IMHO Don't EVER purchase hardware based on the assumption that it will be compatable with some future software. You really need to decide if you would be happy with this hardware running currently available software and purchase or wait based on that. FWIW I've got a few light servers based on this series of motherboard and running 32bit Linux (Debian) and I'm perfectly happy with the performance and reliability.
You probably already know this but some email readers will take any address (www.paypal.com) and turn it into a link even if it wasn't one to begin with.
I'm pretty sure Newegg already has Athlon64 based Shuttle boxes in stock. I'll be putting together a Biostar version this evening. So far the Biostar seems to have a slightly better internal layout than the Shuttles I've used but I'm not too confident in the PSU and case fan. They both give me the impression that they may die in a year or so. The Shuttles I've used have all seemed pretty reliable.
I recently picked up several cheap print servers from Newegg for a customer. The cost was under $30 each and they work fine. There's really very little reason not to have a network capable printer these days.
Again you completely ignored the point about the wealthy using their power (aka money) to make their say in government more meaningful than mine. We are supposed to be living in a country where everyone is equal, but in truth we are not.
And your solution is to make government even larger and more powerful? The only way you are going to get anything close to an equal say in your government is to do more of the governing yourself or at least locally.
Though, on one point I'm not totally clear, I've spoken to people in some companies that provide this sort of software, and I know they don't care about piracy of this sort and actually like it. They would never admit that as an official line though, which is understandable as it seems like they are supporting piracy, but they also don't release "free for non-commercial use" versions or the like, which wouldn't seem like supporting piracy... not quite clear on why they don't do that, didn't get any good answers.
Some of them do. Autodesk has (or at least used to) a student edition of Autocad that was the same as the pro version except that it labels all of your drawings so it's clear that they came from the student edition. PSpice (an electronics simulator) has a student edition where the main limitation is the number and variety of parts that you can use.
How big of an antenna do you want to carry? Rember most of the range issues with wifi have to do with obsticles in your path absorbing the signal and many existing cards will go 1000' or more in the open. The free space loss at that distance would be around 140dB. With a 23DBi antenna on each end you could probably just manage it with existing wifi gear (assuming you didn't run into timing issues first).
You're right. The school board would probably have to get together every year or two and decide exactly which books and which versions would be approved for use. Teachers would still have some flexability to add some supplimental material but they'd probably get their hand slapped for adding anything too contraversial.
Unless I'm missing something the entire AM & FM spectrum is only about 1/3 of what is already used for 802.11b/g. In other words enough for 1 more non-overlapping channel. I don't think that's enough to solve anything.
The problem with 802.11a is that the range is typically even more limited than 802.11b/g. As for this mesh, it sounds like a pretty expensive proposition. They'll need two radios and two antennas per unit and units probably every few hundred yards/meters. Ask Ricochet/Metricom how much it costs to put that much equipment in place. Also you lose speed with each hop so there is goint to be a lot more than just one or two wired nodes in even a small city.
The problem is, after Microsoft won the battle(in terms of install base), they pretty much lost all interest in keeping IE up to date, as there have been almost no new features introduced into IE for a long, long while.
I don't think so. Even their newer products demonstrate that MS views security as something to be tacked on later rather than something to be designed in from the start. Right now if MS had the choice to include some cool new feature that they KNEW would get broken and damage their customers later they would do it in a heartbeat. Just look at Passport, even if they had the best security in the world it'd still get broken eventually simply because it's such a huge target. MS must know it's goint to happen and yet they keep encouraging people to dump their personal information into it. They just don't care.
I wouldn't be surprised if they at least a few developers working on this as a backup plan. The problem is that MS has been a master at leveraging product X to force/encourage users to use product Y. I don't think they'd want to give up the control that IE gives them. Also anything that makes it easier or more transparent for users to switch to another OS is almost guaranteed to lose them some Windows market share. That's really the only problem with being a monopoly, you really don't have anywhere to go but down.
They've had about three billion years so far, and if they haven't managed it yet, they probably won't.
Even Earth (as far as we know) has only had life for a small fraction of it's existance.
I won't say that no form of life could ever evolve out there, but I will say that no life as we know it could.
Agreed, but life very different from what we are familiar with might be even a bigger discovery than life just like us. It's also possible that there once was life like what we are familiar with but it's all dead now. Even that would be well worth looking for.
But the fact that there was no paper trail is a consequence of the fact that they used electronic voting machines.
No it's a consequence of the fact that whatever officials selected/allowed these particular machines are either idiots or corrupt. ATMs are electronic and still manage to produce paper reciepts. Ditto with most store POS systems.
Do they actually phisically install a head on the side of the platter that is not being used for drives such as your 10GB and 30GB examples? It wouldn't seem completely unreasonable to build them all the same and just disable the extra head in the firmware.
"I mean, this is what distributions are justifying their decision to exclude XFree86 software on? "
The Distro vendors, FSF, RMS etc are NOT saying this license is not "Free" or that it is evil etc. What they are saying is that it is incompatable with the GPL and as a result they may not be able to distribute it without either breaking the law or throwing out other parts of their distro.
A completely seperate issue is weather advertising clauses like this are practical or reasonable in the long term but not even RMS (who is against these) has said that people should avoid using software that has such a clause.
Either you are making this up or you have a VERY severe reading comprehension problem.. Binary drivers are legal in Linux (acording to Linus) as long as:
A. You take responsibility for dealing with any bugs or incompatabilities that crop up.
B. You don't expect your driver to actually be INCLUDED in the kernel. You'll have to do it your self or convince the Linux distro vendors to do it for you.
Do you want support for the most hardware on your box?
I already have it because I go out of my way to choose hardware with OSS drivers.
The rest of your post basically boils down to "If you vegetarians would just start eating meat you'd find a lot more support from restaurants and you might even be able to find work as a butcher". Well sure but....
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IMHO Don't EVER purchase hardware based on the assumption that it will be compatable with some future software. You really need to decide if you would be happy with this hardware running currently available software and purchase or wait based on that. FWIW I've got a few light servers based on this series of motherboard and running 32bit Linux (Debian) and I'm perfectly happy with the performance and reliability.
You probably already know this but some email readers will take any address (www.paypal.com) and turn it into a link even if it wasn't one to begin with.
I'm pretty sure Newegg already has Athlon64 based Shuttle boxes in stock. I'll be putting together a Biostar version this evening. So far the Biostar seems to have a slightly better internal layout than the Shuttles I've used but I'm not too confident in the PSU and case fan. They both give me the impression that they may die in a year or so. The Shuttles I've used have all seemed pretty reliable.
I recently picked up several cheap print servers from Newegg for a customer. The cost was under $30 each and they work fine. There's really very little reason not to have a network capable printer these days.
Again you completely ignored the point about the wealthy using their power (aka money) to make their say in government more meaningful than mine. We are supposed to be living in a country where everyone is equal, but in truth we are not.
And your solution is to make government even larger and more powerful? The only way you are going to get anything close to an equal say in your government is to do more of the governing yourself or at least locally.
The best incentive would be decent programming.
:)
Lord knows you wouldn't have to worry about prior art
Who's The Donald?
Duck?
Though, on one point I'm not totally clear, I've spoken to people in some companies that provide this sort of software, and I know they don't care about piracy of this sort and actually like it. They would never admit that as an official line though, which is understandable as it seems like they are supporting piracy, but they also don't release "free for non-commercial use" versions or the like, which wouldn't seem like supporting piracy... not quite clear on why they don't do that, didn't get any good answers.
Some of them do. Autodesk has (or at least used to) a student edition of Autocad that was the same as the pro version except that it labels all of your drawings so it's clear that they came from the student edition. PSpice (an electronics simulator) has a student edition where the main limitation is the number and variety of parts that you can use.
How big of an antenna do you want to carry? Rember most of the range issues with wifi have to do with obsticles in your path absorbing the signal and many existing cards will go 1000' or more in the open. The free space loss at that distance would be around 140dB. With a 23DBi antenna on each end you could probably just manage it with existing wifi gear (assuming you didn't run into timing issues first).
You're right. The school board would probably have to get together every year or two and decide exactly which books and which versions would be approved for use. Teachers would still have some flexability to add some supplimental material but they'd probably get their hand slapped for adding anything too contraversial.
Oh wait, that's how it already works.
Elevator 2010, a challenge for a 250 kg climber to climb a 16 km tether
The first time I read that I pictured a 250 kg PERSON in climbing gear. Followed quickly by "Why don't they just use a 250kg mach... Oh"
Unless I'm missing something the entire AM & FM spectrum is only about 1/3 of what is already used for 802.11b/g. In other words enough for 1 more non-overlapping channel. I don't think that's enough to solve anything.
Try spending 5 minutes on Google figuring out what Passport is beore making ignorant comments. Thanks.
The problem with 802.11a is that the range is typically even more limited than 802.11b/g. As for this mesh, it sounds like a pretty expensive proposition. They'll need two radios and two antennas per unit and units probably every few hundred yards/meters. Ask Ricochet/Metricom how much it costs to put that much equipment in place. Also you lose speed with each hop so there is goint to be a lot more than just one or two wired nodes in even a small city.
The problem is, after Microsoft won the battle(in terms of install base), they pretty much lost all interest in keeping IE up to date, as there have been almost no new features introduced into IE for a long, long while.
I don't think so. Even their newer products demonstrate that MS views security as something to be tacked on later rather than something to be designed in from the start. Right now if MS had the choice to include some cool new feature that they KNEW would get broken and damage their customers later they would do it in a heartbeat. Just look at Passport, even if they had the best security in the world it'd still get broken eventually simply because it's such a huge target. MS must know it's goint to happen and yet they keep encouraging people to dump their personal information into it. They just don't care.
I wouldn't be surprised if they at least a few developers working on this as a backup plan. The problem is that MS has been a master at leveraging product X to force/encourage users to use product Y. I don't think they'd want to give up the control that IE gives them. Also anything that makes it easier or more transparent for users to switch to another OS is almost guaranteed to lose them some Windows market share. That's really the only problem with being a monopoly, you really don't have anywhere to go but down.
The Sun is likely spewing far more radiation on Europa than a single spacecraft ever could.
They've had about three billion years so far, and if they haven't managed it yet, they probably won't.
Even Earth (as far as we know) has only had life for a small fraction of it's existance.
I won't say that no form of life could ever evolve out there, but I will say that no life as we know it could.
Agreed, but life very different from what we are familiar with might be even a bigger discovery than life just like us. It's also possible that there once was life like what we are familiar with but it's all dead now. Even that would be well worth looking for.
What makes you think the password protection won't be easily defeatable or simply guessable?
No it's a consequence of the fact that whatever officials selected/allowed these particular machines are either idiots or corrupt. ATMs are electronic and still manage to produce paper reciepts. Ditto with most store POS systems.
Do they actually phisically install a head on the side of the platter that is not being used for drives such as your 10GB and 30GB examples? It wouldn't seem completely unreasonable to build them all the same and just disable the extra head in the firmware.
"I mean, this is what distributions are justifying their decision to exclude XFree86 software on? "
The Distro vendors, FSF, RMS etc are NOT saying this license is not "Free" or that it is evil etc. What they are saying is that it is incompatable with the GPL and as a result they may not be able to distribute it without either breaking the law or throwing out other parts of their distro.
A completely seperate issue is weather advertising clauses like this are practical or reasonable in the long term but not even RMS (who is against these) has said that people should avoid using software that has such a clause.
Agreed, but just try getting BOTH the UPS and FedEx software to coexist on the same computer.
Either you are making this up or you have a VERY severe reading comprehension problem.. Binary drivers are legal in Linux (acording to Linus) as long as:
A. You take responsibility for dealing with any bugs or incompatabilities that crop up.
B. You don't expect your driver to actually be INCLUDED in the kernel. You'll have to do it your self or convince the Linux distro vendors to do it for you.
Do you want support for the most hardware on your box?
I already have it because I go out of my way to choose hardware with OSS drivers.
The rest of your post basically boils down to "If you vegetarians would just start eating meat you'd find a lot more support from restaurants and you might even be able to find work as a butcher". Well sure but....