On topic again, as the "inventor of ethernet"? What the fuck does that mean?
It means he invented ethernet, you dumb fucking moron.
It's not that impressive.
Okay, this is the part where you justify your apparently worthless existence by backing up this statement with something even remotely worthwhile that you have done. Since something like inventing ethernet is obviously not a big deal to a guy like you, I'm sure you have done something really amazing stuff? (nothing involving the latest anime you've watched, stuffed penguins, penguin toys, or superheroes counts, you worthless geek cumstain)
They're potentially exsposing themselves to lawsuits by showing their knickers to the world. I mean for all we know OS/2 could be filled with stolen UNIX source code and the last thing IBM wants is to actually validate SCO's claims!
Even if they messed up their prerelease code audit, as a practical matter there aren't that many companies who have the money to take IBM on in an IP infringement claim. The only difficult party for them in an OS/2 release would be Microsoft.
It's pure paranoia to suggest that there is stolen code in OS/2, however.
Bottom line is that IBM has nothing to gain from spending (wasting?) money to open source OS/2.
That, I pretty much agree with. I don't think there's much risk, but there's also not much in the way of a payoff either. Make dozens of OS/2 users around the globe really happy! Great.
Which is a shame, really, because releasing the source would not only give eternal life to OS/2, it would also vastly improve the other free software out there by allowing them to integrate (or at least port) portions of OS/2 to their systems.
Just as a point of interest, Linux already has integrated part of OS/2 - the JFS file system. This originally existed on AIX but the version which was ported was a newer version, out of OS/2.
The other thing that would be nice to port would be win16 support, since WINE can't even do that well. OS/2 always did it very well.
The cold hard fact is that IBM can't release the source code. So many non-disclosure agreements have sealed the fate of OS/2.
Certainly the IP situation isn't any worse than it was for Sun, and Sun brought out OpenSolaris. It'd be much easier for IBM, with their legendary legal team. In either case it's just a matter of identifying the people you need to buy off.
It'd be sort of screwing the eComstation people though.
The big debate is example. Imagine if the US had blown up a small ghost town or uninhabited island - maybe even right next to Japan and said "surrender now or this will happen to you."
Shit. Imagine if the US had blown up Hiroshima, said "surrender now or this will happen to another city," and actually gave the Japanese time to surrender.
The state Japan was in, with half-mad military leadership and having already been bombed back to the stone age by our conventional bombing, three days simply wasn't enough time for them to get their shit together and say "we surrender." It has always seemed to me the Nagasaki bombing was immoral, but the Hiroshima bombing was at least defensible.
Questions about our righteousness in nuking Japan (who themselves slaughtered even more civilians in Nanking than we killed with 2 A-bombs) will never die, but I'm confident that the US getting the bomb before China, the USSR and other nations, made it possible for us to scare everyone into not using them again.
First, if you're going to make these "evilness by number of civilians killed" calculations, you ought to remember that we killed far more people in Japan with firebombing than we did with nukes. Second, those kinds of calculations are stupid crap.
a direct invasion would have cost millions of lives and left Russia open to join in. Ask the Germans what happened when the Soviet men came into Berlin, and overlay that disaster onto Tokyo...
I wonder if this is Sun-specific, or if 64-bit Linux on any Opteron is flaky?
It's probably distribution-specific. You haven't said what distro you're using, and I hate to say it regardless, but you're probably best off using a RHEL clone like CentOS or Scientific Linux.
Everyone craps on D3 so much, and it bugs me. Yes, gameplay is probably the most important quality in a video game, and I admit it was severely lacking in D3.
The conjunction of these sentences kind of makes you sound like a retard. Just an FYI.
What about those of us here in the US who *paid* for JDS and were promised major upgrades every quarter? We saw the JDS 1.0 -> 2.0 upgrade, then it stopped while Sun worked on JDS/Solaris.
The bay of Fundy moves more water in and out every 13 hours than all the water of all the rivers in the world combined.
But the Fundies don't even believe the world is more than five thousand years old, so good luck getting them to sign off on a "hydroelectric thing." They don't hold with that.
The US tracks and prosecutes the copying of music and videos
Yes.
distribution of pornography showing individuals that appear to be younger than 18 years
No. Pornography involving individuals who are younger than 18 years is considered child pornography - big difference there. You don't get to send someone to prison because the playmate of the month looks 17, although I'm sure Ashcroft would have loved that.
information related to bomb making and terrorism
There is very little information in this regard which can get you sent to prison by itself, unless you're talking nukes or something. You can pretty much buy the info you need at any Army surplus store. They can ask you some questions, and take some interest in what your intentions are.
Germany and France crack down on the distribution of Nazi-related content, even if it not intended to promote Nazi ideology, but they are more liberal on sex and copying.
There aren't any western countries which have laws tolerant towards terrorism or child pornography. Are some of them lax in enforcement?
Well, I'm using "deserve" to mean "fair market value", which is all anyone "deserves".:)
I know that's what you're doing. It'd be interesting to see you defend it without tautlology. I think it's pretty important to remember that none of the tools involved in economics are inherently good or bad, and we're mostly just worried about their effects.
In other words, if we could all just join unions in order to make more money, have more free time, and grow the economy toward society's long term interests, it'd be great and we all ought to do it - even if the economy were less free and more regulated. The problem isn't that regulation is inherently bad or we don't deserve this kind of prosperity (why the heck not?) - the problem is that it almost certainly won't work very well.
As with engineering, it seems to be mostly about tradeoffs. Assigning emotional value to certain analytical things is good politics, here in the US anyway, but it's mostly crap. I think one of the decent ideas Ross Perot had during his presidential run was to just chart out visually what was happening with the economy and how to tweak things to achieve a given result. It didn't work because he was a freak and people weren't used to this, but still.
(hope that's not too critical, I responded to your post because it was actually worth engaging, even though I doubt I agree)
Unions can create temporary bubbles where you get higher pay than you deserve
Ugh, bad move. You spent a few paragraphs doing a decent analytical description of how wages are set, then you get down to unions and start using a word like "deserve."
There's no "deserve" about it, unions are an economic force which can effect wages and growth.
2) When you declare the value, your house goes onto a website, think of it as the ultimate government ebay. Anyone who wants to can bid, including you. At the end of the auction, the highest bidder (which might be you) gets your home for the specified price, and pays property taxes on the price paid. Obviously the thing should have quite a few warnings so people don't accidentally get outbid, and if you win the auction then you just pay the taxes and you're done, but that's the basic idea.
Stupidest thing I've ever read.
They're all holding out for the highest possible bid, and screwing the city out of a lot of property taxes. Clearly something is rotten there, and if the municipal government strikes back, well, neither side is a saint.
Their stuff is always more expensive than competing stores. (around here that's CompUSA, with a little Officemax and Staples) Their house-brand systems are unreliable crap. Their few good prices always depend on multiple obnoxious rebates.
On the bright side, their service center guys are at least nice, though not particularly capable. This is important, since you'll be getting to know them if you buy a computer there.
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It means he invented ethernet, you dumb fucking moron.
Okay, this is the part where you justify your apparently worthless existence by backing up this statement with something even remotely worthwhile that you have done. Since something like inventing ethernet is obviously not a big deal to a guy like you, I'm sure you have done something really amazing stuff? (nothing involving the latest anime you've watched, stuffed penguins, penguin toys, or superheroes counts, you worthless geek cumstain)
Even if they messed up their prerelease code audit, as a practical matter there aren't that many companies who have the money to take IBM on in an IP infringement claim. The only difficult party for them in an OS/2 release would be Microsoft.
It's pure paranoia to suggest that there is stolen code in OS/2, however.
That, I pretty much agree with. I don't think there's much risk, but there's also not much in the way of a payoff either. Make dozens of OS/2 users around the globe really happy! Great.
Just as a point of interest, Linux already has integrated part of OS/2 - the JFS file system. This originally existed on AIX but the version which was ported was a newer version, out of OS/2.
The other thing that would be nice to port would be win16 support, since WINE can't even do that well. OS/2 always did it very well.
Certainly the IP situation isn't any worse than it was for Sun, and Sun brought out OpenSolaris. It'd be much easier for IBM, with their legendary legal team. In either case it's just a matter of identifying the people you need to buy off.
It'd be sort of screwing the eComstation people though.
NO YUO!
Shit. Imagine if the US had blown up Hiroshima, said "surrender now or this will happen to another city," and actually gave the Japanese time to surrender.
The state Japan was in, with half-mad military leadership and having already been bombed back to the stone age by our conventional bombing, three days simply wasn't enough time for them to get their shit together and say "we surrender." It has always seemed to me the Nagasaki bombing was immoral, but the Hiroshima bombing was at least defensible.
First, if you're going to make these "evilness by number of civilians killed" calculations, you ought to remember that we killed far more people in Japan with firebombing than we did with nukes. Second, those kinds of calculations are stupid crap.
That doesn't make any sense at all.
It's probably distribution-specific. You haven't said what distro you're using, and I hate to say it regardless, but you're probably best off using a RHEL clone like CentOS or Scientific Linux.
Ha. Sun could invent a cure for death, give it for free to slashdot readers, and they'd still be bad. Am I right guys?!?!?
It's funny what will get labeled as "troll".
The cool thing is that you hear anecdotes like that about the guy a lot. It sounds as though he was a genuinely good person.
How much context would you need to see the two sentences are contradictory, you moron?
The conjunction of these sentences kind of makes you sound like a retard. Just an FYI.
Using Netbeans here. Don't care for Eclipse. Go figure.
Your upgrade is ready. It's called "Solaris 10".
But the Fundies don't even believe the world is more than five thousand years old, so good luck getting them to sign off on a "hydroelectric thing." They don't hold with that.
Yes.
No. Pornography involving individuals who are younger than 18 years is considered child pornography - big difference there. You don't get to send someone to prison because the playmate of the month looks 17, although I'm sure Ashcroft would have loved that.
There is very little information in this regard which can get you sent to prison by itself, unless you're talking nukes or something. You can pretty much buy the info you need at any Army surplus store. They can ask you some questions, and take some interest in what your intentions are.
There aren't any western countries which have laws tolerant towards terrorism or child pornography. Are some of them lax in enforcement?
I know that's what you're doing. It'd be interesting to see you defend it without tautlology. I think it's pretty important to remember that none of the tools involved in economics are inherently good or bad, and we're mostly just worried about their effects.
In other words, if we could all just join unions in order to make more money, have more free time, and grow the economy toward society's long term interests, it'd be great and we all ought to do it - even if the economy were less free and more regulated. The problem isn't that regulation is inherently bad or we don't deserve this kind of prosperity (why the heck not?) - the problem is that it almost certainly won't work very well.
As with engineering, it seems to be mostly about tradeoffs. Assigning emotional value to certain analytical things is good politics, here in the US anyway, but it's mostly crap. I think one of the decent ideas Ross Perot had during his presidential run was to just chart out visually what was happening with the economy and how to tweak things to achieve a given result. It didn't work because he was a freak and people weren't used to this, but still.
(hope that's not too critical, I responded to your post because it was actually worth engaging, even though I doubt I agree)
Firing people to shift jobs overseas is not morally equivalent to doing new hires overseas.
Ugh, bad move. You spent a few paragraphs doing a decent analytical description of how wages are set, then you get down to unions and start using a word like "deserve."
There's no "deserve" about it, unions are an economic force which can effect wages and growth.
You must know that's an oversimplification.
Stupidest thing I've ever read.
Second stupidest.
Why not? I'm really asking.
Their stuff is always more expensive than competing stores. (around here that's CompUSA, with a little Officemax and Staples) Their house-brand systems are unreliable crap. Their few good prices always depend on multiple obnoxious rebates.
On the bright side, their service center guys are at least nice, though not particularly capable. This is important, since you'll be getting to know them if you buy a computer there.
If any of what he said qualifies as "hateful" to you, you really need to get out more.
I know - they could call it "PostgreSQL". I'm sure that's not taken!