With the ever growing popularity of Yahoo Games I've seen a lot of non-technical people with pretty up to date JRE's, 1.3+. It seems people are willing to take the time to download JRE's if there is something worth the wait. I still like the idea mentioned here of a partnership with AOL. If AOL install CD's put the JRE on by default, Sun could bypass M$ all together.
The problem with switching to apple is you're stuck with one vendor for your hardware and software. So when it comes time for negotiation, the purchaser doesn't have a good hand to play because any other option would require the expense of switching to another platform. Running one of the many Linux distros on standard x86 hardware is all about choice. Choosing OSX on Apple hardware is an option limiting decision.
I don't know about you but I have about 40 gig of mp3 files and over 400 GB of SHN files. 5 GB is hardly enough space for a music enthusiasts collection especially if your encoding at higher bitrates, nobody should be encoding at 128 in the age of hard drives for around a dollar per Gigabyte.
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An easy solution to avoid installing all those dependencies is to not install the dev packages unless you plan on actually writing kde apps which probably 99% of the people who install the dev packages don't want to.
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Looking over the front page, three out of the last eight stories are from the New York Times. Shouldn't slashdot just start recommending that geeks read the nytimes everyday? Every morning I read the paper and I can always pick out the stories that will end up on/.. We might as well go over some of the other cool Nytimes articles not mentioned yet on slashdot:
With bootable CD-ROMs and networks not having a floppy is not a big problem
True, but if you need to flash a bios, it can be a pain in the ass.
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I think it's an overstatement to assume that MOST cable companies will be providing metered access. A FEW companies are PLANNING on rolling out metered access. It remains to be seen whether metered access will prove viable in a climate where consumers are accustomed to unlimited internet access.
Anything other than flat rate pricing will not work simply for the reason that people have become accustomed to unlimited Internet access over the years especially since the reluctant AOL switched to a flat rate a couple of years ago. Any consumer service that has per packet charge will not work. If possible, users will just switch to another high speed service such as DSL, 802.11, etc. If anything, this could encourage more people to set up community networks by getting a couple of access points and hooking them up to a t-1. Nobody will be willing to go back to the old days of staring down the clock while online.
If you look at their products page, all their devices seem to be lacking enough memory. 64 and 128 megs for mpeg-4 files? Even the mp3 players they have use storage sizes that were barely acceptable 2 years ago. My ipod is maxed out at 5GB, I couldnd't imagine dealing with 128meg limit for video files.
Enron was padding its earnings with money it did not have using private partnerships with companies owned by Enron management. Microsoft is padding its earnings with money they did not report in previous quarters, there is a BIG difference since Microsoft actually has the money to do this.
Most corporations usually don't have the luxury of beating estimates with large unreported cash reserves. In a twisted way this showcases the strength of Microsoft's business model giving them the ability to ride out the hard times. If I was a shareholder, I would approve so therefore Microsoft is doing what any good corporation should do, increase shareholder value. Obviously the risks of legal action do not outweigh the benefits for the company so in a sense this is just a good business strategy.
A Senior executive in a nice corner office with 2 big windows and a personal secretary. These directives only create resentment towards management unless executives are willing to work under the same conditions. I sincerely doubt Scott McNealy is working in one of these cubes with a dumb terminal.
One brand that is a little on the expensive side, but makes great cases is Coolermaster. I purchased an ATC 101 about a year ago and have been really satisfied. If you not willing to fork down that much money for a case, Lain LI makes some great alluminum cases that are relativly inexpensive.
I really have no clue who the artist is but I can already hear what the RIAA will say. "We tried to sell MP3's on the Internet but nobody bought them because there was no digital rights management." "This is why we need the Hollings bill!"
Yet the architect for Echelon II indirectly reveals some secrets to us. One of the ways Echelon works is by using words and voice recognition, as well as automatic translation
Of the three P2P networks you mention, well really 2 since IRC is not P2P, Gnutella and especially Napster were basically created with the transfer of illegal content in mind. There are certain steps you can take to control what type of content is published to a P2P network. The easiest way to do this is have an activity log & authentication, but OSS folks would never go for that. A good example of a 100% legal public P2P network is the Furthur Network which has managed to stay legal by limiting what people can share by specific bands that allow taping. This system could possibly do the same thing by only allowing certain files to be shared and implementing cheksums so when you downloading a deb package your not getting goatse.mpg.
How can anyone accuratly predict what the top 10 jobs will be in this decade. Does anyone have a list of so-called hot jobs from 1992? I doubt they mentioned anything dealing with e-commerce.
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With the ever growing popularity of Yahoo Games I've seen a lot of non-technical people with pretty up to date JRE's, 1.3+. It seems people are willing to take the time to download JRE's if there is something worth the wait. I still like the idea mentioned here of a partnership with AOL. If AOL install CD's put the JRE on by default, Sun could bypass M$ all together.
Because you can :)
The problem with switching to apple is you're stuck with one vendor for your hardware and software. So when it comes time for negotiation, the purchaser doesn't have a good hand to play because any other option would require the expense of switching to another platform. Running one of the many Linux distros on standard x86 hardware is all about choice. Choosing OSX on Apple hardware is an option limiting decision.
I don't know about you but I have about 40 gig of mp3 files and over 400 GB of SHN files. 5 GB is hardly enough space for a music enthusiasts collection especially if your encoding at higher bitrates, nobody should be encoding at 128 in the age of hard drives for around a dollar per Gigabyte.
Lynx won!
Yes, but any news of a debian update is up within the hour ;)
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An easy solution to avoid installing all those dependencies is to not install the dev packages unless you plan on actually writing kde apps which probably 99% of the people who install the dev packages don't want to.
Well I wouldn't be moving my hardware up there anytime soon, Alaska is seven degrees warmer on average than it was 30 years ago.
I hear he is migrating the country's 3 servers to Linux from Windows 3.1.
With bootable CD-ROMs and networks not having a floppy is not a big problem
True, but if you need to flash a bios, it can be a pain in the ass.
I think it's an overstatement to assume that MOST cable companies will be providing metered access. A FEW companies are PLANNING on rolling out metered access. It remains to be seen whether metered access will prove viable in a climate where consumers are accustomed to unlimited internet access.
Anything other than flat rate pricing will not work simply for the reason that people have become accustomed to unlimited Internet access over the years especially since the reluctant AOL switched to a flat rate a couple of years ago. Any consumer service that has per packet charge will not work. If possible, users will just switch to another high speed service such as DSL, 802.11, etc. If anything, this could encourage more people to set up community networks by getting a couple of access points and hooking them up to a t-1. Nobody will be willing to go back to the old days of staring down the clock while online.
If you look at their products page, all their devices seem to be lacking enough memory. 64 and 128 megs for mpeg-4 files? Even the mp3 players they have use storage sizes that were barely acceptable 2 years ago. My ipod is maxed out at 5GB, I couldnd't imagine dealing with 128meg limit for video files.
Enron was padding its earnings with money it did not have using private partnerships with companies owned by Enron management. Microsoft is padding its earnings with money they did not report in previous quarters, there is a BIG difference since Microsoft actually has the money to do this.
Most corporations usually don't have the luxury of beating estimates with large unreported cash reserves. In a twisted way this showcases the strength of Microsoft's business model giving them the ability to ride out the hard times. If I was a shareholder, I would approve so therefore Microsoft is doing what any good corporation should do, increase shareholder value. Obviously the risks of legal action do not outweigh the benefits for the company so in a sense this is just a good business strategy.
A Senior executive in a nice corner office with 2 big windows and a personal secretary. These directives only create resentment towards management unless executives are willing to work under the same conditions. I sincerely doubt Scott McNealy is working in one of these cubes with a dumb terminal.
One brand that is a little on the expensive side, but makes great cases is Coolermaster. I purchased an ATC 101 about a year ago and have been really satisfied. If you not willing to fork down that much money for a case, Lain LI makes some great alluminum cases that are relativly inexpensive.
The Enterprise needs to get dragonfly technology, I never understood why every time there is a dangerous situation, they send in the top 3 officers ;)
What about the OEM copies floating around with no product activation? They were out many months before winXP was available to the public.
I really have no clue who the artist is but I can already hear what the RIAA will say. "We tried to sell MP3's on the Internet but nobody bought them because there was no digital rights management." "This is why we need the Hollings bill!"
Yet the architect for Echelon II indirectly reveals some secrets to us. One of the ways Echelon works is by using words and voice recognition, as well as automatic translation
Umm yeah, nobody thought it did that.
Of the three P2P networks you mention, well really 2 since IRC is not P2P, Gnutella and especially Napster were basically created with the transfer of illegal content in mind. There are certain steps you can take to control what type of content is published to a P2P network. The easiest way to do this is have an activity log & authentication, but OSS folks would never go for that. A good example of a 100% legal public P2P network is the Furthur Network which has managed to stay legal by limiting what people can share by specific bands that allow taping. This system could possibly do the same thing by only allowing certain files to be shared and implementing cheksums so when you downloading a deb package your not getting goatse.mpg.
How can anyone accuratly predict what the top 10 jobs will be in this decade. Does anyone have a list of so-called hot jobs from 1992? I doubt they mentioned anything dealing with e-commerce.