KDE has solved the environment issue but is facing an application issue. People will compare Konq to Mozilla (which has in a way become a de facto GNOME browser), but I will call Mozilla a leader here. The Gimp DESTROYS any KDE equivalent. AbiWord and OpenOffice (soon to be Gnome-ified) blow away KOffice and Gaim also triumphs over its KDE competitors. KDevelop is the only app space I know where KDE is the clear winner.
What is left in webmail? The best Google can do is offermore default space than Yahoo and Hotmail. This will cost them money - Yahoo currently soaks $19 a year out of anyone wanting more than 4 MB. Maybe they can do filtering better, but I don't see them outdoing spamassassin etc. Ultimately its just another email address. The geek cachet will wear off quick after everyone you despise starts using googlemail.
Ultimately this is the only long-term sticky application on the web. This is true for Microsoft and Yahoo, who leverage entire networks of services based on the id people initially used to get their email.
What is sad is that most useful email addresses @google.com will be swallowed up within ten minutes of the service going live, so you'll be back to charlie055539833 or cooldude1975 as your userid there too.
Get used to Google losing its agnostic stance after it goes public. Stop thinking of Google as a round-about and more as a parking lot.
Casinos are already zero-privacy zones anyway
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What privacy are you attempting to salvage in a casino? Modern operations are among the most observed environments anywhere. As I tell my wife, this is the last place you are likely to get succesfully pickpocketed.
Finances shouldn't be too big an issue. As an earlier post mentioned, it is well within the budget of the US government
Technically speaking the US government is bankrupt against its own domestic entitlement payments already on the books ($40 trillion shortfall on existing/booked entitlements for medicare and social security).
So buying a pack of gum right now is not within the US budget.
It cost them more than 3x the original estimate on ISS, and this is after the project was watered down. Your $20 billion number is laughable and I defy you to cite the source as being remotely legit or realistic. Even if a valid scientific method can be attached to the $20 billion number you haven't factored in the absurd cost overruns this project will most obviously experience.
Bush Sr. also called for a MArs mission. No one cared then, no one really cares now. Its obvious we do not have the money to fund anything remotely resembling a Mars mission - Bush is just trolling for votes. With the illegal immigrant amnesty and now this appeal to geeks, he'll be two-for-two in reeling in the lemmings for November 04.
Sure, But not 40Gb of songs you've spent weeks uploading.
You've never used firewire, have you? More like 40GB of music I spent about an hour or so uploading.
ens of millions in the US alone. And many people with network connections are on dial-up. And many people, with or without network connections, might like to e.g. share disks at a coffeehouse, or at school etc without dragging their laptop along (if they have a laptop).
I stick to my statement - the chances that any of these late-adopters is also an MD afficionado is zilch or close enough not to worry about as a market.
1. lose (or break) your ipod and you lose all the data on it. lose/break your minidisc player and you've lost maximum 1Gb.
Uh, and you MD player.
2. even with DRM, you can still lend/borrow friends' discs. Without needing a computer or a network.
Which is good, because hardly anyone has a computer with a network connection.
3. You don't need a computer to take advantage of Gb music storage. Believe or not, there are many people who don't own computers
How many people own an esoteric piece of hardware like an MD yet do not own a computer? I defy you to find one. Do not count yourself, you did not write your post on your stereo.
4. More hardware choice (in the long term) and easier hardware upgrades. Buy a newer player, use the old discs.
Sony seems to be the only vendor of merit for MD, so you actually are beholden to one merchant.
5. Less risk when transporting data. Walking around with a $7 minidisc is a lot less worrying than carrying a $250 player.
????
What is this risk? That I will get hit by a car? Who cares what happens to my music at that point???
The iPod will sometimes crap out when transitioning from song to song. This is on hard runs, like trail runs or 10ks where you are basically in a low sprint. Often between song transitions where I hear nothing, I will count to thirty and then pull out the unit to find it just idling at the beginning of a song, and the 'forward' button sometimes fails to grab a next song usefull at that point.
I get these failures repeatedly, so I presume this is a design issue.
Depending on the type of firm you are starting, you are not going to be able to find a pool of labor in Idaho that matches Silicon Valley. Maybe VB programmers, but not hardware/optical/deep software type stuff.
Firms that went public in 1999 have been living off of their IPO money instead of income. Thats fine - thats the idea (for a while), but these firms are facing a market that is moving towards massive commoditization and thinner margins.
The software biz is just beginning to enter a phase of massive consolidation and commoditization just as these firms need to show strong revenues. I must agree with Larry Ellison's self-serving comments that 80% of the software firms have no future.
This will impact Silicon Valley, which contrary to reports has not really generated much in the way of new industry in the last few years...the area is in fact turning more and more to the large firms (Adobe, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco, Intel, Applied Materials etc) to shore up the local economy.
But, for anyone who wants to start a new business, I can't imagine a city with more commercial real estate on the market. Take your pick!
The US has actually been in arrears to the UN at various points in history.
As for SALT...guess I will have to count the ABM treaty the US willfully broke recently, even though the Constitution says any prez who breaks a treaty is engaging in seditious behavior.
People keep saying "next year"...but I think you need a larger target audience to get the impetus for change. Its great to see IBM eat their own dogfood, and of course there are no worries - GNOME or KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc are all well suited to provde the tasks the employees will actually need.
Of course IBM could also see a huge cost savings over time as well, and provide a true real-world case for negating the ridiculous "TCO" whipping horse MS continues to fabricate results against.
Trail running or anyone performance running (light sprint) will produce skips from the iPod. I have actually considered going back to a flash-based player for harder runs.
No you are wrong, here is the "translation"
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You will see AllTheWeb (FAST) show up as the engine on some Yahoo properties where it is better suited. Search at Yahoo will use Inktomi or AllTheWeb (FAST), Google is going away completely. You will not know when you are using FAST or Inktomi, it will not be advertised.
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Dear SCO: FUCK OFF.
KDE has solved the environment issue but is facing an application issue. People will compare Konq to Mozilla (which has in a way become a de facto GNOME browser), but I will call Mozilla a leader here. The Gimp DESTROYS any KDE equivalent. AbiWord and OpenOffice (soon to be Gnome-ified) blow away KOffice and Gaim also triumphs over its KDE competitors. KDevelop is the only app space I know where KDE is the clear winner.
What is left in webmail? The best Google can do is offermore default space than Yahoo and Hotmail. This will cost them money - Yahoo currently soaks $19 a year out of anyone wanting more than 4 MB. Maybe they can do filtering better, but I don't see them outdoing spamassassin etc. Ultimately its just another email address. The geek cachet will wear off quick after everyone you despise starts using googlemail.
What is sad is that most useful email addresses @google.com will be swallowed up within ten minutes of the service going live, so you'll be back to charlie055539833 or cooldude1975 as your userid there too.
Get used to Google losing its agnostic stance after it goes public. Stop thinking of Google as a round-about and more as a parking lot.
What privacy are you attempting to salvage in a casino? Modern operations are among the most observed environments anywhere. As I tell my wife, this is the last place you are likely to get succesfully pickpocketed.
Technically speaking the US government is bankrupt against its own domestic entitlement payments already on the books ($40 trillion shortfall on existing/booked entitlements for medicare and social security).
So buying a pack of gum right now is not within the US budget.
Its refreshing to see a science geek on /. who actually has a rudimentary understanding of high-school level science.
Bottom line is that 04 will see a record budget deficit - there is not room for a $50-$200 billion Mars mission.
It cost them more than 3x the original estimate on ISS, and this is after the project was watered down. Your $20 billion number is laughable and I defy you to cite the source as being remotely legit or realistic. Even if a valid scientific method can be attached to the $20 billion number you haven't factored in the absurd cost overruns this project will most obviously experience.
Bush Sr. also called for a MArs mission. No one cared then, no one really cares now. Its obvious we do not have the money to fund anything remotely resembling a Mars mission - Bush is just trolling for votes. With the illegal immigrant amnesty and now this appeal to geeks, he'll be two-for-two in reeling in the lemmings for November 04.
You've never used firewire, have you? More like 40GB of music I spent about an hour or so uploading.
ens of millions in the US alone. And many people with network connections are on dial-up. And many people, with or without network connections, might like to e.g. share disks at a coffeehouse, or at school etc without dragging their laptop along (if they have a laptop).
I stick to my statement - the chances that any of these late-adopters is also an MD afficionado is zilch or close enough not to worry about as a market.
False. See "accesories" anywhere iPods are sold.
NetMD players are smaller and lighter than even the iPod mini
False.
The Hi-MD walkman is the first to support PCM recording
No one cares, sorry.
Uh, and you MD player.
2. even with DRM, you can still lend/borrow friends' discs. Without needing a computer or a network.
Which is good, because hardly anyone has a computer with a network connection.
3. You don't need a computer to take advantage of Gb music storage. Believe or not, there are many people who don't own computers
How many people own an esoteric piece of hardware like an MD yet do not own a computer? I defy you to find one. Do not count yourself, you did not write your post on your stereo.
4. More hardware choice (in the long term) and easier hardware upgrades. Buy a newer player, use the old discs.
Sony seems to be the only vendor of merit for MD, so you actually are beholden to one merchant.
5. Less risk when transporting data. Walking around with a $7 minidisc is a lot less worrying than carrying a $250 player.
????
What is this risk? That I will get hit by a car? Who cares what happens to my music at that point???
I get these failures repeatedly, so I presume this is a design issue.
Depending on the type of firm you are starting, you are not going to be able to find a pool of labor in Idaho that matches Silicon Valley. Maybe VB programmers, but not hardware/optical/deep software type stuff.
The software biz is just beginning to enter a phase of massive consolidation and commoditization just as these firms need to show strong revenues. I must agree with Larry Ellison's self-serving comments that 80% of the software firms have no future.
This will impact Silicon Valley, which contrary to reports has not really generated much in the way of new industry in the last few years...the area is in fact turning more and more to the large firms (Adobe, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco, Intel, Applied Materials etc) to shore up the local economy.
But, for anyone who wants to start a new business, I can't imagine a city with more commercial real estate on the market. Take your pick!
As for SALT...guess I will have to count the ABM treaty the US willfully broke recently, even though the Constitution says any prez who breaks a treaty is engaging in seditious behavior.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12197
I have not seen an official pronouncement but I believe IBM is in the GNOME camp.
Of course IBM could also see a huge cost savings over time as well, and provide a true real-world case for negating the ridiculous "TCO" whipping horse MS continues to fabricate results against.
I have been using my iPod on linux exclusively for months. The gnupod utilities are the command-line tools, and GtkPod is the Gnome2 front end.
They also said the same for web browsers and office suites, and we have those for linux now.
Trail running or anyone performance running (light sprint) will produce skips from the iPod. I have actually considered going back to a flash-based player for harder runs.
How many ways can you say it???
You will see AllTheWeb (FAST) show up as the engine on some Yahoo properties where it is better suited. Search at Yahoo will use Inktomi or AllTheWeb (FAST), Google is going away completely. You will not know when you are using FAST or Inktomi, it will not be advertised.