It's the small offices that can most benefit by weaning themselves from MicroSoft's Milk. MySQL and Postgress are free alternatives to Access and/or M$SQL.
Now, if your state or city has laws preventing other cable companies from moving into your area, there's something for you to protest. If other cable companies just don't choose to do it, however, that's your problem, not the government's. Start your own cable company.
All areas are served by one cable company, as is electric and telephone utilities. Back at the turn of the century (1900) the streets began to be flooded with telephone poles and wires everywhere. To end the morass, governments decided to let just one company serve one area.
The free market is not always the best way to serve the public. I'm of the opinion that the cable lines should be owned by the government, and that cable companies could license channels just like they do the airways.
As things are now, cable TV is a sham and a scam. The majority of the channels available are either pay-per view, or premium movies or shopping networks.
What's even worse is cable internet. Instead of the cable companies selling you an IP number, they sell you junk you probably don't need (web space, newsfeed, email address) and do so at a premium price. Dialup ISPs have no chance to get into the lucrative cable internet market. It is a closed, protected monopoly.
This has been happening a lot over the past few months:
ring ring
Mbait: Hello?
HPperson: Hi, this is HPperson. Our mail servers are down again. Could you please send that file to my home email account?
It seems some VP IT guy thinks Microsoft is God's gift to HP. Sure, they have made lots of money selling PC's, but to switch over such a big company to Exchange is madness.
But people have the right to do anything they fucking want on a computer and why don't you go piss on your own self righteousness. (flame)
Controlling the world is not an option for you or anybody else. Banning violent games.... them's fighting words! Freedom ALWAYS trumps your vision of social control.
If you like operating at 100% efficiently then that's fine. Just loosen your grasp on everybody else and you'll find that this universe is completely and utterly in balance.
There are plenty of 'serious' spelunkers who would want to take a crystal, or pee on one or run their hands all over the crystals.
Not all spelunkers are god's gift to caves. I'm hoping the cave owners will know enough to cordon off areas susceptable to human hand oils, and probably are smart enough to humidify the air in the cave. It's really not rocket science.
I use Linux because I got a book in 1995 about html. It had a Slackware CD in it.
Then a couple of months later I needed to buy a new printer and the one I wanted charged $375 for their ethernet card so I decided to get an old PC out of the closet and get a 486 motherboard and and 66 cpu for a lot less. I installed that Linux disk and added netatalk and used it as a print server with 8 megs of ram.
As the years go by, I simply get upgrades from the net and compile. Now I use all that fancy X stuff on another PC for HTML and my server is a 133 486 with 16 megs of ram. There is no root password here.
I bought Debian to put on the Mac, but it sucks. I don't use any of that distro security crap here because I don't need to. I don't want to spend hours cracking overbearing security crap on my own network just because some distro thinks everyone is running on a community college network. I removed Debian from my Mac.
So, I use Linux because I started with Linux. If I had started with a BSD, I'd proably be running BSD now. I bet the new BSD distros are loaded to the gills with Too Much Security crap.
What I'd like to see in interface design is movement away from iconification. We don't really need pictures of real things that maybe remind us of files or actions on our computer screen.
I'd like to see pictures that reflect the language of computer use. Apps are more like verbs, Documents are a sort of noun. Devices are proper nouns.
I'm enthused with some of the 3d windowing projects. I'd like to be able to move view ports away and toward me, and angle them if I chose to. We should be able to have view ports of non-running apps if we wish. Then the corresponding app can fire up when we decide to interact with it. Having a 3d interface could eliminate a lot of desktop 2d clutter.
Mice could be replaced by a tiny cordless ring that is put on the finger. That would be a HUGE improvement.
Anyway, OSX isn't really that great. I like the productivity of KDE2.
Yep. My impression. I finally got KDE2 a couple of weeks ago and it is great! I don't need Mozilla anymore. Kmail and Node are much better than the old KDE1.1 stuff.
I'd just like to see them post patches to move up to 2.2... I don't have broadband here.
blessings,
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I think Apple will be using Intel or AMD CPUs by this time next year, but it will be a closed arch of their own design. Apple already designs their own chipsets and makes most of their money off hardware sales.
Thus, they won't need to support a bunch of aftermarket PC items with drivers. They can keep their margins higher than if they merely slapped together a standard PC with a dirigible-like case.
If they don't I think Apple will really die off. Their dependence on Motorola is a noose around their neck.
Gosh. You get a book and a disk for $200. What kind of user interface is THAT!
The Microsoft way is akin to Random House Publishers attempting to control the totality of their books from start to finish. Can you imagine cubicle after cubicle staffed with authors? Book content invented in staff meetings, complete with slide show presentation -- flow charts and everything. I feel the waft of unbridled creativity!
But I'm a KDE2 user and find Wistler's interface really doesn't translate into greater productivity.
Americans are too lazy to unionize anymore. They're completely happy to work 60 hours a week on 'management salary'. No overtime pay, just some wishy-washy grey concept of ladder-climbing self flagellation. A promise of future riches as everytone somehow thinks THEY are going to become multimillionaires and will do so because they work very, very hard and beat themselves with lots of long hours.
Work for reward is stuck in the belief systems of many Americans. The reality is some actually get to be wealthy, but only a few. And mostly because of lady luck. And most who become wealthy are NOT HAPPY at all.
Kind of sad, really.
Happiness never happens because of external circumstances. Never.
Exactly my point. Drawings of underage people doing it is a very grey area. My point also is that underage teenagers do draw pictures of their age peers doing it.
It deserves a Supreme Court hearing. Even if the Supreme Court is packed with Nazis.
If a 16 year-old boy takes a picture of his 16 year-old girlfriend in the nude, or if he draws a picture of his girlfriend doing it with him, is that child pornography?
Right. I'm on a free email company that allows their users to use port 25000. Makes it very easy to bypass email blockers.
My girlfriend's ISP through her cable network just switched from ISPchannel to @home, but is handing her email services off to mail.com. SHe's already got an inbox full of spam from those piggys!
Woz invented a logic that made it inexpensive to put a floppy drive on a small computer. So maybe Jobs is still jealous. Or was it Jobs who invented the term, "sneakernet" and is still smarting from that one?
Smalltalk and other interpreted languages always have languished because of their speed. NeXT's use of Objective C was a good effort to speed up the smalltalk problem. NeXT's Interface Builder was was a genuine breakthrough.
Then there was Display PostScript. That should have been very bulky and cumbersome, but it ended up very smooth.
And the Cube shipped with that DSP chip which gave it excellent sound. And the music kit.
Then there was the super-automated factory to assemble their computers.
I think NeXT couldn't find a market niche. They were quickly (in the new age of RISC) too slow to be a competitive workstation, and too expensive to be a competitive business PC. By the time the Slab came out, most of the early, important commercial software ports had been withdrawn from the market.
And the optical disk idea was stupid.
Not to say NeXT was a failure. They were definitely a survivor.
You're not going to start with that crap again. MacOS 9 allows any app that needs SMP to use both processors just fine. Most apps that need that speed, such as photoshop, video editors, and mp3 encoders, take full advantage of both processors.
Yah. Doesn't Apple call that "Cooperative MultiProcessing"? You get to write your very own kernel if you want your app to use more than one CPU. Great fucking idea...
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blessings,
All areas are served by one cable company, as is electric and telephone utilities. Back at the turn of the century (1900) the streets began to be flooded with telephone poles and wires everywhere. To end the morass, governments decided to let just one company serve one area.
The free market is not always the best way to serve the public. I'm of the opinion that the cable lines should be owned by the government, and that cable companies could license channels just like they do the airways.
As things are now, cable TV is a sham and a scam. The majority of the channels available are either pay-per view, or premium movies or shopping networks.
What's even worse is cable internet. Instead of the cable companies selling you an IP number, they sell you junk you probably don't need (web space, newsfeed, email address) and do so at a premium price. Dialup ISPs have no chance to get into the lucrative cable internet market. It is a closed, protected monopoly.
blessings,
blessings,
ring ring
Mbait: Hello?
HPperson: Hi, this is HPperson. Our mail servers are down again. Could you please send that file to my home email account?
It seems some VP IT guy thinks Microsoft is God's gift to HP. Sure, they have made lots of money selling PC's, but to switch over such a big company to Exchange is madness.
blessings,
But people have the right to do anything they fucking want on a computer and why don't you go piss on your own self righteousness. (flame)
Controlling the world is not an option for you or anybody else. Banning violent games.... them's fighting words! Freedom ALWAYS trumps your vision of social control.
If you like operating at 100% efficiently then that's fine. Just loosen your grasp on everybody else and you'll find that this universe is completely and utterly in balance.
blessings,
blessings,
Not all spelunkers are god's gift to caves. I'm hoping the cave owners will know enough to cordon off areas susceptable to human hand oils, and probably are smart enough to humidify the air in the cave. It's really not rocket science.
blessings,
blessings,
http://www.heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3
blessings,
G4 video output is actually a low-end PC gamer card.
blessings,
Then a couple of months later I needed to buy a new printer and the one I wanted charged $375 for their ethernet card so I decided to get an old PC out of the closet and get a 486 motherboard and and 66 cpu for a lot less. I installed that Linux disk and added netatalk and used it as a print server with 8 megs of ram.
As the years go by, I simply get upgrades from the net and compile. Now I use all that fancy X stuff on another PC for HTML and my server is a 133 486 with 16 megs of ram. There is no root password here.
I bought Debian to put on the Mac, but it sucks. I don't use any of that distro security crap here because I don't need to. I don't want to spend hours cracking overbearing security crap on my own network just because some distro thinks everyone is running on a community college network. I removed Debian from my Mac.
So, I use Linux because I started with Linux. If I had started with a BSD, I'd proably be running BSD now. I bet the new BSD distros are loaded to the gills with Too Much Security crap.
blessings,
blessings,
I'd like to see pictures that reflect the language of computer use. Apps are more like verbs, Documents are a sort of noun. Devices are proper nouns.
I'm enthused with some of the 3d windowing projects. I'd like to be able to move view ports away and toward me, and angle them if I chose to. We should be able to have view ports of non-running apps if we wish. Then the corresponding app can fire up when we decide to interact with it. Having a 3d interface could eliminate a lot of desktop 2d clutter.
Mice could be replaced by a tiny cordless ring that is put on the finger. That would be a HUGE improvement.
Anyway, OSX isn't really that great. I like the productivity of KDE2.
blessings,
I'd just like to see them post patches to move up to 2.2... I don't have broadband here.
blessings,
Thus, they won't need to support a bunch of aftermarket PC items with drivers. They can keep their margins higher than if they merely slapped together a standard PC with a dirigible-like case.
If they don't I think Apple will really die off. Their dependence on Motorola is a noose around their neck.
blessings,
The Microsoft way is akin to Random House Publishers attempting to control the totality of their books from start to finish. Can you imagine cubicle after cubicle staffed with authors? Book content invented in staff meetings, complete with slide show presentation -- flow charts and everything. I feel the waft of unbridled creativity!
But I'm a KDE2 user and find Wistler's interface really doesn't translate into greater productivity.
blessings,
blessings,
Work for reward is stuck in the belief systems of many Americans. The reality is some actually get to be wealthy, but only a few. And mostly because of lady luck. And most who become wealthy are NOT HAPPY at all.
Kind of sad, really.
Happiness never happens because of external circumstances. Never.
Join the union and take some time off!
blessings,
It deserves a Supreme Court hearing. Even if the Supreme Court is packed with Nazis.
blessings,
If a 16 year-old boy takes a picture of his 16 year-old girlfriend in the nude, or if he draws a picture of his girlfriend doing it with him, is that child pornography?
blessings,
My girlfriend's ISP through her cable network just switched from ISPchannel to @home, but is handing her email services off to mail.com. SHe's already got an inbox full of spam from those piggys!
blessings,
blessings,
Then there was Display PostScript. That should have been very bulky and cumbersome, but it ended up very smooth.
And the Cube shipped with that DSP chip which gave it excellent sound. And the music kit.
Then there was the super-automated factory to assemble their computers.
I think NeXT couldn't find a market niche. They were quickly (in the new age of RISC) too slow to be a competitive workstation, and too expensive to be a competitive business PC. By the time the Slab came out, most of the early, important commercial software ports had been withdrawn from the market.
And the optical disk idea was stupid.
Not to say NeXT was a failure. They were definitely a survivor.
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,