Yep.. Some of living in rural areas with crappy copper are lucky to get 21.6K and usually only 19.2K. I'm going to be royally pissed win I have to waste download time for an advertisment I'm not interested in. The world is completely broadband yet.
Damn.. I wish I had moderator points right now. Mod this guy up..
Consumers *may* be dolts, but don't fuck with their music. I've got a number of computer semi-illiterates that would be very pissed if they couldn't play their Britney Spears album on the cup holder built into their computer.
Old farts that complained when a group of us brought up Linux/AX.25 networks on packet radio. Because they didn't know/didn't care to learn how to filter out the tcp/ip packets, we were screwing up the dot matrix printers which they used to make running logs.
Old farts on voice getting upset when you tried to use "their" frequency to do something other than talk about the latest disease/death/perscription.
There were a lot of helpful and knowledgable men and women in Amateur Radio also, but it just got to be fun dealing with the minority.
I have to agree. I've held an Amateur Radio license twice in the past 30 years (WB7RHQ and N7PWF) and in both cases the old farts (and it has nothing to do with age) have ruined whatever interest I might have had.
I'm truly surprised that this proposal has reached this far. I used to constantly listen to the arguments that Morse Code was a necessary hurdle to prevent the riff-raff from entering the hobby. Morse Code was never a problem for me - I passed 20WPM to graduate from Naval Radioman School in 1966 - but only attempted to use it twice. Good Riddance.
This past weekend, I attended a local Tractor Pull - http://www.oldhippy.org/Pull.html - in which one of the pulling classes was marked 'BFT'. When I asked on of the kids standing around what that meant, he replied with a straight face 'Big Farm Tractor'.
Kids... Not only is 20 WPM reachable, those of us old enough to have been required to learn Morse Code during US Navy Radioman Tech School (class of 1966), were required to pass 20 WPM on a manual typewriter to graduate. And it's still the last refuge of communication during truly crappy atmospheric conditions.
Both David Gelernter and Michael Dertouzos, Director - Laboratory for Computer Science MIT, were on NPR's Science Friday this afternoon.
I listened to most of it and it was a typical 'academics predicting the future' show. No obvious concept of the real world.
One discussion was about how this large block of illiterate people out there can't use computers, but that would all be solved with speech recognition. No plans for fixing the problem of literacy, no concept of the deeper problems of literacy, just wait for the talking computers.
I'm surpised it took this long for anybody to say Linux. I've been using Linux since 0.12. No hard drive, no login, just boot into a shell. It was a great hack then and it still is.
Both systems require knowledge and time to maintain. I'm sysadmin on a number of NT4.0 systems _and_ a number of Linux boxes. The NT systems require constant attention and the Linux boxes (after initial configuration) run along quietly on their own.
From my perspective, NT is the costlier of the two.
The choices seemed pretty slim to me and I think the guys made the best choice. They continue to control the content without worrying about how to finance it.
Good luck guys and I hope to see a continually improving/.
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Actually, they don't need a google bomb. The top link on a search for Stupidest Internet Lawyer is a Sponsored Link for guess who...
Your mom is probably right.. Though it seems that most male knitters are gay and are not interested young eligible women.
Still, being straight and a male knitter gets a lot of attention. Trust me...
I really need to start using 'Preview'.. The world isn't completely broadband yet.
Yep.. Some of living in rural areas with crappy copper are lucky to get 21.6K and usually only 19.2K. I'm going to be royally pissed win I have to waste download time for an advertisment I'm not interested in. The world is completely broadband yet.
Sorry Linus... But I've seen better mug shots.
Other than that a typical Linus interview. You have to hear him in person to understand *some* of his humor.
Damn.. I wish I had moderator points right now. Mod this guy up..
Consumers *may* be dolts, but don't fuck with their music. I've got a number of computer semi-illiterates that would be very pissed if they couldn't play their Britney Spears album on the cup holder built into their computer.
Old farts that complained when a group of us brought up Linux/AX.25 networks on packet radio. Because they didn't know/didn't care to learn how to filter out the tcp/ip packets, we were screwing up the dot matrix printers which they used to make running logs.
Old farts on voice getting upset when you tried to use "their" frequency to do something other than talk about the latest disease/death/perscription.
There were a lot of helpful and knowledgable men and women in Amateur Radio also, but it just got to be fun dealing with the minority.
I have to agree. I've held an Amateur Radio license twice in the past 30 years (WB7RHQ and N7PWF) and in both cases the old farts (and it has nothing to do with age) have ruined whatever interest I might have had.
I'm truly surprised that this proposal has reached this far. I used to constantly listen to the arguments that Morse Code was a necessary hurdle to prevent the riff-raff from entering the hobby. Morse Code was never a problem for me - I passed 20WPM to graduate from Naval Radioman School in 1966 - but only attempted to use it twice. Good Riddance.
This past weekend, I attended a local Tractor Pull - http://www.oldhippy.org/Pull.html - in which one of the pulling classes was marked 'BFT'. When I asked on of the kids standing around what that meant, he replied with a straight face 'Big Farm Tractor'.
Kids... Not only is 20 WPM reachable, those of us old enough to have been required to learn Morse Code during US Navy Radioman Tech School (class of 1966), were required to pass 20 WPM on a manual typewriter to graduate. And it's still the last refuge of communication during truly crappy atmospheric conditions.
Both David Gelernter and Michael Dertouzos, Director - Laboratory for Computer Science MIT, were on NPR's Science Friday this afternoon.
I listened to most of it and it was a typical 'academics predicting the future' show. No obvious concept of the real world.
One discussion was about how this large block of illiterate people out there can't use computers, but that would all be solved with speech recognition. No plans for fixing the problem of literacy, no concept of the deeper problems of literacy, just wait for the talking computers.
Furrfu!
Jerry
The Slime Mold hits! You die!
I'm surpised it took this long for anybody to say Linux. I've been using Linux since 0.12. No hard drive, no login, just boot into a shell. It was a great hack then and it still is.
Jerry
May I suggest that any domain registration site that requires a graphics browser is broken, by definition.
Jerry
So, who's maintaining your NT boxes?
Both systems require knowledge and time to maintain. I'm sysadmin on a number of NT4.0 systems _and_ a number of Linux boxes. The NT systems require constant attention and the Linux boxes (after initial configuration) run along quietly on their own.
From my perspective, NT is the costlier of the two.
My two frog-pelts.
Furrfu! Another group of examples of why Linux users keep getting a black eye.
Nice article, by the way. Having met Bob at two different LUG meetings, I think he's the best evangelist to the Corporate community.
Jerry
Give me a break.
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The choices seemed pretty slim to me and I think the guys made the best choice. They continue to control the content without worrying about how to finance it.
Good luck guys and I hope to see a continually improving
Jerry