I don't think that's entirely accurate. It's given away freely without expectation of compensation, but not without expectation of the receiver doing the same. The issue is not that company X has got something for nothing, but rather that they are giving nothing in return.
I'm stoked when a user uses and like my software and equally so when they pass it along to mates, but if I caught a user blatently selling my code and not passing it on (in direct violation of the license) they'll get a C&D letter, followed by legal action. Being a company doesn't change that in any way.
Even a company without IT staff usually has a lawyer or two available, and presumably their lawyers are saying you don't need to adhear to the GPL. If lawyers are giving that advice, then we better get this into court and clearly prove otherwise - before it gets out of hand.
They can probably get started wit 2.6 as soon as an enterprise Linux distribution incorporates it.
Is it just me, or is that backwards? If SuSE or RedHat wants me to pay $BIGNUMBER for use of their Enterprise distro services, I'd expect the testing to be done before it gets integrated into the distro. In fact, this kind of testing should be part of the doco you get to see before you sign up for the newest Enterprise distro.
Possibly, but not necessarily. There are plenty of other governments and organisations getting into the game. Once China or the EU make a decent go it, who knows what will happen. I know one thing though, China's space program isn't going to grind to a halt if they lose 7 astronauts.
7 people died during an operation they knew to be dangerous. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. 20,000 people died in an earthquake in Iran this morning. Let's try to keep our "disasters" in perspective.
Honestly, this whole security thing wouldn't bother me too much if it was done with any common sense - and if it actually made me feel a little more secure.
It's not about making anyone feel secure. It's about making anyone wanting to try anything feel uncomfortable. It's a psychological tactic as much as anything. That's why the security monkeys are generally assholes - they're trained to be, because it helps freak potential nutters out.
Personally, I think they're wasting their time (any everyone elses). All it'll do is force real terrorists to get better trained and use more hidable devices. Or they'll simply use methods that don't involve going through the boarding proceedure. Ground staff and baggage handlers, anyone?
I'm on the plane and at the last minute a frantic guy with a turban rushed onboard.
I think that's fairly telling in itself. Let me guess, you're a 20 or 30 something middle-class white guy? I am, although I tend to go casual when travelling, and airport secuity pisses me off big time. I can only imagine what it's like if you fit their "potential terrorist" passenger profile, and if you're boarding with the wrong ticket - good luck getting that sorted out.
...write miantainable code......The approach of......have yoe ever......horrendous and unmaimtainable......should be hirng good reliable (not off shore!) programmers is a watse of...
Every offshore programmer I've met has had a far better grasp of the English language than you have, my friend.
I wouldn't read too much into posts from ACs about working for an unnamed Fortune 100/500/whatever company. If they don't have the balls to put their name to their post and name their company, it's just baseless trolling.
Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing. This despite being a Linux convert of about 6 years now. As much as I think open sourced drivers would be great I've had minimal problems with them, and even if I was using an ATI I'd probably run the XiG server anyway...
I (and presumably others) have asked some project leaders about this, but it seems to come down to testing and support of various cards. Also, remember that this is relatively unknown technology - Amiga blitting aside;-) - you have to be pretty sure it's going to give accurate and consistent results before using it seriously. Find-A-Drug was my project of interest, and they have a Linux version too.
In this case, I don't think the majority of the people in the world had the guts to make a tough decision
Rubbish. The majority of the people in the world made the decision against it. We didn't cover our eyes from anything. It was the US that was scared here. A couple of buildings had been destroyed by terrorists a year or so previous, no real progress had been made in locating bin Laden,and U.S. officials felt they had to be seen to be doing something.
Most of the world (people, even if not governments) were quite happy to let inspectors do their job and due process to go ahead. There was NO immediate threat from Iraq. Meanwhile, Americans were getting jumpy and insecure. Joe and Jane Usian didn't want to fly anymore because they thought they might get hijacked, and confidence in the incumbant government was falling... So what to do? Launch an attack on a manufactured enemy, coerce the governments of other countries against the wishes of thier people, and follow it through until presidential ratings go up.
Fuck that. You say the rest of us don't have guts? It was fear that inspired this whole mess. Fear of losing power, and fear of not feeling safe in your own country. Guess what, the terrorists DID win this one. BTW, anyone who thinks Iraq is actually being liberated should know this: "Any demonstration against the government or coalition forces will be fired upon." Freedom my ass.
Too bad about the freedesktop shadows then. Hard edges abound, but the screenshots shown don't render shadows with layered windows correctly. Eg, the shadow dropping onto a lower layer window isn't thinner than the shadow dropping all the way to the desktop.
How about a "community" distributed computing project? A true P2P thing where anyone can upload a job and have it processed by folks, and in return provide computing power to others. No centralized server and formalized infrastructure, just a bunch of geeks crunching data for each other.
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It's pretty bad from a radiation perspective. Tons and tons of Thorium get pumped out by coal production, aside from any greenhouse gases.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. It's given away freely without expectation of compensation, but not without expectation of the receiver doing the same. The issue is not that company X has got something for nothing, but rather that they are giving nothing in return.
I'm stoked when a user uses and like my software and equally so when they pass it along to mates, but if I caught a user blatently selling my code and not passing it on (in direct violation of the license) they'll get a C&D letter, followed by legal action. Being a company doesn't change that in any way.
Even a company without IT staff usually has a lawyer or two available, and presumably their lawyers are saying you don't need to adhear to the GPL. If lawyers are giving that advice, then we better get this into court and clearly prove otherwise - before it gets out of hand.
They can probably get started wit 2.6 as soon as an enterprise Linux distribution incorporates it.
Is it just me, or is that backwards? If SuSE or RedHat wants me to pay $BIGNUMBER for use of their Enterprise distro services, I'd expect the testing to be done before it gets integrated into the distro. In fact, this kind of testing should be part of the doco you get to see before you sign up for the newest Enterprise distro.
Hopefully this is the start of a trend.
In other words, management can see the numbers to back up claims that Linux is reliable, whereas for other OS they must take the word of a salesman.
Possibly, but not necessarily. There are plenty of other governments and organisations getting into the game. Once China or the EU make a decent go it, who knows what will happen. I know one thing though, China's space program isn't going to grind to a halt if they lose 7 astronauts.
7 people died during an operation they knew to be dangerous. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. 20,000 people died in an earthquake in Iran this morning. Let's try to keep our "disasters" in perspective.
Honestly, this whole security thing wouldn't bother me too much if it was done with any common sense - and if it actually made me feel a little more secure.
It's not about making anyone feel secure. It's about making anyone wanting to try anything feel uncomfortable. It's a psychological tactic as much as anything. That's why the security monkeys are generally assholes - they're trained to be, because it helps freak potential nutters out.
Personally, I think they're wasting their time (any everyone elses). All it'll do is force real terrorists to get better trained and use more hidable devices. Or they'll simply use methods that don't involve going through the boarding proceedure. Ground staff and baggage handlers, anyone?
I'm on the plane and at the last minute a frantic guy with a turban rushed onboard.
I think that's fairly telling in itself. Let me guess, you're a 20 or 30 something middle-class white guy? I am, although I tend to go casual when travelling, and airport secuity pisses me off big time. I can only imagine what it's like if you fit their "potential terrorist" passenger profile, and if you're boarding with the wrong ticket - good luck getting that sorted out.
Yeh, but ready for whom? Will Xiao in Beijing have access to it, or just US military personale?
Every offshore programmer I've met has had a far better grasp of the English language than you have, my friend.
Or to put it another way, nice troll.
I wouldn't read too much into posts from ACs about working for an unnamed Fortune 100/500/whatever company. If they don't have the balls to put their name to their post and name their company, it's just baseless trolling.
after earthquakes japan tends to use the rebuild phase as a chance to organize some of this stuff
In Japan, the glass is half full :-)
Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing. This despite being a Linux convert of about 6 years now. As much as I think open sourced drivers would be great I've had minimal problems with them, and even if I was using an ATI I'd probably run the XiG server anyway...
Well, it's good to see somebody finally thinking of the children.
Multiply power by N.
You work for Nvidia, don't you?
And to answer my own question... maybe GeForceFX 5200 is it? Radeon 9000 seems to be available too.
Hmmm. What's the fastest PCI graphics card you can buy these days?
I (and presumably others) have asked some project leaders about this, but it seems to come down to testing and support of various cards. Also, remember that this is relatively unknown technology - Amiga blitting aside ;-) - you have to be pretty sure it's going to give accurate and consistent results before using it seriously. Find-A-Drug was my project of interest, and they have a Linux version too.
Why not? Printers have been doing this for years... There's no reason you couldn't make a graphics card to display postscript in hardware.
In this case, I don't think the majority of the people in the world had the guts to make a tough decision
Rubbish. The majority of the people in the world made the decision against it. We didn't cover our eyes from anything. It was the US that was scared here. A couple of buildings had been destroyed by terrorists a year or so previous, no real progress had been made in locating bin Laden,and U.S. officials felt they had to be seen to be doing something.
Most of the world (people, even if not governments) were quite happy to let inspectors do their job and due process to go ahead. There was NO immediate threat from Iraq. Meanwhile, Americans were getting jumpy and insecure. Joe and Jane Usian didn't want to fly anymore because they thought they might get hijacked, and confidence in the incumbant government was falling... So what to do? Launch an attack on a manufactured enemy, coerce the governments of other countries against the wishes of thier people, and follow it through until presidential ratings go up.
Fuck that. You say the rest of us don't have guts? It was fear that inspired this whole mess. Fear of losing power, and fear of not feeling safe in your own country. Guess what, the terrorists DID win this one. BTW, anyone who thinks Iraq is actually being liberated should know this: "Any demonstration against the government or coalition forces will be fired upon." Freedom my ass.
Too bad about the freedesktop shadows then. Hard edges abound, but the screenshots shown don't render shadows with layered windows correctly. Eg, the shadow dropping onto a lower layer window isn't thinner than the shadow dropping all the way to the desktop.
"It's just business" is the most used excuse for doing unethical things.
Maybe if Ximian released a Debian version of XD2, all of this would just go away...
Or maybe Microsoft will figure it doesn't need to provide patches in a timely manner, because the user community will do it for them.
How about a "community" distributed computing project? A true P2P thing where anyone can upload a job and have it processed by folks, and in return provide computing power to others. No centralized server and formalized infrastructure, just a bunch of geeks crunching data for each other.