Remember the horrible old days when Webalizer stats were being misinterpreted wholesale? I inherited the primary coding responsibilities for a large consumer health site. It was about 10,000 static html pages and the site relied on Webalizer "hits" for years. Even reported them as such to the large pharmaceutical companies that sponsored the site. After we converted the site to being MySQL driven and actual page views were accurately recorded, the sponsors, editors and project managers FLIPPED. Like it it was the programmers fault that they had been so stupid all of those years....and perhaps acting fraudulently towards the advertisers. Mercifully, I worked on other angles than stats, but the other programmer caught hell for a year.
I'm sure others in the audience have similar horror stories.
So people are joining the Communist Party in order to further their capitalist ambitions?
By all accounts, the Chinese government has melded into a hyper-capitalist, fascist state. They are definitely not communists.
So, yeah, it does make sense.
Gambling is stupid, no doubt (you WILL lose)
You obviously don't know much about football and gambling in general.
....Up $370 already this fine season. Which is not uncommon for those in the know.
Yes, I am breaking the law and no, I do not give a shit.
As someone who is way overdue for a new artificial eye, I'm all for this development model.
(Unfortunately, my particular case can't be handled by mechanical engineering. It's all about the steady hand of an artisan.)
Please do not doubt the life-changing/enhancing work that will come out of this.
here's news for all you computer geeks: there are music geeks too, and they think pretty much the same way. just think of 7" records as the audiophile version of the command line.
Record collecting and UNIX geekdom both rely heavily on obsessive/compulsive behavioral traits.
I know, because I've been dabbling (to put it midly) in both for over 20 years.
One way it might work: Mark Shuttleworth opens his pockets and sets up a small endowment to fund Debian release engineers.
He can certainly afford it and it would be a double payback. And very smart if he intends to have Canonical make money on the back of Debian.
Suppose I release a CD (I have; many in fact) and it is manufactured and distributed by a label. As usual, I get to keep lots of copies of the cd for sales and distribution as I see fit. But let's say - for kicks - I bought one of my own songs from Napster. Now I want to transfer it to Zune. Based on this DRM crap...
I am not legally allowed to listen to that copy of my own song on Zune.
????
To put it another way: Either these are MIPS or they are not. If not, when exactly did the kernel become a dating service, where 95% compatability is astounding? So now the kernel supports a another architecture? That would seem to be big news.
So these chips are 95% compatible with MIPS? What exactly does that mean? What did they do, grab the entire Debian MIPS project and hack it from there? If so, wouldn't the GPL require the code to be released? (Yeah, I know, I wondering whether the Chinese government is willing to respect the GPL.)
We conjecture that there are multiple equilibria and that the use of FUD to mold perceptions about future value becomes crucial.
Well, you are certainly helping with that one.
I'm surprised they didn't make the bold prediction that Compuserve will remain a dominant player in the dial-up accesss business for years to come.
The main - and subtlely articulated - point that I gathered from this:
Shuttleworth is ackowledging that many of the Ubuntu users/booster club members are thinking out of their ass. Cruise over to the Uubuntu forums (or any of the unbearable "I just installed Ubuntu" threads on Digg) and you'll see a blatant ignorance of Debian. Not of its existence necessarily, but of Debian's immense role in the Linux world for all of these years. Mark knows it, the Slackware folks know it (but don't want to deal with those sysv scripts), but the "my laptop spins like a floating cube with Ubuntu" crowd don't always get. And their brash attitude is a bit of an embarrassment.
Let's assume Vista hits the streets in February 2007. After how many months will Dell, etc be required to drop XP and only ship Vista? (My guess 3 - 6 months.) At that point:
About 200 million pcs are sold annually. And 96% (?) of those will have Vista.
Microsoft is not worried about the 1-2 year upgrade holdouts.
Think of any group activity in which you are involved. Being in a musical group is a great example and one which I I have quite a bit of experience. In the end, SOMEONE has to be in charge and perform the vital role of focused leadership. I have my problems with the peacock strutting attitude of Ubuntu, but I think they will succeed because of the organizational structure. Debian? I hope so too, but Ubuntu will get to the point where it doesn't need Debian. Though I suspect that will require Canonical hiring some key developers to really keep the process moving properly.
While Apple and Microsoft will grapple for dominance of client and server spaces
Well, that's just asinine.
Besides, why the hell would any IT manager fork over the dollars for an Apple server instead of running *BSD? And that's going with the incorrect assumption that Linux will have been relegated to running toasters, etc.
I'm not sure this competition really matters.
The real deal will be when we are all wearing universal glasses (with earbuds included). Ones that will be able to recieve inputs from our moble computing device. It will function as our complete data center: PC, TV, streaming video, gaming console, etc. The unit will simply be a 1 pound keyboard with a minumum (flash memory?) drive to connect to the central server. In terms of sharing data with other viewers - instead of crouching over a monitor together - well, I'll let you security freaks in the audience work and the encryption and authentication aspects.
Of course the logical extension will be when all of this gets replaced with contact lens units.
the nuture/nature debate again...
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There's only one way to solve this: Leave your basement and go on a hike with your mother.
I'd be interested to know how much this gentleman had to do with it: http://www.gag.com/~bdale/
He's a former Debian Project Leader and now Linux/OSS CTO at HP.
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Remember the horrible old days when Webalizer stats were being misinterpreted wholesale? I inherited the primary coding responsibilities for a large consumer health site. It was about 10,000 static html pages and the site relied on Webalizer "hits" for years. Even reported them as such to the large pharmaceutical companies that sponsored the site. After we converted the site to being MySQL driven and actual page views were accurately recorded, the sponsors, editors and project managers FLIPPED. Like it it was the programmers fault that they had been so stupid all of those years....and perhaps acting fraudulently towards the advertisers. Mercifully, I worked on other angles than stats, but the other programmer caught hell for a year.
I'm sure others in the audience have similar horror stories.
So people are joining the Communist Party in order to further their capitalist ambitions?
By all accounts, the Chinese government has melded into a hyper-capitalist, fascist state. They are definitely not communists.
So, yeah, it does make sense.
Gambling is stupid, no doubt (you WILL lose)
....Up $370 already this fine season. Which is not uncommon for those in the know.
You obviously don't know much about football and gambling in general.
Yes, I am breaking the law and no, I do not give a shit.
As someone who is way overdue for a new artificial eye, I'm all for this development model.
(Unfortunately, my particular case can't be handled by mechanical engineering. It's all about the steady hand of an artisan.)
Please do not doubt the life-changing/enhancing work that will come out of this.
here's news for all you computer geeks: there are music geeks too, and they think pretty much the same way. just think of 7" records as the audiophile version of the command line.
Record collecting and UNIX geekdom both rely heavily on obsessive/compulsive behavioral traits.
I know, because I've been dabbling (to put it midly) in both for over 20 years.
One way it might work: Mark Shuttleworth opens his pockets and sets up a small endowment to fund Debian release engineers.
He can certainly afford it and it would be a double payback. And very smart if he intends to have Canonical make money on the back of Debian.
Suppose I release a CD (I have; many in fact) and it is manufactured and distributed by a label. As usual, I get to keep lots of copies of the cd for sales and distribution as I see fit. But let's say - for kicks - I bought one of my own songs from Napster. Now I want to transfer it to Zune. Based on this DRM crap...
I am not legally allowed to listen to that copy of my own song on Zune.
????
To put it another way: Either these are MIPS or they are not. If not, when exactly did the kernel become a dating service, where 95% compatability is astounding? So now the kernel supports a another architecture? That would seem to be big news.
So these chips are 95% compatible with MIPS? What exactly does that mean? What did they do, grab the entire Debian MIPS project and hack it from there? If so, wouldn't the GPL require the code to be released? (Yeah, I know, I wondering whether the Chinese government is willing to respect the GPL.)
I'm not a KDE user either, but perhaps you would like to inspect my pronunciation of Gnome via mp3?
I'll supply as is required.
I read that headline and thought that Trolltech had adjusted the QT license in response to the new iTunes.
That might be the most astute criticism of Microsoft (and the dangers therein) I've ever seen.
Bravo.
I haven't turned on my aMule client in months. Downloading now...
World War Core!
We conjecture that there are multiple equilibria and that the use of FUD to mold perceptions about future value becomes crucial.
Well, you are certainly helping with that one.
I'm surprised they didn't make the bold prediction that Compuserve will remain a dominant player in the dial-up accesss business for years to come.
The main - and subtlely articulated - point that I gathered from this:
Shuttleworth is ackowledging that many of the Ubuntu users/booster club members are thinking out of their ass. Cruise over to the Uubuntu forums (or any of the unbearable "I just installed Ubuntu" threads on Digg) and you'll see a blatant ignorance of Debian. Not of its existence necessarily, but of Debian's immense role in the Linux world for all of these years. Mark knows it, the Slackware folks know it (but don't want to deal with those sysv scripts), but the "my laptop spins like a floating cube with Ubuntu" crowd don't always get. And their brash attitude is a bit of an embarrassment.
Let's assume Vista hits the streets in February 2007. After how many months will Dell, etc be required to drop XP and only ship Vista? (My guess 3 - 6 months.) At that point:
About 200 million pcs are sold annually. And 96% (?) of those will have Vista.
Microsoft is not worried about the 1-2 year upgrade holdouts.
Opera right now.
Think of any group activity in which you are involved. Being in a musical group is a great example and one which I I have quite a bit of experience. In the end, SOMEONE has to be in charge and perform the vital role of focused leadership. I have my problems with the peacock strutting attitude of Ubuntu, but I think they will succeed because of the organizational structure. Debian? I hope so too, but Ubuntu will get to the point where it doesn't need Debian. Though I suspect that will require Canonical hiring some key developers to really keep the process moving properly.
They might want to talk to the good folks at Linspire about their cutting edge Click and Run Technology
While Apple and Microsoft will grapple for dominance of client and server spaces
Well, that's just asinine.
Besides, why the hell would any IT manager fork over the dollars for an Apple server instead of running *BSD? And that's going with the incorrect assumption that Linux will have been relegated to running toasters, etc.
I'm not sure this competition really matters.
The real deal will be when we are all wearing universal glasses (with earbuds included). Ones that will be able to recieve inputs from our moble computing device. It will function as our complete data center: PC, TV, streaming video, gaming console, etc. The unit will simply be a 1 pound keyboard with a minumum (flash memory?) drive to connect to the central server. In terms of sharing data with other viewers - instead of crouching over a monitor together - well, I'll let you security freaks in the audience work and the encryption and authentication aspects.
Of course the logical extension will be when all of this gets replaced with contact lens units.
There's only one way to solve this: Leave your basement and go on a hike with your mother.
I'd be interested to know how much this gentleman had to do with it:
http://www.gag.com/~bdale/
He's a former Debian Project Leader and now Linux/OSS CTO at HP.