Do you think somehow because the government would be doing it, that it would be free, and always work, and there would be no need for support? If the government did it, you could expect that it would be expensive (and that we WOULD bear the costs, the taxpaying WE at least) and that the bureaucracy for running it would be byzantine to say the least.
The billing MIGHT be simpler, since you'd probably only get it once a year due on April 15th.
In your above sentence "Unless we get ubiquitous, free WiFi access courtesy of the government, any nationwide WiFI coverage will involve lots of money, lots of billing, big companies, and hence big bureaucracies." please replace "Unless" with "Especially" in order to provide clarity and factual correctness.
Thank you. That is all. And yes, I am smiling when I type this.
Yep, it definitely was the Apple. Very nice, if a bit simple at times, and definitely with a superiority complex chip on its shoulder. They had George Plympton pimping the dang thing, after all. That being said, I enjoyed the fleet battle game for it quite a bit, and Frog Bog.:)
I suppose, but isn't a total package sort of thing? If the vendor-specific compilers are truly producing faster binaries, then I kind of hope when the time comes, that purchased application X is built with it.
I agree there is some validity in testing the CPU by itself, although I've long since departed out of the depths of geekdom when it comes to that. I tend to get more excited by the "encodes MPEG4 video stream in 6 minutes compared to 10" type benchmarks.
I guess I have a hard time having "fun" with any group of people who are making very serious legal claims that affect my general livelihood, and who have threatened on more than one occasion to get us lousy Linux USERS next. This isn't a football game, its a corporation talking about suing for REAL money. This isn't to say that people should get nasty, but I'm not going to forget that these people are very much NOT my friends.
I've been eyeing the Samsung i700 for a bit... Do you think it'll be upgradeable to 2003? I guess the big draw of 2003 for me from the article is the better Web browser. My companies web site makes a fair amount of use of CSS, and I recently redid all my personal websites in XHTML 1.0 with CSS...
One manager of mine with a certain contract insists we use the "NSF file system" (redundancies AND misorderings) so much that just to irk him, I've referred to it as the National Science Foundation File System in more than a few emails and meetings.
I think that perhaps you're a bit optimistic in thinking there are far more "FOSS" programmers than "proprietary" programmers. Plus, its an artificial distinction without any real basis for comparison. Somedays I'm programming Open Source, somedays, not so much. Heck, I'm pretty sure that Linus has been doing some proprietary stuff for Transmeta these past couple years.
Here are two things I personally know you wouldn't be able to do tomorrow if that AIX thing went through, and probably wouldn't be able to do for MONTHS, since a porting effort would be involved.
* File health claims with a major healthcare company. Heck, actually because payroll runs on AIX for that company too, you could expect them to have trouble even doing ANY business for a while. * Have instant tracking of location and resources for 911 calls for many major cities. You'd still be able to make 911 calls (they all have backup procedures) but quite often this would be a punch-card system from 20+ years ago. Response times, particularly in "heavy activity" areas...
Sounds to me like SCO's statements could be construed as threatening public safety.
True, although the locale-lang thing seems to be more of a general "people don't quite get how its supposed to be set" thing... Spamd from spamassassin had similar problems with the LANG setting.
Oh, but as to my real point for posting this: ALSA: freshrpms.net. Don't go through the pain yourself.
Without getting into the terms of the NDA I'm currently under, I've recently dealt with a company that's making a commercial software product to be deployed on top of RedHat Linux (they've already decided to use RedHat for the ubiquity and the name)... Now they're having to figure out whether to require ES or just plain old RedHat. They're dealing with Fortune 500 companies, and only a few dozen installations per company at most, and the end product is supposed to be as turn key as possible, and will likely be deployed for 5 years at least... So guess which one I think they should recommend/require?
Well, I took drafting, and that forever eliminated cursive writing for me, since the teacher there put for the assumption that CURSIVE was for lazy people who couldn't learn to quickly write LEGIBLE and CONSISTENT block writing.
If I had to, I think I could draft write about as fast as many people could write handwriting cleanly.
The upcoming generation's ability to handle an ox-cart, shoe a horse, shoot a bow and arrow to hunt food for susitenence, and speak in ancient Sumerian in serious jeopardy as well.
So once we get these critical skills back into school cirriculum, and have THAT crisis handled, I'll worry about the cursive bit.
My first reaction was instead "Why do they need to tax this? What unseen costs are they incurring that requires the government to levy a charge against that service in order to defray its cost?"
I don't subscribe to the "well, it exists, it might as well be taxed for SOMETHING" school of thinking.
Quite often, the act of comprehending what a bit of "reusable" code is doing exactly takes nearly exactly as long as writing a working example oneself from specification...
And usually, you DO have to comprehend what it does, even when it's supposed to be "opaque"... If only to understand the caveats of performance of the code in question. (Memory use most commonly.)
Yeah, as a Socal resident, I can heartily say that El Segundo would be among my LAST choices to live. That being said, I know where they are talking about, and it isn't the industrial area near the airport that most people are thinking of, I don't think even the most amoral realtor sponsored list could pass THAT part off as a "fine place to live".
After doing the "leave Monday return Friday" thing for 9 months in a row, I can tell you exactly what I want in a hotel room on the rainy Thursday nights that I'm just NOT going out in:
1. A small kitchenette. Preferably something with a toaster for pop tarts. 2. A TV capable of getting a reasonable subset of cable... Something that appears to be a little miracle to acheive in San Jose, BTW. 3. A decent chair to sit in, maybe for the laptop, but more often than not, NOT. 4. A shower with hot water. 5. Clean bed.
Everything else is unnecessary. Broadband is nice sometimes, I suppose, but quite often by the 8pm or 9pm that I left work, I didn't have much use for computers anymore.
Actually, it was the Extended Stays, or the week that I spent at a Residence Inn, that I felt best at... The weeks I spent at Hiltons or other "luxury hotels" actually were the least enjoyable (why they couldn't get me back at the Residence Inns, I dunno, other than the one they booked me at was at the absolute south end of San Jose and the bay area, which created a very bad temptation for me every night to just keep driving down the 101 and not stop.)
Better yet, come out to the San Bernardino valley, where all of LA's smog REALLY ends up, and say that with a straight face...
Its so much fun living in the country's worst air. I'm glad things are getting better (we don't get nearly as many 1st stage alerts as we did when I was young, and I haven't seen a 2nd stage in a few years) but frankly, I'd prefer that the trend continue. ZEV and NEVs definitely interest people around here. Should have seen the neighborhood turn out when the guy next door brought home a GEM here a few weeks back.
My only problem with it: No side doors for when its rainy.
A place I worked at a few years (about 5-6 I guess) ago kept their databases on VMS systems completely in RAM... It was a couple terabytes at the time I think, and took up a good section of the data center floor...
And when you talk about RAM failure rates, though, you have to take into account power failure, power supply failure, and wiring glitches, which of course, they did there. Redundant UPSes of redundant UPSses, and the largest generator I'd ever seen, and ever did see afterwards, (even at much larger installations)...
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Do you think somehow because the government would be doing it, that it would be free, and always work, and there would be no need for support? If the government did it, you could expect that it would be expensive (and that we WOULD bear the costs, the taxpaying WE at least) and that the bureaucracy for running it would be byzantine to say the least.
The billing MIGHT be simpler, since you'd probably only get it once a year due on April 15th.
In your above sentence "Unless we get ubiquitous, free WiFi access courtesy of the government, any nationwide WiFI coverage will involve lots of money, lots of billing, big companies, and hence big bureaucracies." please replace "Unless" with "Especially" in order to provide clarity and factual correctness.
Thank you. That is all. And yes, I am smiling when I type this.
Yep, it definitely was the Apple. Very nice, if a bit simple at times, and definitely with a superiority complex chip on its shoulder. They had George Plympton pimping the dang thing, after all. That being said, I enjoyed the fleet battle game for it quite a bit, and Frog Bog. :)
But I think I liked my ColecoVision better.
I suppose, but isn't a total package sort of thing? If the vendor-specific compilers are truly producing faster binaries, then I kind of hope when the time comes, that purchased application X is built with it.
I agree there is some validity in testing the CPU by itself, although I've long since departed out of the depths of geekdom when it comes to that. I tend to get more excited by the "encodes MPEG4 video stream in 6 minutes compared to 10" type benchmarks.
I guess I have a hard time having "fun" with any group of people who are making very serious legal claims that affect my general livelihood, and who have threatened on more than one occasion to get us lousy Linux USERS next. This isn't a football game, its a corporation talking about suing for REAL money. This isn't to say that people should get nasty, but I'm not going to forget that these people are very much NOT my friends.
I've been eyeing the Samsung i700 for a bit... Do you think it'll be upgradeable to 2003? I guess the big draw of 2003 for me from the article is the better Web browser. My companies web site makes a fair amount of use of CSS, and I recently redid all my personal websites in XHTML 1.0 with CSS...
One manager of mine with a certain contract insists we use the "NSF file system" (redundancies AND misorderings) so much that just to irk him, I've referred to it as the National Science Foundation File System in more than a few emails and meetings.
I think that perhaps you're a bit optimistic in thinking there are far more "FOSS" programmers than "proprietary" programmers. Plus, its an artificial distinction without any real basis for comparison. Somedays I'm programming Open Source, somedays, not so much. Heck, I'm pretty sure that Linus has been doing some proprietary stuff for Transmeta these past couple years.
Here are two things I personally know you wouldn't be able to do tomorrow if that AIX thing went through, and probably wouldn't be able to do for MONTHS, since a porting effort would be involved.
* File health claims with a major healthcare company. Heck, actually because payroll runs on AIX for that company too, you could expect them to have trouble even doing ANY business for a while.
* Have instant tracking of location and resources for 911 calls for many major cities. You'd still be able to make 911 calls (they all have backup procedures) but quite often this would be a punch-card system from 20+ years ago. Response times, particularly in "heavy activity" areas...
Sounds to me like SCO's statements could be construed as threatening public safety.
No, some are worse. Try a Southwest cattle call sometime. :) OK, maybe the flight attendants are not so bad, but those seats cause me serious pain.
Seems like, especially today, that some dedicated people are doing their best to keep that site away from America's impressionable eyes as well.
True, although the locale-lang thing seems to be more of a general "people don't quite get how its supposed to be set" thing... Spamd from spamassassin had similar problems with the LANG setting.
Oh, but as to my real point for posting this:
ALSA: freshrpms.net. Don't go through the pain yourself.
Without getting into the terms of the NDA I'm currently under, I've recently dealt with a company that's making a commercial software product to be deployed on top of RedHat Linux (they've already decided to use RedHat for the ubiquity and the name)... Now they're having to figure out whether to require ES or just plain old RedHat. They're dealing with Fortune 500 companies, and only a few dozen installations per company at most, and the end product is supposed to be as turn key as possible, and will likely be deployed for 5 years at least... So guess which one I think they should recommend/require?
The keyboard issue is probably one reason why so much of the Japanese I see now is more and more in katakana and not hiragana.
Well, I took drafting, and that forever eliminated cursive writing for me, since the teacher there put for the assumption that CURSIVE was for lazy people who couldn't learn to quickly write LEGIBLE and CONSISTENT block writing.
If I had to, I think I could draft write about as fast as many people could write handwriting cleanly.
The upcoming generation's ability to handle an ox-cart, shoe a horse, shoot a bow and arrow to hunt food for susitenence, and speak in ancient Sumerian in serious jeopardy as well.
So once we get these critical skills back into school cirriculum, and have THAT crisis handled, I'll worry about the cursive bit.
My first reaction was instead "Why do they need to tax this? What unseen costs are they incurring that requires the government to levy a charge against that service in order to defray its cost?"
I don't subscribe to the "well, it exists, it might as well be taxed for SOMETHING" school of thinking.
Quite often, the act of comprehending what a bit of "reusable" code is doing exactly takes nearly exactly as long as writing a working example oneself from specification...
And usually, you DO have to comprehend what it does, even when it's supposed to be "opaque"... If only to understand the caveats of performance of the code in question. (Memory use most commonly.)
But you'd have to admit: he'd be very very clean.
That, and 102 C would be a live steam jet.
Yeah, as a Socal resident, I can heartily say that El Segundo would be among my LAST choices to live. That being said, I know where they are talking about, and it isn't the industrial area near the airport that most people are thinking of, I don't think even the most amoral realtor sponsored list could pass THAT part off as a "fine place to live".
After doing the "leave Monday return Friday" thing for 9 months in a row, I can tell you exactly what I want in a hotel room on the rainy Thursday nights that I'm just NOT going out in:
1. A small kitchenette. Preferably something with a toaster for pop tarts.
2. A TV capable of getting a reasonable subset of cable... Something that appears to be a little miracle to acheive in San Jose, BTW.
3. A decent chair to sit in, maybe for the laptop, but more often than not, NOT.
4. A shower with hot water.
5. Clean bed.
Everything else is unnecessary. Broadband is nice sometimes, I suppose, but quite often by the 8pm or 9pm that I left work, I didn't have much use for computers anymore.
Actually, it was the Extended Stays, or the week that I spent at a Residence Inn, that I felt best at... The weeks I spent at Hiltons or other "luxury hotels" actually were the least enjoyable (why they couldn't get me back at the Residence Inns, I dunno, other than the one they booked me at was at the absolute south end of San Jose and the bay area, which created a very bad temptation for me every night to just keep driving down the 101 and not stop.)
And milk and cookies and candy for dinner every day, and a PONY!
I want a PONY, dangit!
Better yet, come out to the San Bernardino valley, where all of LA's smog REALLY ends up, and say that with a straight face...
Its so much fun living in the country's worst air. I'm glad things are getting better (we don't get nearly as many 1st stage alerts as we did when I was young, and I haven't seen a 2nd stage in a few years) but frankly, I'd prefer that the trend continue. ZEV and NEVs definitely interest people around here. Should have seen the neighborhood turn out when the guy next door brought home a GEM here a few weeks back.
My only problem with it: No side doors for when its rainy.
A place I worked at a few years (about 5-6 I guess) ago kept their databases on VMS systems completely in RAM... It was a couple terabytes at the time I think, and took up a good section of the data center floor...
And when you talk about RAM failure rates, though, you have to take into account power failure, power supply failure, and wiring glitches, which of course, they did there. Redundant UPSes of redundant UPSses, and the largest generator I'd ever seen, and ever did see afterwards, (even at much larger installations)...