Well, if we consider XP to be Windows 2001, then it looks like it's assuming that two years later, there will be an 'XP-2' or 'Windows 2003', and it's giving you the option of purchasing an upgrade, including, probably, a streaming install.
The horror...making it convenient and easy for end users to upgrade their OS. Those Micro$$$$oft BASTARDS!
And CAPTAIN POWER! WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP!
Really REALLY torqued me off when they never continued that show; I thought it was a powerful ending, what with Jennifer dying off and all. That show was WAY too good for ostensibly being nothing more than a vehicle to sell toys. And such cool toys at that.
Yeah, you're right. And if this were about patents, Adobe wouldn't have a leg to stand on. But it's about trademarks, not patents. And Adobe's right; calling an Illustrator-like program 'KIllustrator' seems to be a direct attempt to say, in effect, to the customer: "It's like Illustrator, only it runs under KDE!"
Take the GIMP; it's often referred to as a Photoshop clone. But it's not called 'KPhotoShop', or 'FreePhotoShop' or anything so Adobe doesn't care.
I use a RIM BlackBerry, which sends and recieves standard SMTP email. That means that any piece of software that does a 20 year old messaging standard automagically works.
Which means I can send and receive messages to/from all my servers, monitoring software, etc etc. Without needing to use extra programs, SMTP to SMS gateways, or anything. Nice.
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Actually, I think I did mean megabits...I need a nap, I think.
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Bits? Who said that? Bytes. DVDs clock in at a max of 10 megabytes/second. Average rates, of course, being 3 to 5.
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DVD video clocks in at 10 megabits; it's the equivalent of a 9 speed CD-ROM. Given that I've got a 5x DVD-ROM, I don't think DVD-Audio will exceed my IDE bus.
All it should take is decoder software.
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Afraid to allow them to be stupid and suffer their own natural consequences?
No, I'm afraid to allow them to be stupid, knowing that it's me and mine who suffer the natural consequences.
Now THAT would be kewl. Couple of years back, I lived in an appartment with a camera mounted in the lobby, pointing at the door w/ the intercom; it showed up on channel 2 if you were plugged into the building cable system. Obstensibly, it was so that you could tell who was asking you to buzz them in.
But you'd be surprised how many hours the wife and I spent just watching, making up voices, stories, all sorts of stuff, watching humanity flow past.
Same with people-watching at the mall, actually. I'd love something like this.....
I wouldn't be surprised; one of the 'great strengths' of Open Source software is also it's great weakness; sure, thousands and thousands of college kiddies are churning out code, but how many of them have multiprocessor sun boxes? Or big iron? And, of course, the pervasive idea that 'if it compiles, it's done...oh, and compiler warnings don't count.' QA is not one of OSS's strengths.
Oh, and if 'but who cares, because you have the source and can fix any problems you find,' then why have the fine folks at Slashdot NOT FIXED MySQL SUCH THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO REBOOT THE DATABASE SERVER OFTEN ENOUGH THAT IT'S THE FIRST PROBLEM TO COME TO MIND WHEN THEY NOTICE THE SITE'S DOWN?!
Ahem....I've calmed down now.
http://www.sunfreeware.com and it's in convenient pkg format as well. VERY sweet; first thing you need to make a solaris box usuable on a daily basis is the gzip packages.:-)
Ah, but if Intel supplies a compiler that does, say, 50 percent of the job for programmers, then sales go up. Sales go up, the programmers do the other 50 percent. Joy, bliss.
Q: Why do people think Microsoft software is poor?
A: Because it's unstable, unreliable, and requires frequent reboots.
Q: What do the editors and net-ops of OSDN, who run sites such as Slashdot, Freshmeat, and SourceForge, and cheerleaders for Open Source, assume is the first solution to any problems with their network?
A: REBOOT THE DATABASE! REBOOT THE FIREWALL! REBOOT THE ROUTER!
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Shadow Gallery, eh? Thanks, I'll have to check them out.
It never ceases to amaze me that I almost always hear about Queensryche and Dream Theater in the same breath. Loved Metropolis Part 2. They're a pretty amazing act, as well.
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If there are no federal laws on such things, it falls under state law, I believe. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, nor even American.
This is why companies bother to pick and choose what states they incorporate in...a texan company I used to work for (and is laying of more people as we speak) was incorporated in the state of Delaware, because Delaware has wonderful laws concerning corporations.
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I do agree that they should probably try SOMETHING before resorting to rebooting it, but it's the easiest way to tell if something is broke.</blockquote>
Actually, I'd say that looking at the logs and doing diagnostics is the easiest way to tell if something is broke, for a piece of hardware like Cisco. But oops, they wern't syslogging to a box (ideally with a dotmatrix printer; try cleaning THOSE logs, cracker-boy!) so they lost one of their best tools for finding out what went wrong.</P>
Is their proprietary stuff derivatie of GPL work? Probably not.
Doesn't bloody matter, mate. I could go download the Linux kernel right now, do a bulk replace of 'linux' with 'SuiteSisterMarix' and sell it to you for 1 MILLION doll-ars. But because it's derived from the GPL, the ONLY thing I couldn't do would be to prevent you from turning around and giving it away for free, or whatever you want. You could replace 'SuiteSisterMarix' with "Laplix" and sell it yourself, if you wanted.
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If I recall correctly, John Carmack has been politely asked not to return to certain casinos, after playing blackjack. :-)
The programs in question shouldn't be optimized, they should be representative of how it's commonly done. Big difference.
Well, if we consider XP to be Windows 2001, then it looks like it's assuming that two years later, there will be an 'XP-2' or 'Windows 2003', and it's giving you the option of purchasing an upgrade, including, probably, a streaming install. The horror...making it convenient and easy for end users to upgrade their OS. Those Micro$$$$oft BASTARDS!
And CAPTAIN POWER! WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP! Really REALLY torqued me off when they never continued that show; I thought it was a powerful ending, what with Jennifer dying off and all. That show was WAY too good for ostensibly being nothing more than a vehicle to sell toys. And such cool toys at that.
As I recall, when they made the show, they had no budget for doing any special effects or space shots, so all that footage was reused from the movie.
Yeah, you're right. And if this were about patents, Adobe wouldn't have a leg to stand on. But it's about trademarks, not patents. And Adobe's right; calling an Illustrator-like program 'KIllustrator' seems to be a direct attempt to say, in effect, to the customer: "It's like Illustrator, only it runs under KDE!" Take the GIMP; it's often referred to as a Photoshop clone. But it's not called 'KPhotoShop', or 'FreePhotoShop' or anything so Adobe doesn't care.
Censorship is either good or bad. Pick one.
I use a RIM BlackBerry, which sends and recieves standard SMTP email. That means that any piece of software that does a 20 year old messaging standard automagically works. Which means I can send and receive messages to/from all my servers, monitoring software, etc etc. Without needing to use extra programs, SMTP to SMS gateways, or anything. Nice.
Actually, I think I did mean megabits...I need a nap, I think.
Bits? Who said that? Bytes. DVDs clock in at a max of 10 megabytes/second. Average rates, of course, being 3 to 5.
DVD video clocks in at 10 megabits; it's the equivalent of a 9 speed CD-ROM. Given that I've got a 5x DVD-ROM, I don't think DVD-Audio will exceed my IDE bus. All it should take is decoder software.
Now THAT would be kewl. Couple of years back, I lived in an appartment with a camera mounted in the lobby, pointing at the door w/ the intercom; it showed up on channel 2 if you were plugged into the building cable system. Obstensibly, it was so that you could tell who was asking you to buzz them in. But you'd be surprised how many hours the wife and I spent just watching, making up voices, stories, all sorts of stuff, watching humanity flow past. Same with people-watching at the mall, actually. I'd love something like this.....
I wouldn't be surprised; one of the 'great strengths' of Open Source software is also it's great weakness; sure, thousands and thousands of college kiddies are churning out code, but how many of them have multiprocessor sun boxes? Or big iron? And, of course, the pervasive idea that 'if it compiles, it's done...oh, and compiler warnings don't count.' QA is not one of OSS's strengths. Oh, and if 'but who cares, because you have the source and can fix any problems you find,' then why have the fine folks at Slashdot NOT FIXED MySQL SUCH THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO REBOOT THE DATABASE SERVER OFTEN ENOUGH THAT IT'S THE FIRST PROBLEM TO COME TO MIND WHEN THEY NOTICE THE SITE'S DOWN?! Ahem....I've calmed down now.
http://www.sunfreeware.com and it's in convenient pkg format as well. VERY sweet; first thing you need to make a solaris box usuable on a daily basis is the gzip packages. :-)
I use Secret, myself, because it has a desktop companion app.
Ah, but if Intel supplies a compiler that does, say, 50 percent of the job for programmers, then sales go up. Sales go up, the programmers do the other 50 percent. Joy, bliss.
Q: Why do people think Microsoft software is poor?
A: Because it's unstable, unreliable, and requires frequent reboots. Q: What do the editors and net-ops of OSDN, who run sites such as Slashdot, Freshmeat, and SourceForge, and cheerleaders for Open Source, assume is the first solution to any problems with their network?
A: REBOOT THE DATABASE! REBOOT THE FIREWALL! REBOOT THE ROUTER!
Shadow Gallery, eh? Thanks, I'll have to check them out. It never ceases to amaze me that I almost always hear about Queensryche and Dream Theater in the same breath. Loved Metropolis Part 2. They're a pretty amazing act, as well.
If there are no federal laws on such things, it falls under state law, I believe. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, nor even American. This is why companies bother to pick and choose what states they incorporate in...a texan company I used to work for (and is laying of more people as we speak) was incorporated in the state of Delaware, because Delaware has wonderful laws concerning corporations.
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I do agree that they should probably try SOMETHING before resorting to rebooting it, but it's the easiest way to tell if something is broke.</blockquote>
Actually, I'd say that looking at the logs and doing diagnostics is the easiest way to tell if something is broke, for a piece of hardware like Cisco. But oops, they wern't syslogging to a box (ideally with a dotmatrix printer; try cleaning THOSE logs, cracker-boy!) so they lost one of their best tools for finding out what went wrong.</P>
The only thing worse than having no backups/redundancy is having backups/redundancy that you think will work, but, in fact, don't.
But I think that his point is that it's certainly NOT the FIRST BLOODY THING YOU DO. Cuz depending on what's wonky, it might not come back up at all.