I wrote a forum for by companies website way back around 95. At first I let people pick their own username and passwords. People kept forgetting them and not typing them in the right case. So I put this text up. "Remember your user name and password are case sensitive." I then had a guy call up asking me to change his user name and password for him. It seems his user name as case and his password was sensitive... I soon made the website assign your user name and password to you. But then I had people get insulted over their random password... We are using a CMS now and I have very little to do with it.. Thank goodness.
Yea a compass is very useful to say the least. The sailplane I few kind of had a built in airspeed indicator. It was a 2-33 so the wind over the fabric gave you a lot of feedback about airspeed.
I think the 47 had at least 200 HP. Not only that but the engine was a nice light aircooled air craft engine. Not only that but a 47 loaded with four people would be marginal at best and would be flown by an expert military pilot that actually knew how to fly a helicopter.
Sorry I was thinking of just flight instruments. I think of a compass as a navigational aid and the other as engine instruments. I learned to fly sailplanes so engine instruments kind of slipped my mind. Not to mention that was back in high school and I haven't flow since then:) So thanks for filling me in. But the lack of those instruments in a helicopter will in no way prevent the pilot form killing themselves.
With almost a million or is it now more registered users you are going to get and equal number of genius and complete loons. BTW. Hey you stupid jerks why didn't you take my submission? I bet the government got to you!
In Soviet Russia and Beowulf cluster of old Koreans imagines you.
No but sending him to college might be a brilliant start. After he goes to college then maybe building helicopters in country could be an option. Or crop dusters? Or UAVs? Or maybe even just a shop to do helicopter maintenance in country? The man seems to have lots of raw talent. Now he needs education and opportunity.
I couldn't tell from the picture if it has any type of flapping hinge or seesaw arrangement of the blades to deal with the advancing blade problem. If not then if it goes more than a few KPH it will start to roll.
You really don't need any instruments to fly in clear weather. I think the only "required" instruments for VFR flight are an altimeter and airspeed indicator. Lots of hang gliders don't even have those. In a helicopter seven feet is enough to kill you. Heck you can kill yourself on the ground with just a little bad luck. All it would take is for the transmission to let go and have a 133 HP chain whip through the cabin. Helicopters are complex beasts.
It may hover in ground effect but I doubt that it can fly out side of it. 133 HP is way under powered for a four seat helicopter. It is a wonderful attempt but I hope he doesn't kill himself. He has talent that is for sure.
Yep it means you have to download all the parts and do the work that the CentOS team does for you. CentOS is free as in beer. CentOS is free as in speech and beer, and it is easy. So why wouldn't you use CentOS?
I have to say that isn't 100% true. I work for a company that makes a windows program. It is an industry specific program that these people must have to do there job. There isn't a Mac program available in this industry. We are seeing a few people buying Macs and using Bootcamp to run our software. Just what we are seeing. That and the company we buy our notebooks from are now including and XP downgrade disk! Not proof but it is a big change.
It is great if you are the lowest common denominator. You have the advantage. Why pay more to play the same game. One big reason why the PS3 isn't doing all that well.
"Who gets arrested for interrupting people?" Okay go to any concert and "interupt" it. You will be asked to leave and if you don't you will be arrested. Try it at a play. Or any conference. You will be asked to leave or arrested. "Who gets arrested for recording people without their consent?" Umm... Just about anyone. Most states have laws on recording a conversation without permission or at least notification. Why do you think when you call tech support you are informed that "this call may be recorded". "Who gets arrested for making false statements?" Anyone if they are outlandish enough. If you are ordered by a judge to stop making statements then you can go to jail for making them. In this case they wanted her to be evaluated. She was pretty much being Baker acted. If you start making false accusations about people publicly you can be ordered by a judge to stop slandering people. So far none of these hold a candle to what goes on in China. If you think they do the do then you are really lacking a sense of proportion.
Well until you can show me that FOSS can fill every need then some people will continue to need these firms. So far FOSS has only matched or bettered closed source in a few areas.
The two big ones off the top of my head where Webmin and PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL was there but it wasn't the latest stable release. Which is typical of all distros but they also didn't have a deb on the PostgreSQL. The other was Webmin which which shocked me. That took a lot of time to get all the dependencies in this case perl modules working. Of course things change so both those problems my have changed. Ubuntu Server doesn't suck. I just think that anyone that is setting up a server from scratch should take a look at CentOS. I will say one thing for Ubuntu Server, I liked Ubuntu Sever better than Debian even even though they share a lot of common heritage.
"I work at a school, and we are getting the latest version of a new student management database that runs the latest version of SQL (we will have to buy the latest version). It is of course is accessed by Access 2007 so I will have to upgrade all of the administration to Office 2007." All I can say is yuck. Sorry but Access even with a back end is painful. Well at least it isn't Foxbase. However I see that is an ideal "rental" market. If I was a vendor I would be tempted to offer you a service where you pay by the year and I provided you with the hardware, updates, and support. Of course I would use PostgreSQL, CentOS, and maybe Java for the app.
Well I can not answer for Slashdot but I can think of a few reasons I would. CentOS based off Redhat Enterprise. It favors stability over "new hotness". But unlike Debian it keeps pretty up to date without going to "Testing" or "Unstable". Yes I have used Debian and I am not a big fan. It may have changed so try it for yourself. I also use OpenSuse daily. Yast is a mixed blessing. I find it very slow and too gui like for a server. I use it on my desktop and several servers in my office. I have years of experience with it. I bet I could set up Yum on Suse but just have not. Yast works in it's own way. The other thing is servercentric packages will be available for RedHat Enterprise first. I have never seen a major server package come out for OpenSuse before RedHat Enterprise. They may come out at the same time but not before. RedHat RPMs will work for CentOS so you benefit from RedHat popularity. I set up Ubuntu server as a test. I found it to be a big pain. A lot of packages I wanted where not in the repositories so I spent a lot of time compiling stuff and chasing libraries. For a server I would have to say that when it comes to CentOS the question really isn't "Why" but "why not".
Depending on how hard it is to get the waiver I would current system is better than getting ride of them. For example in a small town I could see one company owning both a Spanish radio station and newspaper. I would worry about one company owning ALL the TV or Radio stations that serve and area. I would like to see the public service requirements brought back as well but hey that is just me.
Interesting. I guess you haven't heard that they have found the function for the Appendix? It seems that unless it is infected you are better off with it than without it. It acts as a store house of helpful bacteria that are used to replenish your digestive track after an illness cause them become depleted. It seems that the idea of taking out healthy appendix as a precaution was as bad of an idea as taking out tonsils.
"Nintendo will have the $249 next gen HD capable console (that will also be profitable) and compatible with the Wii and it's extensive install base. Nintendo will continue to have MORE ideas, and will poach the great ones from Microsoft as well." That is my perdiction as well. But betting on more super winning ideas... That is risky. What everybody seems to have forgoten is that the Video Console game if changing for Microsoft and Sony. I keep feeling that they don't care about games at all. They are just a way to get the console into the home. I get the feeling that they are both aiming at IPTV.
It is going to hit EVERY software company sooner or later. The main cause of this problem is Microsoft and Windows. The good thing is it is going to hit Microsoft just as hard as every one else. Every program can only get to be so good and so feature rich. Eventually it becomes a waste to buy the "new version" Many people felt that way with Office 2000 and even more with Office 2003. Same thing will happen with Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver. That and it looks like we are stuck with Windows forever at this point. So people are not buying new versions when they buy a new OS. Microsoft knows that if they break backward computability people will scream. And they do scream. So how do companies make money? The stop selling software and rent it. Some software is immune to this. Tax software is always going to be great income stream since you have to get a new version every year. Games because people will always want new games. But the key thing is that software just doesn't wear out. I know that the FOSS zealots will start screaming for joy at this but then you have the other problem. The FOSS model doesn't yet provide the same quality in every market as Closed Source does. GIMP is not as good as Photoshop CS btw my wife Loves GIMP and uses it all the time. She does think it is better than Photoshop Elements. OpenOffice is not as good as Office " I do think it is good enough for most people". There no FOSS replacment for Solidworks, ProE, or even TurboCad. So the industry is has a problem. How do you stay in business? I think the renting of applications is a really BAD solution.
"Oh great, another rant about how "if it doesn't work out of the box then ma and pa won't use it and it's not worth making". Goddammit, geeks are people too, and deserve cool toys." No one deserves toys. That is just silly. They are not but not a write. There are a lot of toys on the market. They tend to be very expensive. Nokia really isn't in the cool toy business. I think it is great they keep developing their web pad but I think it really needs more Flash and to be marketed as web enabled media player. That is my opinon based on what I want to see.
"Wait a minute... You started out responding to a post in which a not-very-savvy wife seems to like a portable IM by saying that doesn't matter cos this is slashdot, then you say you don't see the value in a portable IM as if that somehow matters (you're on slashdot after all)." Yes I don't see the value but other might. Also she has this working because her uber tech hubby set it up. She in this case is acting as a Geek by proxy. Also people really need to learn to read better. I said, "I see no value in having an IM client with me at all times." What I didn't say was "There is no value" in it.
My idea for an SMS->Jabber gateway. It was just an idea. However what you should notice is that. I said maybe I would write it. Yes me not somebody else needs to write it. It would be a fun test to see if having the option for people to IM me on my cell has any real value. It might be an age thing but most of the people I know have stopped using IMs. About the only time I use an IM is between my and my wife.
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I wrote a forum for by companies website way back around 95. At first I let people pick their own username and passwords. People kept forgetting them and not typing them in the right case.
So I put this text up. "Remember your user name and password are case sensitive." I then had a guy call up asking me to change his user name and password for him. It seems his user name as case and his password was sensitive...
I soon made the website assign your user name and password to you. But then I had people get insulted over their random password...
We are using a CMS now and I have very little to do with it.. Thank goodness.
Yea a compass is very useful to say the least. The sailplane I few kind of had a built in airspeed indicator. It was a 2-33 so the wind over the fabric gave you a lot of feedback about airspeed.
I think the 47 had at least 200 HP. Not only that but the engine was a nice light aircooled air craft engine.
Not only that but a 47 loaded with four people would be marginal at best and would be flown by an expert military pilot that actually knew how to fly a helicopter.
Sorry I was thinking of just flight instruments. I think of a compass as a navigational aid and the other as engine instruments. I learned to fly sailplanes so engine instruments kind of slipped my mind. Not to mention that was back in high school and I haven't flow since then :) So thanks for filling me in.
But the lack of those instruments in a helicopter will in no way prevent the pilot form killing themselves.
With almost a million or is it now more registered users you are going to get and equal number of genius and complete loons.
BTW.
Hey you stupid jerks why didn't you take my submission? I bet the government got to you!
In Soviet Russia and Beowulf cluster of old Koreans imagines you.
No but sending him to college might be a brilliant start.
After he goes to college then maybe building helicopters in country could be an option.
Or crop dusters?
Or UAVs?
Or maybe even just a shop to do helicopter maintenance in country?
The man seems to have lots of raw talent. Now he needs education and opportunity.
I couldn't tell from the picture if it has any type of flapping hinge or seesaw arrangement of the blades to deal with the advancing blade problem. If not then if it goes more than a few KPH it will start to roll.
You really don't need any instruments to fly in clear weather. I think the only "required" instruments for VFR flight are an altimeter and airspeed indicator. Lots of hang gliders don't even have those.
In a helicopter seven feet is enough to kill you. Heck you can kill yourself on the ground with just a little bad luck. All it would take is for the transmission to let go and have a 133 HP chain whip through the cabin. Helicopters are complex beasts.
It may hover in ground effect but I doubt that it can fly out side of it. 133 HP is way under powered for a four seat helicopter. It is a wonderful attempt but I hope he doesn't kill himself. He has talent that is for sure.
Yep it means you have to download all the parts and do the work that the CentOS team does for you.
CentOS is free as in beer. CentOS is free as in speech and beer, and it is easy.
So why wouldn't you use CentOS?
I have to say that isn't 100% true.
I work for a company that makes a windows program. It is an industry specific program that these people must have to do there job. There isn't a Mac program available in this industry.
We are seeing a few people buying Macs and using Bootcamp to run our software.
Just what we are seeing.
That and the company we buy our notebooks from are now including and XP downgrade disk!
Not proof but it is a big change.
Really? Can you give me a link to the ISOs so I can download it?
It is great if you are the lowest common denominator.
You have the advantage. Why pay more to play the same game. One big reason why the PS3 isn't doing all that well.
"Who gets arrested for interrupting people?"
Okay go to any concert and "interupt" it. You will be asked to leave and if you don't you will be arrested.
Try it at a play.
Or any conference.
You will be asked to leave or arrested.
"Who gets arrested for recording people without their consent?"
Umm... Just about anyone. Most states have laws on recording a conversation without permission or at least notification.
Why do you think when you call tech support you are informed that "this call may be recorded".
"Who gets arrested for making false statements?"
Anyone if they are outlandish enough. If you are ordered by a judge to stop making statements then you can go to jail for making them. In this case they wanted her to be evaluated. She was pretty much being Baker acted. If you start making false accusations about people publicly you can be ordered by a judge to stop slandering people.
So far none of these hold a candle to what goes on in China. If you think they do the do then you are really lacking a sense of proportion.
Well until you can show me that FOSS can fill every need then some people will continue to need these firms.
So far FOSS has only matched or bettered closed source in a few areas.
Yes but it is free. RES costs money.
The two big ones off the top of my head where Webmin and PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL was there but it wasn't the latest stable release. Which is typical of all distros but they also didn't have a deb on the PostgreSQL. The other was Webmin which which shocked me. That took a lot of time to get all the dependencies in this case perl modules working.
Of course things change so both those problems my have changed. Ubuntu Server doesn't suck. I just think that anyone that is setting up a server from scratch should take a look at CentOS. I will say one thing for Ubuntu Server, I liked Ubuntu Sever better than Debian even even though they share a lot of common heritage.
"I work at a school, and we are getting the latest version of a new student management database that runs the latest version of SQL (we will have to buy the latest version). It is of course is accessed by Access 2007 so I will have to upgrade all of the administration to Office 2007."
All I can say is yuck.
Sorry but Access even with a back end is painful. Well at least it isn't Foxbase.
However I see that is an ideal "rental" market. If I was a vendor I would be tempted to offer you a service where you pay by the year and I provided you with the hardware, updates, and support.
Of course I would use PostgreSQL, CentOS, and maybe Java for the app.
Well I can not answer for Slashdot but I can think of a few reasons I would.
CentOS based off Redhat Enterprise. It favors stability over "new hotness". But unlike Debian it keeps pretty up to date without going to "Testing" or "Unstable". Yes I have used Debian and I am not a big fan. It may have changed so try it for yourself.
I also use OpenSuse daily. Yast is a mixed blessing. I find it very slow and too gui like for a server. I use it on my desktop and several servers in my office. I have years of experience with it. I bet I could set up Yum on Suse but just have not. Yast works in it's own way. The other thing is servercentric packages will be available for RedHat Enterprise first. I have never seen a major server package come out for OpenSuse before RedHat Enterprise. They may come out at the same time but not before. RedHat RPMs will work for CentOS so you benefit from RedHat popularity.
I set up Ubuntu server as a test. I found it to be a big pain. A lot of packages I wanted where not in the repositories so I spent a lot of time compiling stuff and chasing libraries.
For a server I would have to say that when it comes to CentOS the question really isn't "Why" but "why not".
I have to give you high marks for using CentOS. It is a great server distro.
CentOS doesn't get the publicity that it should IMHO.
Depending on how hard it is to get the waiver I would current system is better than getting ride of them.
For example in a small town I could see one company owning both a Spanish radio station and newspaper.
I would worry about one company owning ALL the TV or Radio stations that serve and area.
I would like to see the public service requirements brought back as well but hey that is just me.
Interesting. I guess you haven't heard that they have found the function for the Appendix? It seems that unless it is infected you are better off with it than without it.
It acts as a store house of helpful bacteria that are used to replenish your digestive track after an illness cause them become depleted. It seems that the idea of taking out healthy appendix as a precaution was as bad of an idea as taking out tonsils.
"Nintendo will have the $249 next gen HD capable console (that will also be profitable) and compatible with the Wii and it's extensive install base.
Nintendo will continue to have MORE ideas, and will poach the great ones from Microsoft as well."
That is my perdiction as well. But betting on more super winning ideas... That is risky.
What everybody seems to have forgoten is that the Video Console game if changing for Microsoft and Sony.
I keep feeling that they don't care about games at all. They are just a way to get the console into the home. I get the feeling that they are both aiming at IPTV.
It is going to hit EVERY software company sooner or later.
The main cause of this problem is Microsoft and Windows. The good thing is it is going to hit Microsoft just as hard as every one else.
Every program can only get to be so good and so feature rich. Eventually it becomes a waste to buy the "new version" Many people felt that way with Office 2000 and even more with Office 2003. Same thing will happen with Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver. That and it looks like we are stuck with Windows forever at this point. So people are not buying new versions when they buy a new OS. Microsoft knows that if they break backward computability people will scream. And they do scream. So how do companies make money? The stop selling software and rent it.
Some software is immune to this. Tax software is always going to be great income stream since you have to get a new version every year.
Games because people will always want new games.
But the key thing is that software just doesn't wear out.
I know that the FOSS zealots will start screaming for joy at this but then you have the other problem. The FOSS model doesn't yet provide the same quality in every market as Closed Source does. GIMP is not as good as Photoshop CS btw my wife Loves GIMP and uses it all the time. She does think it is better than Photoshop Elements. OpenOffice is not as good as Office " I do think it is good enough for most people". There no FOSS replacment for Solidworks, ProE, or even TurboCad.
So the industry is has a problem. How do you stay in business? I think the renting of applications is a really BAD solution.
"Oh great, another rant about how "if it doesn't work out of the box then ma and pa won't use it and it's not worth making". Goddammit, geeks are people too, and deserve cool toys."
... You started out responding to a post in which a not-very-savvy wife seems to like a portable IM by saying that doesn't matter cos this is slashdot, then you say you don't see the value in a portable IM as if that somehow matters (you're on slashdot after all)."
No one deserves toys. That is just silly. They are not but not a write.
There are a lot of toys on the market. They tend to be very expensive. Nokia really isn't in the cool toy business. I think it is great they keep developing their web pad but I think it really needs more Flash and to be marketed as web enabled media player. That is my opinon based on what I want to see.
"Wait a minute
Yes I don't see the value but other might. Also she has this working because her uber tech hubby set it up. She in this case is acting as a Geek by proxy. Also people really need to learn to read better. I said, "I see no value in having an IM client with me at all times." What I didn't say was "There is no value" in it.
My idea for an SMS->Jabber gateway. It was just an idea. However what you should notice is that.
I said maybe I would write it. Yes me not somebody else needs to write it. It would be a fun test to see if having the option for people to IM me on my cell has any real value.
It might be an age thing but most of the people I know have stopped using IMs. About the only time I use an IM is between my and my wife.