The Register reports what other people say. They even put a 2 para disclaimer on this one. Every now and then I see somebody on/. bashing them. If only these people would learn to read. Oh wait... people turn into nasty libertarian gun-jumpers when they post here.
A program or channel is truly good, and not hyped up advertised good, when you're willing to set aside web browsing to watch it. Occasionally , even something on a non-PBS channel meets this criteria. The amount of junk in TV land is so overwhelming that you might just be turned off it.
Windows is 5 patches to what? It still duplicates the start bar all over my screen when text scrolls in an xterm. Still moves start bar icons around for fun. At least Linux's patches do something. They're tested by a cast of thousands, so they generally don't break much else. People can read the source, and see what is affected.
The article considers very interesting factors - forces that affect the market, a serendipitous solution to fast typing coming froma solution to a mechanical limitaiton, limiting factors maybe not the keyboard, but neurological, but does not explicitly consider the factor you mentioned - which one is less stressful on the wrists?
It seems to me that the solution of spreading alternating keystrokes to alternating hands might have solved not only the jamming problem, but also the wrists one, but reducing the stretching of the fingers and allowing some rest time between strokes. Sufficient spacing between the keys to avoid cramping is also necessary.
Here's what you said "I only use linksys and have never had one not autodetect in the install. At worst it installs as an NE2000 adapter, which will work. "
Which is that you took the problem to be that the Linksys card wasn't detected in Mr. Petreley's install. But the problem wasn't that, it was that the card wasn't detected when there was another card in the system.
The man said it didn't recognize either when both were installed. He added that it recognized them separately. But you couldn't be bothered to read that in your haste to come to the aid of the fair damsel Win98 eh?
It would appear from this type of product announcement press release, which is typical of the *ahem* genre, that the significant problems in computing have already been worked out. All that is remaining is to find mildly creative combinations of functionalities and deficiencies in existing products or methods (this could go into a patent application eh?), and to fire up the buzzword generator to christen it.
I, myself, have a great admiration for Sun Microsystems and their products, and I think the solution to school funding lies in smart decisions like this Sun server setup. I wouldn't call it salvation at this time though.
Ebay doesn't run. It crashes 7.5 times per summer. So the NT/Solaris combo doesn't work. (Yeah, I know the config is probably badly designed, but who's going to explain that to Dvorak?). So when he asks "when Linux can run Ebay...," it's like saying "when Linux can do fusion at room temperature." It hasn't been done. That is if Microsoft already doesn't have a patent on a process to "convert matter into energy under ambient conditions."
If you think that low "academia" prices that vendors have, and Microsoft's push into schools are similar, then you haven't read the article, and you haven't followed the news.
If we assume that there is really drug-pushing going on in these cafes, and kids are skipping school to hang out there, then this is a good idea.
It is good to see a country accepting the responsibility for its children. Instead of throwing their hands up and getting them out of their hands with vouchers or other such garbage.
The wacko libertarian racist viewpoint has been expressed elsewhere in this thread though, as you would expect from the usual/. suspects.
Who is this guy "Ghandi"?
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This guy Ghandi's got me impressed. "First they laugh at you...," that's witty stuff. I wonder if he bears any relationship to a guy who did some big things in India, who's name was Gandhi?
Aren't we all getting tired of Microsoft's plaintive cry about having the freedom TO innovate? To give MS the freedom to inovate, as they define it, is to throttle innovation's freedom. Because MS works by hiding API calls, incorrectly implementing standards, gloss bloat, they're threatening innovation.
I don't see one bit of similarity between Bill Gates' and Bill Clinton's situations. Maybe your only source of news is the American Spectator, or worse, CNN. Evidence of material harm is being presented in the DOJ case.
You libertarians/republicans really need to find somebody other than Clinton to bash.
/. is a meritocracy, so you say. When this other post talked about seeing outlandish ideas here that weren't in the regular media, this is the kind of opinion he was referring to.
Moderation promotes the meritocracy, so you say. Geez, if you could meet the monkeys who moderate...! One of them, am I.
I don't think it's a meritocracy, but it is a place to look at a variety of informed babble. Techno-babble (pretty high on the buzzword list, eh?) doesn't make it out into the conventional media, but it does here, as on Usenet. Progress can only come from diversity. Look at the human race (unless you're from Kansas).
In the event of a legal challenge against the GPL, or a case seeking the enforcement of the GPL; does it help that a company like 3Com is using it, posting it on its site, etc? A company like 3Com is likely to be familiar to the people deciding a case as one that has a significant market share, etc.
The reason why so many of these hyped up researches never see the light of day is that they're based on the lets-kill-some-animals approach. Consider, these guys couldn't begin to tell you how humans would react to this therapy, based on what a bunch of mute monkeys did. Consider also, they had no idea of what the brains looked like before the treatment. All they had are the cut up brains after the therapy. What if they picked up 4 monkeys that had better brains to begin with? It's almost as bad as that self-aggrandizing I-can-make-life "scientist".
I don't have any technical insight or vision or idea about this; but I run Slackware on a Tecra 500 which also uses a CS4232-compatible sound chip(set?) and it isn't fazed by suspend/resumes. In fact, the only things I have left to get working on this one are infrared and getting the damn fan to turn off and stop chewing up its bearings.
Reportedly there was a time unlike now when a reporter would set down the facts, that is report, without adding his/her own uninformed 2-bit comment. Such as, "The UNIX software operating system is... the main alternative to Microsoft's Windows NT." See it everywhere nowadays, mediocre journalism. Of course on/., knee-jerking libertarianism compounded with smug reporting makes it even more interesting.
Essentially, it's reporting/FUD for PHBs which finds its way into a techie forum.
You are right of course. It is in Apple's best interests. It's the same thinking that accounts for the relative use of Macs vs PC clones. It's the kind of thinking that makes you glad that there's an Athlon out there, and that IBM has released specs for PowerPC systems.
Really, if somebody doesn't like Microsoft, they have much more reason to not like Apple also.
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The Register reports what other people say. They even put a 2 para disclaimer on this one. Every now and then I see somebody on /. bashing them. If only these people would learn to read. Oh wait... people turn into nasty libertarian gun-jumpers when they post here.
A program or channel is truly good, and not hyped up advertised good, when you're willing to set aside web browsing to watch it. Occasionally , even something on a non-PBS channel meets this criteria. The amount of junk in TV land is so overwhelming that you might just be turned off it.
Windows is 5 patches to what? It still duplicates the start bar all over my screen when text scrolls in an xterm. Still moves start bar icons around for fun. At least Linux's patches do something. They're tested by a cast of thousands, so they generally don't break much else. People can read the source, and see what is affected.
5 Windows patches != 5 Linux patches.
The article considers very interesting factors - forces that affect the market, a serendipitous solution to fast typing coming froma solution to a mechanical limitaiton, limiting factors maybe not the keyboard, but neurological, but does not explicitly consider the factor you mentioned - which one is less stressful on the wrists?
It seems to me that the solution of spreading alternating keystrokes to alternating hands might have solved not only the jamming problem, but also the wrists one, but reducing the stretching of the fingers and allowing some rest time between strokes. Sufficient spacing between the keys to avoid cramping is also necessary.
Yeah right.
Here's what you said "I only use linksys and have never had one not autodetect in the install. At worst it installs as an NE2000 adapter, which will work. "
Which is that you took the problem to be that the Linksys card wasn't detected in Mr. Petreley's install. But the problem wasn't that, it was that the card wasn't detected when there was another card in the system.
The man said it didn't recognize either when both were installed. He added that it recognized them separately. But you couldn't be bothered to read that in your haste to come to the aid of the fair damsel Win98 eh?
It would appear from this type of product announcement press release, which is typical of the *ahem* genre, that the significant problems in computing have already been worked out. All that is remaining is to find mildly creative combinations of functionalities and deficiencies in existing products or methods (this could go into a patent application eh?), and to fire up the buzzword generator to christen it.
I, myself, have a great admiration for Sun Microsystems and their products, and I think the solution to school funding lies in smart decisions like this Sun server setup. I wouldn't call it salvation at this time though.
Ebay doesn't run. It crashes 7.5 times per summer. So the NT/Solaris combo doesn't work. (Yeah, I know the config is probably badly designed, but who's going to explain that to Dvorak?). So when he asks "when Linux can run Ebay...," it's like saying "when Linux can do fusion at room temperature." It hasn't been done.
That is if Microsoft already doesn't have a patent on a process to "convert matter into energy under ambient conditions."
If you think that low "academia" prices that vendors have, and Microsoft's push into schools are similar, then you haven't read the article, and you haven't followed the news.
If we assume that there is really drug-pushing going on in these cafes, and kids are skipping school to hang out there, then this is a good idea.
/. suspects.
It is good to see a country accepting the responsibility for its children. Instead of throwing their hands up and getting them out of their hands with vouchers or other such garbage.
The wacko libertarian racist viewpoint has been expressed elsewhere in this thread though, as you would expect from the usual
This guy Ghandi's got me impressed. "First they laugh at you...," that's witty stuff. I wonder if he bears any relationship to a guy who did some big things in India, who's name was Gandhi?
Aren't we all getting tired of Microsoft's plaintive cry about having the freedom TO innovate? To give MS the freedom to inovate, as they define it, is to throttle innovation's freedom. Because MS works by hiding API calls, incorrectly implementing standards, gloss bloat, they're threatening innovation.
Free innovation!
I don't see one bit of similarity between Bill Gates' and Bill Clinton's situations. Maybe your only source of news is the American Spectator, or worse, CNN. Evidence of material harm is being presented in the DOJ case.
You libertarians/republicans really need to find somebody other than Clinton to bash.
Um, out with the minimum bad karma, that is.
What is bad, as opposed to the good type? Depends. Better stop here, offtopic enough.
First of all, karma is non-decreasiong. You want to get out of life with the minimum karma.
Secondly your use of karma in this context does not appear to me meaningful.
/. is a meritocracy, so you say.
When this other post talked about seeing outlandish ideas here that weren't in the regular media, this is the kind of opinion he was referring to.
Moderation promotes the meritocracy, so you say. Geez, if you could meet the monkeys who moderate...! One of them, am I.
I don't think it's a meritocracy, but it is a place to look at a variety of informed babble. Techno-babble (pretty high on the buzzword list, eh?) doesn't make it out into the conventional media, but it does here, as on Usenet. Progress can only come from diversity. Look at the human race (unless you're from Kansas).
In the event of a legal challenge against the GPL, or a case seeking the enforcement of the GPL; does it help that a company like 3Com is using it, posting it on its site, etc? A company like 3Com is likely to be familiar to the people deciding a case as one that has a significant market share, etc.
The reason why so many of these hyped up researches never see the light of day is that they're based on the lets-kill-some-animals approach. Consider, these guys couldn't begin to tell you how humans would react to this therapy, based on what a bunch of mute monkeys did. Consider also, they had no idea of what the brains looked like before the treatment. All they had are the cut up brains after the therapy. What if they picked up 4 monkeys that had better brains to begin with? It's almost as bad as that self-aggrandizing I-can-make-life "scientist".
I don't have any technical insight or vision or idea about this; but I run Slackware on a Tecra 500 which also uses a CS4232-compatible sound chip(set?) and it isn't fazed by suspend/resumes. In fact, the only things I have left to get working on this one are infrared and getting the damn fan to turn off and stop chewing up its bearings.
Piece of junk print spoolers on AIX. Always hanging. SunOS 4.1.3 no problem, was ticking aways for years without having to be restarted.
Reportedly there was a time unlike now when a reporter would set down the facts, that is report, without adding his/her own uninformed 2-bit comment. Such as, "The UNIX software operating system is ... the main alternative to Microsoft's Windows NT." See it everywhere nowadays, mediocre journalism. Of course on /., knee-jerking libertarianism compounded with smug reporting makes it even more interesting.
Essentially, it's reporting/FUD for PHBs which finds its way into a techie forum.
You are right of course. It is in Apple's best interests. It's the same thinking that accounts for the relative use of Macs vs PC clones. It's the kind of thinking that makes you glad that there's an Athlon out there, and that IBM has released specs for PowerPC systems.
Really, if somebody doesn't like Microsoft, they have much more reason to not like Apple also.
Today water, tomorrow extra-terrestrial life.
When they eventually come here, they'd better not see any copies of WNT running.
I see that some moderator confused sarcasm with flamebait again.