And what would you get out of the manufacturers' listed specs? "Up to 1,000 pictures from a charge." This would be under a highly-contrived environment that could never be duplicated in real life. Up to is a magical phrase meaning "somewhere way under this number under normal conditions" that is represented as meaning "usually this number." That's why there are sites like dpreview...to give us the straight dope on what the cameras can do...not just what the makers say they can do.
I've had too many 50 page ink cartridges (that say "up to 300 pages" or something like that)...and other similar experiences to take manufacturers' longevity specs to mean anything in real life usage. Their specs are maxed out under tests made especially for maxing out the specs. They don't tell you anything about what you can actually expect.
Does it really increase the probablility of finding a vulnerability? The efforts of those seeking vulnerabilities will be divided between the two servers instead of concentrated on one. So their overall vulnerability finding pace should be about the same I would think. It's just become a 50/50 chance on where they'll find a vulnerability next, instead of a 100% assurance that the next vulnerability will be found in BIND.
No...they're not the same browser. Links renders pages with frames or tables (most any site these days) in a readable format...lynx...still doesn't. I'm not sure where usability became "bloat". And how many MHz is that 386 that links is slowing "to a grinding halt"?
"SBC wouldn't invest in expansive broadband deployment in the state."
Because with standing regulations they then have to turn around and resell the lines to their competitors for less than it costs them (SBC) to install and maintain them. Said competitors then turn around and sell those lines to SBC's largest customers cheaper than SBC can. Why would they want to give them the chance? This isn't the monopoly of yesteryear where they were the only telco in town. The others just don't want to put the investment into their own lines...it's cheaper to leech. I can't blame them. It's good economics. But you can't blame SBC for not offering any other veins for them to suck dry.
"The big losers today are the people of Kansas"
Unless Kansas can either get their government to pay for the broadband lines or convince some other telco besides SBC to actually invest any money in equipment, they don't get broadband.
"They lost the opportunity to keep pace with other states"
Other states that favor level fields where everyone who uses the new lines has to pay for the new lines, not just the ones who put them in the ground.
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Yeah, the big corporations are all out to get you personally, but if it weren't for the big corporations big investment bucks, you wouldn't get any of your favorite toys...because the little shops don't have the money...and the medium shops are run by people as greedy as the big corporations and don't have the spare cash after over-paying their upper-management.
I think being able to read several people's hard drives every day would be a good thing. Say...for off-site backup...for several computers. It'd be nice if it could take several minutes instead of several hours. Yes, incremental backups help cut down the traffic some after the initial backup, but they still take quite awhile if you're working in graphics/publishing/video or other areas that create several hundred MB or GB of new data daily. And even outside of these areas, if you have several computers needing backed up, the time adds up fast.
I was wondering how long it would be from the time Bush took office (and left the Clinton/Gore approach of "fund the Internet to build it up, but keep it hands off as much as possible") to the time big companies (brick-and-mortar types) started getting their way legally.
What does charging tax have to do with the big companies getting their way? The big companies don't get any of the tax money. I can just imagine they were all pushing for this since it would mean more paperwork and hassle on their part...to keep track of sales tax laws in every state. Yep, this is the big companies getting their way.
Guess that shows how much I read.
I've not ever lived in any place that had utilities (except water) run by anyone but large corporations. Didn't know they were out there.
Points taken.
Suuure they plan to just break even...'til they corner the market. No company goes into a venture to "just break even". There's no point in it...and you can't sell that to shareholders.
...we'll let Epson sue Hammermill for reverse engineering the paper specification for their printers and making Epson-like paper....we'll let the auto companies sue the states for creating roads compatible with their vehicles instead of letting them sell their own toll roads which were made right for their vehicles.
And how small were his "bonuses", "commissions", "stock options", etc. etc.? A lot of CEOs make a lot more compensation off of those than their "salary". So that even if they were only making $1/year in salary...they'd still be taking home more than 10 or 20 other employees put together.
Sure...Apple doesn't publish anything else but a gray version of aqua. They're proud of their interface and want everyone to use it. So what? You can download/create your own themes if you'd like.
Check out the 3rd-party utilities and web sites to get what you'd like:
Are the themes as varied yet as something like Kaleidoscope allowed on pre OS X? Of course not. But the appearance themes aren't near as limited as you think.
Help! The big mean company who spent thousands of dollars on programming and just gave me the results for free won't give me the documentation they spent thousands of dollars paying a writer to create. That does it! I'm never spending another cent with them again! They'll regret losing me as a customer! That'll show 'em!
Since when do you have "freedom of speech" on somebody else's property (in this case AOL's chat servers)?
It's only an attack on free speech if somebody is keeping you from expressing your opinion on your own property with your own penny. AOL won't stop you from creating your own community without the restrictions they may have...where you can say what you like (within legal bounds for slander, etc.).
This isn't a freedom of speech issue any more than it would be a freedom of speech issue if you refused to let someone send a hateful e-mail using your computer.
I find it rather ironic that you rant about the lack of mature programming while your signature proclaims "They can make me grow old, but they sure as hell can't make me grow up."
For the phone companies to deploy DSL everywhere would require them to make much the same decision -- push fiber deep into their distribution network and use copper pairs for the last few thousand feet. IIRC (I used to do this type of study for a living), the costs associated with doing that result in a service that needs to be priced at about $100/month.
Which is exactly why they haven't done this. Because of current telecom regulation and tarrifing, the telcos would make the costly upgrades and still be required to wholesale (lease) their lines to their competitors for less than it costs to install and maintain them. Where's the motivation in a losing investment?
Cable companies could install the necessary equipment without worry. Their competitors have to lay their own lines if they want access. There's no regulation on the cable companies requiring them to share their lines wholesale for a low price. So they can upgrade all they want because they know that they'll get their money back.
POSIX is all fine and dandy, but not a be all and end all measurement of a perfect system.
As for case sensitivity..I don't think any normal desktop system has any business being case sensitive. Getting users to find the proper files on their hard drives is hard enough without having to say...
"Click on the file called 'Control File'. No, not that one, the one with that's capitalized."
Normal humans just don't see a difference between the two words 'control' and 'Control'. They're the same word. With the ability to have 250-ish character file names, if you can't find some way to differentiate your file names with something besides character case, you need to take a break from your computer or something.
The "window environment" is definately cleaner than an X-Windows system. "Aqua," which is pretty much the entire OS X interface outside of the command-line is more integrated with the entire system than any GUI on Linux. But then Apple has always made it possible (up 'til OS X, mandatory) to cover the underpinnings of the OS and do everything from the GUI. That's still possible, but not not mandatory. so I guess better integration and consistancy between the GUI and the nuts 'n' bolts is a big plus.
As I said, OS X doesn't use X-windows, but with the unix underpinnings, X-Windows was quickly ported to OS X. So you can actually be running X-Windows apps...along side Aqua/OS X-native apps...along side of command-line apps...with no problems.
Actually, it's not Preview.app that has this ability, but Image Capture. The same app that can grab images from your digital camera can also grab them from the scanner.
I don't know where you do your laundry, but at the laundromat I go to I pay only $.75 for a washer-load of socks (I would say a minimum of 40 pairs of socks would fit in there) and another $.75 to dry them all.
If you're paying $40 (plus tax) to have a load of socks done, you have some serious expendable income...not to mention an incredible talent for finding over-priced laundering facilities.
Unfortunately, I've only seen clients for OS X and not servers...unless you count the ones that run under X11 under OS X (i.e. a BSD VNC, not really OS X VNC).
If anyone has a real VNC server for OS X, I'd love to know about it.
That would be it. I had cookies off...no go. Turned cookies on...the web page magically appeared.
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I haven't looked at the speed of either of these two specific machines, but when I compared the speeds of a x86 architecture and Apple's PPC architecture on RC5 a couple of years ago (running Linux and MacOS 8 respectively), there was a similar speed difference.
This is just the particular kind of calculation that the PPC excels at. The x86 has its strong areas, but this isn't one of them.
Despite all the bile that's been spewed up here, this has nothing to do with end user consumer rights. No one is attempting to restrict personal editing here. The changes aren't being made for personal use.
They are set up, however, in such a way that all of the renters are members of a group that does own the videos that they "rent". Agreed, this is kind of a way of circumventing the law.
But that isn't the only issue. Read the article. Personal editing is at risk. As quoted from Salon:
In a federal lawsuit, the guild is requesting an injunction against 13 companies that either rent movies that have been edited or sell software that allows consumers, through computers or DVD players, to edit movies themselves. [epmphasis mine]
The issue isn't as cut and dry as you'd like to believe.
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I've had too many 50 page ink cartridges (that say "up to 300 pages" or something like that)...and other similar experiences to take manufacturers' longevity specs to mean anything in real life usage. Their specs are maxed out under tests made especially for maxing out the specs. They don't tell you anything about what you can actually expect.
Does it really increase the probablility of finding a vulnerability? The efforts of those seeking vulnerabilities will be divided between the two servers instead of concentrated on one. So their overall vulnerability finding pace should be about the same I would think. It's just become a 50/50 chance on where they'll find a vulnerability next, instead of a 100% assurance that the next vulnerability will be found in BIND.
No...they're not the same browser. Links renders pages with frames or tables (most any site these days) in a readable format...lynx...still doesn't. I'm not sure where usability became "bloat". And how many MHz is that 386 that links is slowing "to a grinding halt"?
Because with standing regulations they then have to turn around and resell the lines to their competitors for less than it costs them (SBC) to install and maintain them. Said competitors then turn around and sell those lines to SBC's largest customers cheaper than SBC can. Why would they want to give them the chance? This isn't the monopoly of yesteryear where they were the only telco in town. The others just don't want to put the investment into their own lines...it's cheaper to leech. I can't blame them. It's good economics. But you can't blame SBC for not offering any other veins for them to suck dry.
"The big losers today are the people of Kansas"
Unless Kansas can either get their government to pay for the broadband lines or convince some other telco besides SBC to actually invest any money in equipment, they don't get broadband.
"They lost the opportunity to keep pace with other states"
Other states that favor level fields where everyone who uses the new lines has to pay for the new lines, not just the ones who put them in the ground.
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Yeah, the big corporations are all out to get you personally, but if it weren't for the big corporations big investment bucks, you wouldn't get any of your favorite toys...because the little shops don't have the money...and the medium shops are run by people as greedy as the big corporations and don't have the spare cash after over-paying their upper-management.
I think being able to read several people's hard drives every day would be a good thing. Say...for off-site backup...for several computers. It'd be nice if it could take several minutes instead of several hours. Yes, incremental backups help cut down the traffic some after the initial backup, but they still take quite awhile if you're working in graphics/publishing/video or other areas that create several hundred MB or GB of new data daily. And even outside of these areas, if you have several computers needing backed up, the time adds up fast.
Yep, it was 80's...around 1985 - 1987. You can get more info from The Internet Movie Database , of course.
Guess that shows how much I read. I've not ever lived in any place that had utilities (except water) run by anyone but large corporations. Didn't know they were out there. Points taken.
Suuure they plan to just break even...'til they corner the market. No company goes into a venture to "just break even". There's no point in it...and you can't sell that to shareholders.
...we'll let Epson sue Hammermill for reverse engineering the paper specification for their printers and making Epson-like paper. ...we'll let the auto companies sue the states for creating roads compatible with their vehicles instead of letting them sell their own toll roads which were made right for their vehicles.
And how small were his "bonuses", "commissions", "stock options", etc. etc.? A lot of CEOs make a lot more compensation off of those than their "salary". So that even if they were only making $1/year in salary...they'd still be taking home more than 10 or 20 other employees put together.
Check out the 3rd-party utilities and web sites to get what you'd like:
- ThemePark : Theme design utility
- Duality : A theme changing and checking utility
- Catalyst : A theme creation utility (recommended for use with ThemePark)
- MetamorphX : Another theme switching utility
- ThemePark : Theme design utility
- ResExcellence Themes page : Get your OS X appearance themes here
Are the themes as varied yet as something like Kaleidoscope allowed on pre OS X? Of course not. But the appearance themes aren't near as limited as you think.Oh wait...I never did spend any money with them.
I think it's more along the lines of someone giving you a car and you complaining that they didn't give you free driving lessons as well.
It's only an attack on free speech if somebody is keeping you from expressing your opinion on your own property with your own penny. AOL won't stop you from creating your own community without the restrictions they may have...where you can say what you like (within legal bounds for slander, etc.).
This isn't a freedom of speech issue any more than it would be a freedom of speech issue if you refused to let someone send a hateful e-mail using your computer.
So which is it you want...mature or not?
Which is exactly why they haven't done this. Because of current telecom regulation and tarrifing, the telcos would make the costly upgrades and still be required to wholesale (lease) their lines to their competitors for less than it costs to install and maintain them. Where's the motivation in a losing investment?
Cable companies could install the necessary equipment without worry. Their competitors have to lay their own lines if they want access. There's no regulation on the cable companies requiring them to share their lines wholesale for a low price. So they can upgrade all they want because they know that they'll get their money back.
POSIX is all fine and dandy, but not a be all and end all measurement of a perfect system.
As for case sensitivity..I don't think any normal desktop system has any business being case sensitive. Getting users to find the proper files on their hard drives is hard enough without having to say...
"Click on the file called 'Control File'. No, not that one, the one with that's capitalized."
Normal humans just don't see a difference between the two words 'control' and 'Control'. They're the same word. With the ability to have 250-ish character file names, if you can't find some way to differentiate your file names with something besides character case, you need to take a break from your computer or something.
The "window environment" is definately cleaner than an X-Windows system. "Aqua," which is pretty much the entire OS X interface outside of the command-line is more integrated with the entire system than any GUI on Linux. But then Apple has always made it possible (up 'til OS X, mandatory) to cover the underpinnings of the OS and do everything from the GUI. That's still possible, but not not mandatory. so I guess better integration and consistancy between the GUI and the nuts 'n' bolts is a big plus.
As I said, OS X doesn't use X-windows, but with the unix underpinnings, X-Windows was quickly ported to OS X. So you can actually be running X-Windows apps...along side Aqua/OS X-native apps...along side of command-line apps...with no problems.
Actually, it's not Preview.app that has this ability, but Image Capture. The same app that can grab images from your digital camera can also grab them from the scanner.
I don't know where you do your laundry, but at the laundromat I go to I pay only $.75 for a washer-load of socks (I would say a minimum of 40 pairs of socks would fit in there) and another $.75 to dry them all.
If you're paying $40 (plus tax) to have a load of socks done, you have some serious expendable income...not to mention an incredible talent for finding over-priced laundering facilities.
...OS X...
Unfortunately, I've only seen clients for OS X and not servers...unless you count the ones that run under X11 under OS X (i.e. a BSD VNC, not really OS X VNC).
If anyone has a real VNC server for OS X, I'd love to know about it.
That would be it. I had cookies off...no go. Turned cookies on...the web page magically appeared.
I haven't looked at the speed of either of these two specific machines, but when I compared the speeds of a x86 architecture and Apple's PPC architecture on RC5 a couple of years ago (running Linux and MacOS 8 respectively), there was a similar speed difference.
This is just the particular kind of calculation that the PPC excels at. The x86 has its strong areas, but this isn't one of them.
But that isn't the only issue. Read the article. Personal editing is at risk. As quoted from Salon
The issue isn't as cut and dry as you'd like to believe.