Not so, according to the IBM employee that's teaching the class I'm attending today. IBM has apparently always been a SuSE shop. RedHat is mostly only used for cluster management stations.
How DO they differentiate between the music sharers and "the rest"? Are they looking for *.mp3? What about the people who rename all their shared music files to *.foo or something that's not obviously audio files? And what about other audio formats, like Ogg/Vorbis etc? And how about for instance a very productive person who is sharing 500 mp3's of his/her own creation?
The Record Industry's business model is geared towards them telling you what you should be listening to...
Just listen to one of the hit radio stations. They play the same songs over, and over, and over again. How would that happen without payola? It certainly has less with what listeners say, and more with how much $$$ is paid for the songs to get air time.
Off topic, but along the same lines if your post... I'm getting SO tired of seeing computer ads for computers with 256/512/1024/whatever millibit (mb) of memory instead of MegaByte (MB). Before we got into the GHz range for CPU's, it was...well, since the unit 'hz' doesn't exist, I would have to assume they meant 450/550/650/whatever milliHertz (mhz). *sigh*
It's all the UFO/Area 51 hype that has made the term UFO synonymous with alien space ships. It's kind of like RAID 0 - which is not a RAID per its own definition.
"It isn't used by so many people because it is *completely* inferior."
Well, there are cases when things do not necessarily work that way. Take for instance Sony's Betamax video system. It was (and is) far superior to the JVC VHS system, but due to financial dealings with the movie industry (adult film industry, more than likely...), VHS ended up taking over the market, virtually pushing Betamax (and the Philips System 2000 too, for that matter!) out of the marketplace.
He's actually a giant, a character of mischief and faslehood. He is the 'evil' of the norse mythology. One of the things he did was to convince the blind Hoeder to shoot an arrow made of a certain type of wood at Baldur, the son of Odin, thus killing him.
A person I recently met was constantly wearing headphones. Indoors, outdoors, in his car (is that legal, btw?). It turns out he's done some hard time, and the only 'personal space' he was allowed in the big house was the world of listening to music.
It seems to a lot of people that professional gamers have the ultimate jobs, playing every day, getting PAID to frag others in head-to-head death-matches, but it seems that reality sets in pretty quick - 10-12 hour days of just practicing in order to stay on top and keep that sponsor check coming in.
But to answer the root question - I wouldn't change. I love what I do too much, and I think I get paid decently for it as well. I am the type of geek who spends 8 hours on the computer at work, then comes home and (to my wife's dismay) try to spend as much time as possible on the computer at home as well.
I think the initial meteor was followed by a time period where all the big dinosaurs litigated eachother into oblivion, where all the bigger animals tried to sue the smaller mammals for infringing on their turf.
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On first read, I thought it said Pornographic! That has got to be the only media that's probably shared more than music...
I wonder if we'll ever see a Voyager 6...
Not so, according to the IBM employee that's teaching the class I'm attending today. IBM has apparently always been a SuSE shop. RedHat is mostly only used for cluster management stations.
How DO they differentiate between the music sharers and "the rest"? Are they looking for *.mp3? What about the people who rename all their shared music files to *.foo or something that's not obviously audio files? And what about other audio formats, like Ogg/Vorbis etc? And how about for instance a very productive person who is sharing 500 mp3's of his/her own creation?
Just listen to one of the hit radio stations. They play the same songs over, and over, and over again. How would that happen without payola? It certainly has less with what listeners say, and more with how much $$$ is paid for the songs to get air time.
Off topic, but along the same lines if your post... I'm getting SO tired of seeing computer ads for computers with 256/512/1024/whatever millibit (mb) of memory instead of MegaByte (MB). Before we got into the GHz range for CPU's, it was...well, since the unit 'hz' doesn't exist, I would have to assume they meant 450/550/650/whatever milliHertz (mhz). *sigh*
Not necessarily. Just as extraterrestrial doesn't meen martian, extramartian doesn't mean terrestrian.
It's all the UFO/Area 51 hype that has made the term UFO synonymous with alien space ships. It's kind of like RAID 0 - which is not a RAID per its own definition.
"Put a warning shot across the bow!"
Why not 6 ft? :D
Umm...wait, wrong thread. Hehe, thread. Get it? *rimshot*
Underground or underwear?
Most of the argumentation so far (or at least when I wrote the comment) seem to have been technical in nature, so I thought it was a fair comparison.
Well, there are cases when things do not necessarily work that way. Take for instance Sony's Betamax video system. It was (and is) far superior to the JVC VHS system, but due to financial dealings with the movie industry (adult film industry, more than likely...), VHS ended up taking over the market, virtually pushing Betamax (and the Philips System 2000 too, for that matter!) out of the marketplace.
Isn't it something like a few hours of utter boredom with a couple mintes of sheer panic at the beginning and end?
He's actually a giant, a character of mischief and faslehood. He is the 'evil' of the norse mythology. One of the things he did was to convince the blind Hoeder to shoot an arrow made of a certain type of wood at Baldur, the son of Odin, thus killing him.
Mrs. Schroedinger to Mr. Schroedinger: "What the hell did you do to that cat?! It looks half-dead!"
Would an opensource:d project have been more likey to lack these bugs? I mean, compared to proprietary software.
Well, an ICMP packet of adequate size, thrown really hard, may hurt.
A person I recently met was constantly wearing headphones. Indoors, outdoors, in his car (is that legal, btw?). It turns out he's done some hard time, and the only 'personal space' he was allowed in the big house was the world of listening to music.
I _knew_ it!
But to answer the root question - I wouldn't change. I love what I do too much, and I think I get paid decently for it as well. I am the type of geek who spends 8 hours on the computer at work, then comes home and (to my wife's dismay) try to spend as much time as possible on the computer at home as well.
"Let your anger be as a monkey in a pinata hiding amoungst the candy hoping the kids don't break through with the stick."
Well, we all know now what came out of that...