...because we are watching. ahh the motto is aimed at us and not them.
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Fedora 7 Released
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"It seems to me they've fallen a little behind in the way they integrate the kernel and UI aspects of the Linux system, and Fedora has always required a fair amount of tweaking to get things like multimedia to work up to snuff"
I don't think they have fallen behind at all. The lack of mp3 support and other non-free software is a policy decision and I think it is a good one. I have tried Ubuntu and the only difference I can tell as an end user is the inclusion of the non-free software and drivers. This is very convenient for the free as is beer crowd but does is detrimental to free software in general.
"Seriously, though, I'd be interested to see Comcast's reasoning on changing to Zimbra from Exchange"
I very seriously doubt that comcast is switching from exchange. The article does not say. They are probably switching from sendmail + some webmail app to Zimbra.
fasterfox - I am sure this only appeals to dial up users (like me, unfortunately), there is no way they are going to be a bandwidth hog.
videodownloader - I use this all the time and love it, not many problems, maybe 1 out of 10 times I get a page not found. When I am on dialup and use this I let the video play completely in the browser, while I go drink a beer or walk the dog. When I come back and the video is done I click the videodownloader icon and instantly get a save to disk dialog and save the file. It obviously pulls if from the FF cache.
I have this service. Its so damn slow I don't see how you could ever download 5 gig anyway. I live in a remote area with no cable and no DSL available, but there is a Verizon tower about a mile away. I was using this until about a month ago when my wife dropped the laptop and it landed directly on the card which will no longer work. To get me through I signed up for a dialup account and I swear it is faster. Now I just got to get out of this 2 year contract of $70 a month for slower than dialup service.
The reason youtube is cool is because it has lots of cool content. Content that the big companies do not want you to have. Old concert footage, obscure scenes from movies, lots of cool clips that are not rubber stamped for release by the media companies. NBC and other media corps don't want you to have access to this cool video. They want you to watch the same old crap they produce for TV. So they will never reach anywhere near the level of coolness of the current youtube.
Once they are able to purge all the cool material from youtube and other video sites then the new video sites will become something like your DVR. A place to go watch TV without concern for the program schedule. It will not be cool, but there wont be anything else left to watch.
I don't have a degree, went to college for 3 years full time. I worked the whole time to pay living expenses and paid all my tuition with loans. I have lots a friends that graduated, they all had family money paying the way or BEOG grant. They partied and had a blast, I worked my ass off.
No doubt a PhD means a lot more that a BS. I just have had lots a co-workers with 4 year degrees and I stand by my original comment.
Income inequality does not increase crime in any significant way (in the US anyway). Throughout the history of the US there have been times where there was much more inequality than today and much less crime. Before income tax was introduced there were extremely wealthy and extremely poor people beyond the comprehension of people today.
I have used EDI and sucks almost as bad as XML. I have written more flat text file parsers than I can count. Nested data and escaped characters are no problem in flat text if the format is well defined.
I use XML every day in various applications. In my opinion is serves no purpose other than bloat. I would be all for a standard text format but XML is just ridiculous.
A good friend of mine has two kids in high school in Greene County NC. They have had free Apple iBooks since middle school. The kids seems to love them and use them all the time not just for school work. I don't know if they are creating Apple customers, who knows what they will buy when they spend their own money. But I have not heard any of them complain about not having Windows.
And if it were a republican the summary would have read "Republican Governor-Elect..." and there would be a bunch of posts about how the republicans are evil and demos are never up to dirty tricks, blah blah blah.
Slashdot politics articles and posts always point out very well what is wrong with American politics. The same group of people can find and point out the facts on any tech issue in a heartbeat, but anything political instantly goes into a bash fest of the opposing view, facts be damn.
If the Zune were an ipod killer the way excel was a lotus 123 killer it would at least...
play all existing content (mp3s, etc) including itunes purchased songs and play for sure, etc it would cost $99 wireless song sharing would be fast and simple have a simple a straightforward music store with cheap songs
The article does not say anything close to the headline. There are two quotes attributed to newt and neither one give a hint at what he said. I have to believe the title is a hatchet job on Newt. If he actually said something in the context of restricting free speech I think they would have used the full quote.
Here are the two quotes in the article and neither one has a real context...
"We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade,"
"different set of rules"
The article goes on to quote him as saying the Iraq war is a failure.
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This post has been sealed in an envelope and kept in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on the front porch of Funk & Wagnalls since noon today.
1. Fedora Sucks and locks up my system 2. Yum sucks 3. Fedora is great and Ubuntu is hype 4. Yum is great 5. Real men use slackware 6. YAWN....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From my perspective the IBM PS/2 line of computers killed IBM's dominance and lead to the dramatic rise of Compaq, Dell and others. The rise of clones lead to the rise of the generic (non-IBM) OS which was MS-DOS.
In the mid 80's I was doing field service on PCs and IBM had almost complete dominance in hardware and OS (PC-DOS). There was a Compaq here and there and a few other clones but they were very rare. When the PS/2 came out the customers I dealt with were pissed.
They has brought a PC then an XT then an AT and kept all the same peripherals, monitors, add in cards, software, etc through the upgrades. Here was a new computer that was incompatible with everything they already had. Granted it was time for an upgrade, but consumers saw it as lock in and they hated it. People started buying clones in droves and the IBM dominance was dead. By the time windows 95 came out I rarely saw am IBM brand PC in a small business office.
People didn't know they were buying MS-DOS or PC-DOS or Windows or OS/2, there were buying a computer and if you bought a Compaq it came with Windows not OS/2.
No, there are only 15 stories about the internet that are just retold with slight modifications. One is about tubes, one about bricks, etc, etc, etc...
These events show why Red Hat's policies on non-free software are so important. If they were including the bits and pieces of non-free software in other distributions such as Ubuntu there would be a lot more possibility of infringement.
MSDOS was originally a clone or CP/M with copyright problems of its own.
"Bill Gates saw the business opportunity of a lifetime. He obtained rights to a cloned design of CP/M, QDOS, from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer products, licensed it to IBM, and MSDOS/IBMDOS was born. Later, IBM discovered that Gates' operating system could have infringement problems with CP/M, contacted Kildall, and in exchange for a promise not to sue, made an agreement that CP/M would be sold along with IBMDOS when the IBM PC was released. The price set by IBM for CP/M was $250 and for IBMDOS it was $40. IBM's decision to source its primary operating system from Microsoft was the beginning of the end of Digital Research's days as the world's largest manufacturer of software for microcomputers."
If you look at the scope of this system they probably could have paid some high school students 4 grand to write the system in PHP/pg-sql on apache and had no problem scaling to 100k users.
OK, I'm joking, but this does not look like a complicated application on the surface, they just picked a platform with major overhead and complexity (citrix). It basically looks like a CRM system with a few tweaks.
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...because we are watching. ahh the motto is aimed at us and not them.
"It seems to me they've fallen a little behind in the way they integrate the kernel and UI aspects of the Linux system, and Fedora has always required a fair amount of tweaking to get things like multimedia to work up to snuff"
I don't think they have fallen behind at all. The lack of mp3 support and other non-free software is a policy decision and I think it is a good one. I have tried Ubuntu and the only difference I can tell as an end user is the inclusion of the non-free software and drivers. This is very convenient for the free as is beer crowd but does is detrimental to free software in general.
"Florida, much of California, Michigan, and many East Coast states, including much or all of New York City completely under water"
Hmmm...maybe it will be better.
"Seriously, though, I'd be interested to see Comcast's reasoning on changing to Zimbra from Exchange"
I very seriously doubt that comcast is switching from exchange. The article does not say. They are probably switching from sendmail + some webmail app to Zimbra.
Perhaps we should patent the process of applying for a patent and then sue anyone who tries to patent anything.
fasterfox - I am sure this only appeals to dial up users (like me, unfortunately), there is no way they are going to be a bandwidth hog.
videodownloader - I use this all the time and love it, not many problems, maybe 1 out of 10 times I get a page not found. When I am on dialup and use this I let the video play completely in the browser, while I go drink a beer or walk the dog. When I come back and the video is done I click the videodownloader icon and instantly get a save to disk dialog and save the file. It obviously pulls if from the FF cache.
I have this service. Its so damn slow I don't see how you could ever download 5 gig anyway. I live in a remote area with no cable and no DSL available, but there is a Verizon tower about a mile away. I was using this until about a month ago when my wife dropped the laptop and it landed directly on the card which will no longer work. To get me through I signed up for a dialup account and I swear it is faster. Now I just got to get out of this 2 year contract of $70 a month for slower than dialup service.
The reason youtube is cool is because it has lots of cool content. Content that the big companies do not want you to have. Old concert footage, obscure scenes from movies, lots of cool clips that are not rubber stamped for release by the media companies. NBC and other media corps don't want you to have access to this cool video. They want you to watch the same old crap they produce for TV. So they will never reach anywhere near the level of coolness of the current youtube.
Once they are able to purge all the cool material from youtube and other video sites then the new video sites will become something like your DVR. A place to go watch TV without concern for the program schedule. It will not be cool, but there wont be anything else left to watch.
I don't have a degree, went to college for 3 years full time. I worked the whole time to pay living expenses and paid all my tuition with loans. I have lots a friends that graduated, they all had family money paying the way or BEOG grant. They partied and had a blast, I worked my ass off.
No doubt a PhD means a lot more that a BS. I just have had lots a co-workers with 4 year degrees and I stand by my original comment.
"A college degree (earned, not necessarily honorary) is valuable in that it shows that you can dedicate yourself to something and accomplish it."
A college degree (or any other certification) only shows that you had X amount of time and X amount of money and are reasonably literate.
"In fact, how many people can name even one astronaut that is currently active in the space program?"
give me a break, everyone knows Lisa Nowak
Thats a rotten thing to say!
Income inequality does not increase crime in any significant way (in the US anyway). Throughout the history of the US there have been times where there was much more inequality than today and much less crime. Before income tax was introduced there were extremely wealthy and extremely poor people beyond the comprehension of people today.
I have used EDI and sucks almost as bad as XML. I have written more flat text file parsers than I can count. Nested data and escaped characters are no problem in flat text if the format is well defined.
I use XML every day in various applications. In my opinion is serves no purpose other than bloat. I would be all for a standard text format but XML is just ridiculous.
A good friend of mine has two kids in high school in Greene County NC. They have had free Apple iBooks since middle school. The kids seems to love them and use them all the time not just for school work. I don't know if they are creating Apple customers, who knows what they will buy when they spend their own money. But I have not heard any of them complain about not having Windows.
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And if it were a republican the summary would have read "Republican Governor-Elect..." and there would be a bunch of posts about how the republicans are evil and demos are never up to dirty tricks, blah blah blah.
Slashdot politics articles and posts always point out very well what is wrong with American politics. The same group of people can find and point out the facts on any tech issue in a heartbeat, but anything political instantly goes into a bash fest of the opposing view, facts be damn.
If the Zune were an ipod killer the way excel was a lotus 123 killer it would at least...
play all existing content (mp3s, etc) including itunes purchased songs and play for sure, etc
it would cost $99
wireless song sharing would be fast and simple
have a simple a straightforward music store with cheap songs
But, the Microsoft product was cheaper than and compatible with the competition/de facto standard.
The article does not say anything close to the headline. There are two quotes attributed to newt and neither one give a hint at what he said. I have to believe the title is a hatchet job on Newt. If he actually said something in the context of restricting free speech I think they would have used the full quote.
Here are the two quotes in the article and neither one has a real context...
"We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade,"
"different set of rules"
The article goes on to quote him as saying the Iraq war is a failure.
This post has been sealed in an envelope and kept in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on the front porch of Funk & Wagnalls since noon today.
1. Fedora Sucks and locks up my system
2. Yum sucks
3. Fedora is great and Ubuntu is hype
4. Yum is great
5. Real men use slackware
6. YAWN....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From my perspective the IBM PS/2 line of computers killed IBM's dominance and lead to the dramatic rise of Compaq, Dell and others. The rise of clones lead to the rise of the generic (non-IBM) OS which was MS-DOS.
In the mid 80's I was doing field service on PCs and IBM had almost complete dominance in hardware and OS (PC-DOS). There was a Compaq here and there and a few other clones but they were very rare. When the PS/2 came out the customers I dealt with were pissed.
They has brought a PC then an XT then an AT and kept all the same peripherals, monitors, add in cards, software, etc through the upgrades. Here was a new computer that was incompatible with everything they already had. Granted it was time for an upgrade, but consumers saw it as lock in and they hated it. People started buying clones in droves and the IBM dominance was dead. By the time windows 95 came out I rarely saw am IBM brand PC in a small business office.
People didn't know they were buying MS-DOS or PC-DOS or Windows or OS/2, there were buying a computer and if you bought a Compaq it came with Windows not OS/2.
No, there are only 15 stories about the internet that are just retold with slight modifications. One is about tubes, one about bricks, etc, etc, etc...
These events show why Red Hat's policies on non-free software are so important. If they were including the bits and pieces of non-free software in other distributions such as Ubuntu there would be a lot more possibility of infringement.
MSDOS was originally a clone or CP/M with copyright problems of its own.
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"Bill Gates saw the business opportunity of a lifetime. He obtained rights to a cloned design of CP/M, QDOS, from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer products, licensed it to IBM, and MSDOS/IBMDOS was born. Later, IBM discovered that Gates' operating system could have infringement problems with CP/M, contacted Kildall, and in exchange for a promise not to sue, made an agreement that CP/M would be sold along with IBMDOS when the IBM PC was released. The price set by IBM for CP/M was $250 and for IBMDOS it was $40. IBM's decision to source its primary operating system from Microsoft was the beginning of the end of Digital Research's days as the world's largest manufacturer of software for microcomputers."
http://labs.pcw.co.uk/2006/11/microsoft_bows_.htm
If you look at the scope of this system they probably could have paid some high school students 4 grand to write the system in PHP/pg-sql on apache and had no problem scaling to 100k users.
OK, I'm joking, but this does not look like a complicated application on the surface, they just picked a platform with major overhead and complexity (citrix). It basically looks like a CRM system with a few tweaks.