I've got a degree. It didn't teach me a damned thing about IT, but I've got the degree. The degree helps get your resume through the HR drones, though, but not much else.
Market cap is not an indication of size at all. It's an indication of, well, present market value.
For size, there are few things you can look at it: there is size based on net worth, total number of employees, total sales in dollars, total unit sales, etc. Most of these are only useful when comparing to companies within the same industry, however. In fact, most useful statistics are really only useful when comparing companies within the same industry. That's why so many people focus on market capitalization, because that is comparable across industries.
Biggest market cap, though, as you point out, doesn't mean that much. A more useful statistic for investors is the earning per share (EPS), which gives you an idea of the economic viability of a company .
Correct. I have a Dropbox account, and that's exactly what it is, although it also has utility as a file-sharing service as well. You can create and designate folders as "shared with other users" and "shared with guest users (for people without an account)". Folders so designated will allow anyone to download files in those folders.
So when I post on Slashdot, my intent is clear -- I'm making what I type available to the public at large. But this is also true for files that I put in my folders that are shared with guest users.
OTOH, this license grant doesn't seem to make such a distinction. Perhaps it should.
After going through all of the components including the case, the only thing they could identify that was original components that was actually designed by IBM engineers was the sticker label that went on the outside of the case which said "IBM".
100% true, of course. The optional hard disks were made by Seagate (hence the legacy of the ST01 controller), the floppy drives were made by Toshiba or Chinon or somebody like that. The processor came from Intel. The optional printer was made by Epson. The motherboard was basically a reference design from Intel.
The BIOS was original, but the operating system, of course, was a 16-bit CP/M hack from a guy named Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products, who sold it to a tiny little company from Bellvue, Washington, for a few thousand bucks. Tim would go on to become a billionaire, of course, along with the founders of that tiny little computer company.
If I could go back in time, I would convince Tim Patterson that writing operating systems isn't a very good idea and he should do something else with his time.
Actually, I don't think Apple used the term "personal computer" until around the introduction of the Mac and the Apple//c. These would both be introduced well after IBM marketed their "IBM Personal Computer" in 1981.
What, exactly, does this have to with the article? AMD/ATI also provides drivers for the open source community.
The thing is, of the three big graphics vendors, only NVIDIA supports reasonably complete OpenGL support, which makes their cards non-starters for us CAD users. I run SketchUp on Wine
A true story, for those scratching their heads. My wife and I are smokers (bad, bad, yes, I know) and we happily tossed our throw-away cigarette lighters into the appropriate bin when boarding a flight a couple of years ago.
What we completely forgot is that in our carry on, left over from a previous camping trip, was a stash of about 4 lighters,10 boxes of "strike anywhere" matches and a camping knife. The thing was, it wasn't the screeners that noticed them, rather they were discovered by ourselves as soon we got to our hotel room and started going through our luggage. The funny thing is that we didn't know about the no-liquids-over-2-ounces rule, which was relatively new when we flew. The screeners completely missed these banned items because they were far too interested in the oversized bottles of Pantene in our luggage, whiich they promptly seized, of course.
My wife, who worked airport security prior to the TSA takeover, and was thoroughly disgusted by the whole affair, said that the knife, for sure, would never have made it past the gate before the TSA took over.
Wovel obviously means that the security screeners have not enhanced security one bit. He's right. In fact, it's probably easier to sneak a weapon or a bomb on a plane today than it was before 9/11.
RHEL is fine, CentOS is just awful, and anytime someone offers up CentOS as a substitute for RHEL, I wonder of they've ever used CentOS. Watch for circular dependencies and lots of unavailable packages.
I've never seen that problem with CentOS.
Everything you could need is an apt-get away, rather then google-the-wget away with CentOS and dag. I know my situation isn't a cluster, but we're running 20 Ubuntu servers in 15 colos currently, and our experience has been by far the best with Ubuntu.
The problem with Ubuntu for scientific computing is that many commercial scientific computing packages have runtime dependencies on old, outdated libraries found in Red Hat-based distros, but aren't available on Ubuntu without compiling from source. I used to admin 2 large compute clusters for a Fortune 100 NASA contractor, so I actually know what I'm talking about.
Though I've never came anything close to death, I have personally gotten lost due to bad GPS data. Not so bad that I couldn't find my way back to some place I knew, mind you. However, if I were driving out into Death Valley with the road getting rougher, I would probably just say "screw this GPS, it's wrong," turn around and go back the way I came. And then look at a real paper map, or at least get directions from one of the locals. I know better than to go traipsing off into Death Valley with no idea of where I'm going.
OTOH, being a technology expert, I happen to grok that even advanced tech like GPS and smartphones have their failure modes. Some people just put too much faith into something they don't understand.
2.4.22 was one of the last releases before 2.6 was released. During that time, many features were being backported from the 2.5 series kernels. I don't know where the feature in question came from, but whether or not it was in 2.4.0 or 2.4.1 isn't clear to me.
As far as the linux kernel goes? They've picked a very specific release train. 2.4.22, which came out in 25-Aug-2003.
No. RTFA:
The accused infringement relates to the Linux kernel itself, which is at the core of Google's server farm. The complaint named a long list of allegedly infringing Linux versions, starting with the 2.4.22.x tree all the way to version "2.6.31.x, or versions beyond 2.6.31.x."
But they were classified and kept by the CIA. The documents themselves (123456) carry stamps keeping them exempt from declassification for dates as late at 1978 and 1989.
Some of the recipes in there, however, are as old as Julius Caesar.
I'm sure there's no bias here, they must have been careful to only sue the impoverished hobby bloggers instead of the ones who are making their mortgage payments.
Many of the people sued by Righthaven are/were actually Area 51 bloggers posting various sections of long-outdated articles of the Las Vegas Review-Journal covering events and happenings at the Nevada Test Site and the Groom Lake facility itself.
I suspect the vast majority of them haven't made dime.
In fact, I can think of a major automotive company that still does exactly that: you sign in via https, get your one-time password, and then initiate the transfer with ftp.
Slashdot Mirror
I've got a degree. It didn't teach me a damned thing about IT, but I've got the degree. The degree helps get your resume through the HR drones, though, but not much else.
Market cap is not an indication of size at all. It's an indication of, well, present market value.
For size, there are few things you can look at it: there is size based on net worth, total number of employees, total sales in dollars, total unit sales, etc. Most of these are only useful when comparing to companies within the same industry, however. In fact, most useful statistics are really only useful when comparing companies within the same industry. That's why so many people focus on market capitalization, because that is comparable across industries.
Biggest market cap, though, as you point out, doesn't mean that much. A more useful statistic for investors is the earning per share (EPS), which gives you an idea of the economic viability of a company .
By 'working' do you mean the stripping away of people's civil, moral and legal rights?
If so, I concur.
No, but she's got plenty of open ports! You might have to get passed her firewall first, though.
The biggest problem is that once a month there will be some serious buffer overflow issues, though. This doesn't get patched for many years...
Correct. I have a Dropbox account, and that's exactly what it is, although it also has utility as a file-sharing service as well. You can create and designate folders as "shared with other users" and "shared with guest users (for people without an account)". Folders so designated will allow anyone to download files in those folders.
So when I post on Slashdot, my intent is clear -- I'm making what I type available to the public at large. But this is also true for files that I put in my folders that are shared with guest users.
OTOH, this license grant doesn't seem to make such a distinction. Perhaps it should.
Which, of course, means that the tinfoil hat wearers can stop thinking that this will be useful as some sort of government tracking tool.
Reclusive, eccentric former dotcom millionaires. Who else lives in Seattle?
Xerox Alto. 1973.
100% true, of course. The optional hard disks were made by Seagate (hence the legacy of the ST01 controller), the floppy drives were made by Toshiba or Chinon or somebody like that. The processor came from Intel. The optional printer was made by Epson. The motherboard was basically a reference design from Intel.
The BIOS was original, but the operating system, of course, was a 16-bit CP/M hack from a guy named Tim Patterson of Seattle Computer Products, who sold it to a tiny little company from Bellvue, Washington, for a few thousand bucks. Tim would go on to become a billionaire, of course, along with the founders of that tiny little computer company.
If I could go back in time, I would convince Tim Patterson that writing operating systems isn't a very good idea and he should do something else with his time.
Actually, I don't think Apple used the term "personal computer" until around the introduction of the Mac and the Apple //c. These would both be introduced well after IBM marketed their "IBM Personal Computer" in 1981.
Now get off of my lawn.
Cringely is the new JonKatz.
What, exactly, does this have to with the article? AMD/ATI also provides drivers for the open source community.
The thing is, of the three big graphics vendors, only NVIDIA supports reasonably complete OpenGL support, which makes their cards non-starters for us CAD users. I run SketchUp on Wine
Never been to Madrid, but, yes, it's damn cold in Denver.
Then again, I live in Florida, so my idea of cold and your idea of cold are probably different. ;)
There's a wee bit of water in the way, I think.
A true story, for those scratching their heads. My wife and I are smokers (bad, bad, yes, I know) and we happily tossed our throw-away cigarette lighters into the appropriate bin when boarding a flight a couple of years ago.
What we completely forgot is that in our carry on, left over from a previous camping trip, was a stash of about 4 lighters,10 boxes of "strike anywhere" matches and a camping knife. The thing was, it wasn't the screeners that noticed them, rather they were discovered by ourselves as soon we got to our hotel room and started going through our luggage. The funny thing is that we didn't know about the no-liquids-over-2-ounces rule, which was relatively new when we flew. The screeners completely missed these banned items because they were far too interested in the oversized bottles of Pantene in our luggage, whiich they promptly seized, of course.
My wife, who worked airport security prior to the TSA takeover, and was thoroughly disgusted by the whole affair, said that the knife, for sure, would never have made it past the gate before the TSA took over.
Wovel obviously means that the security screeners have not enhanced security one bit. He's right. In fact, it's probably easier to sneak a weapon or a bomb on a plane today than it was before 9/11.
So does the legislature. Remember this when election time comes.
I've never seen that problem with CentOS.
The problem with Ubuntu for scientific computing is that many commercial scientific computing packages have runtime dependencies on old, outdated libraries found in Red Hat-based distros, but aren't available on Ubuntu without compiling from source. I used to admin 2 large compute clusters for a Fortune 100 NASA contractor, so I actually know what I'm talking about.
Though I've never came anything close to death, I have personally gotten lost due to bad GPS data. Not so bad that I couldn't find my way back to some place I knew, mind you. However, if I were driving out into Death Valley with the road getting rougher, I would probably just say "screw this GPS, it's wrong," turn around and go back the way I came. And then look at a real paper map, or at least get directions from one of the locals. I know better than to go traipsing off into Death Valley with no idea of where I'm going.
OTOH, being a technology expert, I happen to grok that even advanced tech like GPS and smartphones have their failure modes. Some people just put too much faith into something they don't understand.
2.4.22 was one of the last releases before 2.6 was released. During that time, many features were being backported from the 2.5 series kernels. I don't know where the feature in question came from, but whether or not it was in 2.4.0 or 2.4.1 isn't clear to me.
But it's not a highway! It's series of tubes! Why, Friday my staff sent out an Internet and I only just it got on Tuesday!
As far as the linux kernel goes? They've picked a very specific release train. 2.4.22, which came out in 25-Aug-2003 .
No. RTFA:
But they were classified and kept by the CIA. The documents themselves (1 2 3 4 5 6) carry stamps keeping them exempt from declassification for dates as late at 1978 and 1989.
Some of the recipes in there, however, are as old as Julius Caesar.
Many of the people sued by Righthaven are/were actually Area 51 bloggers posting various sections of long-outdated articles of the Las Vegas Review-Journal covering events and happenings at the Nevada Test Site and the Groom Lake facility itself.
I suspect the vast majority of them haven't made dime.
In fact, I can think of a major automotive company that still does exactly that: you sign in via https, get your one-time password, and then initiate the transfer with ftp.
Absolutely hideous, but it works.