This is the same question I have! Wordprocessors are useless. If you are typing text, a text editor does the job as well, if not better than a word processor. If you need to start adding pictures and layout then a word processor is no longer the right tool for the job, a publishing package is.
The only thing that a word processor brings to the table over a text editor is allowing the user to add bold/italics/etc. Every word processor I've ever used handles those features in almost the exact same way, so this argument about training is moot.
The last time I used a word processor was in high school and I don't see the need to ever use one again...
Look at who we are talking about here! That's right, FOX! The network that cancels every show that the majority of technical people enjoy, to play yet another show that no one cares about.
I say that we should not even consider working together with them until they get their act together! This means bringing back Family Guy and Futurama and moving them to a decent time slot. It also means no pre-empting of them for any reason including football: There are sports channels for that! And movies: There are movie channels for that.
Once they have complied we will talk. Of course the best for both industries would be streaming on-demand video over the internet, but that will never happen...
Also, the way it stands, if I want to share my X apps with my Windows friends, I have to get them to either 1) Pay a lot for a decent X server for Windows (by decent, I mean that it doesn't put all X connections inside one Window with a fixed size, but rather creates Windows each time a call is made - unlike Cywgin xfree86). 2) Download, install and configure xfree86 with cygwin (assuming they've got the 200MB free for it). By the way, I know there is a version that is supposed to work without cygwin. It doesn't work yet, at least not right out of the box, and not with any instructions they give you. 3) Get them to use a non-windowing solution, i.e. VNC.
Why not just use WiredX? It's as simple as visiting a web page, and you have a nice X server up and running that will work rootless.
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Why has this never been done? It's just code the OS has to load. As long as every OS for the said platform follows the standard then you're good to go. Actually I've always wondered why nobody has written code to allow Linux to load Windows' drivers? Most things work now so it's not a big issue now, but back in the day this would have help Linux to use anything Windows can.
I live in Ontario, have ADSL but do not have to use PPPoE. IPs are assigned via DHCP, or a static IP can be had for a price (mind you that price is way too high). The secret is to not have Bell as your telco!
Competion is good, but if it means having to put up with things like PPPoE then I think I'd rather have a monopoly. Ethernet is a fine standard, there is no need to add another layer on top of it!
You are forgetting the snowmobile episode, neither team had anything worthy. Not even close. However the one team had better front suspension than any manufactured snowmobile had prior to the early nineties!
Conspiracy Theory: Little do these people know, their serial number is embedded into the audio tracks on the CD. When distributed on the internet these wartermarks can be matched against the contact information used for signing up for the free merchendise. Therefore the person who distributed the audio on the internet will be known.
Well that probably isn't the plan here, but who knows what the future will hole.
So will these things route through one another until they reach an internet connected node? Sure that has inherit flaws, but it seems like a cheap and easy way to get the wireless internet going.
It has always been my opinion that the RIAA cares not about selling a million different CDs, but rather sell a million identical CDs. The RIAA would be silly not to think that way. I believe the record industry isn't so concerned about "theift" of the music, but more about controlling what people listen to.
It's a little hard to justify the cost of buying a CD without hearing it first. So, to first hear it you have the option of radio and TV which are pretty much controlled by the RIAA or you can get a copy from a friend (extending to online "friends") which is frowned upon by the cartel.
Do you feel the RIAA's stance on music trading on the Internet and even outside of the Internet is entirely about lost sales, or is it more sinister?
I got adsl and have tried stuff like Direct Connect but its really useless since theres no way of limiting OUTGOING speed in DC or at least reserve a couple of kb/sec so it ends up with other ppl dlling from you and yourself getting a few bytes/sec because the more connx outgoing u got the bigger % of the speed it uses.
There are some modified versions of DC++ floating around that have bandwidth limiting built in. Unfortunately they will not add the code into the main tree (at least that was the case last I heard) so you'll have to hunt for it, or add the code yourself.
How can porting MAME to an X-box possibly be either illegal or damaging to Microsoft?
Agreed. If I recieve a X-box in exchange for money given to Microsoft, I should at least be able to put any combination of 1s and 0s that I would like on it! It is after all hardware, and electricity that I have purchased to do what I want with it.
Are car manufacturers going to start making aftermarket parts illegal? Well that wouldn't be bad idea for some, but you get the idea... I should be able to make my car look and run how I want, no matter how ugly and poorly performing it might make it.
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On a related note: I once created a WAP interface to Winamp (http://classic.winamp.com/plugins/detail.jhtml?co mponentId=94546). I would never ever want to try and use it for a remote while trying to drive a car, but it works well otherwise.
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Could it be used for dating?
Well, theoretically, yes, but! the computer matches would be so perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest.
So, why exactly do we NEED MS Word?
This is the same question I have! Wordprocessors are useless. If you are typing text, a text editor does the job as well, if not better than a word processor. If you need to start adding pictures and layout then a word processor is no longer the right tool for the job, a publishing package is.
The only thing that a word processor brings to the table over a text editor is allowing the user to add bold/italics/etc. Every word processor I've ever used handles those features in almost the exact same way, so this argument about training is moot.
The last time I used a word processor was in high school and I don't see the need to ever use one again...
No, but it will bring GTA3 to a whole new level.
Look at who we are talking about here! That's right, FOX! The network that cancels every show that the majority of technical people enjoy, to play yet another show that no one cares about.
I say that we should not even consider working together with them until they get their act together! This means bringing back Family Guy and Futurama and moving them to a decent time slot. It also means no pre-empting of them for any reason including football: There are sports channels for that! And movies: There are movie channels for that.
Once they have complied we will talk. Of course the best for both industries would be streaming on-demand video over the internet, but that will never happen...
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Also, the way it stands, if I want to share my X apps with my Windows friends, I have to get them to either
1) Pay a lot for a decent X server for Windows (by decent, I mean that it doesn't put all X connections inside one Window with a fixed size, but rather creates Windows each time a call is made - unlike Cywgin xfree86).
2) Download, install and configure xfree86 with cygwin (assuming they've got the 200MB free for it). By the way, I know there is a version that is supposed to work without cygwin. It doesn't work yet, at least not right out of the box, and not with any instructions they give you.
3) Get them to use a non-windowing solution, i.e. VNC.
Why not just use WiredX? It's as simple as visiting a web page, and you have a nice X server up and running that will work rootless.
Behold, the ultimate sled. It does everything you want, and more.
Open drivers!
Why has this never been done? It's just code the OS has to load. As long as every OS for the said platform follows the standard then you're good to go. Actually I've always wondered why nobody has written code to allow Linux to load Windows' drivers? Most things work now so it's not a big issue now, but back in the day this would have help Linux to use anything Windows can.
I live in Ontario, have ADSL but do not have to use PPPoE. IPs are assigned via DHCP, or a static IP can be had for a price (mind you that price is way too high). The secret is to not have Bell as your telco!
Competion is good, but if it means having to put up with things like PPPoE then I think I'd rather have a monopoly. Ethernet is a fine standard, there is no need to add another layer on top of it!
"It's illegal," she said, "and they're going to get a lot of publicity for it."
I think that was the whole point of all of this.
You are forgetting the snowmobile episode, neither team had anything worthy. Not even close. However the one team had better front suspension than any manufactured snowmobile had prior to the early nineties!
That's what I would do as well...
So, how come I can't see my calendar on my phone?
Ummm, you can. wap.yahoo.com.
Conspiracy Theory: Little do these people know, their serial number is embedded into the audio tracks on the CD. When distributed on the internet these wartermarks can be matched against the contact information used for signing up for the free merchendise. Therefore the person who distributed the audio on the internet will be known.
Well that probably isn't the plan here, but who knows what the future will hole.
So will these things route through one another until they reach an internet connected node? Sure that has inherit flaws, but it seems like a cheap and easy way to get the wireless internet going.
Powers of two are used when talking about data storage.
Protip: Data transfer rates are based on powers of ten.
It has always been my opinion that the RIAA cares not about selling a million different CDs, but rather sell a million identical CDs. The RIAA would be silly not to think that way. I believe the record industry isn't so concerned about "theift" of the music, but more about controlling what people listen to.
It's a little hard to justify the cost of buying a CD without hearing it first. So, to first hear it you have the option of radio and TV which are pretty much controlled by the RIAA or you can get a copy from a friend (extending to online "friends") which is frowned upon by the cartel.
Do you feel the RIAA's stance on music trading on the Internet and even outside of the Internet is entirely about lost sales, or is it more sinister?
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The OS assumes that it, and it alone, modifies the disk, and that the disk won't change state without the OS making that change.
Which still applies here. Only one operating system can modify the disk since the second cannot write to it.
I got adsl and have tried stuff like Direct Connect but its really useless since theres no way of limiting OUTGOING speed in DC or at least reserve a couple of kb/sec so it ends up with other ppl dlling from you and yourself getting a few bytes/sec because the more connx outgoing u got the bigger % of the speed it uses.
There are some modified versions of DC++ floating around that have bandwidth limiting built in. Unfortunately they will not add the code into the main tree (at least that was the case last I heard) so you'll have to hunt for it, or add the code yourself.
How can porting MAME to an X-box possibly be either illegal or damaging to Microsoft?
Agreed. If I recieve a X-box in exchange for money given to Microsoft, I should at least be able to put any combination of 1s and 0s that I would like on it! It is after all hardware, and electricity that I have purchased to do what I want with it.
Are car manufacturers going to start making aftermarket parts illegal? Well that wouldn't be bad idea for some, but you get the idea... I should be able to make my car look and run how I want, no matter how ugly and poorly performing it might make it.