the.org TLD is not and never was reserved for non-profit organizations!
I am too lazy to go get the RFC, but I believe that it is actually for non-coporate organizations or groups. Like families, etc. It was never meant to be for non-profits!
I agree... there's still a single machine running a single operating system underneath it all... Crackers would just have to start getting familiar with the way VMWare handles processes. Or, if they're just after the data, just crack the host OS and grab data from there...
Microsoft, I mean. They never knew how to play their hand right. Gates was moneyed from the start, with his father's fortune from the bootlegging days, and Bill's Harvard degree. But he never had the sense knocked into him, y'know?
Bill doesn't have a Harvard degree. He dropped out. T
I don't get it. Why would you talk about money before determining if you want to hire the person? You can't really negotiate with someone when you don't know what skills they possess.
I agree completely. I am in a startup now, and we routinely make sure someone's not an idiot and that we'd actually consider hiring them before we bother NDA'ing them.
Now, I just hope that nobody's reading this that was interviewed but not NDA'd...;-)
You've obviously not written an large-scale transaction-based system in Java recently.
A web-based product with 30,000 simultaneous users will go belly up every 1/2 hour or so when all the RAM is used up and the JVM has to kick in and free RAM. Sun had to patch a version of their JVM for a friend of mine in just such a situation.
The big problem with Java's GC (not GC in general) is that the algorithm is not specified, so most JVMs do a bad job of it. I had a problem with Microsoft's not even kicking in until the machine started popping up windows that said "not enough resources to run this application".
Those are the reasons that GC (the implementation, not the concept) is bad.
Actually, it already is subsidized by advertising. Like, for instance the "Get Blazing B2B" banner I see at the top of this page as I post this response.
Besides, how can the ISP tell that this person just expressed an opinion that people didn't like? Perhaps they expressed an extreme religous opinion in a homosexual group? Or a pro-life in an abortion group? Or for that matter a pro-abortion (I REFUSE to call is pro-choice...) idea in a pro-life group?
So, freedom of speech should only be protected if it's speech of which you approve? Open your mind.
Therefore, since fewer new developments are likely to come in the physical fiber technology, but lots are expected in the tx/rx side of things, is it possible to figure out which companies are more strongly poised to profit from this phenomenon? Any ideas?
Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, blah blah... They're all doing this stuff. Multiplexing at different light frequencies is a big market right now. At one time, Ciena was the best at it (it's a big leapfrog contest... "We're better!".. "No! We're Better!"... ad infinitum) T
Weren't "they" supposed to put a 40Gbps Fiber cable in the ocean around Africa? I remember reading about that a while back. Here's the/. article. So, what makes this cooler? T
You should have read some of the recent news articles about it. They've done exactly that. In conjunction with the first college that banned it, they've modified the program to look internally on college LANs first, and then to go out to the net.
If this were called LinuxNews.org or something of the sort, I would agree. But, it's supposedly covering topics ranging from Macs to Mainframes to games, etc. Yet, all the news that ever seems to appear is about the same very small set of topics.
I like this site, don't get me wrong. I just think it could use a little less of a skew in one direction.
There are plenty of windoze oriented forums, no need to turn./ into yet another one. The focus of/. has always been Linux, free software and cool geek stuff, in that sequence. If your friend expected/. to be a news site oriented toward the business world, he is clueless.
Let me just remind everyone of what's at the top of the page... "Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". This does not say "Slashdot: Linux/OSS/GNU News For Nerds...". Slashdot needs more articles on other topics.
And, to those who point to my preferences... I do not even select specific topics. I have all things enabled, and I have my threshold at 0.
Local phone calls are not free in any state in this country. For instance, Bell Atlantic in Maryland charged $16+ for unlimited outgoing calls, but you can have 2 other services (rarely used by people): 1) Limited service for about $14/mo, you get 65 calls a month. All calls after that are $0.10/call. 2) Economy service: Form about $8/mo, you get 0 calls a month. All calls are $0.085/call after that.
So, calls are not free, they are just relatively inexpensive. Since most people think that the $16+ is just for having a phone, they don't remember that they chose the "expensive" plan for their phone.
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So, people have started advertising inside of Slashdot. What is the world coming too!?
You're missing the point. He's saying that there are nothing but Linux articles on this site, and I have to agree with him. I had this conversation with a friend recently who said he has stopped reading Slashdot because he has stopped learning anything about "real world" software that is used by the majority of the business world (and not as their web servers).
Slashdot has nothing but articles about Free Software, Open Source, Linux, etc. Someone needs to put the focus on a couple of more topics here.
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the .org TLD is not and never was reserved for non-profit organizations!
I am too lazy to go get the RFC, but I believe that it is actually for non-coporate organizations or groups. Like families, etc. It was never meant to be for non-profits!
I agree... there's still a single machine running a single operating system underneath it all... Crackers would just have to start getting familiar with the way VMWare handles processes. Or, if they're just after the data, just crack the host OS and grab data from there...
That's because in the anglo-saxon mindset...
Ahhh... a little refreshing racism always brightens up a discussion!
Free your mind.
Except That Mozilla sucks ass!
Microsoft, I mean. They never knew how to play their hand right. Gates was moneyed from the start, with his father's fortune from the bootlegging days, and Bill's Harvard degree. But he never had the sense knocked into him, y'know?
Bill doesn't have a Harvard degree. He dropped out.
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Well... yeah... Linux didn't exist until '89 or '90. (Note to Linux Nazi that will inevitably respond to this message: it's a ballpark figure)
Tom
Ahhh.. yes... I'm so glad that Linux is so easy to configure... Are you feeling OK??
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It's not just Americans that do stupid legal stuff. How about the French woman who sued the chef for the lobster attacking her breast??
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Now, I just hope that nobody's reading this that was interviewed but not NDA'd... ;-)
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The big problem with Java's GC (not GC in general) is that the algorithm is not specified, so most JVMs do a bad job of it. I had a problem with Microsoft's not even kicking in until the machine started popping up windows that said "not enough resources to run this application".
Those are the reasons that GC (the implementation, not the concept) is bad.
Actually, it already is subsidized by advertising. Like, for instance the "Get Blazing B2B" banner I see at the top of this page as I post this response.
"Capitalism"
So, freedom of speech should only be protected if it's speech of which you approve?
Open your mind.
Is that Juniper? If so, I know they got a big contract from UUNET for replacing a bunch of Cisco equipment for their backbone switches.
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Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, blah blah... They're all doing this stuff. Multiplexing at different light frequencies is a big market right now. At one time, Ciena was the best at it (it's a big leapfrog contest... "We're better!" .. "No! We're Better!"... ad infinitum)
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Weren't "they" supposed to put a 40Gbps Fiber cable in the ocean around Africa? /. article.
I remember reading about that a while back.
Here's the
So, what makes this cooler?
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That's "Willard Scott", not "William". Funny post though, gotta admit.
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Tom
I like this site, don't get me wrong. I just think it could use a little less of a skew in one direction.
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I am not a "suit" as you call it. I am a rather season software architect working at an internet startup company.
If you were "smart enought to fit into the technical crowd" yourself, you'd be less afraid of letting me know who you are.
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Let me just remind everyone of what's at the top of the page... "Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". This does not say "Slashdot: Linux/OSS/GNU News For Nerds...". Slashdot needs more articles on other topics.
And, to those who point to my preferences... I do not even select specific topics. I have all things enabled, and I have my threshold at 0.
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1) Limited service for about $14/mo, you get 65 calls a month. All calls after that are $0.10/call.
2) Economy service: Form about $8/mo, you get 0 calls a month. All calls are $0.085/call after that.
So, calls are not free, they are just relatively inexpensive. Since most people think that the $16+ is just for having a phone, they don't remember that they chose the "expensive" plan for their phone.
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So, people have started advertising inside of Slashdot. What is the world coming too!?
Slashdot has nothing but articles about Free Software, Open Source, Linux, etc. Someone needs to put the focus on a couple of more topics here.
Tom