Funny you mention LAN parties... we meet at a professional LAN party company (thats their whole business model, play games, hehe) and that in itself attracts some people to the meeting, and also works out good for the place, since some of our members pay to play after the meetings.
Getting a good relationship with a local company that you can benefit each other is very important, IMO.
I agree with you 100%. This also applies to guns as well. The government is trying to take our right to gun ownership away, which will only leave us defenseless. The more I think about it, the more I'm scared at what our "free" nation is trying to do to us.
seems like the wind force from the fans would be horrible on the pilot... at least on takeoff when the fans were pointed straight down.
There's more than democrats and republicans
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Even if you don't like either the democrats or the republicans, there's still a choice. I'm not just talking about the Libertarian, although thats definately who I think should be elected.
What makes me so angry is when people express an interest in the Libertarian party's principals, stating "Yeah, I believe those things, this is what I want", then turn around and vote for Bush because they hate Gore, but think they are wasting their vote if they choose Libertarian. You are only wasting your vote if you don't vote for who you truly believe in, whoever that may be. Not voting at all is worse than voting for the lesser of two evils, because your are not only NOT counting your vote for the person who you want to represent you, but you are also giving the status quo ammunition. You have no right to complain if you didn't vote. Voting for someone who ends up losing is better than not voting at all, as long as you voted your heart.
No matter what the underlying REASON for IBM doing and offering these things, the end result may be the same, if the Linux community works it right.
If they can make a buck off of Linux by doing these things, who cares? If the mom and pop Linux consulting company can do it, IBM has just the same right. I know that not everybody is going to be happy with the underlying reasoning for their actions, but as long as it helps the community, I think people should stop bitching so much.
You know what? I really could care less about not being able to overclock a CPU. People end up spending more money on special hardware just to save money on the CPU so they can overclock it, its just stupid.
I guess I'm weird but, I really do enjoy getting those Harris polls... I don't consider them spam. They aren't trying to sell you anything, and unlike those annoying people in the mall trying to get you to take a poll, you can do it at your own leisure.
While ultimately, yes, they are making money, but in the US, we are a capitalist society, so we HAVE to make money to survive.
I found it funny that there is a news link section on Sun's site that has articles (bad, of course) about their competitors. In this section, they have listings for HP and others that are being sued for selling systems with faulty floppy controllers.
The local county voting authority is planning on "Electronic voting booths", vs internet voting. There idea for this is, these systems would be faster to use, so more people could get thru the poll's faster, and would allow to deploy in business locations. I REALLY like this idea, and think its a great step towards the future.
I like the design, but the price is WAY to expensive for any practical use. If the price was less than half of that, it would be competitive of whats already out there, but wow, almost 3/4 inch bigger.
I am a Systems Programmer for a community college. My supervisor (the Lead Systems Programmer) just recently told me that an IBM systems engineer told him that a port of Linux for the 390 was in the works to be officially released the end of 2000. This would be a SUPPORTED product, apparently.
Things to remember about mainframes. There are a myriad of OS's that run on one box at a time. Big banks and big corporate outfits traditionally run MVS, which is a beefier (more expensive) OS. Colleges (or other institutions that need mainframes but are a little short on cash) usually run VM. There is a Unix OS available that goes along with MVS, but according to my boss, the Linux for 390 will be targeted more towards those running VM.
Apparently/.'ers haven't either. Debian is completely free in the GNU sense. Of course, they don't give a buck to the FSF everytime you buy it, because they don't CHARGE anything for it.
Where I live, there are new post offices sprouting up everywhere because of the high demand. How they can turn around and say that they are losing money I do not know. I use email like I would use the phone, not snail mail. If anybody should be worried, it should be the LD carriers. But even then, they are making money on Internet backbone services, so they can quit their whining for all I care.
I saw The Matrix in the movie theater, and was quite impressed. When someone downloaded the movie in MPEG format, I thought it was pretty cool, so we got a LCD projector and hooked it up to a Windows box, and played it on a big screen. Needless to say, it was awesome to watch on our setup. About 6 people attended our "private showing", and only 2 of those people hadn't already seen it. And 2 of the people who had seen it, saw it more than 1 time. So, in reality, the theaters didn't lose any money. I don't feel bad about it being bootleg, because of that fact. I'll probably go watch the movie in the theater with those same people we watched the bootleg with!
Well, I lied. I said I would return a copy... but then I just realized, I don't have any to give back. The only copy of I have belongs to my employer. (First thing I did when I got my new box was slick it. Never even bothered with Windows.)
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We should patent the patent process... ie. "Method of compiling and adminstering propietary ideas" and sue the Patent Office.
Funny you mention LAN parties... we meet at a professional LAN party company (thats their whole business model, play games, hehe)
and that in itself attracts some people to the meeting, and also works out good for the place, since some of our members pay to play after the meetings.
Getting a good relationship with a local company that you can benefit each other is very important, IMO.
I agree with you 100%. This also applies to guns as well. The government is trying to take our right to gun ownership away, which will only leave us defenseless.
The more I think about it, the more I'm scared at what our "free" nation is trying to do to us.
VOTE LIBERTARIAN!
Wow, now thats a first post!
I agree. I believe in "freedom of the press", but not UNACCOUNTABILTY of the press, which
so many "journalists" seem to think is "freedom."
seems like the wind force from the fans would be horrible on the pilot... at least on takeoff when the fans were pointed straight down.
Even if you don't like either the democrats or the republicans, there's still a choice. I'm not just talking about the Libertarian, although thats definately who I think should be elected.
What makes me so angry is when people express an interest in the Libertarian party's principals, stating "Yeah, I believe those things, this is what I want", then turn around and vote for Bush because they hate Gore, but think they are wasting their vote if they choose Libertarian. You are only wasting your vote if you don't vote for who you truly believe in, whoever that may be. Not voting at all is worse than voting for the lesser of two evils, because your are not only NOT counting your vote for the person who you want to represent you, but you are also giving the status quo ammunition. You have no right to complain if you didn't vote. Voting for someone who ends up losing is better than not voting at all, as long as you voted your heart.
I love the part where it mentions what one of them runs... "of course the custom software was written with the defacto standard Visual Basic and SQL"
WTF? Maybe defacto standard for incompetent system designers. I thought they'd at least be running something like QNX or in IBM's case, Linux.
I was thinking the same thing when I read the article.
Whats also funny to think about is that science fiction usually ends up science fact after a while... usually unintentionally though.
No matter what the underlying REASON for IBM doing and offering these things, the end result may be the same, if the Linux community works it right.
If they can make a buck off of Linux by doing these things, who cares? If the mom and pop Linux consulting company can do it, IBM has just the same right. I know that not everybody is going to be happy with the underlying reasoning for their actions, but as long as it helps the community, I think people should stop bitching so much.
I hate to be involved in the Debian vs RPM based distro holy war, but Debian's packaging system is one of the things I think makes it so much better.
You know what? I really could care less about not being able to overclock a CPU. People end up spending more money on special hardware just to save money on the CPU so they can overclock it, its just stupid.
I guess I'm weird but, I really do enjoy getting those Harris polls... I don't consider them spam. They aren't trying to sell you anything, and unlike those annoying people in the mall trying to get you to take a poll, you can do it at your own leisure. While ultimately, yes, they are making money, but in the US, we are a capitalist society, so we HAVE to make money to survive.
I found it funny that there is a news link section on Sun's site that has articles (bad, of course) about their competitors. In this section, they have listings for HP and others that are being sued for selling systems with faulty floppy controllers.
The local county voting authority is planning on "Electronic voting booths", vs internet voting. There idea for this is, these systems would be faster to use, so more people could get thru the poll's faster, and would allow to deploy in business locations. I REALLY like this idea, and think its a great step towards the future.
I like the design, but the price is WAY to expensive for any practical use. If the price was less than half of that, it would be competitive of whats already out there, but wow, almost 3/4 inch bigger.
I am a Systems Programmer for a community college. My supervisor (the Lead Systems Programmer) just recently told me that an IBM systems engineer told him that a port of Linux for the 390 was in the works to be officially released the end of 2000. This would be a SUPPORTED product, apparently.
Things to remember about mainframes. There are a myriad of OS's that run on one box at a time. Big banks and big corporate outfits traditionally run
MVS, which is a beefier (more expensive) OS. Colleges (or other institutions that need mainframes but are a little short on cash) usually
run VM. There is a Unix OS available that goes along with MVS, but according to my boss, the Linux for 390 will be targeted more towards those running VM.
I take it Redhat has never heard of Debian?
/.'ers haven't either. Debian is completely free in the GNU sense. Of course, they don't give a buck to the FSF everytime you buy it, because they don't CHARGE anything for it.
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Use Debian and give the FSF a buck yourself.
Not so fast AC! Your no way near first post. :)
Where I live, there are new post offices sprouting up everywhere because of the high demand. How they can turn around and say that they are losing money I do not know. I use email like I would use the phone, not snail mail. If anybody should be worried, it should be the LD carriers. But even then, they are making money on Internet backbone services, so they can quit their whining for all I care.
Wow, its good to see Linus being displayed in such a way that shows how much more a better person he is than Gates.
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I saw The Matrix in the movie theater, and was quite impressed. When someone downloaded the movie in MPEG format, I thought it was pretty cool, so we got a LCD projector and hooked it up to a Windows box, and played it on a big screen. Needless to say, it was awesome to watch on our setup. About 6 people attended our "private showing", and only 2 of those people hadn't already seen it. And 2 of the people who had seen it, saw it more than 1 time. So, in reality, the theaters didn't lose any money. I don't feel bad about it being bootleg, because of that fact.
I'll probably go watch the movie in the theater with those same people we watched the bootleg with!
I am certainly glad I belong to a credit union.
The service I get from my CU is so much more
personable and friendly.
I'd urge anybody who can, to join a CU. I know new laws (and existing ones) make it difficult to join. (Those laws are courtesy of Big Banker.)
Well, I lied. I said I would return a copy... but then I just realized, I don't have any to give back. The only copy of I have belongs to my employer. (First thing I did when I got my new box was slick it. Never even bothered with Windows.)