Contrary to popular belief getting a BS in CS you know absolutelly nothing (especially true for the US educational system). Unless you plan on working in you dad's company and getting an exec position right away do not waste your time with MBA. If you are starting in a company as a programmer the best thing to do is learn as much as you can about programming. The only way you can do this is by getting an MS in some decent college where you are actually going to be working on projects and will learn something worth your time. The fact that MS is not required means absolutelly nothing. A lot of things are not required however MS in most cases is equivalent to 2 years industry experience and in 95% of the cases does put you ahead in the job search process. The 5% are companies that are trying to hire someone for as little money as possible and those companies are usually going to make you do the shit work like testing and stuff. So it's really up to you but knowledge and capabilities are always rewarded and if I were you I would go for a MS.
You are probably in a Liberal Arts college is you are askig about this so dude : I'm sorry...
This is ridiculous. Just because Cox doesn't agree with Linus on a couple of small aspects does not mean that Linus is a bad designer or anything. Sure Linus is stuck up and likes to control everythign and I can clearly see that benefits of that but the problem with linux is that it grows to fast for any one man to be able to look over every patch proposal and maintain the whole system alone. However, the system has changed quite a bit with the introduction of 2.6 and it is a lot smoother than it used to be. And as far as the dumb comment about patches getting in the kernel too easy goes that is compleate BS. Patches are reviewed as carefully as possible and I am sorry for Cox if he thinks that he is somewhat perfect but the rest of us do make mistakes.
Anyway, Linus DOES control a huge part of the kernel and yes he DOES decide wheather or not a certain patch gets in or not. This in the OSS world is equivelent to firing a person. What people should try to understand is that as linux starts gaining more and more popularity and exposure people that have been sitting in the background before would start attacking Linus for the pure purpose of fame. After all vanity is one of humanity's favourite sins...
who cares howmany cpus you have if it's only one computer? I know companies do care a lot however the whole licencing based on cpu count rather than computer is just insane. If you have an 8-way server do you actually think that those 8 cpus are there to run 8 different installs of windows or oracle for that matter? I know for a fact that there is only one install of the OS and only one install of oracle. The number of cpus increases because you need more processing power and NOT more installations of the software. And last I checked you can have as many people as you want using the same computer. So why should it be any different for servers of dual cores for that matter. Oh yeah and if Oracle doesn't quit that crap they are in a lot greater risk of looking business to OSS that M$ ever was.
This review sux. Where are all the popualt PSUs? Where is OCZ, Coler Master, and Thermaltake? I can continue the list of popular brand that are not listed but there is no point. My point is that the authors have chosen pretty much only the stuff that they could get their hand on and apparently did not even put enough effort in that area too. So is this a good an unbiased review. Not at all. The only thing that you might get out of it is that some manufacturers cheat too much on the specs listed and do not do proper testing of their product. Not like you couldn't figure this much out by simply thinking on the subject. After all you get what you pay for.
Last I check you cannot install xpi automatically so get you story straight. Not to mention that if you click on an xpi from a site that you haven't already added to your allow list I will never install and you have to same the xpi and then manually open it. Not the case with IE at all.
IBM is going to be the first company that will start selling cell based products and then Sony will start too. Also this processor it owned by IBM and NOT Sony. So IBM can sell it to whoever they want to.
Some time in 2005 IBM is going to start selling workstations and servers with cell processors in them even though IBM does not call them cells (like Sony does) but Power PC (which is the correct name anyway). As before those high end workstations and servers do not run windows plus the PowerPC architecter has never been supported by M$ anyway. What is interesting to know though, is that the new PowerPC processors run/emulate all the instructions that a regular x86 processor can run. Later in the year IBM will demonstrate a workstation with the new PowerPC architecture running windows xp, linux, aix, and another os at the same time. So the new PowerPC is really really fast and powerful. Tremble Intel and AMD before the power of IBM...
The main os for the PowerPC/cell is linux though with some custom patches from IBM. After all you didn't expect IBM to switch to linux if they didn't have an ace up their sleeve now did you?
Oh yeah and as far as Macs go I got news for you cells are not being to be in there for a long time. So dot sell your G5 just yet.
hey fag do you mind whe spam? If I needed hosting I would ask you. Change you stinkin' sig...
As far as the article is concerned I want one of these... well it was about time that IBM shows some new toys. Beat that Sun...
these screenshots are pointless/ First of all they do not represent Gnome but Ubuntu and Ubunty adds all their crappy and compleatelly pointless customizations to the menues. Also ther is not a single screen shot that has anything new in it except for the really ugly background the missing MIME database and the new applets icons. Thanks a lot for wasting my time. I am compleatelly convinced that Ubuntu is never going to get even to the level of Debian. Apparently not all changes are improvements (this one is for the Ubuntu people since the rest of us already know that).
Patents are necessary however not in the state and form that they are now. I personally belive that there should be a databas of who invented what however, there is no way that a coumpany should be allowed to charge anybody for using technology that the first company owns just the pattent for. Sure if you make your money off of something that you invented then you would like other companies that use the same technology to pay you. However, if you no longer use a pattent or you are a company that goes arround and buys patents for profit this sux. I think that companies whose treat patents as assets should be illegal. Pattents exist to protect a company's means of income and not to create ways of legasing mafia like behavior.
I really hope that one day patents become just a registry of who invented what when... a true open source society.
If you are taking IT in order to learn how to program I have news for you... you are wasting your time. An IT degree might teach you how to write very basic code in Java and maybe in some schools C++. At the most you will have a basic understanding of what the coding process consists of and you might be suted for a M$ exec job but the truth is that you are never going to get to that point. The reason is that almost all execs start low before they get high and that involves programing.
Oh yeah and there is no such crap as knowing what you want to be when you were 7. Heck I wanted be be a fire fighter but I'm a programmer now. If you didn't have dreames even as a kid programming is really not your joint. What you need in order to be a great programmer is a lot of creativity and juite a bit of knowledge on the subject. Oh yeah and if you haven't revisited any of the stuff that you learned when you were 9 you are really stupid. Knoledge is incremental and I can gurantee you that in that case you know nothing about assembly. (whichever version you might have taked a jab at)
>Its no longer okay to just submit a paper and call that research.
Buddy this is exactly what research and if you ask any pretty seasoned researcher you would see that you are wrong. On there other hand when you receive a grant you are supposed to have accomplished something by the end of it and while a paper is fine for some fields of research a software is preferable for CS. However, if you deal with complex enough stuff a paper would be just fine.
Also another thing that you might want to think about. I am not sure what you mean buy doing OSS research for the academic community but I take it you work in an university of some sort. Now that said your job most deffinitelly does not qualify as a career in Open Source (not according to Linus Torvald and not according to anybody else). I find hard to believe that your salary is paid by grants rather than the educational institution and if you are still a student then you still don't have any career. Also knowing how *well* the US educational system works I doubt that you are even close be being a professional but that is only my personal oppinion and not a fact (don't take in the wrong way, there are a lot of ways to eccel in a US college but they all depend on self motivation and self training and students rarely do that).
So give it about 10 more years and then you might have something to talk about:)
I agree this another propaganda that apparently got misinterpreted. Plus if you don't like your job don't choose it applies to every profession.
Open source is no longer just for the 3l33t people or whatever those loosers like to call themselves.
Trusted Gentoo??? Did I hear that one right? You mean trusted about 80% of it's up time when you are not experiencing configuration problems recompiling software or doing some other stuff that a modern OS should not have to do?
The gentoo development team seems to forget that what gets you good reputation in the OSS worls is doing thing well and NOT doing a lot of things half arsed (excuse my french). So one suggestion for them... fix your urgent problems (like the redign of portage that has been underway for way too long) learn C and maybe some more Python if you like it so much and maybe then you can focus on building a trusted linux distro. After all you need a stable foundation first otherwise you only have an Windoze wannabe and that's not cool anymore. (if it ever actually was).
Plus if slashdot is really going to post all the sensationalism arround gentoo they might just start posting the weekly newsleters. After all it was Open Solaris last week and Trusted linux this week and who knows what next week. Not to mention that whoever comes up with those ideas in the gentoo team must be either some very very bored college students that will end up working as a sys admin one day or just a person that doesn't know anything about common sence and organization.
Sorry to turn this post into a flame but gentoo is rally dead to me. Great idea with an extremely poor execution.
If you would look up things before flaming you would have knows that it's an international calling plan and not a US based one. I live in the US and I love it but DUDE you gotta get it in you thick skull that the ocean is not the end of the world.
Anyway, I rally don't care about your overpriced crappy calling plan. If you think about it for just a sec you would realize that you are also paying about $20 a month for a local phone plus whatever you end up paying for your long distance. Oh yeah and no one ever said that you should use Skype as a pc-2-phone provider. It's a free world, you know...
I rarely have the chance or the need to say this but you are a pure bread moron. Sky is compleatelly spyware and adware free and if you took a moment before flaming you would know that. Also there is a whole lot of new things that the skype technology introduses like for example you can use a 33.1 dial up connection to achieve the same connection quality that you get from you land line and the distributed network that Skype uses. Skype will and is making money from the pc-2-phone service which is paid but still cheaper than any long distance plan that I have seen. Oh yeah and there is nothing full about a 1.0 release of a software. Just because Skype for linux and macos used to be at 0.94 did not by any means mean that it wasn't full. It was working just as well as the windows version and I have tested both of them. It nice to see free comercial grade software for linux.
No they could have not. IBM is not and OSS project and they do not qualify for the help of this center. Also I doubt it that IBM would have choset to go this way even if it had enough power and was suited for the purpose. After all IBM is still a closed source company even though they opened 600 patents. Hey, 600 patents is a drop in the sea when IBM filed for over 2300 patents just last year.
Of course the students are americans. Do you actually thing that anybody would be stupid enough to pay for a study with flawed data? This is really scary though. People who don't know their right will eventually lose them and this is exactly what started happening with the patriot act. Yeah natinal security is important but how much are you willing to give up for a false notion of security?
Most Mac users that I know buy replacement keyboard and a mouse (usually from Macally). I have never seen a replacement mouse for Mac that has only one button so it is really hard for me to even think of a good enough reason why Apple still refuses to admit that 2 buttons and a scroll wheel are very useful
Well that REALLY makes a lot of sence. Did you buy your tv from the cable company? Or do you even have a clue how much it cost the cable company to provide the services that you use? Most likelly not because then you would be seriously pissed that they charge you as much. The person is complaining that he has to pay for the distribution media for the game and he has all the reasons to complain. There is absolutelly nothing that you can do with the game unless you pay for subscription and I personally thing this is wrong. Yeah it would be impossible to distribute the game unless you sell it but for god's sake include at least a month of game play with it. After all otherwise I just paid $50 for a damn dvd that I can't use unless I pay some more.
i don't know what in the world you are talking about but there is no loss in anything that Apple has ever sold. This is not Microsoft and their xbox deal. The only reason why iTunes is free is the same reason why you don't pay in order to get in BestBuy or any other store for that matter.
Are you kidding me? If you are not going to use and iPod as an mp3 player you are and idiot to spend that much money on it. You can easily by a pocket hdd that is much smaller than an iPod and does not require recharging and holds just as much as an iPod does. Plus your transfer rates are going to be better. Firewire??? Have you actually seen people in the non Mac world using firewire for anything other than video editing?
If you really know anything about high end workstations and server design you would never ask why there are notmore than 4 sata connectors. When it comes to servers sata drives are used for storage of data that is not accessed often and scsi drives are used for data that needs to be easily available. Too bad serial scsi is not out yet but that will come too. Plus 4 sata connectors give you way over a terrabyte of storage and that would be enough for the kind of application that you are thinking about. After all this is not a storage array.
Debian and more specifically Ubuntu are Stallman's favourite distro because Debian has the exact same fanatic ideas about the software word as Stalman does. Debian does not include almost any non-compleatelly-free ot software with dubious licencing that could be consider non OSS. The result is that distros like Debian and Ubunty come with no Java support out of the box and this is sumply ridiculous. Debian for example was never designed to work with java and you will have to accomodate a lot of things in order to run Java programs without problmes. Ubuntu seems to have made the use and instalation of java a little easier but it still does not come with the installation CD and you have to manually download and install a JRE or JDK. Having in mind how much of the web is using Java technologies and other non OSS web stuff it kinda makes you wonder what the Debian and the Ubuntu developers are thining. Also another problem with Ubuntu is that even though it is based on Debian you cannot use the Debian repository because the packages are not 100% compatible. So come to think about it I am not so sure that Stallman really uses Ubuntu.
It is really a good thing that they make a live CD so that you can try it and realize what you are about to get yourself into. Debian's package manager is great and deffinitelly better than rpm because of the integrated dependancy handling however the overall phylosophy of the development team is way out there.
Don't get me wrong I love OSS and develop OSS however there will be a transition period before the full addoption of OSS and any distro that wants to be successful has to accomodate the transition. Oh yeah there is also no mp3 support in Debian and Ubuntu but that's a whole other can of worms. It is easy to get mp3 support in Debian and a little bit harder in Ubuntu. Also Ubuntu has managed to break the awsome installation process of Debian. Too bad...
first of all this has nothing to do with cops bluring their faces. The technology was released because now every movie star and pretty much any public figure will buy a couple of these so that they can somewhat protect their pricasy. However, HP seems to forget that not everybody uses digital and the good old film cameras still work just fine. Plus a lot of pros use exactly that.
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Contrary to popular belief getting a BS in CS you know absolutelly nothing (especially true for the US educational system). Unless you plan on working in you dad's company and getting an exec position right away do not waste your time with MBA. If you are starting in a company as a programmer the best thing to do is learn as much as you can about programming. The only way you can do this is by getting an MS in some decent college where you are actually going to be working on projects and will learn something worth your time. The fact that MS is not required means absolutelly nothing. A lot of things are not required however MS in most cases is equivalent to 2 years industry experience and in 95% of the cases does put you ahead in the job search process. The 5% are companies that are trying to hire someone for as little money as possible and those companies are usually going to make you do the shit work like testing and stuff. So it's really up to you but knowledge and capabilities are always rewarded and if I were you I would go for a MS.
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You are probably in a Liberal Arts college is you are askig about this so dude : I'm sorry
This is ridiculous. Just because Cox doesn't agree with Linus on a couple of small aspects does not mean that Linus is a bad designer or anything. Sure Linus is stuck up and likes to control everythign and I can clearly see that benefits of that but the problem with linux is that it grows to fast for any one man to be able to look over every patch proposal and maintain the whole system alone. However, the system has changed quite a bit with the introduction of 2.6 and it is a lot smoother than it used to be. And as far as the dumb comment about patches getting in the kernel too easy goes that is compleate BS. Patches are reviewed as carefully as possible and I am sorry for Cox if he thinks that he is somewhat perfect but the rest of us do make mistakes. Anyway, Linus DOES control a huge part of the kernel and yes he DOES decide wheather or not a certain patch gets in or not. This in the OSS world is equivelent to firing a person. What people should try to understand is that as linux starts gaining more and more popularity and exposure people that have been sitting in the background before would start attacking Linus for the pure purpose of fame. After all vanity is one of humanity's favourite sins ...
who cares howmany cpus you have if it's only one computer? I know companies do care a lot however the whole licencing based on cpu count rather than computer is just insane. If you have an 8-way server do you actually think that those 8 cpus are there to run 8 different installs of windows or oracle for that matter? I know for a fact that there is only one install of the OS and only one install of oracle. The number of cpus increases because you need more processing power and NOT more installations of the software. And last I checked you can have as many people as you want using the same computer. So why should it be any different for servers of dual cores for that matter. Oh yeah and if Oracle doesn't quit that crap they are in a lot greater risk of looking business to OSS that M$ ever was.
This review sux. Where are all the popualt PSUs? Where is OCZ, Coler Master, and Thermaltake? I can continue the list of popular brand that are not listed but there is no point. My point is that the authors have chosen pretty much only the stuff that they could get their hand on and apparently did not even put enough effort in that area too. So is this a good an unbiased review. Not at all. The only thing that you might get out of it is that some manufacturers cheat too much on the specs listed and do not do proper testing of their product. Not like you couldn't figure this much out by simply thinking on the subject. After all you get what you pay for.
Last I check you cannot install xpi automatically so get you story straight. Not to mention that if you click on an xpi from a site that you haven't already added to your allow list I will never install and you have to same the xpi and then manually open it. Not the case with IE at all.
IBM is going to be the first company that will start selling cell based products and then Sony will start too. Also this processor it owned by IBM and NOT Sony. So IBM can sell it to whoever they want to. Some time in 2005 IBM is going to start selling workstations and servers with cell processors in them even though IBM does not call them cells (like Sony does) but Power PC (which is the correct name anyway). As before those high end workstations and servers do not run windows plus the PowerPC architecter has never been supported by M$ anyway. What is interesting to know though, is that the new PowerPC processors run/emulate all the instructions that a regular x86 processor can run. Later in the year IBM will demonstrate a workstation with the new PowerPC architecture running windows xp, linux, aix, and another os at the same time. So the new PowerPC is really really fast and powerful. Tremble Intel and AMD before the power of IBM ...
The main os for the PowerPC/cell is linux though with some custom patches from IBM. After all you didn't expect IBM to switch to linux if they didn't have an ace up their sleeve now did you?
Oh yeah and as far as Macs go I got news for you cells are not being to be in there for a long time. So dot sell your G5 just yet.
hey fag do you mind whe spam? If I needed hosting I would ask you. Change you stinkin' sig ...
As far as the article is concerned I want one of these ... well it was about time that IBM shows some new toys. Beat that Sun ...
these screenshots are pointless/ First of all they do not represent Gnome but Ubuntu and Ubunty adds all their crappy and compleatelly pointless customizations to the menues. Also ther is not a single screen shot that has anything new in it except for the really ugly background the missing MIME database and the new applets icons.
Thanks a lot for wasting my time. I am compleatelly convinced that Ubuntu is never going to get even to the level of Debian. Apparently not all changes are improvements (this one is for the Ubuntu people since the rest of us already know that).
Patents are necessary however not in the state and form that they are now. I personally belive that there should be a databas of who invented what however, there is no way that a coumpany should be allowed to charge anybody for using technology that the first company owns just the pattent for. Sure if you make your money off of something that you invented then you would like other companies that use the same technology to pay you. However, if you no longer use a pattent or you are a company that goes arround and buys patents for profit this sux. I think that companies whose treat patents as assets should be illegal. Pattents exist to protect a company's means of income and not to create ways of legasing mafia like behavior.
... a true open source society.
I really hope that one day patents become just a registry of who invented what when
If you are taking IT in order to learn how to program I have news for you ... you are wasting your time. An IT degree might teach you how to write very basic code in Java and maybe in some schools C++. At the most you will have a basic understanding of what the coding process consists of and you might be suted for a M$ exec job but the truth is that you are never going to get to that point. The reason is that almost all execs start low before they get high and that involves programing.
Oh yeah and there is no such crap as knowing what you want to be when you were 7. Heck I wanted be be a fire fighter but I'm a programmer now. If you didn't have dreames even as a kid programming is really not your joint. What you need in order to be a great programmer is a lot of creativity and juite a bit of knowledge on the subject. Oh yeah and if you haven't revisited any of the stuff that you learned when you were 9 you are really stupid. Knoledge is incremental and I can gurantee you that in that case you know nothing about assembly. (whichever version you might have taked a jab at)
>Its no longer okay to just submit a paper and call that research. Buddy this is exactly what research and if you ask any pretty seasoned researcher you would see that you are wrong. On there other hand when you receive a grant you are supposed to have accomplished something by the end of it and while a paper is fine for some fields of research a software is preferable for CS. However, if you deal with complex enough stuff a paper would be just fine. Also another thing that you might want to think about. I am not sure what you mean buy doing OSS research for the academic community but I take it you work in an university of some sort. Now that said your job most deffinitelly does not qualify as a career in Open Source (not according to Linus Torvald and not according to anybody else). I find hard to believe that your salary is paid by grants rather than the educational institution and if you are still a student then you still don't have any career. Also knowing how *well* the US educational system works I doubt that you are even close be being a professional but that is only my personal oppinion and not a fact (don't take in the wrong way, there are a lot of ways to eccel in a US college but they all depend on self motivation and self training and students rarely do that). So give it about 10 more years and then you might have something to talk about :)
I agree this another propaganda that apparently got misinterpreted. Plus if you don't like your job don't choose it applies to every profession. Open source is no longer just for the 3l33t people or whatever those loosers like to call themselves.
Trusted Gentoo??? Did I hear that one right? You mean trusted about 80% of it's up time when you are not experiencing configuration problems recompiling software or doing some other stuff that a modern OS should not have to do? The gentoo development team seems to forget that what gets you good reputation in the OSS worls is doing thing well and NOT doing a lot of things half arsed (excuse my french). So one suggestion for them ... fix your urgent problems (like the redign of portage that has been underway for way too long) learn C and maybe some more Python if you like it so much and maybe then you can focus on building a trusted linux distro. After all you need a stable foundation first otherwise you only have an Windoze wannabe and that's not cool anymore. (if it ever actually was).
Plus if slashdot is really going to post all the sensationalism arround gentoo they might just start posting the weekly newsleters. After all it was Open Solaris last week and Trusted linux this week and who knows what next week. Not to mention that whoever comes up with those ideas in the gentoo team must be either some very very bored college students that will end up working as a sys admin one day or just a person that doesn't know anything about common sence and organization.
Sorry to turn this post into a flame but gentoo is rally dead to me. Great idea with an extremely poor execution.
If you would look up things before flaming you would have knows that it's an international calling plan and not a US based one. I live in the US and I love it but DUDE you gotta get it in you thick skull that the ocean is not the end of the world. Anyway, I rally don't care about your overpriced crappy calling plan. If you think about it for just a sec you would realize that you are also paying about $20 a month for a local phone plus whatever you end up paying for your long distance. Oh yeah and no one ever said that you should use Skype as a pc-2-phone provider. It's a free world, you know ...
I rarely have the chance or the need to say this but you are a pure bread moron. Sky is compleatelly spyware and adware free and if you took a moment before flaming you would know that. Also there is a whole lot of new things that the skype technology introduses like for example you can use a 33.1 dial up connection to achieve the same connection quality that you get from you land line and the distributed network that Skype uses.
Skype will and is making money from the pc-2-phone service which is paid but still cheaper than any long distance plan that I have seen.
Oh yeah and there is nothing full about a 1.0 release of a software. Just because Skype for linux and macos used to be at 0.94 did not by any means mean that it wasn't full. It was working just as well as the windows version and I have tested both of them. It nice to see free comercial grade software for linux.
No they could have not. IBM is not and OSS project and they do not qualify for the help of this center. Also I doubt it that IBM would have choset to go this way even if it had enough power and was suited for the purpose. After all IBM is still a closed source company even though they opened 600 patents. Hey, 600 patents is a drop in the sea when IBM filed for over 2300 patents just last year.
Of course the students are americans. Do you actually thing that anybody would be stupid enough to pay for a study with flawed data?
This is really scary though. People who don't know their right will eventually lose them and this is exactly what started happening with the patriot act. Yeah natinal security is important but how much are you willing to give up for a false notion of security?
Most Mac users that I know buy replacement keyboard and a mouse (usually from Macally). I have never seen a replacement mouse for Mac that has only one button so it is really hard for me to even think of a good enough reason why Apple still refuses to admit that 2 buttons and a scroll wheel are very useful
Well that REALLY makes a lot of sence. Did you buy your tv from the cable company? Or do you even have a clue how much it cost the cable company to provide the services that you use? Most likelly not because then you would be seriously pissed that they charge you as much. The person is complaining that he has to pay for the distribution media for the game and he has all the reasons to complain. There is absolutelly nothing that you can do with the game unless you pay for subscription and I personally thing this is wrong. Yeah it would be impossible to distribute the game unless you sell it but for god's sake include at least a month of game play with it. After all otherwise I just paid $50 for a damn dvd that I can't use unless I pay some more.
i don't know what in the world you are talking about but there is no loss in anything that Apple has ever sold. This is not Microsoft and their xbox deal. The only reason why iTunes is free is the same reason why you don't pay in order to get in BestBuy or any other store for that matter.
Are you kidding me? If you are not going to use and iPod as an mp3 player you are and idiot to spend that much money on it. You can easily by a pocket hdd that is much smaller than an iPod and does not require recharging and holds just as much as an iPod does. Plus your transfer rates are going to be better. Firewire??? Have you actually seen people in the non Mac world using firewire for anything other than video editing?
If you really know anything about high end workstations and server design you would never ask why there are notmore than 4 sata connectors. When it comes to servers sata drives are used for storage of data that is not accessed often and scsi drives are used for data that needs to be easily available. Too bad serial scsi is not out yet but that will come too. Plus 4 sata connectors give you way over a terrabyte of storage and that would be enough for the kind of application that you are thinking about. After all this is not a storage array.
Debian and more specifically Ubuntu are Stallman's favourite distro because Debian has the exact same fanatic ideas about the software word as Stalman does. Debian does not include almost any non-compleatelly-free ot software with dubious licencing that could be consider non OSS. The result is that distros like Debian and Ubunty come with no Java support out of the box and this is sumply ridiculous. Debian for example was never designed to work with java and you will have to accomodate a lot of things in order to run Java programs without problmes. Ubuntu seems to have made the use and instalation of java a little easier but it still does not come with the installation CD and you have to manually download and install a JRE or JDK. Having in mind how much of the web is using Java technologies and other non OSS web stuff it kinda makes you wonder what the Debian and the Ubuntu developers are thining. Also another problem with Ubuntu is that even though it is based on Debian you cannot use the Debian repository because the packages are not 100% compatible. So come to think about it I am not so sure that Stallman really uses Ubuntu.
It is really a good thing that they make a live CD so that you can try it and realize what you are about to get yourself into. Debian's package manager is great and deffinitelly better than rpm because of the integrated dependancy handling however the overall phylosophy of the development team is way out there.
Don't get me wrong I love OSS and develop OSS however there will be a transition period before the full addoption of OSS and any distro that wants to be successful has to accomodate the transition. Oh yeah there is also no mp3 support in Debian and Ubuntu but that's a whole other can of worms. It is easy to get mp3 support in Debian and a little bit harder in Ubuntu. Also Ubuntu has managed to break the awsome installation process of Debian. Too bad...
first of all this has nothing to do with cops bluring their faces. The technology was released because now every movie star and pretty much any public figure will buy a couple of these so that they can somewhat protect their pricasy. However, HP seems to forget that not everybody uses digital and the good old film cameras still work just fine. Plus a lot of pros use exactly that.
maybe they already have ...