Isn't everybody glad that Americans fought and died to liberate Kuwait in the early '90s? They are praising George Washington as they revel in freedom!
I say we just withdraw from the entire Middle East. With the money we spend over there we could be on a hydrogen economy pretty quick.
Actually we have the Patriot missile and the Patriot II which have been operational for almost two decades now. They are designed to target tactical or cruise missiles (whether or not the warhead is nuclear doesn't matter).
What's the name of the Russian system? When was it successfully battle tested?
"Linux has no Unix in it, isn't based on Unix code, and actually isn't even "Unix Compatible", in that binaries that run on a "unix machine" will run on it unmodified."
Actually you are partly wrong here. Read Linus' book "Just for Fun" and in it you will see that he made Linux by implementing the POSIX spec from the ground up. So, while it's not Unix (to be Unix your OS has to be tested and approved by The Open Group) it is in fact a Unix clone, made by reading the POSIX spec and implementing most of it.
It's "Unix-like" in the sense that Linux was originally written by implementing the POSIX spec. So, for your analogy to hold true, then Pepsi must have gotten ahold of the Coca-Cola recipe and implemented it in their own product.
Sheesh. Talk about a dick. I mean, if you weren't wrong about Linux being a Unix clone (which IT IS) then you'd just be a dick for your little lecture there. But to both be wrong about that, and be such a dick is just hilarious. You should apologize to the person you replied to, and quit Slashdot forever.
I think he's serious. Linux is a Unix *CLONE* that was reverse engineered and written by reading the POSIX spec. Read "Just for Fun" by you-know-who if you don't believe me.
If MS really purchased the UNIX IP from Novell, and is serious about torpedoing Linux, maybe the best thing to do would be to start from the ground-up and design an entirely new OS. Is it so difficult for you to believe that in 2010 we couldn't design and implement a better architected OS than something that was made in 1969 and has been duct-taped with add-ons ever since?
I like UNIX and its clones and derivatives, but surely the world can do better.
Sure, I know that and you know that. However that won't stop a court case from being filed, patents asserted, etc. Barratry is not punished in this day and age, you know.
Android has a multitude of platforms as well. If we count different screen sizes, OS revisions, hardware capability, the situation is much much worse than the iOS.
After the revelations years ago that Microsoft had funded SCO during the Darl era, and has been on the attack against Linux for a good 10 years now at least, I would not just put my feet up and rest easy following this news. At this point nobody even knows what MS bought, so it's a little too early to be going down for a nap.
Microsoft knows that there are several threats to its existence, but most of them can just be bought off, paid off, or partnered with. Linux is not really susceptible to any of those vectors. If indeed MS has come away with the Unix intellectual property rights we can expect a renewed set of attacks. Specifically, Microsoft would probably avoid dirtying its hands directly, and instead use some sort of nominally separate entity (which would probably end up being the holder of the Unix IP) to attack Linux through a confusing and expensive court case.
I know it is nice to hope for the best, but while one does that, they should also prepare for the worst.
That response by Russia should have raised suspicions about the Kremlin's actually sabotaging the design of the missile system. After all, if the Kremlin is not committed to using the system, why would the Kremlin bother to ensure that the system can actually work?
Obviously Russia would welcome the opportunity to study state of the art western missile defense systems without resorting to the fickle world of spies and informants. What better way to determine the capabilities of the system, and thus its weaknesses, than to assist in the deployment of them? Also, if they know where the systems are, they can neutralize them much more easily.
It should be obvious why Russia is involved. Perhaps there is more to this story, though - what about the possibility that this is a dog and pony show to deceive Russia and lead them on?
I kind of doubt it, though. Our last 3 presidents have given big gifts to our adversaries. Clinton with his million dollar backers in China, who got the miniaturized nuke tech, Bush's gracious gift of a Boeing E-3, and now Obama's gift of nuclear missile defense technology. I think this is all a big game to keep defense spending going. As the adversaries are always in possession of our latest technology, we have to keep throwing money at defense firms to advance the state of the art. Rinse and repeat.
Medical Daily is a linkfarm, and Slashdot is linkspamming the world. It was shocking to see a link to the Nature abstract, though - normally I would have to Google that up for myself.
Verdict? Slashdot still sucks, but samzenpus is at least a notch above Timothy.
Anybody who has any sort of sense of value already bought a Mac. Shit, the laptop hardware is so much better that a lot of my poor half-retarded Windows friends, as well as my Freetard friends, already bough Macs just to run their second-rate OS's. They got a copy of OS X for free.
Why didn't you? You like you big clunky plastic cheap computer?
OK, good. I surely don't need even more competition on the iPhone store. You go on and keep your hairshirt and your dusty, ash covered face. I'll see you from the rear window of my Jaguar.
You realize Microsoft was in the HD-DVD consortium, and that it was their pet format, don't you?
I would not expect the Xbox 720 to have a Blu-Ray drive either. For one, they would be shoveling money at Sony (a major member of the Blu-Ray consortium) and secondly, Blu-Ray isn't even really that popular. Over a hundred DVDs sell for every Blu-RAY.
People thought that SACD was going to kill CD, but they were dead wrong. DVD, like CD, is plenty good enough for the vast majority of consumers.
With the switch to demand-loaded content, I doubt if Blu-Ray has much of a future going forward anyway, despite any technical advantages it may have over lower bitrate streams.
3DTVs are not being purchased in the retail outlets anyway, unless the manufacturers price them identically to a non-3D TV. What that tells you is that people don't give a shit about 3DTV.
It has a built in version of Flash, it sets all kinds of cookies on your system, it has video codecs, encryption software, and includes a whole lot of optional shit that I can't even name because it's too hilarious.
Living conditions are good in the USA despite the corruption. The problem is that people here have been trained to accept a government solution to their problems. That doesn't work. If a government solution is absolutely necessary, great pain should be taken to ensure that it is a *GOOD* solution. That takes hard work, which elected officials are not interested in.
The problem is ultimately with the people in the USA, who elect idiots who tell them what they want to hear. That's why the economic meltdown and financial crisis, and the problems it will cause, may indeed be a good thing for the USA - people might see that throwing money or meaningless regulation at a problem doesn't work. Then again, I may be too optimistic.
I guess the ultimate point is that I will take meaningless voluntary corporate oversight over meaningless mandatory expensive government oversight any day. Unless the situation improves in government, I will continue to have a huge problem with people thieving my money in order to fund their ever increasing bureaucracies.
The point is, with the offering of bad service and sub-standard hardware in many machines, there must be some incentive for large customers to choose Dell.
Besides, how is referencing dick sucking sexist? I didn't imply any particular gender was doing the dick sucking. Maybe you are the person with preconceptions and prejudices here. It's difficult to believe that there are still people like you around, mired in the morally bankrupt world of witch hunts and political correctness.
The US Federal Government buys more Dell machines than any other major customer. And Dell sucks, really really hard.
Sure, their server hardware is OK, but it's just off the shelf stuff which is more expensive than a lot of competition, including the superb Supermicro. So, the only conclusion is that Dell has employees that suck a really good dick.
Now this comes out. I wonder what the total damage done to the taxpayer was? Probably in the hundreds of millions when you figure in the lack of services caused by downtime, contractor handoffs of parts before they actually get the problem fixed, and subsequent testing which is mandated at many facilities.
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Isn't everybody glad that Americans fought and died to liberate Kuwait in the early '90s? They are praising George Washington as they revel in freedom!
I say we just withdraw from the entire Middle East. With the money we spend over there we could be on a hydrogen economy pretty quick.
Actually we have the Patriot missile and the Patriot II which have been operational for almost two decades now. They are designed to target tactical or cruise missiles (whether or not the warhead is nuclear doesn't matter).
What's the name of the Russian system? When was it successfully battle tested?
I was not commenting on the legality of it. I was just saying that by virtue of cloning POSIX that Linux became a de facto Unix clone.
Yeah, it's true.
Most of them got together and wrote Plan9 to correct the deficiencies of Unix but everybody likes their old shoes better.
"Linux has no Unix in it, isn't based on Unix code, and actually isn't even "Unix Compatible", in that binaries that run on a "unix machine" will run on it unmodified."
Actually you are partly wrong here. Read Linus' book "Just for Fun" and in it you will see that he made Linux by implementing the POSIX spec from the ground up. So, while it's not Unix (to be Unix your OS has to be tested and approved by The Open Group) it is in fact a Unix clone, made by reading the POSIX spec and implementing most of it.
It's "Unix-like" in the sense that Linux was originally written by implementing the POSIX spec. So, for your analogy to hold true, then Pepsi must have gotten ahold of the Coca-Cola recipe and implemented it in their own product.
Sheesh. Talk about a dick. I mean, if you weren't wrong about Linux being a Unix clone (which IT IS) then you'd just be a dick for your little lecture there. But to both be wrong about that, and be such a dick is just hilarious. You should apologize to the person you replied to, and quit Slashdot forever.
I think he's serious. Linux is a Unix *CLONE* that was reverse engineered and written by reading the POSIX spec. Read "Just for Fun" by you-know-who if you don't believe me.
If MS really purchased the UNIX IP from Novell, and is serious about torpedoing Linux, maybe the best thing to do would be to start from the ground-up and design an entirely new OS. Is it so difficult for you to believe that in 2010 we couldn't design and implement a better architected OS than something that was made in 1969 and has been duct-taped with add-ons ever since?
I like UNIX and its clones and derivatives, but surely the world can do better.
Sure, I know that and you know that. However that won't stop a court case from being filed, patents asserted, etc. Barratry is not punished in this day and age, you know.
Android has a multitude of platforms as well. If we count different screen sizes, OS revisions, hardware capability, the situation is much much worse than the iOS.
After the revelations years ago that Microsoft had funded SCO during the Darl era, and has been on the attack against Linux for a good 10 years now at least, I would not just put my feet up and rest easy following this news. At this point nobody even knows what MS bought, so it's a little too early to be going down for a nap.
Microsoft knows that there are several threats to its existence, but most of them can just be bought off, paid off, or partnered with. Linux is not really susceptible to any of those vectors. If indeed MS has come away with the Unix intellectual property rights we can expect a renewed set of attacks. Specifically, Microsoft would probably avoid dirtying its hands directly, and instead use some sort of nominally separate entity (which would probably end up being the holder of the Unix IP) to attack Linux through a confusing and expensive court case.
I know it is nice to hope for the best, but while one does that, they should also prepare for the worst.
That response by Russia should have raised suspicions about the Kremlin's actually sabotaging the design of the missile system. After all, if the Kremlin is not committed to using the system, why would the Kremlin bother to ensure that the system can actually work?
Obviously Russia would welcome the opportunity to study state of the art western missile defense systems without resorting to the fickle world of spies and informants. What better way to determine the capabilities of the system, and thus its weaknesses, than to assist in the deployment of them? Also, if they know where the systems are, they can neutralize them much more easily.
It should be obvious why Russia is involved. Perhaps there is more to this story, though - what about the possibility that this is a dog and pony show to deceive Russia and lead them on?
I kind of doubt it, though. Our last 3 presidents have given big gifts to our adversaries. Clinton with his million dollar backers in China, who got the miniaturized nuke tech, Bush's gracious gift of a Boeing E-3, and now Obama's gift of nuclear missile defense technology. I think this is all a big game to keep defense spending going. As the adversaries are always in possession of our latest technology, we have to keep throwing money at defense firms to advance the state of the art. Rinse and repeat.
Medical Daily is a linkfarm, and Slashdot is linkspamming the world. It was shocking to see a link to the Nature abstract, though - normally I would have to Google that up for myself.
Verdict? Slashdot still sucks, but samzenpus is at least a notch above Timothy.
The iPad has Bluetooth you know. Feel free to add a keyboard yourself, if you are one of the people who needs one.
Anybody who has any sort of sense of value already bought a Mac. Shit, the laptop hardware is so much better that a lot of my poor half-retarded Windows friends, as well as my Freetard friends, already bough Macs just to run their second-rate OS's. They got a copy of OS X for free.
Why didn't you? You like you big clunky plastic cheap computer?
OK, good. I surely don't need even more competition on the iPhone store. You go on and keep your hairshirt and your dusty, ash covered face. I'll see you from the rear window of my Jaguar.
"I hope your Apple loyalties don't keep you from developing apps for Android, even as the market grows."
Blah, blah.
Even though Android outsells the iPhone, 92 of 100 dollars spent on cell phone apps are spent on the Apple platform.
For me this is all that matters. Hell, why complain? While I am playing XPlane, you can enjoy TuxRacer!
"which doesn't even have a blu-ray drive"
You realize Microsoft was in the HD-DVD consortium, and that it was their pet format, don't you?
I would not expect the Xbox 720 to have a Blu-Ray drive either. For one, they would be shoveling money at Sony (a major member of the Blu-Ray consortium) and secondly, Blu-Ray isn't even really that popular. Over a hundred DVDs sell for every Blu-RAY.
People thought that SACD was going to kill CD, but they were dead wrong. DVD, like CD, is plenty good enough for the vast majority of consumers.
With the switch to demand-loaded content, I doubt if Blu-Ray has much of a future going forward anyway, despite any technical advantages it may have over lower bitrate streams.
3d gaming is a gimmick, and it will not take off.
3DTVs are not being purchased in the retail outlets anyway, unless the manufacturers price them identically to a non-3D TV. What that tells you is that people don't give a shit about 3DTV.
It has a built in version of Flash, it sets all kinds of cookies on your system, it has video codecs, encryption software, and includes a whole lot of optional shit that I can't even name because it's too hilarious.
Adobe jumped the fucking shark.
Living conditions are good in the USA despite the corruption. The problem is that people here have been trained to accept a government solution to their problems. That doesn't work. If a government solution is absolutely necessary, great pain should be taken to ensure that it is a *GOOD* solution. That takes hard work, which elected officials are not interested in.
The problem is ultimately with the people in the USA, who elect idiots who tell them what they want to hear. That's why the economic meltdown and financial crisis, and the problems it will cause, may indeed be a good thing for the USA - people might see that throwing money or meaningless regulation at a problem doesn't work. Then again, I may be too optimistic.
I guess the ultimate point is that I will take meaningless voluntary corporate oversight over meaningless mandatory expensive government oversight any day. Unless the situation improves in government, I will continue to have a huge problem with people thieving my money in order to fund their ever increasing bureaucracies.
The point is, with the offering of bad service and sub-standard hardware in many machines, there must be some incentive for large customers to choose Dell.
Besides, how is referencing dick sucking sexist? I didn't imply any particular gender was doing the dick sucking. Maybe you are the person with preconceptions and prejudices here. It's difficult to believe that there are still people like you around, mired in the morally bankrupt world of witch hunts and political correctness.
Go burn a cross on somebody else's lawn.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/kessel/?id=eu
Yes it's stupid and Timothy Good is a cock. But there you go.
Better check which banks own the Federal Reserve, buddy. Guess what? Some of them are in London.
The information is difficult to obtain but if you want a wild ride you should research the issue yourself.
The US Federal Government buys more Dell machines than any other major customer. And Dell sucks, really really hard.
Sure, their server hardware is OK, but it's just off the shelf stuff which is more expensive than a lot of competition, including the superb Supermicro. So, the only conclusion is that Dell has employees that suck a really good dick.
Now this comes out. I wonder what the total damage done to the taxpayer was? Probably in the hundreds of millions when you figure in the lack of services caused by downtime, contractor handoffs of parts before they actually get the problem fixed, and subsequent testing which is mandated at many facilities.
Maybe they'd cost 40 million bucks retail, but Smartphones cost maybe $30 to make.