I can speak to the pre-5.1 functionality. If you enable WDS and WPA the routers stop working because of a bug that causes the wireless MAC to revert to the software default. There is a workaround but it isn't stable across reboots. So this is an example of how pre their prereleases are.
I'm a subscriber and I have no issue with the issue with the way things were being done. Essentially you subscribed to the nightly builds and CVS. When it went 'gold' it was issued as the GPL code with source and binary. The point of their business model is to provide enhanced access to the development process. Funny that I am running the stable code on my WRT54Gs not the code I paid for because the WDS (repeater) functionality doesn't work with WPA yet. It is stated that you can distribute the source and binaries that you obtain from the subscription service but it forfeits your subscription. However I feel that is the inherent risk in their model, it is an honor system and it breaks down if they try to get militant in its enforcement. However their 'product' really makes the WRT54G a product on par with its bigger Cisco cousins. I guess I'll see how this plays out after my year subscription is up.
Woah. Speed limits do effect safety and fuel consumption directly. As you travel past 60 mph you begin to spend more and more of your fuel moving the air out of the way rather than traveling faster. If you look at fuel economy from a strictly economic efficiency standpoint you will be spending the appx $.10 more per gallon for every 5 mph over 60. Check www.fueleconomy.gov for lots of good information.
I would only like to add that once you start down the road of regulation of freedoms, you have a serious problem. ANYTHING is a dangerous weapon in the right hands. The hope or idea that you can control people through force and regulation is a ridiculously old fashioned concept. Just look at Iraq. If force was going to work then Iraq would be a safe place.
It sounds like the truth behind the matter is that Hotmail just has trouble delivering mail. No plan to prevent email from arriving from GMail, simply an inability for Microsoft's servers to deal with primetime. But didn't we already know that?
It was supported as of v3.0.0 of Crossover. They have just released a minor patch v3.0.1. I have found the support to be quite excellent for Office 2k, Notes 6.5.1, Remedy 5.01, IE 6, Quicktime, MS Media Player, and Visio 2k. I have even played Half Life in it. Worth every penny.
The next hurdle will be iTunes and installers in general. Most applications would run if you could install them. iTunes breaks on install. Many more things will be fixed when ntoskrnl and other things are brought over from ReactOS. Things like copy protected games should become less of a problem. Also DirectX is making strides as pointed out in the Lionel Ulmner interview on WineHq.
Actually the goal of business is not to profit, that is a byproduct of providing you a product or service. It may be that profit is the motivation for specialization but I wholly disagree that it is 'the reason' for business. Too much work is done for the sake of doing it, with no hope of profit, simply to dismiss every action of business to be profit motivated.
Causing competition to fail is not even necessarily profitable. It could be counterproductive. So please show some thought before you speak. Maybe read the Wealth of Nations again, or that new book by John Kay, Culture and Prosperity.
It really hurts to see a company with many good engineers, and a solid history, driven toward the rocks at such an amazing speed. Sun at this point is quickly making itself irrelevant by not joining the market in acceptance of true open-source, and concentrating on industry compatible hardware. Phase out Sparc, in favor of PowerPC, or AMD. GPL Solaris, Java. Concentrate on making good hardware that supports Linux and their GPL's Solaris, and sell services. This is not a time in the company's history to start publicly daydreaming that they are in 1995, or that they are relevant.
What right do they have to keep the customer in the dark? To abuse their position of power in the market so that they can benefit? The government is in charge of protecting us from harm, which includes abusive monopolistic corporations.
You are assuming that gameplay on an XBox2 will be equivalent to a $2000 PC. In fact without specially designing the game for the console you will probably have lackluster performance. Not to mention online play will be disappointing because users with PCs have a major advantage.
BTW PS2 can be had for $149 w/ Network Capability, and Gamecube $99. Even on day one I bought my PS2 for $299 not $400.
To me the Libertarian party is right about many things but gets it totally wrong. I want more government keeping business in check and less giving business a check. To me if you want less government we need smaller business and that really doesn't require a new political party that thinks the US is a great thing ruined by the parties, but a new constitution that reasserts the rights of individuals.
Borrowed from the Clash - "Know your rights" The right not to be killed. The right to food money. The right to free speech.
From me: The understanding that the government shouldn't make any effort to ensure your future enrichment based upon past performance. AKA copyright. That true innovation comes from building and borrowing other peoples ideas.
"And in some circles it is believed this is not enough." But it is a start.
I believe he stole elements from here and there. For example, the scene in the beginning with the two bickering guys from Hidden Fortress are definitely R2D2 and C3PO on Tatooine.
I believe the original films had a good story line, a classic story line, and the actors carried the film. That story line could be attributed to Lucas, but his direction is notoriously bad, even the cast said so.
Great idea... except for their complete lack of understanding of the game market, as illustrated by Halo, which is total crap. The only thing interesting to come from Halo is Red vs. Blue.
He waxes on about how consumers don't care about the platform they watch movies on, and the way they are ubiquitous. Both points I would disagree with, in addition to disagreement over the idea that emulating the Movie Industry is a worthwhile proposition. BTW NPR had a little snippet that said the video game industry makes more money than the Movie Industry. So why should they emulate a mediocre business that is most likely in its death throes?
It seems that Microsoft wants to create a gaming brand called XNA. Which misses the point that what makes gaming consoles work. Gamers require specialized hardware, that gets refreshed every few years, and is pushed to its limit. The point of a game console is to provide an identical experience on each console. That experience should be original or a good twist on an old idea and state of the art in speed, gameplay and graphics/sound. When you say a game can be played on any platform, including an airport kiosk you are never going to achieve an equality of game play. Which is the number one complaint in online gaming. Lag, cheating and glitching. People want everyone they are playing with to be on that proverbial level playing field.
It would be great if someone would write this guy's life as a video game. Online Video Entertainment Tycoon.
You can offer a cash bounty for specific applications to be supported by Codeweavers. It is in the Compatibility section of their website. Once you have located the application you would like to have supported (e.g. iTunes, which I offer $50 for) then you make a pledge. Kinda like NPR/PBS for nerds.
For a full discussion on how fuel economy numbers work and a listing of every car check out http://www.fueleconomy.gov. They have a great PDF of all the fuel economy numbers.
They also reminded me that if you buy a 2004 Toyota Prius you get a $1500 federal tax deduction, and don't forget to get the bluetooth enabled version.
It is available in Japan, apparently the place for the button is on the dashboard, and there is an unused compartment under the trunk floorboard. Now all they need is an orange extension cord and you are good to go.
Did anyone else hear the NPR story this last weekend about owners that want their Prius to have the electric-only option in their car. Apparently this is the case in Japan. You can push a button and go electric only, and recharge the batteries with a plug or switch to the hybrid engine by the push of button.
It is so true. I watch people on 101 and 17 in the bay area and they are insane. People in regular cars are certainly getting much lower fuel economy because they don't drive well.
An important factor is how a single gallon of fuel efficiency in the automobile fleet has significant impacts on fleet fuel consumption. I would like to see a thumbsketch of how if everyone had anyone of the existing hybrids how that would effect US fuel consumption and overall pounds of pollution emitted.
It is important to understand the numbers and how they arrived at them.
"The 19-year-old EPA tests for city and highway mileage actually gauge vehicle emissions and use that data to derive an estimated fuel-efficiency rating. The EPA tests pre-production vehicles in a lab to simulate vehicle starts and stops on crowded city streets and open road conditions. According to the EPA website, "The tests measure the waste substances emitted from consuming the fuel, not the actual fuel consumed. From the measurement of emissions, EPA can estimate the miles per gallon achieved by the vehicle on average."
In brief, if the car burns the fuel very efficiently with very little by-products, it gets a higher rating. So people take their daily commute and find that there use of fuel economy seems less efficient, but I would argue that you are still getting significantly better mileage and your putting out less harmful exhaust. It would be great if they had sensors and dashboard indicators that could indicate pollutants emitted from the tail pipe on cars. That might give a more complete picture, and show you how your driving effects your performance.
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I can speak to the pre-5.1 functionality. If you enable WDS and WPA the routers stop working because of a bug that causes the wireless MAC to revert to the software default. There is a workaround but it isn't stable across reboots. So this is an example of how pre their prereleases are.
I'm a subscriber and I have no issue with the issue with the way things were being done. Essentially you subscribed to the nightly builds and CVS. When it went 'gold' it was issued as the GPL code with source and binary. The point of their business model is to provide enhanced access to the development process. Funny that I am running the stable code on my WRT54Gs not the code I paid for because the WDS (repeater) functionality doesn't work with WPA yet. It is stated that you can distribute the source and binaries that you obtain from the subscription service but it forfeits your subscription. However I feel that is the inherent risk in their model, it is an honor system and it breaks down if they try to get militant in its enforcement. However their 'product' really makes the WRT54G a product on par with its bigger Cisco cousins. I guess I'll see how this plays out after my year subscription is up.
Woah. Speed limits do effect safety and fuel consumption directly. As you travel past 60 mph you begin to spend more and more of your fuel moving the air out of the way rather than traveling faster. If you look at fuel economy from a strictly economic efficiency standpoint you will be spending the appx $.10 more per gallon for every 5 mph over 60. Check www.fueleconomy.gov for lots of good information.
You would be hard pressed to aerosolize anthrax.
I would only like to add that once you start down the road of regulation of freedoms, you have a serious problem. ANYTHING is a dangerous weapon in the right hands. The hope or idea that you can control people through force and regulation is a ridiculously old fashioned concept. Just look at Iraq. If force was going to work then Iraq would be a safe place.
It sounds like the truth behind the matter is that Hotmail just has trouble delivering mail. No plan to prevent email from arriving from GMail, simply an inability for Microsoft's servers to deal with primetime. But didn't we already know that?
It was supported as of v3.0.0 of Crossover. They have just released a minor patch v3.0.1. I have found the support to be quite excellent for Office 2k, Notes 6.5.1, Remedy 5.01, IE 6, Quicktime, MS Media Player, and Visio 2k. I have even played Half Life in it. Worth every penny.
The next hurdle will be iTunes and installers in general. Most applications would run if you could install them. iTunes breaks on install. Many more things will be fixed when ntoskrnl and other things are brought over from ReactOS. Things like copy protected games should become less of a problem. Also DirectX is making strides as pointed out in the Lionel Ulmner interview on WineHq.
Actually the goal of business is not to profit, that is a byproduct of providing you a product or service. It may be that profit is the motivation for specialization but I wholly disagree that it is 'the reason' for business. Too much work is done for the sake of doing it, with no hope of profit, simply to dismiss every action of business to be profit motivated.
Causing competition to fail is not even necessarily profitable. It could be counterproductive. So please show some thought before you speak. Maybe read the Wealth of Nations again, or that new book by John Kay, Culture and Prosperity.
1) Ctrl-Alt-Del
2) Rebooting after installing an application
3) Powering the computer on
4) The arrow pointer for the mouse
5) The hourglass
It really hurts to see a company with many good engineers, and a solid history, driven toward the rocks at such an amazing speed. Sun at this point is quickly making itself irrelevant by not joining the market in acceptance of true open-source, and concentrating on industry compatible hardware. Phase out Sparc, in favor of PowerPC, or AMD. GPL Solaris, Java. Concentrate on making good hardware that supports Linux and their GPL's Solaris, and sell services. This is not a time in the company's history to start publicly daydreaming that they are in 1995, or that they are relevant.
What right do they have to keep the customer in the dark? To abuse their position of power in the market so that they can benefit? The government is in charge of protecting us from harm, which includes abusive monopolistic corporations.
You are assuming that gameplay on an XBox2 will be equivalent to a $2000 PC. In fact without specially designing the game for the console you will probably have lackluster performance. Not to mention online play will be disappointing because users with PCs have a major advantage.
BTW PS2 can be had for $149 w/ Network Capability, and Gamecube $99. Even on day one I bought my PS2 for $299 not $400.
For uploading or listening to Britney Spears? I would suggest public humiliation of some sort would be a fitting punishment. :)
To me the Libertarian party is right about many things but gets it totally wrong. I want more government keeping business in check and less giving business a check. To me if you want less government we need smaller business and that really doesn't require a new political party that thinks the US is a great thing ruined by the parties, but a new constitution that reasserts the rights of individuals.
Borrowed from the Clash - "Know your rights"
The right not to be killed.
The right to food money.
The right to free speech.
From me:
The understanding that the government shouldn't make any effort to ensure your future enrichment based upon past performance. AKA copyright. That true innovation comes from building and borrowing other peoples ideas.
"And in some circles it is believed this is not enough." But it is a start.
I believe he stole elements from here and there. For example, the scene in the beginning with the two bickering guys from Hidden Fortress are definitely R2D2 and C3PO on Tatooine.
I believe the original films had a good story line, a classic story line, and the actors carried the film. That story line could be attributed to Lucas, but his direction is notoriously bad, even the cast said so.
Frankly he should have left well enough alone.
Great idea... except for their complete lack of understanding of the game market, as illustrated by Halo, which is total crap. The only thing interesting to come from Halo is Red vs. Blue.
He waxes on about how consumers don't care about the platform they watch movies on, and the way they are ubiquitous. Both points I would disagree with, in addition to disagreement over the idea that emulating the Movie Industry is a worthwhile proposition. BTW NPR had a little snippet that said the video game industry makes more money than the Movie Industry. So why should they emulate a mediocre business that is most likely in its death throes?
It seems that Microsoft wants to create a gaming brand called XNA. Which misses the point that what makes gaming consoles work. Gamers require specialized hardware, that gets refreshed every few years, and is pushed to its limit. The point of a game console is to provide an identical experience on each console. That experience should be original or a good twist on an old idea and state of the art in speed, gameplay and graphics/sound. When you say a game can be played on any platform, including an airport kiosk you are never going to achieve an equality of game play. Which is the number one complaint in online gaming. Lag, cheating and glitching. People want everyone they are playing with to be on that proverbial level playing field.
It would be great if someone would write this guy's life as a video game. Online Video Entertainment Tycoon.
You can offer a cash bounty for specific applications to be supported by Codeweavers. It is in the Compatibility section of their website. Once you have located the application you would like to have supported (e.g. iTunes, which I offer $50 for) then you make a pledge. Kinda like NPR/PBS for nerds.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/drive.shtml
Check out the gas mileage tips. According to this guide every 5 miles/hour you go over 60 is like spending $.10 extra per gallon of gas.
For a full discussion on how fuel economy numbers work and a listing of every car check out http://www.fueleconomy.gov. They have a great PDF of all the fuel economy numbers.
They also reminded me that if you buy a 2004 Toyota Prius you get a $1500 federal tax deduction, and don't forget to get the bluetooth enabled version.
Well that may be true. The faster you travel the more fuel you are expending moving the air out of your way.
It is available in Japan, apparently the place for the button is on the dashboard, and there is an unused compartment under the trunk floorboard. Now all they need is an orange extension cord and you are good to go.
Did anyone else hear the NPR story this last weekend about owners that want their Prius to have the electric-only option in their car. Apparently this is the case in Japan. You can push a button and go electric only, and recharge the batteries with a plug or switch to the hybrid engine by the push of button.
It sounds like the article wants to appease the conscience of SUV owners, whom as we all know drive considerately and maximize fuel economy.
It is so true. I watch people on 101 and 17 in the bay area and they are insane. People in regular cars are certainly getting much lower fuel economy because they don't drive well.
An important factor is how a single gallon of fuel efficiency in the automobile fleet has significant impacts on fleet fuel consumption. I would like to see a thumbsketch of how if everyone had anyone of the existing hybrids how that would effect US fuel consumption and overall pounds of pollution emitted.
It is important to understand the numbers and how they arrived at them.
"The 19-year-old EPA tests for city and highway mileage actually gauge vehicle emissions and use that data to derive an estimated fuel-efficiency rating. The EPA tests pre-production vehicles in a lab to simulate vehicle starts and stops on crowded city streets and open road conditions. According to the EPA website, "The tests measure the waste substances emitted from consuming the fuel, not the actual fuel consumed. From the measurement of emissions, EPA can estimate the miles per gallon achieved by the vehicle on average."
In brief, if the car burns the fuel very efficiently with very little by-products, it gets a higher rating. So people take their daily commute and find that there use of fuel economy seems less efficient, but I would argue that you are still getting significantly better mileage and your putting out less harmful exhaust. It would be great if they had sensors and dashboard indicators that could indicate pollutants emitted from the tail pipe on cars. That might give a more complete picture, and show you how your driving effects your performance.
The CIO and Head Brainsurgeon (he really is a medical doctor) was at SVLUG last year he said there were about 11500 Linux boxes at Google.