So, I was there at the launch (being a Sun employee tasked with providing some technical support for one of the kiosks... I don't want to go into too much detail because I'd like to retain at least a little anonymity on/.).
I haven't yet understood any message that the Cult of Personality(tm) has been putting forth, but one has to realize that Sun is a big company that has many competing interests vying for control within it. JDS sucks, and everyone there knows it, because we have to use it (that or Solaris, which in my group would be next to impossible... at least the current version). But JDS had a groundswell of support and when policies are made, they are often tough to kill, even in the obvious face of failure. Red Hat is the name that is used to fight against because they are the market leader, even though the Solaris people know damn well that Red Hat != GNU/Linux. Red Hat had a banner plane flying over the Tech Museum in a marketing gimick meant to draw attention away from the launch. Of course they will be the target of the CoP(tm) attacks.
I can't say I like Sun corporate, and I think that the infighting there is ridiculous. There is some really cool technology that is being developed however, and some people with some good ideas. I just hope (for my stock's sake) that those people and projects manage to get the attention and funding from the talk-boxes who make the decisions.
On a positive techie note, one of the cooler things I saw was the dtrace support in Solaris 10 for doing kernel tracing. As an engineer, I find that very fun.
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I read the post just above this...
Brain mixed them and I saw
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Not what you want to call your standard distro Falcone.
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I think I should also add that an all girls private college is not what it's cracked up to be. I've never felt like such a complete outsider before in my life. My ex-gf and her friends were great to me, but any parties I went to, I was often the only guy. While that may sound like heaven to those social rejects who've never spent much time with girls in the first place, it's actually a very uncomfortable feeling, because you really just don't fit in, don't belong, and are pretty much just tolerated (and that's by the straight girls).
Don't get me wrong... I met lots of very cool people there, it's just the social environment of an all-one-gender place is very different than coed environments.
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I doubt it. My friend is a network admin at an all girl private college (where my ex-gf happened to go). It wouldn't surprise me if the original poster worked there. Said college will remain nameless but it rhymes with Count Rolycoke:).
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Flummix... a new linux distro based on the Windows XP kernel.
I just moved from Cambridge to SF, and I can attest to this story. I've seen the Harvard Square kids panhandle all day and then their mom comes to pick him up in an Audi A6 at the end of the day to take him back to Newton. I wonder if the kid gives his mom shit, like "Mom! I told you not to pick me up in the Audi... bring the Celica... jeez you're so cramping my style". And, of course, being the progressive soccer mom that she is, she feels guilty for not letting her child express himself to his fullest potential.
That's true... the analogy isn't perfect. I guess the point I'm really trying to make with that analogy is (and I should have done this in the first post) that, like the War on Drugs, the solution to the problem is not to go after either providers or consumers (or tools of either), but to remove the source of the problem in the first place.
More specifically, with the War on Drugs, reducing the poverty and despair associated with drug abuse would reduce the motivation for people to abuse drugs (not completely, people like to get high, but it would go a long way towards keeping people from ending up in the gutter with it). Likewise, reducing the motivations for P2P file sharing (e.g. a cost effective, simple way to purchase electronic media) will go a longer way towards reducing illegal P2P file sharing (not completely, again, people will still want free music, especially if the costs remain ridiculously high).
So I guess that's what I was trying to get at with this analogy. Still ain't very strong, but whatever:)
Venting their power on the helpless men and women who can't fight the financial and legal power of the RIAA is still a futile and losing battle by virtue of the simple fact that there are too many people sharing files. They don't have the resources to get everyone.
It's as if you tried to stop drug use by targeting all the users of drugs (and we've seen how well that works:)). The War on Drugs has backfired and bankrupted it's proponents. Let's hope the War on P2P will do the same.
I would still prefer the judiciary to have final say when civil rights are in question, as its politicization is signifcantly less than the executives (by design). Therefore, it will be less likely to make a brash decision driven by short term political gains (as the executive is likely to and dare I say proven it's willingness and capacity as of late).
Just MHO.
So I am an embedded engineer working on a networking device (load balancer). I've been working in the field for about 6 years now. C++ has been in use the entire time. As memory has become cheaper, more and more of the control plane on these embedded devices has been developed a la application software (using OO design principles, etc.). Device drivers are generally written in C, but that's not because of any inherent bloat in C++, but simply because 'driver people' historically know C and are not concerned with OO.
I work specifically on 'fast path' software that is in the data path, and while we absolutely must be concerned with performance, a good C++ compiler will generate perfectly acceptable code from a speed standpoint. Any tweaks can be done in assembler. The benefits in extensibility and good code design are usually worth it in the log run (and better designed code is generally less buggy and often faster)
So, the point is that it's primarily memory footprint that has kept embedded engineers from using C++ (or other OO) in the past, but as that restriction has lessened, more and more of them are using C++ and OO design principles (even in 'fast path' processing).
Therefore, I (and many of my collegues) would like a language that is more OO than C++ (which frankly is a hack between C and strict OO languages), but still provides the direct system and memory access that a language like C provides. Not saying C# is it by any means, but there is a sweet spot between #1 and #2, and I'm living in it;).
Ever heard the expression "There's no such thing as bad publicity"...
Can't say that Delta has been doing too hot lately in the market.
Yeah, mod me down for Troll, fine:P
They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.
He wouldn't have been saying this years ago when he was struggling, and he needed fans. Now that he doesn't, he has carte blanche to go ahead and f*ck with it however he wants. What he doesn't realize is that it's bigger than he is now, and that's because of the fan base. It's culture, and history will judge him harshly for his selfish ways.
"My rationale for pushing Debian boils down to its vast array of packages available to apt-get, easy upgrades, apt-get itself, and the overall quality and consistency of the system."
Funny... that's my rationale for owning a Mac (s/apt-get/fink/).
I'm not sure that this comment is even worth a response, but since it was moderated so highly, I feel I must. A citizen of another country must abide by the law of another country while they are visiting (this is well known), but also should if they are engaged in business or otherwise have a direct and significant effect on the citizenry of that country (this is the idea of extradition treaties). If I organize a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring that operates in Zimbabwe, and I have the currency smuggled into the States, I should be able to be prosecuted by the laws of the U.S. for that, even if I never step foot into that country. If I start a pot farm in the Colombia and I start dealing into the Netherlands, I should be able to be prosecuted by the Netherlands. While your fears of American Colonialism are both real and valid, your logic in this example is neither. You smoking a joint in Amsterdam doesn't affect the citizenry of the U.S. at all (except that I'm jealous that I can't, ya bastard).
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Well, IBM did it (with IBM Global Services) at a time when everyone said they were arrogant, inwardly-focused and too tied to their glory days.
So, I was there at the launch (being a Sun employee tasked with providing some technical support for one of the kiosks... I don't want to go into too much detail because I'd like to retain at least a little anonymity on /.).
I haven't yet understood any message that the Cult of Personality(tm) has been putting forth, but one has to realize that Sun is a big company that has many competing interests vying for control within it. JDS sucks, and everyone there knows it, because we have to use it (that or Solaris, which in my group would be next to impossible... at least the current version). But JDS had a groundswell of support and when policies are made, they are often tough to kill, even in the obvious face of failure. Red Hat is the name that is used to fight against because they are the market leader, even though the Solaris people know damn well that Red Hat != GNU/Linux. Red Hat had a banner plane flying over the Tech Museum in a marketing gimick meant to draw attention away from the launch. Of course they will be the target of the CoP(tm) attacks.
I can't say I like Sun corporate, and I think that the infighting there is ridiculous. There is some really cool technology that is being developed however, and some people with some good ideas. I just hope (for my stock's sake) that those people and projects manage to get the attention and funding from the talk-boxes who make the decisions.
On a positive techie note, one of the cooler things I saw was the dtrace support in Solaris 10 for doing kernel tracing. As an engineer, I find that very fun.
I read the post just above this... Brain mixed them and I saw Fallix-STD Not what you want to call your standard distro Falcone.
I think I should also add that an all girls private college is not what it's cracked up to be. I've never felt like such a complete outsider before in my life. My ex-gf and her friends were great to me, but any parties I went to, I was often the only guy. While that may sound like heaven to those social rejects who've never spent much time with girls in the first place, it's actually a very uncomfortable feeling, because you really just don't fit in, don't belong, and are pretty much just tolerated (and that's by the straight girls). Don't get me wrong... I met lots of very cool people there, it's just the social environment of an all-one-gender place is very different than coed environments.
I doubt it. My friend is a network admin at an all girl private college (where my ex-gf happened to go). It wouldn't surprise me if the original poster worked there. Said college will remain nameless but it rhymes with Count Rolycoke :).
Flummix... a new linux distro based on the Windows XP kernel.
I just moved from Cambridge to SF, and I can attest to this story. I've seen the Harvard Square kids panhandle all day and then their mom comes to pick him up in an Audi A6 at the end of the day to take him back to Newton. I wonder if the kid gives his mom shit, like "Mom! I told you not to pick me up in the Audi... bring the Celica... jeez you're so cramping my style". And, of course, being the progressive soccer mom that she is, she feels guilty for not letting her child express himself to his fullest potential.
That's true... the analogy isn't perfect. I guess the point I'm really trying to make with that analogy is (and I should have done this in the first post) that, like the War on Drugs, the solution to the problem is not to go after either providers or consumers (or tools of either), but to remove the source of the problem in the first place. :)
More specifically, with the War on Drugs, reducing the poverty and despair associated with drug abuse would reduce the motivation for people to abuse drugs (not completely, people like to get high, but it would go a long way towards keeping people from ending up in the gutter with it). Likewise, reducing the motivations for P2P file sharing (e.g. a cost effective, simple way to purchase electronic media) will go a longer way towards reducing illegal P2P file sharing (not completely, again, people will still want free music, especially if the costs remain ridiculously high).
So I guess that's what I was trying to get at with this analogy. Still ain't very strong, but whatever
Venting their power on the helpless men and women who can't fight the financial and legal power of the RIAA is still a futile and losing battle by virtue of the simple fact that there are too many people sharing files. They don't have the resources to get everyone. :)). The War on Drugs has backfired and bankrupted it's proponents. Let's hope the War on P2P will do the same.
It's as if you tried to stop drug use by targeting all the users of drugs (and we've seen how well that works
I would still prefer the judiciary to have final say when civil rights are in question, as its politicization is signifcantly less than the executives (by design). Therefore, it will be less likely to make a brash decision driven by short term political gains (as the executive is likely to and dare I say proven it's willingness and capacity as of late).
Just MHO.
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I'm not even going to touch this one...
So I am an embedded engineer working on a networking device (load balancer). I've been working in the field for about 6 years now. C++ has been in use the entire time. As memory has become cheaper, more and more of the control plane on these embedded devices has been developed a la application software (using OO design principles, etc.). Device drivers are generally written in C, but that's not because of any inherent bloat in C++, but simply because 'driver people' historically know C and are not concerned with OO. ;).
I work specifically on 'fast path' software that is in the data path, and while we absolutely must be concerned with performance, a good C++ compiler will generate perfectly acceptable code from a speed standpoint. Any tweaks can be done in assembler. The benefits in extensibility and good code design are usually worth it in the log run (and better designed code is generally less buggy and often faster)
So, the point is that it's primarily memory footprint that has kept embedded engineers from using C++ (or other OO) in the past, but as that restriction has lessened, more and more of them are using C++ and OO design principles (even in 'fast path' processing).
Therefore, I (and many of my collegues) would like a language that is more OO than C++ (which frankly is a hack between C and strict OO languages), but still provides the direct system and memory access that a language like C provides. Not saying C# is it by any means, but there is a sweet spot between #1 and #2, and I'm living in it
For anyone interested in the Incude Act and what it is, here's a reasonably good Wired article on it.
Of course not.
Ever heard the expression "There's no such thing as bad publicity"... :P
Can't say that Delta has been doing too hot lately in the market.
Yeah, mod me down for Troll, fine
Mod up parent please... too funny :).
from those of us who do regularly compile our own software, I'd just like to know how long it should take to be able to get the source via Fink.
They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.
He wouldn't have been saying this years ago when he was struggling, and he needed fans. Now that he doesn't, he has carte blanche to go ahead and f*ck with it however he wants. What he doesn't realize is that it's bigger than he is now, and that's because of the fan base. It's culture, and history will judge him harshly for his selfish ways.
Simple answer then:
Ship a ClueBat with every Windows box.
Battlefield Earth is *not* Sci Fi. It's scientology propaganda thinly veiled as Sci Fi.
Bah!
"That's the problem with Santa Clara, too many vampires".
"That's the problem with Los Angeles, too many scientologists"
Oh wait... same thing.
as all guns are now replaced with walkie talkies.
"My rationale for pushing Debian boils down to its vast array of packages available to apt-get, easy upgrades, apt-get itself, and the overall quality and consistency of the system." Funny... that's my rationale for owning a Mac (s/apt-get/fink/).
WTF... I'm still waiting to say hello to minor parties.
I'm not sure that this comment is even worth a response, but since it was moderated so highly, I feel I must.
A citizen of another country must abide by the law of another country while they are visiting (this is well known), but also should if they are engaged in business or otherwise have a direct and significant effect on the citizenry of that country (this is the idea of extradition treaties).
If I organize a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring that operates in Zimbabwe, and I have the currency smuggled into the States, I should be able to be prosecuted by the laws of the U.S. for that, even if I never step foot into that country.
If I start a pot farm in the Colombia and I start dealing into the Netherlands, I should be able to be prosecuted by the Netherlands.
While your fears of American Colonialism are both real and valid, your logic in this example is neither.
You smoking a joint in Amsterdam doesn't affect the citizenry of the U.S. at all (except that I'm jealous that I can't, ya bastard).