The Treos and the Windows Mobile phones will allow you to add software. They are also a good bit cheaper than the IPhone and are available from a number of different carriers. I happen to like Sprint since they have a good high speed network, and don't cripple their phones like Verizon does. I will not get a cell phone from AT&T because of their stand on net neutrality and the evil that they did in New Orleans after Katrina. If I don't like what a company does I don't support them. It is simple as that. My current phone is a Samsung A900. I like the size and the feature set. My next phone will probably be a smart phone of some kind so I can have SSH on the go.
So before you buy the iPhone YOU ASK! I know that it is a strange concept but notice that I don't have an iPhone. Why rush out to buy it if you have unanswered questions? The iPod doesn't have an end user replaceable battery so why would you expect the iPhone would? Let's see you rush out and buy the latest toy from Apple with out doing any research. You just can't wait for reviews or answers to your questions. So when it doesn't do what you expect you sue them. Yea... great.. It isn't like they told you that it had an end user replaceable battery.
Sorry but not going to happen. It probably wouldn't be all that much better. What sells in the long run is what works. Windows for all it's warts does work for most people. Mac OS/X is selling because it works better for some people and Linux is gaining ground because it works for others. If technical excellence was the only benchmark then Linux would also be in trouble. It is good but even Linux which I do like and use has it's warts. The difference is people are are free to fix the worst of them.
And here is the killer question. What would be the payback time? How long would it take to "make" enough power to pay for the floor? Or even better how long would it take to make enough power to make up for the power it took to make the floor?
1. I don't like that the user can not replace the battery in the IPhone. 2. I am not all that happy with the price of the IPhone. 3. I am not happy with the limited choice of carriers for the IPhone. 4. I am not happy with the lack of an SDK for the IPhone. The solution? I don't own an IPhone.
Last time I checked I did not have a God or Government given right to own exactly the IPhone I want.
By volume, by mass, by number of stages, or by delta V? How do you want to measure it? The post was intentionally vague by using the term primary and was criticizing an earlier post for not doing enough research. I would have let this post go if it hadn't been criticizing someone else. Hence the title Pot this is kettle. Using the term "primary" was at best in accurate in this case from the start. You could say that the Shuttle primarily uses LH2+LOX but frankly the large size of the SRBs make even that very iffy. So nope the original criticism was in no way justified.
That was going to by my question. Why? Most FOSS Linux applications are available for OS/X, just install fink and maybe the Xwindows server. If you really want to run Linux then you have Parallels as an option to run a Linux instance on Mac OS/X. OS/X looks like a great OS that offers a really nice GUI with a nice stable Unix foundation. Unless OS/X compatibility becomes a real issue for Linux users I doubt that you will see the effort needed to make an OS/X Wine-like system. It is an itch that not enough people feel the need to scratch. Of course the true FOSS answer is simply this... Start coding.
"First off you don't have to use the whole thing, secondly double check a couple of facts, the primary fuel for the Saturn V system was LOX and kerosene." The First stage used LOX and kerosene the second and third stages used LOX and H2.
Is there really room for a new player right now? With many years of Windows experience why should I look at Linux? Curiosity only holds so much water when you just want to get stuff done.
Stability, security, and frankly scalability. Solaris has been running on huge SMP systems for many years longer than Linux. It takes security very seriously right up there with Open BSD. And let's face it, Sun has some of the most brilliant Unix developers on the planet.
Yes and no. Not every problem lends it's self to parallel solutions. Even for problems that do break down well into parallel solutions you will eventual reach a point of diminishing returns and complexity issues. So yes just clock speed isn't the simple metric it used to be. But If I have a choice between two multi-core highly parallel cpus, I will take the one with the faster clock speed if everything else is more or less equal.
You see that is what gets me. Code shareing was going on long before RMS and the GPL. Public domain software often included source code. I released source for a Virus checker and Arexx bindings for TDI Modula-2 long before I ever saw the GPL. I even fixed a few bugs in PD software that I had the source for and sent them to the author. It was by snail mail but I did it. Then internet is what really pushed FOSS forward. Frankly I wish RMS would do more talking and less preaching. But then I am not one of the RMS faithful. If not for RMS we would still have BSD if not GCC we would have a different free compiler. Just like if the Wright brothers hadn't built the first airplane Santos Dumont would have "and some day he did but they are full of it". If Frank Whittle hadn't built the first jet engine some one else would have. Very few people are key players in history. The real driver in FOSS development was and still is the Internet and not RMS.
I do think you are being a little jaded. I can see sending out armed space craft since other races where less then friendly at times. Defending yourself is normal.
I look at DS9 as showing the Federation as for lack of a better term human. It is hard to keep your ideals when your very survival is threatened. It is harder still to keep your ideals when your survival is threatened by those that don't share your ideals to start with.
I agree but Ring World is pretty far into Known Space. I was thinking the time before the Kzin wars for a start. There would be very little "space" travel in it. How about one about "We made it".
I hate to say it but I think Star Trek is a case of "Been done to death". I really liked DS9 because it was frankly so different from STNG. There are so many ways that they could have gone with new Star Trek shows that would have been interesting. What was it like to be a normal person at that time? What was happening on Earth? What would it be like to be a settler on a distant planet? Frankly in the original Star Trek Earth was portrayed as almost a Marxist eden where everybody could just sit around being fat dumb and happy while a few brave souls went out and explored the universe. I loved it as a kid but frankly as an adult I see how it could be very boring to live in a world like that. Oh well I think it is time for a new Space show. Why not one based on the works of Larry Niven?
What benefit is it to Microsoft to support these APIs? What benefit is it to Microsoft to support ODF?
To expect a company to do anything that doesn't increase profits is illogical. Unless they will make more sales or not face some type of fine they have no motivation to do anything. Only by customers demanding something different will Microsoft change.
One should not blame a wolf for acting like a wolf.
BTW this message is being posted from a PC running Linux and Firefox. While one should not blame a wolf for acting like a wolf, one should also not ask a wolf to babysit their children.
Have you ever coded for Windows??? Just had to ask since I had too write an install that worked on 98, 2000, and XP. Some of the crap I had to do to find out where to put files was just ugly. I also hate MFC with a passion and have fought with more bugs in it than you can shake a stick at.
Windows isn't as bad as many people on Slashdot say it is but it is really ugly in many ways. Linux also has it's warts but since it is free I am more forgiving.
"I currently work for a small business where this "take the backup tapes home with you for the night" is exactly their "disaster plan." I'm not saying it's a good plan. But it may be more common than you think." Small business != State government.
Plus I would guess that you don't give them any interns but instead to trusted employees. That being said you should talk to your bank. A safety deposit box is pretty cheap.
Okay for a STATE government to use the give the tapes to an Intern to take home for off-site storage is criminal. I don't care how few buildings the state government has even putting them in a back safety deposit box would be better. Good grief... I could live without them using encryption if they had ANY physical security!
I really don't know but I stand by my opinon that Minix did exactly what was expected of it. I helped educate people that went on to write Operating Systems. One of which is Linux. Besides I don't know him well enough to call him Andy. But I would love to meet him.
I forgot that DICE was shareware. It was a nice little compiler. Small c wasn't for embedded systems. In 1980 an 8080 with 16k of ram was a powerful desktop! Maybe you should look more at the history of the GCC compiler.
"GCC was started by Richard Stallman in 1985. He extended an existing compiler to compile C. The compiler originally compiled Pastel, an extended, nonportable dialect of Pascal, and was written in Pastel. It was rewritten in C by Len Tower and Stallman,[3] and released in 1987[4] as the compiler for the GNU Project, in order to have a compiler available that was free software. Its development was supervised by the Free Software Foundation.[5]"
So Stallman based his work on another free compiler. Of course the story doesn't end there.
"In 1997, a group of developers, dissatisfied with the slow pace and closed nature of official GCC development, formed a project called EGCS (Experimental/Enhanced GNU Compiler System), which merged several experimental forks into a single project forked from GCC. EGCS development subsequently proved more vigorous than GCC development, and EGCS was eventually "blessed" as the official version of GCC in April 1999."
So what we know and love as GCC is really based on EGCS because GCC was moving way too slow. Kind of like HURD. The statement that I often here that RMS wrote GCC is an exaggeration. Hie is one of the authors of GCC. If he hadn't of done it someone else would have.
I do think that Thunderbird is a good product. I do agree with your about some of it's limitations. 1. Syncing with Cell phones. It does with some but not most of them. That isn't completely Thunderbirds fault since they don't tend to follow any standards. I would suggest bluetooth since it is some what standard but I haven't found any extensions for Thunderbird that support it. 2. The Calendar should be built in from the start. 3. It really needs a server based on open standards what will offer all of what Exchange does without selling your soul to Microsoft.
Changes I would like to see to Thunderbird. 1. Take a look at using SQLLite to store the settings and email. I know mbox is a standard but I have a few problems with my mailboxes because of the the volume of email I get and store. Also I really like the idea of one file that contains all my email and settings. If I need to take a laptop on a trip I can just copy that file to it and have all my email. When I get back I just copy that one file back and I am good to go. 2. Some way to sync email between PCs. It would be even nicer if I could just hook up my notebook to the network any sync it with my desktop through Thunderbird. 3. Build in a jabber client. IM is being used in offices and integrating it into your mail client could be very useful. If nothing else the IM client should interface with the address book. 4. Improve the address book.
I would love to grab the source and try to play with SQLLite myself but I haven't found the source to download. I also don't know how hard it is to build.
It isn't but let us says you get an email with the subject of "Hot Naked Coeds" and you decide to delete it without opening it. Then you are less likely to be hit by an exploit like a GIF stack overflow or such.
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Yea but if we build some cool robot like Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" we wouldn't have to worry about the evil robots!
The Treos and the Windows Mobile phones will allow you to add software. They are also a good bit cheaper than the IPhone and are available from a number of different carriers.
I happen to like Sprint since they have a good high speed network, and don't cripple their phones like Verizon does.
I will not get a cell phone from AT&T because of their stand on net neutrality and the evil that they did in New Orleans after Katrina.
If I don't like what a company does I don't support them. It is simple as that.
My current phone is a Samsung A900. I like the size and the feature set. My next phone will probably be a smart phone of some kind so I can have SSH on the go.
So before you buy the iPhone YOU ASK! I know that it is a strange concept but notice that I don't have an iPhone. Why rush out to buy it if you have unanswered questions?
The iPod doesn't have an end user replaceable battery so why would you expect the iPhone would?
Let's see you rush out and buy the latest toy from Apple with out doing any research. You just can't wait for reviews or answers to your questions. So when it doesn't do what you expect you sue them.
Yea... great..
It isn't like they told you that it had an end user replaceable battery.
Sorry but not going to happen. It probably wouldn't be all that much better. What sells in the long run is what works. Windows for all it's warts does work for most people. Mac OS/X is selling because it works better for some people and Linux is gaining ground because it works for others.
If technical excellence was the only benchmark then Linux would also be in trouble. It is good but even Linux which I do like and use has it's warts. The difference is people are are free to fix the worst of them.
Use regenerative braking on all the lines? I hear that some of the trains do not yet have that.
Put Solar panels on all the roofs in Boston.
And here is the killer question.
What would be the payback time? How long would it take to "make" enough power to pay for the floor?
Or even better how long would it take to make enough power to make up for the power it took to make the floor?
1. I don't like that the user can not replace the battery in the IPhone.
2. I am not all that happy with the price of the IPhone.
3. I am not happy with the limited choice of carriers for the IPhone.
4. I am not happy with the lack of an SDK for the IPhone.
The solution?
I don't own an IPhone.
Last time I checked I did not have a God or Government given right to own exactly the IPhone I want.
Good freaking grief.
By volume, by mass, by number of stages, or by delta V? How do you want to measure it? The post was intentionally vague by using the term primary and was criticizing an earlier post for not doing enough research. I would have let this post go if it hadn't been criticizing someone else. Hence the title Pot this is kettle. Using the term "primary" was at best in accurate in this case from the start. You could say that the Shuttle primarily uses LH2+LOX but frankly the large size of the SRBs make even that very iffy. So nope the original criticism was in no way justified.
That was going to by my question.
Why?
Most FOSS Linux applications are available for OS/X, just install fink and maybe the Xwindows server. If you really want to run Linux then you have Parallels as an option to run a Linux instance on Mac OS/X.
OS/X looks like a great OS that offers a really nice GUI with a nice stable Unix foundation. Unless OS/X compatibility becomes a real issue for Linux users I doubt that you will see the effort needed to make an OS/X Wine-like system. It is an itch that not enough people feel the need to scratch.
Of course the true FOSS answer is simply this... Start coding.
"First off you don't have to use the whole thing, secondly double check a couple of facts, the primary fuel for the Saturn V system was LOX and kerosene."
The First stage used LOX and kerosene the second and third stages used LOX and H2.
Is there really room for a new player right now? With many years of Windows experience why should I look at Linux? Curiosity only holds so much water when you just want to get stuff done.
Stability, security, and frankly scalability. Solaris has been running on huge SMP systems for many years longer than Linux. It takes security very seriously right up there with Open BSD. And let's face it, Sun has some of the most brilliant Unix developers on the planet.
Yes and no.
Not every problem lends it's self to parallel solutions. Even for problems that do break down well into parallel solutions you will eventual reach a point of diminishing returns and complexity issues.
So yes just clock speed isn't the simple metric it used to be. But If I have a choice between two multi-core highly parallel cpus, I will take the one with the faster clock speed if everything else is more or less equal.
You see that is what gets me. Code shareing was going on long before RMS and the GPL. Public domain software often included source code. I released source for a Virus checker and Arexx bindings for TDI Modula-2 long before I ever saw the GPL.
I even fixed a few bugs in PD software that I had the source for and sent them to the author. It was by snail mail but I did it.
Then internet is what really pushed FOSS forward. Frankly I wish RMS would do more talking and less preaching. But then I am not one of the RMS faithful. If not for RMS we would still have BSD if not GCC we would have a different free compiler. Just like if the Wright brothers hadn't built the first airplane Santos Dumont would have "and some day he did but they are full of it". If Frank Whittle hadn't built the first jet engine some one else would have. Very few people are key players in history. The real driver in FOSS development was and still is the Internet and not RMS.
I do think you are being a little jaded.
I can see sending out armed space craft since other races where less then friendly at times. Defending yourself is normal.
I look at DS9 as showing the Federation as for lack of a better term human.
It is hard to keep your ideals when your very survival is threatened. It is harder still to keep your ideals when your survival is threatened by those that don't share your ideals to start with.
I agree but Ring World is pretty far into Known Space. I was thinking the time before the Kzin wars for a start. There would be very little "space" travel in it. How about one about "We made it".
I hate to say it but I think Star Trek is a case of "Been done to death".
I really liked DS9 because it was frankly so different from STNG. There are so many ways that they could have gone with new Star Trek shows that would have been interesting. What was it like to be a normal person at that time? What was happening on Earth? What would it be like to be a settler on a distant planet? Frankly in the original Star Trek Earth was portrayed as almost a Marxist eden where everybody could just sit around being fat dumb and happy while a few brave souls went out and explored the universe. I loved it as a kid but frankly as an adult I see how it could be very boring to live in a world like that.
Oh well I think it is time for a new Space show. Why not one based on the works of Larry Niven?
What benefit is it to Microsoft to support these APIs?
What benefit is it to Microsoft to support ODF?
To expect a company to do anything that doesn't increase profits is illogical. Unless they will make more sales or not face some type of fine they have no motivation to do anything.
Only by customers demanding something different will Microsoft change.
One should not blame a wolf for acting like a wolf.
BTW this message is being posted from a PC running Linux and Firefox.
While one should not blame a wolf for acting like a wolf, one should also not ask a wolf to babysit their children.
Have you ever coded for Windows???
Just had to ask since I had too write an install that worked on 98, 2000, and XP. Some of the crap I had to do to find out where to put files was just ugly. I also hate MFC with a passion and have fought with more bugs in it than you can shake a stick at.
Windows isn't as bad as many people on Slashdot say it is but it is really ugly in many ways.
Linux also has it's warts but since it is free I am more forgiving.
In my heart, I hope this movie doesn't suck...
"I currently work for a small business where this "take the backup tapes home with you for the night" is exactly their "disaster plan." I'm not saying it's a good plan. But it may be more common than you think."
Small business != State government.
Plus I would guess that you don't give them any interns but instead to trusted employees. That being said you should talk to your bank. A safety deposit box is pretty cheap.
Okay for a STATE government to use the give the tapes to an Intern to take home for off-site storage is criminal. I don't care how few buildings the state government has even putting them in a back safety deposit box would be better. Good grief...
I could live without them using encryption if they had ANY physical security!
I really don't know but I stand by my opinon that Minix did exactly what was expected of it. I helped educate people that went on to write Operating Systems. One of which is Linux.
Besides I don't know him well enough to call him Andy. But I would love to meet him.
I forgot that DICE was shareware. It was a nice little compiler.
Small c wasn't for embedded systems. In 1980 an 8080 with 16k of ram was a powerful desktop!
Maybe you should look more at the history of the GCC compiler.
"GCC was started by Richard Stallman in 1985. He extended an existing compiler to compile C. The compiler originally compiled Pastel, an extended, nonportable dialect of Pascal, and was written in Pastel. It was rewritten in C by Len Tower and Stallman,[3] and released in 1987[4] as the compiler for the GNU Project, in order to have a compiler available that was free software. Its development was supervised by the Free Software Foundation.[5]"
So Stallman based his work on another free compiler. Of course the story doesn't end there.
"In 1997, a group of developers, dissatisfied with the slow pace and closed nature of official GCC development, formed a project called EGCS (Experimental/Enhanced GNU Compiler System), which merged several experimental forks into a single project forked from GCC. EGCS development subsequently proved more vigorous than GCC development, and EGCS was eventually "blessed" as the official version of GCC in April 1999."
So what we know and love as GCC is really based on EGCS because GCC was moving way too slow. Kind of like HURD. The statement that I often here that RMS wrote GCC is an exaggeration. Hie is one of the authors of GCC. If he hadn't of done it someone else would have.
I do think that Thunderbird is a good product.
I do agree with your about some of it's limitations.
1. Syncing with Cell phones. It does with some but not most of them. That isn't completely Thunderbirds fault since they don't tend to follow any standards. I would suggest bluetooth since it is some what standard but I haven't found any extensions for Thunderbird that support it.
2. The Calendar should be built in from the start.
3. It really needs a server based on open standards what will offer all of what Exchange does without selling your soul to Microsoft.
Changes I would like to see to Thunderbird.
1. Take a look at using SQLLite to store the settings and email. I know mbox is a standard but I have a few problems with my mailboxes because of the the volume of email I get and store. Also I really like the idea of one file that contains all my email and settings. If I need to take a laptop on a trip I can just copy that file to it and have all my email. When I get back I just copy that one file back and I am good to go.
2. Some way to sync email between PCs. It would be even nicer if I could just hook up my notebook to the network any sync it with my desktop through Thunderbird.
3. Build in a jabber client. IM is being used in offices and integrating it into your mail client could be very useful. If nothing else the IM client should interface with the address book.
4. Improve the address book.
I would love to grab the source and try to play with SQLLite myself but I haven't found the source to download. I also don't know how hard it is to build.
It isn't but let us says you get an email with the subject of "Hot Naked Coeds" and you decide to delete it without opening it. Then you are less likely to be hit by an exploit like a GIF stack overflow or such.