I second that one, racing for the fastest conection is futile. Fiber is useless for ordinary people.
Back in the good old days before all that smut pornography started to mess with our lifes it was the same race with those printing press machines. Totaly useless technology that messed with the established flow of knowledge and power.
A couple years later that Bell-kid started with his so called telecommunication machinery that manhandled US Postals right to orchestrate communication. Luckily we managed to get under controll through legislation. Hopefully we can rely on free market cable entreprises to provide us with the right sex-free Intarweb connections in the future.
I just read about global warming in Michael Crichtons new book State of Fear. Those scientists at the universities are total jerks. I wish the critics would pick on someone else than humanity. Do you think the media is gonna tell the real story? Anyway read about it in on the amazon.com page. I hope the Main Stream Media will let Michael tell his story!
"(..)perhaps costs of getting and writing or converting software that doesn't run on an open-source platform."
Perhaps? I would think a spawling bureaucracy like the one in L.A. uses a large amount of legacy applications and old in house solutions.
And what's the rationale behind hiring more cops? Last I checked the crime rate is dropping faster than someone can say three strike. What is needed is some heavy cost cutting across the board in the justice bureaucracy as well as more heavily armed cops to handle violent thugs on the street.
To achieve the same computing performance, the entire population of the city of Zurich would have to multiply two eight-digit figures every four seconds for a whole year.
Why would anyone do that when they could have twelve midgets sitting in the basement doing the job in a month?
Whoa there. Off course it's up to the kids! Why this trend with blaming hard working parents that are struggling to control their anarchistic kids?
When I was a kid we'd better do our homework and score good on the tests if not; No food for you!
Kids today are far to independant on high tech toys and computers that keep them entertained.
My plan for USA if we want to continue being number 1 would have included some harsh adjustments like; no food for kids that don't perform below the standards, no more funding for schools that perform below the standards, sacking the teachers with bad scores on the tests and tripling the numbers of hours with math.
However; I don't think we need advanced math skills anyway in the future USA. Since it's better to outsource it to India and China anyay why don't we put our money on managment education and communication skils instead. That way we can educate the best MBAs and lawyers in the future. Seem like a much better return on money to me.
Why is it that the GNU community and the people that work with GPL software work like you describe above? Why can't you just work in the open like other developers? Acting like a pirate is not very elite in my opinion, all that underground stuff aint benificiary to the industry.
But instead of using it to build the product, use it to plan a completely new design, and build that as a separate project altogether, using none of the original source code. Call it a different name, make it do slightly different things... when they come to bitch and moan, the damn thing won't share any lines of code. Shit, if there's int i in that source, our version should define int to INT and write INT i, just to throw off code comparison.
Is not this exactly what resulted in the problems for the Linux kernel? Borrwing code from proprietary Operating Systems is just as bad as withdrawing a usefull piece of software.
Sadly I think that the slashdotting of this webserver( it went down after 10 seconds) proves that the Linux kernel is not capable of transfering much data to many users.
Hopefully the new 2.6 kernel will improve this.
This would never have happened on a Microsoft campaign.
Yes, but one can't blame these services for that. It's all the contracts, agreements and legal stuff from the labels and record copmanies that hinders worldwide roll-out.
Humor aside; using the word terrorist or zealot against everyone in a "movement" like GNU/Linux is kind of harsh. But it's also stupid and not benificial for what he is trying to say.
Without knowing for sure I think his point is this: Many in the Linux business ar just in it for either the money or their hate towards Microsoft. This fanatical political opinion mixed with lack of logical skills results in a lack of ability to analyse the whole situation. So when SCo tries to present their version they are bashed for not agreeing on the political wievs behind Linux. So the legal basis behind the case is discredited based on perceptions.
I must say it myself; that I sometimes wonder how far some individuals here are willing to go just to get their Operation System favored. It's kind of strange tha many of those in the GNU/Linux community whom are liberals at the same times are almost willing to use force to get their OS into government for example. Maybe its is the true meaning behind their philoshophy that comes forward. I f one look at political movements liberal organizations almost evolve into socialistic systems and later picking up authoritharian methods from the communist in order to protect their wiews.
That something was an article here on slashdot about Mandrake starting to include advertising in the instalation. That's far from spyware.
You will probably see something like "We at Comapany X have this product thats superior comapared to Company Y's product etc" during the instalation.
Nothing to worry about and only slightly annoying.
Slashdot Mirror
The way they are pretending to be "real news" is just fantastic, check out this blog from the folks that redesigned The Onions layout.
Well if _you_ don't want to support them there are plenty of others that you could donate to.
Back in the good old days before all that smut pornography started to mess with our lifes it was the same race with those printing press machines. Totaly useless technology that messed with the established flow of knowledge and power.
A couple years later that Bell-kid started with his so called telecommunication machinery that manhandled US Postals right to orchestrate communication. Luckily we managed to get under controll through legislation. Hopefully we can rely on free market cable entreprises to provide us with the right sex-free Intarweb connections in the future.
Burke
Perhaps? I would think a spawling bureaucracy like the one in L.A. uses a large amount of legacy applications and old in house solutions.
And what's the rationale behind hiring more cops?
Last I checked the crime rate is dropping faster than someone can say three strike. What is needed is some heavy cost cutting across the board in the justice bureaucracy as well as more heavily armed cops to handle violent thugs on the street.
HDD is like Internet Web or PC Computer.
When I was a kid we'd better do our homework and score good on the tests if not; No food for you!
Kids today are far to independant on high tech toys and computers that keep them entertained.
My plan for USA if we want to continue being number 1 would have included some harsh adjustments like; no food for kids that don't perform below the standards, no more funding for schools that perform below the standards, sacking the teachers with bad scores on the tests and tripling the numbers of hours with math.
However; I don't think we need advanced math skills anyway in the future USA. Since it's better to outsource it to India and China anyay why don't we put our money on managment education and communication skils instead. That way we can educate the best MBAs and lawyers in the future. Seem like a much better return on money to me.
I'm rich.
So no release yet.
You need Bittorrent to download the above file.
And remember to keep the connection open as long as possible after you've finished downloading.
If I recall correctly we used a tall bridge to discover the 'magic angle' of 90 degrees as that required to maximize splatting of bored professors.
To many penguins if you ask me; as someone who work in marketing.
Hopefully the new 2.6 kernel will improve this.
This would never have happened on a Microsoft campaign.
Colonel Gates in Apocalypse .Net
Much more info about the bill:
Without knowing for sure I think his point is this: Many in the Linux business ar just in it for either the money or their hate towards Microsoft. This fanatical political opinion mixed with lack of logical skills results in a lack of ability to analyse the whole situation. So when SCo tries to present their version they are bashed for not agreeing on the political wievs behind Linux. So the legal basis behind the case is discredited based on perceptions.
I must say it myself; that I sometimes wonder how far some individuals here are willing to go just to get their Operation System favored. It's kind of strange tha many of those in the GNU/Linux community whom are liberals at the same times are almost willing to use force to get their OS into government for example. Maybe its is the true meaning behind their philoshophy that comes forward. I f one look at political movements liberal organizations almost evolve into socialistic systems and later picking up authoritharian methods from the communist in order to protect their wiews.
That something was an article here on slashdot about Mandrake starting to include advertising in the instalation. That's far from spyware.
You will probably see something like "We at Comapany X have this product thats superior comapared to Company Y's product etc" during the instalation.
Nothing to worry about and only slightly annoying.