Ah, yes. The good 'ol TI-85. I remember, back in high school, building the "$5 serial link" using some parts from Radio Shack and instructions from the Internet just so I could install ZShell and all those cool games. I'm pretty sure TI started including assembly program support in the native calculator OS of the TI-86 and later calculators because of how well it worked on hacked TI-85s.
I don't own a PDA, but compared to the old TI calculators, they must be awesome!
Why bother falsely accusing them? Maybe whoever runs their ISP is sympathetic and will simply cancel their service in protest! (Not likely, but still...it's an idea.)
Honest Question: Who actually uses all those fancy features in Word? From what I've seen (mostly in academia, admittedly), most people use word processors as glorified typewriters. That is, they don't use anything special that StarOffice or the others don't already have.
And, even if they use more advanced things such as automatic table of contents, columns, merging, or anything else that I myself have never used, wouldn't it be better to get people to use document formats with open standards (such as XML, others?) instead of lame proprietary standards?
There is also arla, a free AFS client/server that existed before OpenAFS came about. The client works quite well in Linux. I used it on my PC alot last year. But, yes, IBM already has their very own AFS client for linux (and server too, I assume).
Right. General Thade eventually escapes from the Oberon with a pod and travels back to Earth and arrives at some time in between 2029 (when the movie begins) and 2185 (when Leo lands on Washington D.C.). He leads a revolt of the apes on Earth. The apes take over the entire infrastructure, but they don't improve it much - it has been established that they can't/don't develop technology. This would explain why the planet looks exactly like the Earth we know today, why cars and guns, etc. look the same.
Oh, and to spite us, they remove Honest Abe's statue and replaced it with one dedicated to Gen Thade.
By the way, did I see that starting year correctly? 2029??? That's pretty soon for all that cool technology!
Why should MySQL AB have to register mysql.*? IMHO, that's craziness. I don't think they should have to pay a registrar all that money to simply not use most of those domains.
Heck, they already paid registrars in several countries to register MySQL (the trademark). If organizations have to resort to doing things like registering zillions of domain names as well, then what's the point of registering a trademark in the firstplace?
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In Michigan, the law recently changed. The police can now pull you over and ticket you if you aren't wearing a seatbelt. Before, they could only ticket you for not wearing a seatbelt if they noticed it after pulling you over for something else.
I notice that the Mozilla crew seems to have given up on "live" skin changes. In previous versions, when I changed skins, I got a warning message box that said things might get messed up, and the skin change would occur right then. Now, I get a message that says "Theme changes will take effect when you restart Mozilla." What's up with that? The skin change always worked fine for me (not that I tried it on any skins besides the two included). Is this a permanent change?
That happened to me several versions ago. I sure hope Mozilla doesn't still crash if it can't read the profiles. That doesn't strike me as something that software this close to release should be doing. Error messages, yes. Crashes, no.
That said, Mozilla has almost completely replaced Communicator 4.7x for me. A few months ago, I was using each about half the time. But now, Mozilla is much faster, more stable, and I love the standards compliance and new features.
Let's hope people start adopting DVDs for data storage like this. I remember back in 1997 I was building a new computer and wondering if I should get a CD-ROM drive or wait for DVD-ROM drives to come out. I was worried I wouldn't be able to read data discs. Ha! Four years later, I finally have a DVD-ROM drive, but all I use it for is watching movies - and I don't even do that much, because my roommate has a nice TV and DVD player.
I've only heard of a few software titles that are released on DVD. And I don't even know what they are.
CDs stored more than my hard drive not too long ago. Even DVDs today are small in comparison, but we need to start using them. Otherwise, I sure wasted money on that drive.
I'm guessing the closeout sale has already started. I'm seeing lots of VA Linux ads at the top of Slashdot (the past few page views, anyway). They don't actually have the words "closeout" though.
This is a very late reply to my own post. I just wanted to point out that I notice there are now 3 short 15 second commercials during the Car Talk RealAudio version. But, those commercials weren't there a few weeks ago.
I'm not much more informed than you, because I've never taken a course in "programming languages." Everyone, feel free to correct and expand on what I say.
What you are describing as "layers" are actually referred to as "levels." We have developed from machine code up to the third or fourth level, I think. C++ is a third-level language, C is second-level, and assembly is first-level (I think).
I've heard SQL described as a sort of fourth-level language. SQL statements look like this: "SELECT * from people WHERE FirstName='Bob'". It literally means, "Select all records from [the table named] people where the [field named] first name is 'Bob'" Obviously, lots of loops will need to be done to do this, but at this level of languages, they are hidden from the programmer - just as branches are hidden from second-level language users. Also, SQL is pretty darn close to English, although much more limited. You can't write whole programs in SQL. You can only manipulate databases.
To those of you in the know...is there a general purpose fourth-level programming language yet?
I hope this dies an early death in the marketplace.
What's wrong with video on demand? That's exactly what I want. That's exactly what PVR provides, in a sort of backwards, silly way. Instead of just broadcasting shows, why can't networks also make them available for download/streaming?
This already exists in radio somewhat. Let me give you a specific example: I like to Listen to Car Talk on NPR. It comes on once a week, but I don't worry about being near my radio to hear it. If I miss it, I can just go to The Car Talk website and listen to the RealAudio version of the show whenever I want. It's great. There aren't even commercials in the web version (not that there are many commercials on NPR anyway).
No offense intended, but what do you think the stock market is? A casino? Even in a casino, the best you can do is hope to make money. Or you can cheat. And, keep in mind that the casinos, on average, take in much more money than they pay out.
Oops. Maybe I gave away the fact that I think casinos are stupid.
From what little I understand about economics, this is how it's supposed to work: You buy stock in a company because you want to "go into business" with them. You are becoming an owner. Would you start a business that you didn't want to? No? Then why invest that way?
If you simply buy stock because you believe it will go up, and everyone else does the same - until it goes down, at which point everyone abandons it, then you have needless growth and decline.
I wouldn't feel too guilty about giving them money. "Open Source" does not have to mean "Hobbiests Only." By buying stock, or even just donating, you can allow Mandrake to employ full-time developers. Think of all the work they could do improving Linux in general and Mandrake in particular.
Money is a resource, just like time, code, or anything else. Give as much of each of those as you can. I'll bet lots of newbies (like me) aren't up to coding or documenting yet. But, if they want to get into Linux, and want to see it grow, money is the best way for them to do that.
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They could, though, allow anyone to point to their DNS servers.
Yes, they could. But what if they don't? Then we'd have two separate, possibly conflicting systems. Or what if they initially open it up, but then change their minds and block outside users (sort of like they block AIM clones)? They'd be within their rights, since it'd be AOL's root servers that everyone would be using.
I don't think I'd trust any organization that tried to takeover. They could screw things up even worse, and who would they be accountable to? We don't need that. "Names and Numbers" on the Internet is really the kind of thing that needs central control. We should try really hard to reform or replace ICANN in one swoop, rather than slowly trying to usurp it and splitting the Internet.
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what if 26^3 people want to register joeblow? Should we create TLDs for all of them? Then, to go to joeblow's site, I'd have to remember joeblow.(random three-letter TLD). It seems kinda silly when taken to the extreme, I know. But, is that the best solution we have?
I think we should open up new TLDs, but we should organize them better when we do.
Yes, more and more info is available on the Internet. However, the effort to place information there is still largely unorganized, unverified, volunteer-based, and incomplete. You can find enough to get a good introduction to most topics, and you can get some pretty good detail on other topics.
If you really want to find lots of info on a topic, go to a library or a bookstore. This is true even for science and technology, which I would think is the Internet's most popular topic. Just glance at some of the 3 inch thick SQL books at Barnes and Noble and try to tell me that "Bob's SQL Tutorial [Web Page]" is equally good.
Here's what I want: I want advertisers to pay me to view ads directly. And I will pay the tv shows I watch directly. That way, I can much more effectively "vote with my dollar," and I don't have to put up with ads that I'm not interested in.
Imagine this. The next time you want to purchase, say, a new car, you go to an ad agency [website] and they pay you $100 or something to sit through commercials for cars. Then you go to a dealer and take a closer look at cars that interest you.
So why can't the politician just lie to the corporations? Lie to them and get all their money. Then turn around and ignore them. Act in the interests of the voters instead. If a bunch of politicians did that, I'll bet they'd get plenty of attention from the press. Then, they wouldn't need to raise alot of money the next time. People would know about them and hopefully vote for them because they did such a good job.
BSOD Properties and Other Customizations. This page has a little VB3 app to easily let you make the changes. Or, if you don't want to bother with that, it tells you what to add to SYSTEM.INI.
I made my BSOD red for a while too. But I found it induced too much anger in me, so I switched it back.
If I ran a medium-sized website that people cared about, I'd go for option (3) above. If I ran a large website that lots of people cared about, I'd go for a combination of (3) and (2). I'd avoid advertising on principal.
Here's my reasoning: From all the recent discussions on Slashdot about Internet ads, I've formed the opinion that we'd all be better off with less of them. But where do we draw the line? I'll tell you where: no one should seek out advertising. If advertisers come to you, by all means accept the money and put up the ads. Otherwise, I think trying to get advertisers to throw money at you is pointless. It gives them all the control. You're practically begging them, for crying out loud!
I'd much rather beg for money from my users. That way, it's a direct exchange, and you stay in control. The only problem is the idea lots of people have that everything should be "free". Well, there's no such thing as "free".
If I were a moderator right now, I would definately mod the parent post up (hint hint). It's Interesting and/or Insightful, I think. I also happen to agree with it.
I don't think advertising is evil, but I do think it's pretty silly to use it as a currency like we do. It's way overvalued and we are becoming surrounded by it. In my opinion, advertising gets to be too much when advertisers don't have to seek out companies (advertisees?). When (TV, radio, print, Internet) companies seek out advertising, rather than the reverse, it's too much.
I think advertising should be for a business, either:
A small supplemental income
A small supplemental expense
That is, it probably should only be used when a company really needs to make itself or its product known.
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I don't own a PDA, but compared to the old TI calculators, they must be awesome!
Why bother falsely accusing them? Maybe whoever runs their ISP is sympathetic and will simply cancel their service in protest! (Not likely, but still...it's an idea.)
And, even if they use more advanced things such as automatic table of contents, columns, merging, or anything else that I myself have never used, wouldn't it be better to get people to use document formats with open standards (such as XML, others?) instead of lame proprietary standards?
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There is also arla, a free AFS client/server that existed before OpenAFS came about. The client works quite well in Linux. I used it on my PC alot last year. But, yes, IBM already has their very own AFS client for linux (and server too, I assume).
Oh, and to spite us, they remove Honest Abe's statue and replaced it with one dedicated to Gen Thade.
By the way, did I see that starting year correctly? 2029??? That's pretty soon for all that cool technology!
Heck, they already paid registrars in several countries to register MySQL (the trademark). If organizations have to resort to doing things like registering zillions of domain names as well, then what's the point of registering a trademark in the firstplace?
In Michigan, the law recently changed. The police can now pull you over and ticket you if you aren't wearing a seatbelt. Before, they could only ticket you for not wearing a seatbelt if they noticed it after pulling you over for something else.
I notice that the Mozilla crew seems to have given up on "live" skin changes. In previous versions, when I changed skins, I got a warning message box that said things might get messed up, and the skin change would occur right then. Now, I get a message that says "Theme changes will take effect when you restart Mozilla." What's up with that? The skin change always worked fine for me (not that I tried it on any skins besides the two included). Is this a permanent change?
That said, Mozilla has almost completely replaced Communicator 4.7x for me. A few months ago, I was using each about half the time. But now, Mozilla is much faster, more stable, and I love the standards compliance and new features.
I've only heard of a few software titles that are released on DVD. And I don't even know what they are.
CDs stored more than my hard drive not too long ago. Even DVDs today are small in comparison, but we need to start using them. Otherwise, I sure wasted money on that drive.
I'm guessing the closeout sale has already started. I'm seeing lots of VA Linux ads at the top of Slashdot (the past few page views, anyway). They don't actually have the words "closeout" though.
This is a very late reply to my own post. I just wanted to point out that I notice there are now 3 short 15 second commercials during the Car Talk RealAudio version. But, those commercials weren't there a few weeks ago.
Actually, EST=GMT-5 and EDT=GMT-4
What you are describing as "layers" are actually referred to as "levels." We have developed from machine code up to the third or fourth level, I think. C++ is a third-level language, C is second-level, and assembly is first-level (I think).
I've heard SQL described as a sort of fourth-level language. SQL statements look like this: "SELECT * from people WHERE FirstName='Bob'". It literally means, "Select all records from [the table named] people where the [field named] first name is 'Bob'" Obviously, lots of loops will need to be done to do this, but at this level of languages, they are hidden from the programmer - just as branches are hidden from second-level language users. Also, SQL is pretty darn close to English, although much more limited. You can't write whole programs in SQL. You can only manipulate databases.
To those of you in the know...is there a general purpose fourth-level programming language yet?
What's wrong with video on demand? That's exactly what I want. That's exactly what PVR provides, in a sort of backwards, silly way. Instead of just broadcasting shows, why can't networks also make them available for download/streaming?
This already exists in radio somewhat. Let me give you a specific example: I like to Listen to Car Talk on NPR. It comes on once a week, but I don't worry about being near my radio to hear it. If I miss it, I can just go to The Car Talk website and listen to the RealAudio version of the show whenever I want. It's great. There aren't even commercials in the web version (not that there are many commercials on NPR anyway).
Oops. Maybe I gave away the fact that I think casinos are stupid.
From what little I understand about economics, this is how it's supposed to work: You buy stock in a company because you want to "go into business" with them. You are becoming an owner. Would you start a business that you didn't want to? No? Then why invest that way?
If you simply buy stock because you believe it will go up, and everyone else does the same - until it goes down, at which point everyone abandons it, then you have needless growth and decline.
Money is a resource, just like time, code, or anything else. Give as much of each of those as you can. I'll bet lots of newbies (like me) aren't up to coding or documenting yet. But, if they want to get into Linux, and want to see it grow, money is the best way for them to do that.
Yes, they could. But what if they don't? Then we'd have two separate, possibly conflicting systems. Or what if they initially open it up, but then change their minds and block outside users (sort of like they block AIM clones)? They'd be within their rights, since it'd be AOL's root servers that everyone would be using.
I don't think I'd trust any organization that tried to takeover. They could screw things up even worse, and who would they be accountable to? We don't need that. "Names and Numbers" on the Internet is really the kind of thing that needs central control. We should try really hard to reform or replace ICANN in one swoop, rather than slowly trying to usurp it and splitting the Internet.
I think we should open up new TLDs, but we should organize them better when we do.
If you really want to find lots of info on a topic, go to a library or a bookstore. This is true even for science and technology, which I would think is the Internet's most popular topic. Just glance at some of the 3 inch thick SQL books at Barnes and Noble and try to tell me that "Bob's SQL Tutorial [Web Page]" is equally good.
Imagine this. The next time you want to purchase, say, a new car, you go to an ad agency [website] and they pay you $100 or something to sit through commercials for cars. Then you go to a dealer and take a closer look at cars that interest you.
So why can't the politician just lie to the corporations? Lie to them and get all their money. Then turn around and ignore them. Act in the interests of the voters instead. If a bunch of politicians did that, I'll bet they'd get plenty of attention from the press. Then, they wouldn't need to raise alot of money the next time. People would know about them and hopefully vote for them because they did such a good job.
BSOD Properties and Other Customizations. This page has a little VB3 app to easily let you make the changes. Or, if you don't want to bother with that, it tells you what to add to SYSTEM.INI.
I made my BSOD red for a while too. But I found it induced too much anger in me, so I switched it back.
Here's my reasoning: From all the recent discussions on Slashdot about Internet ads, I've formed the opinion that we'd all be better off with less of them. But where do we draw the line? I'll tell you where: no one should seek out advertising. If advertisers come to you, by all means accept the money and put up the ads. Otherwise, I think trying to get advertisers to throw money at you is pointless. It gives them all the control. You're practically begging them, for crying out loud!
I'd much rather beg for money from my users. That way, it's a direct exchange, and you stay in control. The only problem is the idea lots of people have that everything should be "free". Well, there's no such thing as "free".
I don't think advertising is evil, but I do think it's pretty silly to use it as a currency like we do. It's way overvalued and we are becoming surrounded by it. In my opinion, advertising gets to be too much when advertisers don't have to seek out companies (advertisees?). When (TV, radio, print, Internet) companies seek out advertising, rather than the reverse, it's too much.
I think advertising should be for a business, either:
- A small supplemental income
- A small supplemental expense
That is, it probably should only be used when a company really needs to make itself or its product known.