I would LOVE to do kernel hacking or deamon writing or device driver writing for a living (not just on the side) but WHERE ARE THOSE JOBS? I can't find any in a city I want to live in. I DON"T want to live on the east coast, west coast, or in Chicago. Everywhere else, all the development going on is just business app and science app writing. I'd love to do more low level coding, but nobody I can find around here is DOING that. *sigh* If any of you had any ideas.. let me know.
I agree that Slashdot is full of hypocrisy, however, where did your entire post come from? I have seen absolutely zero mention of the OS for the various online bill paying sites. The reason this story showed up at all is because it is an interesting "Ask Slashdot". The story is a not about "look at the neat online banking running on a linux server". I understand your point, but, please take it somewhere where it is valid to the current discussion. Nobody had, as of yet, attacked the Microsoft bill paying site. I for one never heard of online bill paying sites till last week on the radio.
I have to agree with the moderator who moderated you flamebait. Not because you said 'microsoft good, linux bad', but because your post succeeded in throwing the entire thread offtopic by defending what hadn't yet been attacked.
Why would I buy a pc that I CANT upgrade (or not easily) to play my games on, when I can buy a real PC, play my games, browse the web, write papers, code, and upgrade HOWEVER and WHENEVER I want. Is this even worthwhile for hardcore gamers? I can't forsee it playing any games that aren't available for a standard PC. This is about like going out to gateway and buying a pile of crap PC with the audio and vidio built into the mobo to force you to use them to upgrade. This goes a step further though and uses proprietary connectors. Any bets on whether or not MS has a copyright on the pinout so that only they can make joysticks and gamepads for the console? Expect to see sidewinder profits go through the roof. Other concerns, under the hood, will it have any PCI slots for upgrading? How about memory expansion? I ask again, why the hell would anyone buy a proprietary PC that only does games and movies when they can go out and get a real PC for not a whole hell of a lot more?
While it is true that in some cases, wealth begets wealth, don't forget about all of us out here who, at 25, are earing as much as both of our parents put together. Why? Because our parents encouraged us to do well and we worked hard and EARNED everything we have. And now we have great jobs and make great money due to our hard work.. and constantly get criticized because we make more money than other people.
Sorry. I guess I just felt the need to rant this morning.
Exactly. Notice that neither the Marvel, or the M3D, which where both new product lines on boards that never really went anywhere, had the Millinium name on them. It was Matrox's first time with those attempts and they didn't want to corrupt the Millinium name with a product that could prove to be sub-par. Now they offer these same features in a new product line, on a card that has been recieving very good reviews, and it carries the Millinium name again. Very good marketing on Matrox's part.
I'm in the process of putting together my new Athlon sytem (praying my mobo arrives today). My previous computer had a Matrox Millinium II and I LOVED it. It wasn't the fastest card, but next to any other card I've ever seen, the output was just plain beautiful. If I spent %90 of my time playing 3D games, I'd probably get an nVidia card, but I don't. I do a LOT of 2d work where I don't need the speed, but I do need the crisp, clear, easy to read display the Matrox card gives me. I'm eagerly awaiting installing my new G400 into my new box and see just how much it rocks.:)
Here is what I currently use. Sybase EA Server 35. EA Server consists of the following components: Sybase SQL Server 12 - Available on Win, Sun, Linux, HPUX, AIX Jaguar CTS (component server) - Win, Sun PowerDynamo (dynamic web content provider) - Win, Sun
The standard practice is to get EA Server with EA Studio which includes the Sybase suite of development tools: PowerBuilder 7.0 (app dev like VB): win, sun PowerJ 3.5 (Java dev) : win, sun PowerSite (HTML/JavaScript/ASP dev):win, sun
Unfortunately, the main components are currently only available on NT and Solaris. AIX and HPUX are on the way. You do have the option of using Apache for the web server and, through CGI using powerdynamo and jaguar on another machine, but that almost defeats the purpose. You could go all Solaris though.
I have to say that overall, I do like the package, it makes for rapid website development and, since Jaguar is Corba compliant, I can re-use all my business logic within local client desktop applications when I want the added speed and functionality.
I've had several friends who have died in their dreams. They usually wake up in a cold sweat, but their hearts still beat. Remember that the heart beating and the lungs breathing are automatic reactions that aren't controlled by the concious parts of the brain. Since it is the concious portion of the brain that would interact with such games, the concious portion of your brain would have to have some way of telling they unconcious portion "hey.. we're dead.. quit that".
Example.. the concious portion of the brain can tell your body to stop breathing (you can hold your breath). However, unless you gag yourself somehow or put a plastic bag over your head, you will not die. Instead, the concious portion of your mind will shut off first, and your unconcious mind will start your breathing process again. Granted, this tends to kill brain cells, but it is not life threatening.
Why would they just make a plugin for xanim. It seems that would be very limiting. What about the people who don't want to use xanim? What about that great new app some bright mind out there is creating that will blow xanim out of the water, but doesn't use xanim plugins? *grins* Of course you were probably joking about the xanim plugin comment, but I felt like responding anyway, especially for those who were saying to themselves, 'oh.. ya.. great idea'. This way, we will end up with dozens of xanim plugins and each will work a bit differently, and the members of the community will all choose the one they want to use. I love choice.:)
While I agree with the majority of the points in your post, I wanted to point out a flaw in one of the points.
What exactly constitutes persecution? Dose Penn and Teller responding to the question "Do you know any religious scientis?" with "Not any good ones" persicution of christians? Do you really want to say that every clever oral quip consitutes verbal abuse? If you consider off hand remarks to be persicution then what about the following paraphrased remarks: "I don't consider Atheists to be American citizens" (George Bush) or "I don't really like Atheists" (Al Gore). Do you know what the diffrence in these remarks and Penn and Teller's remarks? These second remarks are moving towards the statment of "we should round them up and put them in concentration camps" while Penn and Teller's remark is no worse then making fun of fat people (by people whose job it is to make fun of people and who have no intention of taking it to a more agressive level).
This argument is very open to attack. Funny remarks can be made about any religious group, be it Christian, Jewish, or atheist. Forceful, unhumorous, remarks can be made likewise (see the Playboy interview with the Minnesota governor). The whole paragraph appears to try to say that persecuting remarks against atheists are more forceful than the persecuting remarks generally made by atheists against other people. Such a statement is inherently false. It would be more appropriate to say that, in general, there are more slanderous, non-humorous remarks made against atheists, than there are slanderous, non-humorous remarks made by atheists against other religious groups.
Other than that, thank you for spelling out several of the thoughts I was having as I read this thread. I enjoyed your post.
oh.. ok.. I didn't really know, but I was under the impression that northern america only produced a small portion of the diamonds in the world. I very well could be wrong. I don't think that changes the point I was trying to make however. I just need a better example.
We broke the world into continents, why not the interenet into contents? Look at Asia and Europe. One big land mass, with people mingling all over, yet we call it two continents. Even Africa is dangling there off from Asia. The Northern and Southern Americas are attached too. The people and ideas mingle all over, yet we still say that we have 7 continents.
Just like you wouldn't go to North America to mine raw diamonds (usually), you wouldn't go to the GeekNet type sites to mine raw international news.
shhhhhhhhhh... I'm trying to ignore the fact that my 13 year old, sweet, innocent, angelic little sister fits into that catagory. If I ever find out some perv has sent vulgar messages to my little sister I will track him down and remove proof of his existance from every computer system in the world.
Sorry.. I will end my tyrannical over-protective older brother rant now.
Thank you. I thought I was going to have to write that post. Many of the original 13 colonies were settled by religious groups escaping a government that was controlled by the major religion. That same gov't forced the major religion down the people's throats. Now, those same religious groups are trying to control government choices and, through gov't and media, are trying to force their religion down the peoples throats again.
I see one line that says the code can't run on Windows. It's absolutely right.
Please re-read the article. It states: "Solaris and Linux systems were vulnerable to having foreign, unwanted code placed on them by outsiders" AND "Windows- based systems are not subject to this problem."
It does not say the 'code' cannot run on windows. Perhaps the specific code that was used for these specific DoS attacks could not have run on Windows, but it is still very easy to run this sort of attack on a Windows machine.
I agree that/. is going overboard with its suggestion that MS is behind this. Frankly, I believe MyCIO is behind this in a huge attempt to sell their product. But the 'facts' that the article states are just plain wrong.
I read that line and thought the same thing.. and then I realized what the writer was thinking. It basically boils down to the writer not having a clue. Have you ever tried to take a clip from a TV show, and watch it in full screen on a monitor? You get huge distortion because of the difference in # of pixals. To someone who doesn't know better, the program looks better on the TV. It does.. but if that same program were originally in 800x600, or 1280x1024, etc, then it would look astoundingly better on the monitor than it does on the TV. The writer obviously didn't realize this. I have a feeling that as we move towards more HDTV, that any program that wants to be broadcast in HD will have to spend more time doing makeup for the actors because we will be able to see much more detail on thier faces.
The meeting closed with Kimberley retorting, "If my child sees porn, how will you erase that image from his mind?"
My question is, why should you have to? Humans are sexual creatures, even children. Does anyone really believe that pretending sexuality doesn't exist until a child is 15 will prevent them from having sex before they graduate from high school? If a child sees porn, it is NOT the parents job to hide it from the child and pretend that they saw something bad and evil. I firmly believe that most parents who want to eradicate pornography simply do not want to have to deal with the fact that their children are sexual creatures and, sooner or later, will need to know about sex. The best thing to do is be open about sexuality with children from a young age. That way, they are comfortable with their sexuality, and will also be more informed about what is a good idea and a bad idea, diseases, pregnancy, etc..
I'm not saying you should sit down with your children and browse though www.analsex.com or www.bondage.com and discuss it with them.. but if your child happens to see a picture of the Venus DeMilo (sp) or a porn site, or whatever, that it is the parents job to discuss any questions the child has with the child. You can't "erase an image" from a childs mind.. nor should you try.
My understanding was that Crusoe is not a high end processor. Who makes CPUs for Palm Pilots? Are they also a threat to Intel?
Motorola makes the CPU for Palm. I believe the current speed is around 25Mhz. Is Motorola a threat to Intel, not in the desktop market or the notebook market. However, in the palm top market, they are blowing Intel away right now. In the palm top market, Motorola will be Transmeta's competition. In the laptop market, Intel will be Transmeta's competition. As for being "high end". In the palm top market, Crusoe is "high end". In the laptop market, Crusoe is middle of the road, but way ahead in terms of power usage.
Not all of us are worried. I for one think this is great. I like VA Linux. I know they are out to make money, but it really is possible to make money and still uphold your values. VA Linux will be selling both hardware and advertising. They will have two major sources of income. With the current popularity of both linux and/., they should be able to not only make money, but make enough that they could be choosy about what companies they allow to advertise through the various sites.
If all else fails, I have full confidence that, should ANY company ever try to control/., the/. crew (you, Rob, et al) would leave and start a new site (maybe ". or {. or/,), and we, the avid/.ers would follow.
Someone moderate this up. Its not a popular point of view, and it does use vulgar language, but it isn't off topic, and it isn't flamebait. Its simply an opinion. The last time I checked, opinions were allowed, even if they didn't agree with the gereral public opinion.
Personally, I feel Jon is making a mistake if he takes a job with the companies. They would not be hiring him for technical merit, but for publicity. Jon, if you are listening, get your education. You'll be a more rounded, knowledgable person if you do. It will also empower you to get a job you LIKE based on work you WANT TO DO, instead of being some companies PR move.
You guys may not agree with this post, but it is NOT a troll or flamebait. Yes, I agree, he could be more logical in his argument, but this is an ON TOPIC OPINION and does not deserve to be moderated down because you don't like what he has to say.
Someone please give me some moderator points. Time for me to go do some MetaModeration.
What I would REALLY love to see is motorola allowing MB manufacturers to manufacture MBs for their G3/4 chips. Unless I am wrong (someone correct me if I am), the only way to get a MB that supports a Motorola chip is to buy it from Apple or one of the embedded system companies who have specialized boards. I love the G3/4 processors, but I hate having to go through Apple to get one, and then be stuck with their hardware setup. I know Mac is a good OS for its purposes, but its not my OS of choice. I'd rather be running Linux PPC. Motorola must have some deal with Apple to not allow generic MBs to be manufactured by 3rd parties.
Its rather fun to refresh the petition page during the first 5 minutes after this story got posted and seeing the number of signatures on the popular games jump by up to 40 sigs.:)
I know a large number of people who still play Starcraft regularly. Its one of the best multiplayer strategy games ever. Blizzard is a great company. Its one of the few game companies whose software I have felt was worthwhile to purchase.
I know my name is on the list.:)
I need to try starcraft under wine sometimes soon though.
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I would LOVE to do kernel hacking or deamon writing or device driver writing for a living (not just on the side) but WHERE ARE THOSE JOBS? I can't find any in a city I want to live in. I DON"T want to live on the east coast, west coast, or in Chicago. Everywhere else, all the development going on is just business app and science app writing. I'd love to do more low level coding, but nobody I can find around here is DOING that. *sigh* If any of you had any ideas.. let me know.
I have to agree with the moderator who moderated you flamebait. Not because you said 'microsoft good, linux bad', but because your post succeeded in throwing the entire thread offtopic by defending what hadn't yet been attacked.
Why would I buy a pc that I CANT upgrade (or not easily) to play my games on, when I can buy a real PC, play my games, browse the web, write papers, code, and upgrade HOWEVER and WHENEVER I want. Is this even worthwhile for hardcore gamers? I can't forsee it playing any games that aren't available for a standard PC. This is about like going out to gateway and buying a pile of crap PC with the audio and vidio built into the mobo to force you to use them to upgrade. This goes a step further though and uses proprietary connectors. Any bets on whether or not MS has a copyright on the pinout so that only they can make joysticks and gamepads for the console? Expect to see sidewinder profits go through the roof.
Other concerns, under the hood, will it have any PCI slots for upgrading? How about memory expansion?
I ask again, why the hell would anyone buy a proprietary PC that only does games and movies when they can go out and get a real PC for not a whole hell of a lot more?
Sorry. I guess I just felt the need to rant this morning.
Exactly. Notice that neither the Marvel, or the M3D, which where both new product lines on boards that never really went anywhere, had the Millinium name on them. It was Matrox's first time with those attempts and they didn't want to corrupt the Millinium name with a product that could prove to be sub-par. Now they offer these same features in a new product line, on a card that has been recieving very good reviews, and it carries the Millinium name again. Very good marketing on Matrox's part.
I'm in the process of putting together my new Athlon sytem (praying my mobo arrives today). My previous computer had a Matrox Millinium II and I LOVED it. It wasn't the fastest card, but next to any other card I've ever seen, the output was just plain beautiful. If I spent %90 of my time playing 3D games, I'd probably get an nVidia card, but I don't. I do a LOT of 2d work where I don't need the speed, but I do need the crisp, clear, easy to read display the Matrox card gives me. I'm eagerly awaiting installing my new G400 into my new box and see just how much it rocks. :)
Sybase SQL Server 12 - Available on Win, Sun, Linux, HPUX, AIX
Jaguar CTS (component server) - Win, Sun
PowerDynamo (dynamic web content provider) - Win, Sun
The standard practice is to get EA Server with EA Studio which includes the Sybase suite of development tools:
PowerBuilder 7.0 (app dev like VB): win, sun
PowerJ 3.5 (Java dev) : win, sun
PowerSite (HTML/JavaScript/ASP dev):win, sun
Unfortunately, the main components are currently only available on NT and Solaris. AIX and HPUX are on the way.
You do have the option of using Apache for the web server and, through CGI using powerdynamo and jaguar on another machine, but that almost defeats the purpose. You could go all Solaris though.
I have to say that overall, I do like the package, it makes for rapid website development and, since Jaguar is Corba compliant, I can re-use all my business logic within local client desktop applications when I want the added speed and functionality.
I've had several friends who have died in their dreams. They usually wake up in a cold sweat, but their hearts still beat. Remember that the heart beating and the lungs breathing are automatic reactions that aren't controlled by the concious parts of the brain. Since it is the concious portion of the brain that would interact with such games, the concious portion of your brain would have to have some way of telling they unconcious portion "hey.. we're dead.. quit that".
Example.. the concious portion of the brain can tell your body to stop breathing (you can hold your breath). However, unless you gag yourself somehow or put a plastic bag over your head, you will not die. Instead, the concious portion of your mind will shut off first, and your unconcious mind will start your breathing process again. Granted, this tends to kill brain cells, but it is not life threatening.
Why would they just make a plugin for xanim. It seems that would be very limiting. What about the people who don't want to use xanim? What about that great new app some bright mind out there is creating that will blow xanim out of the water, but doesn't use xanim plugins? *grins* Of course you were probably joking about the xanim plugin comment, but I felt like responding anyway, especially for those who were saying to themselves, 'oh.. ya.. great idea'. This way, we will end up with dozens of xanim plugins and each will work a bit differently, and the members of the community will all choose the one they want to use. I love choice. :)
What exactly constitutes persecution? Dose Penn and Teller responding to the question "Do you know any religious scientis?" with "Not any good ones" persicution of christians? Do you really want to say that every clever oral quip consitutes verbal abuse? If you consider off hand remarks to be persicution then what about the following paraphrased remarks: "I don't consider Atheists to be American citizens" (George Bush) or "I don't really like Atheists" (Al Gore). Do you know what the diffrence in these remarks and Penn and Teller's remarks? These second remarks are moving towards the statment of "we should round them up and put them in concentration camps" while Penn and Teller's remark is no worse then making fun of fat people (by people whose job it is to make fun of people and who have no intention of taking it to a more agressive level).
This argument is very open to attack. Funny remarks can be made about any religious group, be it Christian, Jewish, or atheist. Forceful, unhumorous, remarks can be made likewise (see the Playboy interview with the Minnesota governor). The whole paragraph appears to try to say that persecuting remarks against atheists are more forceful than the persecuting remarks generally made by atheists against other people. Such a statement is inherently false. It would be more appropriate to say that, in general, there are more slanderous, non-humorous remarks made against atheists, than there are slanderous, non-humorous remarks made by atheists against other religious groups.
Other than that, thank you for spelling out several of the thoughts I was having as I read this thread. I enjoyed your post.
Just like you wouldn't go to North America to mine raw diamonds (usually), you wouldn't go to the GeekNet type sites to mine raw international news.
Sorry.. I will end my tyrannical over-protective older brother rant now.
Thank you. I thought I was going to have to write that post. Many of the original 13 colonies were settled by religious groups escaping a government that was controlled by the major religion. That same gov't forced the major religion down the people's throats. Now, those same religious groups are trying to control government choices and, through gov't and media, are trying to force their religion down the peoples throats again.
Please re-read the article. It states:
"Solaris and Linux systems were vulnerable to having foreign, unwanted code placed on them by outsiders"
AND
"Windows- based systems are not subject to this problem."
It does not say the 'code' cannot run on windows. Perhaps the specific code that was used for these specific DoS attacks could not have run on Windows, but it is still very easy to run this sort of attack on a Windows machine.
I agree that /. is going overboard with its suggestion that MS is behind this. Frankly, I believe MyCIO is behind this in a huge attempt to sell their product. But the 'facts' that the article states are just plain wrong.
I read that line and thought the same thing.. and then I realized what the writer was thinking. It basically boils down to the writer not having a clue.
Have you ever tried to take a clip from a TV show, and watch it in full screen on a monitor? You get huge distortion because of the difference in # of pixals. To someone who doesn't know better, the program looks better on the TV. It does.. but if that same program were originally in 800x600, or 1280x1024, etc, then it would look astoundingly better on the monitor than it does on the TV. The writer obviously didn't realize this.
I have a feeling that as we move towards more HDTV, that any program that wants to be broadcast in HD will have to spend more time doing makeup for the actors because we will be able to see much more detail on thier faces.
My question is, why should you have to? Humans are sexual creatures, even children. Does anyone really believe that pretending sexuality doesn't exist until a child is 15 will prevent them from having sex before they graduate from high school? If a child sees porn, it is NOT the parents job to hide it from the child and pretend that they saw something bad and evil. I firmly believe that most parents who want to eradicate pornography simply do not want to have to deal with the fact that their children are sexual creatures and, sooner or later, will need to know about sex. The best thing to do is be open about sexuality with children from a young age. That way, they are comfortable with their sexuality, and will also be more informed about what is a good idea and a bad idea, diseases, pregnancy, etc..
I'm not saying you should sit down with your children and browse though www.analsex.com or www.bondage.com and discuss it with them.. but if your child happens to see a picture of the Venus DeMilo (sp) or a porn site, or whatever, that it is the parents job to discuss any questions the child has with the child. You can't "erase an image" from a childs mind.. nor should you try.
Who makes CPUs for Palm Pilots? Are they also a threat to Intel?
Motorola makes the CPU for Palm. I believe the current speed is around 25Mhz. Is Motorola a threat to Intel, not in the desktop market or the notebook market. However, in the palm top market, they are blowing Intel away right now. In the palm top market, Motorola will be Transmeta's competition. In the laptop market, Intel will be Transmeta's competition. As for being "high end". In the palm top market, Crusoe is "high end". In the laptop market, Crusoe is middle of the road, but way ahead in terms of power usage.
Not all of us are worried. I for one think this is great. I like VA Linux. I know they are out to make money, but it really is possible to make money and still uphold your values. VA Linux will be selling both hardware and advertising. They will have two major sources of income. With the current popularity of both linux and /., they should be able to not only make money, but make enough that they could be choosy about what companies they allow to advertise through the various sites.
/., the /. crew (you, Rob, et al) would leave and start a new site (maybe ". or {. or /,), and we, the avid /.ers would follow.
If all else fails, I have full confidence that, should ANY company ever try to control
I didn't say he was right. I completely disagree with his point, but that does not mean he should be moderated down because he has an opposing view.
Personally, I feel Jon is making a mistake if he takes a job with the companies. They would not be hiring him for technical merit, but for publicity. Jon, if you are listening, get your education. You'll be a more rounded, knowledgable person if you do. It will also empower you to get a job you LIKE based on work you WANT TO DO, instead of being some companies PR move.
You guys may not agree with this post, but it is NOT a troll or flamebait. Yes, I agree, he could be more logical in his argument, but this is an ON TOPIC OPINION and does not deserve to be moderated down because you don't like what he has to say.
Someone please give me some moderator points. Time for me to go do some MetaModeration.
What I would REALLY love to see is motorola allowing MB manufacturers to manufacture MBs for their G3/4 chips. Unless I am wrong (someone correct me if I am), the only way to get a MB that supports a Motorola chip is to buy it from Apple or one of the embedded system companies who have specialized boards. I love the G3/4 processors, but I hate having to go through Apple to get one, and then be stuck with their hardware setup. I know Mac is a good OS for its purposes, but its not my OS of choice. I'd rather be running Linux PPC. Motorola must have some deal with Apple to not allow generic MBs to be manufactured by 3rd parties.
I know a large number of people who still play Starcraft regularly. Its one of the best multiplayer strategy games ever. Blizzard is a great company. Its one of the few game companies whose software I have felt was worthwhile to purchase.
:)
I know my name is on the list.
I need to try starcraft under wine sometimes soon though.