The accuracy of the directions from each varies. I've seen both produce better results than the other for different routes. They usually both follow the same general directions though. Yahoo's maps are easier read when zoomed in close, since they only include side streets that are relevant to the route you're taking. Mapquest's tend to look cluttered. Yahoo also deosn't overstate the time it's takes to get there as much. In Mapquest's time estimates it's seems like they assumae you're going to stop at every gas station along the way and stick around for twenty minutes. Yahoo more resembles the actual driving time. Mapquest's instructions though, are more to the point. Yahoo seems to make merging from one expressway to another an eight step process, and reading all those details, while in an unfamiliar area, going 75 can be a bit dangerous. I usually run both. Print a main page with yahoo's map and mapquest's directions. And another with Yahoo's directions in case I miss something.
I was in NYC a few month's ago, at a bar with a producer, talking up Linux, telling them about all the big animation studios that are moving over, and his response was basically, "Sorry, we're on Maya, we're not considering anything else". Don't get me wrong, distributing their great product for free is a huge bonus, but think of what could be done if their Personal Learning Edition(TM) 5 was open source. Not only could we port it to a REAL computing platform (nothing against Apple!), but the technology could benefit so many applications that have no direct competition with MAYA. Kudo's to Alias Systems for making the first step, but let's hope they go even further. Let's hope we some some of this technology GPL'd.
Broadband connections ARE getting faster. I stopped my Adelphia service for a few months while I was out of town, when I started it back up, they said they had just finished a network upgrade, and my avg. DLS reports speed test went from 1.5 Mbit/s to 2.2 Mbit/s. It's not an amazing gain, but figuring that there are more people in my area running from the same connection now, and speed increased, I'm pretty happy.
I changed my long distance provider on my home phone all the time w/o having to get a new number. Now that I only have a cell, why should it be any different. Do I plan on changing providers now? Absolutely, because my current provider sucks. Maybe now that customers have a choice, the cell providers will have some incentive to provide quality service.
I think the idea is good in principle, but could it actually succeed? Google gets hit with millions of request each day. They've got hardware that can support thousands of slashdottings a day and a fat pipe to feed all of that info out. That takes alot of money. Financing an open source project is difficult enough, but financing an open source service such as that would seem next to impossible. Ideas?
The other major problem would be that, with the ranking criteria being available for all to see, it would be relatively simple to manipulate page rankings.
Or better yet, have it point to the executable so we can install it. I mean, come on, this is Slashdot. We're handed, on a silver platter, a program that will launch a DOS on Microsoft, our evil nemisis, and we're trying to UNinstall it? I'm ashamed of all of you.
Good point on IBM knowing the infringing code. Being that they have access to the System V source, I'm sure they've done the line by line comparison, found the code SCO's talking about, and looked at who actually developed it and who actually submitted it. If they're publically saying "we did nothing wrong", then I'm pretty sure they've confirmed that they truly have done nothing wrong.
SCO's accussing IBM of making unsubstantiated claims? Did I wake up in Bizarro world this morning. At least IBM told them what code they were suing them for.
This may be a bit off topic, but I didn't want to submit a story and have two SCO headlines in a row. Darl's holding a teleconference today to answer questions about the Red Hat suit. The press release is here. Call 1 (800) 238-9007 and enter 274040 as the access code.
First there was IBM. But IBM made a deal with a guy named Bill and slowly saw their computer monopoly erode, as this thing called Windows allowed anyone to operate any PC. But then it was decided to link computers together, and up came a new software company, Novell, and now someone other than Bill was making money off of software, and Bill didn't like that, so out came Windows NT, and Novell saw their brief monopoly collapse. IBM and Novell weren't happy, so IBM hooked up with another guy, named Linus, and slowly started taking back what Microsoft had taken away, in the datacenter, at least. So here's Novell, looking at IBM and realizing hey, it brought them back, it can bring us back too. And now the community has a big player putting Linux on the corporate desktop. Right on, Novell. Best of luck to ya.
Good to hear that Verizon's coverage is good, but as a fellow motorist, I'd prefer that you had watched the road rather than stared at your signal strength bar the whole drive.
What I want to know is how universal is the universal media disk. Minidisk was a great technology when it came out, but Sony's proprietary licensing kept it from widespread adoption. UMD looks like it could be a great new format, but will they open it up?
I wouldn't consider this a troll at all. Yes, it's a simplification of the issue at hand. Public availability of this program would absolutely create problems, if not from terrorists then from 14 year olds looking for a fun and mischevious summer project. The point he makes though, is right on. If you rank the current democratic nations by the openess of their societies and general level of freedom of their people, the U.S. isn't at the top of the list. Most of Europe, which we left to escape tyranny, has rights we as americans will never know.
Actually, this is one of the reasons I come to Slashdot everyday. I could come into work every morning and check Red Hat, Suse, Open Office, Mozilla, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and JBoss's sites to see if there are any new releases, then spend another hour checking the various news outlets to see the latest humor SCO's come up with, or I can check Slashdot and know it all within a few seconds.
Problem 2: It is a research tool, and may never be more than that. Chances are, any truly compelling features in Plan 9 will soon find their way into Linux and even MS Windows.
This is exactly the reason why projects like Plan9 are a good thing. If everyone concentrated on developing current technologies, the rate of innovation would drop dramatically. Will plan9 ever become a widely used, vastly supported operating system? Probably not, but the beauty of open source is that the advancements made by researching and developing a new way of doing things in one project can be applied to other, more prominently used projects.
The way I read it is that Sequent developed the RCU technology under a SystemV license from AT&T, Novell, SCO, Satan, whoever. That was a license in perpetuity, so when IBM bought out Sequent, they didn't gain the full rights to RCU, just a licensing agreement allowing them to sell it.
And as far as SMP goes, I'd like to check SCO's server logs to find out if any Linux downloads originated from IPs in NK, Syria, Iraq, Iran, etc. They're likely more guilty of supportting terrorsim than IBM, by having actually ditributed the code in question.
I don't understand why people are bothered by other's using cell phones. Sure, if you're at a lecture or in a movie, or in any other place where it's commonly understood that you shut up, don't use your phone. But what's the difference between talking to someone next to you and talking to someone who's not there. What's really the issue here? Are you mad because you don't have one. Get one, they're cheaper than landlines. Are you angry that they've got friends to call and you don't. Get over it.
If you're interested in Fantasy, the Wheel of Time series is one of the best I've read. I got the first book when it came out, and eagerly awaited the release of each new book. It might be a bit more than a summer project, though. The Dragonlance Chronicles is also a trilogy that you'll pick up and not put down until it's done. Then, a week later you'll pick it up again and re-read it. It's that good.
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The accuracy of the directions from each varies. I've seen both produce better results than the other for different routes. They usually both follow the same general directions though. Yahoo's maps are easier read when zoomed in close, since they only include side streets that are relevant to the route you're taking. Mapquest's tend to look cluttered. Yahoo also deosn't overstate the time it's takes to get there as much. In Mapquest's time estimates it's seems like they assumae you're going to stop at every gas station along the way and stick around for twenty minutes. Yahoo more resembles the actual driving time. Mapquest's instructions though, are more to the point. Yahoo seems to make merging from one expressway to another an eight step process, and reading all those details, while in an unfamiliar area, going 75 can be a bit dangerous. I usually run both. Print a main page with yahoo's map and mapquest's directions. And another with Yahoo's directions in case I miss something.
I was in NYC a few month's ago, at a bar with a producer, talking up Linux, telling them about all the big animation studios that are moving over, and his response was basically, "Sorry, we're on Maya, we're not considering anything else". Don't get me wrong, distributing their great product for free is a huge bonus, but think of what could be done if their Personal Learning Edition(TM) 5 was open source. Not only could we port it to a REAL computing platform (nothing against Apple!), but the technology could benefit so many applications that have no direct competition with MAYA. Kudo's to Alias Systems for making the first step, but let's hope they go even further. Let's hope we some some of this technology GPL'd.
Broadband connections ARE getting faster. I stopped my Adelphia service for a few months while I was out of town, when I started it back up, they said they had just finished a network upgrade, and my avg. DLS reports speed test went from 1.5 Mbit/s to 2.2 Mbit/s. It's not an amazing gain, but figuring that there are more people in my area running from the same connection now, and speed increased, I'm pretty happy.
I changed my long distance provider on my home phone all the time w/o having to get a new number. Now that I only have a cell, why should it be any different. Do I plan on changing providers now? Absolutely, because my current provider sucks. Maybe now that customers have a choice, the cell providers will have some incentive to provide quality service.
I think the idea is good in principle, but could it actually succeed? Google gets hit with millions of request each day. They've got hardware that can support thousands of slashdottings a day and a fat pipe to feed all of that info out. That takes alot of money. Financing an open source project is difficult enough, but financing an open source service such as that would seem next to impossible. Ideas?
The other major problem would be that, with the ranking criteria being available for all to see, it would be relatively simple to manipulate page rankings.
Or better yet, have it point to the executable so we can install it. I mean, come on, this is Slashdot. We're handed, on a silver platter, a program that will launch a DOS on Microsoft, our evil nemisis, and we're trying to UNinstall it? I'm ashamed of all of you.
Good point on IBM knowing the infringing code. Being that they have access to the System V source, I'm sure they've done the line by line comparison, found the code SCO's talking about, and looked at who actually developed it and who actually submitted it. If they're publically saying "we did nothing wrong", then I'm pretty sure they've confirmed that they truly have done nothing wrong.
Actually, it's from Sienfeld, but I'll check out Sealab. Always up for a good laugh.
SCO's accussing IBM of making unsubstantiated claims? Did I wake up in Bizarro world this morning. At least IBM told them what code they were suing them for.
Mohawk is still available for sale here.
Maybe you could call them and find out who they buy it from.
Which means he's legally unable to associate with any registered voter!
According to this article, Red Hat and Oracle are working on gaining the same level of certification by the end of the year.
This may be a bit off topic, but I didn't want to submit a story and have two SCO headlines in a row. Darl's holding a teleconference today to answer questions about the Red Hat suit. The press release is here.
Call 1 (800) 238-9007 and enter 274040 as the access code.
First there was IBM. But IBM made a deal with a guy named Bill and slowly saw their computer monopoly erode, as this thing called Windows allowed anyone to operate any PC. But then it was decided to link computers together, and up came a new software company, Novell, and now someone other than Bill was making money off of software, and Bill didn't like that, so out came Windows NT, and Novell saw their brief monopoly collapse. IBM and Novell weren't happy, so IBM hooked up with another guy, named Linus, and slowly started taking back what Microsoft had taken away, in the datacenter, at least. So here's Novell, looking at IBM and realizing hey, it brought them back, it can bring us back too. And now the community has a big player putting Linux on the corporate desktop. Right on, Novell. Best of luck to ya.
Good to hear that Verizon's coverage is good, but as a fellow motorist, I'd prefer that you had watched the road rather than stared at your signal strength bar the whole drive.
What I want to know is how universal is the universal media disk. Minidisk was a great technology when it came out, but Sony's proprietary licensing kept it from widespread adoption. UMD looks like it could be a great new format, but will they open it up?
and (c) keeping their website fast, responsive and easy to use. This is how businesses have remained ahead of their imitators for decades
There's a joke in there somewhere, I'm just not funny enough to figure it out.
I wouldn't consider this a troll at all. Yes, it's a simplification of the issue at hand. Public availability of this program would absolutely create problems, if not from terrorists then from 14 year olds looking for a fun and mischevious summer project. The point he makes though, is right on. If you rank the current democratic nations by the openess of their societies and general level of freedom of their people, the U.S. isn't at the top of the list. Most of Europe, which we left to escape tyranny, has rights we as americans will never know.
Adobe Premier: $546
Apple Final Cut Pro: $999
I'd think Adobe would still hold a large share of the market based on price alone.
Actually, this is one of the reasons I come to Slashdot everyday. I could come into work every morning and check Red Hat, Suse, Open Office, Mozilla, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and JBoss's sites to see if there are any new releases, then spend another hour checking the various news outlets to see the latest humor SCO's come up with, or I can check Slashdot and know it all within a few seconds.
Problem 2: It is a research tool, and may never be more than that. Chances are, any truly compelling features in Plan 9 will soon find their way into Linux and even MS Windows.
This is exactly the reason why projects like Plan9 are a good thing. If everyone concentrated on developing current technologies, the rate of innovation would drop dramatically. Will plan9 ever become a widely used, vastly supported operating system? Probably not, but the beauty of open source is that the advancements made by researching and developing a new way of doing things in one project can be applied to other, more prominently used projects.
The way I read it is that Sequent developed the RCU technology under a SystemV license from AT&T, Novell, SCO, Satan, whoever. That was a license in perpetuity, so when IBM bought out Sequent, they didn't gain the full rights to RCU, just a licensing agreement allowing them to sell it.
And as far as SMP goes, I'd like to check SCO's server logs to find out if any Linux downloads originated from IPs in NK, Syria, Iraq, Iran, etc. They're likely more guilty of supportting terrorsim than IBM, by having actually ditributed the code in question.
I don't understand why people are bothered by other's using cell phones. Sure, if you're at a lecture or in a movie, or in any other place where it's commonly understood that you shut up, don't use your phone. But what's the difference between talking to someone next to you and talking to someone who's not there. What's really the issue here? Are you mad because you don't have one. Get one, they're cheaper than landlines. Are you angry that they've got friends to call and you don't. Get over it.
If you're interested in Fantasy, the Wheel of Time series is one of the best I've read. I got the first book when it came out, and eagerly awaited the release of each new book. It might be a bit more than a summer project, though. The Dragonlance Chronicles is also a trilogy that you'll pick up and not put down until it's done. Then, a week later you'll pick it up again and re-read it. It's that good.
You know you spend too much time on Slashdot when you start to think Pr0n really does spell porn.