"I'd also worry about the technical support calls from customers unaware of cell phone jammers."
Probably the same people who can't set the time on their VCR's, or the same people who buy CD-RW's and can't figure out why their 10 year old 2x cdrom can write to it.....
For cellphone jamming to be permitted it would have to be posted in the establishment that jamming is occuring. Imagine the confusion at an R&B club:
Jamming in progress....
But, I believe in Japan jamming is permitted. It would be nice if the whole country had cellphone jamming, with the exception of a few one person sized sound proof boxes scattered around the country, we could call them phone booths or phone boxes or phone kiosks!
On a more serious note: many cell phone users are annoying, they talk too loud and the ringing noise that most cellphones emit is obnoxious. Until society develops a suitable etiquette for mobile phone use we're stuck with the obnoxious side of it, or until better mobile phones are created. Obviously, not much can be done with obnoxious people who use cell phones!
I'm a CS major who has been interning with a major US financial company and I feel that many people I've met both at work and school don't have a sucifficent knowledge of both hardware and programming/software. To be a good programmer you need to know good software practices, to be a great programmer you also need to know what the f**k is going on under the covers.
Example: Members of my 'team' were evaluating a program that performed like crap on a Sun 450, a nice little 4-way box with 2 or 4gig's of ram. After weeks of testing, a Sun rep as called it and suggested binding some of the processes to it own processor (so less context switching would occur). When I heard this I laughed! I knew that, but the 'experts' who represented the product didn't...... and it then perform much better. So the moral; if you don't know what the hardware can do, you can't stress it or use it and your code to it's maximum potential. (Maybe it was a crappy app to begin with;)
I just got an handheld from Agenda, running a 2.4 kernel, and it's pretty neat. Can even telnet into it, now it just needs a ton of developers and apps.... get working guys.
Both Storm & Corel Linux are based on Debian, and Corel is dropping linux (supposedly) and I thought I read Storm is gone (but can't find a mention of it on their web page), it'd be nice if they gave their fancy installers and any other 'enhancements' to the Debian team to do with as they please. Especially considering whose work they've been using.
On the other hand, Debian w/ 2.4.1, Xfree86 4.*, KDE2, & the latest Gnome would be great(er). And the text based installer w/ Deb is not that hard... hell if I can install Debian who can't?
Funny no mention of it on their webpage. I'd gotten a few issues and it wasn't bad, the language was a bit feisty, but the content wasn't bad. And the best things was the cdroms (when you don't have broadband cdrom with goodies are great!)
Would Win2k be a good example? It's equivalent to Linux and supports about the same amount of hardware as Linux, maybe even less.
"Have a nice standard, easy to use and intuitive GUI"
How about having to press Start to turn the computer off?:P
I hardly call Win's GUI intuitive and it's too restrictive, because one can't personalise it to ones tastes, such as using sloopy focus, and multiple desktops, and eterms, and the command line is way more powerful than dos. And yes I've tried the MKS kornshell for windows, it's better than dos but worse than most shells on *nix.
"Using MS means you never have to hear stupid arguments about licenses or asinine definitions of "free"
I clicked on my first banner ad in years (I can't remember where), but this was the first banner ad I'd see in ages that interested me, I clicked and received the error message:
Can't access this banner ad
Cookies not turned on
F**king boneheads selling advertising that only works with cookies.... who thinks up these useless uses of technology, oh I forgot management!
Let him/her make their own mind up as to what to learn. Technology is great, but it's for us dummies, prodigies are the ones who create paradigm shifts that tilt the rest of us on our 'eads. Just guide this child away from the dark side.
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Probably the same people who can't set the time on their VCR's, or the same people who buy CD-RW's and can't figure out why their 10 year old 2x cdrom can write to it .....
For cellphone jamming to be permitted it would have to be posted in the establishment that jamming is occuring. Imagine the confusion at an R&B club:
But, I believe in Japan jamming is permitted. It would be nice if the whole country had cellphone jamming, with the exception of a few one person sized sound proof boxes scattered around the country, we could call them phone booths or phone boxes or phone kiosks!
On a more serious note: many cell phone users are annoying, they talk too loud and the ringing noise that most cellphones emit is obnoxious. Until society develops a suitable etiquette for mobile phone use we're stuck with the obnoxious side of it, or until better mobile phones are created. Obviously, not much can be done with obnoxious people who use cell phones!
Example: Members of my 'team' were evaluating a program that performed like crap on a Sun 450, a nice little 4-way box with 2 or 4gig's of ram. After weeks of testing, a Sun rep as called it and suggested binding some of the processes to it own processor (so less context switching would occur). When I heard this I laughed! I knew that, but the 'experts' who represented the product didn't...... and it then perform much better. So the moral; if you don't know what the hardware can do, you can't stress it or use it and your code to it's maximum potential. (Maybe it was a crappy app to begin with ;)
I just got an handheld from Agenda, running a 2.4 kernel, and it's pretty neat. Can even telnet into it, now it just needs a ton of developers and apps .... get working guys.
On the other hand, Debian w/ 2.4.1, Xfree86 4.*, KDE2, & the latest Gnome would be great(er). And the text based installer w/ Deb is not that hard ... hell if I can install Debian who can't?
Funny no mention of it on their webpage. I'd gotten a few issues and it wasn't bad, the language was a bit feisty, but the content wasn't bad. And the best things was the cdroms (when you don't have broadband cdrom with goodies are great!)
Would Win2k be a good example? It's equivalent to Linux and supports about the same amount of hardware as Linux, maybe even less.
"Have a nice standard, easy to use and intuitive GUI"
How about having to press Start to turn the computer off? :P
I hardly call Win's GUI intuitive and it's too restrictive, because one can't personalise it to ones tastes, such as using sloopy focus, and multiple desktops, and eterms, and the command line is way more powerful than dos. And yes I've tried the MKS kornshell for windows, it's better than dos but worse than most shells on *nix.
"Using MS means you never have to hear stupid arguments about licenses or asinine definitions of "free"
This WinWhistle thing sounds scarey: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/09/155023 7&mode=thread
"cold day in hell before you have Office for Linux anyway..."
StarOffice5.2 seems to load any MS word doc fine, it just takes forever to start....
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F**king boneheads selling advertising that only works with cookies .... who thinks up these useless uses of technology, oh I forgot management!