I think that Linux has made some marvelous achievements with a fraction of the financial resouces of Apple and Microsoft.
Well, to be fair, if you had to pay the linux contributors the same hourly rate that you would pay the average programmer at Microsoft or Apple, I'd be interested in seeing which OS actually costs more. And add on top of that, Linus dictating which features needed to go in and when. That's something I'd really be interested in seeing.
so instead of supporting a crooked government (crooked I agree with but I disagree with communist, and I challenge you to prove that it is) you instead support a crooked, war-mongering, corporately-owned government in the States? yeeaaah.. you made a good choice there.
and I don't know when you last lived in Ontario, but whenever I NEEDED to see a doctor, I was able to see one. And I didn't have to worry about whether my HMO or MedicAid covered it or not.
but live and let live I always say.. now if you please rescind your Canadian citizenship and give back the Canadian passport at your earliest opportunity that would be great, thanks.
tell that to the people who went through the August 2003 blackout in NE USA and Ontario.
Rare, perhaps. But when it happens it's really really disruptive. Also alot of cities are also having rotating brown-outs during the summer due to excessive electricity demand.. so if electricity itself isn't so stable, there's no way your internet connection will be.
The text formatting capabilities of Gmail just plain suck IMO. Admittedly, they are a great achievement having been implemented in a web browser but it's a far cry from being able to replace what Word can do.
I have. I bought a MS wireless-G PCI card and it kept dropping the signal. I called MS Support and they worked with me for the better part of 2-3 hours... all without asking for any money.
I think the better question is.. what makes OASIS the standard that Microsoft has to try to achieve? Who determined that and how did they determine that?
Just because it's open doesn't make it de-facto. If the OSS community were serious about this, they should submit a proposal to the IETF and work with companies such as Microsoft to get it to a point where it becomes a true standard. Otherwise, this is all just a bunch of hot air.
The start.com page doesn't look like its anything different from the my.msn.com user home page in terms of funcationality.. right down to the draggable boxes.
God Damnit, I swear, the ignorance of some of you is astounding.
yeah I would agree.. it's still crashing relatively regularly for me as well (I'm on 1.0.4). On top of that, I really would like them to reduce the memory footprint.. its HUGE!
I don't know if that's how it works in the US military, but in the Canadian army (to which I'm part of) it goes something like this:
Pte Bloggins lies to cover up for this buddy Pte Bloggins is found out and gets reamed An investigation is done to determine how far up the chain responsibility goes.
e.g. The immediate supervisor for a Pte is either a MCpl or a Sgt. Therefore, it is likely that they will get reamed far worse than the Lt who only supervises the Sgts. If it is found that both the Sgt and Lt were in on this, then everyone gets reamed with the Senior NCO and the Officer getting worse punishment (because they should have known better).
AUTHORITY and RESPONSIBILITY are two different things. You can always delegate your AUTHORITY, but never your RESPONSIBILITY. You AUTHORIZE the subordinates that you trust to carry out their orders in accordance with your intent. In that you are giving them your authority. But you are ultimately REPSONSIBLE for the outcome.
Keep in mind that the section commander (usually a Sgt in infantry units) are the ones that manage the most people (8 - 10 troops per section). The Pl commander (usually a Lt) should not and does not actively get involved in the managing of Ptes unless there is no Senior NCO around or something is going incredibly wrong. At that point, he may decide to step in, but usually he will either approach the Section Commander or the Sergeant Major and tell them that things are not happening correctly and let them sort it out.
Offficers are the planners and policy makers. They make the high-level decision. Senior NCOs are the whip, they get the job done. How it gets done is usually left to them, they should be able to do the job given only broad directions (hence the importance of being able to ascertain your commander's intent).
I'm with you, I'd rather have a simple phone that did its job well (maybe they can use all of that extra space they'll have when they strip out all of the junk to put in a bigger atennae or a better transceiver) than one that did alot of stuff but all mediocorely.
Heck, get rid of the fluff, give me a phone that can make/recieve calls anywhere, has call display, call waiting, an address book and make it able to withstand a fall from 3 feet without a scratch.
I'm still running on my 5 yr old 1Ghz Tbird. Solid as a rock. Had problems with my old HSF got loose and the chip overheated but ever since I replaced that there's been no problems. Now I need a new PSU for all those power hungry components.
On the same note, I have a dual Pentium 166Mhz box with 128 of EDO ram and that's still running fine too.
I've always supported the idea of building solar panels on top of buildings and on the roof of homes. Considering that is pretty much wasted real estate, might as well make use of it and supplement the energy needs of the structure it sits on top of.. of course you'll need someone to regularly clean the bird crap off of it.. hey.. that sounds like a business opporunity!
I don't know what BBS boards you were on, but most of the times I dialed into were 1:1. Only a few were better than that.. and it was usually because they didn't have much worth downloading!:)
Slashdot Mirror
The Canadian Banking Interest already pulled their money out, if I recall.
There is a C# plugin for Eclipse that will allow you to develop on it.
.NET
http://www.improve-technologies.com/alpha/esharp/
Not that I'm a big fan of eclipse, I find the UI slow and cluttered compared to VS
Well, to be fair, if you had to pay the linux contributors the same hourly rate that you would pay the average programmer at Microsoft or Apple, I'd be interested in seeing which OS actually costs more. And add on top of that, Linus dictating which features needed to go in and when. That's something I'd really be interested in seeing.
so instead of supporting a crooked government (crooked I agree with but I disagree with communist, and I challenge you to prove that it is) you instead support a crooked, war-mongering, corporately-owned government in the States? yeeaaah.. you made a good choice there.
and I don't know when you last lived in Ontario, but whenever I NEEDED to see a doctor, I was able to see one. And I didn't have to worry about whether my HMO or MedicAid covered it or not.
but live and let live I always say.. now if you please rescind your Canadian citizenship and give back the Canadian passport at your earliest opportunity that would be great, thanks.
phfft.. my main desktop is still an Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz @ 1.33 Ghz with PC133.. that's right.. PC133 SDRAM!
umm.. how is this related to Magic: The gathering? :)
the problem is that in Windows, you would:
1) Insert CD
2) click install when the autorun.inf file automatically launches setup.exe
unless the windows user has specifically turned off autorun, and if he has, then he's not the target audience for this kind of test.
Honestly.. if you need more than 2GB to manage your email.. you're either:
1) really really really popular
2) spend too much time on mailing lists
heck, I use gmail to send myself documents, pictures, etc between work and home and I still only manage to use up about 225MB.
Heck, if I combined all of the space that all of my email addresses use I'd probably have trouble breaking 512MB.
slap on a howl from beyond (when you've confirmed that he is going to get through) and then he can get truly ugly...
tell that to the people who went through the August 2003 blackout in NE USA and Ontario.
Rare, perhaps. But when it happens it's really really disruptive. Also alot of cities are also having rotating brown-outs during the summer due to excessive electricity demand.. so if electricity itself isn't so stable, there's no way your internet connection will be.
The text formatting capabilities of Gmail just plain suck IMO. Admittedly, they are a great achievement having been implemented in a web browser but it's a far cry from being able to replace what Word can do.
I have. I bought a MS wireless-G PCI card and it kept dropping the signal. I called MS Support and they worked with me for the better part of 2-3 hours... all without asking for any money.
I think the better question is.. what makes OASIS the standard that Microsoft has to try to achieve? Who determined that and how did they determine that?
Just because it's open doesn't make it de-facto. If the OSS community were serious about this, they should submit a proposal to the IETF and work with companies such as Microsoft to get it to a point where it becomes a true standard. Otherwise, this is all just a bunch of hot air.
Bravo, well said.
I'd mod you up if I could.
The start.com page doesn't look like its anything different from the my.msn.com user home page in terms of funcationality.. right down to the draggable boxes.
God Damnit, I swear, the ignorance of some of you is astounding.
yeah I would agree.. it's still crashing relatively regularly for me as well (I'm on 1.0.4). On top of that, I really would like them to reduce the memory footprint.. its HUGE!
FF is bloat-free? wow.. can someone explain why it uses 43MB of memory when just viewing Slashdot compared to IE using 21MB doing the same?
Also, I'd like to point out that FF doesn't handle exceptions as gracefully as IE.
http://www.webmd.com/ is pretty good.
I don't know if that's how it works in the US military, but in the Canadian army (to which I'm part of) it goes something like this:
Pte Bloggins lies to cover up for this buddy
Pte Bloggins is found out and gets reamed
An investigation is done to determine how far up the chain responsibility goes.
e.g. The immediate supervisor for a Pte is either a MCpl or a Sgt. Therefore, it is likely that they will get reamed far worse than the Lt who only supervises the Sgts. If it is found that both the Sgt and Lt were in on this, then everyone gets reamed with the Senior NCO and the Officer getting worse punishment (because they should have known better).
AUTHORITY and RESPONSIBILITY are two different things. You can always delegate your AUTHORITY, but never your RESPONSIBILITY. You AUTHORIZE the subordinates that you trust to carry out their orders in accordance with your intent. In that you are giving them your authority. But you are ultimately REPSONSIBLE for the outcome.
Keep in mind that the section commander (usually a Sgt in infantry units) are the ones that manage the most people (8 - 10 troops per section). The Pl commander (usually a Lt) should not and does not actively get involved in the managing of Ptes unless there is no Senior NCO around or something is going incredibly wrong. At that point, he may decide to step in, but usually he will either approach the Section Commander or the Sergeant Major and tell them that things are not happening correctly and let them sort it out.
Offficers are the planners and policy makers. They make the high-level decision. Senior NCOs are the whip, they get the job done. How it gets done is usually left to them, they should be able to do the job given only broad directions (hence the importance of being able to ascertain your commander's intent).
good thing you're so comfortable with being a hypocrite that you can post as an AC with your conscious screaming bloody murder.
I'm with you, I'd rather have a simple phone that did its job well (maybe they can use all of that extra space they'll have when they strip out all of the junk to put in a bigger atennae or a better transceiver) than one that did alot of stuff but all mediocorely.
Heck, get rid of the fluff, give me a phone that can make/recieve calls anywhere, has call display, call waiting, an address book and make it able to withstand a fall from 3 feet without a scratch.
I'm still running on my 5 yr old 1Ghz Tbird. Solid as a rock. Had problems with my old HSF got loose and the chip overheated but ever since I replaced that there's been no problems. Now I need a new PSU for all those power hungry components.
On the same note, I have a dual Pentium 166Mhz box with 128 of EDO ram and that's still running fine too.
I've always supported the idea of building solar panels on top of buildings and on the roof of homes. Considering that is pretty much wasted real estate, might as well make use of it and supplement the energy needs of the structure it sits on top of.. of course you'll need someone to regularly clean the bird crap off of it.. hey.. that sounds like a business opporunity!
Try telling that to their families...
I don't know what BBS boards you were on, but most of the times I dialed into were 1:1. Only a few were better than that.. and it was usually because they didn't have much worth downloading! :)