Well maybe they have very little contact with "the world"... maybe they don't read newspapers or watch TV. If a person is very isolated, there's no reason, whatsoever, to think, on one's own, that marijuana would be illegal. It's kind of like flying to a new country that you've never been to before, and finding out that you can get arrested for hummus. Heck, maybe they were foreign, and couldn't even begin to imagine how insane the US drug laws are.
Maybe the W2K server(s) are production, and the Linux server_ is a toy? Personally, I don't install a single thing that I don't need to, including service packs. If there's a specific problem or security issue that I'm aware of, then fine. Otherwise, I don't touch 'em. Life has worked like that for old school Unix admins for 20+ years. Why does everybody feel the sudden need to update their core OS software on almost a daily basis now? I don't get it. It's like switching out the compressor in your refrigerator, because the manufacturer came out with a new one. If it ain't broke...
Are that many people even using Windows Server 2003? Other than the.NET Framework that can also be bolted onto W2K, I don't know what the advantages are to running Win 2003. W2K both Pro and Server are very, very stable for us, and as far as I can tell, we have zero incentive to upgrade (if it's even a real upgrade). I personally don't know of a single person or company running Server 2003 for the same reason. W2K works just fine.
Windows9x was crappy because it did not implement correct separation of processes from each other and from the kernel.
No, it was much simpler than that. Windows 95,98,ME sucked because they were all just GUIs on top of DOS. I think that most of the NT based MS OS's are pretty damn stable by this point (NT 3.51, 4.0, W2K, XP, etc.).
I'll be dead by the time any of this happens. What incentive is there for me to really care? Honestly? I know it's a problem, but how do you get people to care about it, when 1. They'll be dead by the time this happens and 2. There are more pressing concerns to deal with (bills, life, etc.)?
As if none of us would have suspected that there is money in open source software. I don't see how the article is that relevant, seeing as most of us here have heard of Red Hat.
Unfortunately, most of "us" don't know how to read a financial statement, and wouldn't know that Red Hat still isn't very financially stable, and their "profitability" comes from accounting tricks. For me, I was impressed by the article. It seems like they have a somewhat solid footing, which is very very rare for a company producing open source software. Your assumption that there are plenty of other profitable open source companies is wrong.
I'm sure there will still be plenty to be found in the used chip market and in older computers that nobody wants.
Speak for yourself. I just bought 2 for home computers. They work fine. Saved a lot of money, and got some serious Geek Karma (as opposed to going to Best Buy which costs serious Geek Karma).
I feel that it should be legal for me to snort coke off a hooker's ass while driving a stolen Humvee at 80 mph through a church parking lot. For the children.
Draw your own conclusions, but I think even if Google eradicated fraudulent clicks, their ad program would still be a huge scam.
I wouldn't draw any conclusions from a single anecdote. The conclusions that I would draw is that their program is massively successful due to the number of web sites I see using Google advertising (either buying or selling)
And as an aside, I worked at a biotech. We had an 80 gig database with a quarter billion entries. We were running platform neutral SQL and used MySql, Oracle and MS-Sql server.
We ditched the "commercial grade" databases because they were to slow! MySql did a great job under enormous load.
You may be right there. I've heard good things about MySQL and smaller databases. Oracle, at least, is not really designed for small databases as well as it is for large ones, I think. All of the overhead doesn't really begin to provide value until you're using a good bit of data.
There's a simple solution to this mind-boggling problem. Then, you won't have to worry about a minute here or a minute there. You'll have hours that you'll have to fill up with... [gasp] real life!
Google does it out of politeness, I'm sure. That, and since they don't want to spend even 5 minutes of a lawyer's time on something like a Usenet post, it's cheaper to just take it down. As in any business, it's better to just appease some of your crazy clients/customers to get rid of them, so you can go about your business of helping real customers/clients. We (unfortunately) have to do it all of the time, just so we don't have to argue with them and waste our time on something that probably wouldn't earn us a dime, anyway.
As far as a class-action, again, it'd have to be a hoarde of people with valid filings, which, quite frankly, I doubt exist, since it costs something like $25-30 for each federal filing.
You spoke to a bad lawyer. Filing for copyright hasn't been necessary for something like a decade, and in many places never was.
Well, I'll tell you what smart guy. You report back here once you win a court case defending a Usenet post. Hell, once anybody wins a court case, then I'll believe you. Until then, you're just talking out of your ass.
Actually, you're the troll here. I spoke to a lawyer not 5 minutes ago. Technically, everything written is copyrighted, but unless you file for copyright before you post it, it's completely and totally unenforceable. So fuck off with your troll comments, and stop perpetuating bullshit. Have a nice day.
Copyrighted works? What, Usenet posts? Are you crazy? I'd love to see some nutjob who thinks that his Usenet posts are copyrighted to try to enforce that. He'd get laughed out of court, and probably slapped with a fine for frivolous legal action.
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No offense to university people, but universities are horribly inefficient places for real world type of work. Businesses are designed around efficiency. Ever heard "those who can't, teach"? It's true. Academia is good for theoretical work, but not for actually getting something done. Academics don't have any real incentive, and in jobs that are driven by tenure and seniority, you're inevitably going to have lots and lots of inefficiency.
Its really funny that you people should mention rape victims considering the sort of public humiliation they tend to go through should they successfully press charges.
That's my point. Sometimes privacy is a good thing in regards to court cases.
Other than the trendy fashion thing, or the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses thing, I don't understand the big deal behind the iPod. A simple Walkman does almost the same thing for a fraction of the price.
Instead, I just bought myself one of these thingies. This kind of gadget is not the kind of thing that can be very easily duplicated (unlike the iPod).
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We have, It's called Linux.
I'm sorry, but that's just stupid. That's like replacing a car because a windshield wiper blade has worn out.
Well maybe they have very little contact with "the world"... maybe they don't read newspapers or watch TV. If a person is very isolated, there's no reason, whatsoever, to think, on one's own, that marijuana would be illegal. It's kind of like flying to a new country that you've never been to before, and finding out that you can get arrested for hummus. Heck, maybe they were foreign, and couldn't even begin to imagine how insane the US drug laws are.
UNFAIR.
Yes, life is unfair. Fortunately, most of us learn that at a very young age, either from parents, or from experience. Get over it.
Don't bother. They require extensive drug tests.
Maybe the W2K server(s) are production, and the Linux server_ is a toy? Personally, I don't install a single thing that I don't need to, including service packs. If there's a specific problem or security issue that I'm aware of, then fine. Otherwise, I don't touch 'em. Life has worked like that for old school Unix admins for 20+ years. Why does everybody feel the sudden need to update their core OS software on almost a daily basis now? I don't get it. It's like switching out the compressor in your refrigerator, because the manufacturer came out with a new one. If it ain't broke...
Are that many people even using Windows Server 2003? Other than the .NET Framework that can also be bolted onto W2K, I don't know what the advantages are to running Win 2003. W2K both Pro and Server are very, very stable for us, and as far as I can tell, we have zero incentive to upgrade (if it's even a real upgrade). I personally don't know of a single person or company running Server 2003 for the same reason. W2K works just fine.
Windows9x was crappy because it did not implement correct separation of processes from each other and from the kernel.
No, it was much simpler than that. Windows 95,98,ME sucked because they were all just GUIs on top of DOS. I think that most of the NT based MS OS's are pretty damn stable by this point (NT 3.51, 4.0, W2K, XP, etc.).
I'll worry about that once I see some scientific evidence to support it. Until then, I lump it into the fairy tale world of organized religion.
I'll be dead by the time any of this happens. What incentive is there for me to really care? Honestly? I know it's a problem, but how do you get people to care about it, when 1. They'll be dead by the time this happens and 2. There are more pressing concerns to deal with (bills, life, etc.)?
As if none of us would have suspected that there is money in open source software. I don't see how the article is that relevant, seeing as most of us here have heard of Red Hat.
Unfortunately, most of "us" don't know how to read a financial statement, and wouldn't know that Red Hat still isn't very financially stable, and their "profitability" comes from accounting tricks. For me, I was impressed by the article. It seems like they have a somewhat solid footing, which is very very rare for a company producing open source software. Your assumption that there are plenty of other profitable open source companies is wrong.
I'm sure there will still be plenty to be found in the used chip market and in older computers that nobody wants.
Speak for yourself. I just bought 2 for home computers. They work fine. Saved a lot of money, and got some serious Geek Karma (as opposed to going to Best Buy which costs serious Geek Karma).
Dude, get a grip. It's a game. And this article isn't even about the fucking game. You need to get out of the house or something. You have problems.
I feel that it should be legal for me to snort coke off a hooker's ass while driving a stolen Humvee at 80 mph through a church parking lot. For the children.
Draw your own conclusions, but I think even if Google eradicated fraudulent clicks, their ad program would still be a huge scam.
I wouldn't draw any conclusions from a single anecdote. The conclusions that I would draw is that their program is massively successful due to the number of web sites I see using Google advertising (either buying or selling)
I'd miss Google, personally. (And Froogle, and Google Groups, etc.)
And as an aside, I worked at a biotech. We had an 80 gig database with a quarter billion entries. We were running platform neutral SQL and used MySql, Oracle and MS-Sql server.
We ditched the "commercial grade" databases because they were to slow! MySql did a great job under enormous load.
You may be right there. I've heard good things about MySQL and smaller databases. Oracle, at least, is not really designed for small databases as well as it is for large ones, I think. All of the overhead doesn't really begin to provide value until you're using a good bit of data.
There's a simple solution to this mind-boggling problem. Then, you won't have to worry about a minute here or a minute there. You'll have hours that you'll have to fill up with... [gasp] real life!
Google does it out of politeness, I'm sure. That, and since they don't want to spend even 5 minutes of a lawyer's time on something like a Usenet post, it's cheaper to just take it down. As in any business, it's better to just appease some of your crazy clients/customers to get rid of them, so you can go about your business of helping real customers/clients. We (unfortunately) have to do it all of the time, just so we don't have to argue with them and waste our time on something that probably wouldn't earn us a dime, anyway.
As far as a class-action, again, it'd have to be a hoarde of people with valid filings, which, quite frankly, I doubt exist, since it costs something like $25-30 for each federal filing.
You spoke to a bad lawyer. Filing for copyright hasn't been necessary for something like a decade, and in many places never was.
Well, I'll tell you what smart guy. You report back here once you win a court case defending a Usenet post. Hell, once anybody wins a court case, then I'll believe you. Until then, you're just talking out of your ass.
Actually, you're the troll here. I spoke to a lawyer not 5 minutes ago. Technically, everything written is copyrighted, but unless you file for copyright before you post it, it's completely and totally unenforceable. So fuck off with your troll comments, and stop perpetuating bullshit. Have a nice day.
Copyrighted works? What, Usenet posts? Are you crazy? I'd love to see some nutjob who thinks that his Usenet posts are copyrighted to try to enforce that. He'd get laughed out of court, and probably slapped with a fine for frivolous legal action.
No offense to university people, but universities are horribly inefficient places for real world type of work. Businesses are designed around efficiency. Ever heard "those who can't, teach"? It's true. Academia is good for theoretical work, but not for actually getting something done. Academics don't have any real incentive, and in jobs that are driven by tenure and seniority, you're inevitably going to have lots and lots of inefficiency.
Its really funny that you people should mention rape victims considering the sort of public humiliation they tend to go through should they successfully press charges.
That's my point. Sometimes privacy is a good thing in regards to court cases.
that's bullshit. my tax dollars hard at work and yet i'm not able to see what's going on?
Go tell that to a rape victim.
Other than the trendy fashion thing, or the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses thing, I don't understand the big deal behind the iPod. A simple Walkman does almost the same thing for a fraction of the price.
Instead, I just bought myself one of these thingies. This kind of gadget is not the kind of thing that can be very easily duplicated (unlike the iPod).