This can be summed up very easily. People prefer familiarity in GUI, and change only gradually, and when they see benefits.
Just like when Windows 95 users ran progman.exe to get their old folders and icons back, and those who run X just to have multiple X terms... some eventually change, and others just stay for whatever reasons: ease of use, no desire to learn new ways, or just to get things done without having to worry about changing the way you work.
I've had anti-aliased text on my xterms for quite a while with this.50 dot pitch 14-inch monitor I have. Hell sometimes it's so anti-aliased I can't even tell if its BSD or Linux...
...is a hardware weblog. Everything that everyone does to their machines -- post it! Good, bad, strang things stuck in cooling fans... all of it. At the very least for learning, and at the very abstract that we have documentation of all the screwed-up-ness that is modern day computing.
I thought it was Newton that had the Apple fall on him.
Just like that wonderful little PDA, I think Darwin is going to go the way of Newton, and Apple will just fall on it, a victim of their own buzz-word surfing.
Quote: Interactive language learning: This covers all digital language learning systems that allow a user to compare his pronounciation of a selected piece of text to the right pronounciation.
Okay class, lets say the phrase we just learned... "I dream of america where my underwear flap is not covered by five simultaneous patents, and where the drugs can come in generic form."
Good class.
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is this all they're good for? I mean, this is the only thing I've ever seen for old machines. Make a router. You can almost get a nice simple NAT for around $200 or less, so I can see the benefit, but I can see also that perhaps people are doing this because there's nothing else to do with old boxes.
Okay, it's cliche, but has anyone ever made a cluster of old boxes? Perhaps even for scalable routing?
PalmOS currently dominates. The Visors are very cool, and there's all kinds of Palm stuff exploding everywhere.
I think, however, the unforseen benefit to unix on a PDA, is just the true insurgence of the business world to unix. If these are cheaper, faster, and freely licensed I think you'll see Admins flocking to these because they can SUPPORT it. Who wants to learn how to fix a messed up palm, or send it to some one?
The more intangible our property becomes, the more intangible the property rights will be. UCITA sucks, but to some it was something they were fighting for because it fits with they hold true (yeah okay, so it's money grubbing, but hey)...
Our ideals seem foreign to them just as theirs do to us. However much we need these laws, we must realized they will stand up for all mindsets, just not the "better" one.
I dunno... don't mark me as flaimbait, 'cause I think it needs to be stated that this company might have succeeded if nobody took advantage of them. I know they have horrible legal contracts, i know the protection was simple, i know it was a loss leader. The point is, that a shortcut was taken by many. Who knows... we could've seen these things on any street corner, and even tho they suck, it would've been nice to ssh to a box in public every now and then.
is that they have software that monitors stations, and looks up the songs in a database to find out what it is. And there's *great* music like the most cutting edge station I know of -- WOXY in Cincinnati... better than LA's cheesy KROQ. Anywho... I've bookmarked their live playlists 'cause I always want to know what is on that station.
Wow. live playlists. -- from real radio stations too.
Man I thought the long IP http://2034890234890294 thing was annoying... now I won't be able to make sense of *anything* in their damn spam. Oh well... another clue to hit delete.
on NPR or PRI one day. Very interesting... especially that there are hobbyist volcano enthusiasts that work along side of the scientists (but of course are somewhat looked down upon). The story I heard on the radio dogged most movies, and instead considered the study of volcanoes to be one of the great last frontiers.
They also discussed deaths of researchers caught too close to the scene.
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Just like when Windows 95 users ran progman.exe to get their old folders and icons back, and those who run X just to have multiple X terms... some eventually change, and others just stay for whatever reasons: ease of use, no desire to learn new ways, or just to get things done without having to worry about changing the way you work.
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crap.
ahh crap this is a net number...
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I thought it was Newton that had the Apple fall on him.
Just like that wonderful little PDA, I think Darwin is going to go the way of Newton, and Apple will just fall on it, a victim of their own buzz-word surfing.
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Okay class, lets say the phrase we just learned... "I dream of america where my underwear flap is not covered by five simultaneous patents, and where the drugs can come in generic form."
Good class.
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Okay, it's cliche, but has anyone ever made a cluster of old boxes? Perhaps even for scalable routing?
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I think, however, the unforseen benefit to unix on a PDA, is just the true insurgence of the business world to unix. If these are cheaper, faster, and freely licensed I think you'll see Admins flocking to these because they can SUPPORT it. Who wants to learn how to fix a messed up palm, or send it to some one?
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Our ideals seem foreign to them just as theirs do to us. However much we need these laws, we must realized they will stand up for all mindsets, just not the "better" one.
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Just try to kick IE's ass... that's all that needs to be focused on.
Strive for standards.
Become a small and efficient browser that works on all platforms
Try to think of *one way* to make money for the company -- do the AOL no-homepage thing, or sell it for $10 a crack.
and then I don't think anything could stop it from being the best / most profitale browser.
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I'd like to see some good 3d felt.
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Wow. live playlists. -- from real radio stations too.
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Oooo! I've got mail! ;)
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They also discussed deaths of researchers caught too close to the scene.
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