I used to live in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the northern Virginia sprawl around D.C. Loudoun is home to Dulles airport, thousands of "happy" WorldCom staffers, the second-fastest growing county in the U.S, and 15 miles from the little Internet nub that is Reston and Herndon. Cable and DSL were not available throughout the county.
Getting rid of flicker, rubber-banding and the other annoying X behavior is worth a few extra hundred dollars to me.
If you need to look up benchmark results to notice that your machine is slower than the one it replaced, maybe it isn't slow enough to matter.
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Ditto. Linux has two big problems to fix before it becomes a viable consumer desktop competitor to Windows and OX X The first is X: Byzantine, fragile, clunky, old, and (usually) ugly. Worst of all are the fonts.
The second problem is Linux's Unix and Gnu underpinnings. You need to hide the Unix plumbing and the Gnu software's...well, Gnu-i-ness.
With OS X, Apple has fixed the second problem while eliminating the first.
At 4 minutes per song, allowing 12 minutes per hour for chatter, that's 12 songs per hour, 288 every 24 hours, and 105,120 every year if you're on 24/7.
Better start building that music library right now.
What's very difficult for a layperson to comprehend intuitively is: What was outside the 0-dimensional proton-sized particle that existed prior to the Big Bang? What triggered the bang?
It doesn't mean that much to me, it wwas simply an attemt at an analogy. But I do think it is legitimate for members of a community to expect their legislators to reflect their interests and concerns in the laws they pass. I don't share your apparent belief in the free market as the sole arbiter of behavior, nor do I understand what 'bad laws" have been created in response to 'It's for the children" pleas.
More to the point, if I did decide to launch a campaign to eliminate the sale of XXX in stores, I would want to utilize all the tools at my disposal, which include lobbying for legislation. Why? Because the free market as it exists today has given overwhelming power to business, not consumers. Individual boycotts of indovidual stores are pointless.
No. If someone with Internet access can get to your files via a URL, those files are, by definition, publicly accessible. (That's how search engines can crawl the Internet without negotiating separate deals with every site.) No one needs to probe your ports to access files on your FTP server or your web site. The issue of unreasonable search and seizure doesn't come into it, because you have already placed your files in open view of the world. Your IP address isn't anything like a physical domain, no more than a driver's license number is anything like a car; it's just a unique -- and public -- network address.
Disagree. The free market should not extend to trade in illegal material, not should we allow it to be the arbiter of all behavior. Realize that defining "hard-core porn" per community standards ttypically stirs up a fuss, but communities have a right to do that.
If you post something -- anything -- on a publicly accessible server, it's public, fair game, and not private. No one needs to probe you PC to get at it. Put copies of Sony's finest CD's on a file-sharing network that you can get to via a URL? That's just as l public as opening a store called "I Sell Stolen CD's".
No, but if the local police told me my wholesaler was using my warehouse as a cover for shipping porn, I'd kick them out. And, if the police gave me a photo of a wanted porn merchant, I would turn him in if he walked into my store.
Nonsense. it's got nothing to with self-censorship, since I'm not saying or publishing anything. I'm simply refusing to host illegal materials on my equipment. Would you be willing to host dead-tree child porn in your kitchen cabinets? If not, why expect your ISP to host it on his servers?
If I ran a bookstore, I couldn't put child porn on the shelves. If I was a media distributor, who wholesaled books and magazines to bookstores, I couldn't be a carrier and distributor of child porn. What's so bloody special about the Internet that people who own pieces of it -- the net's equivalent of bookstores and wholesalers -- are immune from the law?
Umm..I'm not sure I really am just a simple conduit of bits and bytes, like, say, a telephone company. Data resides, for some TBD period, on my hardware.
I'm usually not a fan of censorship but this seems to be a direct parallel of legislation that keeps hard-core porn off drug store magazine racks. If Pennsylvania officials extend blocking and annoy voters, then the voters can turn them out of office, if it's that big a deal for them. That's the real arbiter of "who decides".
I also wouldn't be surprised to see increased blocking of sites hosting copywritten music files and the like.
I fear we are moving toward a system that prohibits Internet distribution of executable and binary files unless they've been vetted and shown to pose no security -- information and national -- threat.
Radio and TV bandwidth is considered common carrier because it is impossible to own a piece of the broadcast spectrum. Instead, in the U.S. at least, the airwaves are held to be owned by the public, with the FCC charged by Congress to allot frequencies, license stations, etc.
You can't make that argument about the Internet, which is built on a hodge-podge of real cabling and hardware that's all owned by an equal hodge-podge of corporations and entities. If posssessing certain materials is illegal, why should a private holder of a chunk of the Internet -- like an ISP -- not be subject to that law re: illegal files on his hardware?
There's a difference between blocking illegal material (child porn and warez) and blocking legal material. If someone set up a TV station and aired child porn 24/7, you wouldn't expect that to go unnoticed, would you?
Frankly, if I was an ISP, I wouldn't want those files anywhere near my servers and wouldn't wait for legislation to comepl me to block known sites.
I suppose this happens with every new slang "dialect" that pops up, but, as a once-and-former teacher, I'd tell my kids they don't get to break the rules until they convince me they know the rules. I might also be tempted to lay on some serious dead-tree reading to yank them away from the keyboard.
Ah. I stand corrected. Too lazy to check Oxford myself; I remember seeing the word used in connection with medieval and later attempts to build utopian communities.
Since when did logging into a site have anything at all to do with software development? All these rants about registering and logging in to the NYT make no sense at all, especially coming people who have registered and logged in to Slashdot.
Depending on the paper and its community, lots of people care.
The positions taken in editorials published in newspapers are not the random jottings of any editor who just happens to have an opinion. They are considered the institutional voice of the newspaper and can carry significant weight in their communities. The editorial stances of the NYT often have national and global impact.
While basic editing is a skill eveyone working at a newspaper needs to possess, editors are paid to manage staff and reporters, decide what stories are covered, determine story placement in the paper, etc.
The technical expertise of this particular editorial writer is irrelevant. The Times is making an economic and business argument for Linux, not a technical argument. The piece's thrust is that Linux provides a viable competitor to Linux, which the Times sees as laudable and something that should be encouraged.
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I used to live in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the northern Virginia sprawl around D.C. Loudoun is home to Dulles airport, thousands of "happy" WorldCom staffers, the second-fastest growing county in the U.S, and 15 miles from the little Internet nub that is Reston and Herndon. Cable and DSL were not available throughout the county.
>> the problem is that the hardcores like their flexability (sic)
Apple doesn't care about selling to "the hardcores"". No one does; there's no money in it.
The Mac is a consumer and business platform. Judging it by "hardcore" standards is missing the point.
Getting rid of flicker, rubber-banding and the other annoying X behavior is worth a few extra hundred dollars to me.
If you need to look up benchmark results to notice that your machine is slower than the one it replaced, maybe it isn't slow enough to matter.
Ditto. Linux has two big problems to fix before it becomes a viable consumer desktop competitor to Windows and OX X The first is X: Byzantine, fragile, clunky, old, and (usually) ugly. Worst of all are the fonts.
The second problem is Linux's Unix and Gnu underpinnings. You need to hide the Unix plumbing and the Gnu software's...well, Gnu-i-ness.
With OS X, Apple has fixed the second problem while eliminating the first.
My experience: Going outside the bounds of any packaging system, inclding Gentoo's, is risky. Sooner or later, something will break.
The "happiest" Linux machines I've used have been bare-bones Slackware installs onto which I untarred, configured and built what I wanted.
At 4 minutes per song, allowing 12 minutes per hour for chatter, that's 12 songs per hour, 288 every 24 hours, and 105,120 every year if you're on 24/7.
Better start building that music library right now.
Why do we still have TLD's mapped to country names? Do they serve any essential technical purpose?
What's very difficult for a layperson to comprehend intuitively is: What was outside the 0-dimensional proton-sized particle that existed prior to the Big Bang? What triggered the bang?
It doesn't mean that much to me, it wwas simply an attemt at an analogy. But I do think it is legitimate for members of a community to expect their legislators to reflect their interests and concerns in the laws they pass. I don't share your apparent belief in the free market as the sole arbiter of behavior, nor do I understand what 'bad laws" have been created in response to 'It's for the children" pleas.
More to the point, if I did decide to launch a campaign to eliminate the sale of XXX in stores, I would want to utilize all the tools at my disposal, which include lobbying for legislation. Why? Because the free market as it exists today has given overwhelming power to business, not consumers. Individual boycotts of indovidual stores are pointless.
No. If someone with Internet access can get to your files via a URL, those files are, by definition, publicly accessible. (That's how search engines can crawl the Internet without negotiating separate deals with every site.) No one needs to probe your ports to access files on your FTP server or your web site. The issue of unreasonable search and seizure doesn't come into it, because you have already placed your files in open view of the world. Your IP address isn't anything like a physical domain, no more than a driver's license number is anything like a car; it's just a unique -- and public -- network address.
Disagree. The free market should not extend to trade in illegal material, not should we allow it to be the arbiter of all behavior. Realize that defining "hard-core porn" per community standards ttypically stirs up a fuss, but communities have a right to do that.
If you post something -- anything -- on a publicly accessible server, it's public, fair game, and not private. No one needs to probe you PC to get at it. Put copies of Sony's finest CD's on a file-sharing network that you can get to via a URL? That's just as l public as opening a store called "I Sell Stolen CD's".
No, but if the local police told me my wholesaler was using my warehouse as a cover for shipping porn, I'd kick them out. And, if the police gave me a photo of a wanted porn merchant, I would turn him in if he walked into my store.
I suspect the "urge to hear a song" "in about a minute" will go away once your out of puberty. Everything changes; you will, too.
Can you point to a piece of legislation that codifies that and states that the Internet is a common carrier?
Nonsense. it's got nothing to with self-censorship, since I'm not saying or publishing anything. I'm simply refusing to host illegal materials on my equipment. Would you be willing to host dead-tree child porn in your kitchen cabinets? If not, why expect your ISP to host it on his servers?
If I ran a bookstore, I couldn't put child porn on the shelves. If I was a media distributor, who wholesaled books and magazines to bookstores, I couldn't be a carrier and distributor of child porn. What's so bloody special about the Internet that people who own pieces of it -- the net's equivalent of bookstores and wholesalers -- are immune from the law?
Umm..I'm not sure I really am just a simple conduit of bits and bytes, like, say, a telephone company. Data resides, for some TBD period, on my hardware.
I'm usually not a fan of censorship but this seems to be a direct parallel of legislation that keeps hard-core porn off drug store magazine racks. If Pennsylvania officials extend blocking and annoy voters, then the voters can turn them out of office, if it's that big a deal for them. That's the real arbiter of "who decides".
I also wouldn't be surprised to see increased blocking of sites hosting copywritten music files and the like.
I fear we are moving toward a system that prohibits Internet distribution of executable and binary files unless they've been vetted and shown to pose no security -- information and national -- threat.
Radio and TV bandwidth is considered common carrier because it is impossible to own a piece of the broadcast spectrum. Instead, in the U.S. at least, the airwaves are held to be owned by the public, with the FCC charged by Congress to allot frequencies, license stations, etc.
You can't make that argument about the Internet, which is built on a hodge-podge of real cabling and hardware that's all owned by an equal hodge-podge of corporations and entities. If posssessing certain materials is illegal, why should a private holder of a chunk of the Internet -- like an ISP -- not be subject to that law re: illegal files on his hardware?
There's a difference between blocking illegal material (child porn and warez) and blocking legal material. If someone set up a TV station and aired child porn 24/7, you wouldn't expect that to go unnoticed, would you?
Frankly, if I was an ISP, I wouldn't want those files anywhere near my servers and wouldn't wait for legislation to comepl me to block known sites.
I suppose this happens with every new slang "dialect" that pops up, but, as a once-and-former teacher, I'd tell my kids they don't get to break the rules until they convince me they know the rules. I might also be tempted to lay on some serious dead-tree reading to yank them away from the keyboard.
Ah. I stand corrected. Too lazy to check Oxford myself; I remember seeing the word used in connection with medieval and later attempts to build utopian communities.
Since when did logging into a site have anything at all to do with software development? All these rants about registering and logging in to the NYT make no sense at all, especially coming people who have registered and logged in to Slashdot.
My, aren't we grumpy! Communitarian is a perfectly good word, been around for lat least a few centuries.
Depending on the paper and its community, lots of people care.
The positions taken in editorials published in newspapers are not the random jottings of any editor who just happens to have an opinion. They are considered the institutional voice of the newspaper and can carry significant weight in their communities. The editorial stances of the NYT often have national and global impact.
While basic editing is a skill eveyone working at a newspaper needs to possess, editors are paid to manage staff and reporters, decide what stories are covered, determine story placement in the paper, etc.
The technical expertise of this particular editorial writer is irrelevant. The Times is making an economic and business argument for Linux, not a technical argument. The piece's thrust is that Linux provides a viable competitor to Linux, which the Times sees as laudable and something that should be encouraged.