Legendary inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford (who held thousands of patents between them) succeeded precisely because they were able to use funding, management and market insight to deliver their innovations as unique, practical and useful products.
Actually wasn't Bell successful because he got to the patent office first, and beat some other guy to the punch?
For commands to become habitual as quickly as possible some interface-guidelines are given.
No, for commands to become habitual you need to practice them. People have a difficult time learning the intricacies of vi because they don't use it for 100% of their text editing. Once I started thinking about every command I entered in vi before doing it (such as hitting 10j instead of the down arrow 10 times, or the various ex commands) they quickly became habitual. No interface is intuitive automatically (except, of course, the nipple:-) ). True, some are easier, but those that are the most powerful are usually those that require the most effort to learn.
This doesn't just apply to vi, of course, but anything sufficiently complex on a computer. Stick with one way and learn it.
Exactly. Give the PHBs a choice - if they're smart and the choices are well laid-out, they'll most likely make the right decision.
Your example of using Linux as a router is a perfect example. I had to investigate the most cost-efficient means for a small business here to upgrade it's WAN from 56K frame to something faster. The solution eventually turned out to be and OpenBSD-based IPSec VPN with DSL lines. Proving that this was the best solution was easy to my boss - I pointed out the cost and reliabilty of the OS ($30 for the CD and the best security rep out there), and the cost of the alternatives (faster frame, PTP T1's, cable modems). The decision was a no-brainer and the speed and uptime is very impressive. The cost was half of what they paid for almost 10x the bandwidth.
These kinds of applications for free OSes will be the beginning of their inroads into business.
This is the wrong attitude to take. Because of the very nature of free software, there is NOTHING microsoft can do to prevent people from writing and using free software. The only thing that they can do is spread FUD so that businesses may think twice about using Linux/BSD/emacs/What have you.
And, really, do any of us give a flying fsck if PHBs love free software or not? The choice will still always be OURS - and that's the important part.
Many musicians have a better ability to "hear" than most people. I can distinguish pitches and hear differences between keys - F# major sounds way different than Db major. A friend of mine can tell a difference between two identical sets of speakers, and can tell you why - usually different wood densities and minor construction differences.
Some people prefer "analog" sound (of course, sound is analog) - it is true that the highs aren't as "harsh" as with digital recordings. Hence the return of tube amps.
....Stanford University now for a solid month and has stayed at 100% CPU utilization.
Remember, 100% utilization at 1.5Ghz is going to look the same as 100% at 750MHz. The useful info would be to run a program alongside that could monitor the current clock of the CPU. Either that or keep track of your work submissions to make sure they don't drop off.
chop(@list) in list context returned the characters chopped in reverse order
The characters chopped in reverse order, not the list itself. People probably didn't notice this much because chop is maily used in scalar context, to see how many characters are chopped, which doesn't depend on the order of the returned list of chopped characters (choppees?).
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And, nothing prevents anyone from downloading IPF and compiling it on OpenBSD in the future - it just won't be on the CD anywhere.
Look up the word "proactive" in the dictionary.
It's not in the vocabulary of 99% of OS developers , and is what makes OpenBSD superior.
Everyone who reads slashdot should read these three lines over and over until they get it:
Bill Gates wants to make money
Richard Stallman, Linus, Miguel, and others want to make software.
Both groups are a success in that respect.
Remember MS is in the business of making money by selling software, just like Ford and GM are in the business of making money by manufacturing cars.
Legendary inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford (who held thousands of patents between them) succeeded precisely because they were able to use funding, management and market insight to deliver their innovations as unique, practical and useful products.
Actually wasn't Bell successful because he got to the patent office first, and beat some other guy to the punch?
For commands to become habitual as quickly as possible some interface-guidelines are given.
No, for commands to become habitual you need to practice them. People have a difficult time learning the intricacies of vi because they don't use it for 100% of their text editing. Once I started thinking about every command I entered in vi before doing it (such as hitting 10j instead of the down arrow 10 times, or the various ex commands) they quickly became habitual. No interface is intuitive automatically (except, of course, the nipple :-) ). True, some are easier, but those that are the most powerful are usually those that require the most effort to learn.
This doesn't just apply to vi, of course, but anything sufficiently complex on a computer. Stick with one way and learn it.
Exactly. Give the PHBs a choice - if they're smart and the choices are well laid-out, they'll most likely make the right decision.
Your example of using Linux as a router is a perfect example. I had to investigate the most cost-efficient means for a small business here to upgrade it's WAN from 56K frame to something faster. The solution eventually turned out to be and OpenBSD-based IPSec VPN with DSL lines. Proving that this was the best solution was easy to my boss - I pointed out the cost and reliabilty of the OS ($30 for the CD and the best security rep out there), and the cost of the alternatives (faster frame, PTP T1's, cable modems). The decision was a no-brainer and the speed and uptime is very impressive. The cost was half of what they paid for almost 10x the bandwidth.
These kinds of applications for free OSes will be the beginning of their inroads into business.
This is the wrong attitude to take. Because of the very nature of free software, there is NOTHING microsoft can do to prevent people from writing and using free software. The only thing that they can do is spread FUD so that businesses may think twice about using Linux/BSD/emacs/What have you.
And, really, do any of us give a flying fsck if PHBs love free software or not? The choice will still always be OURS - and that's the important part.
Good advice, except:
couple of 20-gig hard drives, throw Linux with Apache, Sendmail (or Qmail), Radius
Only use Linux if you're comfortable securing it - if not you'll be owned in no time flat. If you want to run UNIX servers your best bet is OpenBSD
Exactly the problem!
Our choice will be large scale genetic engineering vs. a large scale die off.
Unfortunately, I think the latter would be more beneficial.
I thought the same thing at first, but then realized it's only in " " strings.
Never mind, this is in double-quotes.
Still, it looks ugly.
These first two had some resemblance to sh syntax for dis-ambiguating variable names:
"${foo[bar]}"
"${foo}[bar]"
This is horrid!!!!
"$foo\Q[bar]"
So much for Perl being like a bit of sh, awk and C!
the BSD license, like it or not, is truly a 100% free license.
Answer: Dvorak layout.
Dvorak International
Makes you wonder why we even bother with QWERTY anymore..
Offtopic? How about "Good Idea"?
Does anyone actually bother to use them?
They are a pain to manage.
Many musicians have a better ability to "hear" than most people. I can distinguish pitches and hear differences between keys - F# major sounds way different than Db major. A friend of mine can tell a difference between two identical sets of speakers, and can tell you why - usually different wood densities and minor construction differences.
Some people prefer "analog" sound (of course, sound is analog) - it is true that the highs aren't as "harsh" as with digital recordings. Hence the return of tube amps.
It's a preference thing.
Where do you think I got the source?
It wasn't from your particular link, however, but I thank you for your gracious help.
I was asking about Guido's thoughts.
I've already downloaded the source and compiled it on Cygwin. Flawless and easy install.
Thoughts on Ruby?
Remember, 100% utilization at 1.5Ghz is going to look the same as 100% at 750MHz. The useful info would be to run a program alongside that could monitor the current clock of the CPU. Either that or keep track of your work submissions to make sure they don't drop off.
You might write a faster program in C.
You will program faster in Perl (or Python, or Rexx, or Ruby, etc..etc..etc...)
See this for an interesting study.
chop(@list) in list context returned the characters chopped in reverse order
The characters chopped in reverse order, not the list itself. People probably didn't notice this much because chop is maily used in scalar context, to see how many characters are chopped, which doesn't depend on the order of the returned list of chopped characters (choppees?).
Here's the most insightful comment I've read on Spashdot in weeks, if not months. Bravo!