One can only hope. Competition is vital to a lively desktop OS market and currently there are only Windows and OS X for 3rd Party pay apps. I really do hope the vocal minority as you call it is quieted down by a larger more moderate voice from a typical user who doesn't care one way or the other.
They could always expedite the approval if it can be proven to be life saving. Didn't they do the same for HIV medications when early clinical trials showed very promising results with some of the drugs?
But you do see my point that a very vocal majority of the Linux user base is like this. The forums of full of people with very strong stances against pay to play software. That's pretty rare among the Windows fanboys. It just seems hostile to a 3rd party pay-2-play software vendor.
Mod me down if you must, but I have to disagree here. I don't think it's confusion about GPL Licenses. I think it has more to do with the thousands of Linux fanboys (and fangirls) screaming that all software should be free and open source.
If I was in the business of writing and selling software I wouldn't waste my time on Linux as it just doesn't seem to offer a lot of return for the investment in regards to profit, where Windows users are typically used to buying software for everything.
I'm also betting that if a vendor did release a pay for play product on Linux that within months there would be some free open source version of it that would appear to compete. A no-win for the pay to play guys.
Handled properly, there is no reason they can't stop foreign companies from having an unfair advantage. They need to properly tax imports. There is a huge consumer demand from the US. Even with additional import taxes, they would still sell their products here as they wouldn't want to lose those millions of potential consumers. The 'good deal' that China is getting on their exports to the US is disgusting and very unfair to US corporations.
This will also hopefully have a dampening effect on companies sending jobs overseas which is a big win for IT.
Hopefully companies will take some of that exorbitant executive pay and apply it to the lost tax income. They have become so out of wack with main stream America in regards to compensation that they need a good kick in the ass.
Make them pay taxes which benefits our infrastructure, which sadly, needs it badly after years of too much spending and not enough taxing to cover the costs. Increase taxes on foreign products to level the playing field. They will have to pay fair compensation across the board instead of these 400:1 ratios for executives.
My thought exactly. Even the visual representation looks rather stupid not to put too fine a point on it. You would think with all of these marvelous advances in technology they could simply use a material that expands under voltage and layer it on the screen. Need a button at these coordinates? Just shoot some low voltage via a grid system to that area and cause them to rise a bit from the plane.
Does such a material exist or is it being researched and what's the delay in getting it out there?
Earthlink has access to Time Warner's lines due to some legal magic, but from what I understand they do not have any caps nor do they plan to implement them. Same speeds or close to it, but without the bullshit.
Yes and no. The entire point of a representative is to represent his constituents, not his base. If the majority of the registered voters in his state are now democrat, then why shouldn't he be in the party that the majority of his state identifies with? If he does a poor job of representing them he looses his job, as it should be.
Interesting polls lately state that only 21% of peopled polled would identify themselves as Republican. It appears that the only folks left in the party are the extreme right wing 'base'. They have driven out any of their moderates like Specter. Why can't he be a moderate democrat instead of a moderate republican? For moderates, it's all a shade of gray anyway.
Given the numbers above, I would have to agree with Specter. His party left him.
The parent thread from Franklin was referring to OS X running legacy support non-intel (Rosetta type stuff), not VM's in general. Specifically the fact that Apple used VM's successfully twice to move away from legacy architecture and software.
They are not apples and oranges (no pun intended). Mac's typically do not run virus scan (good or bad practice, most don't see it as necessary). They didn't have to deal with running virus scan and firewall software within the virtual machine. They also had a change of architectures underneath which may have made virus propagation from VM to parent a bit harder. Last but not least, OS X like Linux, is simply more secure, either through design or lack of market share.
That said, the latest offerings from virtul products tend to be very highly integrated. One would hope that MS could offer vscan integration to allow the parent OS to protect the virtual machine. I'm not saying that is the case now, but it seems possible since they are both on the same file system, both using the same hardware, memory, etc (given they are segmented from each other).
I still see this as a necessary step to avoid a lot of legacy baggage.
I just killed all of my land lines and all of the phone spam went away and I saved cash (bonus!). I'm not sure why cell phones seems to be exempt from this, but it's a simple step that most of the younger crowd could easily do to avoid it if they haven't already.
It doesn't matter if they are state or federal. They are still regulated, controlled, and funded by taxpayer money. It's also disingenuous of you to state social services are all evil when you yourself are already benefiting from them. Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to plan or save money for retirement. Some have disasters that can wipe out entire savings, some simply have no spare money to save.
I won't even go into the Privatized Retirement accounts that Bush wanted to replace our current social security model with. Hazem has summed it up very nicely. I would have been a disaster had we left it up to private industry.
Blanket labels like that are rather shortsighted. There are many socialized services that do very well and are required for quality of life in the US. Medicaid, medicare, social security, police, fire, public schooling, etc. You post smacks of partisan politics without any real thought behind it. If you are so against social services, would you take your mother off of medicare? Would you pay for all of his or her expenses out of your own pocket since they could no longer pay for themselves without social security? Could you even afford to do so and care for your own family? Would you put out your own house fire and arrest your local neighborhood criminals yourself?
It could also be argued that the handouts that these telco's took also ushered in broadband for millions of Americans, but only where it was profitable to do so. Oversight is never as good as hindsight. It does not mean they cannot do better or be required to do better by congress. The first bank bailouts had zero controls. They now come with a substantial number of them to the point where banks are hesitant to take them or eager to pay them off early. Granted more thought could have gone into them but they are at least trying to learn from past mistakes.
It sounds like congress let out too much leash and is hopefully ready to reel them back in (hopefully a lot). I see cable companies in the same boat as the failing brick and mortar RIAA model. They will either need to adapt (and compete), or they will simply be replaced by those that can.
I for one would have been MUCH happier had the government done the work that they expected of the telcos. It would have at least been done, been more accountable than the telcos, and given some return investment to the tax payer rather than filling the telco's purses, and I'm betting I would currently be using 50MB service at home for far less than I'm paying my local cable provider.
Does anyone know if e-voting substantially decreases the time it takes to validate elections? Given even this most recent election in the US, it seems like there are still legal challenges upon challenges upon challenges.
I would be very curious to know if these new e-voting systems have saved enough money, time, and costs to validate their use?
A bit off topic, but extremely easy to do on any Mac.
First things first. Install ReFit to make the OS boot selection easier. Very nice boot manager for OS X.
Next, you install your Bootcamp, which will partition your OS X HD into two OS partitions (Refit first, OS X, and then Bootcamp partition last). Once completed, go into Disk Utility and shrink your OS X partition by whatever number of GB you want your Linux partition to be (Bootcamp should always have the last partition on your HD. If it isn't last, it doesn't work with the built in tools.
Install whatever flavor of Linux you like and ensure you install your boot loader on the actual Linux partition and not on any of your other partitions (usually in the 'advanced' setup during the partitioning process in distros I've set up. Check the documentation)
Rinse and repeat as needed for any number of OS's.
They are already fairly certain that the diseased hives are a result of these keepers trucking these bees hundreds or even thousands of miles all over the country, exposing them to all sorts of non-native bacteria, fungus, parasites, etc. They are mixing and merging with other colonies from all over the place and without any sort of interstate controls.
It also explains why wild bees are not nearly as affected by this as domesticated bees. They truck these things all over the nation in trucks and let them pollinate crops for a fee where they then mix, mingle, and do what bee's do with other infected colonies and local flora/fauna. It's no wonder these domesticated bees are carrying all sorts of disease to each other.
Found this while doing random searches about Time Warner. Makes for interesting fodder when they spout that pipe costs are skyrocketing when in fact their costs are tiny and dropping all the time.
You bring up a good point. Do cable providers use compression techniques? Could the cable modems be used to compress and decompress items as they come in and go out? I realize that anything leaving their networks would have to be decompressed but could they use an internal scheme to compress data once it's on their network?
Excellent article. The end is the best part of all. The bits at the end are my favorite:
"Cable systems in the United States use the same technology and have roughly the same costs. Comcast told investors that the hardware to provide 50-megabits-per-second service costs less than it had been paying for the equipment for 6 megabits per second.
Questions about the speed, availability and affordability of Internet service in the United States will be central to the study Congress has required from the Federal Communications Commission next year. And cable and phone executives are worried that the commission may call for more regulation of Internet service, which currently is free from any government price controls."
This industry is screaming for more regulation and competition. They have had a stranglehold on the market for well over 10 years and it shows in the exploding cable and internet costs. Burn the MOFO down!
Just my opinion and I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but I've never found a need to keep a 3rd party app running although I'm sure there are lots of folks who might needs such flexibility. I typically launch it, do what I need to do, and close it. If the app is properly written and is the type of app that needs to retain session data, then it simply saves the state it's in and loads the state back when it's relaunched.
For typical use, I use e-mail, occasionally IM, and mostly SMS or simple phone functions. For IM it's simply forwarded to my phone via SMS which I can reply to directly or I can launch AIM if I want to conference in other folks or whatnot.
E-Mail doesn't have to be running as it checks at intervals. System apps will run in the background and are not restricted to a single app at a time. For instance my browser 'tabs' are saved so when I come back they are still there. I just don't really see the need to leave a 3rd party app running.
I get about 3-4 days of standby and about 3.5 hours of constant 'use' on the iPhone. I have no idea how that stacks up against current smart phones. Your mileage may vary...
Wouldn't it be wiser to steer a storm with high pressure 'bumps' rather than weakening them? They do serve a purpose after all. I'd rather someone didn't much about with mother nature unnecessarily.
Because homosexuality, and transgendered people are generally lumped into a 'sexual identity' bucket, even when they might be drastically different in some respects. It's just a general label (including all of the baggage that goes with such labels).
I should also point out that not all transgendered folks are male to female. I wouldn't categorize all their pink bits as being 'chopped of';)
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One can only hope. Competition is vital to a lively desktop OS market and currently there are only Windows and OS X for 3rd Party pay apps. I really do hope the vocal minority as you call it is quieted down by a larger more moderate voice from a typical user who doesn't care one way or the other.
They could always expedite the approval if it can be proven to be life saving. Didn't they do the same for HIV medications when early clinical trials showed very promising results with some of the drugs?
But you do see my point that a very vocal majority of the Linux user base is like this. The forums of full of people with very strong stances against pay to play software. That's pretty rare among the Windows fanboys. It just seems hostile to a 3rd party pay-2-play software vendor.
Mod me down if you must, but I have to disagree here. I don't think it's confusion about GPL Licenses. I think it has more to do with the thousands of Linux fanboys (and fangirls) screaming that all software should be free and open source.
If I was in the business of writing and selling software I wouldn't waste my time on Linux as it just doesn't seem to offer a lot of return for the investment in regards to profit, where Windows users are typically used to buying software for everything.
I'm also betting that if a vendor did release a pay for play product on Linux that within months there would be some free open source version of it that would appear to compete. A no-win for the pay to play guys.
Handled properly, there is no reason they can't stop foreign companies from having an unfair advantage. They need to properly tax imports. There is a huge consumer demand from the US. Even with additional import taxes, they would still sell their products here as they wouldn't want to lose those millions of potential consumers. The 'good deal' that China is getting on their exports to the US is disgusting and very unfair to US corporations.
This will also hopefully have a dampening effect on companies sending jobs overseas which is a big win for IT.
Hopefully companies will take some of that exorbitant executive pay and apply it to the lost tax income. They have become so out of wack with main stream America in regards to compensation that they need a good kick in the ass.
Make them pay taxes which benefits our infrastructure, which sadly, needs it badly after years of too much spending and not enough taxing to cover the costs. Increase taxes on foreign products to level the playing field. They will have to pay fair compensation across the board instead of these 400:1 ratios for executives.
In the words of the immortal Stewie, I think they describe MS's stance on this problem/issue:
"Bitch, I thought I told you to shut the hell up and be lookin' fine..."
My thought exactly. Even the visual representation looks rather stupid not to put too fine a point on it. You would think with all of these marvelous advances in technology they could simply use a material that expands under voltage and layer it on the screen. Need a button at these coordinates? Just shoot some low voltage via a grid system to that area and cause them to rise a bit from the plane.
Does such a material exist or is it being researched and what's the delay in getting it out there?
Earthlink has access to Time Warner's lines due to some legal magic, but from what I understand they do not have any caps nor do they plan to implement them. Same speeds or close to it, but without the bullshit.
Yes and no. The entire point of a representative is to represent his constituents, not his base. If the majority of the registered voters in his state are now democrat, then why shouldn't he be in the party that the majority of his state identifies with? If he does a poor job of representing them he looses his job, as it should be.
Interesting polls lately state that only 21% of peopled polled would identify themselves as Republican. It appears that the only folks left in the party are the extreme right wing 'base'. They have driven out any of their moderates like Specter. Why can't he be a moderate democrat instead of a moderate republican? For moderates, it's all a shade of gray anyway.
Given the numbers above, I would have to agree with Specter. His party left him.
The parent thread from Franklin was referring to OS X running legacy support non-intel (Rosetta type stuff), not VM's in general. Specifically the fact that Apple used VM's successfully twice to move away from legacy architecture and software.
They are not apples and oranges (no pun intended). Mac's typically do not run virus scan (good or bad practice, most don't see it as necessary). They didn't have to deal with running virus scan and firewall software within the virtual machine. They also had a change of architectures underneath which may have made virus propagation from VM to parent a bit harder. Last but not least, OS X like Linux, is simply more secure, either through design or lack of market share.
That said, the latest offerings from virtul products tend to be very highly integrated. One would hope that MS could offer vscan integration to allow the parent OS to protect the virtual machine. I'm not saying that is the case now, but it seems possible since they are both on the same file system, both using the same hardware, memory, etc (given they are segmented from each other).
I still see this as a necessary step to avoid a lot of legacy baggage.
I just killed all of my land lines and all of the phone spam went away and I saved cash (bonus!). I'm not sure why cell phones seems to be exempt from this, but it's a simple step that most of the younger crowd could easily do to avoid it if they haven't already.
It doesn't matter if they are state or federal. They are still regulated, controlled, and funded by taxpayer money. It's also disingenuous of you to state social services are all evil when you yourself are already benefiting from them. Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to plan or save money for retirement. Some have disasters that can wipe out entire savings, some simply have no spare money to save.
I won't even go into the Privatized Retirement accounts that Bush wanted to replace our current social security model with. Hazem has summed it up very nicely. I would have been a disaster had we left it up to private industry.
Blanket labels like that are rather shortsighted. There are many socialized services that do very well and are required for quality of life in the US. Medicaid, medicare, social security, police, fire, public schooling, etc. You post smacks of partisan politics without any real thought behind it. If you are so against social services, would you take your mother off of medicare? Would you pay for all of his or her expenses out of your own pocket since they could no longer pay for themselves without social security? Could you even afford to do so and care for your own family? Would you put out your own house fire and arrest your local neighborhood criminals yourself?
It could also be argued that the handouts that these telco's took also ushered in broadband for millions of Americans, but only where it was profitable to do so. Oversight is never as good as hindsight. It does not mean they cannot do better or be required to do better by congress. The first bank bailouts had zero controls. They now come with a substantial number of them to the point where banks are hesitant to take them or eager to pay them off early. Granted more thought could have gone into them but they are at least trying to learn from past mistakes.
It sounds like congress let out too much leash and is hopefully ready to reel them back in (hopefully a lot). I see cable companies in the same boat as the failing brick and mortar RIAA model. They will either need to adapt (and compete), or they will simply be replaced by those that can.
I for one would have been MUCH happier had the government done the work that they expected of the telcos. It would have at least been done, been more accountable than the telcos, and given some return investment to the tax payer rather than filling the telco's purses, and I'm betting I would currently be using 50MB service at home for far less than I'm paying my local cable provider.
Does anyone know if e-voting substantially decreases the time it takes to validate elections? Given even this most recent election in the US, it seems like there are still legal challenges upon challenges upon challenges.
I would be very curious to know if these new e-voting systems have saved enough money, time, and costs to validate their use?
A bit off topic, but extremely easy to do on any Mac.
First things first. Install ReFit to make the OS boot selection easier. Very nice boot manager for OS X.
Next, you install your Bootcamp, which will partition your OS X HD into two OS partitions (Refit first, OS X, and then Bootcamp partition last). Once completed, go into Disk Utility and shrink your OS X partition by whatever number of GB you want your Linux partition to be (Bootcamp should always have the last partition on your HD. If it isn't last, it doesn't work with the built in tools.
Install whatever flavor of Linux you like and ensure you install your boot loader on the actual Linux partition and not on any of your other partitions (usually in the 'advanced' setup during the partitioning process in distros I've set up. Check the documentation)
Rinse and repeat as needed for any number of OS's.
That's it in a nutshell. VERY easy to do...
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They are already fairly certain that the diseased hives are a result of these keepers trucking these bees hundreds or even thousands of miles all over the country, exposing them to all sorts of non-native bacteria, fungus, parasites, etc. They are mixing and merging with other colonies from all over the place and without any sort of interstate controls.
It also explains why wild bees are not nearly as affected by this as domesticated bees. They truck these things all over the nation in trucks and let them pollinate crops for a fee where they then mix, mingle, and do what bee's do with other infected colonies and local flora/fauna. It's no wonder these domesticated bees are carrying all sorts of disease to each other.
Found this while doing random searches about Time Warner. Makes for interesting fodder when they spout that pipe costs are skyrocketing when in fact their costs are tiny and dropping all the time.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/twc-without-data-caps-internet-upgrades-now-in-doubt.ars
You bring up a good point. Do cable providers use compression techniques? Could the cable modems be used to compress and decompress items as they come in and go out? I realize that anything leaving their networks would have to be decompressed but could they use an internal scheme to compress data once it's on their network?
Excellent article. The end is the best part of all. The bits at the end are my favorite:
"Cable systems in the United States use the same technology and have roughly the same costs. Comcast told investors that the hardware to provide 50-megabits-per-second service costs less than it had been paying for the equipment for 6 megabits per second.
Questions about the speed, availability and affordability of Internet service in the United States will be central to the study Congress has required from the Federal Communications Commission next year. And cable and phone executives are worried that the commission may call for more regulation of Internet service, which currently is free from any government price controls."
This industry is screaming for more regulation and competition. They have had a stranglehold on the market for well over 10 years and it shows in the exploding cable and internet costs. Burn the MOFO down!
Just my opinion and I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but I've never found a need to keep a 3rd party app running although I'm sure there are lots of folks who might needs such flexibility. I typically launch it, do what I need to do, and close it. If the app is properly written and is the type of app that needs to retain session data, then it simply saves the state it's in and loads the state back when it's relaunched.
For typical use, I use e-mail, occasionally IM, and mostly SMS or simple phone functions. For IM it's simply forwarded to my phone via SMS which I can reply to directly or I can launch AIM if I want to conference in other folks or whatnot.
E-Mail doesn't have to be running as it checks at intervals. System apps will run in the background and are not restricted to a single app at a time. For instance my browser 'tabs' are saved so when I come back they are still there. I just don't really see the need to leave a 3rd party app running.
I get about 3-4 days of standby and about 3.5 hours of constant 'use' on the iPhone. I have no idea how that stacks up against current smart phones. Your mileage may vary...
Wouldn't it be wiser to steer a storm with high pressure 'bumps' rather than weakening them? They do serve a purpose after all. I'd rather someone didn't much about with mother nature unnecessarily.
Here's an excellent in-depth article on who did who..er..who did what.
http://static.cqpolitics.com/harman-3098436-page1.html
Because homosexuality, and transgendered people are generally lumped into a 'sexual identity' bucket, even when they might be drastically different in some respects. It's just a general label (including all of the baggage that goes with such labels).
;)
I should also point out that not all transgendered folks are male to female. I wouldn't categorize all their pink bits as being 'chopped of'
Self-Help: Sexual Identity and Orientation