This is a shot across the bow of SCO management. In other words, a public warning to the management team that their days are numbered unless they focus on what their owners want.
I'm all for turning off the TV, but I think the 90% figure is misleading.
People who participate in this event have probably already decided or at least desired to reduce their television viewing, and are merely using this as a catalyst. They are self-selected: you couldn't expect a 90% success rate with a random group.
The article looks like WUSB is oriented toward device-to-host communication. Bluetooth supports connections between many different kinds of devices. Phones and accessories are a natural here. (After all, Bluetooth originated with Sweden's Ericsson.)
My favorite Bluetooth application is moving camera-phone photos to my laptop. My second-favorite application is laptop-to-bluetooth-to-phone-to-GPRS-to-internet.
TV is worthless. You get better news on the web; better sports if you attend in person; and anything else that's worthwhile will be on DVD in a year anyway.
I understand the Linux PCs are destined for some very specialized applications......but still it will be interesting to see what kind of support issues and options come with this offering.
Great, since previously email and SMS spam was the only form of advertising available on my fancy new phone, which I spent big bucks on for the sole purpose of keeping up with the latest trends in advertising, certainly not for keeping in touch with family and friends.
You're right about these opportunities. My employer is a small but growing company in life sciences where the owner values control and stability above all. He paid what he considers a lot of money for what objectively is a low-end ERP system, designed for light manufacturing operations. After months of customization, it still doesn't fit the way he and his managers thinks their labs should run.
Some entrepreneurs are in business for themselves because they like everything done Their Way. They control every other aspect of the businesses they've built and hate it when expensive employees tell them their expensive computer systems can't do something simple they want to happen. Definitely "stupidly lucrative" rewards if you can solve that problem.
(I was out of the loop on the entire project [if in fact there *is* a loop?], and my strategy is to stay as far away from it as possible for as long as possible.)
It doesn't matter what people on the internet in Chinese cities think. The Party has access to an endless supply of young men from the hinterland it can arm and deploy to counter any kind of threatening popular movement.
I have to take chemical handling safety classes due to state regulations which classify my office as a chemistry lab. (The real lab is down the hall.)
But that's no problem for my coworker who used to work next to the local police department's firing range: edit, compile, link, BLAM! edit, compile, link, BLAM!...
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This is a shot across the bow of SCO management. In other words, a public warning to the management team that their days are numbered unless they focus on what their owners want.
I'm all for turning off the TV, but I think the 90% figure is misleading.
People who participate in this event have probably already decided or at least desired to reduce their television viewing, and are merely using this as a catalyst. They are self-selected: you couldn't expect a 90% success rate with a random group.
Must be an election year--politicians are talking about cable television prices.
(How about just cutting my taxes by $50 a month? Wouldn't that be a simpler means to the same end?!)
The article looks like WUSB is oriented toward device-to-host communication. Bluetooth supports connections between many different kinds of devices. Phones and accessories are a natural here. (After all, Bluetooth originated with Sweden's Ericsson.)
My favorite Bluetooth application is moving camera-phone photos to my laptop. My second-favorite application is laptop-to-bluetooth-to-phone-to-GPRS-to-internet.
That's Linux (and related technologies) for you:
Whatever the rap against Linux is, check back eighteen months later and it will have been addressed.
TV is worthless. You get better news on the web; better sports if you attend in person; and anything else that's worthwhile will be on DVD in a year anyway.
How about "Sun Java Web Browser"?
I understand the Linux PCs are destined for some very specialized applications... ...but still it will be interesting to see what kind of support issues and options come with this offering.
I'll take "angry.mob".
No big deal: in Rome, they're used to this.
The usage patterns and target market/audience for these operating systems are very different.
There are huge variations in security between
- a Linux box set up by a novice student
- a Solaris system participating in a cluster serving a major consumer website
- a Mac OS X Server machine running stock network services for a graphic design firm
I'd like to hear more about how they accounted for these differences before I make up my mind.88 'feet'?! You mean Mars hasn't gone metric?!
My first thought was, "forget game devices, gimme a 1GB mobile phone!"
Great, since previously email and SMS spam was the only form of advertising available on my fancy new phone, which I spent big bucks on for the sole purpose of keeping up with the latest trends in advertising, certainly not for keeping in touch with family and friends.
You're right about these opportunities. My employer is a small but growing company in life sciences where the owner values control and stability above all. He paid what he considers a lot of money for what objectively is a low-end ERP system, designed for light manufacturing operations. After months of customization, it still doesn't fit the way he and his managers thinks their labs should run.
Some entrepreneurs are in business for themselves because they like everything done Their Way. They control every other aspect of the businesses they've built and hate it when expensive employees tell them their expensive computer systems can't do something simple they want to happen. Definitely "stupidly lucrative" rewards if you can solve that problem.
(I was out of the loop on the entire project [if in fact there *is* a loop?], and my strategy is to stay as far away from it as possible for as long as possible.)
Is that 14 point at 72 points per inch? or 96 points per inch?!
It doesn't matter what people on the internet in Chinese cities think. The Party has access to an endless supply of young men from the hinterland it can arm and deploy to counter any kind of threatening popular movement.
Hopefully there will be fewer Mars-rats chewing on the cables this time. It would be a shame if they did to Opportunity what they're doing to Spirit!
They should have used Digital Rights Management:
Ideological opponents: ( ) Allow (+) Deny
I have to take chemical handling safety classes due to state regulations which classify my office as a chemistry lab. (The real lab is down the hall.)
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But that's no problem for my coworker who used to work next to the local police department's firing range: edit, compile, link, BLAM! edit, compile, link, BLAM!
applet, embed, iframe, object { display: none !important };
My friends have been accusing me of emailing them randomly generated streams of dictionary words for years...
Not trolling, but for me the successor to XFree86 is turning out to be Apple's X11.app.
I'd be impressed if all 55 were up to date...