I can scroll with my synaptics touchpad in Firefox. I have been able to since v. 0.8, in fact (and 0.8 was the first verion of Firefox that got installed on it, so I don't know about earlier versions).
First, I'd start by developing a backend that runs on FOSS. Then I'd write a client for it. The client and the backend would be FOSS, though the client should be portable to Windows so as to not disrupt the user base too much by yanking their platform out from under them with no end-user training.
No kidding... I was just at BB yesterday to pick up a 6' IEEE 1394 cable. CompUSA wanted $29.99, Best Buy's price was slightly better than that, but still ridiculous.
So when I remembered that I had an old FW hard drive laying around that I could borrow the cable from, I decided to go home and do that, and then look for a better deal online. Got home, fired up PriceWatch, and discovered a 3' cable (which was all I really needed) for $2 AND free shipping. It probably cost more than $2 for the gas I burned just driving to the mall.
Wind resistance trumps gravity. Drop a sheet of paper and a paper clip which weighs the same as the sheet of paper. In an atmosphere, the paper will be slowed down due to wind resistance. In a vacuum, both will fall at the same speed, and hit ground at the same time.
Really, this is good for a lot of people. Sure, they can't get an iMac right now, BUT, this will also save them the agony of "I bought an iMac 2 months ago, and now it's a discontinued piece of obsolescense! Thanks a lot, Steve!" syndrome.
As these games might have an undue influence upon the moral character of our youngsters, and sap the productive hours of our adult labor force, I move that they be banned.
People too young to see an R movie are too young to vote anyway. The film will be around on DVD when they're older.
In general, I disagree with ratings systems (which serve to censor films in order to keep them under an acceptable ratings cap so that it can reach a wider audience) and age-based discrimination (which in this caseprevents minors from having access to information and arguments that could be influential to them), but if such a system is to exist, I don't see a particular problem with it as it operates in this case.
I remember buying 5.25" floppy disks with Lifetime guarantees. I forget the name of the company, being pretty young back then, but they used to have an elephant head on their logo. I guess maybe they figured people might take the term "lifetime guarantee" seriously.
I'm at about 500MB for the last 10 years of email right now, and that's not even all of my accounts. 1GB is nice especially for remote storage, but it's by no means a lifetime's worth of email.
Do you have any information to back those claims up? A link to an official statement would be nice.
From what I understand, if the OS "sees" two processors, then for all intents and purposes for licensing you're going to have to obtain a license for two processors.
Ie, if you buy a 2-processor license for MS SQL, and install it on your 2-socket server which happens to have 2 dual-core procs in it, and the OS decides that it views the 2 dual core procs as 4 procs, then you're only going to be able to use 2 of those detected processors to run SQL, and would have to shell out dough for it to run on the other two procs (as seen by the OS).
I wonder what would happen if each core on the dual-core chip supported Hyperthreading as well... You'd have 8 "processors" in 2 sockets.
I have 300 GB of email storage available to me right now on my local hard drive. Give me POP3 access and let me pull down my messages so I can worry about retaining them. I don't trust my data to some company with no interest in the integrity of my data.
I've had messages stored on web-based email accounts dump my messages due to server failure, during routine upgrades, because I hadn't logged in to the account for a month, or who knows what other reason.
Google may not do all of that, but if I can't back up important messages to an offline storage medium that I physically own, I'm not interested.
The offline delivery tells the paper that you are a subscriber. The online delivery tells them which articles you read, via tracking cookies. This could be used to profile you based on your reading interests. Who knows who's interested in those profiles? It's probably not just advertisers...
If I subscribe to the NYT for home delivery, for all they know I'm an illiterate who just uses it to wrap fish guts and recoups the cost of the paper by clipping coupons. If I read the NYT on the web, they know I'm interested in technology, human rights, and government and corporate corruption. This could be enough to paint me as a dissident or even -- gasp! -- a terrorist. Which is of course a bogus conclusion to jump to, I'm anything but. But that won't stop any would-be neo-McCarthyist from making allegations and distorting their facts. Far better that I'm browsing as a 105 year old Eskimo who lives in Arkansas.
The upshot of this is that it makes Linux all that more attractive since there's no per processor licensing bullshit to deal with, and little if any distinction between a server and workstation install (mainly it's just a matter of what packages you choose include with the install).
It's pretty easy to predict that what will happen is Microsoft will be forced to amend or drop its per processor licensing scheme, or else deeply discount it, or else face even more widespread piracy. Then again, they might have enough clout to hold up AMD and Intel's release of the multi-core CPUs until such time as they make Windows ready for it.
Ok, who can make 53 years a significant (ie round number) anniversary? I guess it's easy enough if you count in Base-5.3 notation. What planet would you have to be on in order for a 53-earth year observance to correspond to a meaningful celestial event relative to your system?
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I can scroll with my synaptics touchpad in Firefox. I have been able to since v. 0.8, in fact (and 0.8 was the first verion of Firefox that got installed on it, so I don't know about earlier versions).
First, I'd start by developing a backend that runs on FOSS. Then I'd write a client for it. The client and the backend would be FOSS, though the client should be portable to Windows so as to not disrupt the user base too much by yanking their platform out from under them with no end-user training.
Seems relatively straightforward, really.
Yeah, that dictum should hold OK until right about the time they finally go public. Then it's shareholders, shareholders, shareholders.
Except they discovered water on Mars. Apparently there's still quite a bit of it left there. It's not quite the dry place we thought it was.
No kidding... I was just at BB yesterday to pick up a 6' IEEE 1394 cable. CompUSA wanted $29.99, Best Buy's price was slightly better than that, but still ridiculous.
So when I remembered that I had an old FW hard drive laying around that I could borrow the cable from, I decided to go home and do that, and then look for a better deal online. Got home, fired up PriceWatch, and discovered a 3' cable (which was all I really needed) for $2 AND free shipping. It probably cost more than $2 for the gas I burned just driving to the mall.
Customers are NOT always right. But then, neither is Best Buy.
Wind resistance trumps gravity. Drop a sheet of paper and a paper clip which weighs the same as the sheet of paper. In an atmosphere, the paper will be slowed down due to wind resistance. In a vacuum, both will fall at the same speed, and hit ground at the same time.
Firewho? I'm running PlasmaBadger as my web browser.
Really, this is good for a lot of people. Sure, they can't get an iMac right now, BUT, this will also save them the agony of "I bought an iMac 2 months ago, and now it's a discontinued piece of obsolescense! Thanks a lot, Steve!" syndrome.
So instead of seeing Spider-Man, he's going to end up seeing The Punisher.
As these games might have an undue influence upon the moral character of our youngsters, and sap the productive hours of our adult labor force, I move that they be banned.
Phoebe is not the most practical place in the solar system to get ice. My refrigerator is.
/me walks over to refrigerator and extracts ice cubes.
"Phoebe! Can you bring me some ice please?"
"Get it yourself!"
See?
They should have called this release "9.0 Optimized" just to force AOL to litigate them into yet another name change.
People too young to see an R movie are too young to vote anyway. The film will be around on DVD when they're older.
In general, I disagree with ratings systems (which serve to censor films in order to keep them under an acceptable ratings cap so that it can reach a wider audience) and age-based discrimination (which in this caseprevents minors from having access to information and arguments that could be influential to them), but if such a system is to exist, I don't see a particular problem with it as it operates in this case.
I remember buying 5.25" floppy disks with Lifetime guarantees. I forget the name of the company, being pretty young back then, but they used to have an elephant head on their logo. I guess maybe they figured people might take the term "lifetime guarantee" seriously.
I'm at about 500MB for the last 10 years of email right now, and that's not even all of my accounts. 1GB is nice especially for remote storage, but it's by no means a lifetime's worth of email.
I need a FireSomething extension to load on my State-issued SmartID.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of 74000 network cards on a truck that has never left the loading dock.
Do you have any information to back those claims up? A link to an official statement would be nice.
From what I understand, if the OS "sees" two processors, then for all intents and purposes for licensing you're going to have to obtain a license for two processors.
Ie, if you buy a 2-processor license for MS SQL, and install it on your 2-socket server which happens to have 2 dual-core procs in it, and the OS decides that it views the 2 dual core procs as 4 procs, then you're only going to be able to use 2 of those detected processors to run SQL, and would have to shell out dough for it to run on the other two procs (as seen by the OS).
I wonder what would happen if each core on the dual-core chip supported Hyperthreading as well... You'd have 8 "processors" in 2 sockets.
I have 300 GB of email storage available to me right now on my local hard drive. Give me POP3 access and let me pull down my messages so I can worry about retaining them. I don't trust my data to some company with no interest in the integrity of my data.
I've had messages stored on web-based email accounts dump my messages due to server failure, during routine upgrades, because I hadn't logged in to the account for a month, or who knows what other reason.
Google may not do all of that, but if I can't back up important messages to an offline storage medium that I physically own, I'm not interested.
The offline delivery tells the paper that you are a subscriber. The online delivery tells them which articles you read, via tracking cookies. This could be used to profile you based on your reading interests. Who knows who's interested in those profiles? It's probably not just advertisers...
If I subscribe to the NYT for home delivery, for all they know I'm an illiterate who just uses it to wrap fish guts and recoups the cost of the paper by clipping coupons. If I read the NYT on the web, they know I'm interested in technology, human rights, and government and corporate corruption. This could be enough to paint me as a dissident or even -- gasp! -- a terrorist. Which is of course a bogus conclusion to jump to, I'm anything but. But that won't stop any would-be neo-McCarthyist from making allegations and distorting their facts. Far better that I'm browsing as a 105 year old Eskimo who lives in Arkansas.
The upshot of this is that it makes Linux all that more attractive since there's no per processor licensing bullshit to deal with, and little if any distinction between a server and workstation install (mainly it's just a matter of what packages you choose include with the install).
It's pretty easy to predict that what will happen is Microsoft will be forced to amend or drop its per processor licensing scheme, or else deeply discount it, or else face even more widespread piracy. Then again, they might have enough clout to hold up AMD and Intel's release of the multi-core CPUs until such time as they make Windows ready for it.
Nonsense, imagine all that profit your 150+ licenses will bring in for the Mozilla Foundation... um... oh.
Wow, that should be enough to run Longhorn!
Ok, who can make 53 years a significant (ie round number) anniversary? I guess it's easy enough if you count in Base-5.3 notation. What planet would you have to be on in order for a 53-earth year observance to correspond to a meaningful celestial event relative to your system?