Would hate to work for a fortune 500 company and be talking on this with a co-worker only to have the packets sniffed from some random server in Malaysia on a major pipeline.
set's up a website that offers it's content to download for free, wouldn't that be either entrapment, or just silly? Because technically since it is the owners having the pages setup they are thus offering their content for free.
To me this sounds like Blockbuster giving away free DVD's, then tell you afterwards you're a thief for taking them.
Whether you're an Apple fan or not, Wozniak is just a great hearted and life filled individual. Wish we had more people like him in this field or world for the matter, it would be a better world.
Since this an OS X system, what kind of CPU does the iPhone use? Couldn't you use these restore images in a PPC or Mac emulator to recreate a basic system? Mostly depends on the arch of the phone.
Are there any laws governing this though? I mean do companies legally have to report good and bad things to your credit report? If not then you could pay on time for 10 years, then miss one payment and they could put that on your credit history w/o it reflecting 10 years of on-time payments. There should also be a way to defend yourself and post things yourself. Like in the previous situation, send receipts of 10 years of on-time payments and force them to reflect it on the report.
Do other countries do this same kinda BS that we do here in the states?
Curious how they count these people. Is a windows developer someone who writes strictly for.Net/Win32 API if so that makes sense. But I wouldn't call a person who uses Zend to write php scripts in Windows a windows programmer if the software will be run on a linux box with apache and php.
It's the target platform that matters in my view, if they took this into account I'm sure that linux would be a lot higher, because it would count all of the Web 2.0 people who are hosting on Linux but write in windows.
Anyone know the history of these "agencies" they are not part of the government right? Not regulated? Why does anyone believe them. I could create my own credit agency. The whole credit system just stinks.
I would love to be able to freeze my credit. Then whenever Joe Blow Student Loan Consolidation company and 50 of his cousins keep pinging my credit just to send me snail mail spam to sign up, it'll be ignored.
Because more than likely whether you create it at work or home doesnt matter they own it. Look at the fine print on your contract. Companies don't hire you as a physical worker, they are literally buying the rights to your brain and all IP that comes from it.
Then there will be a corresponding increase in salaries to attract good employees
not really, if there is more work to be done, more grunts get hired to do the work. Grunt == India. You dont think a farm owner hires a 6'5 300lb muscle machine to work at 2x the norm, he'll more than likely hire 20 immigrants at minimum wage.
"Why am I, a business manager, only making as much as an IT geek??"
Because business managers manage, we create. Without creating a product the managers wouldn't have a job either. It's a mutual thing. We need the managers to get our code to the market and sold using his/her resources so he can afford our salary.
suggests the iPhone only costs around $220 to make
This shows how Apple is really good at playing the game, where it's often about cheaper is better. They show style and quality is worth it. Most people will buy Fords, but some with the money will pay a premium to own a Mercedes. Apple is just the Mercedes of computing.
Though I think you're making an unfair comparison. Installing Windows which takes an entire DVD for just the OS is a lot different than a linux distro that has the OS + many many applications. To be completely fair try comparing it like this:
1 linux distro on DVD versus
20 DVD's for Windows Vista, Office, and similiar programs that are on the 1 linux distro DVD.
Granted these numbers are random but the point is valid.
Add support in blender or Maya and I'll be a happy camper. I've always wish there was a way of creating 3d models via a virtual 3d sphere that you could pull, and mold into an object vs doing it with a mouse and keyboard.
As long as OEM's keep selling machines with windows preinstalled, I seriously doubt if MS cares if you clean it and load Ubuntu on the machine. They still got their $75 for the license.
That's one reason I respect Dell for having the guts to sell machines with Linux preinstalled.
But one thing business do care about most if the "bottom line" and if free as in beer and free to use and modify to your benefit will help their profit margins grow, Linux and FOSS sounds enticing.
Say you're in charge of a datacenter:
1. One one side you can have Windows on all servers, 10 IT people to take care of them all, headache of licensing, updates, patches, crashes, recovery.
2. Run linux on them, free updates, more secure, no worring about having to keep track of licenses, less staff because they dont break as often
Which do you think they'd pick? Granted it depends a lot on what kind of work needs to be done, but for something like web/email/sql server then Linux does the job very well. You can always have 1-2 Windows servers for those few clients that absolutely insist on having MsSQL and IIS.
"So, I see this leading to one very definite scenario. As previously described, the US corporate world will pay a price and continue to fall behind with desktop Linux technologies. The casual Linux user within the US will become more empowered and adoption will continue to grow, regardless of the usual Microsoft dogma."
wouldn't this be considered computer theft? There was an article a long time ago where a tech guy was sued by his employer for running SETI@home on his workstation, because it was considered "computer theft" their meaning defined it as theft of computer cycles and power.
Without an option to turn this off, couldn't MS be sued for computer theft? I'm paying the bill here, I paid for the machine to crunch numbers for my scientific application, not for them to waste my precious CPU and bandwidth.
Granted I run Linux not Windows, but for others this would be frustrating. Not even taking into consideration privacy issues.
Sweet! and it's under a creative commons license so you can download it as a pdf. Though if it is as good as it seems I'll definately support it by buying the pulp version. Thanks for the link.
There really needs to be a howto or book on how to write a linux device driver. I feel even more people would be willing to help out if they had a bridge between "just learn C" to "you're now a kernel guru"
Granted if you're a good enough programmer you can traverse the source tree and pick up things on your own, but that is very time consuming versus "here's a quick overview" then look at the code for specifics.
While I don't like this for security purposes, but if this is 100% accurate we are one huge step forward in the art of OCR. As a Project Gutenberg volunteer, I can't wait for the day when I can scan something and OCR will get it 100% correct. 1 l 0 O etc.
Just off the top of my head, I'm not a physicist but I like to read. If the universe is expanding then it must be a finite area. If it's a finite area it must have a finite amount of energy. So if movement and expansion uses energy, then since there is finite energy it can not extend to infinity, thus it will stop growing at some point. Also in a near or perfect vacuum even small objects have a gravitational pull so they will begin to attract each other, so the universe will more than likely come back together.
The way I think of it is like taking a pot of boiling water and adding vegetable oil. Let turn off the fire and all those tiny bubbles of oil will start to come together. So if the universe works like that, it might be possible it wont come back together as a single singularity, but if there is enough distance that the gravitational forces don't attract the larger groups, it's possible we could end up with many pin-point size singularities and perhaps multiple big bangs.
Again I'm not a physicist, so take it with a grain of salt and add noodles:)
Not to sound like a troll. But do you think we'll still be using hard drives in 10 years? I was hoping by then we'd have something like solid state drives at an affordable rate to be more realistic. But to fantasize a bit, maybe HD's will be replaced by odd shaped crystals and some 3d rotating laser. Even that isn't too far fetched. There was an article a year or two ago, where NASA had a research project on the ISS where they were building custom crystals (something about zero G and crystalization) anyway, the crystals had many faces that the researchers where going to use to burn data on each face. Wish I knew where I read that article, it fascinated me at the time.
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Would hate to work for a fortune 500 company and be talking on this with a co-worker only to have the packets sniffed from some random server in Malaysia on a major pipeline.
To me this sounds like Blockbuster giving away free DVD's, then tell you afterwards you're a thief for taking them.
Whether you're an Apple fan or not, Wozniak is just a great hearted and life filled individual. Wish we had more people like him in this field or world for the matter, it would be a better world.
Since this an OS X system, what kind of CPU does the iPhone use? Couldn't you use these restore images in a PPC or Mac emulator to recreate a basic system? Mostly depends on the arch of the phone.
Do other countries do this same kinda BS that we do here in the states?
It's the target platform that matters in my view, if they took this into account I'm sure that linux would be a lot higher, because it would count all of the Web 2.0 people who are hosting on Linux but write in windows.
Anyone know the history of these "agencies" they are not part of the government right? Not regulated? Why does anyone believe them. I could create my own credit agency. The whole credit system just stinks.
I would love to be able to freeze my credit. Then whenever Joe Blow Student Loan Consolidation company and 50 of his cousins keep pinging my credit just to send me snail mail spam to sign up, it'll be ignored.
Because more than likely whether you create it at work or home doesnt matter they own it. Look at the fine print on your contract. Companies don't hire you as a physical worker, they are literally buying the rights to your brain and all IP that comes from it.
They're called Office Assistant, and as long as their banging the boss they can make as much as he can afford. ;)
not really, if there is more work to be done, more grunts get hired to do the work. Grunt == India. You dont think a farm owner hires a 6'5 300lb muscle machine to work at 2x the norm, he'll more than likely hire 20 immigrants at minimum wage.
Because business managers manage, we create. Without creating a product the managers wouldn't have a job either. It's a mutual thing. We need the managers to get our code to the market and sold using his/her resources so he can afford our salary.
This shows how Apple is really good at playing the game, where it's often about cheaper is better. They show style and quality is worth it. Most people will buy Fords, but some with the money will pay a premium to own a Mercedes. Apple is just the Mercedes of computing.
1 linux distro on DVD versus
20 DVD's for Windows Vista, Office, and similiar programs that are on the 1 linux distro DVD.
Granted these numbers are random but the point is valid.
Add support in blender or Maya and I'll be a happy camper. I've always wish there was a way of creating 3d models via a virtual 3d sphere that you could pull, and mold into an object vs doing it with a mouse and keyboard.
That's one reason I respect Dell for having the guts to sell machines with Linux preinstalled.
Say you're in charge of a datacenter:
1. One one side you can have Windows on all servers, 10 IT people to take care of them all, headache of licensing, updates, patches, crashes, recovery.
2. Run linux on them, free updates, more secure, no worring about having to keep track of licenses, less staff because they dont break as often
Which do you think they'd pick? Granted it depends a lot on what kind of work needs to be done, but for something like web/email/sql server then Linux does the job very well. You can always have 1-2 Windows servers for those few clients that absolutely insist on having MsSQL and IIS.
"So, I see this leading to one very definite scenario. As previously described, the US corporate world will pay a price and continue to fall behind with desktop Linux technologies. The casual Linux user within the US will become more empowered and adoption will continue to grow, regardless of the usual Microsoft dogma."
but how do you define a MS server? They can always add a new IP pool, and with your new Windows update have the pool secretly added.
Without an option to turn this off, couldn't MS be sued for computer theft? I'm paying the bill here, I paid for the machine to crunch numbers for my scientific application, not for them to waste my precious CPU and bandwidth.
Granted I run Linux not Windows, but for others this would be frustrating. Not even taking into consideration privacy issues.
Sweet! and it's under a creative commons license so you can download it as a pdf. Though if it is as good as it seems I'll definately support it by buying the pulp version. Thanks for the link.
Granted if you're a good enough programmer you can traverse the source tree and pick up things on your own, but that is very time consuming versus "here's a quick overview" then look at the code for specifics.
While I don't like this for security purposes, but if this is 100% accurate we are one huge step forward in the art of OCR. As a Project Gutenberg volunteer, I can't wait for the day when I can scan something and OCR will get it 100% correct. 1 l 0 O etc.
The way I think of it is like taking a pot of boiling water and adding vegetable oil. Let turn off the fire and all those tiny bubbles of oil will start to come together. So if the universe works like that, it might be possible it wont come back together as a single singularity, but if there is enough distance that the gravitational forces don't attract the larger groups, it's possible we could end up with many pin-point size singularities and perhaps multiple big bangs.
Again I'm not a physicist, so take it with a grain of salt and add noodles :)
Not to sound like a troll. But do you think we'll still be using hard drives in 10 years? I was hoping by then we'd have something like solid state drives at an affordable rate to be more realistic. But to fantasize a bit, maybe HD's will be replaced by odd shaped crystals and some 3d rotating laser. Even that isn't too far fetched. There was an article a year or two ago, where NASA had a research project on the ISS where they were building custom crystals (something about zero G and crystalization) anyway, the crystals had many faces that the researchers where going to use to burn data on each face. Wish I knew where I read that article, it fascinated me at the time.