...but what if the random dots would spell out "DON'T FORGET TO BUY MILK", I agree, the change of the happening is slim, but it's certainly not impossible...
now, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea and see what comes up. i agree with what you're saying here, but random dots spelling out "DON'T FORGET TO BUY MILK" might be a stretch.
In practice, Java runs on almost any platform around. In practice (even though CLR is supposedly open).NET shall run only on Windows.
well said! though, it's not highly recommended (at least from my past expereience) to try running a weblogic java app server on a win 2K box, it is possible and does work.
first off, it's the engineers that draw up the blue prints, the developers just carry it out.
second, i can't see how it's the software's problem that the OS has a uneasily understood security model. i'm thinking, either you have privledge, or you don't, end of story.
imho, good developers do write buggy code. the linux kernel, desktop and all server software is written by good developers, and it has its share of bugs.
most bugs in a software development project are due to lack of well defined requirements (use cases help here lots). another major factor to consider is time constraints. typically a manager or senior engineer is pulling some project estimates out of their back side. those will get cut at least into half by some business folks by adding half the original resources (i still don't buy that math). the last 4 weeks of the project ends in 80 hr hectic weeks for everyone (except that business guy who decided to cut the project timeline) running on too much caffinee and not enough pizza. this ultimately results in buggy software. i won't even go into how requirement changes a week before a scheduled release can impact the quality of a software development project.
so to conclude, good coders do code buggy software, but often its because of others around the project this happens.
have you tried cdex? It's not quite the ripping software you'll be using with this 2.5.19 kernel, and you won't find out if the bug with auido ripping/open gl is in the kernel code of the VIA chipset, or if it's related to DRI's open gl code (is DRI used for cd ripping?, though that was just audio drivers and such...).
at any rate i've found that when all else fails there's ususally a workable alterantive. i've used cdex, and it works just nicely.
actually, it seems that top end video cards rival low-end box prices. you can still pick up a new low-end box for 400$.
that aside, the newer ATI's are of course not for the linux fans unless you're looking to read some specs and hack some drivers. i don't know what ATI is doing w/ all it's cash it's raking in, but it's not even writing excellent M$ drivers. getting my AIW 128 Pro to work on win 98 was a royal pain in the arse.
then there's finding a distro that will install the nVidia drivers by default. who wants to get through an install, then have to go through installing and testing video card drivers. i don't get it, doesn't nVidia allow them to ship their linux drivers? are the distro's so hard-core open source that they won't put an option on there that says: "you've got a nVidia card, you can: a) use the opensource non-hardware excellerated driver or, b) use the full-trottle, metal grinding closed source nVidia driver? i'de be happy if they even had option a as the default.
i gotta mostly agree with you on this, but i'm not so sure that 150M$ goes very far with keeping a software/hardware company afloat such as apple. hell a dot bomb with 60 employees (and actual revenue) couldn't sustain for 18 months on that cash (been there done that).
even before going out to play w/ the adults we realized that apple wasn't going to be the thing to do. the colleges might have had some apple labs for use, but business, comp sci, and accounting students were using the ibm pc's for everthing. i don't know what happened to the marketing droids, but that's gotta explain why they're always have a floor of their own.
...average Joe, works at the office 9-5, leaves work at work and has a life, dial-up should be fine for most purposes
a life.. at home.. w/o a constant connection to the internet? i vaguely remember those days. sitting down to the computer and having to listen to the modem dial out and establish a connection every time i wanted to get online. sure the actual speed for web browsing wasn't bad (when i lived where the phone lines would handle 56k connections, too crappy lines here w/ big electric power lines in the back yard to contend with), but that dial up really bites.
then there's the issue of ICS. i mean really, you've got 4-6 boxes scattered throughout the house connected via those 100mbps ethernet cards. do you really want to go through the gawd aful trouble of setting up a dial on demand linux router? maybe it's gotten easier since i tired 18 months ago, but it wasn't exactly adding a line to the rc.local script to turn forwarding on.
the wideopenwest folks here are introducing 19.95 and up cable pricing. starting at 112 or so kbps going up to 1.5mbps. i usually only get 250-300k/s for iso downloads so the middle tier s/b ok i think. then again, with a constant connection, waiting a while for an iso download isn't bothering anyone, phone still rings in.
just to reinforce your point. This page shows how the fuel cells store and hold hydrogen from water/solar power.
the only current downside to solar power is the initial implementation costs associated with it. these costs are going down, but not at a rate which consumers will flock to. it's possible for the roof of a house to be lined with solar cells which will generate enough electricty for common household use and then some. the extra is commonly sold back to the power co. the $20k investment required to get one of these things going is what's keeping people away from them (california's ~50% govt kickback really helps though). this option basically makes the "ugly wind farm" argument obsolete.
along this line, consumers could produce and store their own hydrogen. refuel our vehicles when ever needed.
this of course will shift a LOT of jobs from supporting a legacy system of storing/transporting/selling/refining oil fuel to developing and implementing a long term low environmental impact solution that will take us into the 22nd century (i gotta get into politics;) )
i have to agree with this. we really don't know how much oil can be squeezed from the planet, but there are better fuels to be had.
with oil, it's basicly a huge dependance on whomever owns the supply. back in the coal days, the US could mine enough to satisfy their needs (afaik).
i know of 2 alternatives that currently exist that could be quickly implemented to cut dependance on oil.
the first is hydrogen. there's a little perception of explosions, but i believe the vehicles exist, and have been safe.
the other is grain alcohol. brazil has been using largely grain alcohol to run all it's automobiles. every automobile in the us could be converted easily to run on exclusive grain alcohol. brazil experience some alcohol price fluxuations (farmers charging alot for the crops?), and some people want to go back to oil becuase of it in brazil. i think it is a viable solution though to wean dependancy on other wacko nations.
this is most certainly true. you're not going to find many books/courses on the free office packages. they're also not going to quite integrate in with the OS as well as one that's produced by the os vendor;).
same goes for your free OS. sure, there's lots of books on them, but the reading and comprehension level required is a little more than for an OS (M$) you pay for. also, a lot of people purchase a pc package, and it makes a LOT of sense to have the OS pre-installed. nobody likes to fumble with driver hell that can occur even in the fully polished M$ suite of OS's.
there's always hidden costs associated with the luxary of going the easy way out as well. you get an office suite that you're now fairly locked into if you go the M$ route because the file formats are not open. you also get a package that is not certain to even be fixable. it's possible, though not probable, that M$ goes belly up and there isn't an OfficeXP+1 released. for years WP was THE word processing package and where is it now on the required skills list?
you can always use anon cvs to keep you from downloading unchanged sources all the time.
the source downloads aren't that large, it's generally build times that can drag out. specially when you've got to build kdebase, kdelibs, kdenetwork, kdeextras, kdeextraextra.
bandwidth is generally a fixed cost. it doesn't matter if your T-1 is at 80% m-f 8-6, and averages 2% the rest of the time, of if you're averaging a constant 70% all the time, the cost of the line is the same.
if those in the Real World (tm) want to limit their bandwidth by avoiding pop-x windows, they'll use (as you eluded to) a browser that doesn't allow pop-x windows (moz/opera).
in the Real World (tm), those that are too cheap, too frugal, or too cost conscious to purchase the needed bandwidth will setup a Squid (tm) proxy server
Note: Real World is trademarked by MTV corporation. Squid is trademarked by the Squid Cache web proxy software organization.
no, the state is regulating something that is legal (ip traffic) in assumption that it might be used for something illegal. why aren't they requiring the usps to filter all kiddie porn ? (first off, they don't 0wnz the USps, do they own the internet traffic?) why aren't the phone companies required to filter spam calls?
it's election year, these guys want some good pr stuff to throw around when the campaigns hit heavy and hard.
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7 years for copyright. anything more than that is stiffling innovation. corporatio^^^artists are monopolizing on IP long since obsoleted. mickey, minnie,... is elvis still around?
If they just publicited the product to enable blinds to read e-books... they would be just off the hook! (as is stated in the DMCA)...
i get a kick every time i hear this type of argument. it's always the advertised intent of the product that matters.
this is why anyone can run into a "head shop" and get a nice 10 foot tube that their friend has to light while they inhale the tobacco smoke from it. or maybe the fancy ones that have a huge bowl in the middle for placing the tobacco and then has 6 tubes for your friends to all share the tobacco smoke with. but then again, when you're really jonsin' for some tobacco and don't have one of those fancy schmancy devices around, you can always grab an empty pop/beer can which can easily be converted for your enjoyment.
then there's the cable tv descramblers that are to keep you from having to pay those outrageous rental prices from the cable company to use their boxes.
after all, it's the intent of the product. my opinions on weather those tobacco smoking devices or tv descramblers should be leagal is for a different thread, i just get a kick out of the whole "intent" thing. if it's an apple, call it a apple, not a red shiny teacher's desk decoration.
blockbuster? what? this is certainly the wrong crowd to be sending to that company. they hold way too much market share on the movie/video rental industry. better recommend a good mom-n-pop type store, though it had better be right next to a starbucks, can't live w/o the latte;).
is there a dvdovernight.com type company that's doing video game rentals via internet/usps?
it shouldn't? so your applicatoin/resume says, "i've worked a couple resturants during college which i completed 5 years ago", and they ask, "so what have you been doing for the last 5 years". and your reply is just "working". i'm sure that'll fly over good. you don't have to provide salary, and all but they'll know you 've been a college grad in the tech industry for 5 years. they can guesstimate you've been earning 2x+ as much as they have been for the few years.
no silly, the M$ oem license says "this version of m$ is only valid for the hardware you bought it with.", therefor the sw should stay with the hardware, but there's nothing that says you can't use something else and throw away that agreement (that you probably didn't agree to when you purchased the computer anyway)
no, they claim to be an OS that has the potential to run software which was created for the MS family of OSs. This is just saying "just because our OS can run software that is intended for theirs, doesn't mean we're strategic partners".
If I'm an auto repair shop called NAPI (New Auto Parts Installed or something like that) and I claim to install exclusively NAPA parts, I would make a disclaimer saying that they're not giving me any money to use their parts exclusively. When my auto shop got to be really big, and NAPA decided to be "partners" with me, then they would pay me to say so, but in the meantime, i'm going to vocally announce that they are not paying me.
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that's an interesting twist on design patterns... to "overcome language hurdles that dont occur in lisp and strictly functional languages."
and i thought design patterns were just typical ways other people code stuff so you can 1, learn more quickly, and 2, not have to re-think through all that. are you saing that every lisp program you come across has a completely different design? (i'm not familiar with that language).
as more and more of us are laid off/out of work due to off shore development efforts, the/. browser numbers will then be a more accurate representation of what people "like to use".
then again, maybe we'll eventually find something else to do. or maybe mozilla/konqueror/opera really aren't our favorite browsers? (at least mozilla is available for those windows desktops)
3 gigs is good for starting with linux. you can also mount your win partition from linux and access all files from there. i've heard mixed reviews of using a fat32 partition as a "shared" area between the os's, though i've never had any noticeable problems with it.
the installs are about as easy as any win install these days. click through the the ok's and answer any hardware questions (video card, monitor, sound card are the big 3).
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...but what if the random dots would spell out "DON'T FORGET TO BUY MILK", I agree, the change of the happening is slim, but it's certainly not impossible...
now, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea and see what comes up. i agree with what you're saying here, but random dots spelling out "DON'T FORGET TO BUY MILK" might be a stretch.
In practice, Java runs on almost any platform around. In practice (even though CLR is supposedly open) .NET shall run only on Windows.
well said! though, it's not highly recommended (at least from my past expereience) to try running a weblogic java app server on a win 2K box, it is possible and does work.
hold on a second there..
first off, it's the engineers that draw up the blue prints, the developers just carry it out.
second, i can't see how it's the software's problem that the OS has a uneasily understood security model. i'm thinking, either you have privledge, or you don't, end of story.
imho, good developers do write buggy code. the linux kernel, desktop and all server software is written by good developers, and it has its share of bugs.
most bugs in a software development project are due to lack of well defined requirements (use cases help here lots). another major factor to consider is time constraints. typically a manager or senior engineer is pulling some project estimates out of their back side. those will get cut at least into half by some business folks by adding half the original resources (i still don't buy that math). the last 4 weeks of the project ends in 80 hr hectic weeks for everyone (except that business guy who decided to cut the project timeline) running on too much caffinee and not enough pizza. this ultimately results in buggy software. i won't even go into how requirement changes a week before a scheduled release can impact the quality of a software development project.
so to conclude, good coders do code buggy software, but often its because of others around the project this happens.
have you tried cdex? It's not quite the ripping software you'll be using with this 2.5.19 kernel, and you won't find out if the bug with auido ripping/open gl is in the kernel code of the VIA chipset, or if it's related to DRI's open gl code (is DRI used for cd ripping?, though that was just audio drivers and such...).
at any rate i've found that when all else fails there's ususally a workable alterantive. i've used cdex, and it works just nicely.
actually, it seems that top end video cards rival low-end box prices. you can still pick up a new low-end box for 400$.
that aside, the newer ATI's are of course not for the linux fans unless you're looking to read some specs and hack some drivers. i don't know what ATI is doing w/ all it's cash it's raking in, but it's not even writing excellent M$ drivers. getting my AIW 128 Pro to work on win 98 was a royal pain in the arse.
then there's finding a distro that will install the nVidia drivers by default. who wants to get through an install, then have to go through installing and testing video card drivers. i don't get it, doesn't nVidia allow them to ship their linux drivers? are the distro's so hard-core open source that they won't put an option on there that says: "you've got a nVidia card, you can: a) use the opensource non-hardware excellerated driver or, b) use the full-trottle, metal grinding closed source nVidia driver? i'de be happy if they even had option a as the default.
i gotta mostly agree with you on this, but i'm not so sure that 150M$ goes very far with keeping a software/hardware company afloat such as apple. hell a dot bomb with 60 employees (and actual revenue) couldn't sustain for 18 months on that cash (been there done that).
even before going out to play w/ the adults we realized that apple wasn't going to be the thing to do. the colleges might have had some apple labs for use, but business, comp sci, and accounting students were using the ibm pc's for everthing. i don't know what happened to the marketing droids, but that's gotta explain why they're always have a floor of their own.
...average Joe, works at the office 9-5, leaves work at work and has a life, dial-up should be fine for most purposes
a life.. at home.. w/o a constant connection to the internet? i vaguely remember those days. sitting down to the computer and having to listen to the modem dial out and establish a connection every time i wanted to get online. sure the actual speed for web browsing wasn't bad (when i lived where the phone lines would handle 56k connections, too crappy lines here w/ big electric power lines in the back yard to contend with), but that dial up really bites.
then there's the issue of ICS. i mean really, you've got 4-6 boxes scattered throughout the house connected via those 100mbps ethernet cards. do you really want to go through the gawd aful trouble of setting up a dial on demand linux router? maybe it's gotten easier since i tired 18 months ago, but it wasn't exactly adding a line to the rc.local script to turn forwarding on.
the wideopenwest folks here are introducing 19.95 and up cable pricing. starting at 112 or so kbps going up to 1.5mbps. i usually only get 250-300k/s for iso downloads so the middle tier s/b ok i think. then again, with a constant connection, waiting a while for an iso download isn't bothering anyone, phone still rings in.
just to reinforce your point. This page shows how the fuel cells store and hold hydrogen from water/solar power.
;) )
the only current downside to solar power is the initial implementation costs associated with it. these costs are going down, but not at a rate which consumers will flock to. it's possible for the roof of a house to be lined with solar cells which will generate enough electricty for common household use and then some. the extra is commonly sold back to the power co. the $20k investment required to get one of these things going is what's keeping people away from them (california's ~50% govt kickback really helps though). this option basically makes the "ugly wind farm" argument obsolete.
along this line, consumers could produce and store their own hydrogen. refuel our vehicles when ever needed.
this of course will shift a LOT of jobs from supporting a legacy system of storing/transporting/selling/refining oil fuel to developing and implementing a long term low environmental impact solution that will take us into the 22nd century (i gotta get into politics
i have to agree with this. we really don't know how much oil can be squeezed from the planet, but there are better fuels to be had.
with oil, it's basicly a huge dependance on whomever owns the supply. back in the coal days, the US could mine enough to satisfy their needs (afaik).
i know of 2 alternatives that currently exist that could be quickly implemented to cut dependance on oil.
the first is hydrogen. there's a little perception of explosions, but i believe the vehicles exist, and have been safe.
the other is grain alcohol. brazil has been using largely grain alcohol to run all it's automobiles. every automobile in the us could be converted easily to run on exclusive grain alcohol. brazil experience some alcohol price fluxuations (farmers charging alot for the crops?), and some people want to go back to oil becuase of it in brazil. i think it is a viable solution though to wean dependancy on other wacko nations.
"you get what you pay for..."
;).
this is most certainly true. you're not going to find many books/courses on the free office packages. they're also not going to quite integrate in with the OS as well as one that's produced by the os vendor
same goes for your free OS. sure, there's lots of books on them, but the reading and comprehension level required is a little more than for an OS (M$) you pay for. also, a lot of people purchase a pc package, and it makes a LOT of sense to have the OS pre-installed. nobody likes to fumble with driver hell that can occur even in the fully polished M$ suite of OS's.
there's always hidden costs associated with the luxary of going the easy way out as well. you get an office suite that you're now fairly locked into if you go the M$ route because the file formats are not open. you also get a package that is not certain to even be fixable. it's possible, though not probable, that M$ goes belly up and there isn't an OfficeXP+1 released. for years WP was THE word processing package and where is it now on the required skills list?
not quite a day, i found it helpfull to setup a script for running the ./configure make, make install. using the -j option REALLY helps alot
you can always use anon cvs to keep you from downloading unchanged sources all the time.
the source downloads aren't that large, it's generally build times that can drag out. specially when you've got to build kdebase, kdelibs, kdenetwork, kdeextras, kdeextraextra.
bandwidth is generally a fixed cost. it doesn't matter if your T-1 is at 80% m-f 8-6, and averages 2% the rest of the time, of if you're averaging a constant 70% all the time, the cost of the line is the same.
if those in the Real World (tm) want to limit their bandwidth by avoiding pop-x windows, they'll use (as you eluded to) a browser that doesn't allow pop-x windows (moz/opera).
in the Real World (tm), those that are too cheap, too frugal, or too cost conscious to purchase the needed bandwidth will setup a Squid (tm) proxy server
Note: Real World is trademarked by MTV corporation.
Squid is trademarked by the Squid Cache web proxy software organization.
no, the state is regulating something that is legal (ip traffic) in assumption that it might be used for something illegal. why aren't they requiring the usps to filter all kiddie porn ? (first off, they don't 0wnz the USps, do they own the internet traffic?) why aren't the phone companies required to filter spam calls?
it's election year, these guys want some good pr stuff to throw around when the campaigns hit heavy and hard.
7 years for copyright. anything more than that is stiffling innovation. corporatio^^^artists are monopolizing on IP long since obsoleted. mickey, minnie, ... is elvis still around?
For one thing, it means a blossoming of software and music piracy, not to mention child pronography
Not in Penn. Their ISP are regulated to keep out the kiddie porn. Gotta love those state officials and their thoughtfull freedom restri^^^protecting during an election year.
If they just publicited the product to enable blinds to read e-books... they would be just off the hook! (as is stated in the DMCA)...
i get a kick every time i hear this type of argument. it's always the advertised intent of the product that matters.
this is why anyone can run into a "head shop" and get a nice 10 foot tube that their friend has to light while they inhale the tobacco smoke from it. or maybe the fancy ones that have a huge bowl in the middle for placing the tobacco and then has 6 tubes for your friends to all share the tobacco smoke with. but then again, when you're really jonsin' for some tobacco and don't have one of those fancy schmancy devices around, you can always grab an empty pop/beer can which can easily be converted for your enjoyment.
then there's the cable tv descramblers that are to keep you from having to pay those outrageous rental prices from the cable company to use their boxes.
after all, it's the intent of the product. my opinions on weather those tobacco smoking devices or tv descramblers should be leagal is for a different thread, i just get a kick out of the whole "intent" thing. if it's an apple, call it a apple, not a red shiny teacher's desk decoration.
blockbuster? what? this is certainly the wrong crowd to be sending to that company. they hold way too much market share on the movie/video rental industry. better recommend a good mom-n-pop type store, though it had better be right next to a starbucks, can't live w/o the latte ;).
is there a dvdovernight.com type company that's doing video game rentals via internet/usps?
it shouldn't? so your applicatoin/resume says, "i've worked a couple resturants during college which i completed 5 years ago", and they ask, "so what have you been doing for the last 5 years". and your reply is just "working". i'm sure that'll fly over good. you don't have to provide salary, and all but they'll know you 've been a college grad in the tech industry for 5 years. they can guesstimate you've been earning 2x+ as much as they have been for the few years.
good luck!
no silly, the M$ oem license says "this version of m$ is only valid for the hardware you bought it with.", therefor the sw should stay with the hardware, but there's nothing that says you can't use something else and throw away that agreement (that you probably didn't agree to when you purchased the computer anyway)
no, they claim to be an OS that has the potential to run software which was created for the MS family of OSs. This is just saying "just because our OS can run software that is intended for theirs, doesn't mean we're strategic partners".
If I'm an auto repair shop called NAPI (New Auto Parts Installed or something like that) and I claim to install exclusively NAPA parts, I would make a disclaimer saying that they're not giving me any money to use their parts exclusively. When my auto shop got to be really big, and NAPA decided to be "partners" with me, then they would pay me to say so, but in the meantime, i'm going to vocally announce that they are not paying me.
that's an interesting twist on design patterns... to "overcome language hurdles that dont occur in lisp and strictly functional languages."
and i thought design patterns were just typical ways other people code stuff so you can 1, learn more quickly, and 2, not have to re-think through all that. are you saing that every lisp program you come across has a completely different design? (i'm not familiar with that language).
as more and more of us are laid off/out of work due to off shore development efforts, the /. browser numbers will then be a more accurate representation of what people "like to use".
then again, maybe we'll eventually find something else to do. or maybe mozilla/konqueror/opera really aren't our favorite browsers? (at least mozilla is available for those windows desktops)
3 gigs is good for starting with linux. you can also mount your win partition from linux and access all files from there. i've heard mixed reviews of using a fat32 partition as a "shared" area between the os's, though i've never had any noticeable problems with it.
the installs are about as easy as any win install these days. click through the the ok's and answer any hardware questions (video card, monitor, sound card are the big 3).
good luck!