Actually, I.E. will always be the best browser. Say what you will about Microsoft, they make a damn fine internet browser.
Damn fine until you realize you can't block popups or have tabs. But then again -- maybe I am the only one who does not liked popups and thinks 1 window is cleaner than 15 windows.
I can think of some pretty cool stuff to do with 100 meeelion dollars. Reinventing the wheel is not one of them. Can you imagine if you invested 100 million into applications and left the distributions to the community? If I had a nickel for every dollar spent on making an "easier install" I could hire some pretty good people for a long time to work on some real apps. Think about it -- even a bad install would only take a day or two....What really would stand out is what do you do once you have it installed? That could be years of usage -- vs. the difference between a 1 hour install and a 2 day install.
On the flipside -- the Eazel (sp?) people seemed to be pretty good at floating many million into what in the end was little more than a slow file manager. Proving that not only distributions can go broke. I say if you have that kind of money -- take it and pay the people (teams) who are already working part time on existing "killer areas" (gimp, sane, usb support, abiword, gnumeric, etc) and pay them to do it fulltime as a real job with real deadlines, etc...etc...
Please nobody stab me with a big fork over this...I have long said "I don't care about Office on Linux, I don't care about an IE port...give me my WMA!" The ONLY reason being that my poor ears AND my small compact flash cards think that 64K.wma files sound and fit better than.mp3's at 64K. Now I would love to try out OGG but my computer is still a little heavy to pick up and take jogging...
Considering I can buy the actual DVD for $14.99 versus $17.99 for an Audio CD to add to my collection. An added advantage is that I know the DVD is good. And for $15 I wont feel to bad getting the extended edition in a few months. Plus my wife has not seen it (I guess I saved $7.50 at the showhouse then plus another $7.50 for the popcorn and drink -- hell that pays for the $15....) Yep -- I have talked myself into it -- off to wally world I go,
I do not want to start a flame war or anything. I have been getting into Python lately and am starting to wonder why I don't see more sites using Python over Perl? Can anybody point me to some dynamic sites that have passed over Perl, PHP, JSP, CFM -- and decided to go with Python. Having played around with many languages over the years? -- there is something about Python that made me do a double take and I have been indulged ever since....
bound to fail more than charging the same for 100 megabytes downloaded through a tiny screen than it costs me for my car payment. I am not exactly a tight wad. I think my $35 a month for my cable modem connection is the best thing since sliced bread -- but you would not believe how many people refuse to even pay that for home high speed connects. (these are even people in the tech industry...) This is the market that these cell phone companies are going to try to tap for an extra $80 bucks or so to download a few megs through their cellphones??? What are they smoking?
If I were actually to "buy" (as in purchase, lay down cash for) Linux -- then I would be cutting into the bottom line of cost savings that were part of my cost action plan that was key in getting Linux in the door in the first place. Yes sir -- as I stair down at the endless racks of Linux boxen in this cool data center on a warm summers day....If I had incurred a "license" cost for each cpu -- then it would have been a harder sale....But since no (software purchase orders) were needed and these things are as stable as a 200 year old oak tree, I think we can call this a success, right?
Yea -- but at least with TV commercials they don't pop up while the show is still going on in the background. The show stops for commercials.
The irony is -- I started spending more and more time online a few years ago VS. less and less time watching TV. Mostly because of commercials and the bait that network channels news agencies use...I.E. --- "Millions of people dead, billions missing, tune in at ten for the news" forward to 10, they bait you with "coming up after the break millions dead......bla bla" -- and finally in the last 30 seconds of the news cast they actually talk about it.....and the headline is usually deceptive of the actual story. So if it is real news or sports scores -- I can use the internet to find out NOW rather than having to sit and wait....
Usually no. Look at what happened to OS/2 -- people were so worried about getting Windows compatibility -- that someone forgot about native apps along the way. So as soon as all you have left is translation layers with subpar speeds and hardware support....what advantages do you have over the real thing?
Sure I would like to play WC3 and GTA3 on my PC....But it's not worth a Windows install nor an Emulike (tm) (c) solution. (note to the wine is not an emulator people...."Emulike" is a new word I am pioneering to refer to something that has all the problems and issues of an emulator but is not an emulator.)
On the bright side of using linux: I have saved myself the $118.00 it would have cost me to have the above two games. If I had been able to NOT be able to play games 5 years back, I could have maybe saved enough money for that Alaskan cruise.
Is their an opposite to f*ckedcompany.com? Like "backfromthebrink.com" or "wefiledchapter11-andalligot-was-this-tshirt.com". I have seen how many companies crash and burn. I want some feel good, back from the dead success stories.
P.S. All of these mags go over the same thing every month...Ever wonder why they are dead?
That's what I told the guy taking money at the golf course....Could you believe they wanted me to pay them money -- and I am the one that had to take 3 hours out of my busy day to walk all around and pick up all those divets...I expected to be compensated.
In other words: That is why you go to work from 8-5....make the money. Spend the rest of the time giving back said money on hobbies, food and sex. It's a great system
Yes. The story says it takes about $15K a month for a staff of 5. All I am saying is that if a good percentage of GNU/Linux from a software perspective has been developed in a hobbiest/For the fun of it world....Yet, it seems that every site that puts together commentary or reviews of all of this software thinks they need a budget much bigger than even that of a brick and morter small to mid town local newspaper.
Hate to say it but this guy has a great point. For less than $12K a month I could analyze, comment and link my ass off. (And go home in my Porshe each night.)
Scenerio: My kids really suck up much of my free time, and my job is about 45-50 hours a week -- still I could most likely eek out about 10-15 hours of "hobby time" each week....My "mad money" could support about 400 gigs a month bandwidth I think....If I were to get together with 3 or 4 people in my same situation -- we could easily run a site like LWN....Or play in a garage band...Or make quilts....Or run a soup kitchen....Hell -- why is it nowdays that everyone running a website thinks they have to make a living from it. Does not anybody make a hobby from this type of thing anymore? Some of my fondest memories of the past came from running my BBS for 10 years. I could buy a whole bucket full of bandwidth for the cost of 5 phone lines.
are computer programmers going to be forced to conform to certification standards? I have seen a lot of "computer users" try to (and sometimes succeed in) getting jobs as "computer programmers" -- in a lot of cases this involves a certain amount of lies and or embeleshments on the old resume. Imagine if Doctors or even Lawyers were allowed to wander around the job market without ever having to truly learn their skills. "Uh...I don't know how to fix compound fractures -- I thought I would only have to put casts on simple breaks and take x-rays..." I am all for written and verbal testing during the resume process. (You would not believe how many resume's and interviews I have done with people who claim to "be an Oracle or C++ or whatever" expert -- and some of them can't even do simple tasks. During the.com boom it was amazing how many people who had "mastered" HTML and Javascript walking around calling themeselves programmers. (* Most people out of work now can't program at all -- they just complain on/. about being an "out of work techy" -- We still have the same need for programmers as we ever did. Just now we need the real professionals and their is not enough overhead for the wanna be programmers.)
or does that mouse pad couch seem to be in a room that looks just like a jail cell? I wonder how much money we could save if we strung a DSL connection to the state prison...hmmmm....Our expensive sysadmins days are numbered.
Yes -- The sweet smell of sawdust and a $80 router blade (for the t-molding) that I may never use again....Never had a high as good as building my own cabinet. Kudus to the BYOAC guys...You rock.
I finally found out what.NET is. It's a label to attach to the winner of Bill's: "Lets throw everything up against the side of the barn and we will see what sticks...." Whatever sticks is going to get the grand prize of --- "We bestow upon thee the label.NET" --- "See world here is what we were talking about..."
I agree. I am not against suprisptions per say. But if I had to do for every worthwhile site on the internet (which in most cases are just links to other sites) -- the amount I would have to pay is unthinkable. Kind of like if you take a penny and double it every day for 30 days -- you will be in the millions. Online subscriptions would be like a bad chain letter. Pay $5 to siteA. SiteA-Story1 links me to SiteB who requires I pay another $5 bucks --- on and on and on. As much as I like/. it is no secret that most of the "content" they provide is harvested via links to the actual content site.
Ok...They have cracked Canada -- that is like a pre-season warm up game. Now they should start the league games and go for China. If you have ever talked to someone who has lived and/or been to China -- it is pretty evident that almost everything sold on the open market is is pirated..(let alone the closed door stuff). Chances are, you would not be able to buy a legit version of something even if you wanted to.
Hey -- I will remember that line of thinking to use as argument when my wife complains about not having a new car...."But dear -- the 1987 Mazda 626 is about as stable as an automobile as you will ever find, these new fangled cars are just to buggy"
I always have to add a line or 2 in hardware profile in the pcmcia config section to get the kernal to properly load the (airo) module for my cisco wireless card....(no matter how new the distribution). Kind of a catch22 when trying to do an FTP install. I would be really suprised if this is still not the case with Mandrake 9.
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Actually, I.E. will always be the best browser. Say what you will about Microsoft, they make a damn fine internet browser.
Damn fine until you realize you can't block popups or have tabs. But then again -- maybe I am the only one who does not liked popups and thinks 1 window is cleaner than 15 windows.
Let Raster "Linux is dead on the desktop" roll this up and smoke it.
I can think of some pretty cool stuff to do with 100 meeelion dollars. Reinventing the wheel is not one of them. Can you imagine if you invested 100 million into applications and left the distributions to the community? If I had a nickel for every dollar spent on making an "easier install" I could hire some pretty good people for a long time to work on some real apps. Think about it -- even a bad install would only take a day or two....What really would stand out is what do you do once you have it installed? That could be years of usage -- vs. the difference between a 1 hour install and a 2 day install.
On the flipside -- the Eazel (sp?) people seemed to be pretty good at floating many million into what in the end was little more than a slow file manager. Proving that not only distributions can go broke. I say if you have that kind of money -- take it and pay the people (teams) who are already working part time on existing "killer areas" (gimp, sane, usb support, abiword, gnumeric, etc) and pay them to do it fulltime as a real job with real deadlines, etc...etc...
Please nobody stab me with a big fork over this...I have long said "I don't care about Office on Linux, I don't care about an IE port...give me my WMA!" The ONLY reason being that my poor ears AND my small compact flash cards think that 64K .wma files sound and fit better than .mp3's at 64K. Now I would love to try out OGG but my computer is still a little heavy to pick up and take jogging...
Considering I can buy the actual DVD for $14.99 versus $17.99 for an Audio CD to add to my collection. An added advantage is that I know the DVD is good. And for $15 I wont feel to bad getting the extended edition in a few months. Plus my wife has not seen it (I guess I saved $7.50 at the showhouse then plus another $7.50 for the popcorn and drink -- hell that pays for the $15....) Yep -- I have talked myself into it -- off to wally world I go,
Dear Slashdot...I just turned 16 and I really need to find a road that does not have speed limit signs.
I do not want to start a flame war or anything. I have been getting into Python lately and am starting to wonder why I don't see more sites using Python over Perl? Can anybody point me to some dynamic sites that have passed over Perl, PHP, JSP, CFM -- and decided to go with Python. Having played around with many languages over the years? -- there is something about Python that made me do a double take and I have been indulged ever since....
bound to fail more than charging the same for 100 megabytes downloaded through a tiny screen than it costs me for my car payment. I am not exactly a tight wad. I think my $35 a month for my cable modem connection is the best thing since sliced bread -- but you would not believe how many people refuse to even pay that for home high speed connects. (these are even people in the tech industry...) This is the market that these cell phone companies are going to try to tap for an extra $80 bucks or so to download a few megs through their cellphones??? What are they smoking?
If I were actually to "buy" (as in purchase, lay down cash for) Linux -- then I would be cutting into the bottom line of cost savings that were part of my cost action plan that was key in getting Linux in the door in the first place. Yes sir -- as I stair down at the endless racks of Linux boxen in this cool data center on a warm summers day....If I had incurred a "license" cost for each cpu -- then it would have been a harder sale....But since no (software purchase orders) were needed and these things are as stable as a 200 year old oak tree, I think we can call this a success, right?
Yea -- but at least with TV commercials they don't pop up while the show is still going on in the background. The show stops for commercials.
The irony is -- I started spending more and more time online a few years ago VS. less and less time watching TV. Mostly because of commercials and the bait that network channels news agencies use...I.E. --- "Millions of people dead, billions missing, tune in at ten for the news" forward to 10, they bait you with "coming up after the break millions dead......bla bla" -- and finally in the last 30 seconds of the news cast they actually talk about it.....and the headline is usually deceptive of the actual story. So if it is real news or sports scores -- I can use the internet to find out NOW rather than having to sit and wait....
Usually no. Look at what happened to OS/2 -- people were so worried about getting Windows compatibility -- that someone forgot about native apps along the way. So as soon as all you have left is translation layers with subpar speeds and hardware support....what advantages do you have over the real thing?
Sure I would like to play WC3 and GTA3 on my PC....But it's not worth a Windows install nor an Emulike (tm) (c) solution. (note to the wine is not an emulator people...."Emulike" is a new word I am pioneering to refer to something that has all the problems and issues of an emulator but is not an emulator.)
On the bright side of using linux: I have saved myself the $118.00 it would have cost me to have the above two games. If I had been able to NOT be able to play games 5 years back, I could have maybe saved enough money for that Alaskan cruise.
Is their an opposite to f*ckedcompany.com? Like "backfromthebrink.com" or "wefiledchapter11-andalligot-was-this-tshirt.com". I have seen how many companies crash and burn. I want some feel good, back from the dead success stories.
P.S. All of these mags go over the same thing every month...Ever wonder why they are dead?
Time is money
That's what I told the guy taking money at the golf course....Could you believe they wanted me to pay them money -- and I am the one that had to take 3 hours out of my busy day to walk all around and pick up all those divets...I expected to be compensated.
In other words: That is why you go to work from 8-5....make the money. Spend the rest of the time giving back said money on hobbies, food and sex. It's a great system
Yes. The story says it takes about $15K a month for a staff of 5. All I am saying is that if a good percentage of GNU/Linux from a software perspective has been developed in a hobbiest/For the fun of it world....Yet, it seems that every site that puts together commentary or reviews of all of this software thinks they need a budget much bigger than even that of a brick and morter small to mid town local newspaper.
Hate to say it but this guy has a great point. For less than $12K a month I could analyze, comment and link my ass off. (And go home in my Porshe each night.)
Scenerio:
My kids really suck up much of my free time, and my job is about 45-50 hours a week -- still I could most likely eek out about 10-15 hours of "hobby time" each week....My "mad money" could support about 400 gigs a month bandwidth I think....If I were to get together with 3 or 4 people in my same situation -- we could easily run a site like LWN....Or play in a garage band...Or make quilts....Or run a soup kitchen....Hell -- why is it nowdays that everyone running a website thinks they have to make a living from it. Does not anybody make a hobby from this type of thing anymore? Some of my fondest memories of the past came from running my BBS for 10 years. I could buy a whole bucket full of bandwidth for the cost of 5 phone lines.
are computer programmers going to be forced to conform to certification standards? I have seen a lot of "computer users" try to (and sometimes succeed in) getting jobs as "computer programmers" -- in a lot of cases this involves a certain amount of lies and or embeleshments on the old resume. Imagine if Doctors or even Lawyers were allowed to wander around the job market without ever having to truly learn their skills. "Uh...I don't know how to fix compound fractures -- I thought I would only have to put casts on simple breaks and take x-rays..." I am all for written and verbal testing during the resume process. (You would not believe how many resume's and interviews I have done with people who claim to "be an Oracle or C++ or whatever" expert -- and some of them can't even do simple tasks. During the .com boom it was amazing how many people who had "mastered" HTML and Javascript walking around calling themeselves programmers. (* Most people out of work now can't program at all -- they just complain on /. about being an "out of work techy" -- We still have the same need for programmers as we ever did. Just now we need the real professionals and their is not enough overhead for the wanna be programmers.)
or does that mouse pad couch seem to be in a room that looks just like a jail cell? I wonder how much money we could save if we strung a DSL connection to the state prison...hmmmm....Our expensive sysadmins days are numbered.
Yes -- The sweet smell of sawdust and a $80 router blade (for the t-molding) that I may never use again....Never had a high as good as building my own cabinet. Kudus to the BYOAC guys...You rock.
in an undisclosed location -- just in case anything happens to the other Slashdot fan.
I finally found out what .NET is. It's a label to attach to the winner of Bill's: "Lets throw everything up against the side of the barn and we will see what sticks...." Whatever sticks is going to get the grand prize of --- "We bestow upon thee the label .NET" --- "See world here is what we were talking about..."
I agree. I am not against suprisptions per say. But if I had to do for every worthwhile site on the internet (which in most cases are just links to other sites) -- the amount I would have to pay is unthinkable. Kind of like if you take a penny and double it every day for 30 days -- you will be in the millions. Online subscriptions would be like a bad chain letter. Pay $5 to siteA. SiteA-Story1 links me to SiteB who requires I pay another $5 bucks --- on and on and on. As much as I like /. it is no secret that most of the "content" they provide is harvested via links to the actual content site.
Ok...They have cracked Canada -- that is like a pre-season warm up game. Now they should start the league games and go for China. If you have ever talked to someone who has lived and/or been to China -- it is pretty evident that almost everything sold on the open market is is pirated..(let alone the closed door stuff). Chances are, you would not be able to buy a legit version of something even if you wanted to.
Hey -- I will remember that line of thinking to use as argument when my wife complains about not having a new car...."But dear -- the 1987 Mazda 626 is about as stable as an automobile as you will ever find, these new fangled cars are just to buggy"
I always have to add a line or 2 in hardware profile in the pcmcia config section to get the kernal to properly load the (airo) module for my cisco wireless card....(no matter how new the distribution). Kind of a catch22 when trying to do an FTP install. I would be really suprised if this is still not the case with Mandrake 9.
Can't Java be compiled against 3.1?