You also forgot to mention that the Motorola phones use a crappy proprietary OS which prevents you from using all of those great Symbian apps out there (Frozen Bubble, Oggplay, Doom, FExplorer). You mention that the user interface is sluggish, but I would go so far as to say that it's just plain awful. Think back to old-school GNOME where OK and Cancel are just randomly on the left or right. Nokia put lots of effort into GUI design and it shows.
Transflash is electrically identical to SD, just in a different form-factor.
To unlock voice recordings, use moto4lin to edit the appropriate "seem" (kind of like registry settings). See motomodders.net for more info. Hint: You have to switch to USB to Data/Fax mode for P2K stuff to work.
People have been making a lot of fuss about the "iPhone", but I think that a better option is a recent Symbian Nokia/Sony Ericsson + OggPlay.
You don't know what horrible is until you work for a family-sized company where the Head of R&D is the son of the company owner. The owner knew that his son made bad technical decisions and generally made our lives hell, but he wouldn't do anything about it.
I don't think the reason that crackers don't crack smaller/cheap apps has anything to do with conscience. It has to do with the fact that there is more "cred" to be gained by cracking popular/expensive apps.
When speaking wrt computers, I'm pretty sure the plural for mouse is mouses, not mice. In a similar vein, the plural for a computer virus is viruses, not virii.
The two points don't have to be contradictory at all: The "Dump Broadband, Dig Out Your Modem" article was focused on customers who already had broadband, but were unsatisfied with what they received. (Due to price, speed caps, etc)
The second article is reporting a growth in the total number of broadband users.
If the number of users receiving new installations outweighs the number of users (however large) going back to modems, then both articles can hold true.
AFAIK (IIRC, IANAL, etc) he's passed the medical tests (by the Russian doctors, American doctors are to examine later)
"I already passed the medical checks for Mir flights, and I have no doubt about qualifying for the ISS flight." (http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/tito_intervi ew_010201.html)
I also recall NASA and the ESA drafting some kind of regulations for commercial passengers. It's taken a very rich man for then to finally get themselves sorted out.
A few notes about the next Red Hat release. Amongst other things, they also plan on using Mozilla
(http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/beta/rhl.html ), which hasn't even reached 1.0 yet (thanks to http://www.mozillazine.org for the link). If you think that a RH release is going to be more stable than the rawhide stuff that they've got up at the moment, then you've got another thing coming.
Is it just me, or was every ad for Mountain Dew (I think I used to play YDNJ circa 1996)?
I think that this type of advertising *must* have been very effective if I can still remember the ads 5 years later (Although I don't drink Mountain Dew - Jolt Cola is what keeps me going).
I think that this "interruptive" advertising is suitable to proprietory services (ie, by signing up to our service, you agree to see a certain percentage of ads) but it would be disgraceful to see it in the next version of HTML (or CSS or whatever)
> Things like this will take away jobs from hardware designers, and undermine the computer industry... >free software can drive the hardware industry, > but if they're both free, what then? Time to flip burgers...
Sounds to me like you may have been influenced by a little FUD. For free ????ware, the development/fixing can be free, but if maintaining the "computer industry" (ie. making money) is so important to you, then you have a number of options to pursue
Charging for consultancy (bind)
Charging for support (redhat)
Charging for distribution (doesn't Sun want $50 for distributing Solaris 8 cds?)
With hardware, I think the money would be made through a distribution-esq method (ie where in the fabrication world, it's crazy just to walk up to a factory and say "make this". However you and 10 friends/100000 customers makes more sense).
> Why SCSI instead of IDE? You were actually asked this question? SCSI is normally *the* choice for something with intense I/O (And when you have 100+ using the 'net through your box, it's *very* intensive). All the UltraSPARCs, Apples (I'm a i386 user but I've gotta admit that it was a good decision) and high level intels I've used have been SCSI exclusively.
Ultra-ATA 66 is *nearly there* (in some respects only) but when you want the best, you want SCSI.
I've also noticed a few linux problems with ATA66 support, but most have been fixed.
From the mozilla crypto FAQ, it says "We know of at least two efforts which may produce PGP support for Mozilla." I don't know what they are. However, I do know of the PGP Plugin for Netscape which replaces the spell checker with a PGP encrypter. The source is available, so such a beast (having the add-on you sugguested available as a module) could be easily implemented.
Wasn't the point made on Fool.com that when you bought blank DVD's it contained all zeroes in the key section?
So *burning* DVD's is not really an option.
And what about internet transfer? Is it possible to calculate the costs involved (say 2x1.4GB of HDD space (one for each end) and OC3 internet connection for 20 minutes) which would probably come to more than a new DVD ~ US$20, thus making it not an option either.
14 Defendants contended that DeCSS was intended only to permit persons in lawful possession of copyrighted disks to play them for their own use on computers running under the Linux operating system rather than Windows. Tr. at 28. Indeed, they suggested that this is the only possible use of DeCSS and that DeCSS does not permit the user to copy DVDs. Id. at 28-30. But the arguments are unpersuasive for two reasons.
First, defendants have submitted no evidence---as distinguished from unsubstantiated assertions at oral argument---to support these contentions. What would have sufficed as evidence? Print-outs of the original DVD spec? Photos of DVD's with pre-burnt zeroes?
But what do you expect when you open the latest gaming magazine to a voluptuous blonde with a hardhat and a white cut-off halter-top, standing naked behind a broken TV?
How can she be naked at the same time as she's wearing a halter-top?
It's been my experience studying CS that the people who begin degrees because it will "Get them good money" tend to drop out of them before they complete them because they just can't see themselves doing that particular job for the rest of their lives (female or male). As someone was saying earlier, females don't appear to bond socially with computers as much as males, because male social ostracism is different to the female counterpart. I think this tends to cause a large percentage of women to drop out. However, there *are* females to bond with computers and make damn fine hackers!
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I know that this guy has been working on this for some time.
You also forgot to mention that the Motorola phones use a crappy proprietary OS which prevents you from using all of those great Symbian apps out there (Frozen Bubble, Oggplay, Doom, FExplorer). You mention that the user interface is sluggish, but I would go so far as to say that it's just plain awful. Think back to old-school GNOME where OK and Cancel are just randomly on the left or right. Nokia put lots of effort into GUI design and it shows.
Transflash is electrically identical to SD, just in a different form-factor.
To unlock voice recordings, use moto4lin to edit the appropriate "seem" (kind of like registry settings). See motomodders.net for more info. Hint: You have to switch to USB to Data/Fax mode for P2K stuff to work.
People have been making a lot of fuss about the "iPhone", but I think that a better option is a recent Symbian Nokia/Sony Ericsson + OggPlay.
I knew you were going to say that.
You don't know what horrible is until you work for a family-sized company where the Head of R&D is the son of the company owner. The owner knew that his son made bad technical decisions and generally made our lives hell, but he wouldn't do anything about it.
Man I hope that company goes down the drain.
I don't think the reason that crackers don't crack smaller/cheap apps has anything to do with conscience. It has to do with the fact that there is more "cred" to be gained by cracking popular/expensive apps.
"the unbiased reporting that CNN provides"
Ha ha. Only an American could say that with a straight face.
Now CNNNN - that's reporting.
When speaking wrt computers, I'm pretty sure the plural for mouse is mouses, not mice. In a similar vein, the plural for a computer virus is viruses, not virii.
The two points don't have to be contradictory at all: The "Dump Broadband, Dig Out Your Modem" article was focused on customers who already had broadband, but were unsatisfied with what they received. (Due to price, speed caps, etc)
The second article is reporting a growth in the total number of broadband users.
If the number of users receiving new installations outweighs the number of users (however large) going back to modems, then both articles can hold true.
AFAIK (IIRC, IANAL, etc) he's passed the medical tests (by the Russian doctors, American doctors are to examine later) "I already passed the medical checks for Mir flights, and I have no doubt about qualifying for the ISS flight." (http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/tito_intervi ew_010201.html)
I also recall NASA and the ESA drafting some kind of regulations for commercial passengers. It's taken a very rich man for then to finally get themselves sorted out.
A few notes about the next Red Hat release. Amongst other things, they also plan on using Mozilla (http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/beta/rhl.html ), which hasn't even reached 1.0 yet (thanks to http://www.mozillazine.org for the link). If you think that a RH release is going to be more stable than the rawhide stuff that they've got up at the moment, then you've got another thing coming.
Is it just me, or was every ad for Mountain Dew (I think I used to play YDNJ circa 1996)? I think that this type of advertising *must* have been very effective if I can still remember the ads 5 years later (Although I don't drink Mountain Dew - Jolt Cola is what keeps me going). I think that this "interruptive" advertising is suitable to proprietory services (ie, by signing up to our service, you agree to see a certain percentage of ads) but it would be disgraceful to see it in the next version of HTML (or CSS or whatever)
I can't believe you haven't mentioned the two best comics on the web: Spacemoose (I wish Adam Thrasher would update it) and classic Needle & Thread
>free software can drive the hardware industry,
> but if they're both free, what then? Time to flip burgers...
Sounds to me like you may have been influenced by a little FUD. For free ????ware, the development/fixing can be free, but if maintaining the "computer industry" (ie. making money) is so important to you, then you have a number of options to pursue
Charging for consultancy (bind)
Charging for support (redhat)
Charging for distribution (doesn't Sun want $50 for distributing Solaris 8 cds?)
With hardware, I think the money would be made through a distribution-esq method (ie where in the fabrication world, it's crazy just to walk up to a factory and say "make this". However you and 10 friends/100000 customers makes more sense).
You were actually asked this question? SCSI is normally *the* choice for something with intense I/O (And when you have 100+ using the 'net through your box, it's *very* intensive). All the UltraSPARCs, Apples (I'm a i386 user but I've gotta admit that it was a good decision) and high level intels I've used have been SCSI exclusively.
Ultra-ATA 66 is *nearly there* (in some respects only) but when you want the best, you want SCSI.
I've also noticed a few linux problems with ATA66 support, but most have been fixed.
From the mozilla crypto FAQ, it says "We know of at least two efforts which may produce PGP support for Mozilla." I don't know what they are.
However, I do know of the PGP Plugin for Netscape which replaces the spell checker with a PGP encrypter. The source is available, so such a beast (having the add-on you sugguested available as a module) could be easily implemented.
So *burning* DVD's is not really an option.
And what about internet transfer? Is it possible to calculate the costs involved (say 2x1.4GB of HDD space (one for each end) and OC3 internet connection for 20 minutes) which would probably come to more than a new DVD ~ US$20, thus making it not an option either.
14 Defendants contended that DeCSS was intended only to permit persons in lawful possession of copyrighted disks to play them for their own use on computers running under the Linux operating system rather than Windows. Tr. at 28. Indeed, they suggested that this is the only possible use of DeCSS and that DeCSS does not permit the user to copy DVDs. Id. at 28-30. But the arguments are unpersuasive for two reasons.
First, defendants have submitted no evidence---as distinguished from unsubstantiated assertions at oral argument---to support these contentions.
What would have sufficed as evidence? Print-outs of the original DVD spec? Photos of DVD's with pre-burnt zeroes?
How can she be naked at the same time as she's wearing a halter-top?
It's been my experience studying CS that the people who begin degrees because it will "Get them good money" tend to drop out of them before they complete them because they just can't see themselves doing that particular job for the rest of their lives (female or male). As someone was saying earlier, females don't appear to bond socially with computers as much as males, because male social ostracism is different to the female counterpart. I think this tends to cause a large percentage of women to drop out. However, there *are* females to bond with computers and make damn fine hackers!
Do you mean in "Homer^3" where Homer goes "ohh... I wish I read that book by that wheelchair guy"? Or was he on the Simpsons more blantantly?