Cost of ownership reports comparing Windows vs. Linux (and other OSs) often show that you spend less time keeping Windows running (I've never experienced this). Hence the saying "Linux is free if your time is worthless". However, the cost of ownership now needs to factor in many many more things.
- not having media directly at your fingertips when your system goes Tits Up(tm)
- Windows Product Activation
-.NET.nagging.
I'm surprised Microsoft has done ANYTHING to increase cost of ownership when research states thats their only advantage (compared against security, configurability, scalability, etc)
What if I were to include the entire image, but scale it down to thumbnail size in the web browser?
Here comes the patents!
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US Patent #5,960,412 : One-Thought-Shopping:
A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a purchaser at a client brain and received by a server system. The server system receives purchaser information including identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from the client brain. The server system then assigns a client identifier to the client brain and associates the assigned client identifier with the received purchaser information. The server system sends to the client system the assigned client identifier and an HTML document identifying the item and including an order button. The client brain receives and stores the assigned client identifier and receives and displays the HTML document. In response to the selection of the order button, the client brain sends to the server system a request to purchase the identified item. The server system receives the request and combines the purchaser information associated with the client identifier of the client brain to generate an order to purchase the item in accordance with the billing and shipment information whereby the purchaser effects the ordering of the product by selection of the order button.
An invention clearly ahead of its time
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Ofcourse we'd need a watch with a GPS to track where the 4 nearest bathrooms are
AIM and ICQ are NOT the same at all! I cannot communicate with AIM users from ICQ and vicaversa. Nullsoft does have a popular mp3 player for windows, and its Linux counterpart, XMMS, is great... But that has nothing to do with what AOL intends to do with Red Hat. I've seen a binary AIM release for Linux, but as far as GTK or the tcl/tk i believe those are completely independant of AOL. In either case, I wasn't suggesting that AOL was going to produce a Linux Client/Distribution/Other wildly undereductated troll, simply that
AOL buys all sorts of stuff and just doesn't quite do what one would expect.
- They buy Netscape for millions, and turn around and use Internet Explorer
- They buy Mirabilis and keep using their own featureless IM client
- They buy Nullsoft and, well, don't do anything
What do they plan on doing with Red Hat? (insert punchline here)
I guess the point I was getting at was that I don't really care the way the creator wanted it to look on a page. I want to look at it the way _I_ want to look at it. I'd like to decrease the font, or put two pages side-by-side to fit more on less pages. I want to select parts of text and paste them somewhere else. I loose all that just so it looks like the creator wanted it to on my screen.
... or how printing is highly overrated and I'd rather use hyperlinks than (see page 41). I don't quite see how PDF is better than a regular markup language, a manual or technical paper isn't a work of art. Why does it need to look exactly the same. I'm looking for information, not a breathtaking setup of paragraphs. Why not do it in html?
And will someone please tell me what's up with those "This page intentionally left blank". Not only is it contradictive, but a waste of paper/time/etc.
My year of waiting for MGS2 was a bit of a disappointmet. Solid Snake was such a cool, smooth player. In MGS2, you play him for about an hour, then they have you play some guy named 'Jack', who's girlfriend nags at you whenever you save (which is usually right at an intense moment, like must diffuse bomb in 400 seconds!)... "Why don't you open up to me" "Do you really love me"... Its a beautiful game with some great moments, but
a.) I want Snake
b.) I want that b1tch on radio frequency 140.96 to DIE!
Aside from Monkey Fight, the side games aren't that great. But goddam, the Main Game is so awesome. Though it reeks of childish animations, Super Monkey Ball has become a staple of our household. We play it every night. We're almost halfway through expert! I recommend this game to anyone that likes puzzles and has a lot of time on their hands;)
Wow, an article mentioning Linux that doesn't have any posts involving Microsoft! Anyway, I thought I'd add that Linux Magazine has accepted Microsoft as an advertiser. Title of Microsoft's ad reads:
"compare and understand the technology" (page 18, Nov. 2001, Linux Magazine). I'm really at a loss for how to feel about this.
a.) Microsoft is funding linux in a way
b.) Seems strange to advertise "understand the technology" to a group of people who understand that that's very difficult without source code.
c.) This has nothing to do with Linux!
My most prominent feeling is (c). So i guess it comes down to, is targetted advertising the responsibility of the advertiser or the publisher? I read Linux magazine to learn about Linux, and Linux related/enabling products (good rackmounts, software, linux based ISPs). But then again, I'm sure you'll find Microsoft ads in many magazines about cars, fashion, etc., so why should Linux be different?
Linux Magazine is a fine publication, but I prefer LJ a bit more, and depending on the issue, I can really enjoy a $14 Linux Format now and then.
Qwest has given me byfar the most awful cellular service ever, and I jumped on the cellphone bandwagon in 1995. They've disconnected my home lines on numerous occasions. I'd hate to see what comes of their DSL, especially now that they're in bed with MSN!
Anyone know of any good Portland, OR based DSL providers? Most I know get the wire from Qwest anyhow, so I'd be just as bad off. I'd be more than happy to hear out suggestions tho!
-Scott
There must be a difference in terms of reliability at differing speeds. When I would backup Playstation games, burning at anything over 1x would create unreliable/unplayable games, but you could take those unplayable games and copy them onto another CD at 1x and they would play just fine...
Seriously... For some reason 0.9.3 was considerably less stable than 0.9.2 on both my linux and windows systems... I'm glad to see so many bugs fixed. This is my primary browser and each improvement to it is an improvement to my LIFE.
I purchased a v64 jr (n64 backup utility), and I was looking for linux utilities for it. I found one, and when reading through the README it said the following:
v64jr download program for Linux
This is a port of Bung's drjr tool to Linux. I've seen another v64jr
downloader for Linux, but since
no sane person would run something as
root without source code, I decided to port the DOS version
And thats what Windows users do every day they power Microsoft's PC on.
I downloaded an asf off of Gnutella, i open it up: its different. I can't use the slider, its about 1 frame/sec, and the WORST THING: It opened up my default browser to a web page!!! WTF! The beautiful thing about an insecure, unmanageable network like Gnutella, is that if someone ever modifies the mp3/mpeg/asf you want, the worst that happens is you don't get the content you want. Not with asf, if it could bring up a web site, and i hadn't installed Mozilla, it could have done some serious damage! It didn't even ask me! Thanks Microsoft!!!
-Scott
BTW~ No, it is not a virus, i rebooted into linux and took a look at the file, it is an authentic.asf file, i just had no idea an asf could do that sort of thing
... or perhaps this is merely some ploy to raise demand in CD-r's the company has planned. I know i'm going to go buy one metric fuc*load as soon as possible;)
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Cost of ownership reports comparing Windows vs. Linux (and other OSs) often show that you spend less time keeping Windows running (I've never experienced this). Hence the saying "Linux is free if your time is worthless". However, the cost of ownership now needs to factor in many many more things.
.NET .nagging.
- not having media directly at your fingertips when your system goes Tits Up(tm)
- Windows Product Activation
-
I'm surprised Microsoft has done ANYTHING to increase cost of ownership when research states thats their only advantage (compared against security, configurability, scalability, etc)
What if I were to include the entire image, but scale it down to thumbnail size in the web browser?
US Patent #5,960,412 : One-Thought-Shopping:
A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a purchaser at a client brain and received by a server system. The server system receives purchaser information including identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from the client brain. The server system then assigns a client identifier to the client brain and associates the assigned client identifier with the received purchaser information. The server system sends to the client system the assigned client identifier and an HTML document identifying the item and including an order button. The client brain receives and stores the assigned client identifier and receives and displays the HTML document. In response to the selection of the order button, the client brain sends to the server system a request to purchase the identified item. The server system receives the request and combines the purchaser information associated with the client identifier of the client brain to generate an order to purchase the item in accordance with the billing and shipment information whereby the purchaser effects the ordering of the product by selection of the order button.
Ofcourse we'd need a watch with a GPS to track where the 4 nearest bathrooms are
AIM and ICQ are NOT the same at all! I cannot communicate with AIM users from ICQ and vicaversa. Nullsoft does have a popular mp3 player for windows, and its Linux counterpart, XMMS, is great... But that has nothing to do with what AOL intends to do with Red Hat. I've seen a binary AIM release for Linux, but as far as GTK or the tcl/tk i believe those are completely independant of AOL. In either case, I wasn't suggesting that AOL was going to produce a Linux Client/Distribution/Other wildly undereductated troll, simply that
AOL buys all sorts of stuff and just doesn't quite do what one would expect.
- They buy Netscape for millions, and turn around and use Internet Explorer
- They buy Mirabilis and keep using their own featureless IM client
- They buy Nullsoft and, well, don't do anything
What do they plan on doing with Red Hat? (insert punchline here)
I guess the point I was getting at was that I don't really care the way the creator wanted it to look on a page. I want to look at it the way _I_ want to look at it. I'd like to decrease the font, or put two pages side-by-side to fit more on less pages. I want to select parts of text and paste them somewhere else. I loose all that just so it looks like the creator wanted it to on my screen.
... or how printing is highly overrated and I'd rather use hyperlinks than (see page 41). I don't quite see how PDF is better than a regular markup language, a manual or technical paper isn't a work of art. Why does it need to look exactly the same. I'm looking for information, not a breathtaking setup of paragraphs. Why not do it in html?
And will someone please tell me what's up with those "This page intentionally left blank". Not only is it contradictive, but a waste of paper/time/etc.
Looks like they're /.'d, i guess it just goes to show that a budget desktop isn't a budget server.
I think 2.0.36 was the hugely popular RedHat 5.2 based kernel.
My year of waiting for MGS2 was a bit of a disappointmet. Solid Snake was such a cool, smooth player. In MGS2, you play him for about an hour, then they have you play some guy named 'Jack', who's girlfriend nags at you whenever you save (which is usually right at an intense moment, like must diffuse bomb in 400 seconds!)... "Why don't you open up to me" "Do you really love me"... Its a beautiful game with some great moments, but
a.) I want Snake
b.) I want that b1tch on radio frequency 140.96 to DIE!
thank you
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Aside from Monkey Fight, the side games aren't that great. But goddam, the Main Game is so awesome. Though it reeks of childish animations, Super Monkey Ball has become a staple of our household. We play it every night. We're almost halfway through expert! I recommend this game to anyone that likes puzzles and has a lot of time on their hands ;)
Wow, an article mentioning Linux that doesn't have any posts involving Microsoft! Anyway, I thought I'd add that Linux Magazine has accepted Microsoft as an advertiser. Title of Microsoft's ad reads:
"compare and understand the technology" (page 18, Nov. 2001, Linux Magazine). I'm really at a loss for how to feel about this.
a.) Microsoft is funding linux in a way
b.) Seems strange to advertise "understand the technology" to a group of people who understand that that's very difficult without source code.
c.) This has nothing to do with Linux!
My most prominent feeling is (c). So i guess it comes down to, is targetted advertising the responsibility of the advertiser or the publisher? I read Linux magazine to learn about Linux, and Linux related/enabling products (good rackmounts, software, linux based ISPs). But then again, I'm sure you'll find Microsoft ads in many magazines about cars, fashion, etc., so why should Linux be different?
Linux Magazine is a fine publication, but I prefer LJ a bit more, and depending on the issue, I can really enjoy a $14 Linux Format now and then.
Qwest has given me byfar the most awful cellular service ever, and I jumped on the cellphone bandwagon in 1995. They've disconnected my home lines on numerous occasions. I'd hate to see what comes of their DSL, especially now that they're in bed with MSN!
Anyone know of any good Portland, OR based DSL providers? Most I know get the wire from Qwest anyhow, so I'd be just as bad off. I'd be more than happy to hear out suggestions tho!
-Scott
/me cowers in fear of so much information ;)
Seriously though, that's really good stuff to know! Thanx!
Red Hat has already offered a similiar solution ... Not a bad deal for schools, as they are offering this free of charge without having been accused of playing monopoly.
Yes, I was using a very old burner (external SCSI 2x4)... Still seems interesting that some CD readers could read it and others couldn't
There must be a difference in terms of reliability at differing speeds. When I would backup Playstation games, burning at anything over 1x would create unreliable/unplayable games, but you could take those unplayable games and copy them onto another CD at 1x and they would play just fine...
Hey, this may open a new wave for GPL infringing file sharing programs!
Probably not a bad idea considering I couldn't find a decent mirror for the 2.4.14 kernel!
Seriously... For some reason 0.9.3 was considerably less stable than 0.9.2 on both my linux and windows systems... I'm glad to see so many bugs fixed. This is my primary browser and each improvement to it is an improvement to my LIFE.
And thats what Windows users do every day they power Microsoft's PC on.
I downloaded an asf off of Gnutella, i open it up: its different. I can't use the slider, its about 1 frame/sec, and the WORST THING: It opened up my default browser to a web page!!! WTF! The beautiful thing about an insecure, unmanageable network like Gnutella, is that if someone ever modifies the mp3/mpeg/asf you want, the worst that happens is you don't get the content you want. Not with asf, if it could bring up a web site, and i hadn't installed Mozilla, it could have done some serious damage! It didn't even ask me! Thanks Microsoft!!!
.asf file, i just had no idea an asf could do that sort of thing
-Scott
BTW~ No, it is not a virus, i rebooted into linux and took a look at the file, it is an authentic
It seems like this could go in the same direction as the DeCSS, where the line for code/software is drawn in some arbitrary location.
... or perhaps this is merely some ploy to raise demand in CD-r's the company has planned. I know i'm going to go buy one metric fuc*load as soon as possible ;)