But how do you install your apps? In Linux (and any UNIX variant for that matter), apps are just a set of files. if you want to install it, just copy the files, which is easily doable with the generic Linux image.
Like can you assign an ID to a computer/image & then have something deploy a package to it? Stateless Linux in redhat and Fedora system comes to mind as designed for this. If you don't want to use this, you can always separate them into mac address groups and tell any of them to remotely execute commands (after authentication of course).
Can you run configuration scripts / policies based on user groups and/or workstations? See previous response.
There may not be an exact equivalent, but its still pretty easy to do and if somebody did want something like this, writing it would be easy since all the tools are already there.
For some solutions geared specifically towards this, see the stateless linux project at fedora. If I had to do something like that myself, I would make a generic system image and just copy it across all the computers through nfs or something similar. Not very hard to setup a generic configured linux system (especially since most distros do all the work for you) and definitely not very hard to just copy the file system to multiple computers. Many distros (fedora especially) also offer methods of automating the install and running post configuration scripts chrooted in the installed environment. Since fedora offers it, Red Hat probably does as well. So, just set up a disk like that and install remotely over the network or just push in the cd/dvd and let it work by itself.
uh... last time I checked, over 70% of the US was a service economy. The most valuable thing these companies own is their customers, employees, and then brand. Most of the corporate structure within these companies is in computers. If you seriously think that a corporate building is worth much to these corporations, you need to take a look at the real world. When companies are worth several billion $, a building of a few million is a rounding error. If these companies ever want to re-incorporate outside the US and then take their business with them, all they would have to do was to incorporate offshore, transfer most if not all the assets, and then move the software. No single company can do this and cripple the US but if they ever decide to move collectively for some reason, the US is screwed. There's a reason that the first thing (smart) govs. do when they are trying to boost the economy is to invite foreign business in.
indeed, a politicians primary goal is not to benefit the country (like its supposed to be) but rather to get re-elected. That often involves doing something that the random incompetent idiot would feel good about like wasting money on the UN or the worthless war in Iraq.
not according to the wording. Besides, if tracking down terrorists is a legitimate reason for the US to get info. why not the Chinese gov. After all, all those websites are from terrorists. Its all in the definition. Thats why this law will become worth less than the piece of paper it is written on in less than a month.
first off, they are negotiable. Regardless of whether they have been signed, sealed, or are still being proofread. Something very important to keep in mind.
D:H:M:S: Step one carried out.
D:H:M:S+1: Massive loss in the stock market.
D:H+1:M:S: Half of the companies in the US have incorporated somewhere else. Liechtenstein and friends are reporting a boom in number of corporations incorporated.
D+1:H:M:S: Congress enacts step 2.
D+1:H:M:S+1: Most of the remaining corporations have left.
D+30:H:M:S: Most of the smart people have as well.
D+100:H:M:S: The US either falls apart or goes socialist and then falls apart in a year.
Lesson: Governments are not good at legalizing morality. Its usually a bad idea to make them do so. Society is the only way to do that. Boycotts are a prime example.
easy answer, incorporate in Liechtenstein. 33,987 people but over 3 million corporations incorporated because of favorable laws (mainly low taxes - 20% max in anything) enacted by the constitutional monarchy there. Also a country with a national budget surplus.
with interpreted languages, what may happen is that the interpreter just reprocesses the AST to give it multiple threads and programmers still don't have to worry about multi-threading and all of its associated headaches.
PG does take a lot from oracle. Some of their features like large objects are spitting images of blobs in oracle and like you pointed out, similarities in the date/time stuff.
The first problem is that word processors are overcomplicated and try to take too importance on exactly how the document is rendered. The other problem is that people expect entirely too much from their word processor. It evolved from a point where the word processor file was just a flat text file with maybe a couple tags for making text appear a certian way, to a system where you can insert a movie into a document (you can't print the movie). The word processor tries to be the be-all-and-end-all of computer applications, and hence fails miserably. I would advise LaTeX or some similar text based system. works great for me.
are you kidding, WYSIWYG is a pain in the ass the moment you start working with complex form elements and metadata. Thats why I use LaTeX. That and easy PDF output with no lock in...
keep in mind that this is windows we are talking about. In windows, a new feature is either something that should have been there years ago (symlinks) or something unnecessary (Aero).
um... Make the requirements more rigid and people will come out with a hack in a few months again. go to bruce schniers blog and do a little reading. You might find some good info there.
Imagine you are walking in public and somebody besides you pulls out a sword and chops up a puppet. They are not directly focused on you, they are just testing the sword. Its not even your puppet, its theres. Yet, it is considered a threatening display of force and they would probably end up in prison for that. Same thing here. I am no saying that is a good or bad thing, just why people consider it to be a problem.
I think copyright should be moved into the arena of contrctual law. The contracts can be as flexible or stringent as the parties agree on. People may argue about the problem with public displays but that can be built into the contract. Atleast this way, people have a choice and morket forces can start coming into play instead of the one size fits all system that we have here where everything is subject to copyright and as a result, market forces can not lower the price and increase efficiency.
I give them the PDF output. If I want them to give suggestions on my work, then I also send them a tarball for the directory will the.tex source file and all the supporting files like graphics, custom packages, etc. Works well for me. what do you do?
no kidding. In such a case the gp should be using PDF outputs. Those are truly consistent across systems. If even more anal, they can go to DVI, I guess...
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Like can you assign an ID to a computer/image & then have something deploy a package to it? Stateless Linux in redhat and Fedora system comes to mind as designed for this. If you don't want to use this, you can always separate them into mac address groups and tell any of them to remotely execute commands (after authentication of course).
Can you run configuration scripts / policies based on user groups and/or workstations? See previous response.
There may not be an exact equivalent, but its still pretty easy to do and if somebody did want something like this, writing it would be easy since all the tools are already there.
good point, but I was just thinking of something off the top of my head. still a good point.
For some solutions geared specifically towards this, see the stateless linux project at fedora. If I had to do something like that myself, I would make a generic system image and just copy it across all the computers through nfs or something similar. Not very hard to setup a generic configured linux system (especially since most distros do all the work for you) and definitely not very hard to just copy the file system to multiple computers. Many distros (fedora especially) also offer methods of automating the install and running post configuration scripts chrooted in the installed environment. Since fedora offers it, Red Hat probably does as well. So, just set up a disk like that and install remotely over the network or just push in the cd/dvd and let it work by itself.
uh... last time I checked, over 70% of the US was a service economy. The most valuable thing these companies own is their customers, employees, and then brand. Most of the corporate structure within these companies is in computers. If you seriously think that a corporate building is worth much to these corporations, you need to take a look at the real world. When companies are worth several billion $, a building of a few million is a rounding error. If these companies ever want to re-incorporate outside the US and then take their business with them, all they would have to do was to incorporate offshore, transfer most if not all the assets, and then move the software. No single company can do this and cripple the US but if they ever decide to move collectively for some reason, the US is screwed. There's a reason that the first thing (smart) govs. do when they are trying to boost the economy is to invite foreign business in.
indeed, a politicians primary goal is not to benefit the country (like its supposed to be) but rather to get re-elected. That often involves doing something that the random incompetent idiot would feel good about like wasting money on the UN or the worthless war in Iraq.
not according to the wording. Besides, if tracking down terrorists is a legitimate reason for the US to get info. why not the Chinese gov. After all, all those websites are from terrorists. Its all in the definition. Thats why this law will become worth less than the piece of paper it is written on in less than a month.
first off, they are negotiable. Regardless of whether they have been signed, sealed, or are still being proofread. Something very important to keep in mind.
Mod parent up for making an excellent point.
Day D, Hour H, minutes M, seconds s.
D:H:M:S: Step one carried out.
D:H:M:S+1: Massive loss in the stock market.
D:H+1:M:S: Half of the companies in the US have incorporated somewhere else. Liechtenstein and friends are reporting a boom in number of corporations incorporated.
D+1:H:M:S: Congress enacts step 2.
D+1:H:M:S+1: Most of the remaining corporations have left.
D+30:H:M:S: Most of the smart people have as well.
D+100:H:M:S: The US either falls apart or goes socialist and then falls apart in a year.
Lesson: Governments are not good at legalizing morality. Its usually a bad idea to make them do so. Society is the only way to do that. Boycotts are a prime example.
easy answer, incorporate in Liechtenstein. 33,987 people but over 3 million corporations incorporated because of favorable laws (mainly low taxes - 20% max in anything) enacted by the constitutional monarchy there. Also a country with a national budget surplus.
with interpreted languages, what may happen is that the interpreter just reprocesses the AST to give it multiple threads and programmers still don't have to worry about multi-threading and all of its associated headaches.
PG does take a lot from oracle. Some of their features like large objects are spitting images of blobs in oracle and like you pointed out, similarities in the date/time stuff.
are you kidding, WYSIWYG is a pain in the ass the moment you start working with complex form elements and metadata. Thats why I use LaTeX. That and easy PDF output with no lock in...
keep in mind that this is windows we are talking about. In windows, a new feature is either something that should have been there years ago (symlinks) or something unnecessary (Aero).
maybe but I am guessing that the difference in bandwidth requirements would make this an inviable proposition.
um... Make the requirements more rigid and people will come out with a hack in a few months again. go to bruce schniers blog and do a little reading. You might find some good info there.
actually a point is 0-d space. you missed a projection. no nobel prize for you...
Imagine you are walking in public and somebody besides you pulls out a sword and chops up a puppet. They are not directly focused on you, they are just testing the sword. Its not even your puppet, its theres. Yet, it is considered a threatening display of force and they would probably end up in prison for that. Same thing here. I am no saying that is a good or bad thing, just why people consider it to be a problem.
actually, the MVT only applies to continuous systems.
Mod parent up. funniest post of the month and then some. Also, in many ways, true. Ahhh. Sarcasm at its best.
I think copyright should be moved into the arena of contrctual law. The contracts can be as flexible or stringent as the parties agree on. People may argue about the problem with public displays but that can be built into the contract. Atleast this way, people have a choice and morket forces can start coming into play instead of the one size fits all system that we have here where everything is subject to copyright and as a result, market forces can not lower the price and increase efficiency.
I give them the PDF output. If I want them to give suggestions on my work, then I also send them a tarball for the directory will the .tex source file and all the supporting files like graphics, custom packages, etc. Works well for me. what do you do?
I used to do that. Then I found screens. works a lot better.
no kidding. In such a case the gp should be using PDF outputs. Those are truly consistent across systems. If even more anal, they can go to DVI, I guess...