I've been using Mozilla or proto-Mozilla since the days of the Mosaic browser. From time to time I briefly flirt with Internet Exploder, but immediately return to using Netscape and Firefox. This line of browsers has served me well for the last 15 years and I see no reason to switch now.
Anonymity is a time-honored tradition that dates-back as long as people have been writing. Anonymity is what allowed you to write a scroll without getting assassinated by Caesar Nero. It's what allowed the American Founders to publish "seditious" pamphlets without getting hung by British redcoats. It's what lets bloggers type their true thoughts without getting sent to Guantanamo Prison.
Without it speech is not truly free, because whatever government is in charge can track down the author and silence him. Anonymity makes it possible to avoid arrest.
>>>>it will suffer from the heavy weight of feature creep
Excellent point. I'm sure Vista started as a good OS (like XP), but it became so weighed down with extra features that it became slow as a dog. My brother has a PC identical to mine, but while my XP-PC runs nice and fast, his Vista PC runs like it has a floppy drive instead of a hard drive. Vista is crap.
What I'm curious to know: How does Windows 7 compare to XP? Anybody can design an OS faster than Vista; but will it be faster than XP? If the answer is "no" I'm sticking with XP.
The Wiimote is engineered to be thrown and/or swung around your hand. That's why Nintendo designers included the strap, in order to prevent the thing from flying off into space. The fact that the strap fails means they fraked up. Worse than a broken TV, somebody might get seriously hurt by the failure of this strap.
This is no different than any other toy that gets recalled due to dangerously-designed flaws.
Gasoline doesn't have to be gasoline. If demand for gasoline drops, the low-octane gasoline can be refined into diesel or home-heating oil, some of it can be converted to kerosene, and the rest used for plastics.
Manufacturers like Volkswagen, Ford, and Mercedes already build diesel cars that can burn biodiesel.
IMHO diesel is the future, not hydrogen. Diesel is the most-efficient form of energy, second only to solar which unfortunately has proven to be not practical (yet). So we'll trade-in our inefficient gassers for efficient diesel cars...... then sometime around 2020 diesel will be replaced with biodiesel made from home production (soybeans, corn, sugar cane, and waste products like coffee/french fry grease/scrap wood).
We will thus have eliminated most of our dependence on underground oil reserves, and instead fuel the economy using recently-grown plants or trees
They charge $15 a month for internet. The phone is required since DSL uses the lines, however by downgrading to "pay per call" service I reduced my bill to about $6 a month for the phone. That's $21 total.
COMCAST:
As far as I know they provide internet without the requirement for TV. The internet-only price is $60/month which is still high in my opinion but the speed is good (50 megabit/s). ----- If they did require TV services, I would downgrade to the $10 a month "limited" service which provides local-only channels.
That's fine for the UK - your rules are different. But here in my home country, the U.S. Supreme Court forbids that practice. If the police warrant says "Search for fugitive" but instead they find pornography, they may not prosecute the citizen. Mapp v. Ohio decided that is not allowed, for the purpose is to protect US and defend US from police harrassment.
Think about it:
Would you want the cops to say, "We're searching for an escaped convict in the area" and then scour every drawer, ever closet, every nook-and-cranny trying to find SOMETHING to prosecute you for (like illegal music/videos on your PC)??? That doesn't sound good to me.
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, that is exactly what it means. Mapp v. Ohio establishes that if the police are searching for one item (in this case a fugitive) may not then collect other items and prosecute for that crime (they found porn in the basement).
But the governments of this world routinely ignore law (obtain warrant naming specific evidence desired) and instead do exactly what you described - go on a fishing expedition. "Well we came here to get marijuana, but instead we discovered porn on your PC, so you go to jail buddy."
They do this same ____ in the U.S. with random searches of cars. They are supposed to be looking for illegal immigrants, but instead they bring in the dogs and have them sniff for marijuana/cocaine. Then they arrest you.
Well for me the simplest argument against democracy (rule by 50% +1) is the thought that it ignores the rights of the minorities. They have the same right to free speech as the majority does, but the majority could use its democratic power to crush & silence the minority voice.
This is why the United States and each individual State consist of a Republic (rule by laws). The Law can not be trumped with a simple vote. The Law is much harder to overturn, and slower, which helps protect the minority and the individual.
I have an old AMD K6 machine (333 megahertz). Would a free open-source OS (like Linux) run slower or faster than the current Windows 98 setup? Perhaps I should just stick with Win98.
Will Linux run Utorrent (the main purpose for this machine)??
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows.
Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft. Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I don't see any FPGA development suites listed on Mr. Perez's homepage. At $10,000 per package I guess that's not something programmers are willing to just give away.
I was led to believe I had to install Linux *first* before I could use OpenOffice. Now that makes me wonder what other free alternatives exist for common applications - like PowerPoint. Why waste money buying expensive software when I can just use zero-cost alternatives?
The picture is in midget form... a tiny 36 kilobytes! They probably had to make it that small to "squeeze" through the slow 28k modems of the day. The web has really grown in size since then - today's average APOD is 200 kilobytes.
If a milliwatt cellphone has the (potential) ability to cause DNA recombination errors & thereby mutant cells, what on earth would an 800 watt power wave do to you?!?!? Pass. It's bad enough my electric hybrid Honda bathes me with EM waves ever time I accelerate... I don't need my laptop doing it too.
>>>>>every time you step outdoors, the Sun bathes you in EM waves!
The What bathes me in waves? I need more info here to parse your sentence, because I am unfamiliar with that term "Sun".
>look It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
WITH open source, Apple will find itself in the same position as today's IBM. (looks at PC). Nope not an IBM and soon Iphone/Macintosh will not be apple if they go down this road.
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Pass.
I've been using Mozilla or proto-Mozilla since the days of the Mosaic browser. From time to time I briefly flirt with Internet Exploder, but immediately return to using Netscape and Firefox. This line of browsers has served me well for the last 15 years and I see no reason to switch now.
Ye laugh, but I think this is serious business.
Anonymity is a time-honored tradition that dates-back as long as people have been writing. Anonymity is what allowed you to write a scroll without getting assassinated by Caesar Nero. It's what allowed the American Founders to publish "seditious" pamphlets without getting hung by British redcoats. It's what lets bloggers type their true thoughts without getting sent to Guantanamo Prison.
Without it speech is not truly free, because whatever government is in charge can track down the author and silence him. Anonymity makes it possible to avoid arrest.
>>>>it will suffer from the heavy weight of feature creep
Excellent point. I'm sure Vista started as a good OS (like XP), but it became so weighed down with extra features that it became slow as a dog. My brother has a PC identical to mine, but while my XP-PC runs nice and fast, his Vista PC runs like it has a floppy drive instead of a hard drive. Vista is crap.
What I'm curious to know: How does Windows 7 compare to XP? Anybody can design an OS faster than Vista; but will it be faster than XP? If the answer is "no" I'm sticking with XP.
FINALLY someone who gets it!
The Wiimote is engineered to be thrown and/or swung around your hand. That's why Nintendo designers included the strap, in order to prevent the thing from flying off into space. The fact that the strap fails means they fraked up. Worse than a broken TV, somebody might get seriously hurt by the failure of this strap.
This is no different than any other toy that gets recalled due to dangerously-designed flaws.
Gasoline doesn't have to be gasoline. If demand for gasoline drops, the low-octane gasoline can be refined into diesel or home-heating oil, some of it can be converted to kerosene, and the rest used for plastics.
Manufacturers like Volkswagen, Ford, and Mercedes already build diesel cars that can burn biodiesel.
IMHO diesel is the future, not hydrogen. Diesel is the most-efficient form of energy, second only to solar which unfortunately has proven to be not practical (yet). So we'll trade-in our inefficient gassers for efficient diesel cars...... then sometime around 2020 diesel will be replaced with biodiesel made from home production (soybeans, corn, sugar cane, and waste products like coffee/french fry grease/scrap wood).
We will thus have eliminated most of our dependence on underground oil reserves, and instead fuel the economy using recently-grown plants or trees
VERIZON:
They charge $15 a month for internet. The phone is required since DSL uses the lines, however by downgrading to "pay per call" service I reduced my bill to about $6 a month for the phone. That's $21 total.
COMCAST:
As far as I know they provide internet without the requirement for TV. The internet-only price is $60/month which is still high in my opinion but the speed is good (50 megabit/s). ----- If they did require TV services, I would downgrade to the $10 a month "limited" service which provides local-only channels.
That's fine for the UK - your rules are different. But here in my home country, the U.S. Supreme Court forbids that practice. If the police warrant says "Search for fugitive" but instead they find pornography, they may not prosecute the citizen. Mapp v. Ohio decided that is not allowed, for the purpose is to protect US and defend US from police harrassment.
Think about it:
Would you want the cops to say, "We're searching for an escaped convict in the area" and then scour every drawer, ever closet, every nook-and-cranny trying to find SOMETHING to prosecute you for (like illegal music/videos on your PC)??? That doesn't sound good to me.
>>>doesn't mean you have to IGNORE it.
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, that is exactly what it means. Mapp v. Ohio establishes that if the police are searching for one item (in this case a fugitive) may not then collect other items and prosecute for that crime (they found porn in the basement).
Well put.
But the governments of this world routinely ignore law (obtain warrant naming specific evidence desired) and instead do exactly what you described - go on a fishing expedition. "Well we came here to get marijuana, but instead we discovered porn on your PC, so you go to jail buddy."
They do this same ____ in the U.S. with random searches of cars. They are supposed to be looking for illegal immigrants, but instead they bring in the dogs and have them sniff for marijuana/cocaine. Then they arrest you.
This shouldn't be allowed.
Well for me the simplest argument against democracy (rule by 50% +1) is the thought that it ignores the rights of the minorities. They have the same right to free speech as the majority does, but the majority could use its democratic power to crush & silence the minority voice.
This is why the United States and each individual State consist of a Republic (rule by laws). The Law can not be trumped with a simple vote. The Law is much harder to overturn, and slower, which helps protect the minority and the individual.
The former.
I have an old AMD K6 machine (333 megahertz). Would a free open-source OS (like Linux) run slower or faster than the current Windows 98 setup? Perhaps I should just stick with Win98.
Will Linux run Utorrent (the main purpose for this machine)??
Yes teacher.
(hands over illegal Linux CDs). BTW do you want me to wear leather during our later confrence? Should I bring the whip?
The part I found odd was this: "Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft."
Anyone with even half a brain knows Apple has a working OS and does not need Mickeysoft.
Since you seem knowledgeable:
I have an old AMD K6 machine (333 megahertz). Would a Linux installation run slower or faster than the current Windows 98 setup?
Why would Eroom be more expensive than the closed-source software?
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows.
Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft. Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
Is this a joke?
I don't see any FPGA development suites listed on Mr. Perez's homepage. At $10,000 per package I guess that's not something programmers are willing to just give away.
I wish someone had told me that sooner.
I was led to believe I had to install Linux *first* before I could use OpenOffice. Now that makes me wonder what other free alternatives exist for common applications - like PowerPoint. Why waste money buying expensive software when I can just use zero-cost alternatives?
offtopic:
Look at the old Astronomy Picture of the Day from 1995. Like this one for example: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap950629.html
The picture is in midget form... a tiny 36 kilobytes! They probably had to make it that small to "squeeze" through the slow 28k modems of the day. The web has really grown in size since then - today's average APOD is 200 kilobytes.
I share those same thoughts.
If a milliwatt cellphone has the (potential) ability to cause DNA recombination errors & thereby mutant cells, what on earth would an 800 watt power wave do to you?!?!? Pass. It's bad enough my electric hybrid Honda bathes me with EM waves ever time I accelerate... I don't need my laptop doing it too.
>>>>>every time you step outdoors, the Sun bathes you in EM waves!
The What bathes me in waves? I need more info here to parse your sentence, because I am unfamiliar with that term "Sun".
>look
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
P.S. I found this and I thought it was funny. Here's a webpage from THIS teacher's school district: http://www.austinisd.org/inside/technology/webteam/guidelines03.phtml
"While you may be doing your web page development on either a PC or Mac computer platform, your web pages will be accessed from a Linux server."
I guess the teacher ought to report the Network Admin to her school superintendent! Shameful! ;-)
Not if I move to another state.
C'mon you give up too easily. Fight the system; don't just bow down and kiss the emperor's feet.
WITH open source, Apple will find itself in the same position as today's IBM. (looks at PC). Nope not an IBM and soon Iphone/Macintosh will not be apple if they go down this road.
>>>every time you step outdoors, the Sun bathes you in EM waves!
The What bathes me in EM waves? I need more info here to parse your sentence.
>look
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.