Because it's too early for Redhat to be able to pick one or the other as a standard. Doing so now would infuriate a lot of their potential/existing customers and users.
when the antitheft system "misfires" and causes problems for legit users
Nothings perfect:(
But I'd consider that a bug. And if I were contacted by companyX saying that we were running cracked software of theirs w/o a license, and they were wrong, I've give them some nasty attitude and tell them to fix their damned bugs.
Anway, the same logic can be applied to the electric-grid. When the system misfires it causes problems for users;)
No, please, not the desert. Look at Arizona - they had dry heat. Now, everyone's come in and built houses, with *green lawns* et all. Now they've got humidity and many problems that the Midwest has.
Ok, on second thought, I think you could get away with it, if your association rules said no outside lights, no lawns, etc etc.
I don't know how anyone moderated your comment as insightful. It's full of BS.
Most people go home and sleep - hopefully true. But in the medium++ cities, it is by no means *dark* at that time. Go out a few hundred miles into the country - hopefully you'll find a real dark there. On the drive back notice the sun coming up - whoops, that's *not* the sun. That's the city's lights leaking into the sky, though it looks like a sunrise quite often.
You don't have lights on your street? Your neighbors don't have lights on the front/sides/backs of their houses?
We moved into a new house a year ago this month. There's a streetlight in our treelawn to the right of our driveway. The light from it drives our daughter crazy. We ended up buying her these really darkened shades for her room. With that she was finally able to sleep.
We have similar shades in our room. But that is even tested when our dumb neighbors to our backyard forget and leave their back porch light(s) on.
It's not open source because a private company devoted it's resources to create it, and owns the copyright on it. (I'm assuming now)... It obviously needs to recoupe that investment, so it keeps it's code to it's own.
Simple enough. I really don't know why you'd question why it's not open source.
1. Drink water. Nothing else. No caffeine. No sugar. 2. Exercise. Regularly. Cardio atleast 30 minutes. Get that heart rate up. It'll clear your mind and help you focus. 3. Quit screwing around on the computer. Uninstall all the crap. Unplug the cat5. Make it so that you can only do your one task on it. And promise yourself a reward after you get that task done - ie I'll write up this/code up that, and afterward I can surf for 30 minutes, and then go for a walk/bikeride around the neighborhood/local trail for 30. 4. Take a drive down to the inner city. See how the people are living. Thank your lucky stars to know you aren't there. Realize if you don't get off your ass, you may be.
About a month ago I recieved my first PocketPC (a Dell Axim). I started, many years ago, w/ a Pilot 1000, I believe it was. Then other palms, then a III, IIIx. Then a Samsung i300 phone that had the Palm built in.
While I do love the phone w/ the palm built in, the PocketPC is so much more useful then the palms are (excluding, obviously, the bundled phone and palms).
There's more ram. I can throw documents on them. It's wireless. I can now surf the web on the shitter, in boring meetings. There's *room* on the thing to store just about anything I want.
I never had that with Palm. It was always a meager amount of space, no headphone jack, no color, no wireless, no way to add extra storage space (cf/sd). I couldn't just throw an excel doc on the thing and it just worked. Syncing w/ Exchange (at work, ugh) was never a process that I had 100% confidence in.
I'm not a big MS fan, but I highly doubt I'll ever go back to using the Palm products anytime soon. Which is sad, because for years I was one of their biggest fans. That is, until their innovation practically stopped. Now they've bought Handspring... kinda Microsoftian don't you think? Someone's got a good idea... let's buy them!!
Anyway, I'm quite happy with the PocketPC. I dither down video clips to it's size with MS's Movie app, I've got mp3's on it too. Wireless surfing just works.
Now if only the Axim had the 802.11b/g built into it, and was a bit thinner and lighter...
Drop them once, and it's pretty much guaranteed to break.
I've dropped by 8000 and 4200 only once or twice, that I can recall. No problems. I guess I'm lucky!
Batteries rarely last me more than 9 months
From my experience, this is definitely true. However, I recently read (sorry, I didn't bookmark the site) that the batteries, given full use, are only expected to last 6 months for laptops. Basically if you get a years use out of one, you've done good. My i8000 lasted a year, then it was worthless. The 4200 doesn't get as much use as the 8000, it's still going. Damn I wish I could find that link to the battery site/discussion.
I didn't make the call, my boss did. But we looked at a number of systems - many that are mentioned in other posts here.
So far, so good. We had a problem with it not releasing trunks. That was *not* good. Artisoft said the problem was with the intel chipset, Intel said it was Artisoft's fault.
Either way after a week or so of waiting, we received a patch, installed it, and wala, it works.
We got it working with the building's paging system, and now will soon have it doing faxing in/out.
For what we needed (and bang for the buck) it was our best choice. Note, however, we're not phone guys, just IT guys who got stuck with having to do this.
That's half our problem. We keep newborns alive that shouldn't be alive. We keep old people alive because we're selfish and don't let them die (and incriminate those who help them). We keep sick people around because, well, I truely can't figure that one out - maybe it's the $ to be made from their medical expenses?
The average lifetime in years keeps expanding. Last I heard my expectency is atleast in the 80's, and I was born early 1970's in the US.
Even if people start curbing how many kids they have, by the time people do that, it'll take 200+ years for any effects of it to be seen.
How about this? Society stop funding people's abilities to *have* kids. You want a kid? You have it, you raise it, you feed it, you educate it, you *teach* how to live till it's 18.
Make them do that for each kid. Was you kid born screwed up? Will it take $100k to keep the kid alive? No, your insurance won't cover it. No, society won't cover it. If you want your kid to stay alive, GET TO WORK and pay for it yourself.
If we did that, we'd see a lot less people having children. It'd be too much work, and cost too much.
Yes, this is a harsh attitude. Yes, maybe I myself wouldn't be alive if the above were done years ago when I was born.
But something has got to happen, and it needs to happen in our lifetime. We can't keep going the way we are. We're overpopulated and we're using resources at an astronomical rate.
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Hey look, I got a new Gateway PC in a few months ago at work. Booted it up. First thing it did, during the Windows XP introduction crap was crash.
Over and over. crash crash crash.
What's my point? The basic user would just give up at this point, regardless of what the OS is.
Note the lack of 'windows' and 'home' in that sentence.
And yes, this is a true story, and the pc was given to us by Gateway, along with another one, for a promo.
Because it's too early for Redhat to be able to pick one or the other as a standard. Doing so now would infuriate a lot of their potential/existing customers and users.
I went an purchased the crossover software, and installed PS7 on redhat9. So far, it's worked like a champ. I'm very happy with it.
Now if I could only get thumbs+ running under Wine (or a native linux port) I could dump Win32 entirely I think.
Try Casemaker.
There was a free trial a while back...
when the antitheft system "misfires" and causes problems for legit users
:(
;)
Nothings perfect
But I'd consider that a bug. And if I were contacted by companyX saying that we were running cracked software of theirs w/o a license, and they were wrong, I've give them some nasty attitude and tell them to fix their damned bugs.
Anway, the same logic can be applied to the electric-grid. When the system misfires it causes problems for users
If that's the case, and it' sending information back, then you need a better crack!
Hell yes I am. Checkout this comment post.
I wonder if we'll get more players this year straight from this slashdot article?
I've always thought the stock market is legalized gambling...
In addition, unlike the casinos, the online books aren't pouring liquor down your throat to alter your judgement.
What? No free booze? I'm outta here!
This story's perfect for this:
;)
http://bookiejoint.org/
While it doesn't use real money, you can get cash for karma
tf23
I hear ya. But some of that is cleaning and maintenance crews doing their jobs.
No, please, not the desert. Look at Arizona - they had dry heat. Now, everyone's come in and built houses, with *green lawns* et all. Now they've got humidity and many problems that the Midwest has.
Ok, on second thought, I think you could get away with it, if your association rules said no outside lights, no lawns, etc etc.
I don't know how anyone moderated your comment as insightful. It's full of BS.
Most people go home and sleep - hopefully true. But in the medium++ cities, it is by no means *dark* at that time. Go out a few hundred miles into the country - hopefully you'll find a real dark there. On the drive back notice the sun coming up - whoops, that's *not* the sun. That's the city's lights leaking into the sky, though it looks like a sunrise quite often.
You don't have lights on your street?
Your neighbors don't have lights on the front/sides/backs of their houses?
We moved into a new house a year ago this month. There's a streetlight in our treelawn to the right of our driveway. The light from it drives our daughter crazy. We ended up buying her these really darkened shades for her room. With that she was finally able to sleep.
We have similar shades in our room. But that is even tested when our dumb neighbors to our backyard forget and leave their back porch light(s) on.
It's not open source because a private company devoted it's resources to create it, and owns the copyright on it. (I'm assuming now)... It obviously needs to recoupe that investment, so it keeps it's code to it's own.
Simple enough. I really don't know why you'd question why it's not open source.
1. Drink water. Nothing else. No caffeine. No sugar.
2. Exercise. Regularly. Cardio atleast 30 minutes. Get that heart rate up. It'll clear your mind and help you focus.
3. Quit screwing around on the computer. Uninstall all the crap. Unplug the cat5. Make it so that you can only do your one task on it. And promise yourself a reward after you get that task done - ie I'll write up this/code up that, and afterward I can surf for 30 minutes, and then go for a walk/bikeride around the neighborhood/local trail for 30.
4. Take a drive down to the inner city. See how the people are living. Thank your lucky stars to know you aren't there. Realize if you don't get off your ass, you may be.
About a month ago I recieved my first PocketPC (a Dell Axim). I started, many years ago, w/ a Pilot 1000, I believe it was. Then other palms, then a III, IIIx. Then a Samsung i300 phone that had the Palm built in.
While I do love the phone w/ the palm built in, the PocketPC is so much more useful then the palms are (excluding, obviously, the bundled phone and palms).
There's more ram. I can throw documents on them. It's wireless. I can now surf the web on the shitter, in boring meetings. There's *room* on the thing to store just about anything I want.
I never had that with Palm. It was always a meager amount of space, no headphone jack, no color, no wireless, no way to add extra storage space (cf/sd). I couldn't just throw an excel doc on the thing and it just worked. Syncing w/ Exchange (at work, ugh) was never a process that I had 100% confidence in.
I'm not a big MS fan, but I highly doubt I'll ever go back to using the Palm products anytime soon. Which is sad, because for years I was one of their biggest fans. That is, until their innovation practically stopped. Now they've bought Handspring... kinda Microsoftian don't you think? Someone's got a good idea... let's buy them!!
Anyway, I'm quite happy with the PocketPC. I dither down video clips to it's size with MS's Movie app, I've got mp3's on it too. Wireless surfing just works.
Now if only the Axim had the 802.11b/g built into it, and was a bit thinner and lighter...
Seriously, I agree with the "give programmers slow computers" bit.
Damn, I'm glad I don't work for you! That'd drive me balistic having a slow machine (as mod_perl compiles in the background...)
Drop them once, and it's pretty much guaranteed to break.
I've dropped by 8000 and 4200 only once or twice, that I can recall. No problems. I guess I'm lucky!
Batteries rarely last me more than 9 months
From my experience, this is definitely true. However, I recently read (sorry, I didn't bookmark the site) that the batteries, given full use, are only expected to last 6 months for laptops. Basically if you get a years use out of one, you've done good. My i8000 lasted a year, then it was worthless. The 4200 doesn't get as much use as the 8000, it's still going. Damn I wish I could find that link to the battery site/discussion.
A few weeks ago we switched from an old AT&T system to Artisoft Televantage.
I didn't make the call, my boss did. But we looked at a number of systems - many that are mentioned in other posts here.
So far, so good. We had a problem with it not releasing trunks. That was *not* good. Artisoft said the problem was with the intel chipset, Intel said it was Artisoft's fault.
Either way after a week or so of waiting, we received a patch, installed it, and wala, it works.
We got it working with the building's paging system, and now will soon have it doing faxing in/out.
For what we needed (and bang for the buck) it was our best choice. Note, however, we're not phone guys, just IT guys who got stuck with having to do this.
Too bad none of them seem to be using a more "mobile" intel chip/chipset. See the specs on their yahoo store.
And it starts:
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
What's the point? That the guy didn't know how to operate his own phone? That's what I got out of it. That's not the phone's fault...
Add USB2, a firewire port, and give the graphics enough ram to drive my 21" monitor at a high res and decent rate and I've love it.
So when do we stop keeping people alive?
That's half our problem. We keep newborns alive that shouldn't be alive. We keep old people alive because we're selfish and don't let them die (and incriminate those who help them). We keep sick people around because, well, I truely can't figure that one out - maybe it's the $ to be made from their medical expenses?
The average lifetime in years keeps expanding. Last I heard my expectency is atleast in the 80's, and I was born early 1970's in the US.
Even if people start curbing how many kids they have, by the time people do that, it'll take 200+ years for any effects of it to be seen.
How about this? Society stop funding people's abilities to *have* kids. You want a kid? You have it, you raise it, you feed it, you educate it, you *teach* how to live till it's 18.
Make them do that for each kid. Was you kid born screwed up? Will it take $100k to keep the kid alive? No, your insurance won't cover it. No, society won't cover it. If you want your kid to stay alive, GET TO WORK and pay for it yourself.
If we did that, we'd see a lot less people having children. It'd be too much work, and cost too much.
Yes, this is a harsh attitude. Yes, maybe I myself wouldn't be alive if the above were done years ago when I was born.
But something has got to happen, and it needs to happen in our lifetime. We can't keep going the way we are. We're overpopulated and we're using resources at an astronomical rate.
You shouldn't count California. It'll slide into the Ocean pretty soon.