Its 141x79x19 mm in size or 5.5x3.1x3/4 inches for those metrically challenged.
It weighs 230 grams or 0.5 lbs.
This is beyond a male pocket item. Maybe a manpurse or womanpurse, but not my pocket.
Does it make phone calls? Nope, still gotta carry your cellphone too. Does it do general purpose computing? No, it only has 64megs of RAM.
For my remote needs, I've seen pine and ssh run on a much smaller Palm coupled to a cellphone. And even that was too much crap to lug around with me. If I need mobile computing, I'll stick to a notebook computer.
The Japanese were not regarded as a base of quality until recently. I believe its the mid to late 80s, but maybe before. 1970s Japanese cars were cheaper, smaller, more fuel efficient cars than those provided by say American companies. They were not regarded as superior cars, just cheaper alternatives.
Sony did not release many consumer level electronics until the 80s. Sure, they had the video recorder in 1965, sure the professional UMATIC in 1971, sure the betamax in 1975, but video recorders did not start really hitting US homes until the mid 1980s. My family got theirs in 1984. It cost over $400, it had one tuner, mono audio, and marginal features.
I would be distrustful of a Chinese owned and operated laptop that I have no idea if they have any binding to the US and the US laws of business. I expect my PowerBook to have service and warrantee work and repairs so long as its under warrantee or maintenance. I don't even know if a warrantee with a Chinese owned company is valid between me and them. I have no idea if my Chinese laptop burns my lap and cripples me if I could sue them, or even what court I would sue them in.
Most all software EULAs say, "No Warranty" in terms of being good, doing what it says, or whatever. That is not a service, that is software, "Use at your own risk".
Service includes maintenance releases, updates, support, installation help, onsite repairs, telephone support, etc.
If I don't pay for software, odds are I can still use the software, but my service is going to be minimal at best. If I don't pay for service, it would take a real philanthropist to provide service to me.
There is no button when displaying a EULA that says, "I cannot agree or disagree with this EULA because I am under the age of 18 and not able to agree or disagree with legally binding contracts".
EULAs are not binding legally, ethically, or practically.
TOSes are. A business reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. I cannot expect service from McDonalds when I'm sitting there for days on end with a toy gun in my hand threatening to kill anyone in the store.
If I don't agree with a EULA, I can and will still use the software. If I do not agree with a TOS and the service provider terminates my service, I'm SOL.
Software is software. Maintenance contracts, updates, customer support, are a service. If I don't meet the minimum for said service, I get no service. In fact, the company is entitled to go out of business and terminate such service if they feel like it.
Microsoft reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which it offers the MSN Web Sites, including any charges associated with the use of the MSN Web Sites. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms, conditions and notices, and any additional terms posted on any MSN Web Site. Your continued use of the MSN Web Sites after the effective date of such changes constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to such changes.
In other words, EULAs mean nothing to the end user and its not an agreement.
In statistics speak, there is significant and nonsignificant. Insignificant has no significance statistically. Its an opinion.
Yes, I realize this is splitting hairs, but I've been corrected by statisticians and scientists when I used insignificant with respect to statistics.
The difference is that "in" as a prefix implies human perception to mean "not", "non" as a prefix means "not".
nonedible implies things like rocks and sewer gas these things cannot be eaten.
inedible food implies things like rotten cheese or something that tastes bad. Its something that could be eaten, but for some reason, it cannot be eaten due to the current circumstances, which could be personal preference. A noneditable rock is not a matter of preference.
In this case I'm not even sure that it would be an adhesion contract- depending on the software, there's usually a competing product that would be (if not ideal) practicable for your purpose.
There is nothing binding in a EULA. They are basically something that lawyers have invented to give themselves some extra cash.
EULAs are given to minors just the same as adults, and minors are not eligible to sign a contract. They merely have to click on the "Accept" button to install the software just like the rest of us. Many adults will not sign a contract without consulting their lawyer first, but most of those people will click the Accept button because that is required to install the software.
EULAs are not given before the contract of sale. Most of the time they are hidden until after the sale, and even some of the more respectable software companies are likely to change the EULA at any given time. Its very, very difficult to find a software reseller that will refund your money if you do not agree with the EULA after the purchase. If the users, resellers, and company who supplied the EULA do not honor it, why does it matter at all?
Most all software comes with no warrantee. A EULA might have some merit if the software came with a warrantee and the EULA stated things like, "Warrantee is invalid and void if user uses this software for illegal activity according to the user's local, state, and federal governments". Something like that might make sense.
My apologies to the Hormel company. I'll expect to see the FBI, FDA, CIA, and some other 3 letter agency at my door at any time for misusing their trademark on SPAM.
I sort of agree with you, but if I were Oracle I'd be much more interested in OpenBSD, wouldn't you? The license is much better for a company that wants to take the code and wrap it around a big proprietary product.
Honestly, I would use a BSD licensed product over a GPLed one, but Linux is a little more trendy now.
Mirapoint sells "mailservers in a box" which uses BSD derived systems and some GPLed software as well, I believe. I think their spam filtering is Spamassassin, and their OS is FreeBSD. I've worked with medical imaging systems that were a custom configured Sun/Solaris system where you had to call their support to do anything that required root permissions.
Dedicated OS/App solutions are not unique. Large fileservers have their own OS to it. Routers, firewalls, DVRs, you name it. I see this as a natural progression.
Brand recognition. 90% of Oracle's business comes from suits that sit in their office and say, "We need Oracle to drive the DB for this project!" Even suits that have previously negotiated and paid Oracle's licensing before.
Oracle could buy/use/exploit any of the hundreds of Linux distros, and the result would or could be about the same. Picking one of the top two Linux distros known in the business world seems to make sense. Would you really think that picking something called something like Ubuntu, Mandriva, Linspire, Slackware, or Puppy Linux would have better brandname recognition and perceived esteem over Novell and SuSe?
Yes , but compared to what an OS does thats still high(ish) level stuff. An Oracle DB doesn't catch hardware interrupts, doesn't set the data bus up for DMA, doesn't negotiate plug & play , doesn't in fact do any really to-the-metal type stuff. Just because Oracle does a few OS-ish type things , don't for a minute assume its anything close to being an operating system.
I'm basing my opinions of being a Solaris admin who has worked closely with Oracle DBs to get the OS right for doing the Oracle DB.
Oracle is an intensive application, more intensive than say, Access with 1 meg of data. There are strategies for filesystem layouts, memory caching, shared memory arrangement, semiphores, TCP/IP tuning, archive logging, redo files, networking, security, you name it. A decent sized Oracle DB is going to be on a dedicated box, the more important the data and the larger the DB the larger the individual boxes get and the number and distance between them increases. eBay uses Oracle. Do you think for a second that they will just put up on their website, "Sorry, the DB is down for a while, because we thought one 486 running Oracle without any redundancy was good enough. We are looking into the problem..."
Today, data is pretty much expected to be available 24x7. Even slashdot has a pretty good availability, and they are just a website. Not ecommerce, inventory, banking, or anything more. Just a website. Slashdot uses memcached to increase responsiveness and reduce the load on their MySQL backend, so here is an example of a 3rd party integration between the app -> OS -> DB.
And, why couldn't Oracle have kernel modules that handled interrupts and did DMA and whatnot? What if there were a new Oracle PCI-X card or over HyperTransport that did onboard caching and sorting of queries or even one that used RDMA between clustered boxes via the ? These things are entirely possible and probable.
I've envisioned a DB in a box for years, much like a managed router or switch. Hell, I have a sub $100 wireless firewall and router that runs Linux, is buying a dedicated box for a DB with a dedicated OS much more science fiction than having Linux on my TV, DVR, pictureframe, printer, or router?
Geesh. Next someone will invent the ".mail" TLD, which is the address for foo.com, that you use to send email to. what about ".web" ?
Pretty funny, but I would see some PHB bring this up, or probably already has.
First, email has specific DNS hooks called the MX entry, so today, in 2006 you can send a mail to root@goon.com and have it silently answered by gazelle@strippoker.net. I wish other services had this feature.
Now, some web admins are beyond using www as their prefix for their webserver. So, they use web.hosname, and now it will come full circle to web.hostname.web for double redundancy and clarity.
I'm going to grossly oversimplify here, but basically, when I submit a query for foo.com, the very first thing queried is the top level domain, in this case,.com. If I were to submit a query to foo.org, the query would take a different path in resolving the name. Same with foo.net, foo.us, foo.biz, etc.
Everything that is not slashdot.org is a wannabe, and even if there was a new TLD that was, say,.notslashdotdotorg and someone registered slashdot.notslashdotdotorg would still be confused with slashdot.org
Name me two well known organizations that have two same names with different TLDs that have not had a legal dispute over one forfeiting the other.
In the Middle East we find this hilarious. Biz in Arabic means breast.
In the Us, we find it hilarious, because.biz means SPAM.
Instead of using.tel, why don't phones gain the capabilities of mapping one's email address to a telephone number. Email addresses are unique, and most people have a business and private email address. I find it redundant to ask for someone's name, phone and email address. Phone numbers seem so 1970s to me.
RedHat and SuSE are the usual "enterprise" distros that have tweaks for running Oracle, but Redhat dominates. wonder how threatened RedHat would be if Oracle bought and pushed SuSE. Oracle has had a problem in the past four years of trying to make integrated features that really were best left to third party, like for example oracle filesystem and oracle clustering, which are shakier and more trouble to admin than 3rd party.
RedHat threatened? How about Sun Microsystems?
Back in the day, Sun's Solaris was the target for Oracle. Every other platform was a port of it, and reportedly not as good. I've only used Oracle on Solaris for big and important DBs.
I've thought for years that Oracle should be an OS because an Oracle box is not going to be doing much else anyway. Oracle has its own filesystem, redundancy, clustering, you name it. Many of Oracle's "big boy" features are blurred between what an application does and what an OS does. Its common that the first thing you do when you install oracle is modify the OS to allow for Oracle to work. Most importantly, its the shared memory parameters of the OS that needs to be modified (or at least used to as of version 10).
Having an Oracle OS seems inevitable. With Linux its more than possible.
Actually, it didn't come from NCSA Mosaic. It came from Spyglass Mosaic - a completely different browser...
I don't know, but "About Internet Explorer..." for version 5.2 on the Mac says "Based on NCSA Mosaic(TM)".
And no. IE did to some degree change the browser environment, for the better? Can't say. IE when it came out sucked. Then it got better, became bundled with Windows, Netscape basically went out of business. Yes kids, they made a browser at one time. The browser. They were not a brand name and a "portal". When Netscape disappeared after 4.x, there was basically only IE, or at least that was enough for 95% marketshare or so. So, when IE was king, all of the websites thought it was cool to append to the bottom of their page "Designed for IE x.y. Best viewed on my computer and my monitor at 12832x13032" Then MS thought it was brilliant to completely tie IE into the OS with version 4 or so. Yes folks, we still want a web browser built into our desktop. Again, for people that don't remember, IE 4.0 was a layer between the background wallpaper and you (actually, I think IE took control of the wallpaper as well). Then MS started innovating. They brought us VB scripting, modified Java, modified Javascript, marquees, vb controls, oh and they totally ditched all of the standards and forgot to write and publish their own.
IE has been known to be buggy, not standards compliant, and a security nightmare. With Netscape gone, a slew of underground browsers popped up (no pun intended). Mozilla started in 96 or 97 from Netscape, but took a while and a complete rewrite from scratch to get decent. Mozilla ditched almost all of the Netscape code and modularized the browser. Gecko backend engine, many GUIs or even text front ends. Email and other modules as well. The KDE guys made KHTML, which was slow to start, but then Apple adopted OSS and used KHTML as their basis for WebCore or whatever they call it, and KHTML is the backend behind Safari, which I am using right now, and its the best web browser I've used to date. Apple submitted bug fixes and enhancements back to the KDE people, and both benefitted. Opera came to the party. AOL used a modified version of IE even though they bought Netscape at some time.
To make a long story short, Tim Berners Lee created the Web and things were portable and good. Netscape made an OK browser that ran on just about anything that had a network connection. MS came along and screwed up the web while others started with new browsers and standards were published and coded towards. MS is nolonger the standard anymore, I can almost 100% of the time view any website on just about any browser. So, we are almost back where we started. The scenic detour made the cab driver rich, but we are almost happily back home.
All MS has to do is keep backward compatibility for legacy apps and most everyone already using it will simply stay with it.
Virtualization and dual booting will take care of the temporary problem, asking vendors to update their software to work with the computers we now use will take care of the long term problem.
Human rights aside, I would like for my spam filter to get a break from processing Chinese mail.
I would not be upset if no email ever left China, and I work with some Chinese people who currently live in China. I'm welcome for them to get an out of country email service or proxy to communicate with me, but the signal to noise ratio from China is pretty low. Heck, all of these users have an American account with incoming ssh access and outgoing mail capabilities.
So, in summary anything limiting outgoing Chinese mail is OK with me.
But the shorter lives caused by smoking also tend to incur extreme health care costs for lung cancer.
Something like 10% of lung cancer deaths are from non-smokers. By extension, 10% of smokers would get the same as well. Dying is expensive for most people, and the health care industry does not seem to be complaining. Health insurance companies don't seem to be going out of business, nor health care providers.
If you don't get lung cancer, don't smoke, eat right and exercise, odds are you are going to have either a short and sweet heart attack or more than likely you will be on maintenance heart/cardiovascular drugs until you die, with regular checkups, tests, not including the side effects which may take additional tests, appointments, and possibly more medication to treat the negative affects from the previous medication.
Serotonin and dopamine are complementary opposites, like males and females, work and play, yin and yang. In other words, pot and alcohol couldn't be more different.
I clearly said they were both different. I also said that I like the combination of both. Mix in some dopamine enhancing tobacco...
These are tried and true combinations. 20 to 30x the time of being introduced to market than modern medicine itself. The target population probably is 1000x fold over any FDA study on a drug.
True, but a good ethnobotanist will probably also lead to a lot more vomiting. Vomiting is, of course, a necessary part of the recreation of an authentic siberian shaman experience...
Look up Daniel Siebert. He's never caused me or anyone I've known to vomit. Sure, alkaloids can cause temporary nausea and vomiting, some more than others, like peyote. Wealthy Romans had vomitoriums in their homes so they could binge and purge (there were vomitoriums in the Coliseum as well, but those were different). Yes, these were dedicated rooms to puke. They also had intense alcoholics that figured out that you could get very, very drunk off of an alcohol enema with no nausea or vomiting required. Death maybe, but no puking.
I regularly dry heave from FDA approved drugs. I've lied in bathrooms wishing I were dead from FDA approved drugs. I've had rashes, and required hospitalization because of FDA drugs. I've had psychochemical reactions to FDA drugs. Others cause headaches and chronic diarrhea. Long term affects are pending discovery and lawsuits.
As the government/corporations keep going down this road, we will all just have to go back something like the old BBS days where everything is private and you have to know someone to get in the door. Which to be honest, sounds good to me.
Done. Look at how many of the torrent sites require logins to download a torrent. Freenet exists. Encryption exists, hushmail exists.
How does the saying go?
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
I wonder how much his death tax was after being convicted of committing suicide?
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Lets look at this thing.
Its 141x79x19 mm in size or 5.5x3.1x3/4 inches for those metrically challenged.
It weighs 230 grams or 0.5 lbs.
This is beyond a male pocket item. Maybe a manpurse or womanpurse, but not my pocket.
Does it make phone calls? Nope, still gotta carry your cellphone too. Does it do general purpose computing? No, it only has 64megs of RAM.
For my remote needs, I've seen pine and ssh run on a much smaller Palm coupled to a cellphone. And even that was too much crap to lug around with me. If I need mobile computing, I'll stick to a notebook computer.
The Japanese were not regarded as a base of quality until recently. I believe its the mid to late 80s, but maybe before. 1970s Japanese cars were cheaper, smaller, more fuel efficient cars than those provided by say American companies. They were not regarded as superior cars, just cheaper alternatives.
Sony did not release many consumer level electronics until the 80s. Sure, they had the video recorder in 1965, sure the professional UMATIC in 1971, sure the betamax in 1975, but video recorders did not start really hitting US homes until the mid 1980s. My family got theirs in 1984. It cost over $400, it had one tuner, mono audio, and marginal features.
I would be distrustful of a Chinese owned and operated laptop that I have no idea if they have any binding to the US and the US laws of business. I expect my PowerBook to have service and warrantee work and repairs so long as its under warrantee or maintenance. I don't even know if a warrantee with a Chinese owned company is valid between me and them. I have no idea if my Chinese laptop burns my lap and cripples me if I could sue them, or even what court I would sue them in.
Most all software EULAs say, "No Warranty" in terms of being good, doing what it says, or whatever. That is not a service, that is software, "Use at your own risk".
Service includes maintenance releases, updates, support, installation help, onsite repairs, telephone support, etc.
If I don't pay for software, odds are I can still use the software, but my service is going to be minimal at best. If I don't pay for service, it would take a real philanthropist to provide service to me.
EULAs are not binding legally[...]
Source please.
I'm sorry, I can't provide evidence for something that has never happened.
Here is an example of a class action lawsuit from users against a company's EULA: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983988.html
Here is some info regarding your rights under a EULA: http://www.eff.org/wp/eula.php
There is no button when displaying a EULA that says, "I cannot agree or disagree with this EULA because I am under the age of 18 and not able to agree or disagree with legally binding contracts".
EULAs are not binding legally, ethically, or practically.
TOSes are. A business reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. I cannot expect service from McDonalds when I'm sitting there for days on end with a toy gun in my hand threatening to kill anyone in the store.
If I don't agree with a EULA, I can and will still use the software. If I do not agree with a TOS and the service provider terminates my service, I'm SOL.
Software is software. Maintenance contracts, updates, customer support, are a service. If I don't meet the minimum for said service, I get no service. In fact, the company is entitled to go out of business and terminate such service if they feel like it.
From http://privacy2.msn.com/tou/en-us/default.aspx :
2. HOW MICROSOFT MAY MODIFY THIS AGREEMENT
Microsoft reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which it offers the MSN Web Sites, including any charges associated with the use of the MSN Web Sites. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms, conditions and notices, and any additional terms posted on any MSN Web Site. Your continued use of the MSN Web Sites after the effective date of such changes constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to such changes.
In other words, EULAs mean nothing to the end user and its not an agreement.
66 respondants is statistically insignificant.
In statistics speak, there is significant and nonsignificant. Insignificant has no significance statistically. Its an opinion.
Yes, I realize this is splitting hairs, but I've been corrected by statisticians and scientists when I used insignificant with respect to statistics.
The difference is that "in" as a prefix implies human perception to mean "not", "non" as a prefix means "not".
nonedible implies things like rocks and sewer gas these things cannot be eaten.
inedible food implies things like rotten cheese or something that tastes bad. Its something that could be eaten, but for some reason, it cannot be eaten due to the current circumstances, which could be personal preference. A noneditable rock is not a matter of preference.
In this case I'm not even sure that it would be an adhesion contract- depending on the software, there's usually a competing product that would be (if not ideal) practicable for your purpose.
There is nothing binding in a EULA. They are basically something that lawyers have invented to give themselves some extra cash.
EULAs are given to minors just the same as adults, and minors are not eligible to sign a contract. They merely have to click on the "Accept" button to install the software just like the rest of us. Many adults will not sign a contract without consulting their lawyer first, but most of those people will click the Accept button because that is required to install the software.
EULAs are not given before the contract of sale. Most of the time they are hidden until after the sale, and even some of the more respectable software companies are likely to change the EULA at any given time. Its very, very difficult to find a software reseller that will refund your money if you do not agree with the EULA after the purchase. If the users, resellers, and company who supplied the EULA do not honor it, why does it matter at all?
Most all software comes with no warrantee. A EULA might have some merit if the software came with a warrantee and the EULA stated things like, "Warrantee is invalid and void if user uses this software for illegal activity according to the user's local, state, and federal governments". Something like that might make sense.
I thought .biz meant spam (lowercase) and .hormel.com meant SPAM (uppercase).
So true. http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
My apologies to the Hormel company. I'll expect to see the FBI, FDA, CIA, and some other 3 letter agency at my door at any time for misusing their trademark on SPAM.
Human error is not an option anymore.
I sort of agree with you, but if I were Oracle I'd be much more interested in OpenBSD, wouldn't you? The license is much better for a company that wants to take the code and wrap it around a big proprietary product.
Honestly, I would use a BSD licensed product over a GPLed one, but Linux is a little more trendy now.
Mirapoint sells "mailservers in a box" which uses BSD derived systems and some GPLed software as well, I believe. I think their spam filtering is Spamassassin, and their OS is FreeBSD. I've worked with medical imaging systems that were a custom configured Sun/Solaris system where you had to call their support to do anything that required root permissions.
Dedicated OS/App solutions are not unique. Large fileservers have their own OS to it. Routers, firewalls, DVRs, you name it. I see this as a natural progression.
Why would Oracle want Novell?
Brand recognition. 90% of Oracle's business comes from suits that sit in their office and say, "We need Oracle to drive the DB for this project!" Even suits that have previously negotiated and paid Oracle's licensing before.
Oracle could buy/use/exploit any of the hundreds of Linux distros, and the result would or could be about the same. Picking one of the top two Linux distros known in the business world seems to make sense. Would you really think that picking something called something like Ubuntu, Mandriva, Linspire, Slackware, or Puppy Linux would have better brandname recognition and perceived esteem over Novell and SuSe?
Yes , but compared to what an OS does thats still high(ish) level stuff. An Oracle DB doesn't catch hardware interrupts, doesn't set the data bus up for DMA, doesn't negotiate plug & play , doesn't in fact do any really to-the-metal type stuff. Just because Oracle does a few OS-ish type things , don't for a minute assume its anything close to being an operating system.
I'm basing my opinions of being a Solaris admin who has worked closely with Oracle DBs to get the OS right for doing the Oracle DB.
Oracle is an intensive application, more intensive than say, Access with 1 meg of data. There are strategies for filesystem layouts, memory caching, shared memory arrangement, semiphores, TCP/IP tuning, archive logging, redo files, networking, security, you name it. A decent sized Oracle DB is going to be on a dedicated box, the more important the data and the larger the DB the larger the individual boxes get and the number and distance between them increases. eBay uses Oracle. Do you think for a second that they will just put up on their website, "Sorry, the DB is down for a while, because we thought one 486 running Oracle without any redundancy was good enough. We are looking into the problem..."
Today, data is pretty much expected to be available 24x7. Even slashdot has a pretty good availability, and they are just a website. Not ecommerce, inventory, banking, or anything more. Just a website. Slashdot uses memcached to increase responsiveness and reduce the load on their MySQL backend, so here is an example of a 3rd party integration between the app -> OS -> DB.
And, why couldn't Oracle have kernel modules that handled interrupts and did DMA and whatnot? What if there were a new Oracle PCI-X card or over HyperTransport that did onboard caching and sorting of queries or even one that used RDMA between clustered boxes via the ? These things are entirely possible and probable.
I've envisioned a DB in a box for years, much like a managed router or switch. Hell, I have a sub $100 wireless firewall and router that runs Linux, is buying a dedicated box for a DB with a dedicated OS much more science fiction than having Linux on my TV, DVR, pictureframe, printer, or router?
Geesh. Next someone will invent the ".mail" TLD, which is the address for foo.com, that you use to send email to. what about ".web" ?
Pretty funny, but I would see some PHB bring this up, or probably already has.
First, email has specific DNS hooks called the MX entry, so today, in 2006 you can send a mail to root@goon.com and have it silently answered by gazelle@strippoker.net. I wish other services had this feature.
Now, some web admins are beyond using www as their prefix for their webserver. So, they use web.hosname, and now it will come full circle to web.hostname.web for double redundancy and clarity.
I'm going to grossly oversimplify here, but basically, when I submit a query for foo.com, the very first thing queried is the top level domain, in this case, .com. If I were to submit a query to foo.org, the query would take a different path in resolving the name. Same with foo.net, foo.us, foo.biz, etc.
.notslashdotdotorg and someone registered slashdot.notslashdotdotorg would still be confused with slashdot.org
Yeah, try http://slashdot.com/ , http://slashdot.org/ , http://slashdot.net/ , http://slashdot.info/ , http://slashdot.tv/ and see what the results are.
Everything that is not slashdot.org is a wannabe, and even if there was a new TLD that was, say,
Name me two well known organizations that have two same names with different TLDs that have not had a legal dispute over one forfeiting the other.
In the Middle East we find this hilarious. Biz in Arabic means breast.
.biz means SPAM.
.tel, why don't phones gain the capabilities of mapping one's email address to a telephone number. Email addresses are unique, and most people have a business and private email address. I find it redundant to ask for someone's name, phone and email address. Phone numbers seem so 1970s to me.
In the Us, we find it hilarious, because
Instead of using
RedHat and SuSE are the usual "enterprise" distros that have tweaks for running Oracle, but Redhat dominates. wonder how threatened RedHat would be if Oracle bought and pushed SuSE. Oracle has had a problem in the past four years of trying to make integrated features that really were best left to third party, like for example oracle filesystem and oracle clustering, which are shakier and more trouble to admin than 3rd party.
RedHat threatened? How about Sun Microsystems?
Back in the day, Sun's Solaris was the target for Oracle. Every other platform was a port of it, and reportedly not as good. I've only used Oracle on Solaris for big and important DBs.
I've thought for years that Oracle should be an OS because an Oracle box is not going to be doing much else anyway. Oracle has its own filesystem, redundancy, clustering, you name it. Many of Oracle's "big boy" features are blurred between what an application does and what an OS does. Its common that the first thing you do when you install oracle is modify the OS to allow for Oracle to work. Most importantly, its the shared memory parameters of the OS that needs to be modified (or at least used to as of version 10).
Having an Oracle OS seems inevitable. With Linux its more than possible.
Actually, it didn't come from NCSA Mosaic. It came from Spyglass Mosaic - a completely different browser...
I don't know, but "About Internet Explorer..." for version 5.2 on the Mac says "Based on NCSA Mosaic(TM)".
And no. IE did to some degree change the browser environment, for the better? Can't say. IE when it came out sucked. Then it got better, became bundled with Windows, Netscape basically went out of business. Yes kids, they made a browser at one time. The browser. They were not a brand name and a "portal". When Netscape disappeared after 4.x, there was basically only IE, or at least that was enough for 95% marketshare or so. So, when IE was king, all of the websites thought it was cool to append to the bottom of their page "Designed for IE x.y. Best viewed on my computer and my monitor at 12832x13032" Then MS thought it was brilliant to completely tie IE into the OS with version 4 or so. Yes folks, we still want a web browser built into our desktop. Again, for people that don't remember, IE 4.0 was a layer between the background wallpaper and you (actually, I think IE took control of the wallpaper as well). Then MS started innovating. They brought us VB scripting, modified Java, modified Javascript, marquees, vb controls, oh and they totally ditched all of the standards and forgot to write and publish their own.
IE has been known to be buggy, not standards compliant, and a security nightmare. With Netscape gone, a slew of underground browsers popped up (no pun intended). Mozilla started in 96 or 97 from Netscape, but took a while and a complete rewrite from scratch to get decent. Mozilla ditched almost all of the Netscape code and modularized the browser. Gecko backend engine, many GUIs or even text front ends. Email and other modules as well. The KDE guys made KHTML, which was slow to start, but then Apple adopted OSS and used KHTML as their basis for WebCore or whatever they call it, and KHTML is the backend behind Safari, which I am using right now, and its the best web browser I've used to date. Apple submitted bug fixes and enhancements back to the KDE people, and both benefitted. Opera came to the party. AOL used a modified version of IE even though they bought Netscape at some time.
To make a long story short, Tim Berners Lee created the Web and things were portable and good. Netscape made an OK browser that ran on just about anything that had a network connection. MS came along and screwed up the web while others started with new browsers and standards were published and coded towards. MS is nolonger the standard anymore, I can almost 100% of the time view any website on just about any browser. So, we are almost back where we started. The scenic detour made the cab driver rich, but we are almost happily back home.
I have the answer.
NO!
All MS has to do is keep backward compatibility for legacy apps and most everyone already using it will simply stay with it.
Virtualization and dual booting will take care of the temporary problem, asking vendors to update their software to work with the computers we now use will take care of the long term problem.
Human rights aside, I would like for my spam filter to get a break from processing Chinese mail.
I would not be upset if no email ever left China, and I work with some Chinese people who currently live in China. I'm welcome for them to get an out of country email service or proxy to communicate with me, but the signal to noise ratio from China is pretty low. Heck, all of these users have an American account with incoming ssh access and outgoing mail capabilities.
So, in summary anything limiting outgoing Chinese mail is OK with me.
But the shorter lives caused by smoking also tend to incur extreme health care costs for lung cancer.
Something like 10% of lung cancer deaths are from non-smokers. By extension, 10% of smokers would get the same as well. Dying is expensive for most people, and the health care industry does not seem to be complaining. Health insurance companies don't seem to be going out of business, nor health care providers.
If you don't get lung cancer, don't smoke, eat right and exercise, odds are you are going to have either a short and sweet heart attack or more than likely you will be on maintenance heart/cardiovascular drugs until you die, with regular checkups, tests, not including the side effects which may take additional tests, appointments, and possibly more medication to treat the negative affects from the previous medication.
"I hope I die before I get old..."
Serotonin and dopamine are complementary opposites, like males and females, work and play, yin and yang. In other words, pot and alcohol couldn't be more different.
I clearly said they were both different. I also said that I like the combination of both. Mix in some dopamine enhancing tobacco...
These are tried and true combinations. 20 to 30x the time of being introduced to market than modern medicine itself. The target population probably is 1000x fold over any FDA study on a drug.
True, but a good ethnobotanist will probably also lead to a lot more vomiting. Vomiting is, of course, a necessary part of the recreation of an authentic siberian shaman experience...
Look up Daniel Siebert. He's never caused me or anyone I've known to vomit. Sure, alkaloids can cause temporary nausea and vomiting, some more than others, like peyote. Wealthy Romans had vomitoriums in their homes so they could binge and purge (there were vomitoriums in the Coliseum as well, but those were different). Yes, these were dedicated rooms to puke. They also had intense alcoholics that figured out that you could get very, very drunk off of an alcohol enema with no nausea or vomiting required. Death maybe, but no puking.
I regularly dry heave from FDA approved drugs. I've lied in bathrooms wishing I were dead from FDA approved drugs. I've had rashes, and required hospitalization because of FDA drugs. I've had psychochemical reactions to FDA drugs. Others cause headaches and chronic diarrhea. Long term affects are pending discovery and lawsuits.
Do any of the DRM formats carry embedded code in the media?
Sony has experimented with rootkits.
As the government/corporations keep going down this road, we will all just have to go back something like the old BBS days where everything is private and you have to know someone to get in the door. Which to be honest, sounds good to me.
Done. Look at how many of the torrent sites require logins to download a torrent. Freenet exists. Encryption exists, hushmail exists.
How does the saying go?
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
I wonder how much his death tax was after being convicted of committing suicide?