It is not all obvious to me that forcing the US Government to buy from multiple software vendors in order to "level" the economy in any way is a "good use" of its purchasing power. The (bad) premise in the headline is that a communist/egalitarian society/economic system is better than the current mixed-bag of capitalism and socialism.
Actually, it's not. Its a little barrel-shaped device about the size of a spool of thread that is installed INSIDE the house, where I own the wire. Dumb? Absolutely. Inside the customer demarc point? Absolutely.
Apparently I'm the only one without cable that wanted cable Internet. The price for IP over cable is $10 more if you don't have basic cable. The cost of basic cable, here in S.E. New England, is $9.50. Voila!
Has nobody else ever actually looked at the bill? The real trick is to not only plug your coax cable into your tuner card, but to remove the little inline filter which they describe to you as "the thing that keeps you from getting all the extended cable channels" when they screw it into your cable line.
The vast majority of the users I've worked never use things like mail merges, bulletted lists, tables or forms - most people type the same memo over and over again, just by opening the last one. We don' need no steenking "templates"!
I think the retraining issue is important for about 5% of the users, the rest is just FUD.
The iMac is still bought by many people. Even die-hard techno-geeks are buying TiBooks and running Win2K in Virtual PC for the best of all worlds (Unix with a slick GUI and driver support, Win32 for Exchange and MS VPN, etc.). The G4 is slick looking, and people shell out $$ for them. Microsoft has every interest in keeping its fingers into everything out there, so of course they're going to support the Mac. Besides, this is ammo for their argument that they're not a monopoly - they're nice and work with everyone.
Was started as a college thesis at Rhode Island School of Design by a guy named Shep Fairy. He did, among other things, T-shirts for a band called Pollinate. "Andre" signs can be found in weird places, all over the country and the world. THAT was his thesis.
Nobody makes money off it.
Better operating systems not getting a chance? WTF
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If they were better, they'd have their chance. Welcome to the market, or Real World, or "that big room outside the lecture hall where the ceiling is sometimes blue and white, and other times black with white dots".
The innovation you claim is being stifled sounds like whining to me.
In unconfirmed reports, the developers were said to be using the lzip algorithm. As quoted on C|Net:
We plan to integrate this into an ActivePlugin plugin for Internet Explorer 7, which will allow users to set their compression preferences, and the browser will request a given compression level. Initial testing indicates that this works, but we're experiencing some data loss. We'll address this with the developers and lzip, and probably get Microsoft involved. They have lots of experience with data corruption.
Not a whiff of Microsoft on their accessible networks, which makes me sleep easier at night, knowing their external Net presence has some semblance of stability and security.
Didn't you expect this kind of control and disregard for your rights as a consumer when you signed up for a "public" utility like this? Wasn't it clear that any kind of socialized product like this was destined to become a clash of some vs. others? This is the old "frog carrying the scorpion over the river" analogy all over again, except this time, you're the frog.
When will people realize that there's no such thing as a free lunch, and communism DOESN'T WORK?
Solaris 8 ships free with their hardware, and the PC NetLink package can be downloaded for free. $999 for a 1U rackable Netra server gets you native NT4-style PDC and BDC support (NOT Samba, licensed from AT&T way back), DHCP, DNS, HTTP, etc.
My company uses Linux extensively, and was just given $25million in 2nd round VC. So take that, troll. Just because you can't explain how Linux fits into the overall picture, doesn't mean that everyone else can't either.
I wrote mine (Sen. Chafee of RI) and he responded, or at least someone on his staff did. His perspective was that rules/laws need to be in place, but that new technologies and new markets do not always fit into old models. He claimed to be happy to hear my suggestions. We all owe it to ourselves to be heard - there's no use whining about laws without letting the Government know how you feel. I'm sure Congress doesn't read Slashdot.
I run my own mail server, running qmail with the rblsmtpd daemon, pointing at several "underground", i.e. not for pay, black hole lists. In addition, there are spam _content_ filtering tools out there such as spamassassin, which looks for common telltale fingerprints in email. WORK FROM HOME, MAKE MONEY FAST, etc. etc. etc.
How long before the government controls the PAYLOAD of your packets as well as their source and destination? And where in the Constitution does it say that "cities shall be in the communications business" ?
If I read this all correctly, you can program the buttons to do certain things. Why not use it for fast text-based data entry? As a MUDder, I'd like the ability to "enter gate, go up, open trapdoor, go up, close trapdoor" in 1 keystroke.
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It is not all obvious to me that forcing the US Government to buy from multiple software vendors in order to "level" the economy in any way is a "good use" of its purchasing power. The (bad) premise in the headline is that a communist/egalitarian society/economic system is better than the current mixed-bag of capitalism and socialism.
Actually, it's not. Its a little barrel-shaped device about the size of a spool of thread that is installed INSIDE the house, where I own the wire. Dumb? Absolutely. Inside the customer demarc point? Absolutely.
Apparently I'm the only one without cable that wanted cable Internet. The price for IP over cable is $10 more if you don't have basic cable. The cost of basic cable, here in S.E. New England, is $9.50. Voila!
Has nobody else ever actually looked at the bill? The real trick is to not only plug your coax cable into your tuner card, but to remove the little inline filter which they describe to you as "the thing that keeps you from getting all the extended cable channels" when they screw it into your cable line.
It has to install to C:\
/home are for!
WTF is this, why do I have to install games into my OS installation? That's what D: and
Looks like they're shooting for the LCD here...
The vast majority of the users I've worked never use things like mail merges, bulletted lists, tables or forms - most people type the same memo over and over again, just by opening the last one. We don' need no steenking "templates"!
I think the retraining issue is important for about 5% of the users, the rest is just FUD.
No, because as he says in the article, IA64 is little endian.
Only if you can "tune" your lzipFS and trade compression for speed. Something like:
/dev/sda1
tunelzipfs -c [compression %]
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The iMac is still bought by many people. Even die-hard techno-geeks are buying TiBooks and running Win2K in Virtual PC for the best of all worlds (Unix with a slick GUI and driver support, Win32 for Exchange and MS VPN, etc.). The G4 is slick looking, and people shell out $$ for them. Microsoft has every interest in keeping its fingers into everything out there, so of course they're going to support the Mac. Besides, this is ammo for their argument that they're not a monopoly - they're nice and work with everyone.
Was started as a college thesis at Rhode Island School of Design by a guy named Shep Fairy. He did, among other things, T-shirts for a band called Pollinate. "Andre" signs can be found in weird places, all over the country and the world. THAT was his thesis.
Nobody makes money off it.
If they were better, they'd have their chance. Welcome to the market, or Real World, or "that big room outside the lecture hall where the ceiling is sometimes blue and white, and other times black with white dots".
The innovation you claim is being stifled sounds like whining to me.
Your PCI bus speed IS 33MHz, unless you are overclocking or running a new, rare, high-end box.
Not a whiff of Microsoft on their accessible networks, which makes me sleep easier at night, knowing their external Net presence has some semblance of stability and security.
Didn't you expect this kind of control and disregard for your rights as a consumer when you signed up for a "public" utility like this? Wasn't it clear that any kind of socialized product like this was destined to become a clash of some vs. others? This is the old "frog carrying the scorpion over the river" analogy all over again, except this time, you're the frog.
When will people realize that there's no such thing as a free lunch, and communism DOESN'T WORK?
Guys, lets keep the signal/noise ratio high for once?
Solaris 8 ships free with their hardware, and the PC NetLink package can be downloaded for free. $999 for a 1U rackable Netra server gets you native NT4-style PDC and BDC support (NOT Samba, licensed from AT&T way back), DHCP, DNS, HTTP, etc.
I've been trolled, so I'll flame.
My company uses Linux extensively, and was just given $25million in 2nd round VC. So take that, troll. Just because you can't explain how Linux fits into the overall picture, doesn't mean that everyone else can't either.
I wrote mine (Sen. Chafee of RI) and he responded, or at least someone on his staff did. His perspective was that rules/laws need to be in place, but that new technologies and new markets do not always fit into old models. He claimed to be happy to hear my suggestions. We all owe it to ourselves to be heard - there's no use whining about laws without letting the Government know how you feel. I'm sure Congress doesn't read Slashdot.
http://www.chsoft.com/dv.html
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http://www.freemm.org/DesqView X/
http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.
I run my own mail server, running qmail with the rblsmtpd daemon, pointing at several "underground", i.e. not for pay, black hole lists. In addition, there are spam _content_ filtering tools out there such as spamassassin, which looks for common telltale fingerprints in email. WORK FROM HOME, MAKE MONEY FAST, etc. etc. etc.
It can be done, with a little work.
How long before the government controls the PAYLOAD of your packets as well as their source and destination? And where in the Constitution does it say that "cities shall be in the communications business" ?
If I read this all correctly, you can program the buttons to do certain things. Why not use it for fast text-based data entry? As a MUDder, I'd like the ability to "enter gate, go up, open trapdoor, go up, close trapdoor" in 1 keystroke.
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I'm not interested in speeding up the interface. I want faster platters. The interface is already >> faster than the disk.