Detroit area viewers can't see it on WTVS, either.
But, it will air 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. on Friday morning and will also air Saturday at (I think 4 a.m.) on WFUM (UofM-Flint's PBS TV station). Most cable systems have this (its channel 22 on Time-Warner).
Yeah, but you can get like an additional 200 minutes of nights/weekends for $9.95 or something, which about half price. you can buy as many 200 minute blocks as you need.
Plus they got 1000 minute plan for $75 through to the middle of next month...
Instead of looking at your nights and weekends being free, you have to look at what you are paying for that...break it down to a per-minute charge for the time your using, because just because you have unlimited nights/weekends, that doesn't mean that you're paying any less for them.
The individual price, however, can indeed be lowered. It called volume.
The only trick is that you have to manage to increase the volume without falling below your break-even point. This is where break-even analysis using computer-based CVP models comes in.
Now whether or not Iridium could have lowered their individual price remains to be seen. I don't have sufficient access to their accounting information to determine that.
Exactly. Open Source is not the answer to all the world's problems. (I know this may have come as a shock to some of you:)
Folks, this is capitalism at work here. If you spend $7 billion and only manage to attract 55,000 customers, well, sorry, you lose. Them's the breaks.
And why is anyone trying to save it? If they only managed to attract 55,000 customers, obviously either A) they really, really suck at marketing, or B) there is simply insufficient demand for their services. (With a possible C) the price is too high, but that's something more easily changeable.) I suspect that the answer is B. And if that's the case, there is no point in trying to save the satellites... (unless there's going to be some big ecological disaster or soemthing... but I doubt that)
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Some schools do supply laptops.
Besides, chances are if you can't afford a laptop, you probably can't afford the tuition, books, housing and other expenses involved with going to a college or university. That's what financial aid is for.
In many colleges, it is now a requirement for students to own a computer, and I know of at least one college that requires the computer to be a laptop.
You should already know the fundamentals, and also know what you don't know
As I said, tests shouldn't be about what you know, but about what you understand. Knowing stuff is just regurgitating facts, and you don't have to "learn" anything to do that. A trained parrot can do that.
The Web is not going to enhance your understanding on any subject. Citing someone else's opinion is useless. The Web would be used, in this case, for gathering facts, not gathering opinions. Again, I'm sure it would depend on the subject matter. Its up to you to draw your own conclusions.
Besides, colleges aren't there to teach facts and data, they are there to teach things like critical thinking, research and writing skills, skills that are very, very valuable in the real world. Facts learned in college don't prepare you for employment...the facts you need to know for any given job will likely be learned on the job. But no employer can teach you how to think or how to write or how to do research...that's what colleges are there for.
Apple sales counted for 35% of all sales to educational institutions last month. But the next highest vendors were Dell and Compaq with 15% each. Ca-ching for apple...
Except that there marketshare for educational institutions used to be 70%...
Well, you can just e-mail that to me and I'll be sure to pass it along to Rob Malda so he can post it elsewhere on the page:)...just take out the TINLC part, there is no lumber cartel....:)
Wouldn't this test the student's ability to use search engines and not their proficiency in the subject matter?
Actually, I think this would depend on how the exam is structured.
Remember that really no examination in which you answer a series of multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank, or even short answer questions doesn't really test your mastery of the material. It only tests your ability to memorize and regurgitate facts. How many of you have ever crammed for an exam the night before, took the test, aced it, but then the next day or two totally forget everything you "learned" for the exam? BE HONEST.
On the other hand, an exam with say, four essay type questions really could test your mastery of the material. I mean, for example, "Discuss the imagery used in Hamlet and how it interrelates to the plot." That's even perhaps a little too specific. But you get the idea, hopefully. The idea is the challenge your UNDERSTANDING of the material. To understand the material, you have to know it first.
I honestly don't see how the TRADITIONAL type of exam, in which one regurgitates facts is particular fair or useful.
Apple is IMHO a pure hardware vendor, I wouldn't even be surprised if they budgeted their software development efforts under the marketing department.
Are you kidding? If AAPL were a pure hardware vendor, they'd get off their high-horse and start making money where the real profitability in the computer industry is: Wintel notebooks. There's a reason why AAPL doesn't have any official support for running operating systems other than Mac OS.
Apple couldn't care less that the first thing we do is wipe out MacOS and install a linux distro as long as we buy that G3 or imac.
Yes, that's true. However, they still don't support that. This is very similar to some ISPs, for instance. My ISP, Telocity, does not provide ANY technical support or installation assistance for Linux computers. But, they DO advertise that there service works fine with UNIX (and therefore Linux) computers. And they have no use policy which prohibits the use of UNIX or Linux-based computers. But, its obvious that they prefer you to use a Windows OS.
The same holds true for AAPL and Mac OS. Sure, their computers work with Linux. But you don't see any color glossy ads in CompUSA proclaiming that their systems work with Linux (although there is mention of course on their Web site, but only in the dedicated Linux areas). And they won't provide technical assistance for people wanting to replace Mac OS with Linux, although they will probably point you to some Websites that could help.
If you have some silly license that doesn't allow the result to be distributed under GPL - no-one will apply said patch. So then the arguement becomes irrelevant!
Not true. For some people, the license is irrelevant. Software for these people is a means to end, not political idealogy or an interesting piece of technology.
Now, I don't think you could distribute a patch that doesn't include any original code unless it was specifically tied to one particular version. Plus, if someone edits the code at all, forget it. One added carriage return and it wouldn't work at all.
Distributing code under a different license is specifically denied, unless the license doesn't conflict with GPL in any way.
Section 7 states:
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
In other words, even if the patch was NOT considered to be a derivative work (this is VERY much up to debate and has never been decided in court, AFAIK), you could not distribute the patch unless it contained NO original code, and you certainly could not distribute patched versions of the code.
Of course, like I said, none of this has been tried in court, so this entire discussion is entirely conjecture.
Pretty cool stuff, sort of a clunky internet, the cool part is they had it in place around the end of 1929 and left it operational for 10 years. Don't know why they canned the idea, they had something like 15,000 customers.
Probably to difficult to use. Remember that in 1929 they didn't have digital radio tuners that would lock the signal in like they do today. You would have had to have tuned the signal in, and if it was just a little a bit out of sync, I'm sure you would have a scrambled newspaper. Plus don't forget that radios in those days had TUBES (gosh, remember those?:) and so you'd probably have to wait 10 minutes after turning the darned thing on before you could even get your newspaper.
On the Windows side, I cannot even view the Word documents created with recent versions of Word, because I did not buy the latest version of the program. On the Linux side, I can view most documents but I do not have any good editor that can be used to modify the documents easily.
WordPad can read and write Word 6.0 documents, and possibly WordPad in Windows 2000 can read later versions. Our company has a policy of saving documents in Word 6.0 format.
On the Linux side, StarOffice can read Word files through Word 97, and is, at least in my case, able to open and modify 100% of them, although not all the formatting always comes in perfectly. WordPerfect 8 can read some Word files, but dies on others. AbiWord, which is open source, can read.RTF, I don't know if it necessarily can read.DOC files, but somehow I think it either can or will in a later release read Word 97 format.
Does anyone know what files KOffice can read? I haven't yet been able to get a version to compile on my box, but I'm assuming I've got to be missing SOMETHING, because I can't seem to compile ANY KDE apps my machine. (I get a "Your system fails at linking a small KDE application" during AutoConfig (./configure). I have all the KDE and Qt libraries and includes installed, and they were all compiled on the same compiler (egcs 2.95) so I have no idea what's wrong...if anyone has a clue, drop me an e-mail. thanks:)
If anyone's interested, I will be putting up a mirror sometime this weekend. E-mail me for more information (just remove the TINLC part...there is no lumber cartel.:)
Opaque formats include PostScript, PDF, proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools are not generally available, and the machine-generated HTML produced by some word processors for output purposes only.
Despite the fact that Microsoft Word documents are able to be read and modified on most desktop platforms (Linux/xBSD, Windows, Mac OS, OS/2), these would be precluded from being referred to as "Transparent" versions by this clause. Also, what about.RTF, which is a Micros~1 proprietary format support by most word processors?
Great! YAWC (Yet Another Windows Clone). When are we going to get a desktop for Linux that doesn't appear to have come from the Microsoft school of GUI design?
Oh, come now. Its perfectly clear the Microsoft didn't invent the Windows GUI. Besides, KDE offers a much cleaner GUI than Windows, and offers a few things that Microsoft doesn't, like a fully configurable panel. (And don't tell me that stupid active desktop toolbar crap is even close). Besides, KDE offers stability, performance and strives toward a truly object-oriented desktop environment with things like CORBA.
Or perhaps rather than stability and performance, you prize things like fade-away pull down menus and a colorful splash screen? If that's the case, by all means, Microsoft has everyone beat hands down! I give up!
KDE is not wishware... it offers a fully-functional desktop on top of Linux RIGHT NOW. You people who whine and complain about what KDE doesn't have should stop your pissing and moaning and BE GRATEFUL that KDE brings at least 90% of the useability and functionality of the Windows/Mac/whatever desktop right on Linux. \
And KDE 2.0 will be better than ever, offering a full office suite, a better file manager, and even better integration features than before. I would personally like to THANK the KDE team for all of their hard work. These guys don't get enough thanks. I mean, they're doing this stuff for FREE. Sheesh. If you don't like it, maybe YOU can do better. But judging by this brain-free post of yours, my money's on them.
The only other network card I've ever been more impressed with is my D-Link 10 card that has an actual EPROM on it that you can switch IRQ's and other settings directly from DOS...
Ummmm, you must have a really old LinkSys card. Every LinkSys card I've ever purchased have been software configurable as well. Even the old 10mbs combo card I thats at least 5 or 6 years old is software configurable.
Personally, for 10/100 cards, I like the 3COM 905 cards myself, as these cards are parallel tasking.
Provided you can telnet in. The "watchdog" daemon, as I call it, would only require a telephone to reboot the computer. I should point out that Ctrl-Alt-Delete requires the use of a daemon as well. (The original poster wanted to send a three-finger salute via a serial line).
Of course, if daemons are not available and the system really is hung, there are still a couple of options. You could have the power supply hooked up to an X-10 device that is designed to be operated remotely by telephone, for instance.
Third, the last thing many of us who are maintaining machines with 1 or 2 rack unit heights is another card to try to fit in there. Some of us would like to use what little room we have for things like Gigabit Ethernet cards.
Get a bigger rack.:P
However, even serial console support isn't perfect. After all, how do you send the three-finger salute over a serial line?
This is actually possible! No, really. Back in the days when I was a BBS sysop (about 10 years ago), I ran a little TSR program (gawd, remember those?:) called watchcat or watchdog or something like that... and what it would do is sit in the background, waiting for your modem to ring. If your modem rang a set number of times (I set mine to 4 rings), then it would reboot the computer. And since the modem, is after all, connected to a serial line, voila! three finger salute via serial line.:) (Ok, so I'm a smart ass:)
I'd be willing to bet, though, that it would not be difficult at all to write a program such as this as say, a Linux/BSD/whatever daemon. Perhaps such a program even exists already (I never thought to look). Any takers?:)
Oh absolutely, it would be quite useful, i.e., before the Linux kernel loads, for example, if there is a bad hard disk or the BIOS' CMOS memory gets erased.
However, if you don't normally have these sort of problems (yeah, right, Murphy loves computers), the capability of doing remote admin is built right into the Linux kernel. Just compile in the "Allow serial port consoles" or some such option, and make sure your init scripts set 'CONSOLE=ttys0' or whatever, and you're all set.
Of course, like I said, if you have boot problems before the kernel loads (oops, I recompiled the kernel remotely, rebooted and forgot to run 'lilo':) then your screwed without this card.
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The banner ad I got was for babelfish on AltaVista... :)
My traceroute log for the "PRNewswire" story:
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traceroute to 63.196.208.222 (63.196.208.222), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
[--stuff deleted--]
13 adsl-63-196-208-222.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (63.196.208.222) 77.370 ms 79.593 ms 78.165 ms
Nice job faking the prnewswire site... nearly had me fooled.
Detroit area viewers can't see it on WTVS, either.
But, it will air 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. on Friday morning and will also air Saturday at (I think 4 a.m.) on WFUM (UofM-Flint's PBS TV station). Most cable systems have this (its channel 22 on Time-Warner).
Yeah, but you can get like an additional 200 minutes of nights/weekends for $9.95 or something, which about half price. you can buy as many 200 minute blocks as you need.
Plus they got 1000 minute plan for $75 through to the middle of next month...
Instead of looking at your nights and weekends being free, you have to look at what you are paying for that...break it down to a per-minute
charge for the time your using, because just because you have unlimited nights/weekends, that doesn't mean that you're paying any less for them.
The individual price, however, can indeed be lowered. It called volume.
The only trick is that you have to manage to increase the volume without falling below your break-even point. This is where break-even analysis using computer-based CVP models comes in.
Now whether or not Iridium could have lowered their individual price remains to be seen. I don't have sufficient access to their accounting information to determine that.
Exactly.
And (Windows NT && cygwin && bash && grep) != Unix
Exactly. Open Source is not the answer to all the world's problems. (I know this may have come as a shock to some of you :)
... but I doubt that)
Folks, this is capitalism at work here. If you spend $7 billion and only manage to attract 55,000 customers, well, sorry, you lose. Them's the breaks.
And why is anyone trying to save it? If they only managed to attract 55,000 customers, obviously either A) they really, really suck at marketing, or B) there is simply insufficient demand for their services. (With a possible C) the price is too high, but that's something more easily changeable.) I suspect that the answer is B. And if that's the case, there is no point in trying to save the satellites... (unless there's going to be some big ecological disaster or soemthing
Some schools do supply laptops.
Besides, chances are if you can't afford a laptop, you probably can't afford the tuition, books, housing and other expenses involved with going to a college or university. That's what financial aid is for.
In many colleges, it is now a requirement for students to own a computer, and I know of at least one college that requires the computer to be a laptop.
You should already know the fundamentals, and also know what you don't know
As I said, tests shouldn't be about what you know, but about what you understand. Knowing stuff is just regurgitating facts, and you don't have to "learn" anything to do that. A trained parrot can do that.
The Web is not going to enhance your understanding on any subject. Citing someone else's opinion is useless. The Web would be used, in this case, for gathering facts, not gathering opinions. Again, I'm sure it would depend on the subject matter. Its up to you to draw your own conclusions.
Besides, colleges aren't there to teach facts and data, they are there to teach things like critical thinking, research and writing skills, skills that are very, very valuable in the real world. Facts learned in college don't prepare you for employment...the facts you need to know for any given job will likely be learned on the job. But no employer can teach you how to think or how to write or how to do research...that's what colleges are there for.
Apple sales counted for 35% of all sales to educational institutions last month. But the next highest vendors were Dell and Compaq with 15% each. Ca-ching for apple...
Except that there marketshare for educational institutions used to be 70%...
That is - an extremely small probability!!!
:)
Yeah, but close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles.....
Well, you can just e-mail that to me and I'll be sure to pass it along to Rob Malda so he can post it elsewhere on the page :) ...just take out the TINLC part, there is no lumber cartel.... :)
Wouldn't this test the student's ability to use search engines and not their proficiency in the subject matter?
Actually, I think this would depend on how the exam is structured.
Remember that really no examination in which you answer a series of multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank, or even short answer questions doesn't really test your mastery of the material. It only tests your ability to memorize and regurgitate facts. How many of you have ever crammed for an exam the night before, took the test, aced it, but then the next day or two totally forget everything you "learned" for the exam? BE HONEST.
On the other hand, an exam with say, four essay type questions really could test your mastery of the material. I mean, for example, "Discuss the imagery used in Hamlet and how it interrelates to the plot." That's even perhaps a little too specific. But you get the idea, hopefully. The idea is the challenge your UNDERSTANDING of the material. To understand the material, you have to know it first.
I honestly don't see how the TRADITIONAL type of exam, in which one regurgitates facts is particular fair or useful.
Apple is IMHO a pure hardware vendor, I wouldn't even be surprised if they budgeted their software development efforts under the marketing department.
Are you kidding? If AAPL were a pure hardware vendor, they'd get off their high-horse and start making money where the real profitability in the computer industry is: Wintel notebooks. There's a reason why AAPL doesn't have any official support for running operating systems other than Mac OS.
Apple couldn't care less that the first thing we do is wipe out MacOS and install a linux distro as long as we buy that G3 or imac.
Yes, that's true. However, they still don't support that. This is very similar to some ISPs, for instance. My ISP, Telocity, does not provide ANY technical support or installation assistance for Linux computers. But, they DO advertise that there service works fine with UNIX (and therefore Linux) computers. And they have no use policy which prohibits the use of UNIX or Linux-based computers. But, its obvious that they prefer you to use a Windows OS.
The same holds true for AAPL and Mac OS. Sure, their computers work with Linux. But you don't see any color glossy ads in CompUSA proclaiming that their systems work with Linux (although there is mention of course on their Web site, but only in the dedicated Linux areas). And they won't provide technical assistance for people wanting to replace Mac OS with Linux, although they will probably point you to some Websites that could help.
Not true. For some people, the license is irrelevant. Software for these people is a means to end, not political idealogy or an interesting piece of technology.
Now, I don't think you could distribute a patch that doesn't include any original code unless it was specifically tied to one particular version. Plus, if someone edits the code at all, forget it. One added carriage return and it wouldn't work at all.
Distributing code under a different license is specifically denied, unless the license doesn't conflict with GPL in any way.
Section 7 states:
Pretty cool stuff, sort of a clunky internet, the cool part is they had it in place around the end of 1929 and left it operational for 10 years. Don't know why they canned the idea, they had something like 15,000 customers.
:) and so you'd probably have to wait 10 minutes after turning the darned thing on before you could even get your newspaper.
Probably to difficult to use. Remember that in 1929 they didn't have digital radio tuners that would lock the signal in like they do today. You would have had to have tuned the signal in, and if it was just a little a bit out of sync, I'm sure you would have a scrambled newspaper. Plus don't forget that radios in those days had TUBES (gosh, remember those?
Still, pretty cool stuff.
On the Windows side, I cannot even view the Word documents created with recent versions of Word, because I did not buy the latest version of the program. On the Linux side, I can view most documents but I do not have any good editor that can be used to modify the documents easily.
.RTF, I don't know if it necessarily can read .DOC files, but somehow I think it either can or will in a later release read Word 97 format.
:)
WordPad can read and write Word 6.0 documents, and possibly WordPad in Windows 2000 can read later versions. Our company has a policy of saving documents in Word 6.0 format.
On the Linux side, StarOffice can read Word files through Word 97, and is, at least in my case, able to open and modify 100% of them, although not all the formatting always comes in perfectly. WordPerfect 8 can read some Word files, but dies on others. AbiWord, which is open source, can read
Does anyone know what files KOffice can read? I haven't yet been able to get a version to compile on my box, but I'm assuming I've got to be missing SOMETHING, because I can't seem to compile ANY KDE apps my machine. (I get a "Your system fails at linking a small KDE application" during AutoConfig (./configure). I have all the KDE and Qt libraries and includes installed, and they were all compiled on the same compiler (egcs 2.95) so I have no idea what's wrong...if anyone has a clue, drop me an e-mail. thanks
If anyone's interested, I will be putting up a mirror sometime this weekend. E-mail me for more information (just remove the TINLC part...there is no lumber cartel. :)
Despite the fact that Microsoft Word documents are able to be read and modified on most desktop platforms (Linux/xBSD, Windows, Mac OS, OS/2), these would be precluded from being referred to as "Transparent" versions by this clause. Also, what about
Oh, come now. Its perfectly clear the Microsoft didn't invent the Windows GUI. Besides, KDE offers a much cleaner GUI than Windows, and offers a few things that Microsoft doesn't, like a fully configurable panel. (And don't tell me that stupid active desktop toolbar crap is even close). Besides, KDE offers stability, performance and strives toward a truly object-oriented desktop environment with things like CORBA.
Or perhaps rather than stability and performance, you prize things like fade-away pull down menus and a colorful splash screen? If that's the case, by all means, Microsoft has everyone beat hands down! I give up!
KDE is not wishware
And KDE 2.0 will be better than ever, offering a full office suite, a better file manager, and even better integration features than before. I would personally like to THANK the KDE team for all of their hard work. These guys don't get enough thanks. I mean, they're doing this stuff for FREE. Sheesh. If you don't like it, maybe YOU can do better. But judging by this brain-free post of yours, my money's on them.
The only other network card I've ever been more impressed with is my D-Link 10 card that has an actual EPROM on it that you can switch IRQ's and other settings directly from DOS...
Ummmm, you must have a really old LinkSys card. Every LinkSys card I've ever purchased have been software configurable as well. Even the old 10mbs combo card I thats at least 5 or 6 years old is software configurable.
Personally, for 10/100 cards, I like the 3COM 905 cards myself, as these cards are parallel tasking.
Provided you can telnet in. The "watchdog" daemon, as I call it, would only require a telephone to reboot the computer. I should point out that Ctrl-Alt-Delete requires the use of a daemon as well. (The original poster wanted to send a three-finger salute via a serial line).
Of course, if daemons are not available and the system really is hung, there are still a couple of options. You could have the power supply hooked up to an X-10 device that is designed to be operated remotely by telephone, for instance.
First, as an earlier poster pointed out, it's ISA only, not PCI (and server-class motherboards supporting ISA are quickly becoming extinct).
:P
:) called watchcat or watchdog or something like that ... and what it would do is sit in the background, waiting for your modem to ring. If your modem rang a set number of times (I set mine to 4 rings), then it would reboot the computer. And since the modem, is after all, connected to a serial line, voila! three finger salute via serial line. :) (Ok, so I'm a smart ass :)
:)
Intel's C440GX+ motherboard has a single ISA slot...
Third, the last thing many of us who are maintaining machines with 1 or 2 rack unit heights is another card to try to fit in there. Some of us would like to use what little room we have for things like Gigabit Ethernet cards.
Get a bigger rack.
However, even serial console support isn't perfect. After all, how do you send the three-finger salute over a serial line?
This is actually possible! No, really. Back in the days when I was a BBS sysop (about 10 years ago), I ran a little TSR program (gawd, remember those?
I'd be willing to bet, though, that it would not be difficult at all to write a program such as this as say, a Linux/BSD/whatever daemon. Perhaps such a program even exists already (I never thought to look). Any takers?
Oh absolutely, it would be quite useful, i.e., before the Linux kernel loads, for example, if there is a bad hard disk or the BIOS' CMOS memory gets erased.
:) then your screwed without this card.
However, if you don't normally have these sort of problems (yeah, right, Murphy loves computers), the capability of doing remote admin is built right into the Linux kernel. Just compile in the "Allow serial port consoles" or some such option, and make sure your init scripts set 'CONSOLE=ttys0' or whatever, and you're all set.
Of course, like I said, if you have boot problems before the kernel loads (oops, I recompiled the kernel remotely, rebooted and forgot to run 'lilo'