I thought it was a little lame, but it did bring back the Tolkien flashbacks that book 1 evoked. Remember the end of The Two Towers? The book, not the movie. All she needs is Sam to say something annoying, and the picture would be complete.
The book was a little lame, but hopefully he's laying the ground work for an impending Tarmon Gai'don. I hope so. 600+ a shot for nothing to happen is frustrating.
If we're unlucky enough to get saddled with a machine with this on it, can't we just put LinuxBIOS on there and move on? I'm not really up on BIOS in general and LinuxBIOS in particular, but it makes sense to me.
Correct me if I'm wong, but last time I checked, "markets" were not constitutionally protected, and neither were coporate profits or business models. (unless, of course, the business model is patented)
Well, according to your login, you don't appear to be wong, so I guess I'll let slide any errors that there might be.:P
I know this horse has been beaten to thiry-seven deaths, but "the RIAA has decided to back down from its earlier proposed amendment". Huh? What state do they represent? I think it's sad that corporations can buy congressman. I think it's one of the most disgusting perversions of our democracy ever seen. However, what bothers me most is that statements like this are made, and people don't blink. Corporations, technically speaking, can't introduce or amend bills (only elected representatives can do that). In practice, however, that proves to be incorrect, and we accept it. Pretty sad...
Is that like how people don't say Microsoft Windows instead of Windows? Does that mean X Windows will never catch on until people start noticing the difference? We call X Windows 'X' for the same reason people call MS Office 'Office': we're lazy. Sure, most people don't know there are options, but, come on...
2. C or C++ may be great for writing device drivers and filters, but for doing database apps? C'mon! Delphi's way of doing databases gives you the same easy programming as some of the crappy database-oriented scripting languages (paradox, powerbuilder) with fully compiled (and optimized) native code.
Actually, I'm a C++ developer, and we do quite a bit of DB access from our C++ code. To be quite honest, the Borland Database Engine (which is the only thing I can think of to which you might be referring) is quite possibly the worst DB interface I've ever used. The idea is nice, but is a slow, HUGE hog. In our Builder apps, we rolled our own ODBC and OCI classes, written entirely in C++, that work quite well. We even use the OCI stuff under Linux, so we have a usable, portable, C++ database API. It's quite nice.
Don't get me wrong. I started with Delphi, and, realizing that not many people are gonna want Object Pascal programmers (thought there are a few), quickly switched to C++ as soon as Builder was available. Now I code in the same language, no matter which OS I'm using.
Don't forget about Tux. If most of your content is static, Tux will be a very potent solution, IIRC. Since it runs in kernel space, you won't waste time doing context switching.
But unless you've got a problem the facts or the way I present them, chill out.
Isn't that what he just did?
If I've said something untrue in my work, you've got a responsibility as a reader to point it out. You haven't done that, though.
How do ya figure? He doesn't work for slashdot. He has no responsibility whatsoever to the site. It is *your* repsonsibility to post true stories accurately, without bias (and I'm making no accusations here. I honestly don't care).
I don't find where you work and post things about the quality of your work. I don't question your professional integrity, because I really don't understand or know what you do for a living. At this point, I don't care. You just seem like someone who was really burned and you're working out your 'angry ex-girlfriend' mojo on me for some unknown reason.
Well, Emmit, you're a published author. Like it or not, that kinda puts you out there for public scrutiny. Politicians, celebrities, and other journalists put up with it all the time. You're gonna have to learn to, or quit. And, while we're focusing on the aspects of your profession, you might want to try to maintain a professional demeanor and not make personal jabs at a probably non-existant dating issue of one of your critics. Thicken that skin.
> Slashdot used to get worse on a monthly basis, then weekly, now it's with every post.
Then don't read it. Apparently it's causing you undue stress.
He has a point here, too. I used to read/. all the time for news. I still come here every time I feel like checking the news, but the quality of the site has plumetted, for whatever reason. I can go to linuxtoday.com and see 34 new news posts, and then come to/. and see 2 new posts, one about a little tiny computer, and then another expose from the hallowed/. journalists. I know you guys are trying to make a living and probably doing the best you can. I can't fault you there. But. As a long time reader, I just gotta say that it ain't like the good old days. I mainly come here now to make sure I don't accidentally miss something that some of the other sites fail to post.
While I'm in the (hopefully constructive) criticism mood, I'd just have to say that AC's are pure evil. You have a problem with AC's trolling? Ban AC's. Who needs 'em? If they want to troll anonymously, let them go somewhere else. At one point, this was a really good tech site where we could read about and discuss news in an intelligent manner. Now we have to wade through troll after troll cuz the powers that be don't want to take away someone's "right" to post anonymously on someone else's site. It's not like it used to be, and that is sad.
My $0.02, for what that's worth. I am just a 25 year old idiot from the middle of nowhere, so do with this as you will.:)
Hell, your president jumps his interns, but we can't handle little timmy seeing some breasts.
So since our president has problems, we should allow the rest of the country to slide into depravity?
Bitch and whine, but you elected, or allowed to get elected, those representatives that don't have the balls to tell the "moral right" where to go. How many of your politicians would even admit to viewing pr0n?? Hell, I love pr0n. What's wrong with a little n00kie. I'll be seeing all you bible thumpers in hell anyhow.
Hmm. pr0n and n00kie. My first thought is that you're about 12 with typing like that, but your apparent knowledge of American history tends to defy that assessment. Either way, I have a tough time taking political advice from someone who thinks he's so l337 that he types like you do.
You've given up your right to hold arms for the purpose of ensuring a free state, in it's place, giving the state absolute power
Unless I'm mistaken, the "oppresive regieme [sic]" allows 0 private ownership of fire arms. We haven't quite done that yet, and I'll be surprised (and greatly saddened) if that ever happens.
The irony is that the "opressive regieme" which you rebelled from in 1776 is more free today than you are now. Tsk, tsk.
Now, I'm no historian, but I think the major initiative in our fight for Independence was based on the phrase "taxation without representaion." King George put an undue burden on the American colonies without giving the colonists any real recourse for remedy, thus, the American Revolutionary War. Granted, many of the colonsists came to the New World to escape religious persecution. They were seeking a place to raise their families where they would be safe to practice their beliefs. Today, we see efforts to hold on to the moral foundation this country had. Some of it has a real religious foundation, while some is based on sociological factors. We see, in the case of pornography (please note the correct spelling), that many of the rapists and major serial killers were mired in porn. There's nothing saying that everyone who looks at porn will end up killing everyone on their block, but, apparently, the chances are greater. (I know. There are many other factors that go into becoming a serial killer, but this one seemed important enough for psychologists to point out). There's more to these efforts than being a moralist state.
> Now 17-year-olds can't play a video game because it's called violent - and real violence is still called dinner.
To quote Dr. James Hurley (formerly employed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital): "Plants are alive too. Why don't you just starve?" How about we look at the plight of plants. This cute (arguable, but work with me) little tomato plant is sitting in this garden (that, for some reason, is weed free and watered regualry. huh) enjoying the sunshine, when, suddenly, this guy comes along in funny clothes carrying a basket. What's he doing? My buddy Frank is shaking for some reason. Oh no. He's reaching for me, now. What's in the basket. Hey! Let go of my fruit there. Ah! He just ripped part of me off! Oh! The pain! The torture! Will this ever stop? Nope. Little Tommy Tomoato gets plundered regulary by those evil vegetarians.
This aversion to the "violence" against livestock bred for human consumption is, in my opinion, quite absurd. That field of bulls, just like your garden, has been carefully tended to produce a food item for personal or market consumption. Maybe both. Could we kill our animals more humanely (I find that interesting when applied to animals)? Sure, but how you shut your yap until you quit cutting the heads off all that grass with your lawn mower, butcher!:)
"The decision to pull clone licenses pissed me off when I first heard of it. However you have to remember that Apple was losing money and the couldn't afford competition from clones. "
Hmm. Isn't capitalism about free markets and competition (as well as private ownership, yada yada yada). If Apple can't compete, they get run out of business. It wouldn't be the first time that happened. Killing competition to reinforce your own market position *can be* labeled as an anti-trust violation. Who knows if Appple's moves can be called that. I haven't a clue. I code for a living, so my legal advice is worthless.:)
From what I've read about OSX, it will be even more restricting than previous releases, if you can imagine that. Someone, somewhere wrote a piece on why Macs aren't better liked by geeks. One of the tenets of this piece was the closededness, if you will, of the architecture. I got into computers about the time the Mac was introduced. I started with a C-64 and moved on the PC eventually. At the time, it was because of the ubiquity of Windows, and I'm glad I went that way. If it hadn't been for the expandility of the machine, I might still be stuck with really old hardware (I went to a private university). In recent years, I've more to Linux as my desire to poke and prod at all parts of the machine increased. According to that review (I'm being vague, I know. I certainly don't mean to. I'm at work and too lazy (and busy?) to try to find my references), OSX will hide even more details from the user. So what if the kernel is at least partially BSD. If I can't get a command-line, recompile the kernel, or even add some odd piece of hardware, Mac OS will get no more attention from me than it has since I left the printing industry. I think, honestly (and please don't flame me. I'm a happy Linux user), that the Mac OS is ugly and restricive. My thougts. Your mileage may vary...
I haven't read the article yet. Probably won't. What I'm curious about is why I'm still seeing Katz's articles. I filtered this guy forever ago, and I still his articles periodically. sigh...
I could be wrong on this, but it seems to me that maybe Scott is a bit scared. There have been a number of developments at Sun that look great on the surface, but several/. readers have questioned Sun's motivations behind the moves (the SO acquisition for one). One reader suggested that Sun is using Linux not because it's a pretty viable computing solution (which is rapidly getting better), but using it rather as a tool to help kill Microsoft. "Linux is a good starting point. When you're ready to graduate, here's Solaris" is the impression I get from Sun. Maybe this move indicates that they've realized the Linux juggernaut is a threat not only to Microsoft, but to Sun as well. One of the stated goals of the Linux community is "Total World Domination" and that idea probably covers the entire OS spectrum. We've made exceptional strides into the server market (and 2.4 should help alleviate some of the scalability issues holding Linux down), and with KDE 2.0 on the horizon (as well as the rapid changes in GNOME;), the desktop shouldn't be too far off. I think maybe Sun is trying to hold on to *their* position here, but I have been called an idiot more than once...
My company came across some old Sparcs (SPARCclassic and SPARCstationLX) that had Solaris on them. REALLY slow, so we installed RH 5.2 on 'em. Not perfect, but they were finally usable. Linux did for these Sparcs what's it has done for old x86 machines: save 'em from the round file...
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I thought it was a little lame, but it did bring back the Tolkien flashbacks that book 1 evoked. Remember the end of The Two Towers? The book, not the movie. All she needs is Sam to say something annoying, and the picture would be complete.
The book was a little lame, but hopefully he's laying the ground work for an impending Tarmon Gai'don. I hope so. 600+ a shot for nothing to happen is frustrating.
jason
.Net is to Microsoft what Websphere is to IBM.
jason
If we're unlucky enough to get saddled with a machine with this on it, can't we just put LinuxBIOS on there and move on? I'm not really up on BIOS in general and LinuxBIOS in particular, but it makes sense to me.
...until this changes:
Dell and Linux
jason
Inconceivable!
Is it just me, or is it wierd that the EFF uses ASPs on there home page. No a whole lot of freedom with that setup .
jason
Yup. This Internet thingy even has spell checkers to help make it more purposeful. :)
jaosn
Correct me if I'm wong, but last time I checked, "markets" were not constitutionally protected, and neither were coporate profits or business models. (unless, of course, the business model is patented)
:P
Well, according to your login, you don't appear to be wong, so I guess I'll let slide any errors that there might be.
jason
I know this horse has been beaten to thiry-seven deaths, but "the RIAA has decided to back down from its earlier proposed amendment". Huh? What state do they represent? I think it's sad that corporations can buy congressman. I think it's one of the most disgusting perversions of our democracy ever seen. However, what bothers me most is that statements like this are made, and people don't blink. Corporations, technically speaking, can't introduce or amend bills (only elected representatives can do that). In practice, however, that proves to be incorrect, and we accept it. Pretty sad...
jason
Is that like how people don't say Microsoft Windows instead of Windows? Does that mean X Windows will never catch on until people start noticing the difference? We call X Windows 'X' for the same reason people call MS Office 'Office': we're lazy. Sure, most people don't know there are options, but, come on...
jason
What in the world does the singing group of yesteryear have to do with online rights? Have I missed something? Are they suing Napster too? :)
jason
Does this mean that, free or not, it's still commercial software? :)
2. C or C++ may be great for writing device drivers and filters, but for doing database apps? C'mon! Delphi's way of doing databases gives you the same easy programming as some of the crappy database-oriented scripting languages (paradox, powerbuilder) with fully compiled (and optimized) native code.
Actually, I'm a C++ developer, and we do quite a bit of DB access from our C++ code. To be quite honest, the Borland Database Engine (which is the only thing I can think of to which you might be referring) is quite possibly the worst DB interface I've ever used. The idea is nice, but is a slow, HUGE hog. In our Builder apps, we rolled our own ODBC and OCI classes, written entirely in C++, that work quite well. We even use the OCI stuff under Linux, so we have a usable, portable, C++ database API. It's quite nice.
Don't get me wrong. I started with Delphi, and, realizing that not many people are gonna want Object Pascal programmers (thought there are a few), quickly switched to C++ as soon as Builder was available. Now I code in the same language, no matter which OS I'm using.
Don't forget about Tux. If most of your content is static, Tux will be a very potent solution, IIRC. Since it runs in kernel space, you won't waste time doing context switching.
:)
Just thought, and it could be wrong...
Anyone happen to have a mirror? I can't resolve the link, and I've tried three different nameservers, including ns1.andover.net.
Isn't that what he just did?
If I've said something untrue in my work, you've got a responsibility as a reader to point it out. You haven't done that, though.
How do ya figure? He doesn't work for slashdot. He has no responsibility whatsoever to the site. It is *your* repsonsibility to post true stories accurately, without bias (and I'm making no accusations here. I honestly don't care).
I don't find where you work and post things about the quality of your work. I don't question your professional integrity, because I really don't understand or know what you do for a living. At this point, I don't care. You just seem like someone who was really burned and you're working out your 'angry ex-girlfriend' mojo on me for some unknown reason.
Well, Emmit, you're a published author. Like it or not, that kinda puts you out there for public scrutiny. Politicians, celebrities, and other journalists put up with it all the time. You're gonna have to learn to, or quit. And, while we're focusing on the aspects of your profession, you might want to try to maintain a professional demeanor and not make personal jabs at a probably non-existant dating issue of one of your critics. Thicken that skin.
> Slashdot used to get worse on a monthly basis, then weekly, now it's with every post.
Then don't read it. Apparently it's causing you undue stress.
He has a point here, too. I used to read /. all the time for news. I still come here every time I feel like checking the news, but the quality of the site has plumetted, for whatever reason. I can go to linuxtoday.com and see 34 new news posts, and then come to /. and see 2 new posts, one about a little tiny computer, and then another expose from the hallowed /. journalists. I know you guys are trying to make a living and probably doing the best you can. I can't fault you there. But. As a long time reader, I just gotta say that it ain't like the good old days. I mainly come here now to make sure I don't accidentally miss something that some of the other sites fail to post.
While I'm in the (hopefully constructive) criticism mood, I'd just have to say that AC's are pure evil. You have a problem with AC's trolling? Ban AC's. Who needs 'em? If they want to troll anonymously, let them go somewhere else. At one point, this was a really good tech site where we could read about and discuss news in an intelligent manner. Now we have to wade through troll after troll cuz the powers that be don't want to take away someone's "right" to post anonymously on someone else's site. It's not like it used to be, and that is sad.
My $0.02, for what that's worth. I am just a 25 year old idiot from the middle of nowhere, so do with this as you will. :)
So since our president has problems, we should allow the rest of the country to slide into depravity?
Bitch and whine, but you elected, or allowed to get elected, those representatives that don't have the balls to tell the "moral right" where to go. How many of your politicians would even admit to viewing pr0n?? Hell, I love pr0n. What's wrong with a little n00kie. I'll be seeing all you bible thumpers in hell anyhow.
Hmm. pr0n and n00kie. My first thought is that you're about 12 with typing like that, but your apparent knowledge of American history tends to defy that assessment. Either way, I have a tough time taking political advice from someone who thinks he's so l337 that he types like you do.
You've given up your right to hold arms for the purpose of ensuring a free state, in it's place, giving the state absolute power
Unless I'm mistaken, the "oppresive regieme [sic]" allows 0 private ownership of fire arms. We haven't quite done that yet, and I'll be surprised (and greatly saddened) if that ever happens.
The irony is that the "opressive regieme" which you rebelled from in 1776 is more free today than you are now. Tsk, tsk.
Now, I'm no historian, but I think the major initiative in our fight for Independence was based on the phrase "taxation without representaion." King George put an undue burden on the American colonies without giving the colonists any real recourse for remedy, thus, the American Revolutionary War. Granted, many of the colonsists came to the New World to escape religious persecution. They were seeking a place to raise their families where they would be safe to practice their beliefs. Today, we see efforts to hold on to the moral foundation this country had. Some of it has a real religious foundation, while some is based on sociological factors. We see, in the case of pornography (please note the correct spelling), that many of the rapists and major serial killers were mired in porn. There's nothing saying that everyone who looks at porn will end up killing everyone on their block, but, apparently, the chances are greater. (I know. There are many other factors that go into becoming a serial killer, but this one seemed important enough for psychologists to point out). There's more to these efforts than being a moralist state.
For what it's worth, there it is.
True. I already have Katz filtered. I might need to filter timothy. Sad times.
> Now 17-year-olds can't play a video game because it's called violent - and real violence is still called dinner.
:)
To quote Dr. James Hurley (formerly employed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital): "Plants are alive too. Why don't you just starve?" How about we look at the plight of plants. This cute (arguable, but work with me) little tomato plant is sitting in this garden (that, for some reason, is weed free and watered regualry. huh) enjoying the sunshine, when, suddenly, this guy comes along in funny clothes carrying a basket. What's he doing? My buddy Frank is shaking for some reason. Oh no. He's reaching for me, now. What's in the basket. Hey! Let go of my fruit there. Ah! He just ripped part of me off! Oh! The pain! The torture! Will this ever stop? Nope. Little Tommy Tomoato gets plundered regulary by those evil vegetarians.
This aversion to the "violence" against livestock bred for human consumption is, in my opinion, quite absurd. That field of bulls, just like your garden, has been carefully tended to produce a food item for personal or market consumption. Maybe both. Could we kill our animals more humanely (I find that interesting when applied to animals)? Sure, but how you shut your yap until you quit cutting the heads off all that grass with your lawn mower, butcher!
Unpolished, and probably dumb, but there it is...
"The decision to pull clone licenses pissed me off when I first heard of it. However you have to remember that Apple was losing money and the couldn't afford competition from clones. "
:)
Hmm. Isn't capitalism about free markets and competition (as well as private ownership, yada yada yada). If Apple can't compete, they get run out of business. It wouldn't be the first time that happened. Killing competition to reinforce your own market position *can be* labeled as an anti-trust violation. Who knows if Appple's moves can be called that. I haven't a clue. I code for a living, so my legal advice is worthless.
screech
From what I've read about OSX, it will be even more restricting than previous releases, if you can imagine that. Someone, somewhere wrote a piece on why Macs aren't better liked by geeks. One of the tenets of this piece was the closededness, if you will, of the architecture. I got into computers about the time the Mac was introduced. I started with a C-64 and moved on the PC eventually. At the time, it was because of the ubiquity of Windows, and I'm glad I went that way. If it hadn't been for the expandility of the machine, I might still be stuck with really old hardware (I went to a private university). In recent years, I've more to Linux as my desire to poke and prod at all parts of the machine increased. According to that review (I'm being vague, I know. I certainly don't mean to. I'm at work and too lazy (and busy?) to try to find my references), OSX will hide even more details from the user. So what if the kernel is at least partially BSD. If I can't get a command-line, recompile the kernel, or even add some odd piece of hardware, Mac OS will get no more attention from me than it has since I left the printing industry. I think, honestly (and please don't flame me. I'm a happy Linux user), that the Mac OS is ugly and restricive. My thougts. Your mileage may vary...
screech
I haven't read the article yet. Probably won't. What I'm curious about is why I'm still seeing Katz's articles. I filtered this guy forever ago, and I still his articles periodically. sigh...
I could be wrong on this, but it seems to me that maybe Scott is a bit scared. There have been a number of developments at Sun that look great on the surface, but several /. readers have questioned Sun's motivations behind the moves (the SO acquisition for one). One reader suggested that Sun is using Linux not because it's a pretty viable computing solution (which is rapidly getting better), but using it rather as a tool to help kill Microsoft. "Linux is a good starting point. When you're ready to graduate, here's Solaris" is the impression I get from Sun. Maybe this move indicates that they've realized the Linux juggernaut is a threat not only to Microsoft, but to Sun as well. One of the stated goals of the Linux community is "Total World Domination" and that idea probably covers the entire OS spectrum. We've made exceptional strides into the server market (and 2.4 should help alleviate some of the scalability issues holding Linux down), and with KDE 2.0 on the horizon (as well as the rapid changes in GNOME ;), the desktop shouldn't be too far off. I think maybe Sun is trying to hold on to *their* position here, but I have been called an idiot more than once...
screech
My company came across some old Sparcs (SPARCclassic and SPARCstationLX) that had Solaris on them. REALLY slow, so we installed RH 5.2 on 'em. Not perfect, but they were finally usable. Linux did for these Sparcs what's it has done for old x86 machines: save 'em from the round file...
I usually run Katz through my crap-o-meter. He almost always gets two flushes.
screech