And by the benchmark mentioned by the editors, the numbers probably should be much higher. I think you'll find at least one OSS server in every medium to large US business. (Think internal FTP servers or workgroup intranet servers.)
Also, if you disconnect your landline service, you can have it reconnected for 911-only service at no charge. It's a requirement in the U.S. that telcos allow this.
Indeed. With disk space and DLL hell what it is nowadays, applications should just be packaged in ready-to-run folders, which you "install" by copying to your "My Programs" folder.
It costs you nothing, and you get the convenience of the credit card without the risk of carrying debit cards or large bills.
And rewards! I've earned a $100 gift card for doing nothing other than using my credit card instead of my check card. When I get home, I can transfer money online straight from my bank account with no fees.
Plus, if I get double-charged, or my card number gets stolen, it's my credit card they're holding money on, not my checking account.
AOL was a fun exclusive community at one time too, before they started carpet-bombing the U.S. with "100 free hours!" floppies and companies like Dell started selling extremely cheap computers to every moron who could dial a phone.
My wallet is particularly hard on magnetic stripes. I guess it's the material (some kind of faux leather, I presume.) When I replaced my ATM card after only a year, it came in a little Tyvek sleeve. After fighting with it for a week, I realized that I could leave the sleeve in my wallet and just put the card in front of the sleeve in the same slot. Same protection, but no fiddling with the card at the counter.
They already have that. It's called a Blackberry. The new ones with built-in phone are the worst. It has shorter battery life than a phone. Making calls is like holding a floppy drive against your face, and companies have to "lock them down" with timeout passwords so that nobody can get to the company email if they steal your phone. Consequently, you have to input a long unique password to be able to dial your phone.
I think the iPod phone would be a good concept, since they both have roughly similar user interfaces (similar size screens, etc.) And you could take advantage of the headphones as a handsfree set. But these phone/player/PDA's are terrible for people who actually have to use a phone to get their jobs done.
I'd like to see a CPU or power supply fan that can keep moving in mineral or vegetable oil, much less circulate the stuff around. At the bare minimum, he'd have to flick them to even get them moving.
They're also continuing the tradition of such useful messages as "Not all files could be copied because one or more items could not be read." Since you can't even view the files scrolling by anymore like you could in Panther, you can't even tell what DIRECTORY it's having the problem with.
Because it's easier than convincing a person to spend $130 on Word 2003 just so they can write letters to friends. And I refuse to pirate MS software for people; once they see just how much they have to pay to get this stuff legitimately, they're suddenly MUCH more interested in Free software.
No, viruses only run when you run their host executable. The difference between a trojan and a virus is that a virus
Then the definition has changed since the 'old days' of computing. It used to be that a virus was something that executed without the consent or knowledge of the user; i.e., by piggybacking on a legitimate executable or a floppy's boot sector. (Hence it's like a human virus that spreads via person-to-person contact.) A trojan was an executable that did nothing of value except destroy the data on a machine, while camoflauged as a legitimate application. Trojans didn't have the ability to spread themselves.
That's funny. There are all manner of cars on the road today that you can't get replacement parts for from the manufacturer. Try getting parts for a 1990 Chrysler Imperial from the dealer, but guaranteed you can get insurance. If the demand is there, the aftermarket will respond.
That's easy. Just lease them out for up to three more years, until they pass the 10 year mark, and then sell them.
Besides, they had to provide parts and such for the leases, some of which just ended a couple of months ago, so what's the difference? That they can dump the parts from the shelves three years earlier?
I dunno. If you're going to "pimp" a 1st generation Ford Ranger by putting in a plasma screen and game console in the bed, the least you could do is drop in a 5.0, or at least soup up the stocker. What's the point of a "pimp" car that can't get out of its own way?
I loved that OS. Perfect scaled fonts on my 24-pin printer, ran far faster than Windows 3.1 and took up less space, too. If only they'd gotten the SDK out on time, we might be complaining about a different dominant OS today.
Yeah, we used to wait through 20 minutes of the thing burping at us so we could play Frogger. And it didn't even have the cool music that the disk version has!
I think the biggest thing that would push Linux to the forefront is InstallShield. For every distro, you either have to rely on the distro's ports system to have the software you want (and then add an icon to Gnome or KDE manually), or you have to unzip and compile it yourself. The ability to go to the Firefox site, save the file to the desktop and double-click to install is one of the biggest things that differentiate Windows and Mac from Linux.
Right-mouse drag-n-drop is the one feature that I miss. On Windows, you can right-drag and then choose Copy here, Move here, Create Shortcut here, Unzip here, etc. from the contextual menu that results. On OS X, you have to use a key combination when dragging and dropping, and you don't get cool add-ins like "WinRAR extract here."
When I worked at a cell phone company (who shall remain anonymous), the engineers explained that a signal on their network could only be handed off so many times before dropping. This was due to the fact that different sites reported to different MSO's, and MSO handoff wasn't yet perfected.
I believe this has been corrected, but it's still something to consider. In any case, there's still sometimes a crunch of noise in the conversation when a handoff occurs, so if the handoff happens often (which it can at 8 miles a minute), it could make conversing difficult.
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I should also mention that if you don't like Google's webmail, don't use it. Gmail can also be done over SSL-encrypted POP and SMTP.
And by the benchmark mentioned by the editors, the numbers probably should be much higher. I think you'll find at least one OSS server in every medium to large US business. (Think internal FTP servers or workgroup intranet servers.)
Also, if you disconnect your landline service, you can have it reconnected for 911-only service at no charge. It's a requirement in the U.S. that telcos allow this.
Indeed. With disk space and DLL hell what it is nowadays, applications should just be packaged in ready-to-run folders, which you "install" by copying to your "My Programs" folder.
And rewards! I've earned a $100 gift card for doing nothing other than using my credit card instead of my check card. When I get home, I can transfer money online straight from my bank account with no fees.
Plus, if I get double-charged, or my card number gets stolen, it's my credit card they're holding money on, not my checking account.
AOL was a fun exclusive community at one time too, before they started carpet-bombing the U.S. with "100 free hours!" floppies and companies like Dell started selling extremely cheap computers to every moron who could dial a phone.
My wallet is particularly hard on magnetic stripes. I guess it's the material (some kind of faux leather, I presume.) When I replaced my ATM card after only a year, it came in a little Tyvek sleeve. After fighting with it for a week, I realized that I could leave the sleeve in my wallet and just put the card in front of the sleeve in the same slot. Same protection, but no fiddling with the card at the counter.
I think the iPod phone would be a good concept, since they both have roughly similar user interfaces (similar size screens, etc.) And you could take advantage of the headphones as a handsfree set. But these phone/player/PDA's are terrible for people who actually have to use a phone to get their jobs done.
Hey, wasn't that what they were saying about Ford, Chrysler and GM in the early 70's?
I'd like to see a CPU or power supply fan that can keep moving in mineral or vegetable oil, much less circulate the stuff around. At the bare minimum, he'd have to flick them to even get them moving.
They're also continuing the tradition of such useful messages as "Not all files could be copied because one or more items could not be read." Since you can't even view the files scrolling by anymore like you could in Panther, you can't even tell what DIRECTORY it's having the problem with.
Remind me to make a note of that next time I get a ticket from a red light camera.
Because it's easier than convincing a person to spend $130 on Word 2003 just so they can write letters to friends. And I refuse to pirate MS software for people; once they see just how much they have to pay to get this stuff legitimately, they're suddenly MUCH more interested in Free software.
Actually, there is a root account. It's just disabled by default.
Slower than hell, very short battery life, crashes often (usually taking the card with it) and tends to kill its hard drive.
Then the definition has changed since the 'old days' of computing. It used to be that a virus was something that executed without the consent or knowledge of the user; i.e., by piggybacking on a legitimate executable or a floppy's boot sector. (Hence it's like a human virus that spreads via person-to-person contact.) A trojan was an executable that did nothing of value except destroy the data on a machine, while camoflauged as a legitimate application. Trojans didn't have the ability to spread themselves.
That's funny. There are all manner of cars on the road today that you can't get replacement parts for from the manufacturer. Try getting parts for a 1990 Chrysler Imperial from the dealer, but guaranteed you can get insurance. If the demand is there, the aftermarket will respond.
Besides, they had to provide parts and such for the leases, some of which just ended a couple of months ago, so what's the difference? That they can dump the parts from the shelves three years earlier?
I dunno. If you're going to "pimp" a 1st generation Ford Ranger by putting in a plasma screen and game console in the bed, the least you could do is drop in a 5.0, or at least soup up the stocker. What's the point of a "pimp" car that can't get out of its own way?
I loved that OS. Perfect scaled fonts on my 24-pin printer, ran far faster than Windows 3.1 and took up less space, too. If only they'd gotten the SDK out on time, we might be complaining about a different dominant OS today.
Yeah, we used to wait through 20 minutes of the thing burping at us so we could play Frogger. And it didn't even have the cool music that the disk version has!
I think the biggest thing that would push Linux to the forefront is InstallShield. For every distro, you either have to rely on the distro's ports system to have the software you want (and then add an icon to Gnome or KDE manually), or you have to unzip and compile it yourself. The ability to go to the Firefox site, save the file to the desktop and double-click to install is one of the biggest things that differentiate Windows and Mac from Linux.
Right-mouse drag-n-drop is the one feature that I miss. On Windows, you can right-drag and then choose Copy here, Move here, Create Shortcut here, Unzip here, etc. from the contextual menu that results. On OS X, you have to use a key combination when dragging and dropping, and you don't get cool add-ins like "WinRAR extract here."
That's funny; I thought the Mercury News would be the most appopriate for that.
I believe this has been corrected, but it's still something to consider. In any case, there's still sometimes a crunch of noise in the conversation when a handoff occurs, so if the handoff happens often (which it can at 8 miles a minute), it could make conversing difficult.