Bus speed runs at half of the speed of the processor, so it's 500 Mhz. (The key to Mercurian's unique architecture is its intelligent, high-performance MP design built around a fast, on-chip internal bus called the ZBbusTM. The ZBbus, which runs at half the CPU core clock with a data width of 256 bits (one cache line), connects all the major blocks of the processor including the CPU cores, cache memory, and I/O.)
The chips work in conjunction with each other, not against each other or in a master/slave relationship. That's got to help matters as well.
The only thing I can squawk about is the L2 cache being shared by both processors. I suppose this means you can claim 512 L2 cache for each processor, but what if they are both working in completely different memory spaces; would that effectively drop to 256k cache? Does it matter?
And the PCI bus looks to be nice; claiming 400 Mhz clock with 6.4Gb/second; looks to be utilizing a trick similar to AMDs 200 Mhz FSB.
This chip just goes to show you what you can or could do by leaving the x86 architecture behind. (Backward compatibility, backward compatibility, backwar Shuddup!)
Please pass the FUD..:-)
-- Talonius
Off-topic: What would the world be like without a past and legacies? Where would we be? What dreams and myths would we come up with, in today's day and age? Something fun to think on.
I don't know what the ruckus is all about. With the release of 7.0, more posts were made about "I hope it's not as buggy as 6.0!" and "I'll wait for the.1 release!" then most others, yet people still insist on installing and then complaining? (loudly, rudely)
The introduction of gcc was justified to me. Perhaps not to you, but I understand their reasoning. The inclusion of kgcc should have been enough; RTFM.
I understand that without complaints problems may not get solved, but there's probably better ways to spend your energy - utilizing Bugzilla and the like. If all you do is cause the RedHat crew to expend energy to answer allegations of abuse and bugs, then you're taking them away from SOLVING the problems.
And in either case, it simply goes to prove that you should *ALWAYS* wait for a service pack or release greater than 0.. *grin*
The LinuxToday article just goes to prove that those of us who post on Slashdot have greater impact than we may realize, for good or ill.
The first problem you'll have to fight is the groups who are opposed to man playing "God." (I'm not sure where I stand on the issue. It makes me nervous, because it makes me feel like I, or my DNA, could become the property of a company who desires to produce people with my mindset or abilities. I'm also not comfortable with being 100% sure I'm nothing but cells and tissue, but that's another discussion.)
The second problem will be those groups that decide the results are "unnatural" and will do anything to stop them. Think I'm kidding? Mess with the Middle East religions and see how serious they become.
I read somewhere that someone is trying to bring back a woolly mammoth from frozen tusk DNA. It's a great idea, but doesn't it make you wonder? Sure, let's see what a T-Rex really looks like.. but can we make sure "Jurassic Park" doesn't happen please?
In another way, I'm all for cloning. I'm diabetic; clone me a pancreas, PLEASE. One that works..:-)
> Now... Apache on NT vs Apache on Linux - that
> would be interesting. Even then, there would be
> the questions of performance tuning - which
I haven't looked at the web page for a bit for Apache/W32, but I definitively remember the Apache team stating that there was a "lot of progress that needed to be made" on the Win32 port of Apache.
I'd wager that means a comparison of Apache on NT vs Apache on Linux isn't even justified; not to mention the lengthier development time of Apache on *nix vs. NT (including optimization, etc.) simply because Apache on *nix is more mature and robust.
As well, what's the difference between "supports" and "speed?" Not to mention cost. (I'm sorry, but I just put two Linux servers in place yesterday simply because Microsoft wanted over $5,000.00 for the software licenses alone; Secure Apache came with Red Hat for $170.00.)
The server I have up seems to foot the bill quickly and correctly. What kind of bandwidth are you going to have? Can your BANDWIDTH support that many hits? Do you expect that many hits? Contrast this again with the advantages of Open Source as you see them.
All in all, I thought Linus had to eat crow because IIS really *did* outperform Apache on Linux. Wasn't there a story about that on Slashdot about a month ago?
I wasn't referring to the resource requirements really, but more just the general ability of man to "repair" his environment.
Our only options of repair at this point in time are to cease and desist the damage causing actions. We really don't "repair", as in releasing chemicals that "fill the ozone hole" or something similar.
As for resources, I'm fairly certain that most of the 6 billion would be left behind. As cruel and unusual as it would be, I'd wager a handful from every nation would be the best we could opt for.
(Several really great fiction books have been written on this subject for that matter. Most of them claim a "lottery" would take place, which is of course fixed by the politicians. All I can imagine is the absolute hell that would break loose if we *knew* Earth was going to perish.)
to clean up the planet we are on now, has anyone ever thought that it might not be possible?
I'm not an environmentalist. Sometimes I wonder if man knows as much about science as he likes to believe. As a specific example, look at the various statements made abouts food. Salt is bad for you. Salt is good for you. Salt is bad for you. Salt is bad for you only if you already have high blood pressure. Repeat for eggs and cholesterol.
Part of the problem is that everyone is an expert in this day and age; there is no one authorized source of information. (Nor would I endorse such a thing.) The side effect is that a lot of plain misinformation abounds.
Now, "our planet is dying." Yes, our planet is getting hotter. (Hell, it was 92 degrees here yesterday, and we're in October. Huh?) Is this man, or is this the natural cycle of events? Is this Mother Nature wreaking her revenge on those who would try to control her?
You can come up with ideas and examples all day long, but the basic fact is that man doesn't live long enough to have a clear view of what's happening to the Earth, and why. The ozone hole is even in doubt according to some scientists. Who is who, and who decides the planet is dying?
As for man living out the millenia, he's dead because of himself. If the planet's death doesn't get us, the mere fact of overpopulation will. We will never colonize another planet, however, because the populace at large doesn't care about space. It's viewed as a "neato" thing until the bill comes in. Nobody wants to pay taxes to fund NASA, and private corporations have too many regulations on them. (Probably for good measure; I don't know.)
*shrug* I have that same ability. I smoke once every two weeks, and then go for about six months before needing another.
I was up to two packs a day before I realized what I was doing. Went cold turkey, no problem.
I used to drink up to 6 liters of soda a day. (No, I'm not kidding. I've got a Diet Coke stomach.) Now, I'm down to maybe two or three, and that's only because I enjoy it. (Trying to lose the tummy.)
Here in the Midwest I've had to pee in a cup for every job I've taken.
As for "hard" drugs, I have a few tech friends who smoke marijuana, but that's the extent of it. Those same friends are scared of the hard stuff, because they know what it'll do to you.
I, personally, don't drink or do drugs, but I used to (and fall back to) smoking.
As for the article itself, it seems like a lot of hype to me. Again, I'm in the "stale, conservative" Midwest, but I've always found it hard to pity someone who is smart enough to make hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, but can't recognize that heroin, valium, and alcohol don't make a good mix.
If you're here to party, great. For Christ's sake, have a little common sense.
This is a federally regulated government form. This form must be submitted, in writing, completely filled out, before your newly born child turns one (1) year old.
As technology has become increasingly pervasive in our lives, it is now necessary to apply for a IPv6 address as well as a social security number. Your newly born child's IPv6 address will never be used to track or collect data, nor should it be used for identification purposes. The IPv6 address is there only to guarantee access to the Internet at large.
Please note that an e-mail address in the form of first.middle.lastname.cityname.statename.zipcodena me@usps.com will also be issued with your social security card. (Please note that the address is @usps.com, @usps.org. The US Government is not happy with the.org designation, as it tends to be used less often as the.com designation.)
but as some of the other posters pointed out, it's going to be a hard sell for some people. However, the integration possibilities are really kind of cool.
Instead of looking up a phone number on your PDA and dialing it by hand, you hit a button.
Instead of having your PDA beep (and too damned softly!) at you when you have an appointment, your phone can vibrate, ring, or glow. (The LCD.:-))
I admit it might not be for everyone; but for those who use the Palm as a simple address book, phone book, and appointment calendar, it might be extremely handy. I'd personally like it, just because it's one less gadget to carry. Right now the laptop, cell phone, pager, and Palm KILL me when I'm in an airport.
What'd be extremely cool would be if the phone/Palm combo could sync up with a PC or other Palm, and transfer data back and forth.
"With an AGP slot, six PCI slots, four memory slots for up to 2GB of RAM, onboard AC'97 audio and ATA/100, this 4-layer board is aimed directly at the high-end, Socket A, Athlon Thunderbird desktop user."
Onboard audio? Does anyone actually use onboard audio in their high-end desktop? I HATE onboard audio and video. It'd be a different story if the motherboard manufacturers would support the friggin' thing after release, but most of the time they don't.
SB-Live Platinum, thank you. I'll keep it versus onboard audio.
Everyone bitches because "certifications" mean nothing. I don't believe that's quite true; a certification means nothing if you check out the braindumps, memorize the questions and particular answers, and pass by the skin of your teeth. It can mean you DO have the basic experience necessary to perform a job if you learn your stuff and pass with real knowledge using real experience.
I have several certifications. I have them because I wasn't getting respect in my particular field while looking for a job. (Yep, partially Microsoft, but also partially Solaris.) I have yet to score below 95% on a certification test. My biggest beef with the cert tests is that they're entry to mid level; they don't cover complex things. (For some really tough questions, see brainbench at http://www.brainbench.com.)
Anyway, Linux, CompTIA, Novell, or Sun, all cert tests are limited by what they can offer for a reasonable price. Cisco is about the only test that isn't abused yet, and I've started hearing commercials for "CCNA Boot Camps" (do me a favor; don't do a boot camp and come configure my router, okay?). However, the CCIE certification, a prize still, is done in a lab environment. Of course, the CCIE lab is over $1k last time I checked. There's a big diff between $100 and $1000. Everyone else is multiple choice or fill in the blank. (Although Microsoft's emulator tests are actually getting pretty good.) Just like the SAT or ACT, you've got a 20% chance of getting most questions right just by guessing.
Oh well.. you either recognize a cert for what it is, or you don't. Most of the employers I've been interviewing with recently ARE ASKING LIVE TECH QUESTIONS, despite the certs. The cert gets you in the door, the live tech makes sure you do know your stuff.
I don't know how people have the nerve to open up their $300.00 to $500.00 Palm and screw with it like that. I guess they're a lot more confident when it comes to their soldering skills than I am.:-)
About the closest I've come to this is putting a GoldFingers on my Athlon, and that made me about as nervy and jumpy as you can. (Those exterior cases are hard as hell to pull off!)
Would be nice to have it completely open, but aren't we only a few short steps already? How many versions of the protocol can AOL go through before they throw their hands up and give it all up?
And what about TOC? It's open, correct?
Seems pretty silly; I agree that the government should mind their own damned business in this particular regard. Besides the bandwidth in question, they are AOL servers with AOL content and AOL isn't going to get a DIME from the clients who choose to stick their own advertising banners in.
As for the "IM doesn't have anything to but say 'Hi'" post below, I say that's not quite true. My friends and I run AIM (Jabber in my case) all day long, and when one of us gets stumped on an issue or wants to discuss an issue, we simply pop onto AIM, see who's immediately available, and resolve the problem.
1) an oversight on their part, either by their lawyers or web designers. Working in a company like Compaq, I'm pretty damned sure they have a SOP of "make them click the license agreement before downloading anything" and that the license agreement is completely standardized across the board.
2) at least they are making the source code available. I can remember quite a few companies that hadn't even done that while openly acknowledging the open source roots of their software.
3) a polite line dropped to someone at Compaq would probably have this corrected; I'm sure many of those "polite lines" will result due to this article.
If it's not an oversight, then yes, (IANAL!) I believe Compaq has some issues with that license.:-)
I never went. Hell, I'm a high school dropout. (Albeit due to medical reasons, but still..) I have multiple certifications (many made fun of on Slashdot on a regular basis, others not) and have now hit six years work experience.
I make $70k a year, with benefits. My next raise is in two weeks; I expect 10%. *shrug* It helps to skip college if you're capable of blowing past the suits and showing them what you know, not what they perceive you as knowing.
Now, as a sidenote: do I want to go to college? Yer damned skippy. Not for techie skills though, but for Finance and Business Administration. I'm 24 now; in ten to fifteen years I don't plan on being unemployable because the boom is over. I either want the ability to job shift, or to combine my jobs, knowledge, and college into one job. I've got a wife and kid and mortgage payment.:-)
And for anyone who cares, I'd opt for solution #2.
It looks like the negotiations were going long into the night, and the Python team decided to simply release and deal with the consequences later. I don't know what the background of the CNRI license is, but they can always re-release under a new CNRI license if the question(s) that are being aired are not satisfied.
This to me is like receiving beta product. You get a damned good idea of what it does, and you're allowed to make an intelligent decision regarding its usage. Otherwise, we could have waited on 1.6 for a very long time.
is the fact that most of the corporations are attempting to have the LOC throw out prior comments based on the fact that "they are not applicable" and that Congress had not ordered a complete review of DMCA apparently; only certain sections. See http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/ reply/Reply006.pdf for one particularly disturbing instance.
Since the replies they are attempting to throw out are lucid and well thought out, I'd wager they feel threatened by the logic. This is reminescent of the "if I can't see them they can't see me" mindset.
The DMCA and UCITA are starting to remind me of the Salem Witch Trials. "IF THEY'RE NOT PROVEN INNOCENT, THEY'RE GUILTY!" When did the golden law only become used in a criminal court, and when you're not guilty there you get sued in a civil court because the requirements for "liable" are less than "guilty"?
Yes, I am an Elite Hacker (sorry, 3l33t 4ax0r or whatever). I rip MP3s to my HD for distribution to the world. No, really, I do. With my 128kb upload rate, I welcome the world to my 20GB of MP3s! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT MY STEREO IS IN THE OTHER ROOM AND THE SPEAKERS ON MY COMPUTER ARE BETTER THAN MY STEREO (sad, but true).
My wanting to play DVDs has *nothing* to do with an unsupported box. Do I have access to Windows? Yes, but that doesn't mean I want to slap a DVD drive in that box!
BTW, I didn't submit to the LOC (as stated below or above depending on how you thread) but I can say I've written my congressman. That doesn't require legal ability; it only requires me to express my opinion in a lucid manner. Whether the information I "think" I know on the DMCA is FUD or not, the perceived can be as powerful as the reality.
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Bus speed runs at half of the speed of the processor, so it's 500 Mhz. (The key to Mercurian's unique architecture is its intelligent, high-performance MP design built around a fast, on-chip internal bus called the ZBbusTM. The ZBbus, which runs at half the CPU core clock with a data width of 256 bits (one cache line), connects all the major blocks of the processor including the CPU cores, cache memory, and I/O.)
The chips work in conjunction with each other, not against each other or in a master/slave relationship. That's got to help matters as well.
The only thing I can squawk about is the L2 cache being shared by both processors. I suppose this means you can claim 512 L2 cache for each processor, but what if they are both working in completely different memory spaces; would that effectively drop to 256k cache? Does it matter?
And the PCI bus looks to be nice; claiming 400 Mhz clock with 6.4Gb/second; looks to be utilizing a trick similar to AMDs 200 Mhz FSB.
This chip just goes to show you what you can or could do by leaving the x86 architecture behind. (Backward compatibility, backward compatibility, backwar Shuddup!)
Please pass the FUD.. :-)
-- Talonius
Off-topic: What would the world be like without a past and legacies? Where would we be? What dreams and myths would we come up with, in today's day and age? Something fun to think on.
I don't know what the ruckus is all about. With the release of 7.0, more posts were made about "I hope it's not as buggy as 6.0!" and "I'll wait for the .1 release!" then most others, yet people still insist on installing and then complaining? (loudly, rudely)
The introduction of gcc was justified to me. Perhaps not to you, but I understand their reasoning. The inclusion of kgcc should have been enough; RTFM.
I understand that without complaints problems may not get solved, but there's probably better ways to spend your energy - utilizing Bugzilla and the like. If all you do is cause the RedHat crew to expend energy to answer allegations of abuse and bugs, then you're taking them away from SOLVING the problems.
And in either case, it simply goes to prove that you should *ALWAYS* wait for a service pack or release greater than 0.. *grin*
The LinuxToday article just goes to prove that those of us who post on Slashdot have greater impact than we may realize, for good or ill.
-- Talonius
Even some of the forms of Christianity there are vicious in the defense of their particular beliefs.
:-))
(Don't get me wrong; I have no problem with religion. Blind religion with terrorism backing it is another ball game though.
-- Talonius
The first problem you'll have to fight is the groups who are opposed to man playing "God." (I'm not sure where I stand on the issue. It makes me nervous, because it makes me feel like I, or my DNA, could become the property of a company who desires to produce people with my mindset or abilities. I'm also not comfortable with being 100% sure I'm nothing but cells and tissue, but that's another discussion.)
:-)
The second problem will be those groups that decide the results are "unnatural" and will do anything to stop them. Think I'm kidding? Mess with the Middle East religions and see how serious they become.
I read somewhere that someone is trying to bring back a woolly mammoth from frozen tusk DNA. It's a great idea, but doesn't it make you wonder? Sure, let's see what a T-Rex really looks like.. but can we make sure "Jurassic Park" doesn't happen please?
In another way, I'm all for cloning. I'm diabetic; clone me a pancreas, PLEASE. One that works..
-- Talonius
Where's my pictures?
I want Linux on a Palm. *blink* Nothing like trying to type in command line commands using Graffiti.
(Gawd. I wonder what writing perl would be like on a Palm, using Graffiti, in an airplane that was in turbulence.)
-- Talonius
> Now... Apache on NT vs Apache on Linux - that
> would be interesting. Even then, there would be
> the questions of performance tuning - which
I haven't looked at the web page for a bit for Apache/W32, but I definitively remember the Apache team stating that there was a "lot of progress that needed to be made" on the Win32 port of Apache.
I'd wager that means a comparison of Apache on NT vs Apache on Linux isn't even justified; not to mention the lengthier development time of Apache on *nix vs. NT (including optimization, etc.) simply because Apache on *nix is more mature and robust.
-- Talonius
Is there such a thing? Really?
As well, what's the difference between "supports" and "speed?" Not to mention cost. (I'm sorry, but I just put two Linux servers in place yesterday simply because Microsoft wanted over $5,000.00 for the software licenses alone; Secure Apache came with Red Hat for $170.00.)
The server I have up seems to foot the bill quickly and correctly. What kind of bandwidth are you going to have? Can your BANDWIDTH support that many hits? Do you expect that many hits? Contrast this again with the advantages of Open Source as you see them.
All in all, I thought Linus had to eat crow because IIS really *did* outperform Apache on Linux. Wasn't there a story about that on Slashdot about a month ago?
-- Talonius
I wasn't referring to the resource requirements really, but more just the general ability of man to "repair" his environment.
Our only options of repair at this point in time are to cease and desist the damage causing actions. We really don't "repair", as in releasing chemicals that "fill the ozone hole" or something similar.
As for resources, I'm fairly certain that most of the 6 billion would be left behind. As cruel and unusual as it would be, I'd wager a handful from every nation would be the best we could opt for.
(Several really great fiction books have been written on this subject for that matter. Most of them claim a "lottery" would take place, which is of course fixed by the politicians. All I can imagine is the absolute hell that would break loose if we *knew* Earth was going to perish.)
-- Talonius
I always thought that Asimov's version of mass psychology was interesting, and entirely plausible.
I have friends who laugh at me for that, but geez, just look at marketing.
-- Talonius
to clean up the planet we are on now, has anyone ever thought that it might not be possible?
I'm not an environmentalist. Sometimes I wonder if man knows as much about science as he likes to believe. As a specific example, look at the various statements made abouts food. Salt is bad for you. Salt is good for you. Salt is bad for you. Salt is bad for you only if you already have high blood pressure. Repeat for eggs and cholesterol.
Part of the problem is that everyone is an expert in this day and age; there is no one authorized source of information. (Nor would I endorse such a thing.) The side effect is that a lot of plain misinformation abounds.
Now, "our planet is dying." Yes, our planet is getting hotter. (Hell, it was 92 degrees here yesterday, and we're in October. Huh?) Is this man, or is this the natural cycle of events? Is this Mother Nature wreaking her revenge on those who would try to control her?
You can come up with ideas and examples all day long, but the basic fact is that man doesn't live long enough to have a clear view of what's happening to the Earth, and why. The ozone hole is even in doubt according to some scientists. Who is who, and who decides the planet is dying?
As for man living out the millenia, he's dead because of himself. If the planet's death doesn't get us, the mere fact of overpopulation will. We will never colonize another planet, however, because the populace at large doesn't care about space. It's viewed as a "neato" thing until the bill comes in. Nobody wants to pay taxes to fund NASA, and private corporations have too many regulations on them. (Probably for good measure; I don't know.)
-- Talonius
*shrug* I have that same ability. I smoke once every two weeks, and then go for about six months before needing another.
I was up to two packs a day before I realized what I was doing. Went cold turkey, no problem.
I used to drink up to 6 liters of soda a day. (No, I'm not kidding. I've got a Diet Coke stomach.) Now, I'm down to maybe two or three, and that's only because I enjoy it. (Trying to lose the tummy.)
-- Talonius
That was the point. :-)
:-)
I was hoping to get a +1 Funny, but..
-- Talonius
Here in the Midwest I've had to pee in a cup for every job I've taken.
As for "hard" drugs, I have a few tech friends who smoke marijuana, but that's the extent of it. Those same friends are scared of the hard stuff, because they know what it'll do to you.
I, personally, don't drink or do drugs, but I used to (and fall back to) smoking.
As for the article itself, it seems like a lot of hype to me. Again, I'm in the "stale, conservative" Midwest, but I've always found it hard to pity someone who is smart enough to make hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, but can't recognize that heroin, valium, and alcohol don't make a good mix.
If you're here to party, great. For Christ's sake, have a little common sense.
This is a federally regulated government form. This form must be submitted, in writing, completely filled out, before your newly born child turns one (1) year old.
As technology has become increasingly pervasive in our lives, it is now necessary to apply for a IPv6 address as well as a social security number. Your newly born child's IPv6 address will never be used to track or collect data, nor should it be used for identification purposes. The IPv6 address is there only to guarantee access to the Internet at large.
Please note that an e-mail address in the form of first.middle.lastname.cityname.statename.zipcodena me@usps.com will also be issued with your social security card. (Please note that the address is @usps.com, @usps.org. The US Government is not happy with the .org designation, as it tends to be used less often as the .com designation.)
Thank you for your continued tax payments.
Welcome to the New World Order.
but as some of the other posters pointed out, it's going to be a hard sell for some people. However, the integration possibilities are really kind of cool.
:-))
Instead of looking up a phone number on your PDA and dialing it by hand, you hit a button.
Instead of having your PDA beep (and too damned softly!) at you when you have an appointment, your phone can vibrate, ring, or glow. (The LCD.
I admit it might not be for everyone; but for those who use the Palm as a simple address book, phone book, and appointment calendar, it might be extremely handy. I'd personally like it, just because it's one less gadget to carry. Right now the laptop, cell phone, pager, and Palm KILL me when I'm in an airport.
What'd be extremely cool would be if the phone/Palm combo could sync up with a PC or other Palm, and transfer data back and forth.
-- Talonius
"With an AGP slot, six PCI slots, four memory slots for up to 2GB of RAM, onboard AC'97 audio and ATA/100, this 4-layer board is aimed directly at the high-end, Socket A, Athlon Thunderbird desktop user."
Onboard audio? Does anyone actually use onboard audio in their high-end desktop? I HATE onboard audio and video. It'd be a different story if the motherboard manufacturers would support the friggin' thing after release, but most of the time they don't.
SB-Live Platinum, thank you. I'll keep it versus onboard audio.
-- Talonius
Before someone cuts my legs off, the RHCE is lab based as well.
:-))
It's price tag is also $700 to $800 I believe.
-- Talonius
(Oh, and before you complain about me complaining about pricing, I pay for all my own crap and don't get paid diddly squat.
Everyone bitches because "certifications" mean nothing. I don't believe that's quite true; a certification means nothing if you check out the braindumps, memorize the questions and particular answers, and pass by the skin of your teeth. It can mean you DO have the basic experience necessary to perform a job if you learn your stuff and pass with real knowledge using real experience.
I have several certifications. I have them because I wasn't getting respect in my particular field while looking for a job. (Yep, partially Microsoft, but also partially Solaris.) I have yet to score below 95% on a certification test. My biggest beef with the cert tests is that they're entry to mid level; they don't cover complex things. (For some really tough questions, see brainbench at http://www.brainbench.com.)
Anyway, Linux, CompTIA, Novell, or Sun, all cert tests are limited by what they can offer for a reasonable price. Cisco is about the only test that isn't abused yet, and I've started hearing commercials for "CCNA Boot Camps" (do me a favor; don't do a boot camp and come configure my router, okay?). However, the CCIE certification, a prize still, is done in a lab environment. Of course, the CCIE lab is over $1k last time I checked. There's a big diff between $100 and $1000. Everyone else is multiple choice or fill in the blank. (Although Microsoft's emulator tests are actually getting pretty good.) Just like the SAT or ACT, you've got a 20% chance of getting most questions right just by guessing.
Oh well.. you either recognize a cert for what it is, or you don't. Most of the employers I've been interviewing with recently ARE ASKING LIVE TECH QUESTIONS, despite the certs. The cert gets you in the door, the live tech makes sure you do know your stuff.
-- Talonius
I don't know how people have the nerve to open up their $300.00 to $500.00 Palm and screw with it like that. I guess they're a lot more confident when it comes to their soldering skills than I am. :-)
About the closest I've come to this is putting a GoldFingers on my Athlon, and that made me about as nervy and jumpy as you can. (Those exterior cases are hard as hell to pull off!)
-- Talonius
Would be nice to have it completely open, but aren't we only a few short steps already? How many versions of the protocol can AOL go through before they throw their hands up and give it all up?
And what about TOC? It's open, correct?
Seems pretty silly; I agree that the government should mind their own damned business in this particular regard. Besides the bandwidth in question, they are AOL servers with AOL content and AOL isn't going to get a DIME from the clients who choose to stick their own advertising banners in.
As for the "IM doesn't have anything to but say 'Hi'" post below, I say that's not quite true. My friends and I run AIM (Jabber in my case) all day long, and when one of us gets stumped on an issue or wants to discuss an issue, we simply pop onto AIM, see who's immediately available, and resolve the problem.
-- Talonius
1) an oversight on their part, either by their lawyers or web designers. Working in a company like Compaq, I'm pretty damned sure they have a SOP of "make them click the license agreement before downloading anything" and that the license agreement is completely standardized across the board.
:-)
2) at least they are making the source code available. I can remember quite a few companies that hadn't even done that while openly acknowledging the open source roots of their software.
3) a polite line dropped to someone at Compaq would probably have this corrected; I'm sure many of those "polite lines" will result due to this article.
If it's not an oversight, then yes, (IANAL!) I believe Compaq has some issues with that license.
-- Talonius
I never went. Hell, I'm a high school dropout. (Albeit due to medical reasons, but still..) I have multiple certifications (many made fun of on Slashdot on a regular basis, others not) and have now hit six years work experience.
:-)
I make $70k a year, with benefits. My next raise is in two weeks; I expect 10%. *shrug* It helps to skip college if you're capable of blowing past the suits and showing them what you know, not what they perceive you as knowing.
Now, as a sidenote: do I want to go to college? Yer damned skippy. Not for techie skills though, but for Finance and Business Administration. I'm 24 now; in ten to fifteen years I don't plan on being unemployable because the boom is over. I either want the ability to job shift, or to combine my jobs, knowledge, and college into one job. I've got a wife and kid and mortgage payment.
-- Talonius
And for anyone who cares, I'd opt for solution #2.
It looks like the negotiations were going long into the night, and the Python team decided to simply release and deal with the consequences later. I don't know what the background of the CNRI license is, but they can always re-release under a new CNRI license if the question(s) that are being aired are not satisfied.
This to me is like receiving beta product. You get a damned good idea of what it does, and you're allowed to make an intelligent decision regarding its usage. Otherwise, we could have waited on 1.6 for a very long time.
-- Talonius
*roflmao*
:-)
Maybe he'll get stuck in a jail with web access, so he can continue to administer his domain for the five years he's awaiting trial.
-- Talonius
is the fact that most of the corporations are attempting to have the LOC throw out prior comments based on the fact that "they are not applicable" and that Congress had not ordered a complete review of DMCA apparently; only certain sections. See http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/ reply/Reply006.pdf for one particularly disturbing instance.
Since the replies they are attempting to throw out are lucid and well thought out, I'd wager they feel threatened by the logic. This is reminescent of the "if I can't see them they can't see me" mindset.
The DMCA and UCITA are starting to remind me of the Salem Witch Trials. "IF THEY'RE NOT PROVEN INNOCENT, THEY'RE GUILTY!" When did the golden law only become used in a criminal court, and when you're not guilty there you get sued in a civil court because the requirements for "liable" are less than "guilty"?
Yes, I am an Elite Hacker (sorry, 3l33t 4ax0r or whatever). I rip MP3s to my HD for distribution to the world. No, really, I do. With my 128kb upload rate, I welcome the world to my 20GB of MP3s! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT MY STEREO IS IN THE OTHER ROOM AND THE SPEAKERS ON MY COMPUTER ARE BETTER THAN MY STEREO (sad, but true).
My wanting to play DVDs has *nothing* to do with an unsupported box. Do I have access to Windows? Yes, but that doesn't mean I want to slap a DVD drive in that box!
BTW, I didn't submit to the LOC (as stated below or above depending on how you thread) but I can say I've written my congressman. That doesn't require legal ability; it only requires me to express my opinion in a lucid manner. Whether the information I "think" I know on the DMCA is FUD or not, the perceived can be as powerful as the reality.
-- Talonius