I come here to read news, not some editorial guesses at what might be news in the future
You must not come here often!
There are plenty of tech sites out there if you just want news, and most deliver fresher right-off-the-presses news. But here you get news, editorials, book reviews, interviews, and tons of sometimes funny, sometimes insightful member commentary.
so why settle for vanilla, when you can get it and more in the neopolitan that is/.?
Our small company had to restructure it's in-house networks to accomodate a whole bunch of new equipment. It was a mess for a while (unreachable mail servers, backup systems not functioning, etc) but our tireless admin worked 10+ hours a day and weekends for 2 weeks straight. After everything was settled, some of us guys decided to take him out for lunch in appreciation of all his hard work... but not just any restaurant, this was a sort of strip club (albeit tame compared to others) that served lunch during the work week. Anyways, the lunch went well but apperantly one of the secretaries told his wife. Their marriage had been shaky for a while and in 3 months time he was deep into divorce proceedings. From what I hear, it was a pretty messy one, including losing out custody of their kid. Shortly afterwards he had to move because of financial problems. He had also been accused, at one point, of stealing some equipment so he didn't leave on very good terms.
So Tom, whereever you are now, in whatever river-side van, happy System Administrators Day!
It's official - even CmdrTaco doesn't read Slashdot!
And why should he? Have you seen the crap that gets passed as funny or insightful here? CmdrTaco, like all successful people with busy lives, would doubtfully find any use in a +5 funny post.
The article backs up its thesis with several thought-out points. An opinion article that tries supporting itself with arguments is fair game to discuss here. Instead of providing intelligent counter-arguments, all you bring to the table is name calling... which is what a troll does.
There's only two types of people that would bother with annonymous internet usage... those doing something they fear might get them in trouble, and those that fear being monitored regardless if they're doing anything bad or not... either way, annonymous internet usage is somewhat a product of fear.
Not saying there's anything wrong with acting on fear, but it can't be healthy to live always fearing "Oh no they might see me reading/." or whatnot.
Let's face it, the guy might of been a great inventor back in the day but it doesn't sound like he was on the forefront of anything nowadays. I don't blame HP, nor do I hold it against him... but being historically significant does not mean you can leech a salary off a company. He should either find an employer that needs his current level of capabilities, try starting up something himself, or just retire and enjoy the rest of his life.
for every individual who wants to create products that are as unique as they are
hey here's a thought... how about letting others judge/care how unique you are by your contributions to the world instead of some crappy t-shirt you "designed" on your computer while in your underwear.
Anyways, the whole point of this post is about greed and self love.
Bullshit. The whole point of your post was a tired rant about evil oil companies.
The real "greed and self love" criminal here is the king who selfishly profited off his country's resources, squandered the money on vanity items he never used, and killed/imprisoned his own people.
Yet you brush him off as just an idiot being exploited by big oil. Even though this "idiot" taught himself French and runs a censorship program in his own country (not a small task).
Your bias goes so deep that you even accuse Exxon of helping the king kill people ("Why was Exxon helping the King kill his own people"). It would be suicide for any global publicly-traded corporation to support the slaughter of innocent people. Exxon might of owned the helicopters (commonly used when exploring landscapes for oil drilling), but it was the king and his greed that took them and filled them with soldiers. It was the king that ordered the soldiers to kill dissenters.
But you don't care... you don't see one of Africa's main problems as being the corrupt tyrants that rule it... you don't see the Africa rich enough in resources that it's capable of feeding everyone but yet it's mismanaged by murderous dictators... you don't see the jobs and skills training that Exxon brought in... to you the problem is the evil "big corporations" and other such communist garbage.
They would profit a lot more, though, if they resurrected the series. Re-runs already get high numbers on Adult Swim and, imo, could easily replace The Simpsons (which is way past its prime IMO). Although American Dad's spot might be free soon, it's too much like Family Guy in humor style without the "loveable loser" factor that Peter brings. Either way, Futurama could have a good run if they were to revive the series.
So migrating from Unix to Linux went pretty smooth?
How interesting! Especially since the article is about migrating from Windows to Linux, a much harder and costly migration... especially since Microsoft was successful in tying businesses down to Microsoft-only solutions like Visual Basic/COM.
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
Nothing turns me off faster from reading an article than idiotic profoundness.
The Stone Age gradually faded away as more humans discovered/invented better tools that increased their chances of survival. No caveman sat around thinking much about it, it was a slow natural process.
While China's current space program might seem similar to early NASA or Soviet programs, there is one big difference... the earlier space programs didn't have existing space technology to draw on, everything had to be invented from scratch (so far as space technology goes) and the dangers in such a young field were higher.
there was some scientific value to them, but the primary reason was: look what our country can do
You clearly haven't put much thought into that statement. Space travel technology is extemely costly to develop, and (at the time) there was no massive economic benefit from it so the costs were prohibitive to private business and could only be funded by governments. The technological landscape as changed since then (i.e. telecommunications) so now there's commercial benifits for private companies to invest into space as well. There was always a scientific interest in space travel, but, realistically, without the "look what our country can do" or "$$$" reasons space travel would of never taken off.
I wonder how different things would be with three suns.
Appearances aside, not much.
If the planet's environment is life-friendly, then it's only a matter of time before life evolves on it. Lifeforms will then thrive on the resources until a resource limit is met and competition (i.e. "survival of the fitest") kicks in.
Because of the survival benifits that cooperation and intelligence have, some lifeforms will take an evolutionary path towards that... more complex behaviors will likely evolve, eventually leading up to societal-type levels of interactions and intelligence.
Somewhere out there's a mass of stuff wondering what a world with only one sun would be like...
Has anyone else seen this company's stock price? It's been going steadily down for almost 2 weeks, yikes... guess the time was right to pay off the editors to post a puff piece on/.
I don't mean to sound like a troll, but I already have a few similar books in my dusty collection... so what's new in this one that can't be found in the other books and/or web sites out there? anything exciting enough for me to put on pants and drive down to my Books-a-Million?
Guess I'll have to rethink my intent when I call someone a bird brain!
On a side note, why is the concept of zero considered so advanced on the intelligence ladder? I know it was well after Greek times that man came to terms with it. But could it be the case that we were over-thinking its concept?
Maybe someone can better describe this article's subject's significance... all I know, from my own observations, is that my dog certainly demonstrates a form of awareness whenever there's zero food in its dish!
Language is a not math. It's not required to follow strict logical rules... only requirement is that it conveys information to the audience its directed to.
In order to correct me, you had to know what I meant... therefore I conveyed my thoughts well enough to render your "correction" pointless.
the new system should support both DEB (Debian package) and RPM (Red Hat Package Management)
Come up with a goddam standard already!
Other OSes make it so easy you don't even have to think about... like technology, designed to make things easier for us, should behave. Especially in the area of software installation, which is not a terribly complicated a concept to begin with (get software A ready to run on computer B).
When you have to claim you're the leading something-or-the-other in the same breath it takes to describe who you are, then you're clearly not there yet. Unable to handle the traffic, that a leader in something-or-the-other would be expected to have, doesn't help either.
What the guy is saying is that he sees a lot of companies sitting around trying to make money off of other people's work (i.e. all twelve thousand linux distributions), whereas he wants to pay people to develop open-source applications. He's just saying that you can't have a business model where you say, "Hey, guys, you write my software for me and then I'm going to make all the money off of it!"
Then why didn't he just say that?
Let him feel the heat for a while for his comments. If he wanted an honest debate on the issue, he should of kept the inflammatory wording to himself. Unless he wanted to draw more attention to it through the tried-and-true method of controversy, in which case the Armani-wearing yuppie succeeded!
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I come here to read news, not some editorial guesses at what might be news in the future
/.?
You must not come here often!
There are plenty of tech sites out there if you just want news, and most deliver fresher right-off-the-presses news. But here you get news, editorials, book reviews, interviews, and tons of sometimes funny, sometimes insightful member commentary.
so why settle for vanilla, when you can get it and more in the neopolitan that is
True story...
Our small company had to restructure it's in-house networks to accomodate a whole bunch of new equipment. It was a mess for a while (unreachable mail servers, backup systems not functioning, etc) but our tireless admin worked 10+ hours a day and weekends for 2 weeks straight. After everything was settled, some of us guys decided to take him out for lunch in appreciation of all his hard work... but not just any restaurant, this was a sort of strip club (albeit tame compared to others) that served lunch during the work week. Anyways, the lunch went well but apperantly one of the secretaries told his wife. Their marriage had been shaky for a while and in 3 months time he was deep into divorce proceedings. From what I hear, it was a pretty messy one, including losing out custody of their kid. Shortly afterwards he had to move because of financial problems. He had also been accused, at one point, of stealing some equipment so he didn't leave on very good terms.
So Tom, whereever you are now, in whatever river-side van, happy System Administrators Day!
It's official - even CmdrTaco doesn't read Slashdot!
And why should he? Have you seen the crap that gets passed as funny or insightful here? CmdrTaco, like all successful people with busy lives, would doubtfully find any use in a +5 funny post.
No, you're the troll.
The article backs up its thesis with several thought-out points. An opinion article that tries supporting itself with arguments is fair game to discuss here. Instead of providing intelligent counter-arguments, all you bring to the table is name calling... which is what a troll does.
There's only two types of people that would bother with annonymous internet usage... those doing something they fear might get them in trouble, and those that fear being monitored regardless if they're doing anything bad or not... either way, annonymous internet usage is somewhat a product of fear.
/." or whatnot.
Not saying there's anything wrong with acting on fear, but it can't be healthy to live always fearing "Oh no they might see me reading
Let's face it, the guy might of been a great inventor back in the day but it doesn't sound like he was on the forefront of anything nowadays. I don't blame HP, nor do I hold it against him... but being historically significant does not mean you can leech a salary off a company. He should either find an employer that needs his current level of capabilities, try starting up something himself, or just retire and enjoy the rest of his life.
from a Firefox press release in the near future...
"total Firefox downloads have doubled in the last month!"
One only has to look at how much functionality was stripped off the latest GM to realize there was no solid security mechanism in place.
It's not "just a bug" but a major design flaw.
So, basically, to summarize his blog entry...
linux for nerds, windows for dumbasses
Not to say it's was a bad article, it's a good read, but I couldn't find any new insights into this over-discussed topic.
for every individual who wants to create products that are as unique as they are
hey here's a thought... how about letting others judge/care how unique you are by your contributions to the world instead of some crappy t-shirt you "designed" on your computer while in your underwear.
should we DDOS spammers?
If you believe we should rape rapists, then yes.
Anyways, the whole point of this post is about greed and self love.
Bullshit. The whole point of your post was a tired rant about evil oil companies.
The real "greed and self love" criminal here is the king who selfishly profited off his country's resources, squandered the money on vanity items he never used, and killed/imprisoned his own people.
Yet you brush him off as just an idiot being exploited by big oil. Even though this "idiot" taught himself French and runs a censorship program in his own country (not a small task).
Your bias goes so deep that you even accuse Exxon of helping the king kill people ("Why was Exxon helping the King kill his own people"). It would be suicide for any global publicly-traded corporation to support the slaughter of innocent people. Exxon might of owned the helicopters (commonly used when exploring landscapes for oil drilling), but it was the king and his greed that took them and filled them with soldiers. It was the king that ordered the soldiers to kill dissenters.
But you don't care... you don't see one of Africa's main problems as being the corrupt tyrants that rule it... you don't see the Africa rich enough in resources that it's capable of feeding everyone but yet it's mismanaged by murderous dictators... you don't see the jobs and skills training that Exxon brought in... to you the problem is the evil "big corporations" and other such communist garbage.
Can't wait to bt download it!
They would profit a lot more, though, if they resurrected the series. Re-runs already get high numbers on Adult Swim and, imo, could easily replace The Simpsons (which is way past its prime IMO). Although American Dad's spot might be free soon, it's too much like Family Guy in humor style without the "loveable loser" factor that Peter brings. Either way, Futurama could have a good run if they were to revive the series.
So migrating from Unix to Linux went pretty smooth?
How interesting! Especially since the article is about migrating from Windows to Linux, a much harder and costly migration... especially since Microsoft was successful in tying businesses down to Microsoft-only solutions like Visual Basic/COM.
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
Nothing turns me off faster from reading an article than idiotic profoundness.
The Stone Age gradually faded away as more humans discovered/invented better tools that increased their chances of survival. No caveman sat around thinking much about it, it was a slow natural process.
how many follow the terms of the GPL or whatever free license the Library is distributed with?
a related question, that perhaps answers yours, is what teeth does the GPL(etc.) bodies have to enforce that such licenses are followed?
While China's current space program might seem similar to early NASA or Soviet programs, there is one big difference... the earlier space programs didn't have existing space technology to draw on, everything had to be invented from scratch (so far as space technology goes) and the dangers in such a young field were higher.
there was some scientific value to them, but the primary reason was: look what our country can do
You clearly haven't put much thought into that statement. Space travel technology is extemely costly to develop, and (at the time) there was no massive economic benefit from it so the costs were prohibitive to private business and could only be funded by governments. The technological landscape as changed since then (i.e. telecommunications) so now there's commercial benifits for private companies to invest into space as well. There was always a scientific interest in space travel, but, realistically, without the "look what our country can do" or "$$$" reasons space travel would of never taken off.
I wonder how different things would be with three suns.
Appearances aside, not much.
If the planet's environment is life-friendly, then it's only a matter of time before life evolves on it. Lifeforms will then thrive on the resources until a resource limit is met and competition (i.e. "survival of the fitest") kicks in.
Because of the survival benifits that cooperation and intelligence have, some lifeforms will take an evolutionary path towards that... more complex behaviors will likely evolve, eventually leading up to societal-type levels of interactions and intelligence.
Somewhere out there's a mass of stuff wondering what a world with only one sun would be like...
Has anyone else seen this company's stock price? It's been going steadily down for almost 2 weeks, yikes... guess the time was right to pay off the editors to post a puff piece on /.
I don't mean to sound like a troll, but I already have a few similar books in my dusty collection... so what's new in this one that can't be found in the other books and/or web sites out there? anything exciting enough for me to put on pants and drive down to my Books-a-Million?
Guess I'll have to rethink my intent when I call someone a bird brain!
On a side note, why is the concept of zero considered so advanced on the intelligence ladder? I know it was well after Greek times that man came to terms with it. But could it be the case that we were over-thinking its concept?
Maybe someone can better describe this article's subject's significance... all I know, from my own observations, is that my dog certainly demonstrates a form of awareness whenever there's zero food in its dish!
should've != should of
Language is a not math. It's not required to follow strict logical rules... only requirement is that it conveys information to the audience its directed to.
In order to correct me, you had to know what I meant... therefore I conveyed my thoughts well enough to render your "correction" pointless.
the new system should support both DEB (Debian package) and RPM (Red Hat Package Management)
Come up with a goddam standard already!
Other OSes make it so easy you don't even have to think about... like technology, designed to make things easier for us, should behave. Especially in the area of software installation, which is not a terribly complicated a concept to begin with (get software A ready to run on computer B).
When you have to claim you're the leading something-or-the-other in the same breath it takes to describe who you are, then you're clearly not there yet. Unable to handle the traffic, that a leader in something-or-the-other would be expected to have, doesn't help either.
What the guy is saying is that he sees a lot of companies sitting around trying to make money off of other people's work (i.e. all twelve thousand linux distributions), whereas he wants to pay people to develop open-source applications. He's just saying that you can't have a business model where you say, "Hey, guys, you write my software for me and then I'm going to make all the money off of it!"
Then why didn't he just say that?
Let him feel the heat for a while for his comments. If he wanted an honest debate on the issue, he should of kept the inflammatory wording to himself. Unless he wanted to draw more attention to it through the tried-and-true method of controversy, in which case the Armani-wearing yuppie succeeded!