Honestly, I don't even agree with that. The way I view it, it's my job to keep your junk out of my system. If I open up a virus, I blame myself, not the programmer. If I leave ports open for attack, I blame myself, not the programmer.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion, but I think that if the users in this (or any other) country had to be responsible for themselves, we'd start to see a decline in the Microsoft monopoly, after awhile, and a rise in more secure operating systems.
You're right... Hugh DID do a good job of accurately portraying Wolvie, I just think that such a big part of proper portrayal is in the appearance. Wolvie was around 5'2", therabouts. Nothing against Hugh, but Chris Benoit (even nicknamed the Wolverine, as well as the Canadian Crippler) I think could have pulled it off also. If you can successfully pull off a cheesy ass wrestling role, then nothing is beyond you. And again, he's more the physical dimensions. Did I mention he's Canadian?
Oh well, I hate to have all these complaints, really. I DID enjoy the movie, and am looking forward to its sequel, as I hear its in the works, with more characters. More specifically tho, I'd like to see the Hulk, which has been rumored to be in development.
Dammit... i don't mean to be rude, but I was a rather avid follower of the X-men until recently, and I'm wasting my moderation ability on this for the sole task of clarifying. It's not Cannonball. It's NOT Nightcrawler. It's the Vanisher. Also, other credits include Pyro (John, the kid who made the fireball with his lighter), Iceman (obvious, Bobby, who froze aforementioned fireball), either Jubilee or Dani Moonstar (sitting next to Bobby, with the Yellow jacket, guessing Jubilee, but the actress appeared more Indian than asian, and I don't recall Jubilee having long hair), Shadowcat (duh, ran through the wall...), Colossus (guess, the boy named Peter that was working on some artwork whilst everyone else played), and whatever others I happen to not be remembering at the moment... Also, Stan Lee as the vendor in the hot dog stand.
The only thing that I didn't much care for about this movie was the lack of a timeline. IE - Bobby's only a little younger than Cyclops, while Kitty Pride is much younger than both. Also, Jubilee doesn't show up until MUCH MUCH later in the comic, etc... Also, where were Angel, Beast, and Nightcrawler?!? Okay okay, minor characters. Sure. I'll go with that (at least with Angel -- dull).
The only other complaint were the lack of talent with their powers. I understand that they were supposed to be 'training', which would work for Cyclops and Jean Gray, but please. Storm's been using her powers long before the X-men. Her getting her ass kicked initially by Toad (and how DID he get so tough?!?) is just not gonna happen.
Dammit... one last complaint... Wolvie and Sabretooth go Waaaaay back, since well before the X-men knew who the hell he was. Please, at least ACKNOWLEDGE that in the movie... Christ. I don't know if they ever decidedly figured it out, but at one point or another it was rumored that Sabertooth could even be Wolvie's father.
Oh yeah, and Wolverine was too tall, not stocky enough. Don't get me wrong, Hugh played the part VERY well, but he was just too tall. Assuming acting ability is present, I think Chris Benoit (of WWF fame) would have made a MUCH better (visually, that is) Wolverine. Heck, his pants even remind me of the "Yellow Spandex" that wolvie used to wear. Plus, he's Canadian.:-)
Now, so it doesn't seem like I'm bitching, here are some good points:
Hugh Jackman DID do an excellent job, despite his height.
Famke Janssen LOOKED the part of Jean Grey to a T. Debating over wether or not Julia Roberts would have looked the part more, but that would incur much more expense.
Again, Stewart, McKellan, EXCELLENT. First, who else is gonna play Professor X? Secondly, we're NOT supposed to hate Magneto. He actually led the X-team for awhile in Charles' absence. McKellan did an excellent job of portraying that. Their whole "different methods" approach came off on the screen well.
Action scenes were good, and fx never seemed 'overdone'.
Good plot... good movie.
I can see I've spoken a little too much now, and I gotta run, so, hope that clarified, and didn't seem like TOO much of a flame.
Also, what happened with Rogue's "farm", where she grew up, with Mystique as her mother?!?
Just bought a house last year before xmas (it was her xmas present), and ended up moving into a MUCH better neighborhood. Our old house had lived off a slightly busy road, and we had a street light on the corner in the back yard, so there's was always just a little noise, and just a little light in the master bedroom.
Anyway, the first night in our new house, after we set up the bed, we turned off the lights. Our first thought, in tandem was; "Damn, it's dark!". Now we live backed up to good old woods. No more light problem. After trying to sleep for 2 hours, we both just sat up and said, "It's too quiet...". Couldn't sleep until we moved into the living room, where you can hear the quiet hum of the fridge.
Anyway, after that, we moved a PC into our room, just one, for checking email and whatnot, server's upstairs, and everything else is in the office, but that broke up the silence just enough.
Having said that, are they truly stealing ad revenue from eBay? The crawlers count as hits yes? Is it not these hits that are used for the marketing of ad space? I don't know how this works, but I'm guessing it's something like this.
Customer : I'd like to purchase ad space on eBay... How much does that cost?
eBay : Well, for your ad to be viewed by 100 people, it'll cost $100. For 500 people, it'll cost $200. For $1000 people, it'll cost $250.
Yes, I understand that customers going through Biddersedge are customers that perhaps AREN'T going through ebay, and they are therefore losing that revenue. Still though, you would think that eBay would have tried to come up with a way to get money from that, rather than shut down a potential source of revenue. Something like:
eBay : Hey, biddersedge... how many people do you have viewing our auctions?
Biddersedge : Well, we usually get about 100 a month.
eBay : Hmm... you're stealing our ad revenue. You should pay us the money that we would make off of that ad revenue. Lets see, we charge $100 for 100 viewers, you owe us $100 this month.
This would enable eBay to reap the benefits of having someone else advertise for them. Now, if Biddersedge couldn't, or wouldn't reimburse, and refused to stop crawling their servers, which is unlikely, then you would move to a robots.txt file, or perhaps DENY host settings. Combat a high-tech problem with high-tech solutions, not legal ones.
Anyway, this is just my take on things. Feel free to correct my mistakes.
eBay has decided that it would be much more profitable to simply sue all of its customers for infringing upon its personal property.
After a freak DNS outage Monday morning, executives internal to the network noticed that their servers performed thousands of times better than when all "those damned customers" were using them. CPU load dropped to.001%, and response time was instantaneous.
It is this degradation of performance that enables eBay to lay claim to the pocketbooks of all its consumers, and auctioneers. eBay is currently debating lawsuits on volunteers helping to run eBay.
When asked "Isn't this going to jeopardize the good PR that has made eBay so successful?", eBay's response was "Ah, fuck it.. Microsoft has been doing this to customers for years, and they appear to love it... Besides (excitedly) WE'RE FINALLY GOING TO GET OUT OF DEBT!!.
Seriously though, this is a bad idea. If we can't expect our high-tech businesses to make more informed decisions of how to deal with a problem, then who can we count on?
The problem itself could easily have been resolved with a robots.txt, and failing that, DENY host settings. Aside from negative PR, why would a company want to take this to their lawyers before taking it to the same techs that made the company to begin with?!?
The next biggest question, how do we protect ourselves from this?
I think, more importantly than love thy neighbour, would be the passage "judge not, lest ye be judged." Isn't that in the bible somewhere? It seems to me that our fine Christian disciple has taken it upon himself to encroach upon two of the bible's most basic ideals. Open heart - open mind.
I love the hypocrisy that seems to follow Christianity. Having attended private Christian school for a good portion of my upbringing, it is that mindset alone which has kept me 'out of God's grace'. I don't want to associate myself with a group that is so adept at preaching something, yet so ill-adept at following their own preachings.
I do not find Christians immoral, nor do I find atheists immoral. I judge not, lest I be judged. I do tend to find more hypocrites acting on God's behalf than the other way around, however. I have some VERY righteous family members, who wholly believe in God, and are very active in the church, but it's not Christianity that makes them good people.
For the record, I DO believe that a religion that teaches love thy neighbour, do not steal, etc. is a good thing for people willing to accept that. However, I don't feel that excluding yourself from said group, for WHATEVER reason, makes you any more immoral than anyone else, including members of the church.
This document, an enhydra WAP/WML/HTML tutorial, will briefly illustrate the abilities of the Enhydra server.
They are currently in the process of upgrading to the servlet 2.2 API, and their FAQ details the finer points of running Enhydra with Apache and Apache JServ.
All in all, it's a fine solution. It took me just a little bit of research, but once I got it up and running, I found that it was very reliable, and more than ample speed-wise.
Hope this helps...
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I've said this before, and I'll say it again. You don't own Slashdot. Therefore, you don't control its content. If you don't like the content here, go somewhere else. If there isn't anywhere else to go to accomodate your wants, then you've got a niche, and can create your own site to fill said niche. Anyway, I'm not trying to be TOO rude, but I'm kind of sick of seeing everybody crying that Slashdot doesn't post the news that they want. If you don't like it, leave. If you do like it, stay. Pretty simple concept, I think.
Very good point, and I agree. The OS model is the best thing going for Linux & Free Software right now. You mention Microsoft's mind-boggling amounts of resources to throw... I would argue that we have just as many resources in the community.
We are simply less organized, and less motivated, because it's what most of us do in our SPARE time, instead of full time. That is not a detriment though. I submit that because most of our work is done in our off hours, we take more pride in it. Which is why our code doesn't have 63,000+ bugs.
Linux, on the other hand, gets ported quickly, and almost by habit to new platforms.
Again, 100% correct. Portability is a huge factor. MS doesn't have to worry about portability as much, because whatever they port it to is going to be their own OS, which (one should assume) has backword/forward compatability built in. The portability of OS however, means that when one company makes a great leap, as RHAT did in this case, then we all jump right along with it. What works for RHAT works for me. I may have to mod the code a little, but then it's re-released for whatever I ported it to.
I'm not arguing with anything you said, because I agree almost whole-heartedly. I still just think that it's 'awareness' that is our 'one big thing'. That lack thereof is all that's hurting us. A lot of people don't want to learn new things, but some don't mind. Some of them are in positions of power.
Example: Bill the Bossman is a manager at a data entry facility. Bill notices Linux at his brother's house. Bill's brother runs uptime, and shows Bill that his Linux machine has been used heavily, but not rebooted for the past 14 days.
Bill thinks, "Wow... This could certainly change things at MegaCorp... no more rebooting and losing work in the middle of the day. That I LOVE YOU virus cost me three weeks worth of hours!" Bill heads back to MegaCorp and checks with his IT dept. The IT dept thinks switching is a great idea. 250 machines are switched over, and employees trained.
Because most of their work is data entry, only StarOffice is focussed on, and people are now running Linux. These same people, while still clueless as to what's going on, notice that they're not crashing. They no longer see the BSOD. Their work is safer, and they are more productive. They then check into Linux, etc...
In another comment, SweenyTod notes that people want to use the same applications between work and home, and he's also right. So if they're using Linux at work...
Anyway, sorry for the length of this post. It wasn't necessary, but it's a slow night here, and I'm bored as hell. Thanks for listening...
Okay, not to seem like the naysayer here, as I'm all for this. Props out to RedHat for making this come together as quickly as they have. It's not often a free OS can beat MS outta the gate on hardware support.
On the other hand, I'm seeing a lot of posts saying that this is going to 'make' Linux. I'm sorry kids. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, nothing is going to 'make' Linux all by itself. Awareness is the only thing that will 'make' Linux.
How many people were hit by the I.Love.you virus? Probably close to the same number of people that have learned to accept such 'inconveniences' in day to day life. Sure, we wouldn't put up with it, but we don't have to. We know other things. Anyway, I'm getting offtopic...
What I'm trying to say, is that the average, every-day, Joe Blow Consumer doesn't care about proc optimizations and compatability. If they hear that Microsoft doesn't have one running Itanium yet, they'll wait to buy Itanium chips. When MS is ready, so will they be. The chances they'll run across an Itanium with RHat on it at their local Circuit City, or CompUSA, or Best Buy is slim to none. And even if they do, they're not going to bite. They'll wait for MS to push them towards Itanium. And then they'll go out and plunk out the cost of yet another OS upgrade, and won't pay it a second notice.
This is our sad reality... Accept it. No single feature, optimization, or compatibility will 'make' Linux. We're not going to sweep Microsoft under the rug with this. We may gain a few users, and that's fine with me. Every little bit counts. Once people become aware that there is an operating system out there that doesn't crash every day, or run slower as they day progresses, they won't want to go back. At that point it will become worth the effort to learn a new OS.
I play a bit of guitar on the side, and had a friend of mine once (haven't seen him in over a year), who was able to play the entire themes to Tetris and Zelda on the bass. He would ad lib just a little, and add some more rhythm to them, it was great. In retrospect it would've been really cool to create songs 'based on' those themes. Add my guitar, and my fiance's flute to the mix, and there you go. Good memories.
At the very least, it was certainly an effective way to get a jam session started.
My apologies, but when I state that "there's no such thing as a first post", I meant to state "there's no such thing as a redundant first post".
In the future, I'll do my best to ensure that I'm not acting like an idiot while criticizing others for acting like idiots. We'll see how well that turns out.
Okay, here's what I see... Sids 2, 3, and 6 (sorry, too lazy to link them), are all claiming to be "first post", with all the usual crap, and the REAL first post, which I concede is not all that jam-packed with info, is marked redundant.
First and foremost, there's no such thing as a first post, unless it quotes the majority of the article itself, or the headline itself. I can understand somebody wanting to moderate someone else down because they posted a short first post. WHO CARES?!? Please, we need to realize that moderating people DOWN is just stupid. Moderate the good stuff UP, and I'll see it first. Even browsing at -1, I'll still see the good stuff first. If I'm not bored of the topic by the time I get that low on the list, then I may as well be reading -1 scoring comments.
Not trying to step on anyone's toes here, but the way I see it, at least Id makes a product people can enjoy... I tried DKDemo, and, as goes for many others here, removed it from my system after about the first half hour. Then, I fired up QuakeII for some quick fragging.
Yes, the gameplay isn't all that imaginative, and it may well be considered a Doom clone, but it's fun dammit. And that's why I paid money out of pocket for it.
Some people don't like Q3, and I can see their reasons why, but a lot of people do, counting myself, a lot + 1. Anyway, it's not the innovation really. They've proven that the grounds for the game work, and that it's fun. That's why people keep coming back. Not for the superfragi3d rendering, or the turbomonkeyfraggadociousness, but for the gameplay, and the fun.
I checked out their page, and was just as curious to find out what they were used for. I opened up the url to the main page, and it seems like they're aiming for the ISP / Rack-mount solution. (Note, they are a certified MS Solution provider... )
Unfortunately no, gaming is almost definately not the intended usage for this machine. As it currently stands, we're all aware of how poor 3D support is under Linux, and general game support is quite poor under NT.
I've got a few friends claiming that things are better with Windows 2000, but that's almost beside the point here. Situation being as it is, the only GOOD gaming platform (excluding crashes and BSODs) is Win9x, which doesn't do SMP. This means no use of the second processor, which means that this board would be pretty pointless. Also, it wouldn't be the smartest idea to slap to celerons in for the point of gaming. Yeah, they're cheap, but they still don't have the floating point. Why bother going to the effort?
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with having a dual board sans 1 proc, but there's not much right about it either (except for the budget, usually). Anyway, you can almost certainly bet that this is designed with workstationing. Small profile == low footprint. Flat panel support == lower footprint. Dual celeron == budget machine. Pretty much what everyone in the corporate world is looking for. It seems rather a novel idea to put something with some actual horsepower (fpu excepted) for a cheap solid workstation, [NT|Linux|BSD] ready. It's a good idea, and deserves to make a lot of money.
And (obligatory troll), can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these things?!?
I'm assuming that you're using the information gathered and delivered by Russ, of NTBugTraq. Well then, let me post this, which completely belies his statements. Judge for yourself.
It would seem, and I'm completely guessing here, that if you modified the code heavily, then any updated code they released wouldn't integrate into your completed application. Thereby granting you release from said obligation. Honestly, they can't expect you to break your work just to keep up to date.
Going with that thought, I can only hope that they don't ask that you make "reasonable efforts" to include the newest code in your next releases, and am terrified that they would request you make "reasonable efforts" to take the updated code, and create patches to work with your pre-existing application. Certainly, it's a nice thing to increase functionality and usability after the initial sale, but forcing you to do it doesn't seem right.
Again, I don't know. IANAGL, and don't claim to be. I have no insight to this situation other than what my own sleep-addled brain has supplied.
Actually, the internet comes from Windows. Didn't you know that??? Duh. In fact, Windows 98 includes Internet version 5.
If you don't believe me, then go here and find out for yourself.
See, users with Windows 98, and I'm assuming 2000, don't need routers, phone lines, ethernet, modems, or any of that mess. Just get some of that power out of the wall, and watch it go.
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now that the editors have removed the link from the story, they might want to remove it from the "Related Links" box just beside it.
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Anyone have a mirror? Anyone?
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Honestly, I don't even agree with that. The way I view it, it's my job to keep your junk out of my system. If I open up a virus, I blame myself, not the programmer. If I leave ports open for attack, I blame myself, not the programmer.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion, but I think that if the users in this (or any other) country had to be responsible for themselves, we'd start to see a decline in the Microsoft monopoly, after awhile, and a rise in more secure operating systems.
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Oh well, I hate to have all these complaints, really. I DID enjoy the movie, and am looking forward to its sequel, as I hear its in the works, with more characters. More specifically tho, I'd like to see the Hulk, which has been rumored to be in development.
The only thing that I didn't much care for about this movie was the lack of a timeline. IE - Bobby's only a little younger than Cyclops, while Kitty Pride is much younger than both. Also, Jubilee doesn't show up until MUCH MUCH later in the comic, etc... Also, where were Angel, Beast, and Nightcrawler?!? Okay okay, minor characters. Sure. I'll go with that (at least with Angel -- dull).
The only other complaint were the lack of talent with their powers. I understand that they were supposed to be 'training', which would work for Cyclops and Jean Gray, but please. Storm's been using her powers long before the X-men. Her getting her ass kicked initially by Toad (and how DID he get so tough?!?) is just not gonna happen.
Dammit... one last complaint... Wolvie and Sabretooth go Waaaaay back, since well before the X-men knew who the hell he was. Please, at least ACKNOWLEDGE that in the movie... Christ. I don't know if they ever decidedly figured it out, but at one point or another it was rumored that Sabertooth could even be Wolvie's father.
Oh yeah, and Wolverine was too tall, not stocky enough. Don't get me wrong, Hugh played the part VERY well, but he was just too tall. Assuming acting ability is present, I think Chris Benoit (of WWF fame) would have made a MUCH better (visually, that is) Wolverine. Heck, his pants even remind me of the "Yellow Spandex" that wolvie used to wear. Plus, he's Canadian. :-)
Now, so it doesn't seem like I'm bitching, here are some good points:
- Hugh Jackman DID do an excellent job, despite his height.
- Famke Janssen LOOKED the part of Jean Grey to a T. Debating over wether or not Julia Roberts would have looked the part more, but that would incur much more expense.
- Again, Stewart, McKellan, EXCELLENT. First, who else is gonna play Professor X? Secondly, we're NOT supposed to hate Magneto. He actually led the X-team for awhile in Charles' absence. McKellan did an excellent job of portraying that. Their whole "different methods" approach came off on the screen well.
- Action scenes were good, and fx never seemed 'overdone'.
- Good plot... good movie.
I can see I've spoken a little too much now, and I gotta run, so, hope that clarified, and didn't seem like TOO much of a flame.Also, what happened with Rogue's "farm", where she grew up, with Mystique as her mother?!?
Excelsior!
Just bought a house last year before xmas (it was her xmas present), and ended up moving into a MUCH better neighborhood. Our old house had lived off a slightly busy road, and we had a street light on the corner in the back yard, so there's was always just a little noise, and just a little light in the master bedroom.
Anyway, the first night in our new house, after we set up the bed, we turned off the lights. Our first thought, in tandem was;
"Damn, it's dark!".
Now we live backed up to good old woods. No more light problem.
After trying to sleep for 2 hours, we both just sat up and said,
"It's too quiet...".
Couldn't sleep until we moved into the living room, where you can hear the quiet hum of the fridge.
Anyway, after that, we moved a PC into our room, just one, for checking email and whatnot, server's upstairs, and everything else is in the office, but that broke up the silence just enough.
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Let me preface this post with this
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:: I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about
Having said that, are they truly stealing ad revenue from eBay? The crawlers count as hits yes? Is it not these hits that are used for the marketing of ad space? I don't know how this works, but I'm guessing it's something like this.
Customer : I'd like to purchase ad space on eBay... How much does that cost?
eBay : Well, for your ad to be viewed by 100 people, it'll cost $100. For 500 people, it'll cost $200. For $1000 people, it'll cost $250.
Yes, I understand that customers going through Biddersedge are customers that perhaps AREN'T going through ebay, and they are therefore losing that revenue. Still though, you would think that eBay would have tried to come up with a way to get money from that, rather than shut down a potential source of revenue. Something like:
eBay : Hey, biddersedge... how many people do you have viewing our auctions?
Biddersedge : Well, we usually get about 100 a month.
eBay : Hmm... you're stealing our ad revenue. You should pay us the money that we would make off of that ad revenue. Lets see, we charge $100 for 100 viewers, you owe us $100 this month.
This would enable eBay to reap the benefits of having someone else advertise for them. Now, if Biddersedge couldn't, or wouldn't reimburse, and refused to stop crawling their servers, which is unlikely, then you would move to a robots.txt file, or perhaps DENY host settings. Combat a high-tech problem with high-tech solutions, not legal ones.
Anyway, this is just my take on things. Feel free to correct my mistakes.
eBay has decided that it would be much more profitable to simply sue all of its customers for infringing upon its personal property.
.001%, and response time was instantaneous.
After a freak DNS outage Monday morning, executives internal to the network noticed that their servers performed thousands of times better than when all "those damned customers" were using them. CPU load dropped to
It is this degradation of performance that enables eBay to lay claim to the pocketbooks of all its consumers, and auctioneers. eBay is currently debating lawsuits on volunteers helping to run eBay.
When asked "Isn't this going to jeopardize the good PR that has made eBay so successful?", eBay's response was "Ah, fuck it.. Microsoft has been doing this to customers for years, and they appear to love it... Besides (excitedly) WE'RE FINALLY GOING TO GET OUT OF DEBT!!.
Seriously though, this is a bad idea. If we can't expect our high-tech businesses to make more informed decisions of how to deal with a problem, then who can we count on?
The problem itself could easily have been resolved with a robots.txt, and failing that, DENY host settings. Aside from negative PR, why would a company want to take this to their lawyers before taking it to the same techs that made the company to begin with?!?
The next biggest question, how do we protect ourselves from this?
I think, more importantly than love thy neighbour, would be the passage "judge not, lest ye be judged." Isn't that in the bible somewhere? It seems to me that our fine Christian disciple has taken it upon himself to encroach upon two of the bible's most basic ideals. Open heart - open mind.
I love the hypocrisy that seems to follow Christianity. Having attended private Christian school for a good portion of my upbringing, it is that mindset alone which has kept me 'out of God's grace'. I don't want to associate myself with a group that is so adept at preaching something, yet so ill-adept at following their own preachings.
I do not find Christians immoral, nor do I find atheists immoral. I judge not, lest I be judged. I do tend to find more hypocrites acting on God's behalf than the other way around, however. I have some VERY righteous family members, who wholly believe in God, and are very active in the church, but it's not Christianity that makes them good people.
For the record, I DO believe that a religion that teaches love thy neighbour, do not steal, etc. is a good thing for people willing to accept that. However, I don't feel that excluding yourself from said group, for WHATEVER reason, makes you any more immoral than anyone else, including members of the church.
They are currently in the process of upgrading to the servlet 2.2 API, and their FAQ details the finer points of running Enhydra with Apache and Apache JServ.
All in all, it's a fine solution. It took me just a little bit of research, but once I got it up and running, I found that it was very reliable, and more than ample speed-wise.
Hope this helps...
Bye bye karma.
We are simply less organized, and less motivated, because it's what most of us do in our SPARE time, instead of full time. That is not a detriment though. I submit that because most of our work is done in our off hours, we take more pride in it. Which is why our code doesn't have 63,000+ bugs.
Linux, on the other hand, gets ported quickly, and almost by habit to new platforms.
Again, 100% correct. Portability is a huge factor. MS doesn't have to worry about portability as much, because whatever they port it to is going to be their own OS, which (one should assume) has backword/forward compatability built in. The portability of OS however, means that when one company makes a great leap, as RHAT did in this case, then we all jump right along with it. What works for RHAT works for me. I may have to mod the code a little, but then it's re-released for whatever I ported it to.
I'm not arguing with anything you said, because I agree almost whole-heartedly. I still just think that it's 'awareness' that is our 'one big thing'. That lack thereof is all that's hurting us. A lot of people don't want to learn new things, but some don't mind. Some of them are in positions of power.
Example: Bill the Bossman is a manager at a data entry facility. Bill notices Linux at his brother's house. Bill's brother runs uptime, and shows Bill that his Linux machine has been used heavily, but not rebooted for the past 14 days.
Bill thinks, "Wow... This could certainly change things at MegaCorp... no more rebooting and losing work in the middle of the day. That I LOVE YOU virus cost me three weeks worth of hours!" Bill heads back to MegaCorp and checks with his IT dept. The IT dept thinks switching is a great idea. 250 machines are switched over, and employees trained.
Because most of their work is data entry, only StarOffice is focussed on, and people are now running Linux. These same people, while still clueless as to what's going on, notice that they're not crashing. They no longer see the BSOD. Their work is safer, and they are more productive. They then check into Linux, etc...
In another comment, SweenyTod notes that people want to use the same applications between work and home, and he's also right. So if they're using Linux at work...
Anyway, sorry for the length of this post. It wasn't necessary, but it's a slow night here, and I'm bored as hell. Thanks for listening...
On the other hand, I'm seeing a lot of posts saying that this is going to 'make' Linux. I'm sorry kids. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, nothing is going to 'make' Linux all by itself. Awareness is the only thing that will 'make' Linux.
How many people were hit by the I.Love.you virus? Probably close to the same number of people that have learned to accept such 'inconveniences' in day to day life. Sure, we wouldn't put up with it, but we don't have to. We know other things. Anyway, I'm getting offtopic...
What I'm trying to say, is that the average, every-day, Joe Blow Consumer doesn't care about proc optimizations and compatability. If they hear that Microsoft doesn't have one running Itanium yet, they'll wait to buy Itanium chips. When MS is ready, so will they be. The chances they'll run across an Itanium with RHat on it at their local Circuit City, or CompUSA, or Best Buy is slim to none. And even if they do, they're not going to bite. They'll wait for MS to push them towards Itanium. And then they'll go out and plunk out the cost of yet another OS upgrade, and won't pay it a second notice.
This is our sad reality... Accept it. No single feature, optimization, or compatibility will 'make' Linux. We're not going to sweep Microsoft under the rug with this. We may gain a few users, and that's fine with me. Every little bit counts. Once people become aware that there is an operating system out there that doesn't crash every day, or run slower as they day progresses, they won't want to go back. At that point it will become worth the effort to learn a new OS.
Take it how you want.
At the very least, it was certainly an effective way to get a jam session started.
My apologies, but when I state that "there's no such thing as a first post", I meant to state "there's no such thing as a redundant first post".
In the future, I'll do my best to ensure that I'm not acting like an idiot while criticizing others for acting like idiots. We'll see how well that turns out.
Okay, here's what I see... Sids 2, 3, and 6 (sorry, too lazy to link them), are all claiming to be "first post", with all the usual crap, and the REAL first post, which I concede is not all that jam-packed with info, is marked redundant.
First and foremost, there's no such thing as a first post, unless it quotes the majority of the article itself, or the headline itself.
I can understand somebody wanting to moderate someone else down because they posted a short first post. WHO CARES?!? Please, we need to realize that moderating people DOWN is just stupid. Moderate the good stuff UP, and I'll see it first. Even browsing at -1, I'll still see the good stuff first. If I'm not bored of the topic by the time I get that low on the list, then I may as well be reading -1 scoring comments.
Done flaming, moderate down.
This absolutely positively must mean that the slashdot crew is planning on creating their own distro, complete with Slash already integrated.
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There simply is no excuse for this now. With such tools provided, they'd be hipocrites not to make one. This IS an open source shop right???
P.S.-Don't kill me Rob, was just making fun of all the comments just before Slash got released.
Not trying to step on anyone's toes here, but the way I see it, at least Id makes a product people can enjoy... I tried DKDemo, and, as goes for many others here, removed it from my system after about the first half hour. Then, I fired up QuakeII for some quick fragging.
Yes, the gameplay isn't all that imaginative, and it may well be considered a Doom clone, but it's fun dammit. And that's why I paid money out of pocket for it.
Some people don't like Q3, and I can see their reasons why, but a lot of people do, counting myself, a lot + 1. Anyway, it's not the innovation really. They've proven that the grounds for the game work, and that it's fun. That's why people keep coming back. Not for the superfragi3d rendering, or the turbomonkeyfraggadociousness, but for the gameplay, and the fun.
Later...
I checked out their page, and was just as curious to find out what they were used for. I opened up the url to the main page, and it seems like they're aiming for the ISP / Rack-mount solution. (Note, they are a certified MS Solution provider... )
Just thought I'd point that out.
Unfortunately no, gaming is almost definately not the intended usage for this machine. As it currently stands, we're all aware of how poor 3D support is under Linux, and general game support is quite poor under NT.
I've got a few friends claiming that things are better with Windows 2000, but that's almost beside the point here. Situation being as it is, the only GOOD gaming platform (excluding crashes and BSODs) is Win9x, which doesn't do SMP. This means no use of the second processor, which means that this board would be pretty pointless. Also, it wouldn't be the smartest idea to slap to celerons in for the point of gaming. Yeah, they're cheap, but they still don't have the floating point. Why bother going to the effort?
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with having a dual board sans 1 proc, but there's not much right about it either (except for the budget, usually). Anyway, you can almost certainly bet that this is designed with workstationing. Small profile == low footprint. Flat panel support == lower footprint. Dual celeron == budget machine. Pretty much what everyone in the corporate world is looking for. It seems rather a novel idea to put something with some actual horsepower (fpu excepted) for a cheap solid workstation, [NT|Linux|BSD] ready. It's a good idea, and deserves to make a lot of money.
And (obligatory troll), can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these things?!?
I'm assuming that you're using the information gathered and delivered by Russ, of NTBugTraq. Well then, let me post this, which completely belies his statements. Judge for yourself.
It would seem, and I'm completely guessing here, that if you modified the code heavily, then any updated code they released wouldn't integrate into your completed application. Thereby granting you release from said obligation. Honestly, they can't expect you to break your work just to keep up to date.
Going with that thought, I can only hope that they don't ask that you make "reasonable efforts" to include the newest code in your next releases, and am terrified that they would request you make "reasonable efforts" to take the updated code, and create patches to work with your pre-existing application. Certainly, it's a nice thing to increase functionality and usability after the initial sale, but forcing you to do it doesn't seem right.
Again, I don't know. IANAGL, and don't claim to be. I have no insight to this situation other than what my own sleep-addled brain has supplied.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
What if we wanted to encode more than one mp3 every few days?
According to the Bill Gates Net Worth Page he is currently worth about 87.9 billion in stock alone. Again, this is not counting other possessions.
Actually, the internet comes from Windows. Didn't you know that??? Duh. In fact, Windows 98 includes Internet version 5.
If you don't believe me, then go here and find out for yourself.
See, users with Windows 98, and I'm assuming 2000, don't need routers, phone lines, ethernet, modems, or any of that mess. Just get some of that power out of the wall, and watch it go.