Hey I have heard of BT and I am not that big of a music fan. BT has charted on the Dance charts and does a lot of remixes. Not as well known as Brittany Spears but then BT only makes music and not tabloid fodder.
It depends on the program displaying the data. Some programs allow you to to click on the row and get that one row highlighted. That is a huge help. Others like tables on a web page don't allow that. In that case I say it does help. Also the size of the table makes a difference.
Well for one thing you can not tell people what apps they can and can not write. There are thousands of very crappy half working apps running under Windows. Same thing for tools. The lack of a single solid app in a class is a problem but frankly not one I see as much as I used to. I have gone to using Linux most of the time at home. I find it easier to do a lot of things under Linux than under Windows. Scary as you may find that statment. Yes I get frustrated using Linux sometimes. I also get frustrated using Windows a lot.
Just one app? Windows has several spreadsheets available for it. Yes Excel is the most popular but there are other. There are also many accounting systems, data base systems, and goodness knows what else. As far as using the beta of 3? Why is that an issue. This is going to be the LTS version of Ubuntu. Version 3 of Firefox will be the supported version for most of the life of that distro. Also Version 3 Beta 5 is very very good. The only real problem I have is that not all of my favorite plug ins have been ported.
I don't think that you can have FOSS project with the totalitarian rule that you want. The closet thing would be OpenSuse, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Each of those distros pick and choose what they install as the default.
Why not. CentOS makes a pretty good Desktop system. It trades bleeding edge for for very stable but it is a fine choice for a desktop where you might value stability over new hotness. I think CentOS is a great but often over looked distro. I am glad to see it shown. This was after all Infoword so I expect that they are thinking more about corp desktops than you home desktop.
Yes and a hovercraft that can carry many tons of cargo is also useful. Just not for more people. Your examples are good uses of twitter and they make up what.001% of the users of twitter?
Again it is an opinion. That is why I said that "I think it is useless". I also think that seafood is gross, $300+ video cards for gaming are a huge waste of money, and that 99.99% of all blogs a waste of electrons. Hey I don't get to rule the universe based on my will so don't worry about twitter going away anytime soon.
States have made that arrangement for purchases over a certain amount. But we are not talking about a Car here but a book or even a notebook PC. The problems with the current mess of a sales tax system is one that I know all too well. The company I work for has run into it time and time again. It is currently a huge mess. As I said I have no problem paying sales tax. I have a problem with companies having to act as tax collectors for every state, county, town, hamlet, and village. Even if they just get it down to the state level it would be workable but the current mess is just that a mess.
Well I feel it is useless because most people's lives are deadly dull. Minute to minute updates? Sure for some people it may be interesting but for the most part I really don't care what somebody ate for lunch. Notice though before you get your knickers in a knot. "I think it is one of the most useless things on the face of the earth." I didn't say, "It is one of the most useless things on the face of the earth." My statment is without question factual since that is how I feel about it. If you find it useful well then you disagree and that is fine.
twitter is a microblogging system. You can twitter from your cell or PC. I think it is one of the most usless things on the face of the earth but it seems popular for some strange reason.
How far do you want to take this? Should I have to pay sales tax to my home state if I buy a cookie and bring it across the boarder?
The REAL problem with collecting sales tax for online sales has nothing to do with the customer paying the state. It has EVERYTHING to do with the burden on the retailer. Do you have any idea how big a mess the sales tax system in most places is? It can very from county to county and even from town to town in the county. So under your system let me show you how this would work. Any website that sells anything is going to have to register with not just EVERY STATE but every county and town. Each of them will require that you pay a fee to get your tax number... Oh joy. Then every quarter you will have to file a few THOUSAND tax reports. One per city, county, and state. Then you will have to have some way to decide which local gets the tax and what the rate is. Do you tax the shipping address or the billing address? So what your plan would do is drive every small web store right out of business. It is unconstitutional for the states to tax interstate commerce. So your little rant is just that a rant. Do we give to many tax cuts to the very rich and big companies? Yea I think so but this has NOTHING to do with that. In this case the tax break is going right to the consumer aka the little guy. Under your plan the burden would be on the small companies and the consumer.
Archival DVDs should be good for at least 20 years. You can sit them on a shelf and they should be just fine. Tapes have a long and proven track record for backup use. However if you are going to use an External HD for backup then losing ReiserFS is still not a big deal. You know it is coming so start migrating now. Just as you know that EIDE is going to go away so you should probably start migrating your backup to SATA drives instead of EIDE/USB external drives. I still don't know why you would use ReiserFS for an external drive. Backups do not need high performance so EXT3 really is good enough so why would anybody user ReiserFS for an external backup drive? So again I would have to say that this is a tiny minor problem and really no big deal.
"Lets look at one of the most successful cars of all time. The 1967 VW Beetle weighed 1850lbs and had 53hp, [wikipedia.org] and they worked just fine." Not it didn't. 1. It wouldn't come close to meeting modern safety requirements. 2. It wouldn't come close to meeting modern emission. 3. Don't even think if driving it in the mountains.
I do agree that modern cars seem way over powered. I had a VW golf GTI in 1986. It made all of 90 HP and was pretty dang quick for it's day. I just bought a Mazda 3 and was shocked that I couldn't get the "small" 2 liter engine in the hatchback. The 2.3 liter motor is way more powerful than I need. Yea it is fun to drive but I never have to even get close to flooring it the pass or merge. I think the 2 or even a 1.8 would have been good enough. But the 67 VW is a hunk of junk compared to a modern car in most ways. Yes it is a classic but so is a Model T.
I don't think that anybody with enough money can get any legislation they want passed. There are still limits. But I would bet that their are more than a few big wigs at IBM, and maybe even Intel, and AMD that would like to see it as well.
That is what he is doing. Bolts from the blue and frogs are so old testament. This way McBride will know that he did wrong the entire time he is being struck down.
Well I don't think this is a plutocracy but if you want to take it from that point of view fine. IBM wants to see McBride in jail. It would be a lovely show of force and the danger of messing with Big Blue in Big Blue's back yard. So from your view point I would say McBride is looking at some hard time. I on the other hand would bet he is just an idiot that listened to other idiots and believed every word he said.
Umm it is a comic book. And I don't care if everything is completely possible or not. It is for entertainment.
Of course I really hated Signs. DUMBEST Aliens ever. Imagine crossing Interstellar distances only to be defeated by super soakers and a Redneck with a baseball bat.
Flash drives are great but they are not great at arcivile backups. I don't think you will be seeing optical media going away anytime soon. DVD drives are about as cheap as CD drives and DVDR drives are very cheap. Optical drives are only being pulled from sub notebooks and even then they do seemed to be missed.
Why would you have a backup stored Reiser? External HDs are not a good archival backup system. Every HD is going to fail someday. Taps, CDs, DVDs and so on are what you want for long term back ups. If you are using Reiser for a short term back up system.. Well you now have plenty of time to change over before it is bit rotted to worthlessness. So yes it really is no big deal because Reiser is still useful.
I know that many people are using external Hard drives for backup but it really isn't a good idea for critical data. They are fragile, they can get fried by a power surge, and they have a limited life span. Good quality CDRs or even better good quality DVDs seem like a much better method.
I think Joomla/Mambo is just a little easier to install but why is that a big deal with a CMS? Installing something like a CMS is such a small part of running a website that it is one of the things I worry about the least. Security, flexibility, speed, and ease of management all seem more important than how easy it is to install.
The problem is that it seems most people can not tell the difference between facts and opinion. I really like the and use the wikipedia but sometimes I just have to shake my head.
The big problem with the Wikipedia comes down to one of opinion. As long as it is just facts then it seems too work pretty well. When it comes to opinion then things get into trouble. One persons white washing is somebody elses setting the record straight. What is funny is bias and opinion can creep into the strangest articles.
Well not every good project can be picked up if the prime developer drops it. In this case it really is no big deal since there are many good replacements already out and available. XFS, JFS, EXT3, and maybe someday ZFS. Of course the same thing can happen with closed source. A good example I know involves a spell checker. The company I work for bought a spell check to use on our program. Well they stopped supporting it and we where left with a none working unsupported spell check library. We are no using a FOSS spell check library. Even if the current developers stop we have the source so we can keep adding to it. We have already added some features and submitted them to the project.
But last time I checked SSD's write performance was pretty slow. Thing do change so that might be one. However for a mostly read database I can see how it would be ideal.
It does look interesting but my point is you have to look at sample size. I deal with about 10k to 15k users. If on a thousand people have a problem with something then I get to hear about 10 times a day. Just because your system is stable with reiserfs doesn't me that it is stable for everybody.
The systems depend from state to state and even for federal prisons. Yes somebody is getting closer to release and if they behave they often move to better and better conditions. Of course if they are hard core it is possible that they will go right form high security to release when their time is up.
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Hey I have heard of BT and I am not that big of a music fan.
BT has charted on the Dance charts and does a lot of remixes.
Not as well known as Brittany Spears but then BT only makes music and not tabloid fodder.
It depends on the program displaying the data. Some programs allow you to to click on the row and get that one row highlighted. That is a huge help. Others like tables on a web page don't allow that. In that case I say it does help.
Also the size of the table makes a difference.
Well for one thing you can not tell people what apps they can and can not write. There are thousands of very crappy half working apps running under Windows. Same thing for tools. The lack of a single solid app in a class is a problem but frankly not one I see as much as I used to.
I have gone to using Linux most of the time at home. I find it easier to do a lot of things under Linux than under Windows. Scary as you may find that statment.
Yes I get frustrated using Linux sometimes. I also get frustrated using Windows a lot.
Just one app? Windows has several spreadsheets available for it. Yes Excel is the most popular but there are other. There are also many accounting systems, data base systems, and goodness knows what else.
As far as using the beta of 3? Why is that an issue. This is going to be the LTS version of Ubuntu. Version 3 of Firefox will be the supported version for most of the life of that distro. Also Version 3 Beta 5 is very very good. The only real problem I have is that not all of my favorite plug ins have been ported.
I don't think that you can have FOSS project with the totalitarian rule that you want. The closet thing would be OpenSuse, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Each of those distros pick and choose what they install as the default.
Why not. CentOS makes a pretty good Desktop system. It trades bleeding edge for for very stable but it is a fine choice for a desktop where you might value stability over new hotness.
I think CentOS is a great but often over looked distro. I am glad to see it shown. This was after all Infoword so I expect that they are thinking more about corp desktops than you home desktop.
and calling or texting somebody with the same message wouldn't have done the same thing?
Yes and a hovercraft that can carry many tons of cargo is also useful. Just not for more people. Your examples are good uses of twitter and they make up what .001% of the users of twitter?
Again it is an opinion. That is why I said that "I think it is useless". I also think that seafood is gross, $300+ video cards for gaming are a huge waste of money, and that 99.99% of all blogs a waste of electrons. Hey I don't get to rule the universe based on my will so don't worry about twitter going away anytime soon.
States have made that arrangement for purchases over a certain amount. But we are not talking about a Car here but a book or even a notebook PC.
The problems with the current mess of a sales tax system is one that I know all too well. The company I work for has run into it time and time again. It is currently a huge mess. As I said I have no problem paying sales tax. I have a problem with companies having to act as tax collectors for every state, county, town, hamlet, and village.
Even if they just get it down to the state level it would be workable but the current mess is just that a mess.
Well I feel it is useless because most people's lives are deadly dull. Minute to minute updates? Sure for some people it may be interesting but for the most part I really don't care what somebody ate for lunch.
Notice though before you get your knickers in a knot.
"I think it is one of the most useless things on the face of the earth."
I didn't say, "It is one of the most useless things on the face of the earth."
My statment is without question factual since that is how I feel about it. If you find it useful well then you disagree and that is fine.
twitter is a microblogging system.
You can twitter from your cell or PC.
I think it is one of the most usless things on the face of the earth but it seems popular for some strange reason.
How far do you want to take this? Should I have to pay sales tax to my home state if I buy a cookie and bring it across the boarder?
The REAL problem with collecting sales tax for online sales has nothing to do with the customer paying the state. It has EVERYTHING to do with the burden on the retailer. Do you have any idea how big a mess the sales tax system in most places is?
It can very from county to county and even from town to town in the county.
So under your system let me show you how this would work.
Any website that sells anything is going to have to register with not just EVERY STATE but every county and town. Each of them will require that you pay a fee to get your tax number... Oh joy.
Then every quarter you will have to file a few THOUSAND tax reports. One per city, county, and state.
Then you will have to have some way to decide which local gets the tax and what the rate is. Do you tax the shipping address or the billing address?
So what your plan would do is drive every small web store right out of business.
It is unconstitutional for the states to tax interstate commerce.
So your little rant is just that a rant. Do we give to many tax cuts to the very rich and big companies? Yea I think so but this has NOTHING to do with that. In this case the tax break is going right to the consumer aka the little guy.
Under your plan the burden would be on the small companies and the consumer.
Archival DVDs should be good for at least 20 years. You can sit them on a shelf and they should be just fine. Tapes have a long and proven track record for backup use.
However if you are going to use an External HD for backup then losing ReiserFS is still not a big deal. You know it is coming so start migrating now. Just as you know that EIDE is going to go away so you should probably start migrating your backup to SATA drives instead of EIDE/USB external drives.
I still don't know why you would use ReiserFS for an external drive. Backups do not need high performance so EXT3 really is good enough so why would anybody user ReiserFS for an external backup drive? So again I would have to say that this is a tiny minor problem and really no big deal.
"Lets look at one of the most successful cars of all time. The 1967 VW Beetle weighed 1850lbs and had 53hp, [wikipedia.org] and they worked just fine."
Not it didn't.
1. It wouldn't come close to meeting modern safety requirements.
2. It wouldn't come close to meeting modern emission.
3. Don't even think if driving it in the mountains.
I do agree that modern cars seem way over powered. I had a VW golf GTI in 1986. It made all of 90 HP and was pretty dang quick for it's day. I just bought a Mazda 3 and was shocked that I couldn't get the "small" 2 liter engine in the hatchback. The 2.3 liter motor is way more powerful than I need. Yea it is fun to drive but I never have to even get close to flooring it the pass or merge. I think the 2 or even a 1.8 would have been good enough.
But the 67 VW is a hunk of junk compared to a modern car in most ways. Yes it is a classic but so is a Model T.
I don't think that anybody with enough money can get any legislation they want passed. There are still limits.
But I would bet that their are more than a few big wigs at IBM, and maybe even Intel, and AMD that would like to see it as well.
That is what he is doing. Bolts from the blue and frogs are so old testament.
This way McBride will know that he did wrong the entire time he is being struck down.
Well I don't think this is a plutocracy but if you want to take it from that point of view fine.
IBM wants to see McBride in jail. It would be a lovely show of force and the danger of messing with Big Blue in Big Blue's back yard.
So from your view point I would say McBride is looking at some hard time.
I on the other hand would bet he is just an idiot that listened to other idiots and believed every word he said.
Umm it is a comic book. And I don't care if everything is completely possible or not. It is for entertainment.
Of course I really hated Signs. DUMBEST Aliens ever. Imagine crossing Interstellar distances only to be defeated by super soakers and a Redneck with a baseball bat.
Flash drives are great but they are not great at arcivile backups.
I don't think you will be seeing optical media going away anytime soon. DVD drives are about as cheap as CD drives and DVDR drives are very cheap.
Optical drives are only being pulled from sub notebooks and even then they do seemed to be missed.
Why would you have a backup stored Reiser?
External HDs are not a good archival backup system. Every HD is going to fail someday. Taps, CDs, DVDs and so on are what you want for long term back ups.
If you are using Reiser for a short term back up system.. Well you now have plenty of time to change over before it is bit rotted to worthlessness.
So yes it really is no big deal because Reiser is still useful.
I know that many people are using external Hard drives for backup but it really isn't a good idea for critical data. They are fragile, they can get fried by a power surge, and they have a limited life span. Good quality CDRs or even better good quality DVDs seem like a much better method.
I think Joomla/Mambo is just a little easier to install but why is that a big deal with a CMS? Installing something like a CMS is such a small part of running a website that it is one of the things I worry about the least. Security, flexibility, speed, and ease of management all seem more important than how easy it is to install.
The problem is that it seems most people can not tell the difference between facts and opinion.
I really like the and use the wikipedia but sometimes I just have to shake my head.
The big problem with the Wikipedia comes down to one of opinion.
As long as it is just facts then it seems too work pretty well. When it comes to opinion then things get into trouble.
One persons white washing is somebody elses setting the record straight.
What is funny is bias and opinion can creep into the strangest articles.
Well not every good project can be picked up if the prime developer drops it.
In this case it really is no big deal since there are many good replacements already out and available.
XFS, JFS, EXT3, and maybe someday ZFS.
Of course the same thing can happen with closed source.
A good example I know involves a spell checker. The company I work for bought a spell check to use on our program. Well they stopped supporting it and we where left with a none working unsupported spell check library.
We are no using a FOSS spell check library. Even if the current developers stop we have the source so we can keep adding to it. We have already added some features and submitted them to the project.
But last time I checked SSD's write performance was pretty slow. Thing do change so that might be one. However for a mostly read database I can see how it would be ideal.
It does look interesting but my point is you have to look at sample size.
I deal with about 10k to 15k users. If on a thousand people have a problem with something then I get to hear about 10 times a day.
Just because your system is stable with reiserfs doesn't me that it is stable for everybody.
The systems depend from state to state and even for federal prisons.
Yes somebody is getting closer to release and if they behave they often move to better and better conditions.
Of course if they are hard core it is possible that they will go right form high security to release when their time is up.