Well, I have some Sun Ultra 1 boxes here that were nearly free (they cost about the the same as the shipping and handling charge for a Mac Mini) and they run a Free OS called NetBSD/sparc64.
It's still off-topic enough in this topic that if you're going to carry on about it, Slashdot etiquette (!?!?!) dictates you shouldn't use your +1 in your comments.
And when an earthquake, followed by a flood, occurs, we'll just stand up on the surface scratching our heads and figuring out where to install the diving board on our new swimming pools.
I guess the guy who sells sump pumps will make out alright.
There is only one way and that is for the government to build these houses
Whoah! That sounds neat. Can I live in a house built by the kind of people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles?
No one is going to beable to afford to live in the suburbs in a few years anyway. Oil prices are going up and up, driving to work is going to cost almost as much as you make in a day. Even with new discoveries of Oil demand is quicly out growing supply.
Actually, nobody will be able to afford, or want, to drive to the city in a few years.
I see a growth market in technology to break up all that cement and plant grass and gardens in the former cities.
It'll suck to own all that formerly valuable Urban land, but then the city types have had their time to harvest profit.
Simply put, if you replace people with robots, you have to either accept job losses, or ramp up production and move those people into supervisory jobs.
Yes. It's a giant filtering process, that filters the adaptable smart people to the top, and drops the duds down to the bottom.
It isn't that hard to be a WalMart greeter, and there's room for improvement in the performance of the greeter function at WalMart.
Actually, 'adapting well to a business environment' (i.e. being all slick and jiffy about finding another job) does not automatically correlate to 'good code hacker.'
'Student' is one of those slippery words, when it comes to underground political organizations.
If a journalist had walked up to, for instance, the 'students' who occupied the US Embassy in Iran back in the day and asked what said 'students' were studying that quarter, there would have been some blank stares.
I've been around some of those 'student' political activists on US campuses. I'm certain some of the other people reading this have seen them at work as well.
The south Korean government is NOT dealing with 'students that want some change.' They're dealing the the same hardened cadre of Pied Pipers that blights the rest of the world's campuses. Just a more militant flavor.
Yes, but it's simply a matter of waiting. The N. Korean government is killing off their own population. It's a war of attrition, and they're pretty much contained.
Huh? FreeBSD has a single source tree that I can download once and build, from scratch, on my PPC, Mac68K, i386, Sparc, MIPS, VAX, and ARM hardware?
No, FreeBSD is partway along the way to this, but since portability hasn't historically been a primary consideration (in fact, not caring about portability, just the x86 platform, was a primary reason for the FreeBSD fork in the first place) Why reinvent the 'portability' wheel by trying to port something all over to different archs, when a working codebase specific to that goal already exists?
One of the prominent facts of Open Source programming history, going waaaay back, is that something that works good and commercial has to exist first to copy and replace. This can be said about large parts of the GNU toolchain. It's part of the 'culture' for the name of the GNU replacement to be a pun or joke on the name of the original tool.
Big conglomerate groups of random people on the Internet aren't that good at developing something totally original. It's much more common to let some commercial entity 'develop the product spec' first.
Linux needs somebody with a Donald Knuth mentality. Someone who will dedicate years on a side-trip to produce the best, most excellent, version controlling system possible. (Similar to Knuth's side-trip into Typesetting that produced the Wonder called TeX).
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Well, I have some Sun Ultra 1 boxes here that were nearly free (they cost about the the same as the shipping and handling charge for a Mac Mini) and they run a Free OS called NetBSD/sparc64.
It's still off-topic enough in this topic that if you're going to carry on about it, Slashdot etiquette (!?!?!) dictates you shouldn't use your +1 in your comments.
And when an earthquake, followed by a flood, occurs, we'll just stand up on the surface scratching our heads and figuring out where to install the diving board on our new swimming pools.
I guess the guy who sells sump pumps will make out alright.
There is only one way and that is for the government to build these houses
Whoah! That sounds neat. Can I live in a house built by the kind of people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles?
No one is going to beable to afford to live in the suburbs in a few years anyway. Oil prices are going up and up, driving to work is going to cost almost as much as you make in a day. Even with new discoveries of Oil demand is quicly out growing supply.
Actually, nobody will be able to afford, or want, to drive to the city in a few years.
I see a growth market in technology to break up all that cement and plant grass and gardens in the former cities.
It'll suck to own all that formerly valuable Urban land, but then the city types have had their time to harvest profit.
Simply put, if you replace people with robots, you have to either accept job losses, or ramp up production and move those people into supervisory jobs.
Yes. It's a giant filtering process, that filters the adaptable smart people to the top, and drops the duds down to the bottom.
It isn't that hard to be a WalMart greeter, and there's room for improvement in the performance of the greeter function at WalMart.
So what's the problem again??
Legal workers do not need to be union members.
Perhaps the cost will go up slightly if only doccumented workers are used.
But please leave the issue of Unions out of it.
Note- this isn't an article about ripping off copies of recordings of performers of music and drama.
Perhaps you meant to comment on that thread over there.
The same amount of wealth may be circulating in the economy,
You're assuming a zero sum economy. There's this thing called wealth creation that you're totally missing.
He dropped a '1' in that sentence. And yes, there ARE a ton of 15 year olds flooding this site.
UNIX was open source from AT&T
If we had a time machine handy, I'd like to introduce you to a room full of AT&T Attorneys.
There were and are non-free versions of Emacs.
There is Gosling Emacs, which is non-free and the source code is not available. Stallman did NOT 'invent' emacs.
Actually, 'adapting well to a business environment' (i.e. being all slick and jiffy about finding another job) does not automatically correlate to 'good code hacker.'
'Student' is one of those slippery words, when it comes to underground political organizations.
If a journalist had walked up to, for instance, the 'students' who occupied the US Embassy in Iran back in the day and asked what said 'students' were studying that quarter, there would have been some blank stares.
I've been around some of those 'student' political activists on US campuses. I'm certain some of the other people reading this have seen them at work as well.
The south Korean government is NOT dealing with 'students that want some change.' They're dealing the the same hardened cadre of Pied Pipers that blights the rest of the world's campuses. Just a more militant flavor.
Yes, but it's simply a matter of waiting. The N. Korean government is killing off their own population. It's a war of attrition, and they're pretty much contained.
The 2.0 release of NetBSD runs faster than NetBSD ever has in the past.
In fact, it SCREAMS on my Quad-CPU intel machine. I still need to roll it out and evaluate it on my Quad-Sparc box.
Huh? FreeBSD has a single source tree that I can download once and build, from scratch, on my PPC, Mac68K, i386, Sparc, MIPS, VAX, and ARM hardware?
No, FreeBSD is partway along the way to this, but since portability hasn't historically been a primary consideration (in fact, not caring about portability, just the x86 platform, was a primary reason for the FreeBSD fork in the first place) Why reinvent the 'portability' wheel by trying to port something all over to different archs, when a working codebase specific to that goal already exists?
CVS is the basis for a LOT of Open Source development projects. I know NetBSD makes good use of it. I suspect the other BSDs use it as well.
I've used it professionally in highly critical environments. People figure out how to use it and it works.
Arguements pro- and anti-CVS almost always boil down to politics. Please identify yourself as one of the partisans (you have already, actually)
One of the prominent facts of Open Source programming history, going waaaay back, is that something that works good and commercial has to exist first to copy and replace. This can be said about large parts of the GNU toolchain. It's part of the 'culture' for the name of the GNU replacement to be a pun or joke on the name of the original tool.
Big conglomerate groups of random people on the Internet aren't that good at developing something totally original. It's much more common to let some commercial entity 'develop the product spec' first.
Linux needs somebody with a Donald Knuth mentality. Someone who will dedicate years on a side-trip to produce the best, most excellent, version controlling system possible. (Similar to Knuth's side-trip into Typesetting that produced the Wonder called TeX).
Well, I'm a nerd. I don't participate in those sorts of discussions very often.
I don't consider it being clueless. The clueless people are the ones who follow the herd along like sheep.
For surreal, you want the long kitchen scene at the beginning of the Christmas Special.
The Jefferson Starship video was cool, though.
The only 'dirty trick' that I engaged in was completely skipping Slashdot on April 1.
Pay less taxes, and everyone loses.
Pay less taxes, and government withers. I.e. everybody but some bureaucrats and grifters wins.
Yep. Certainly it's cooler than running a 'nux.
If you're REALLY all roused up and furious, don't forget to give ME some $2 bills, too.
Translation: I doubt if a 'protest' where you go to a store and buy stuff 'out of protest' is gonna be very effective.