Sorry, That would be the Upgraded home version of XP.
Expect to pay $199.99 for the Non Upgrade Home edition, $199.99 for the Upgraded XP pro, and $299.99 for the full XP Pro. To the best of my knowledge, all brick/mortar stores sell for the same price. (Price fixing is my guess.)
Meanwhile, I'm off to Best-Buy to get the latest Mandrake.
;-)
> HTML mails are dangerous with their 1x1 gifs with a custom URL so "they" know you've read the message.
Another good reason to use pine to view e-mail messages.
But here's my question:
Is there a way to disable local HTML mail from "grabbing" additional code over a network?
I'd like to have a button I could click on saying something like:
"This message contains html that is requesting images/addional_html from the internet. Would you like to view the entire message?"
These could be really useful for
modular manufacturing processes.
Imagine an assembly line of really cheap
robots that can build stuff cheaper in America
than the cost of shipping "made in China" stuff back here. To compete against dirt cheap labor,
we basically need to have dirt cheap robots.
If these things are cheap enough, I may just be
able to win my bet to be able to build a shell script controlled CD changer for my Linux box for under $50.00
I like both "dead trees" and e-books,
but sometimes one is better than the other for the task at hand.
As an earlier poster suggested, Its nice to be able to make comments in the margins.
On the other hand, it's nice to be able to have a searchable resource available. One day I plan to scan all my Mechanical engineering books, OCR them to text, and make them available from a password protected website. This way I'll be able to find whatever I need from anywhere I can access the web.... And it's much easier than carrying my books with me at all times:)
Why not make it easier us "dead tree" owners to find stuff? Maybe have a searchable website where I could find stuff that is not as easily found in the index. Let people read a short snippet of search results. I'm not saying you need to risk having your entire book available for download/pirating, just page number or a sentence here and there. (?? could you generate image files with text to prevent copy & pasting ?? - just a thought)
I'm not sure how you could implement it, but maybe you could somehow release the content of your books to search engines such as google, and somehow let people know that your book has exactly the info that a person is looking for.
For example:
I am currently trying to build a Linux controlled USB-Servo controller circuit - (or even buy one).
If you had a book that included a circuit diagram for my project, I'd buy it in a heartbeat - and worry about the price later;-)
Yeah, it looks cool and all, but...
I wouldn't buy one.
Although I'm a PC hardware guy,
I wouldn't buy one even if the pc makers start
similar styling with their cases.
It may not be a bad design, but come on.
Where am I gonna find an aftermarket
burner that fits in a spherical shaped case?
I might as well toss out my Soundblaster 5.1
with it's external drive bay controller.
And I'd have to buy the more expensive USB version zip drive.
Don't get me wrong, I actually like Mac Hardware,
but I like Sun and SGI stuff too. I just don't see the same bang for the buck. They have a market, but unfortunately it's not from much of the slashdot crowd.
> Windows 2000/XP are VERY stable operating systems.
This hasn't been my experience (Win2k), but maybe it is my fault.
too many programs?
cheap hardware?
user error?
dumb luck?
It's just so damn frustrating to be doing seemingly nothing wrong, but crash your system.
Lately it's been my Nero burner software locking my system solid. That damn software came with my 24x burner but I can barely burn at 8x, yet on my win98 box my 16x runs fine! Argh!!!
> If you don't want to be on a store security camera, don't go to the store. If you don't want to be in the police face-scan database, don't ever go out of your house.
See the difference?
Actually, no I don't.
What if the privately owned store turns that same camera towards a public street? (or another public place)
Should that be illegal? I guess you could then say: "If you don't want to be on the store's camera, then don't walk down that street"
Don't get me wrong, I want to keep my rights,
I'm just playing the devil's advocate.
Not to sound like a troll - This is a legitimate question.
Why do we allow the local convienience store to film us, yet we seem to have a problem with our government doing the same thing? Is it the database of faces that scares us? What if K-Mart used facial recognition to associate our purchases with our face. Would it be wrong for them to have televisions throughout the store interactively suggest purchases?
Don't get me wrong, I like retaining my rights,
but in this case, I feel that the rights of law enforcement agencies are being restricted.
> This does NOTHING to fix the single biggest problem with Linux (aside from it being too damned hard, even for someone with 20 years in the computer field!)... NO COMPELLING APPS!
How about shell scripting for automating stuff?
or command Piping? Integrated compression tools? What? winzip doesn't come with windows?
Yeah, windows has some scripting tools, but let's be honest. They suck compared to a simple shell script.
IMHO, shell scripting is the best feature of unix.
I can record my favorite morning talk show from my FM tuner card, compress it to MP3 and burn to CDRW with a simple cron job. Until I can do all that in windows, I'm not giving up my linux box.
You bring up a good point.
Some colleges want to do this as an attempt to raise revenue, but how many are willing to take responsibility for their code?
For instance:
What if a school sells some faulty anti-lock braking system code to an auto maker? (okay, it's a stretch)
What if your college released code containing viruses?
Who would be responsible? Should consumers be able to sue the college that released the bad code? If its a state college, are taxpayers liable? If the code is released with no warranties, does the customer assume all responsibility (Like people who use Linux)? How could a tax-paying corporation compete against a tax sheltered college?
Back about 4 years ago,
my room-mate discovered that 4 conductor telephone wire was like 2 ¢ / foot when CAT5 was selling for more like 50 ¢ / foot.
He networked our house for like four bucks.
The RJ45 ends were difficult to crimp to the cable
because the cable is so much smaller.
His solution:
Wrap electrical tape around the cable to increase its diameter.
Keep in mind that a 10 base T network only needs 4 of the 8 conductors, but you'll need 8 conductors for 100 Base T.
I do not remember having any bad connections via the cheap cable, but I wouldn't reccommend it unless you're on a college sided budget. Cat5 is cheap.
A better use of this technology:
on
The Eyes Have It
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· Score: 1
> Yahoo is carrying a Reuters report that thermal imaging may be used in airports to detect liars.
Screw that! Put these cameras where they are really needed!
Imagine how much fun it will be watching Court TV the next time OJ strikes.
I know this wouldn't be admissable in court, but it sure would make for some good watchin'
> The one problem I foresee is defining when exactly a feature is deemed "complete" and therefore worthy of compensation.
How about instead of having a fixed compensation level, have a range of payment. Have some sort of Karma system or way for a coder to be evaluated/judged/voted upon. Maybe a coder with good karma would be assumed to have a better reputation for quality than lets say documentation or speed. Let his/her reputation determine if they deserve to be paid at the high or low end of the range.
If a coder can make something work, I would say they should earn at least the minimum of the preset payment range. If they code a piece of art with awesome documentation, Vote up their Karma, pay them at the max of the preset payment range, and maybe even a few bonus bucks!
Coders should also be able to evaluate bidders.
Bidders that tip well should be recognized as such so coders come flocking to them.
Although a karma system wouldn't solve the problem of defining when exactly a feature is deemed "complete" and therefore worthy of compensation, it could create an incentive for coders and bidders to think "long term". After all, coders would need to keep their karma high to earn top dollar, and bidders would want to keep their karma high so coders will want to code for them.
There would definitely be a lot of logistics to work out to make something like this work, but it sure would be sweet if I could add to the allure of free software development by letting my money talk for me.
I thought a lot of you might find this interesting.
In Windows 2000, I've checked my Hotmail account with both Mozilla and I.E. Surprisingly, Microsoft's own hotmail website works better with Mozilla than with their own IE browser!
Try it yourself when you get a bunch of messages that need to be deleted:
Check the checkboxes for the messages you want to delete. Mozilla will react instantly, while IE lags 5-10 seconds to react to the checkbox. Am I the only one who has that problem in IE at the Hotmail website?
This happens for me on a BP6 with dual 533 Celerons with 512 Megs of PC133 - Perhaps it's time to upgrade;)
If you can't beat them, Join them
on
Sony vs Modchips
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· Score: 0, Troll
If Sony started selling a $200 more expensive version of the PS2 with the mod chip already installed, I'd be willing to bet they would make more money on game consoles than from games.
I will not buy a PS2 until I can backup my game collection.
Slashdot Mirror
On a hunch I decided to check to see what operating systems these sites were running.... Guess what?
The site www.actonline.org is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98
The site www.moraldefense.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
The site www.comptia.org is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
Just a Coincidence?
>
Currently the home OS ships for $100
Sorry, That would be the Upgraded home version of XP.
Expect to pay $199.99 for the Non Upgrade Home edition, $199.99 for the Upgraded XP pro, and $299.99 for the full XP Pro. To the best of my knowledge, all brick/mortar stores sell for the same price. (Price fixing is my guess.)
Meanwhile, I'm off to Best-Buy to get the latest Mandrake.
;-)
> HTML mails are dangerous with their 1x1 gifs with a custom URL so "they" know you've read the message.
Another good reason to use pine to view e-mail messages.
But here's my question:
Is there a way to disable local HTML mail from "grabbing" additional code over a network?
I'd like to have a button I could click on saying something like:
"This message contains html that is requesting images/addional_html from the internet. Would you like to view the entire message?"
These could be really useful for
modular manufacturing processes.
Imagine an assembly line of really cheap
robots that can build stuff cheaper in America
than the cost of shipping "made in China" stuff back here. To compete against dirt cheap labor,
we basically need to have dirt cheap robots.
If these things are cheap enough, I may just be
able to win my bet to be able to build a
shell script controlled CD changer for my Linux box for under $50.00
I like both "dead trees" and e-books,
:)
;-)
but sometimes one is better than the other for the task at hand.
As an earlier poster suggested, Its nice to be able to make comments in the margins.
On the other hand, it's nice to be able to have a searchable resource available. One day I plan to scan all my Mechanical engineering books, OCR them to text, and make them available from a password protected website. This way I'll be able to find whatever I need from anywhere I can access the web.... And it's much easier than carrying my books with me at all times
Why not make it easier us "dead tree" owners to find stuff? Maybe have a searchable website where I could find stuff that is not as easily found in the index. Let people read a short snippet of search results. I'm not saying you need to risk having your entire book available for download/pirating, just page number or a sentence here and there. (?? could you generate image files with text to prevent copy & pasting ?? - just a thought)
I'm not sure how you could implement it, but maybe you could somehow release the content of your books to search engines such as google, and somehow let people know that your book has exactly the info that a person is looking for.
For example:
I am currently trying to build a Linux controlled USB-Servo controller circuit - (or even buy one).
If you had a book that included a circuit diagram for my project, I'd buy it in a heartbeat - and worry about the price later
This could make for a good test of a missle defense system.
Of course I really have no clue where the debris will land, but it sure would be fun to watch!
> chemists have discovered that properly doped computer chips are actually explosive.
And all this time I thought Sadam just liked playing video games
.... is knowledge.
Try this book - Sometimes referred to as the LDAP Bible
Yeah, it looks cool and all, but...
I wouldn't buy one.
Although I'm a PC hardware guy,
I wouldn't buy one even if the pc makers start
similar styling with their cases.
It may not be a bad design, but come on.
Where am I gonna find an aftermarket
burner that fits in a spherical shaped case?
I might as well toss out my Soundblaster 5.1
with it's external drive bay controller.
And I'd have to buy the more expensive USB version zip drive.
Don't get me wrong, I actually like Mac Hardware,
but I like Sun and SGI stuff too. I just don't see the same bang for the buck. They have a market, but unfortunately it's not from much of the slashdot crowd.
> Windows 2000/XP are VERY stable operating systems.
This hasn't been my experience (Win2k), but maybe it is my fault.
too many programs?
cheap hardware?
user error?
dumb luck?
It's just so damn frustrating to be doing seemingly nothing wrong, but crash your system.
Lately it's been my Nero burner software locking my system solid. That damn software came with my 24x burner but I can barely burn at 8x, yet on my win98 box my 16x runs fine! Argh!!!
Oh well. At least my Ghost images are handy.
;-\
> If you don't want to be on a store security camera, don't go to the store. If you don't want to be in the police face-scan database, don't ever go out of your house.
See the difference?
Actually, no I don't.
What if the privately owned store turns that same camera towards a public street? (or another public place)
Should that be illegal? I guess you could then say: "If you don't want to be on the store's camera, then don't walk down that street"
Don't get me wrong, I want to keep my rights,
I'm just playing the devil's advocate.
> I wonder why they didn't mention that man who was a demo face for the system, and was subsequently misidentified then questioned as a felon.
No Problem...
Just change the Camera Lens and ask the guy.
;-)
Not to sound like a troll - This is a legitimate question.
Why do we allow the local convienience store to film us, yet we seem to have a problem with our government doing the same thing? Is it the database of faces that scares us? What if K-Mart used facial recognition to associate our purchases with our face. Would it be wrong for them to have televisions throughout the store interactively suggest purchases?
Don't get me wrong, I like retaining my rights,
but in this case, I feel that the rights of law enforcement agencies are being restricted.
Lighten up dude, it's only karma.
It sucks, but I'm happy as long as they get the real trolls too.
No mod system is perfect, but thanks for defending my karma!
;)
> This does NOTHING to fix the single biggest problem with Linux (aside from it being too damned hard, even for someone with 20 years in the computer field!)... NO COMPELLING APPS!
How about shell scripting for automating stuff?
or command Piping? Integrated compression tools? What? winzip doesn't come with windows?
Yeah, windows has some scripting tools, but let's be honest. They suck compared to a simple shell script.
IMHO, shell scripting is the best feature of unix.
I can record my favorite morning talk show from my FM tuner card, compress it to MP3 and burn to CDRW with a simple cron job. Until I can do all that in windows, I'm not giving up my linux box.
> like you, we are working hard to innovate and offer consumers a choice of novel and resourceful products.
Nice way to build up his ego!
ha ha ha!
You bring up a good point.
Some colleges want to do this as an attempt to raise revenue, but how many are willing to take responsibility for their code?
For instance:
What if a school sells some faulty anti-lock braking system code to an auto maker? (okay, it's a stretch)
What if your college released code containing viruses?
Who would be responsible? Should consumers be able to sue the college that released the bad code? If its a state college, are taxpayers liable? If the code is released with no warranties, does the customer assume all responsibility (Like people who use Linux)? How could a tax-paying corporation compete against a tax sheltered college?
Back about 4 years ago,
my room-mate discovered that 4 conductor telephone wire was like 2 ¢ / foot when CAT5 was selling for more like 50 ¢ / foot.
He networked our house for like four bucks.
The RJ45 ends were difficult to crimp to the cable
because the cable is so much smaller.
His solution:
Wrap electrical tape around the cable to increase its diameter.
Keep in mind that a 10 base T network only needs 4 of the 8 conductors, but you'll need 8 conductors for 100 Base T.
I do not remember having any bad connections via the cheap cable, but I wouldn't reccommend it unless you're on a college sided budget. Cat5 is cheap.
> Yahoo is carrying a Reuters report that thermal imaging may be used in airports to detect liars.
Screw that! Put these cameras where they are really needed!
Imagine how much fun it will be watching Court TV the next time OJ strikes.
I know this wouldn't be admissable in court, but it sure would make for some good watchin'
Ha ha ha!!
The funniest post I've read in a long time!
God I love a sarcastic sense of humor!
You'd win my karma if I had some to share!
:-)
> The one problem I foresee is defining when exactly a feature is deemed "complete" and therefore worthy of compensation.
How about instead of having a fixed compensation level, have a range of payment. Have some sort of Karma system or way for a coder to be evaluated/judged/voted upon. Maybe a coder with good karma would be assumed to have a better reputation for quality than lets say documentation or speed. Let his/her reputation determine if they deserve to be paid at the high or low end of the range.
If a coder can make something work, I would say they should earn at least the minimum of the preset payment range. If they code a piece of art with awesome documentation, Vote up their Karma, pay them at the max of the preset payment range, and maybe even a few bonus bucks!
Coders should also be able to evaluate bidders.
Bidders that tip well should be recognized as such so coders come flocking to them.
Although a karma system wouldn't solve the problem of defining when exactly a feature is deemed "complete" and therefore worthy of compensation, it could create an incentive for coders and bidders to think "long term". After all, coders would need to keep their karma high to earn top dollar, and bidders would want to keep their karma high so coders will want to code for them.
There would definitely be a lot of logistics to work out to make something like this work, but it sure would be sweet if I could add to the allure of free software development by letting my money talk for me.
I thought a lot of you might find this interesting.
;)
In Windows 2000, I've checked my Hotmail account with both Mozilla and I.E. Surprisingly, Microsoft's own hotmail website works better with Mozilla than with their own IE browser!
Try it yourself when you get a bunch of messages that need to be deleted:
Check the checkboxes for the messages you want to delete. Mozilla will react instantly, while IE lags 5-10 seconds to react to the checkbox. Am I the only one who has that problem in IE at the Hotmail website?
This happens for me on a BP6 with dual 533 Celerons with 512 Megs of PC133 - Perhaps it's time to upgrade
If Sony started selling a $200 more expensive version of the PS2 with the mod chip already installed, I'd be willing to bet they would make more money on game consoles than from games.
I will not buy a PS2 until I can backup my game collection.
I'm surprised nobody posted this link yet:
The Linux Bios Homepage
Now I can replace my guard dog with a guard bunny:
.... With Big Sharp pointy teeth!