FFS. Inm sorry but this is just BS, acheiving 8 characters a second assuming you are typing words and not just pressing a key is practically impossible. Sure you may be able to acheive this rate on a few selected words that you know very well and have a good mental map for in your mind. However, a substained typing rate of 170wpm let alone 200 is just not doable.
160-170wpm...you must be mistaken, unless they are typing a string of 'a's or something.
Assuming we take you upper quoted figure 170/60=2.8(let's round that down to 2.5 words per second)Now lets say that you have an average 4 letter word length, that's 10 characters a second. Bottom line, you are making this up.
Im not sure of the extent to which voice recognition will be integrated into apps, but this is surely good news for people with disabilities that means they cannot use a keyboard easily.
I am complaining about the fact that all people seem interesting with mozilla is adding superflous features and not doing the bread and butter stuff. Bug fixing and performance enhancing may not be fun, but they are very much needed.
That people are getting their collective knickers in a twist about this just goes to show the immaturity of many within the open source community.
I'm not the least bit suprised Tucows did what they did. There they were providing a service to the open source community, and this is the thanks they get
I have a theory that the people that partake in these flame wars, fall into one of the following categories
1. Script kiddies and other pond life that feel they have to attach themselves to something they perceive as being subversive. Once they attach themselves to linux, bsd or whatever, they then flame anyone who has a different opinion. The truth is the people do not have any opinions, they flame, simply to give the impression of them having a clue
2. Licence zealots who doggedly maintain that if code is not released under-their-favourite-licence(tm) then they have the right to act like children hoping that someone will appease them.
3. People with way too much time on their hands
Disagreeing with people is fine, however some people in the open source community need to learn to agree to disagree.
That people are getting their collective knickers in a twist about this just goes to show the immaturity of many within the open source community.
I'm not the least bit suprised Tucows did what they did. There they were providing a service to the open source community, and this is the thanks they get
I have a theory that the people that partake in these flame wars, fall into one of the following categories
1. Script kiddies and other pond life that feel they have to attach themselves to something they perceive as being subversive. Once they attach themselves to linux, bsd or whatever, they then flame anyone who has a different opinion. The truth is the people do not have any opinions, they flame, simply to give the impression of them having a clue
2. Licence zealots who doggedly maintain that if code is not released under-their-favourite-licence(tm) then they have the right to act like children hoping that someone will appease them.
3. People with way too much time on their hands
Disagreeing with people is fine, however some people in the open source community need to learn to agree to disagree.
they promised the world and delivered Bogna regis. One good thing to come out of this will be a lot of cheap Dc's for sale. Serious gamers are not going to buy into a dying platform, but hackers might be very interested.
and becoming more and more common even in quite expensive pc's. I have seen Ghz Athlons with integrated *framebuffer* graphics chips that use system ram. Integrated Vga sucks as do intehrated modem, network *cards*. Interated audio is acceptable simply because for most people a basic 16bit sound system is ample.
Athlon 650 w/ 128mb ram. I don't think it is unresonable to expect mozilla to run well on this spec. I have run pre compiled binaries, self compiled optimized binaries.
This is just getting goofy. Slashdot has become trollsville. I thought I might get some insights into this story, instead trolls, trolls and more trolls. Even browsing at +1,2,3,4,5 does not even help now.
+1 Still lots of assholes
+2 still too many assholes
+3 1 person makes a good joke, then everyone copies it, at this level there are not many comments to be had
+4 This particular moderation level is inhabited to quite a large extent by habitual offtopic posters. These particular creatures do however have a great skill. They present their offtopic piece with such authority they get modded up
+5 One would think that this level would represent the cream of slashdot commentary. Suffice to say that on occasion it does, but all to often now, moderators +5 something that is *mildly* amusing or just slightly less than idiotic
My meaning seems to have been lost in a haze of keyboard bashing. What I am trying to say is that, why must there be a open source solution to everything. Fair enough, if there is, use it and be happy.
But ffs, an OSS billing system, this is very specalist software, your isp is a commercial venture, with a sotware budget)I would assume)Geez, just pay for the blasted software. OSS IMO shoiuld only ne used when it
a> offers a superior solution that commercial software
b> A person cannot afford the commercial equivalent
Im sure your ISP using a OS billing system would get you tons of h4cker d00dz kudos, but if you are serious about your buisness venture, you will use the solution that does the best job.
Trouble is the concept of *free software* being *free* as in beer has beocme so ingrained in people's minds, I think people will resist any attempt to charge for it. You need only look at the hostility the average/.er shows towards the concept of paying for software
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I'm not the least bit suprised Tucows did what they did. There they were providing a service to the open source community, and this is the thanks they get
I have a theory that the people that partake in these flame wars, fall into one of the following categories
1. Script kiddies and other pond life that feel they have to attach themselves to something they perceive as being subversive. Once they attach themselves to linux, bsd or whatever, they then flame anyone who has a different opinion. The truth is the people do not have any opinions, they flame, simply to give the impression of them having a clue
2. Licence zealots who doggedly maintain that if code is not released under-their-favourite-licence(tm) then they have the right to act like children hoping that someone will appease them.
3. People with way too much time on their hands
Disagreeing with people is fine, however some people in the open source community need to learn to agree to disagree.
I'm not the least bit suprised Tucows did what they did. There they were providing a service to the open source community, and this is the thanks they get
I have a theory that the people that partake in these flame wars, fall into one of the following categories
1. Script kiddies and other pond life that feel they have to attach themselves to something they perceive as being subversive. Once they attach themselves to linux, bsd or whatever, they then flame anyone who has a different opinion. The truth is the people do not have any opinions, they flame, simply to give the impression of them having a clue
2. Licence zealots who doggedly maintain that if code is not released under-their-favourite-licence(tm) then they have the right to act like children hoping that someone will appease them.
3. People with way too much time on their hands
Disagreeing with people is fine, however some people in the open source community need to learn to agree to disagree.
2.Ext2 is more proactive in maintaining filesystem integrity.
Give me a break, I have not slept in 30+ hours.
Your data is at best flawed, at worst made up to gain you some intelectual credability
Athlon 650 w/ 128mb ram. I don't think it is unresonable to expect mozilla to run well on this spec. I have run pre compiled binaries, self compiled optimized binaries.
+1 Still lots of assholes
+2 still too many assholes
+3 1 person makes a good joke, then everyone copies it, at this level there are not many comments to be had
+4 This particular moderation level is inhabited to quite a large extent by habitual offtopic posters. These particular creatures do however have a great skill. They present their offtopic piece with such authority they get modded up
+5 One would think that this level would represent the cream of slashdot commentary. Suffice to say that on occasion it does, but all to often now, moderators +5 something that is *mildly* amusing or just slightly less than idiotic
But ffs, an OSS billing system, this is very specalist software, your isp is a commercial venture, with a sotware budget)I would assume)Geez, just pay for the blasted software. OSS IMO shoiuld only ne used when it
a> offers a superior solution that commercial software
b> A person cannot afford the commercial equivalent
Im sure your ISP using a OS billing system would get you tons of h4cker d00dz kudos, but if you are serious about your buisness venture, you will use the solution that does the best job.