As in the case of USNA, you officially own nothing until you graduate and do your 5 years of time served. At that point, your "time compensation" pays for all your expenses over the past few years, and in theory, you owe nothing.
As is the case of my brother, however, if you're separated before that, you owe quite a bit...and he had to pay for his computer if he wanted to keep it.
So realistically, while you're at the academy, they (the Navy) owns the computers. This type of operation, regardless of how symantically wrong it might seem is actually quite legal and quite legit.
My father always tells me about the times when he had to program the machines with his punch card stacks. He had prepared them off-site, but then he was on his way to enter (insert) them into the computer at the computer building. Someone had bumped him, and he dropped his box filled with these cards. He hadn't numbered the cards, as he figured he could just pull from the top, and the order wouldn't be lost. After that bump, and several hours of work that might as well be lost, he remembered to number his cards from there-on-out.
Taking your business elsewhere is one thing. But nothing will change unless you let them know. If you take your business elsewhere because the vendor is making you buy the machine with MS Windows, and you don't want it...MAKE SURE YOU TELL THEM WHY!
Said vendor needs to know why they lost your business. Said vendor needs to realize that they actually loose a certain percentage of the population because they do this. Said vender will only learn if you tell them.
Said commentator needs to stop starting sentences with "said".
Seti should track what it hands out (and I'm sure it probably does). In fact, it should probably track to who it sends it (again, it probably does).
If Seti sends out 30 WUs (abroad), it should know that if it gets 200 back, a flag should be sent up. If seti sends a WU to Bob, but not to Gregg, and Gregg sends THAT WU back, the one returned from Gregg should be voided.
This is not about preventing competition. Screw that...Seti shouldn't be concerned about this issue relative to that. Seti's concern should be plain and simple -- it should be protecting the integrity of the data.
'Nuff Said.
Wouldn't get a -1 in my book. It's purely a context issue.
Now, being 2002, is not a good time to wander about the world, especially in the middle east. I agree with you 100%.
Now, being in your 20s with no wife, child, serious job or anything is a great time to see the world. It's too bad that damn world is fighting me back.
Honestly though...the world is big enough that you can see other parts of the world that aren't quite so messed up right now. I would just avoid most of southern europe, northern africa and the middle-east.
I'm tired of the "jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none" hardware that's coming out these days. I personally find no need to have a web browser built into my phone (or for that matter, I have no use for a phone that CAN have a web browser built in).
If you need to get on the 'net that badly, you need a life.
IMHO, It's much more useful to use your mobile phone as an interface between your computer and the 'net. I do, and it works beautifully without any problems due to limited space. If it's a pain in the ass to set up your laptop to do this, then you really don't need to get on the 'net. Can't you wait the 15 minutes until you get home?
That brings a whole new perspective for me to the article. I'm kinda spoiled, as I run my computers personally, and I don't use them in a corporate environment.
I agree with you on the efficiency thing. KDE is nice and all, but do we really need another mail checker to nest in the bar?
KDE, Gnome, X -- whoever, should seriously consider your words and put them into actin. Never Mind the big/small fish concept...it just makes sense to have an efficient system anyhow.
How do other distributions compare? Are they more efficient?
It sounds to me that the problems are the same problems held Linux-World wide. These are common, and not necessarily specific to Red Hat 8.0. I'm a firm believer in using the best OS for the task.
As the writer wrote: I was excited to see all the positive, glowing reviews of the latest version of Red Hat Linux. I thought, "finally, I can get away from Windows 98." "It just works" is the mantra. Unfortunately, this was not the case for me.
If the goal is to simply get away from Windows while still maintaining functionality, and you're just a hack user, I would recommend Mac OS X. If you don't have the money to buy new hardware...then I don't know what to tell you.
At this point, Linux is still not going to replace Windows or Mac OS X. And you can't expect REd Hat to solve all the problems in one release. It's a step in the right direction, but this isn't the miracle that Linux needs to attract joe-user.
The funniest part about that is the rest of the paragraph:
We decided not to emulate that. We contact Microsoft about these bugs, and we get back emails saying, 'Have you got your computer switched on? Are you sure you've got all the latest patches?' Of course, you idiot! Just put me through to someone who knows what they're doing," he says.
I'm just thinking how much fun that "data chunk" would be at the University. And in a sick sort of way, I wish they would emulate that.
Sadly, my job requires me to use AutoCAD. I do a lot of one-handed typing of commands. Split keyboards are nice, and I might get one for home. But at work, It's just not workable. I tried the Happy Hacker half sized keyboards, but it's very difficult to use in CAD.
I would like to see Elias' research and thesis. Does anyone know how I might be able to get a hold of that? I showed this article to my father, an Occupational Therapist, and he's most interested in the research behind it all.
After a long conversation with my father, I've come to the realization that Repetitive Stress Syndrom (Carpel Tunnel Syndrom is sorta a misnomer) isn't exactly what I thought it was. After understanding it a little better and sharing thoughts with my father, I'm not so sure that Elias' FingerWorks would really reduce RPS. While the stress is a change from the standard mouse/keyboard issue, you're still going to be repeating movements over and over again. It would be expected that such RPS would still result.
IN theory, there's very little research behind all these funky shaped mice these days. It's more of a marketing scheme than anything else. Yes, it might be more comfortable, but it really doesn't help the issue all that terribly much. The split keyboards, however, do help quite a bit. But imagine trying to use those damn things.
The interface isn't nearly as hacked as people think it is. I think Redhat took a step in the right direction. As much as some geeks might flame that, I think its necessary for the community.
Realistically though, they didn't hack both Gnome and KDE together, they just sorta made them "LOOK" similar. This is essential, as some people use both KDE and Gnome programs regardless of which interface they use.
It's worth a try for you redhat and mandrake users. Debian and Slackware users will probably dislike what they've done.
This is one of those cause effect things. What you say is true in most cases. But that's only because good search engines started doing their own cataloging and ignoring the meta tags. Prior to meta tags, I remember WebCrawler did a text search, so webmasters would add REM statements into their HTML and stuff words into there. Then came meta tags, and it was much easier to do, as the next generation of search engines utilized that feature. The current generation doesn't do that so often. Thus, meta tags do very little for rankings.
The meta tags could be useful again, if there were some limitations. Say, perhaps, we were limited to 5 description tags, and as an industry standard, the remainder were ignored. Supposing a web search categorized your site based on these five tag descriptions...webmasters would have to get far more picky about what they stuff into their tags.
I'm sure there's a Slashdot article around here somewhere about hacking your "Billy Bass" to record and playback MP3s. You should try it. The sound quality is incredible.
I didn't realize that some Barbies could be outlawed as a result of this legislation. NOw that I think about it, there's a lot of things that could potentially be outlawed. My phone, for example, as it has a recorder built in.
Though, I admit, I have no problems with them banning anything Barbie.
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A friend of mine once told me that he would start using linux when they had a trash can type of thing. His reasoning was that he liked to make sure that his files weren't needed. He'd delete something, then wait about a week or so of regular computer usage before removing it from the "recyle bin". For him, this type of tool is very useful.
If we want joe-user to use linux, we need silly stuff like this.
For you and I (and those in the know), we know damn well that you can delete a JPEG without it affecting anything. And if we're in doubt about a file, we know to move it somewhere temporarily. If something breaks, move it back. It's not all that often that you'll be deleting system files (and even then, its usually configuration files).
Anyhow, I guess the reality is that a tool like this only needs to be useful to someone. If it is useful to a couple of people, then its worthy of its existence. It's not like it is a default application. Don't use it if you don't want it. That's the beauty of the Open Source world...you can do what you want.
Okay, I'll admit, piracy might hurt some indie label artists who are up-and-coming. But people like Britney Spears? Missy Elliot? Doubtful.
Because of piracy, the queen of lip-synch (Spears) will only get $5 Million this year as opposed to her normal $6.5 Million. Only you can prevent this.
Whereas, if I pirate 20 albums this year, I save $400. My share contributes $.025 to her profit? If that? Wired has an interesting article this month in their published magazine about how much money actually goes to the artist. Usually less than 11% for top-line artists like Britney.
Meanwhile...I don't like the campaign at all. It's retarded, and it just makes the artists and especially the RIAA appear much more greedy. AFter all, I make $40,000 a year? What does that compare to Britney? I feel no pity. I'm one who feels music should be free. When I buy CDs, I buy them for the convenience and the packaging. The CD sits on my rack as I'm almost 100% MP3 now.
I'm not throwing darts. But when you make a statement like that (a rather bold one, mind you), you should use specifics. If nothing else, someone might have advice.
If by "slow", you mean file accessing and what-not, I'd be willing to bet that Windows 98 is far slower at file access than any linux distribution, even the crapiest. WinXP, NT or 2000? It's a close call, I'd have to see the data.
But if by "slow" you mean the FPS on your graphic applications, well then, you have a valid point. If you're fortunate enough to have an NVIDIA based video card, you'll want to jump on over to the NVIDIA website and check either the Linux Display Drivers or the IA64 Drivers, whichever applies.
Wish I had mod points right now...I'd mod you up rather than reply.
I agree with you 100%. But I can also see where some people are worried. A respectable man disowns a company he works for over political reasons such as the modification of KDE, and it will make people question the company. Things like this will always bring rise to the Redhat/Microsoft comparison that happens way too often.
BUT the whole Lemming mentality happens way too often as well. Someone respectable leaves something like redhat behind, and all of the sudden people think it's tainted. Now, don't get me wrong. In a situation like this, questions do arise in my head. But I further research an analyze the situation. Perhaps our hero doesn't want to modify KDE because he thinks it works BEST the default way. Makes sense. But I'm willing to try out the new modified version before I agree with him.
So I announce now that I will go against the grain, and I will at least try out Redhat 8.0 before I denounce it. I will try Xandros too, and the latest Debian, and so on. I'm an OS mosquito, I go where the brightest light is.
Hehe...after browsing through that site a bit, I get this whole image in my head resembling "West Side Story". Except the Windows guys are carrying switchblades while the Linux guys are carrying Plastic explosives, heat seeking missles and anything else that is "geeky-cool"
Honestly, I don't understand the whole "religious wars" as I like to call them. I'm a huge supporter of Linux. Most of the reason is because I feel I can actually offer something in that scene. But I'm not entirely against Microsoft. I have a lot of respect for what both factions are trying to do. I am leaning most of my support towards the linux world though for two reasons: 1) I like to support the little guy and 2) even if Linux were the big guy, the profit to be made from open source is in support, not monopoly. This sorta puts in its own checks/balances -- something that I don't believe Microsoft has the benefit of.
What it comes down to is "the right tool for the right task". You're not going to see me doing music on Linux any time soon. Most likely, MAC is still the best for that (throw your bottles now, but it's true from a professional level). For net development and servers, e-mail and so on, I choose linux. Joe-schmoe desktop user won't find home in Linux any time soon. Yes, it's getting there...but it's still far from idiot proof.
A little aside about Open Source vs. Closed Source: There are faults to both, but I believe the Open source model could potentially be much more beneficial to the computer world -- not necessarily to the individual company. That's not such a bad thing though. Anyhow, supposing there's a huge security loophole in a closed source project, the consumer identifies the problem, and the company has to spend time and money to fix the problem. However, that's part of overhead at that point, as the consumer has already paid for the product and a service contract, one would assume. Meanwhile, in the open sourced project, said consumer can report the loophole across the 'net. Someone using the product (not necessarily the company) might be able to fix the problem and offer his code to the company. However, said company should take measures to make sure that the code doesn't open another exploit put in there by the devious programmer (not to say it happens often, but it could).
Meanwhile, the chief benefit of Open Source? Your undies are hanging out in the breeze. So your product is no longer the software...its trust. Redhat, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE, and so on...how do they earn their money? Trust. People trust them to check the submitted code. People trust their product, no matter how different or similar it is to someone else's product, simply because it's released by said company. That's where competition should lie, in my opinion. Quality, quality, quality. Don't like it? Use some other flavor of the same damn thing. The most will flock to that which has the most quality. Reinstall the uncorruptable medium for competition.
The reality is that even if it were as bad as you think it is, its more likely to work than the negative combat techniques.
Enforcement through perks is always better than enforcement through military tactics. Rather, I should say it works more efficiently without as much controversy.
It may not be perfect, but its a step in the right direction. If nothing else, it does cut down on the backlash. And lord knows, you get the RIAA and anyone else in a screaming match, you might as well be back in third grade. Nothing productive truly comes from backlash, aside from the obvious statement that people are pissed off. We already know that. So steps like this need to be made in order to find the most widely selected solution.
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As in the case of USNA, you officially own nothing until you graduate and do your 5 years of time served. At that point, your "time compensation" pays for all your expenses over the past few years, and in theory, you owe nothing. As is the case of my brother, however, if you're separated before that, you owe quite a bit...and he had to pay for his computer if he wanted to keep it. So realistically, while you're at the academy, they (the Navy) owns the computers. This type of operation, regardless of how symantically wrong it might seem is actually quite legal and quite legit.
My father always tells me about the times when he had to program the machines with his punch card stacks. He had prepared them off-site, but then he was on his way to enter (insert) them into the computer at the computer building. Someone had bumped him, and he dropped his box filled with these cards. He hadn't numbered the cards, as he figured he could just pull from the top, and the order wouldn't be lost. After that bump, and several hours of work that might as well be lost, he remembered to number his cards from there-on-out.
Taking your business elsewhere is one thing. But nothing will change unless you let them know. If you take your business elsewhere because the vendor is making you buy the machine with MS Windows, and you don't want it...MAKE SURE YOU TELL THEM WHY!
Said vendor needs to know why they lost your business. Said vendor needs to realize that they actually loose a certain percentage of the population because they do this. Said vender will only learn if you tell them.
Said commentator needs to stop starting sentences with "said".
Said commentator is out...
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Seti should track what it hands out (and I'm sure it probably does). In fact, it should probably track to who it sends it (again, it probably does).
If Seti sends out 30 WUs (abroad), it should know that if it gets 200 back, a flag should be sent up. If seti sends a WU to Bob, but not to Gregg, and Gregg sends THAT WU back, the one returned from Gregg should be voided.
This is not about preventing competition. Screw that...Seti shouldn't be concerned about this issue relative to that. Seti's concern should be plain and simple -- it should be protecting the integrity of the data. 'Nuff Said.
Hell must have frozen over. We've slashdotted slashdot, in a matter of speaking.
Now, being 2002, is not a good time to wander about the world, especially in the middle east. I agree with you 100%.
Now, being in your 20s with no wife, child, serious job or anything is a great time to see the world. It's too bad that damn world is fighting me back.
Honestly though...the world is big enough that you can see other parts of the world that aren't quite so messed up right now. I would just avoid most of southern europe, northern africa and the middle-east.
Whatever you do, get off the continent.
If you need to get on the 'net that badly, you need a life.
IMHO, It's much more useful to use your mobile phone as an interface between your computer and the 'net. I do, and it works beautifully without any problems due to limited space. If it's a pain in the ass to set up your laptop to do this, then you really don't need to get on the 'net. Can't you wait the 15 minutes until you get home?
Porn doesn't look good on a 1X2" screen.
I agree with you on the efficiency thing. KDE is nice and all, but do we really need another mail checker to nest in the bar?
KDE, Gnome, X -- whoever, should seriously consider your words and put them into actin. Never Mind the big/small fish concept...it just makes sense to have an efficient system anyhow.
How do other distributions compare? Are they more efficient?
As the writer wrote:
I was excited to see all the positive, glowing reviews of the latest version of Red Hat Linux. I thought, "finally, I can get away from Windows 98." "It just works" is the mantra. Unfortunately, this was not the case for me.
If the goal is to simply get away from Windows while still maintaining functionality, and you're just a hack user, I would recommend Mac OS X. If you don't have the money to buy new hardware...then I don't know what to tell you.
At this point, Linux is still not going to replace Windows or Mac OS X. And you can't expect REd Hat to solve all the problems in one release. It's a step in the right direction, but this isn't the miracle that Linux needs to attract joe-user.
Don't be so critical.
- We decided not to emulate that. We contact Microsoft about these bugs, and we get back emails saying, 'Have you got your computer switched on? Are you sure you've got all the latest patches?' Of course, you idiot! Just put me through to someone who knows what they're doing," he says.
I'm just thinking how much fun that "data chunk" would be at the University. And in a sick sort of way, I wish they would emulate that.Sadly, my job requires me to use AutoCAD. I do a lot of one-handed typing of commands. Split keyboards are nice, and I might get one for home. But at work, It's just not workable. I tried the Happy Hacker half sized keyboards, but it's very difficult to use in CAD.
After a long conversation with my father, I've come to the realization that Repetitive Stress Syndrom (Carpel Tunnel Syndrom is sorta a misnomer) isn't exactly what I thought it was. After understanding it a little better and sharing thoughts with my father, I'm not so sure that Elias' FingerWorks would really reduce RPS. While the stress is a change from the standard mouse/keyboard issue, you're still going to be repeating movements over and over again. It would be expected that such RPS would still result.
IN theory, there's very little research behind all these funky shaped mice these days. It's more of a marketing scheme than anything else. Yes, it might be more comfortable, but it really doesn't help the issue all that terribly much. The split keyboards, however, do help quite a bit. But imagine trying to use those damn things.
Don't mind if I do! Woo-hoo!
We don't need those damn manuals.
And have you ever tried to download the ISOs with a 56k. I'm not doing that again?
Realistically though, they didn't hack both Gnome and KDE together, they just sorta made them "LOOK" similar. This is essential, as some people use both KDE and Gnome programs regardless of which interface they use.
It's worth a try for you redhat and mandrake users. Debian and Slackware users will probably dislike what they've done.
The meta tags could be useful again, if there were some limitations. Say, perhaps, we were limited to 5 description tags, and as an industry standard, the remainder were ignored. Supposing a web search categorized your site based on these five tag descriptions...webmasters would have to get far more picky about what they stuff into their tags.
I'm sure there's a Slashdot article around here somewhere about hacking your "Billy Bass" to record and playback MP3s. You should try it. The sound quality is incredible.
Though, I admit, I have no problems with them banning anything Barbie.
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If we want joe-user to use linux, we need silly stuff like this.
For you and I (and those in the know), we know damn well that you can delete a JPEG without it affecting anything. And if we're in doubt about a file, we know to move it somewhere temporarily. If something breaks, move it back. It's not all that often that you'll be deleting system files (and even then, its usually configuration files).
Anyhow, I guess the reality is that a tool like this only needs to be useful to someone. If it is useful to a couple of people, then its worthy of its existence. It's not like it is a default application. Don't use it if you don't want it. That's the beauty of the Open Source world...you can do what you want.
Because of piracy, the queen of lip-synch (Spears) will only get $5 Million this year as opposed to her normal $6.5 Million. Only you can prevent this.
Whereas, if I pirate 20 albums this year, I save $400. My share contributes $.025 to her profit? If that? Wired has an interesting article this month in their published magazine about how much money actually goes to the artist. Usually less than 11% for top-line artists like Britney.
Meanwhile...I don't like the campaign at all. It's retarded, and it just makes the artists and especially the RIAA appear much more greedy. AFter all, I make $40,000 a year? What does that compare to Britney? I feel no pity. I'm one who feels music should be free. When I buy CDs, I buy them for the convenience and the packaging. The CD sits on my rack as I'm almost 100% MP3 now.
If by "slow", you mean file accessing and what-not, I'd be willing to bet that Windows 98 is far slower at file access than any linux distribution, even the crapiest. WinXP, NT or 2000? It's a close call, I'd have to see the data.
But if by "slow" you mean the FPS on your graphic applications, well then, you have a valid point. If you're fortunate enough to have an NVIDIA based video card, you'll want to jump on over to the NVIDIA website and check either the Linux Display Drivers or the IA64 Drivers, whichever applies.
I agree with you 100%. But I can also see where some people are worried. A respectable man disowns a company he works for over political reasons such as the modification of KDE, and it will make people question the company. Things like this will always bring rise to the Redhat/Microsoft comparison that happens way too often.
BUT the whole Lemming mentality happens way too often as well. Someone respectable leaves something like redhat behind, and all of the sudden people think it's tainted. Now, don't get me wrong. In a situation like this, questions do arise in my head. But I further research an analyze the situation. Perhaps our hero doesn't want to modify KDE because he thinks it works BEST the default way. Makes sense. But I'm willing to try out the new modified version before I agree with him.
So I announce now that I will go against the grain, and I will at least try out Redhat 8.0 before I denounce it. I will try Xandros too, and the latest Debian, and so on. I'm an OS mosquito, I go where the brightest light is.
Honestly, I don't understand the whole "religious wars" as I like to call them. I'm a huge supporter of Linux. Most of the reason is because I feel I can actually offer something in that scene. But I'm not entirely against Microsoft. I have a lot of respect for what both factions are trying to do. I am leaning most of my support towards the linux world though for two reasons: 1) I like to support the little guy and 2) even if Linux were the big guy, the profit to be made from open source is in support, not monopoly. This sorta puts in its own checks/balances -- something that I don't believe Microsoft has the benefit of. What it comes down to is "the right tool for the right task". You're not going to see me doing music on Linux any time soon. Most likely, MAC is still the best for that (throw your bottles now, but it's true from a professional level). For net development and servers, e-mail and so on, I choose linux. Joe-schmoe desktop user won't find home in Linux any time soon. Yes, it's getting there...but it's still far from idiot proof.
A little aside about Open Source vs. Closed Source: There are faults to both, but I believe the Open source model could potentially be much more beneficial to the computer world -- not necessarily to the individual company. That's not such a bad thing though. Anyhow, supposing there's a huge security loophole in a closed source project, the consumer identifies the problem, and the company has to spend time and money to fix the problem. However, that's part of overhead at that point, as the consumer has already paid for the product and a service contract, one would assume. Meanwhile, in the open sourced project, said consumer can report the loophole across the 'net. Someone using the product (not necessarily the company) might be able to fix the problem and offer his code to the company. However, said company should take measures to make sure that the code doesn't open another exploit put in there by the devious programmer (not to say it happens often, but it could).
Meanwhile, the chief benefit of Open Source? Your undies are hanging out in the breeze. So your product is no longer the software...its trust. Redhat, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE, and so on...how do they earn their money? Trust. People trust them to check the submitted code. People trust their product, no matter how different or similar it is to someone else's product, simply because it's released by said company. That's where competition should lie, in my opinion. Quality, quality, quality. Don't like it? Use some other flavor of the same damn thing. The most will flock to that which has the most quality. Reinstall the uncorruptable medium for competition.
Now say it together: We Love Open Source!!!!
(Coplan needs to go relax now)
Enforcement through perks is always better than enforcement through military tactics. Rather, I should say it works more efficiently without as much controversy.
It may not be perfect, but its a step in the right direction. If nothing else, it does cut down on the backlash. And lord knows, you get the RIAA and anyone else in a screaming match, you might as well be back in third grade. Nothing productive truly comes from backlash, aside from the obvious statement that people are pissed off. We already know that. So steps like this need to be made in order to find the most widely selected solution.