Yeah, no one would see it if it weren't for /.
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I'm sure lucas prays every night that we'll rally more people to see his film - i heard he's very concerned about it making any money at all.
Dumb /. Investment Strategies part 550834
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Even if Hilton pursued this, it would be a money loser for sure. In the meantime, you probably understand very little about the earth-bound hotel business - if you did, you'd see a long line of companies that have been bankrupted, bought out, re-engineered as tax-shelters, etc.
Bottom line is that basing an investment in Hilton on this article is moronic.
People on Yahoo weren't just calling each other names - they were former employees of a company who were making statements about their former employer which may be considered illegal within SEC rules.
Yes folks, the law does curtail your right to say whatever you want, in certain circumstances.
Most home users will never exploit SMP, and for them I think they are simply wasting their money.
If you are running a loaded server, then it might be worth investigating, like a loaded Oracle server.
Note that you will want RAID and a lot of memory - two processors sharing one disk and little memeory are not going to be faster than one processor using one disk and a little memory.
Space Station not meant to be cost effective
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Otherwise, they wouldn't be using Russian contractors. This project is being used as a showcase for post-col war cooperation.
Using Russian contractors has been expensive and has put back the schedule months, maybe years, but the US government figures that its better than having Russian engineers go and work for Iran.
Even if all the buggy code was made open source right now, its far too late to get changes in before 2000. Sorry folks, you're going to have to sweat it out. Its officially too late to really go at this problem in a new way. You'll have to hope that existing Y2K efforts bear fruit, or pray that it simply passes you by.
Not only are you correct in pointing our some huge hole's in the prevailing "logic" of the open source community, members of that community should also realize that they aren't nearly as powerful as they think they are.
Closed source software has far more market share in virtually every segment. Internet servers (web servers, mail servers) are strong segments for open source software, but they simply don't rank in comparison to browser and word processing segments (which, regardless of the impending mozilla release, are still populated by closed-source software titles). I'm not being ungrateful or snotty or supportive of Microsoft, I'm simply stating that the numbers still aren't backing up open source. Trends aren't much better either - most software shipped next year will be video game titles for consoles (sega, nintendo, etc). These are all closed source last time I checked.
Also, money still controls the world. Nothing has changed since 1917 - community-based sharing movements still haven't overcome greed. Unless developers want to live the freaky lifestyle of Richard Stallman, they are going to realize that selling their wares, and protecting their intellectual property, has some value. If it comes down to my kid going to college and your ideals of intellectual property, then its not even a decision.
More and more I am finding that Katz's modus operandi is to appropriate the cultural zeitgeiste and simply amplify slightly louder than it was before.
Simply put, he reads something, then appends "and its gonna change the world!" to the end of it, and publishes it as an essay.
I know you have good intentions Jon, but you're not offering any novel insight. You're simply turning up the volume on what already has become a cacophanous din of open source rhetoric. I find that most of the "essays" in here are of the same tone - nothing new to say, but the author is desparately hopeing that by adding an exclamation mark to someone else's idea (which may in the form of a insanely tangential corollary), they'll make their nut.
Not the the book "Open Sources" offered any real novel insights - it simply assembled all of the ideas that had already been published into one volume. This sort of work needs to be done simply so there is one published work that future writers can reference.
O'Reilly announced this nearly six months ago - I preordered a copy with the notion that it would be arriving soon after. I guess I was wrong. I can only suspect a major rewrite of some section was required - it is not like O'Reilly to take orders on a book almost a year before it is to be released.
1.The Hoover Dam 2.The Golden Gate Bridge 3.Unix 4.Packet Switched Networking 5.Functional Solar Power (not released just yet). 6.Quantum Computer (version 0.1 beta available) 7.Nanotechnology (version 19990304 beta available)
Does anyone still follow this project or care about it? In my opinion it is a dead project. AOL might as well repurpose the internal developers working on it to some useful end.
I agree with previous posters that we don't need another site snagging headlines from slashdot, freshmeat, etc. Its easy enough to see all of this data on their respective sites, or slashdot itself which aggregates Freshmeat data (and presents it better than the Red Hat site).
That said, the site needs to polish up spacing inside cells, and some color issues.
There is far too much wasted space on the left and right gutters/borders of the page. You should always avoid large clumps of whitespace. Slashdot and Freshmeat have good approaches to conserving real estate - Red Hat does not.
This site also seems confusing for users who want to find out more about Red Hat itself. It seems to be more of a slashdot tribute site.
Giving this stuff away free is the only way anyone is going to really adopt it - Java computers, Java Operating Systems, Java ICs...all of these concepts have had little or no adoption.
Well of course OSS isn't going to destroy corporate development. The almighty buck is far more powerful than any element at work in the OSS community. Even most of the virulent OSS supporters would switch to the "dark side" is enough moolah was flashed in their face.
If you're such hot-poop, you must have something up on freshmeat we can poke with a stick.
Oh, you meant "programming" as in "using playstation"
Personality matters as much as skill...
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You're not going to get hired with that arrogant attitude. Trust me - I don't care what apps you've written (none, or you would have mentioned them), and how high your marks are (boring - everyone gets honors these days), people have to like you to want to work with you. Its as simple as that.
Most of programming in the real world isn't rocket science - I'd rather work with a down-to-earth programmer than one who thinks they walk on water.
Oh, by the way, the people who believe they walk on water typically are the first to be terminated in layoffs. Simple fact kid, deal with it as you may.
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I'm sure lucas prays every night that we'll rally more people to see his film - i heard he's very concerned about it making any money at all.
Even if Hilton pursued this, it would be a money loser for sure. In the meantime, you probably understand very little about the earth-bound hotel business - if you did, you'd see a long line of companies that have been bankrupted, bought out, re-engineered as tax-shelters, etc.
Bottom line is that basing an investment in Hilton on this article is moronic.
People on Yahoo weren't just calling each other names - they were former employees of a company who were making statements about their former employer which may be considered illegal within SEC rules.
Yes folks, the law does curtail your right to say whatever you want, in certain circumstances.
Most home users will never exploit SMP, and for them I think they are simply wasting their money.
If you are running a loaded server, then it might be worth investigating, like a loaded Oracle server.
Note that you will want RAID and a lot of memory - two processors sharing one disk and little memeory are not going to be faster than one processor using one disk and a little memory.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be using Russian contractors. This project is being used as a showcase for post-col war cooperation.
Using Russian contractors has been expensive and has put back the schedule months, maybe years, but the US government figures that its better than having Russian engineers go and work for Iran.
Even if all the buggy code was made open source right now, its far too late to get changes in before 2000. Sorry folks, you're going to have to sweat it out. Its officially too late to really go at this problem in a new way. You'll have to hope that existing Y2K efforts bear fruit, or pray that it simply passes you by.
Graft corruption and bribery are illegal. Closed source software is not. How you drew this analogy in the first place is beyond me
Not only are you correct in pointing our some huge hole's in the prevailing "logic" of the open source community, members of that community should also realize that they aren't nearly as powerful as they think they are.
Closed source software has far more market share in virtually every segment. Internet servers (web servers, mail servers) are strong segments for open source software, but they simply don't rank in comparison to browser and word processing segments (which, regardless of the impending mozilla release, are still populated by closed-source software titles). I'm not being ungrateful or snotty or supportive of Microsoft, I'm simply stating that the numbers still aren't backing up open source. Trends aren't much better either - most software shipped next year will be video game titles for consoles (sega, nintendo, etc). These are all closed source last time I checked.
Also, money still controls the world. Nothing has changed since 1917 - community-based sharing movements still haven't overcome greed. Unless developers want to live the freaky lifestyle of Richard Stallman, they are going to realize that selling their wares, and protecting their intellectual property, has some value. If it comes down to my kid going to college and your ideals of intellectual property, then its not even a decision.
More and more I am finding that Katz's modus operandi is to appropriate the cultural zeitgeiste and simply amplify slightly louder than it was before.
Simply put, he reads something, then appends "and its gonna change the world!" to the end of it, and publishes it as an essay.
I know you have good intentions Jon, but you're not offering any novel insight. You're simply turning up the volume on what already has become a cacophanous din of open source rhetoric. I find that most of the "essays" in here are of the same tone - nothing new to say, but the author is desparately hopeing that by adding an exclamation mark to someone else's idea (which may in the form of a insanely tangential corollary), they'll make their nut.
Not the the book "Open Sources" offered any real novel insights - it simply assembled all of the ideas that had already been published into one volume. This sort of work needs to be done simply so there is one published work that future writers can reference.
Perl text-processing problems better than any language. There's 50% of web programming right there.
Perl does networking well. There's another 10%.
Perl is a great replacement for shell scripting. Another 10%.
Perl is a great prototyping language. Another 10%.
Perl is an adequate (not great) approach to OO programming. Enough to clobber C++ for 10% of the problems, as it is more portable.
There's an easy 90%.
Of course, you'd have to program to know this.
O'Reilly announced this nearly six months ago - I preordered a copy with the notion that it would be arriving soon after. I guess I was wrong. I can only suspect a major rewrite of some section was required - it is not like O'Reilly to take orders on a book almost a year before it is to be released.
GOOD SOFTWARE TAKES TIME
like all thos other fine netscape products?
has there ever been a stable version of their browser? 4.5 is still a buggy turd.
You call these skanks women?
I don't know how you expect women to stomach this site with all the cheap sexism in the post above.
And if you want to be sexist, stop with the teasing. Get your booth bunnies to show us some ass.
1.The Hoover Dam
2.The Golden Gate Bridge
3.Unix
4.Packet Switched Networking
5.Functional Solar Power (not released just yet).
6.Quantum Computer (version 0.1 beta available)
7.Nanotechnology (version 19990304 beta available)
etc. etc...
Whitespace along the gutters cannot improve the readability of the cramped font.
This is beginning to degrade into ridiculous paranoia.
Its an operating system dammit. If you can't handle users who actually work for a living, go use OpenBSD.
Mozilla has degraded into being a joke.
Does anyone still follow this project or care about it? In my opinion it is a dead project. AOL might as well repurpose the internal developers working on it to some useful end.
I agree with previous posters that we don't need another site snagging headlines from slashdot, freshmeat, etc. Its easy enough to see all of this data on their respective sites, or slashdot itself which aggregates Freshmeat data (and presents it better than the Red Hat site).
That said, the site needs to polish up spacing inside cells, and some color issues.
There is far too much wasted space on the left and right gutters/borders of the page. You should always avoid large clumps of whitespace. Slashdot and Freshmeat have good approaches to conserving real estate - Red Hat does not.
This site also seems confusing for users who want to find out more about Red Hat itself. It seems to be more of a slashdot tribute site.
with the release of this unit.
Giving this stuff away free is the only way anyone is going to really adopt it - Java computers, Java Operating Systems, Java ICs...all of these concepts have had little or no adoption.
nuff said.
Well of course OSS isn't going to destroy corporate development. The almighty buck is far more powerful than any element at work in the OSS community. Even most of the virulent OSS supporters would switch to the "dark side" is enough moolah was flashed in their face.
If you're such hot-poop, you must have something up on freshmeat we can poke with a stick.
Oh, you meant "programming" as in "using playstation"
You're not going to get hired with that arrogant attitude. Trust me - I don't care what apps you've written (none, or you would have mentioned them), and how high your marks are (boring - everyone gets honors these days), people have to like you to want to work with you. Its as simple as that.
Most of programming in the real world isn't rocket science - I'd rather work with a down-to-earth programmer than one who thinks they walk on water.
Oh, by the way, the people who believe they walk on water typically are the first to be terminated in layoffs. Simple fact kid, deal with it as you may.