hires the best and brightest kernel hackers and has more submissions to the major open source projects than any other source. Red Hat is completely devoted to linux, and thats why they'll win. IBM used to only support Red Hat when Red Hat was younger and less powerful. Now Red Hat is considered a market mover and that scares IBM, which is why IBM now also supports Suse. IBM doesn't want to be taken advantage of again like Microsoft did and so whenever a player gets too big, IBM's new policy is to try and keep them down to size.
Regards,
Steve
Maybe you just went about it the wrong way? Or just caught somebody on a bad day. I've had to deal with their support before and was impressed. The only support that I've seen similar is Veritas.The person on the other line went out of their way to do me favors and find the root of my problem. I'd give details but have to get back to work.
Regards,
Steve
That's funny because at my university we've got tons of foreign exchange students from the UK. Why? Because the UK's higher education is horrific and they'll admit it. The US may arguably be lacking at the elementary levels in comparison to other countries, but once you get as far as college, there is no other country to get an education at like in the United States. The major and minor "thing" is actually a great idea and allows people to remain focused on their core goals while allowing them to explore other unrelated areas of interest as well.
Regards,
Steve
That's not Red Hat's market currently. Even Red Hat will tell you that if your running low end machines, just download the OS from them, or from WhiteBox linux, or more recently you might be recommended to use Fedora.
Regards,
Steve
By math, I meant real math like partial differentiation, number theory, etc... as in advanced mathematics topics. Any math that a typical carpenter or mechanic does is simple addition, subtraction, multplication, division, and I can think of a few rare cases where a carpenter might need an integral, but only in extremely rare cases. Most of the measurements that these jobs use are predefined and for mechanics are all listed in a book, and today can be looked up even faster through computers. These numbers were figured out by that 5% of intelligent people to save the other 95% the hassle. Intelligence by the way is a very subjective topic , I doubt you know half the things a mechanic knows about cars, does that make you less intelligent than him? No, its just a different area of expertise, in contrary he probably couldn't code a simple hello world program, but most on /. could.
Regards,
Steve
Yea people don't get that it doesnt matter if everyone is good at math or not. The united states has some of the brightest folks in the world. We also have one of the largest populations in the world. If only 5% of students are really good at math, that is still tens of millions of students and thats more than enough to engineer world class materials and products. The other 95% will get jobs to service others, i.e. mechanics, carpenters, etc... We need those other 95% not to be smart in order to survive and have a functioning economy. Having everyone be a genius would be no better than having everybody be rich, all of the sudden it'd mean nothing and be valueless. As long as we have a few smart people, it doesn't matter how many dumb people you have, collective intelligence starts falling rapidly. An example of such is that if a class of 10 honors students that were all allowed to take one test together as a group, they won't do much worse (if any worse) then if 100 honors students worked on the one test together. Once you reach scales of millions of people, its no longer necessary to have millions of intelligent folk,you just need enough. Any way... I'm not worried, I've visited or have researched several of the top colleges in this country and outside of this country and we are doing just fine. Why else do you think the United States has the highest number of foreign exchange students? Everyone comes here, gets educated and then takes it back home.
Regards,
Steve
Many geeks still do think the ipod is lame. Apple is selling it as fashion trend of sorts, not the most technologically superior product. The Archos AV400 or Gmini 400 are way better and can do a ton more stuff. Granted the ipod does what it does well, I still think it's lame. (Well at least for the price)
Regards,
Steve