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Will Red Hat Survive?
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I've never been an Oracle customer myself, but I know some people who heave been - and how content, or rather, how NOT content - they were with the service of the company. Red Hat, on the other hand, was awarded with the first place in some customer-contentment-survey recently cited by German IT-newsmag c't (where Oracle came in at around place 40 or so). So I suppose that Red Hat offers much better service, and will do so even more on a product THEY actually make themselves, compared with something Oracle basically just relables.
It could turn out a problem, however, that uneducated "decision-makers" (how I loathe that word) who don't give a shit about what their more tech-savvy and competent advisers say, and just go for "Unbreakable Linux", because it's cheaper and supported by a big and well known player of IT. Who has ever been fired for buying Micr..., uhm, Oracle?
They did, on a Voodoo 3 or, better yet, Voodoo 5;)
The Voodoo 2 totally lacked 32bit rendering (what was less of a problem back then, given that the other cards' performance numbers were not high enough to render anything at 32bit reliably anyway), and the Voodoo 3 "only" boasted a so-called "22bit post-filter", which provided a MUCH better visual experience at negligible framerate losses. However, (at least european) gaming mags went rabid about the fact that "Voodoo 3 still does not support 32bit color depth!1" (which, again, was nothing to really care about, given other cards' performance at True Color settings!), and until today I'm sure that this kind of hype (and pushing of NVIDIA's TNT2-Chip along with it) did a great deal to sink 3DFX in the end.
Voodoo 5 supported True Color rendering from the beginning, but the market (or rather the marketing machinery) had moved on to the next hot subject, namely "T&L", by then (which, again, had virtually no real impact on anything that truly mattered for real world games), and due to lack of sales and the high costs 3DFX burdened itself with by acquiring STB, one of the greatest computer graphics companies ever went out of business. Just sad.:(
"Oh well, all right, let's all sell our souls and work for Satan because it's more convenient that way."
I really can't stand that ultra-capitalist corporate america bullshit you and so many others here are slinging. It makes me soooo sick, I'm lacking words even in my mother tongue to describe my disgust. You should be so terribly ashame of how you had your moral principles mutilated and distorted. Profit alone is not what life is all about, neither is it what "publicly traded companies" are. Fuck shareholder value - it's not a blank cheque to throw away ethics and humanity. Man exists to improve and make all our times more worthwhile, and should live up to this principle. Turbo-capitalism does not - Smith has already been proven wrong. You should probably watch the movie I cited in the very beginning of this post to get a grip on how we should live like.
...that should make it to the front page, to enable the really important stuff to spread more quickly - it's more than about time to let the big corps know we're giving up neither on our privacy, nor our freedom.
Vote with your wallet - do _not_ buy products that fuck with your inalienable rights so badly.
The REALLY nifty thing about UNIX is the userland. Without it and its tremendously clever and somewhat unique approach to solving problems in the way it does, it's REALLY not just "Linux" you should be talking about when referring to a modern UNIX-reimplementation. It's GNU/Linux.
I collect quotes from various sources, and one of my favourites says:
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit." - The Judge in "Life-Line"
Very well-fitting to the insightful comment you made.
I lost about 600 BILLION Euro by not selling all that used toilet paper for an estimated 1.2 billion/sheet I set its price at.
It's so tremendously hypocritical talking all that bullshit about globalization, a free market and how everyone's gonna save oh-so-much by having goods produced in low-wage-countries of the third world and eastern europe, and at the very same time not wanting to adjust to the demands the consumer - which is not the most unimportant in that market-thing in the end, you know, corporate world? - makes. If your business model is about to fail, well, get over it, and come up with a new one that's working without mob tactics.
You can actually buy GNU literature signed by RMS himself. Head over to https://agia.fsf.org/order/#manuals and check the offers in the "General Titles" section.
A nice thing to have, and definately a proper way to spend your money - the FSF is a benevolent effort, and will become even more important in the years to come, when our lives will depend even more on computers and software than they do right now.
It is utter bullshit this maniac comes up with each and every single time he wastes words into cyberspace, but nonetheless, I at least spare a glimpse for it by accident whenever this complete dork is featured on/. As this turns out to be physically painful 100% of the time, I suggest you just drop the crap (that means EVERYTHING published by him!) Mr. Dvorak fantasizes about when obviously being on crack, dope, and at least 3 other illegal drugs (possibly not!) known to the broad masses of mankind, and just leave him and his infantile and uneducated babble be. Please.:-(
...actually show ANYTHING really well, then it's the absolute neglibility of recent synthetic benchmarks. Looking at the numbers SiSoft Sandra spills out, the clocked-to-the-brim Netburst-cores should take the performance-crown with ease in FPU and ALU-applications alike. In reality though, said CPUs hardly matter at all when it's about uncompromising peak-performance. I fail to understand why benchmark-suites this far away from reality still matter in reviews like this. Sad, in an awkward way.
Of course that's another chance for ICANN, VeriSign and domain name resellers to cash in without much of a hassle, due to DNS' easily extensible and robust nature - however, much like.info and.name, this TLD presumeably won't be a big hit. The problem with all these newly introduced TLDs is that they don't ring a bell for the average joe on teh intarweb, since most casual users are familiar with.com,.net and maybe.org only, plus maybe their country's TLD.
From what I've heard the encryption scheme to be implemented by the "Secure Blue" chip is supposed to be based on a sophisticated algorithm called "Triple-ROT52", developed at an university in Australia. Neat stuff, indeed!
Now let's lean back and see how long it takes for the Inquirer to pick this up...
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I've never been an Oracle customer myself, but I know some people who heave been - and how content, or rather, how NOT content - they were with the service of the company. Red Hat, on the other hand, was awarded with the first place in some customer-contentment-survey recently cited by German IT-newsmag c't (where Oracle came in at around place 40 or so). So I suppose that Red Hat offers much better service, and will do so even more on a product THEY actually make themselves, compared with something Oracle basically just relables.
It could turn out a problem, however, that uneducated "decision-makers" (how I loathe that word) who don't give a shit about what their more tech-savvy and competent advisers say, and just go for "Unbreakable Linux", because it's cheaper and supported by a big and well known player of IT. Who has ever been fired for buying Micr..., uhm, Oracle?
only to those whose "security" in reality consists of not much - or even nothing - more than obscurity.
They did, on a Voodoo 3 or, better yet, Voodoo 5 ;)
:(
The Voodoo 2 totally lacked 32bit rendering (what was less of a problem back then, given that the other cards' performance numbers were not high enough to render anything at 32bit reliably anyway), and the Voodoo 3 "only" boasted a so-called "22bit post-filter", which provided a MUCH better visual experience at negligible framerate losses. However, (at least european) gaming mags went rabid about the fact that "Voodoo 3 still does not support 32bit color depth!1" (which, again, was nothing to really care about, given other cards' performance at True Color settings!), and until today I'm sure that this kind of hype (and pushing of NVIDIA's TNT2-Chip along with it) did a great deal to sink 3DFX in the end.
Voodoo 5 supported True Color rendering from the beginning, but the market (or rather the marketing machinery) had moved on to the next hot subject, namely "T&L", by then (which, again, had virtually no real impact on anything that truly mattered for real world games), and due to lack of sales and the high costs 3DFX burdened itself with by acquiring STB, one of the greatest computer graphics companies ever went out of business. Just sad.
...the study did not explicitly mention that about 40.000 of those were actually psychotherapists.
"Oh well, all right, let's all sell our souls and work for Satan because it's more convenient that way."
I really can't stand that ultra-capitalist corporate america bullshit you and so many others here are slinging. It makes me soooo sick, I'm lacking words even in my mother tongue to describe my disgust. You should be so terribly ashame of how you had your moral principles mutilated and distorted. Profit alone is not what life is all about, neither is it what "publicly traded companies" are. Fuck shareholder value - it's not a blank cheque to throw away ethics and humanity. Man exists to improve and make all our times more worthwhile, and should live up to this principle. Turbo-capitalism does not - Smith has already been proven wrong. You should probably watch the movie I cited in the very beginning of this post to get a grip on how we should live like.
...that should make it to the front page, to enable the really important stuff to spread more quickly - it's more than about time to let the big corps know we're giving up neither on our privacy, nor our freedom.
Vote with your wallet - do _not_ buy products that fuck with your inalienable rights so badly.
Is it just me missing the Monty-Pythonesque foot? :-(
Isn't there SOMETHING the bandwidth could be used for besides information we can't use?
Sounds like a great idea! What about meta-data for, say, totally crippling copy-protection schemes?
Oh, wait...
The REALLY nifty thing about UNIX is the userland. Without it and its tremendously clever and somewhat unique approach to solving problems in the way it does, it's REALLY not just "Linux" you should be talking about when referring to a modern UNIX-reimplementation. It's GNU/Linux.
I collect quotes from various sources, and one of my favourites says:
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion
that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a
number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of
guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing
circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not
supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have
any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or
turned back, for their private benefit."
- The Judge in "Life-Line"
Very well-fitting to the insightful comment you made.
I lost about 600 BILLION Euro by not selling all that used toilet paper for an estimated 1.2 billion/sheet I set its price at.
It's so tremendously hypocritical talking all that bullshit about globalization, a free market and how everyone's gonna save oh-so-much by having goods produced in low-wage-countries of the third world and eastern europe, and at the very same time not wanting to adjust to the demands the consumer - which is not the most unimportant in that market-thing in the end, you know, corporate world? - makes.
If your business model is about to fail, well, get over it, and come up with a new one that's working without mob tactics.
One might wonder why this (non-)story is featured on the front page of MSNBC... ;-)
You can grasp the irony in what you just typed, right? ;)
You can actually buy GNU literature signed by RMS himself. Head over to https://agia.fsf.org/order/#manuals and check the offers in the "General Titles" section.
A nice thing to have, and definately a proper way to spend your money - the FSF is a benevolent effort, and will become even more important in the years to come, when our lives will depend even more on computers and software than they do right now.
Isn't the competing standard for next-gen optical storage media named "Blu-Ray", and not "Blue-Ray"?
It is utter bullshit this maniac comes up with each and every single time he wastes words into cyberspace, but nonetheless, I at least spare a glimpse for it by accident whenever this complete dork is featured on /. :-(
As this turns out to be physically painful 100% of the time, I suggest you just drop the crap (that means EVERYTHING published by him!) Mr. Dvorak fantasizes about when obviously being on crack, dope, and at least 3 other illegal drugs (possibly not!) known to the broad masses of mankind, and just leave him and his infantile and uneducated babble be. Please.
...actually show ANYTHING really well, then it's the absolute neglibility of recent synthetic benchmarks. Looking at the numbers SiSoft Sandra spills out, the clocked-to-the-brim Netburst-cores should take the performance-crown with ease in FPU and ALU-applications alike. In reality though, said CPUs hardly matter at all when it's about uncompromising peak-performance. I fail to understand why benchmark-suites this far away from reality still matter in reviews like this.
Sad, in an awkward way.
Of course that's another chance for ICANN, VeriSign and domain name resellers to cash in without much of a hassle, due to DNS' easily extensible and robust nature - however, much like .info and .name, this TLD presumeably won't be a big hit. .com, .net and maybe .org only, plus maybe their country's TLD.
The problem with all these newly introduced TLDs is that they don't ring a bell for the average joe on teh intarweb, since most casual users are familiar with
The uncensored and unspoiled Wikipedia-spinoff is available here. Truth and facts, at last!!
This way, I might some day be able to buy a copy of Heroes of Might & Magic 5, and actually play it without ill feelings in my guts.
Now let's lean back and see how long it takes for the Inquirer to pick this up...
Most amateur trolling attempt I've read in quite some time. Kudos to you, dude, really.
Who's that terrific babe on google's romance front-page? Maybe another cogent reason for the average heterosexual geek to want to work at google?
In any case: ASL && more pix??
The char's name is "Minsc", not "Minc". Always remember that. That, and to...
"Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!! AAAAARGH!!!"
;-)
Word! Welcome to my friends-list! xD