Isn't sharing with some unknown stranger around the world.
Real Peer to Peer (forgive me mother internet) is sharing going on between your friends and your friend's friends. This is how its always been on the net and how it will continue to be. Sure it takes longer to get stuff and you might not always find whatever it is you are looking for. But this is the form of sharing they can never really take from away...
Why? because even though my slashdotters forget it, there are real people working in all those companies and even the nastiest, scariest CEO of Conglomo v14.9 still shares stuff with his friends. You can't fight overall good human nature for the long term and expect to win.
Sorry but its not going out at 320x240 anymore... all the next gen systems push each frame out at 640x480. On stills and in some cases other screens where there are lower polygon counts even higher. Yes you can do this on a normal tv; matrox has been doing it for years with their marvel cards. This is why all the next gen systems push using SVIDEO and soon componet video hookups.
Find a friend with a dreamcast and have him compare the RCA hookup to the SVIDEO one. The difference is just slightly less than going from VHS to DVD.
"A polyanna 'technolohy will take care of it' attitude has no place in aviation"...
And the paragraph before you demand he lose his arrogance. Hopefully you see the falicy in that.
Like it or not technology will change avation. It already has many times and it will contine to as time makes forward progress... just like it tends to change pretty much everything. Your disdain for the general public is your real showing of arrogance... and its the same attitude people have said about thousands of things over the course of our evolution. Be it, voting, using computers, having rights, driving cars or heaven forbid, one day, using air vehicles.
"Sure we can continue to sell you discounted servers for your school... don't you think though you would prefer an extended warranty and some SUN brand printers to go with that? Oh you don't want any of those pesky HP servers."
Isn't going to fly until IPV6. Most (read: ALL) popular VPN tunnels won't work over a NAT which is what your house firewall is going to give.
... and I know this is slashdot but why does it have to run Linux? Im assuming you meant "unix clone" in place of Linux. ---
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If consumers really don't care what OS it runs then why the switch to Solaris? He says it is because they don't have the resources to support two operating systems... Okay I'll buy that... oh but he also says they have been working on a specialized version of solaris for devices such as these.
Oh! So what really happened was Sun has this new stripped down embedded form of Solaris and purchased cobalt to use as the hardware for this new product.
Thats weird... since Sun usually rolls their own hardware as well as software. Changing times, these be. ---
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Don't even begin to think they are normally the same. Programming is only like IT when you are running against a tight deadline and you have people interrupting/harrassing/second guessing you ever second of they day.
Stress is when you and a couple of other 20 somethings are responsible for your companies sole way of reaching its customers and something drastic breaks. Thats the stress of hundreds of other people in the company suddenly becoming useless and waiting on you. Mix then in with constant bad decisions by upper management and you are well on your way to your first couple of ulcers. Fun!
Do you have any idea whay inflation is and how it really works? Consumer products do not cost 3.5x what they did in 1980. Do some fact checking.
100k is still a lot. In the bay area its not because of the most insane rent of any large area in the world. Then again those that are just now moving to SF and complaining about the rent, dont move here! Maybe sometime in the next decade it will come back down to reality. ---
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Notes is the same way... you just have larger messages because of lots of stuff crammed into the headers. People have done this on a personal level for years. I've been involved in mailing lists where X-HEADERS were added to aid procmail filtering and such. ---
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/sbin contains things needed to mount fs's/fix them/networing... things that are required to boot to a shell.
/bin contains things that are needed once the system is ready for a shell level.
these are meant to be small and tight so you can have a small root that never changes
/usr/sbin and/usr/bin contain common system utilities that are usefull but not required, they are usually there to support multi user functions
/usr/local/bin and/usr/local/sbin contain host specific utilities and services respectfully.
sure there are some deviations and some argument over the semantics but thats basically what its about. of course things like lunix have blurred this line even more. apparently we don't need any standards anymore.:)
How the hell is this stealing revenue from the site? First off I haven't been to the site... but I am willing to bet there is an AD on every page.
If someone from slashdot goes to this interview it means they weren't reading it from VoodooExtreme in the first place. This means if Slashdot hadn't linked to it they prolly never would have read the story... now that it has been linked from TrollDot lots of new people are going to read the interview. Slashdot has in fact increased the number of AD impressions and revenue for the site overall.
You obviously have never had to deal with issues like this before... people linking into your site is great. It brings you a new untapped market that may potentially come back for more. ---
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When this site became property of a company it no longer was his baby. If you think this is true, then you've never sold part of anything you worked on to anyone else.
The fact of the matter is, cmdrtaco, is prolly the worse of the editors next to Hemos. they both remind me of Bob Costas.
While it *can* be recorded... the means to do so may not be available to the common man. Then we end up with a world much like it was from around 1100BC-1500AD. The few and the mighty excersizing absolute brutal control over the masses. Sure the few control, now, but at least for most of the world its not brutal.
Do you have any clue how the real world operates out there anymore?
Seriously fighting for causes and ideals is wonderful. But decss isnt the grand stage to solve all the problems between coporations, people (consumers which is what we are, and do) and intellectual property. Stop trying to turn into "a shot heard around the world" it isnt. thats not here yet... and when it is, you will really know.
... and please ets try not to play the "opium of the masses, entertainment" card here... its old and tired. do yourself a favor and try a slightly less jaded and cynical viewpoint for a bit. ---
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okay first things first, decss is great. sliced bread and all that...
but who the hell is losing out buy you not buying a dvd a movie you want? some studio? some actor? face it. dvd is here. its a lot fuqin better than VHS. DVDs are cheap compared to audio cds if you buy online... so stop being so damn cheap and go buy a real damn dvd player, hook it up to your tv (you know the thing you play games on, and sometimes watch stuff with your girl) and have some entertainment.
isnt that what movies are about? or have most of us become too caught up in our ideals to get it anymore? ---
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dont have the fuqin pretense to tell people to get a life, when you are doing exactly the same shit they are. we're all waiting for something better to come down the pipes. you are. they are.
amazing to see how quickly you can ride up against sony but at the same time side with your own side. wtf? this isnt a war here. no one is supposed to have to wipe out the other to suceed. this is about us, the consumer, getting what we want. who cares who brings it to us?
why the fuck is everyone letting themselves be such mindless add re-selling drones.
bah. im just fed up this morning. ---
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A big gaping hole in the IT field that other fields have right is Internships. I believe them and push them, yah that 21 year old prodigy can setup a linux box in 42 minutes with ever service you may need and locked down but can he support something like AVS or some proprietary bank ssl links over weird older networks? Prolly not.
Internships are great, you give someone a Junior title (which seems to have been forgotten to exist)... hire them for a 3 to 6 month period. You don't pay them much, they work hard because they know they are going to end up with real world experience on the resume and a good reference. And hey if they internship goes great you hire them on for a good deal more money. Either way you both win.
How many Junior Unix Admin positions have you seen open recently? We always have some open where I work, its good for them and good for the company.
Its so easy to get past its not even worth counting it as a valid means of control any more. Every time they update it to include some new encoding its quickly defeated. ---
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All this nonsense about Emulators being illegal or not right is crazyness. Do people who say such even bother to stop for a second and see how much emulation is going on out there on a daily basis?
Take for example TV wonder products. One comes out, with a patent. Great! Now you can mop in 1/1000 of the time, and clean your cat. Sure you can't copy the exact design... they have a patent on it. But you can get damn close, and emulate the same functionality exactly. This happens all the time... and is a corner stone of American choice.
Computer Emulators are the same thing... you are emulating the functionality of a *PRODUCT*. You aren't infringing on someone's intellectual property or stealing revenue from them, you are doing exactly what you are allowed to do in a Free Market Economy. People need to stop treating computer software as some symbolic thing and treat it like what it really is... a basic product, no different than a quart of bleach.
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Isn't sharing with some unknown stranger around the world.
Real Peer to Peer (forgive me mother internet) is sharing going on between your friends and your friend's friends. This is how its always been on the net and how it will continue to be. Sure it takes longer to get stuff and you might not always find whatever it is you are looking for. But this is the form of sharing they can never really take from away...
Why? because even though my slashdotters forget it, there are real people working in all those companies and even the nastiest, scariest CEO of Conglomo v14.9 still shares stuff with his friends. You can't fight overall good human nature for the long term and expect to win.
Sorry but its not going out at 320x240 anymore... all the next gen systems push each frame out at 640x480. On stills and in some cases other screens where there are lower polygon counts even higher. Yes you can do this on a normal tv; matrox has been doing it for years with their marvel cards. This is why all the next gen systems push using SVIDEO and soon componet video hookups.
F /...
Find a friend with a dreamcast and have him compare the RCA hookup to the SVIDEO one. The difference is just slightly less than going from VHS to DVD.
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"A polyanna 'technolohy will take care of it' attitude has no place in aviation"...
F /...
And the paragraph before you demand he lose his arrogance. Hopefully you see the falicy in that.
Like it or not technology will change avation. It already has many times and it will contine to as time makes forward progress... just like it tends to change pretty much everything. Your disdain for the general public is your real showing of arrogance... and its the same attitude people have said about thousands of things over the course of our evolution. Be it, voting, using computers, having rights, driving cars or heaven forbid, one day, using air vehicles.
Deal.
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Oh you mean just like DEC and Sun used to?
F /...
"Sure we can continue to sell you discounted servers for your school... don't you think though you would prefer an extended warranty and some SUN brand printers to go with that? Oh you don't want any of those pesky HP servers."
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I keep seeing people saying it, but does anyone know for sure if all the 3 letter domains are gone? What percentage of the 4s are gone as well?
F /...
Hopefully we will start having new TLDs at whim so that won't matter in the future.
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you tell me which one can you carry with you?
F /...
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Isn't going to fly until IPV6. Most (read: ALL) popular VPN tunnels won't work over a NAT which is what your house firewall is going to give.F /...
... and I know this is slashdot but why does it have to run Linux? Im assuming you meant "unix clone" in place of Linux.
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.96 - .98 took a long time; muchless the coveted 1.x series...
.96 land, when linux would kernel panic more often than a NS3.3 box. Those were some fun times!
F /...
Most people around here, don't know of times like in
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If consumers really don't care what OS it runs then why the switch to Solaris? He says it is because they don't have the resources to support two operating systems... Okay I'll buy that... oh but he also says they have been working on a specialized version of solaris for devices such as these.
F /...
Oh! So what really happened was Sun has this new stripped down embedded form of Solaris and purchased cobalt to use as the hardware for this new product.
Thats weird... since Sun usually rolls their own hardware as well as software. Changing times, these be.
---
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Don't even begin to think they are normally the same. Programming is only like IT when you are running against a tight deadline and you have people interrupting/harrassing/second guessing you ever second of they day.
F /...
Stress is when you and a couple of other 20 somethings are responsible for your companies sole way of reaching its customers and something drastic breaks. Thats the stress of hundreds of other people in the company suddenly becoming useless and waiting on you. Mix then in with constant bad decisions by upper management and you are well on your way to your first couple of ulcers. Fun!
---
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Do you have any idea whay inflation is and how it really works? Consumer products do not cost 3.5x what they did in 1980. Do some fact checking.
F /...
100k is still a lot. In the bay area its not because of the most insane rent of any large area in the world. Then again those that are just now moving to SF and complaining about the rent, dont move here! Maybe sometime in the next decade it will come back down to reality.
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Notes is the same way... you just have larger messages because of lots of stuff crammed into the headers. People have done this on a personal level for years. I've been involved in mailing lists where X-HEADERS were added to aid procmail filtering and such.F /...
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/sbin contains things needed to mount fs's/fix them/networing... things that are required to boot to a shell.
/usr/bin contain common system utilities that are usefull but not required, they are usually there to support multi user functions
/usr/local/sbin contain host specific utilities and services respectfully.
:)
F /...
/bin contains things that are needed once the system is ready for a shell level.
these are meant to be small and tight so you can have a small root that never changes
/usr/sbin and
/usr/local/bin and
sure there are some deviations and some argument over the semantics but thats basically what its about. of course things like lunix have blurred this line even more. apparently we don't need any standards anymore.
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How the hell is this stealing revenue from the site? First off I haven't been to the site... but I am willing to bet there is an AD on every page.
F /...
If someone from slashdot goes to this interview it means they weren't reading it from VoodooExtreme in the first place. This means if Slashdot hadn't linked to it they prolly never would have read the story... now that it has been linked from TrollDot lots of new people are going to read the interview. Slashdot has in fact increased the number of AD impressions and revenue for the site overall.
You obviously have never had to deal with issues like this before... people linking into your site is great. It brings you a new untapped market that may potentially come back for more.
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When this site became property of a company it no longer was his baby. If you think this is true, then you've never sold part of anything you worked on to anyone else.
F /...
The fact of the matter is, cmdrtaco, is prolly the worse of the editors next to Hemos. they both remind me of Bob Costas.
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No offense but I think you meant "0 day du0d!" graphics accelerators. Modern tends to be mapped to yearly time, not monthly.
F /...
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"intelligent discussion"
F /...
oh you mean like your post?
While it *can* be recorded... the means to do so may not be available to the common man. Then we end up with a world much like it was from around 1100BC-1500AD. The few and the mighty excersizing absolute brutal control over the masses. Sure the few control, now, but at least for most of the world its not brutal.
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What planet do you live on?
F /...
Do you have any clue how the real world operates out there anymore?
Seriously fighting for causes and ideals is wonderful. But decss isnt the grand stage to solve all the problems between coporations, people (consumers which is what we are, and do) and intellectual property. Stop trying to turn into "a shot heard around the world" it isnt. thats not here yet... and when it is, you will really know.
... and please ets try not to play the "opium of the masses, entertainment" card here... its old and tired. do yourself a favor and try a slightly less jaded and cynical viewpoint for a bit.
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okay first things first, decss is great. sliced bread and all that...
F /...
but who the hell is losing out buy you not buying a dvd a movie you want? some studio? some actor? face it. dvd is here. its a lot fuqin better than VHS. DVDs are cheap compared to audio cds if you buy online... so stop being so damn cheap and go buy a real damn dvd player, hook it up to your tv (you know the thing you play games on, and sometimes watch stuff with your girl) and have some entertainment.
isnt that what movies are about? or have most of us become too caught up in our ideals to get it anymore?
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rwalld
F /...
gnufingerd
both now fixed
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hahahahahaaaaehheaoehaoahoeaeoheo
F /...
wait
haeiehaihaeehoeoeah
"my workstation". you mean your peecee right?
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"coming real soon now"
F /...
osx too little too late
blahblah
dont have the fuqin pretense to tell people to get a life, when you are doing exactly the same shit they are. we're all waiting for something better to come down the pipes. you are. they are.
amazing to see how quickly you can ride up against sony but at the same time side with your own side. wtf? this isnt a war here. no one is supposed to have to wipe out the other to suceed. this is about us, the consumer, getting what we want. who cares who brings it to us?
why the fuck is everyone letting themselves be such mindless add re-selling drones.
bah. im just fed up this morning.
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A big gaping hole in the IT field that other fields have right is Internships. I believe them and push them, yah that 21 year old prodigy can setup a linux box in 42 minutes with ever service you may need and locked down but can he support something like AVS or some proprietary bank ssl links over weird older networks? Prolly not.
F /...
Internships are great, you give someone a Junior title (which seems to have been forgotten to exist)... hire them for a 3 to 6 month period. You don't pay them much, they work hard because they know they are going to end up with real world experience on the resume and a good reference. And hey if they internship goes great you hire them on for a good deal more money. Either way you both win.
How many Junior Unix Admin positions have you seen open recently? We always have some open where I work, its good for them and good for the company.
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Its so easy to get past its not even worth counting it as a valid means of control any more. Every time they update it to include some new encoding its quickly defeated.F /...
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All this nonsense about Emulators being illegal or not right is crazyness. Do people who say such even bother to stop for a second and see how much emulation is going on out there on a daily basis?
F /...
Take for example TV wonder products. One comes out, with a patent. Great! Now you can mop in 1/1000 of the time, and clean your cat. Sure you can't copy the exact design... they have a patent on it. But you can get damn close, and emulate the same functionality exactly. This happens all the time... and is a corner stone of American choice.
Computer Emulators are the same thing... you are emulating the functionality of a *PRODUCT*. You aren't infringing on someone's intellectual property or stealing revenue from them, you are doing exactly what you are allowed to do in a Free Market Economy. People need to stop treating computer software as some symbolic thing and treat it like what it really is... a basic product, no different than a quart of bleach.
---
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