You had best start looking anyways, regardless if the bid goes through or not the additional information the mass business public has gleaned on the purchase of JDE is going to severely tarnish PeopleSoft. You guys will now work REALLY hard to make sales because people are going to be iffy on your future. After the of JDE aquisition you won't be #2 for long if you are even are when the merger is completely done. Oracle has been really smart with this, it is win-win for them.
Cingular provides GPRS most everywhere. If they don't provide it where you are, switch to the free roaming plan and then roam on t-mobile's GPRS network.
IBM has had this happen many times, the basic scenario goes like this:
Someone reaches a SVP or equivelant level in a company. Realizes they have maxed their income potential.
Finds something the current company isn't doing well. Finds other internal resources who feel the same.
Starts a spin-off focusing primarily on what the big company is too slow to implement or too big care about.
... Profit! When the big company comes knocking a few years later. Everyone involved in the initial breakoff makes a huge chunk of change and usually ends up with a high position than before.
That reminds me of a saying...
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... that I read not along ago and it went something like this:
"The children of today are lazy, without respect and lacking god."
Sounds pretty common right? This was a rough translation of a tablet from Mesopotamia dated to around 2200 BC. Over 4000 years and ain't a damn thing changed.
If they're looking into new strategies, even ones that are years behind their time, we should know about it. When you only look at yourself, you'll sometimes see innovation or monopolism take over while you're busy staring at your shoes.
Personally I blame, er praise, RPGs for my full backpack. Thanks to needing every random item known to mankind to beat the evil boss and save the world my day to day backpack has way too much shit in it.
Do I really need my laptop when I go out today? What about sunglasses? Extra memeory for the digital camera? Wait, do I even need the camera. OF COURSE I DO!@#!@# WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!@#$!R
I really do believe RPGs can help one home problem solving skills, something that seems to be pretty lacking in our society these days. Of course I don't have any proof for this but it seems that everyone I know who likes and is good at RPGs are pretty good at solving problems but not all of these people are what would normally be considered smart.
This isn't a real guy, unless he used to work at sega doing the same such thing (as he claims further back in his posts). Funny, he would have been in the US (from what he writes) while working for sega. Unfortunately sega never had a department by the name he claimed to be head of.
Now he reads and replies to articles at slashdot? Yeah.
Then again please tell me exactly why GM crops are the evil you believe them to be? Because they aren't from nature? Surely you have other more powerful reasons. Please share them.
What is macro-evolution if not the combination of unforseen things in new and exciting ways?
Does it really matter if farming couldn't produce them if we can? Your only argument seems to be that it isn't natural. This is a typical luddite reaction to misunderstood things. This is showcased that you quote sites such as howstuffworks.com as your base of knowledge on GM crops.
GM crops are not evil. Corporate control, with no provisions for falling into the public domain, of GM crops is. There is a huge difference, please don't bother to reply if you are going to come back with the same anti-science rhetoric.
I suggest you really read up on GM crops and found out what they are. It seems like you have some evil vision in your head of something that is no different than evolution at an accelerated rate.
I think Monsanto is evil here, they can't control their crops and I firmly disagree with allowing patents on process/creations such as these but GM foods are not some evil boogy monster, any more so than modern farming techniques.
... since the browser is *so* much newer (years vs weeks) and it is quickly catching up in mindshare, obviously picking the name wasn't really a big conflict.
/sbin utilities needed to get the the system to a booted state
/bin bare essential utilities needed to manipulate the system once booted or before multi-user mode
/usr/sbin system control programs needed to manage or alter a system once in multi-user mode
/usr/bin/ programs for interacting with a multi-user system
/usr/local/sbin/ system control programs that don't come from the os/hardware vendor
/usr/local/bin/ other programs that don't come from the os/hardware vendor
Of course many modern lunix distributions break this by placing files wherever people think is cute, much like how the.org,.net and.com have lost their meanings.
I really doubt there will be tons of other lawsuits filed. With all the employee time and effort involved in these suits and legal falls for both in house and external lawyers the RIAA probably won't even be breaking even on this suits.
The money levels being paid also aren't high enough or realistic enough to work as a deterrant.
'd really like to see you design airplaines. Maybe fighter planes. Just to make sure pilots are *extra careful*, the button for "drop bombs" should be right next to the button for "lower landing-gear".
If you find unix to be this hard or complex perhaps you should focus on something more your speed, like PS2 or XBOX.
You continually build up strawman arguments in almost every one of your responses (not just in this thread). I don't know if you consider that to be a valid form of discussion or debate, but it isn't.
To you perfect people writing a reply to this boldly telling me that people shouldn't "fuck up", how many times did you have to use backspace in writing that response?
Obviously you've never been root on a system that a large group of people depend on to do work. On such systems everything is done as the least privledged user possible and when something has to be done as the full access user you check everything twice before you slap return.
There is no room for being sloppy when your simple type or lack of desire to check your work can affect hundreds of other people's ability to function.
I was also involved in the interview process, though my questions would be more like, "What is the directive that throttles the number of Apache processes."
For the record this is a horrible interview question, especially of a sys-admin. I know because I used to interview this way, instead you should ask more about process and finding out information than asking basic "memorization" questions.
Instead try "If you wanted to limit the number of Apache processes what would you do?"
... is that slashdot only posts 10-15 stories a day. Some days we see two or three dupes so maybe over time that averages out to a little less than a story a day.
What I find impossible to believe is that out of all the submissions that enter into the possible queue these are the ones that stick out so well they end up getting posted. That almost 9% of the time we see the same article get put up.
Think of it this way, if your department at your company, hell if your company, messed up 9% of the time what would happen to you? In the case of slashdot nothing happens because no one is accountable and anytime anything shoddy happens everyone clamors about with "it's rob's personal site!@#!@#!@ he can post whatever he wants!@#". Except that isn't the case anymore and hasn't been for years. This is a FOR-PROFIT site with readers who create the value, yet time and time again we are shown and told (Hi Michael!) how little we are valued or mean to the staff at slashdot. Answer me this Rob, do you care so little about your creation now? Where is your sense of pride?
Unfortunately just departing is a hard thing to do because of the absolute power in the meme of "/.". It is a lot like CNN, you know the news sucks, you know it is biased, but it is always there so in a moment of weakness you give in.
I wouldn't be suprised if there were a few pieces of hardware floating around in some r&d lab for this. Someone is eventually going to make something like this. Sony just released a portable CD/DVD player that has a small LCD screen that attaches. It isn't too much of a stretch to imagine the drive replaced with a hard drive.
* G5.
970.
* USB2.
This is true since it was recently discovered that new PowerMacs have had USB2 chips in them for a while. Drivers are now out which will enable this.
* Dualscreen powerbooks.
Probably the 17" monster, because asside from the one pc company that is making dual screen machines who else in the world would consider such a thing. Which sounds more plausible a machine with two small screens or this insanely large 17" Apple came out with?
Slashdot Mirror
You had best start looking anyways, regardless if the bid goes through or not the additional information the mass business public has gleaned on the purchase of JDE is going to severely tarnish PeopleSoft. You guys will now work REALLY hard to make sales because people are going to be iffy on your future. After the of JDE aquisition you won't be #2 for long if you are even are when the merger is completely done. Oracle has been really smart with this, it is win-win for them.
Cingular provides GPRS most everywhere. If they don't provide it where you are, switch to the free roaming plan and then roam on t-mobile's GPRS network.
Someone reaches a SVP or equivelant level in a company. Realizes they have maxed their income potential.
Finds something the current company isn't doing well. Finds other internal resources who feel the same.
Starts a spin-off focusing primarily on what the big company is too slow to implement or too big care about.
... that I read not along ago and it went something like this:
"The children of today are lazy, without respect and lacking god."
Sounds pretty common right? This was a rough translation of a tablet from Mesopotamia dated to around 2200 BC. Over 4000 years and ain't a damn thing changed.
If they're looking into new strategies, even ones that are years behind their time, we should know about it. When you only look at yourself, you'll sometimes see innovation or monopolism take over while you're busy staring at your shoes.
I had no idea this was a competition.
Personally I blame, er praise, RPGs for my full backpack. Thanks to needing every random item known to mankind to beat the evil boss and save the world my day to day backpack has way too much shit in it.
Do I really need my laptop when I go out today? What about sunglasses? Extra memeory for the digital camera? Wait, do I even need the camera. OF COURSE I DO!@#!@# WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!@#$!R
I really do believe RPGs can help one home problem solving skills, something that seems to be pretty lacking in our society these days. Of course I don't have any proof for this but it seems that everyone I know who likes and is good at RPGs are pretty good at solving problems but not all of these people are what would normally be considered smart.
Read the posting history and do a google search.
This isn't a real guy, unless he used to work at sega doing the same such thing (as he claims further back in his posts). Funny, he would have been in the US (from what he writes) while working for sega. Unfortunately sega never had a department by the name he claimed to be head of.
Now he reads and replies to articles at slashdot? Yeah.
Typical employee cost is salary plus 15%-35% over the top of that cost for employee benefits like insurance and 401k matching.
Then again please tell me exactly why GM crops are the evil you believe them to be? Because they aren't from nature? Surely you have other more powerful reasons. Please share them.
*sigh*
What is macro-evolution if not the combination of unforseen things in new and exciting ways?
Does it really matter if farming couldn't produce them if we can? Your only argument seems to be that it isn't natural. This is a typical luddite reaction to misunderstood things. This is showcased that you quote sites such as howstuffworks.com as your base of knowledge on GM crops.
GM crops are not evil. Corporate control, with no provisions for falling into the public domain, of GM crops is. There is a huge difference, please don't bother to reply if you are going to come back with the same anti-science rhetoric.
I suggest you really read up on GM crops and found out what they are. It seems like you have some evil vision in your head of something that is no different than evolution at an accelerated rate.
I think Monsanto is evil here, they can't control their crops and I firmly disagree with allowing patents on process/creations such as these but GM foods are not some evil boogy monster, any more so than modern farming techniques.
... since the browser is *so* much newer (years vs weeks) and it is quickly catching up in mindshare, obviously picking the name wasn't really a big conflict.
/sbin utilities needed to get the the system to a booted state
/bin bare essential utilities needed to manipulate the system once booted or before multi-user mode
/usr/sbin system control programs needed to manage or alter a system once in multi-user mode
/usr/bin/ programs for interacting with a multi-user system
/usr/local/sbin/ system control programs that don't come from the os/hardware vendor
/usr/local/bin/ other programs that don't come from the os/hardware vendor
.org, .net and .com have lost their meanings.
Of course many modern lunix distributions break this by placing files wherever people think is cute, much like how the
the ipod sorts files based on the information inside of the mp3 tags.
with that said you can replicate structures you may have used on other mp3 players with a custom genre tag. it works.
do you want to think about that some more?
I really doubt there will be tons of other lawsuits filed. With all the employee time and effort involved in these suits and legal falls for both in house and external lawyers the RIAA probably won't even be breaking even on this suits.
The money levels being paid also aren't high enough or realistic enough to work as a deterrant.
This thing has been out for over a year and this form factor has been out since 2001.
'd really like to see you design airplaines. Maybe fighter planes. Just to make sure pilots are *extra careful*, the button for "drop bombs" should be right next to the button for "lower landing-gear".
If you find unix to be this hard or complex perhaps you should focus on something more your speed, like PS2 or XBOX.
You continually build up strawman arguments in almost every one of your responses (not just in this thread). I don't know if you consider that to be a valid form of discussion or debate, but it isn't.
To you perfect people writing a reply to this boldly telling me that people shouldn't "fuck up", how many times did you have to use backspace in writing that response?
Obviously you've never been root on a system that a large group of people depend on to do work. On such systems everything is done as the least privledged user possible and when something has to be done as the full access user you check everything twice before you slap return.
There is no room for being sloppy when your simple type or lack of desire to check your work can affect hundreds of other people's ability to function.
There are no such things as "rm disasters".
There are only mistakes, stop making them, or at least think before you execute.
I was also involved in the interview process, though my questions would be more like, "What is the directive that throttles the number of Apache processes."
For the record this is a horrible interview question, especially of a sys-admin. I know because I used to interview this way, instead you should ask more about process and finding out information than asking basic "memorization" questions.
Instead try "If you wanted to limit the number of Apache processes what would you do?"
... is that slashdot only posts 10-15 stories a day. Some days we see two or three dupes so maybe over time that averages out to a little less than a story a day.
What I find impossible to believe is that out of all the submissions that enter into the possible queue these are the ones that stick out so well they end up getting posted. That almost 9% of the time we see the same article get put up.
Think of it this way, if your department at your company, hell if your company, messed up 9% of the time what would happen to you? In the case of slashdot nothing happens because no one is accountable and anytime anything shoddy happens everyone clamors about with "it's rob's personal site!@#!@#!@ he can post whatever he wants!@#". Except that isn't the case anymore and hasn't been for years. This is a FOR-PROFIT site with readers who create the value, yet time and time again we are shown and told (Hi Michael!) how little we are valued or mean to the staff at slashdot. Answer me this Rob, do you care so little about your creation now? Where is your sense of pride?
Unfortunately just departing is a hard thing to do because of the absolute power in the meme of "/.". It is a lot like CNN, you know the news sucks, you know it is biased, but it is always there so in a moment of weakness you give in.
Use at your own risk:
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http://www.createmac.com/html/download/download_v
* iWalk.
Okay that was just stupid.
* Video iPod.
I wouldn't be suprised if there were a few pieces of hardware floating around in some r&d lab for this. Someone is eventually going to make something like this. Sony just released a portable CD/DVD player that has a small LCD screen that attaches. It isn't too much of a stretch to imagine the drive replaced with a hard drive.
* G5.
970.
* USB2.
This is true since it was recently discovered that new PowerMacs have had USB2 chips in them for a while. Drivers are now out which will enable this.
* Dualscreen powerbooks.
Probably the 17" monster, because asside from the one pc company that is making dual screen machines who else in the world would consider such a thing. Which sounds more plausible a machine with two small screens or this insanely large 17" Apple came out with?
... so now we can gave the w3 homepage be a bastion of obfuscation as well.
When will web designers (hi slashdot!) learn that tons of varied visible information on one screen is NOT a good way to design an interface.