This is an OUTSTANDING feat! Not only did Slashdot get recognition in a (fairly) respected mag, the freely-given replies were judged *better* than those of a professional, paid writer.
If you contributed (I regret I did not) then slap yourself on the back and treat yourself to a beer. Hell of a good job, humans.
Actually, the press has been butting into peoples' private lives since there has been a press. It's only in the last few decades they've cultivated the whole "free and impartial" crock.
A truly free and impartial press would look a hell of a lot more like the internet than the New York Times.
The post office is a government-run (well, government-overseen) monopoly because of abuses in an "open" postal system. Amtrak is a government-overseen monopoly because all the little train companies that used to provide the same service went out of business, and rather than accept economic reality (jets + cars = no trains) the government decided to "intervene". Now, if you humans had a libertarian congress...
Ah. But the silly humans who *elect* the U.S. Government don't mind that, while the government are the first advocates, they are the last adopters of any given technology.
Meow.
"Warning - this distro is too damn old!"
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Previous company found this to be true. They went from centralized printing off an IBM mainframe to distributed printing off SAP to a series of HP JetDirect boxen. The old way had lower print costs because it was harder to get the mainframe coders to build a customized report, and they wouldn't print it out 7 times because the header wasn't "just right"!
After having dealt with some Sun folks, I echo your sentiments. Current gig is HP/UX for the big stuff, a mix of NT and Novell on Compaq for the midline servers, and Compaq on the desktops. Previous gig was IBM RS/6k for the big stuff, a mix of Dell, ALR, and AST with NT and Novell for the midline servers, and Dell on the desktops.
> "Your average commie has no regard for human > life, not even his own". It sounds STUPID, but > a generation grew up being told that. It's typical propaganda, man. s/commie/nazi/ or s/commie/jap/ and you've got the kids of the '40s pegged. Repeats all through history. > HECK, go back and watch Regan campaign > commercials. Or the Dukakis commercials of the same vintage. Ever wonder why he allowed himself to be photographed in a tank with a rocket launcher? See also Dr. Seuss' classic butter battles.
Sun's business model lives and dies by the LAN, it's that simple. HP sells a lot of engineering workstations, they also live and die by the LAN, although they're "chunky" clients - i.e. they have hard drives, so the OS is local. They usually load apps across the net, though, and our engineers scream bloody murder if this takes more than a minute or two. 100mbt to the desktop is *mandatory* for the network to "be" the computer today, and files are not getting any smaller!
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This is an OUTSTANDING feat! Not only did Slashdot get recognition in a (fairly) respected mag, the freely-given replies were judged *better* than those of a professional, paid writer.
If you contributed (I regret I did not) then slap yourself on the back and treat yourself to a beer. Hell of a good job, humans.
Actually, the press has been butting into peoples' private lives since there has been a press. It's only in the last few decades they've cultivated the whole "free and impartial" crock.
A truly free and impartial press would look a hell of a lot more like the internet than the New York Times.
"Loose lips sink ships".
All parties to WWII ran spy networks and therefore all parties also encouraged paranoia in their general population.
The post office is a government-run (well, government-overseen) monopoly because of abuses in an "open" postal system.
Amtrak is a government-overseen monopoly because all the little train companies that used to provide the same service went out of business, and rather than accept economic reality (jets + cars = no trains) the government decided to "intervene".
Now, if you humans had a libertarian congress...
Ah. But the silly humans who *elect* the U.S. Government don't mind that, while the government are the first advocates, they are the last adopters of any given technology.
Meow.
Hmmm.
Doesn't own Linux.
Doesn't own TransMeta.
That clear things up for ya?
Me either!
Mija Cat
Previous company found this to be true.
They went from centralized printing off an IBM mainframe to distributed printing off SAP to a series of HP JetDirect boxen.
The old way had lower print costs because it was harder to get the mainframe coders to build a customized report, and they wouldn't print it out 7 times because the header wasn't "just right"!
Mija Cat
After having dealt with some Sun folks, I echo your sentiments.
Current gig is HP/UX for the big stuff, a mix of NT and Novell on Compaq for the midline servers, and Compaq on the desktops.
Previous gig was IBM RS/6k for the big stuff, a mix of Dell, ALR, and AST with NT and Novell for the midline servers, and Dell on the desktops.
The Dell crashed less often. Mija Cat
Perhaps MS is getting some of their own people familiar *enough* with Linux to start serious work on MS Office for Linux?
> "Your average commie has no regard for human > life, not even his own". It sounds STUPID, but > a generation grew up being told that. It's typical propaganda, man. s/commie/nazi/ or s/commie/jap/ and you've got the kids of the '40s pegged. Repeats all through history. > HECK, go back and watch Regan campaign > commercials. Or the Dukakis commercials of the same vintage. Ever wonder why he allowed himself to be photographed in a tank with a rocket launcher? See also Dr. Seuss' classic butter battles.
Flamethrower. Next issue.
Sun's business model lives and dies by the LAN, it's that simple. HP sells a lot of engineering workstations, they also live and die by the LAN, although they're "chunky" clients - i.e. they have hard drives, so the OS is local. They usually load apps across the net, though, and our engineers scream bloody murder if this takes more than a minute or two. 100mbt to the desktop is *mandatory* for the network to "be" the computer today, and files are not getting any smaller!