I do a as well except I couldn't afford a 3dfx or Matrox card back then. But I still feel that saying that "big companies" hurt FOSS is stupid. IBM and Intel contributed a lot to FOSS. Even Red Hat isn't exactly a small company these days. Sun was a big company and they gave us OpenOffice. I just hope that OpenOffice survives the merger. MySQL while important is easier to replace than OpenOffice IMHO. The point it that this mindless all big companies are evil idea needs to stop. Google, Yahoo, IBM, Sun, and Intel have all contributed to FOSS and have all benefited from it as it should be.
I think at least some of it is dogma. The lack of a stable binary driver interface is one reason that even using nVidia and ATI's blobs is just a bit of a pain. I am all for FOSS drivers but I still feel that the lack of a stable binary driver interface is a bad choice. Even if the driver is FOSS it would be nice to have the option of using a driver on a CD that comes in the box with the device if it hasn't made it into the the kernel yet.
Flawed how? 3DFX cards at the the end just couldn't compete with nVidia and ATI. Slow and crappy is probably unfair. To expensive for the performance maybe?
Not all together. If you want an OS/X server this is your cheapest option. As for looks well being small is a nice feature as well as a low power draw. For a SOHO setup it is a plus but frankly it looks like your only choice for a none rackmount OS/X server. Now putting Linux on one seems really odd but to each their own.
But 3dfx cards where slow and crappy. They died and nVidia picked up what was left after nVidia and ATI killed them. nVidia has for many years produced the best 3d drivers available for Linux even though they where closed source they where free as beer. Not perfect but nVidia was supporting Linux before it was cool.
MySQL? It has had a duel license for forever. Options like Postgres and Firebird have been around for years. So far Oracle has done nothing evil with MySQL so we should get all bent because it could happen> Oracle has been pushing Linux for years for database servers which has been a big help to Linux in the enterprise.
What it comes too is that some people say that Oracle owning MySQL raises anti-trust issues. I just don't see that. Oracle has competition from DB2 and MSSQL in the closed source category and MySQL has competition from PsotgresSQL and Firebird in the FOSS category. If nothing else this is wake up call for more FOSS projects to look at databases other than MySQL.
Sorry but that level of stupidity really got to me today. That and at the time I posted it was modded as +3 insightful was just too much for me to handle.
Umm... the FCC net neutrality rules are for ISPs in the US SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good freaking grief we are talking about regulations FOR US COMPANIES, OPERATING IN THE US, SUPPLY SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS IN THE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about that for a reason!!!!!
China estimates 300,000 civillians killed. Japanese sources say only between 100,000 and 200,000 killed. The city had SURRENDERED and the Japanese went on a rampage. As I said these people had SURRENDERED.
You so need to read up a little before you post such a stupid comment.
Danger no longer really exists it is part of Microsoft. To blame Danger is like blaming a murder's hand because it held the gun. Danger is part of Microsoft but if you like it is totally Danger's fault which is now owned by Microsoft so it is totally Microsoft's fault.
"admirable goal of freeing their Asian bothers from the tyranny of Western colonialism." Nope. They wanted to free them from the tyranny of Western colonialism to put under Japanese slavery. The Japanese at that time where every bit as evil as the Germans where. I suggest that you look up how the Japanese treated the Koreans before you ever again use that term admirable in relation to Japanese goals at that time. To be fair that Japan of today as well as the Germany of today are nothing like the Japan and Germany of WWII.
Well the Shoal isn't out yet so who knows about the battery life. The HTC that is coming to Verizon isn't going to be the Hero after all but most people think it is going to be very Hero like. They claim 5 hours of talk time. All smart phones eat batteries faster than feature phones. You need to get used to plugging them in pretty much every night. I am sure some iPhone users will claim they do not but that is what I typically see. The thing is that you use the daylights out of a modern smartphone battery. You just don't tend to stream Pandora on your feature phone for hours at a time. I see Blackberries more as super messaging phones than true smart phones. That isn't an insult because they are great at exchange email. The browser sucks but you can get better ones for it. Just expect to be disappointed at battery life and plan for it. I suggest that you start checking out PhoneScoop and Engadet Mobile for more info. I am no expert just a guy on Slashdot.
"But Microsoft, which bears at least part of the responsibility for the mistake, is paying the price with its reputation." Microsoft bears ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MISTAKE! They own Danger and they run the data center that stores the data! It was their fault 100%.
"But you're *not* going to shoot armless, defenseless people and even more so woman and children. Even if they belong to a country of your political enemy." Japan did in mass. Really read about the rape of Nanjing or how they treated the Koreans.
The US went to war when we where attacked that is true but the US was supporting China and England before Pearl Harbor. The US sold China the best fighters that the US had in service at the time the P-40, they where embargoing Japan for the war in China, and members of the US military where fighting in China as "Volunteers" as the Flying Tigers just like they where in England in the Eagle Squadron. Also a US Gunboat in China was attacked before Perl Harbor as well. As to the Filipinos the was a US territory at that time so yes the attack on the Philippians would have meant war just as the attack in Pearl Harbor did. Japan attacked the US because of our support of China and because we stood in the way it was the same war. But it is really funny Way too many people in the US think WWII started when Japan attacked Perl Harbor. Way too many people in Europe think WWII started when Germany invaded Poland. Some people think WWII started when Italy invaded Ethiopia. A lot of Chinese think it started when Japan invaded Mongolia I find this the second most valid. I think WWII started the day WWI ended or to be more accurate when the US listened to England and France and agreed to an unjust and unwise peace with Germany.
You really think that most governments are clueless? Almost all the industrialized nations have access to experts that could block tor just as well. They don't do it because it is illegal to do it in those nations or they find it immoral to do. I always thought it funny that people thought that TOR was unstoppable by the Chinese or any other government. The elected officials may have limited knowlege of technology but they don't handle the details they give the orders.
I think you get the pros and cons wrong. The new Android phones for VZW are from Motorola. Motorola over all builds really good handsets that have been dull as dirt. They tend to have great build quality and sound quality. This shoals hopefully will live up to that standard. From what I have seen messaging on the Android is very good. Age? The BB is older than dirt and frankly is falling behind.
The Blackberry is great for exchange email. If you live and die by email then the blackberry should be high on your list. If you want cool apps and a good browser and or if you live and die by GMail than take a hard look at Android.
I have a harder problem. Do I get an HTC Hero or wait for the Samsung Moment?
"If an employee drops their phone and needs to replace it ASAP, someone in the company can pull the SIM card, put it into a new phone, and the employee is back to work with minimal downtime - unless you're on a non-GSM carrier in which case you need to have the magic store deactivate the old phone, sell you a new phone, activate it, etc..." If the SIM is from the same carrier or if the phone is "unlocked". CDMA is a better technology than GSM. In fact the new high speed GSM modes are based on... CDMA. Verizon and Sprint both seem to deliver better service in more places than TMobile and AT&T which are the two GSM providers. The idea of unlocked phones with SIM cards is great and if you travel to europe a lot GSM is the way to go but it isn not an old network technology.
You don't travel much do you? Every place matters if you are there. Plus even in places that a lot of people think matter cell service can be spotty at best. I have been in big cites and have lost cell service inside buildings. A lot of convention halls are in basements where cell service is spotty at best. Plus you don't need a contract for this.
Humm that is an interesting idea. Wikiplace. You get a GPS fix and it tells you about the place you are at. If it is a resturant it could give you the menu, maybe the history of the building if it is an old building, and a like the it's web site. Then it could go very wrong. Point it at a house and it tells you the names of the people that live their, where they work, their hobbies, political party.....
"Even an idiot who did not RTFM should not be able to cause harm with the machine." But was this above that limit? Different scans REQUIRE different amounts of radiation. Nothing can be fool proof. I would bet that there is a limiter but this level could be below that limiter.
Take a look at what an Iphone, N95, or Palm Pre cost off contract. A next gen Gameboy phone would probably be just as expensive. But A. I don't work for Nintendo so I don't get to set pricing. and B. I don't think it will happen.
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I do a as well except I couldn't afford a 3dfx or Matrox card back then. But I still feel that saying that "big companies" hurt FOSS is stupid. IBM and Intel contributed a lot to FOSS. Even Red Hat isn't exactly a small company these days.
Sun was a big company and they gave us OpenOffice. I just hope that OpenOffice survives the merger. MySQL while important is easier to replace than OpenOffice IMHO.
The point it that this mindless all big companies are evil idea needs to stop. Google, Yahoo, IBM, Sun, and Intel have all contributed to FOSS and have all benefited from it as it should be.
I think at least some of it is dogma. The lack of a stable binary driver interface is one reason that even using nVidia and ATI's blobs is just a bit of a pain.
I am all for FOSS drivers but I still feel that the lack of a stable binary driver interface is a bad choice. Even if the driver is FOSS it would be nice to have the option of using a driver on a CD that comes in the box with the device if it hasn't made it into the the kernel yet.
Flawed how? 3DFX cards at the the end just couldn't compete with nVidia and ATI. Slow and crappy is probably unfair. To expensive for the performance maybe?
Not all together. If you want an OS/X server this is your cheapest option. As for looks well being small is a nice feature as well as a low power draw. For a SOHO setup it is a plus but frankly it looks like your only choice for a none rackmount OS/X server.
Now putting Linux on one seems really odd but to each their own.
But 3dfx cards where slow and crappy. They died and nVidia picked up what was left after nVidia and ATI killed them. nVidia has for many years produced the best 3d drivers available for Linux even though they where closed source they where free as beer. Not perfect but nVidia was supporting Linux before it was cool.
MySQL? It has had a duel license for forever. Options like Postgres and Firebird have been around for years. So far Oracle has done nothing evil with MySQL so we should get all bent because it could happen> Oracle has been pushing Linux for years for database servers which has been a big help to Linux in the enterprise.
What it comes too is that some people say that Oracle owning MySQL raises anti-trust issues. I just don't see that. Oracle has competition from DB2 and MSSQL in the closed source category and MySQL has competition from PsotgresSQL and Firebird in the FOSS category. If nothing else this is wake up call for more FOSS projects to look at databases other than MySQL.
I am pretty sure that IBM holds a patent on using a conductor to send bits of data.
Nobody with a brain wants to poke the IBM patent bear.
The Moment is using a Samsung SOC maybe this one http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=229&partnum=S3C6410. The performance difference will be interesting to see between Samsungs SOC and the OMAP3.
I really want an android device with Tegra, HD video recording, Android 2.0, big OLED screen, and a pony on the Sprint network.
Sorry but that level of stupidity really got to me today. That and at the time I posted it was modded as +3 insightful was just too much for me to handle.
Umm... the FCC net neutrality rules are for ISPs in the US SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good freaking grief we are talking about regulations FOR US COMPANIES, OPERATING IN THE US, SUPPLY SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS IN THE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about that for a reason!!!!!
Wow you really flunked history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
China estimates 300,000 civillians killed. Japanese sources say only between 100,000 and 200,000 killed.
The city had SURRENDERED and the Japanese went on a rampage.
As I said these people had SURRENDERED.
You so need to read up a little before you post such a stupid comment.
Danger no longer really exists it is part of Microsoft. To blame Danger is like blaming a murder's hand because it held the gun.
Danger is part of Microsoft but if you like it is totally Danger's fault which is now owned by Microsoft so it is totally Microsoft's fault.
"admirable goal of freeing their Asian bothers from the tyranny of Western colonialism."
Nope.
They wanted to free them from the tyranny of Western colonialism to put under Japanese slavery.
The Japanese at that time where every bit as evil as the Germans where.
I suggest that you look up how the Japanese treated the Koreans before you ever again use that term admirable in relation to Japanese goals at that time.
To be fair that Japan of today as well as the Germany of today are nothing like the Japan and Germany of WWII.
Well the Shoal isn't out yet so who knows about the battery life. The HTC that is coming to Verizon isn't going to be the Hero after all but most people think it is going to be very Hero like. They claim 5 hours of talk time.
All smart phones eat batteries faster than feature phones. You need to get used to plugging them in pretty much every night. I am sure some iPhone users will claim they do not but that is what I typically see.
The thing is that you use the daylights out of a modern smartphone battery. You just don't tend to stream Pandora on your feature phone for hours at a time.
I see Blackberries more as super messaging phones than true smart phones. That isn't an insult because they are great at exchange email. The browser sucks but you can get better ones for it.
Just expect to be disappointed at battery life and plan for it.
I suggest that you start checking out PhoneScoop and Engadet Mobile for more info. I am no expert just a guy on Slashdot.
"But Microsoft, which bears at least part of the responsibility for the mistake, is paying the price with its reputation."
Microsoft bears ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MISTAKE!
They own Danger and they run the data center that stores the data!
It was their fault 100%.
"But you're *not* going to shoot armless, defenseless people and even more so woman and children. Even if they belong to a country of your political enemy."
Japan did in mass.
Really read about the rape of Nanjing or how they treated the Koreans.
The US went to war when we where attacked that is true but the US was supporting China and England before Pearl Harbor.
The US sold China the best fighters that the US had in service at the time the P-40, they where embargoing Japan for the war in China, and members of the US military where fighting in China as "Volunteers" as the Flying Tigers just like they where in England in the Eagle Squadron. Also a US Gunboat in China was attacked before Perl Harbor as well.
As to the Filipinos the was a US territory at that time so yes the attack on the Philippians would have meant war just as the attack in Pearl Harbor did.
Japan attacked the US because of our support of China and because we stood in the way it was the same war.
But it is really funny
Way too many people in the US think WWII started when Japan attacked Perl Harbor.
Way too many people in Europe think WWII started when Germany invaded Poland.
Some people think WWII started when Italy invaded Ethiopia.
A lot of Chinese think it started when Japan invaded Mongolia I find this the second most valid.
I think WWII started the day WWI ended or to be more accurate when the US listened to England and France and agreed to an unjust and unwise peace with Germany.
You really think that most governments are clueless?
Almost all the industrialized nations have access to experts that could block tor just as well.
They don't do it because it is illegal to do it in those nations or they find it immoral to do.
I always thought it funny that people thought that TOR was unstoppable by the Chinese or any other government.
The elected officials may have limited knowlege of technology but they don't handle the details they give the orders.
Yea my wife feels the same. The Pre is a great phone but it didn't bring world peace or humility to Steve or Steve!
I think you get the pros and cons wrong.
The new Android phones for VZW are from Motorola. Motorola over all builds really good handsets that have been dull as dirt. They tend to have great build quality and sound quality. This shoals hopefully will live up to that standard.
From what I have seen messaging on the Android is very good.
Age? The BB is older than dirt and frankly is falling behind.
The Blackberry is great for exchange email. If you live and die by email then the blackberry should be high on your list.
If you want cool apps and a good browser and or if you live and die by GMail than take a hard look at Android.
I have a harder problem. Do I get an HTC Hero or wait for the Samsung Moment?
"If an employee drops their phone and needs to replace it ASAP, someone in the company can pull the SIM card, put it into a new phone, and the employee is back to work with minimal downtime - unless you're on a non-GSM carrier in which case you need to have the magic store deactivate the old phone, sell you a new phone, activate it, etc..." ... CDMA.
If the SIM is from the same carrier or if the phone is "unlocked".
CDMA is a better technology than GSM. In fact the new high speed GSM modes are based on
Verizon and Sprint both seem to deliver better service in more places than TMobile and AT&T which are the two GSM providers.
The idea of unlocked phones with SIM cards is great and if you travel to europe a lot GSM is the way to go but it isn not an old network technology.
True they just censor political speech they don't like.
Truth is a lot of I also don't like but they do censor it.
You don't travel much do you?
Every place matters if you are there. Plus even in places that a lot of people think matter cell service can be spotty at best.
I have been in big cites and have lost cell service inside buildings.
A lot of convention halls are in basements where cell service is spotty at best.
Plus you don't need a contract for this.
Humm that is an interesting idea.
Wikiplace. You get a GPS fix and it tells you about the place you are at. If it is a resturant it could give you the menu, maybe the history of the building if it is an old building, and a like the it's web site.
Then it could go very wrong.
Point it at a house and it tells you the names of the people that live their, where they work, their hobbies, political party.....
"Even an idiot who did not RTFM should not be able to cause harm with the machine."
But was this above that limit?
Different scans REQUIRE different amounts of radiation.
Nothing can be fool proof. I would bet that there is a limiter but this level could be below that limiter.
Take a look at what an Iphone, N95, or Palm Pre cost off contract.
A next gen Gameboy phone would probably be just as expensive.
But
A. I don't work for Nintendo so I don't get to set pricing.
and
B. I don't think it will happen.