All you're doing is repeating what you've said in every other post. Boring. Only a minority of immigrants to the us refuse to speak english, That's true. But the minority is the part that causes a problem, for us and themselves. Come to the silicon valley. People move into these "support groups".. Areas where everybody came from the same village from mexico or wherever. They ignore american culture, language, practices. They barely make it through life and wonder why. I cringe every time I call a local service and hear half of the voiecmail in spanish.. why? Because I know that in a country that is predominantly english-speaking, you're only promoting poverty by making it easier NOT to learn english.
And it's not just california. When I was in pennsylvania there were two towns in my area that was about 90% spanish.. it's easy when you move to a new country to move to an area where people are "like you". That's not the american spirit.. keeping to yourselves you say we're not worthy of our culture and that our culture isn't good enough for you.. When people do that they suffer and bring it upon themselves.
First off, before all of the whiny californian hippies attack me, I am not racist and am dating a foreign worker right now.. So stop before you start.
In a startup environment, I wouldn't hire a foreign worker if I could avoid it depending on the startup. If The whole company is going to have a 3 month learning curve with a dba, when those are 3 months we're trying to build the company to start, then we've got a problem. Now if his/her english skills are adequate, it's a different story. At a startup I worked at recently, We had a very, very, very technically talented sikh fellow, he knew oracle like the back of his hand and was a mean sysadmin to boot. But It took at least a half hour to give him a request or take one.. I found myself devoting an hour and a half each day with him in hopes to improve his english.. His normal english was actually pretty good, but he couldn't talk about technology enough..
Now get off this guy's back, 90% of you calling him a racist are college students who've never known what it's like to stay up 28 hours @ work because you had hardware failures in the middle of a massive code rewrite/network redesign/etc..
Very irrelevant. I am not putting down h1 workers, I've worked with some very, very talented people mwho I learned a lot from linguistically and technically. People who were paid half what I was because they were H1 workers. But the fact is, this is america. We aren't part of a global society, we are part of an american society. Our official language is english and most people are adopting our ways (sadly). If I go to another country I do my best to learn their language.
But if people come here they must do it as well. Most people I've worked for in the industry do their best to communicate, and if you (I hope I do) have a little bit of patience then the communicatios barrier stops..
Now when people come here and refuse to try to learn our language, I have NO sympathy for them and they deserve what they get.
They dont give much details, but friends of mine
have been discussing the ideas for years..
Is it really possible? I mean 33km of material is going to weight a lot unless it's made out of feathers or intestine.. and I'm sure those materials have weight as well, and aren't that structurally sound..
This was talked about a bit in Arthur C. Clarke's book, space oddyssey 3001.. though what I liked in his book was the idea of a "space elevator" on the planet of europa to send out spurts of water (turning it into a spinning sprinkler system) which would then freeze in space and be used to cool down & colonize other moons/planets..
What I really want to know.. is has MUZAK International already started planning on how they're going to insert their horrible string versions of american pie into the space elevator?
Might as well have killed them.. paymybills.com bought payme.com because idealab realized payme.com was dying so they talked payme into selling, therefore screwing themselves.. paymybills realized it would cost 2million a month to run payme.. so instead they decided they were going to shut it down.. now I hear paytrust bought paymybills anyways.. it was funny. one day there was a payme.com staff the next day everyone was said 'hey we're firing you all but you'll get a bonus of you stay until we shut down' so everybody quit.
We remember The '2 c00l ph1b3r 0pt1k'.. People I know used to harrass little beanie all the time... when you were on a meetme conference and had nothing better to do, you'd call up his latest phone # and harrass him.. Mark Abene is a prick and they probably just did reference checks.
A couple of years ago there was an older cray
being auctioned off.. I think it was on ebay as
well as some other auction house.. the box ended
up going for a lot less than it was worth (you
can still melt down the gold inside a cray
and sell it for something).. they ended up
selling it for less because the bid was done
in binary, and the guy in charge of the auction said "I thought it was really cool!".. Does anybody remember this? I forget the details now.
This is hardly the same thing. When you tip
the street performer that entertains you
on broadway during intermission, you do it at
the end and he leaves, as do you. When you
"tip" ID, they give you more...
I used to work @ an idealab.com company. When I worked @ the company, well when I interviewed there I interviewed @ payme.com an idealab company. Idealab is a company which basically takes cool ideas like paypal and tries to copy them (payme was a copy of paypal.. their new incubating company payola.com is a copy of alladvantage.. their wireless company is a copy of every palm wireless company that exists now like avantgo.. what a lack of innovation).. And payme.com basically went out of business due to their $5 referral.. Everybody laughed @ them then defrauded them. one person got away with about $60k.. just by using a couple bank accounts and fake credit cards, signing up thousands of new accounts a day and making $$ off of the 10% which would slip by with validly generated credit card #s... scary huh?
This is a ripe subject. First off, go to the beowulf mailing list. After that your best place to go is http://www.beowulf-underground.org That's a slashdot-like site devoted to beowulf.. Everything is there.
Also, http://www.xtreme-machines.com/x-links.html has a lot of links to documentation. Also Bulding Linux Clusters by David Spector has a good list of software in the back.
Ok, I guess our innocence died a long time ago.. netscape's innocence when they sold out to those who ruined the internet as we all once knew it. Do we all remember the furor and sadness when aol got access, so their users could spam everything besides usenet? I personally remember using tools to block aol from coming to websites I ran for at least the first year...
As I sit here writing this, netscape under linux crashes, so I grab my girlfriend's winblows 98 box.. though winblows doesn't blow nearly as much when it comes to a web browser. Netscape under linux crashes when a page has too much java script, java period, too many frames, too many frames with lots of graphics, too many graphics,.. Hell I could go on and on.. For some reason I continue to use netscape under linux @ work.. I see a co-worker use IE under solaris, and could just VNC over and do the same.. some sadly nostalgic part of me remembers downloading mosaic many years ago, and later early versions of netscape.. Netscape was such a wonderful browser compared to mosaic.. why? Well mainly it had that really slow moving (on my old 486 slc 33) netscape graphic with the ring around it (which later got the stars under high traffic).. it wasn't microsoft.. it was free to get for windows 3.1, (I still had to use emacs with the web-browser extensions.. god I hate emacs) Never crashed..
Now what choices do we have? I love linux, I've been working as a systems administrator in linux for 4 years. How the HELL is Linux ever going to catch up without a decent web browser? What are admins going to do? Servers run linux, but browsers run netscape? I hate to say it, linux needs IE.. or netscape needs to split from aol and get funding from a company that gives a flying fuck, because aol certainly doesn't.
When will government figure it out? With the dawning of the internet, everything changed. They do not own us anymore.
We can't be influenced by reagon's propagandhists showing us pictures of nukes in the morning while we eat our pre-school cheerios waiting for the bus.
We can't be influenced by bush's attacking of some 2 bit dictator in a 1 bit sandpit in hopes of raising oil prices making fat texans fatter and drumming up patriotism.
And they can't take our freedoms away. They just think they can. Shut down napster, in a week half of the mp3s on napster will be on freent or gnutella, nto to mention the XXX terabytes of mp3s available on webpages via search engines.. think they can sue us all? We'll just rip more, put them on floppies and throw them at the riaa people's faces.
I say it's time for physical action. Anybody with me? BOMB THE MPAA. BOMB ALL LARGE RECORD LABEL HEADQUARTERS. RAPE AND PLUNDER METALLICA. Why? Well Why not, it's fun! Wheeeeee
I have often questioned the need of a GUI.. I mean can't we just have a svgalib based netscape? I'm sure it'd be a hell of a lot faster and more reliable then x-netscape.. it'd lower the hardware curve, not having to run X just to use some graphical programs.. put your console into vgatext mode and away you go..
But it didn't say much about the physical state of the "LPD"'s.. Perhaps they'll allow for some degree of flexibility.. it seems that it won't need a normal means of activating pixels, so perhaps that can be made very small as well..
I've heard of very typical solutions for printing replacements.. webpad devices which clone the "newspaper" device written of in arthur c. clarke's book 2010.. So I'm guessing as a printer you'd "print out" a screen, and then connect a eeprom chip to it that has your content stored? I wonder if these could be expanded in size.. say to the size of a newspaper or a billboard?
Just to think.. a screen on your t-shirt that you can say "hey baby.. I read slashdot and I'm single.. yeah ok maybe i'm ugly but i'm 50% vested".. and then have a glamour shot-video of you running?
this could be great for the whole wearable computing crowd..
I could get really annoying and quote from the last 7 books, and then the new prequel "house atreides"..
All I really remember about slackware anymore is that the install always worked and was no frills.. but was a hassle to do a good custom install compared to redhat.. but i was admining slackware boxes when I was 14 and didn't know anything..
Hmm wtf.. slashdot was down for 2 hours looks like they lost a few posts.. wonder If they will admit it
Blindly searching forthat missing library you kne was installed, but knew not where. Adept use of the find & slocate commands begging you deleted all known instances of whatever package it is you wanted to remove.. Painful/etc/rc.timewasting files without one central location for easy and consistent configuration..
God it was great!
I couldn't imagine using it on a couple of systems.. it was just too messy... needed package management desperately.. but back then.. it was all there was.. sigh.
When I was in indonesia 4 years ago, EVERYBODY used linux.. they had no money.. windows was expensive, linux was free.. hotels, corporations.. When people in america are doomsayers about linux, they forget about the other 90% of the world which is emerging into technology..
At no cost? It's not like they're buying new ram.. there's a cost.. beyond high failure potential it was hardware which was just recycled.. nothing more.
Remember that? When I was a kid they started us on dacta technic legos & logo.. that was the way to do it (though my first programming language was basic on a ti 99/4a
Yeah maybe.. IF there was a godo one for a car.. i'm not about to pay $2k for a cd player just to listen to mp3s in my car.. that's $$ that'd be much better used for equlizers or better speakers..
as usual, the maintainers of the mirrors are lazy and grabbed everything but the iso's.. redhat.com as them.. and as usual you can't get to redhat's site.. every other site has nothing in it's iso directory or just has redhat-6.2 with no read permission.. figures.. i'm flying in 3 hours and wanted to throw it up before i leave.
This is a freaky/cool coincidence... where the subjecyt is quantum computers dilbert: I've invented a quantum computer, capable of interacting with matter from other universes to solve complex equations. Dogbert: According to chaos theory, your tiny cyhange to another universe will shift its destiny, possibly killing every uinhabitant. Dilbert: Shift Happens dogbert: Fire it up
Slashdot Mirror
All you're doing is repeating what you've said in every other post. Boring. Only a minority of immigrants to the us refuse to speak english, That's true. But the minority is the part that causes a problem, for us and themselves. Come to the silicon valley. People move into these "support groups" .. Areas where everybody came from the same village from mexico or wherever. They ignore american culture, language, practices. They barely make it through life and wonder why. I cringe every time I call a local service and hear half of the voiecmail in spanish.. why? Because I know that in a country that is predominantly english-speaking, you're only promoting poverty by making it easier NOT to learn english.
And it's not just california. When I was in pennsylvania there were two towns in my area that was about 90% spanish.. it's easy when you move to a new country to move to an area where people are "like you". That's not the american spirit.. keeping to yourselves you say we're not worthy of our culture and that our culture isn't good enough for you.. When people do that they suffer and bring it upon themselves.
To play devil's advocate here..
..
First off, before all of the whiny californian hippies attack me, I am not racist and am dating a foreign worker right now.. So stop before you start.
In a startup environment, I wouldn't hire a foreign worker if I could avoid it depending on the startup. If The whole company is going to have a 3 month learning curve with a dba, when those are 3 months we're trying to build the company to start, then we've got a problem. Now if his/her english skills are adequate, it's a different story. At a startup I worked at recently, We had a very, very, very technically talented sikh fellow, he knew oracle like the back of his hand and was a mean sysadmin to boot. But It took at least a half hour to give him a request or take one.. I found myself devoting an hour and a half each day with him in hopes to improve his english.. His normal english was actually pretty good, but he couldn't talk about technology enough..
Now get off this guy's back, 90% of you calling him a racist are college students who've never known what it's like to stay up 28 hours @ work because you had hardware failures in the middle of a massive code rewrite/network redesign/etc
Very irrelevant. I am not putting down h1 workers, I've worked with some very, very talented people mwho I learned a lot from linguistically and technically. People who were paid half what I was because they were H1 workers. But the fact is, this is america. We aren't part of a global society, we are part of an american society. Our official language is english and most people are adopting our ways (sadly). If I go to another country I do my best to learn their language.
But if people come here they must do it as well. Most people I've worked for in the industry do their best to communicate, and if you (I hope I do) have a little bit of patience then the communicatios barrier stops..
Now when people come here and refuse to try to learn our language, I have NO sympathy for them and they deserve what they get.
They dont give much details, but friends of mine
.. though what I liked in his book was the idea of a "space elevator" on the planet of europa to send out spurts of water (turning it into a spinning sprinkler system) which would then freeze in space and be used to cool down & colonize other moons/planets..
have been discussing the ideas for years..
Is it really possible? I mean 33km of material is going to weight a lot unless it's made out of feathers or intestine.. and I'm sure those materials have weight as well, and aren't that structurally sound..
This was talked about a bit in Arthur C. Clarke's book, space oddyssey 3001
What I really want to know.. is has MUZAK International already started planning on how they're going to insert their horrible string versions of american pie into the space elevator?
Might as well have killed them.. paymybills.com bought payme.com because idealab realized payme.com was dying so they talked payme into selling, therefore screwing themselves.. paymybills realized it would cost 2million a month to run payme.. so instead they decided they were going to shut it down.. now I hear paytrust bought paymybills anyways.. it was funny. one day there was a payme.com staff the next day everyone was said 'hey we're firing you all but you'll get a bonus of you stay until we shut down' so everybody quit.
We remember The '2 c00l ph1b3r 0pt1k'.. People I know used to harrass little beanie all the time... when you were on a meetme conference and had nothing better to do, you'd call up his latest phone # and harrass him.. Mark Abene is a prick and they probably just did reference checks.
A couple of years ago there was an older cray .. they ended up
.. Does anybody remember this? I forget the details now.
being auctioned off.. I think it was on ebay as
well as some other auction house.. the box ended
up going for a lot less than it was worth (you
can still melt down the gold inside a cray
and sell it for something)
selling it for less because the bid was done
in binary, and the guy in charge of the auction said "I thought it was really cool!"
This is hardly the same thing. When you tip
the street performer that entertains you
on broadway during intermission, you do it at
the end and he leaves, as do you. When you
"tip" ID, they give you more...
I used to work @ an idealab.com company. When I worked @ the company, well when I interviewed there I interviewed @ payme.com an idealab company. Idealab is a company which basically takes cool ideas like paypal and tries to copy them (payme was a copy of paypal .. their new incubating company payola.com is a copy of alladvantage .. their wireless company is a copy of every palm wireless company that exists now like avantgo.. what a lack of innovation) .. And payme.com basically went out of business due to their $5 referral.. Everybody laughed @ them then defrauded them. one person got away with about $60k .. just by using a couple bank accounts and fake credit cards, signing up thousands of new accounts a day and making $$ off of the 10% which would slip by with validly generated credit card #s... scary huh?
This is a ripe subject. First off, go to the beowulf mailing list. After that your best place to go is http://www.beowulf-underground.org That's a slashdot-like site devoted to beowulf.. Everything is there.
Also, http://www.xtreme-machines.com/x-links.html has a lot of links to documentation. Also Bulding Linux Clusters by David Spector has a good list of software in the back.
Ok, I guess our innocence died a long time ago.. netscape's innocence when they sold out to those who ruined the internet as we all once knew it. Do we all remember the furor and sadness when aol got access, so their users could spam everything besides usenet? I personally remember using tools to block aol from coming to websites I ran for at least the first year...
.. Hell I could go on and on.. For some reason I continue to use netscape under linux @ work.. I see a co-worker use IE under solaris, and could just VNC over and do the same.. some sadly nostalgic part of me remembers downloading mosaic many years ago, and later early versions of netscape.. Netscape was such a wonderful browser compared to mosaic.. why? Well mainly it had that really slow moving (on my old 486 slc 33) netscape graphic with the ring around it (which later got the stars under high traffic).. it wasn't microsoft.. it was free to get for windows 3.1, (I still had to use emacs with the web-browser extensions.. god I hate emacs) Never crashed..
As I sit here writing this, netscape under linux crashes, so I grab my girlfriend's winblows 98 box.. though winblows doesn't blow nearly as much when it comes to a web browser. Netscape under linux crashes when a page has too much java script, java period, too many frames, too many frames with lots of graphics, too many graphics,
Now what choices do we have? I love linux, I've been working as a systems administrator in linux for 4 years. How the HELL is Linux ever going to catch up without a decent web browser? What are admins going to do? Servers run linux, but browsers run netscape? I hate to say it, linux needs IE.. or netscape needs to split from aol and get funding from a company that gives a flying fuck, because aol certainly doesn't.
Oh where, oh where have all the browsers gone?
When will government figure it out? With the dawning of the internet, everything changed. They do not own us anymore.
We can't be influenced by reagon's propagandhists showing us pictures of nukes in the morning while we eat our pre-school cheerios waiting for the bus.
We can't be influenced by bush's attacking of some 2 bit dictator in a 1 bit sandpit in hopes of raising oil prices making fat texans fatter and drumming up patriotism.
And they can't take our freedoms away. They just think they can. Shut down napster, in a week half of the mp3s on napster will be on freent or gnutella, nto to mention the XXX terabytes of mp3s available on webpages via search engines.. think they can sue us all? We'll just rip more, put them on floppies and throw them at the riaa people's faces.
I say it's time for physical action. Anybody with me? BOMB THE MPAA. BOMB ALL LARGE RECORD LABEL HEADQUARTERS. RAPE AND PLUNDER METALLICA. Why? Well Why not, it's fun! Wheeeeee
I have often questioned the need of a GUI.. I mean can't we just have a svgalib based netscape? I'm sure it'd be a hell of a lot faster and more reliable then x-netscape.. it'd lower the hardware curve, not having to run X just to use some graphical programs.. put your console into vgatext mode and away you go..
I red the article.
.. Perhaps they'll allow for some degree of flexibility.. it seems that it won't need a normal means of activating pixels, so perhaps that can be made very small as well..
But it didn't say much about the physical state of the "LPD"'s
I've heard of very typical solutions for printing replacements.. webpad devices which clone the "newspaper" device written of in arthur c. clarke's book 2010.. So I'm guessing as a printer you'd "print out" a screen, and then connect a eeprom chip to it that has your content stored? I wonder if these could be expanded in size.. say to the size of a newspaper or a billboard?
.. and then have a glamour shot-video of you running?
Just to think.. a screen on your t-shirt that you can say "hey baby.. I read slashdot and I'm single.. yeah ok maybe i'm ugly but i'm 50% vested"
this could be great for the whole wearable computing crowd..
Like that
Ummm...
..
I will kill you -
I could get really annoying and quote from the last 7 books, and then the new prequel "house atreides"
All I really remember about slackware anymore is that the install always worked and was no frills.. but was a hassle to do a good custom install compared to redhat.. but i was admining slackware boxes when I was 14 and didn't know anything..
Hmm wtf.. slashdot was down for 2 hours looks like they lost a few posts.. wonder If they will admit it
Blindly searching forthat missing library you kne was installed, but knew not where. Adept use of the find & slocate commands begging you deleted all known instances of whatever package it is you wanted to remove.. Painful /etc/rc.timewasting files without one central location for easy and consistent configuration..
God it was great!
I couldn't imagine using it on a couple of systems.. it was just too messy... needed package management desperately.. but back then.. it was all there was.. sigh.
Koreans are just like us irish, except we cook better and can sing.. ok they're not like us except for fighting and drinking..
kimchi.. wtf was that stuff anywayS? I know it was rotten/aged cabbage and something really spicey... i tried not to ask what else it was..
When I was in indonesia 4 years ago, EVERYBODY used linux.. they had no money.. windows was expensive, linux was free.. hotels, corporations.. When people in america are doomsayers about linux, they forget about the other 90% of the world which is emerging into technology..
At no cost? It's not like they're buying new ram.. there's a cost.. beyond high failure potential it was hardware which was just recycled.. nothing more.
Remember that? When I was a kid they
started us on dacta technic legos & logo.. that was the way to do it (though my first programming language was basic on a ti 99/4a
Yeah maybe.. IF there was a godo one for a car.. i'm not about to pay $2k for a cd player just to listen to mp3s in my car.. that's $$ that'd be much better used for equlizers or better speakers..
as usual, the maintainers of the mirrors are lazy and grabbed everything but the iso's.. redhat.com as them .. and as usual you can't get to redhat's site.. every other site has nothing in it's iso directory or just has redhat-6.2 with no read permission.. figures.. i'm flying in 3 hours and wanted to throw it up before i leave.
This is a freaky/cool coincidence... where the subjecyt is quantum computers dilbert: I've invented a quantum computer, capable of interacting with matter from other universes to solve complex equations. Dogbert: According to chaos theory, your tiny cyhange to another universe will shift its destiny, possibly killing every uinhabitant. Dilbert: Shift Happens dogbert: Fire it up