By âoereal worldâ youâ(TM)re obviously not talking about most software development industries, because every company/team Iâ(TM)ve been a part of for the past 10+ years has handed out nothing but Mac laptops, while running production services on EC2. No Microsoft involved. Maybe Outlook / 365, but most run GSuite.
^ This. I just upgraded a 5yr old Macbook Pro to a new Thunderbolt equipped one for about $800 by selling the old one on eBay. Take care of your stuff, keep the boxes, and the upgrade path on these systems will be in-line, if not cheaper, than the equivalent "PC".
Goes to show the location of this nations values with talk such as this.
What about a rapist? I don't see them being executed. Is $xxx billion in financial losses due to Sassar (or whatever) worth more than a young girl's chance at a "normal" life?
Putting it in that context... well... just kinda makes ya sick, no?
Would tmda be a bit easier? And it's already tried and true. http://www.tmda.net/
It's reqlly quite good. In the 2 years I've used it, I may have gotten 3 spams. And this is on a mailbox that gets anywhere from 50 to 100 attempted spams per day. From 50 - 100 a day to 3 in 2 years is pretty good.
I use bluetooth every day. I sync my PDA and my phone with my laptop. I connect to the internet via my cell phone (gprs) from my laptop and pda while on the road. I use my bluetooth headset while on the run. When I climb in my car, my cell phone negotiates with my bluetooth car kit, and incoming calls mute my stereo, and come over the in-car speaker... even if I forget to cradle my phone. It's thought free.
Bluetooth has made a lot of things simpler for me. If 802.11 replaces all those applications, great. But for what it was intended, bluetooth seems to be doing a fine job for me.
I'm in agreement. I read this a few days ago, when it appeard on footnotes. It talked a lot about dependancies, etc, which the Gentoo init structure already accomplishes well. As a matter of fact, extend the Gentoo init structure SLIGHTLY (to accomidate things like "starting" and "stopping" like this guy is talking about, and pretty names or whatever else you want) and all the information he's looking for could be published in/mnt/.init.d. Accessible by every shell/desktop/scripting service on linux, without the need for the CORBA-wannabe D-BUS stuff. Simple file i/o (fopen(), fread())... ya know... the Unix way.
Oh well. I'm not preaching the Gentoo way here... I'm simply saying this way should be looked at before starting down the convoluted sounding path the article talks about.
My $0.02US.
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Dammit! Last post got hosed somehow. Here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/221624 7&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=193
Found the slashdot article I was referring to here. Article says 10 - 20; not 10 - 15... my bad. Still, my point stands.
Nothing came of the decreased bandwidth proposal?
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I remember an article on slashdot a while back stating that they were considering reducing 802.11g's bandwidth to something in the range of 10 - 15Mbps. I guess this stamp of approval has discarded this?
As for browsing from a PDA, I've found Thunderhawk from Bitstream invaluable. I've found it to render pages in about the same time, sometimes even a little faster, although there are delays when scrolling up/down on a page. The big advantage is that it is able to scale a page, rendering it at the equivalent of up to 800x600 on a pocket pc PDA. I can view slashdot, as it looks on a PC, from my iPaq. There is a yearly fee of $50.00, but you can get a one month free trial if you're interested in it.
My last big monitor purchase was 4 years ago. I did not see the monitors I bought before purchasing them. I went on reputation of the monitor series (and manufacturer), customer reviews of the monitor (available at countless sites), and quality ratings... which I gathered from reviews, specs, price, and so on. Everyone's definition of quality differs; YMMV. I'm not nearly as price conscious when purchasing monitor(s) compared to other hardware purchases, as the monitor will outlast all others in longevity and value if you buy the right one for yourself.
In my case, I do a lot of development work, and a fair bit of gaming. I wanted dual head, and a lot of space. I ended up going with two IBM P260's. As I said, that was four years ago - they have lasted through 2 upgrades since the original PC components I bought them with. Great monitors; probably a bit dated now - I don't know as I haven't looked at any recently.
Time still progresses. We quit.
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Our fore fathers understood that times change and the law must change to reflect these changing times, hence we have an amendment system, and a system of laws that allow for an "adjusting government". Why have we lost sight of this single most important element residing at the core of our foundation?
There seems to be so much concern given to "what will happen to artists if IP laws are revoked". (Replace artist with whatever term you desire that produces IP) Won't the artist figure that out?
Do you deserve to be raised up on a pedestal, paraded around, and given all the luxuries the world has to offer because you've provided a song I like, or you gave a good performance on screen, or because you've provided a piece of software I've found useful?
The balance of compensation and action has been tremendously skewed. Greed is only one ingredient. Society is so entrenched in the process it's created; it's difficult to imagine a different way. Julia Roberts might have to settle for one or two fewer homes east of the Atlantic. MGM might not be able to hand out millions per year in bonuses.
This is could get long so I'll make my point. TO HELL WITH IT. Will society fall apart if we revoke IP laws? No. Will it change? Most definitely. But if anyone tells you that a society based on the free exchange of ideas and information is doomed to fail, they are in the entertainment business or the software industry.
"Free exchange of ideas and information." Wow. Sounds like a paradise I once read about in school.
You know... with all the concern we have over Hollywood, and the corporate giants of today... what will happen to them if the world progresses and evolves... maybe we should as one of our worldly neighbors who's been at this for more than a couple of centuries. Maybe we could learn something from history.
I know. Let's ask the Egyptians how they ever managed to get along without the pyramid builders. Or, let's ask Italy how they managed to survive without live bloodshed and chariot races in the coliseum. Or castles in Europe, temples in South America.
Societies change and evolve. Nations change. Laws change. Entire industries rise and fall. They've done so throughout history. People survive. Hell, sometimes quality of life even improves.
But what application of the net does not consume resources on a machine other than you're own? Someone needs to tell this judge to shut down the net. It's EVIL.
No, they don't *make* you pay for a subscription. You have the *option* of getting one, but you can do the automagic updates without the thing. All the subscription gets you is gauranteed priority access... the benefit of NEVER seeing "Anonymous user limit reached"... etc. Not very worth it to most of us, but perhaps to some.
The only way that I see that differing from Debian, is that debian only gives you the non-subscription option... which doesn't matter to me in the least, but I don't see why RH would be condemed for giving that option.
Rarely used? I know many people using this feature... including myself, most importantly:). I have twin 21"ers and a G400 max just begging XFree to support it... until then I'm stuck, painfully using AccelX which sux (imho) and I had to shell out the $ for... *sigh*
But XFree 4.0 is looking very sweet. These guys are awsome.
I work all the time, day and night, weekends, etc. But "who" I am working for is the question. The hi-tech firm I'm employed at is actually pretty good about hrs. I probably work an average of 40 - 45 hrs/week for them. I telecommute most of the time doing remote development and go on-site for system implimentations.
But as an active developer in the Linux community I volunteer MANY more hrs per week... probably another 30 or so. This in-directly helps my employer as well, as a sponser of the project they benefit. It's hard to say...
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By âoereal worldâ youâ(TM)re obviously not talking about most software development industries, because every company/team Iâ(TM)ve been a part of for the past 10+ years has handed out nothing but Mac laptops, while running production services on EC2. No Microsoft involved. Maybe Outlook / 365, but most run GSuite.
Of course.
^ This. I just upgraded a 5yr old Macbook Pro to a new Thunderbolt equipped one for about $800 by selling the old one on eBay. Take care of your stuff, keep the boxes, and the upgrade path on these systems will be in-line, if not cheaper, than the equivalent "PC".
iMac?
I love iTunes. But I wouldn't call it "the best". Tried accessing a common music repository from multiple box's? Get's annoying real fast.
Goes to show the location of this nations values with talk such as this.
What about a rapist? I don't see them being executed. Is $xxx billion in financial losses due to Sassar (or whatever) worth more than a young girl's chance at a "normal" life?
Putting it in that context... well... just kinda makes ya sick, no?
Would tmda be a bit easier? And it's already tried and true. http://www.tmda.net/
It's reqlly quite good. In the 2 years I've used it, I may have gotten 3 spams. And this is on a mailbox that gets anywhere from 50 to 100 attempted spams per day. From 50 - 100 a day to 3 in 2 years is pretty good.
Just my $0.02.
I use bluetooth every day. I sync my PDA and my phone with my laptop. I connect to the internet via my cell phone (gprs) from my laptop and pda while on the road. I use my bluetooth headset while on the run. When I climb in my car, my cell phone negotiates with my bluetooth car kit, and incoming calls mute my stereo, and come over the in-car speaker... even if I forget to cradle my phone. It's thought free.
Bluetooth has made a lot of things simpler for me. If 802.11 replaces all those applications, great. But for what it was intended, bluetooth seems to be doing a fine job for me.
I'm in agreement. I read this a few days ago, when it appeard on footnotes. It talked a lot about dependancies, etc, which the Gentoo init structure already accomplishes well. As a matter of fact, extend the Gentoo init structure SLIGHTLY (to accomidate things like "starting" and "stopping" like this guy is talking about, and pretty names or whatever else you want) and all the information he's looking for could be published in /mnt/.init.d. Accessible by every shell/desktop/scripting service on linux, without the need for the CORBA-wannabe D-BUS stuff. Simple file i/o (fopen(), fread())... ya know... the Unix way.
Oh well. I'm not preaching the Gentoo way here... I'm simply saying this way should be looked at before starting down the convoluted sounding path the article talks about.
My $0.02US.
Dammit! Last post got hosed somehow. Here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/22/221624 7&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=193
Found the slashdot article I was referring to here. Article says 10 - 20; not 10 - 15... my bad. Still, my point stands.
I remember an article on slashdot a while back stating that they were considering reducing 802.11g's bandwidth to something in the range of 10 - 15Mbps. I guess this stamp of approval has discarded this?
As for browsing from a PDA, I've found Thunderhawk from Bitstream invaluable. I've found it to render pages in about the same time, sometimes even a little faster, although there are delays when scrolling up/down on a page. The big advantage is that it is able to scale a page, rendering it at the equivalent of up to 800x600 on a pocket pc PDA. I can view slashdot, as it looks on a PC, from my iPaq. There is a yearly fee of $50.00, but you can get a one month free trial if you're interested in it.
http://www.bitstream.com/index.html
My $0.02.
My last big monitor purchase was 4 years ago. I did not see the monitors I bought before purchasing them. I went on reputation of the monitor series (and manufacturer), customer reviews of the monitor (available at countless sites), and quality ratings... which I gathered from reviews, specs, price, and so on. Everyone's definition of quality differs; YMMV. I'm not nearly as price conscious when purchasing monitor(s) compared to other hardware purchases, as the monitor will outlast all others in longevity and value if you buy the right one for yourself.
In my case, I do a lot of development work, and a fair bit of gaming. I wanted dual head, and a lot of space. I ended up going with two IBM P260's. As I said, that was four years ago - they have lasted through 2 upgrades since the original PC components I bought them with. Great monitors; probably a bit dated now - I don't know as I haven't looked at any recently.
Our fore fathers understood that times change and the law must change to reflect these changing times, hence we have an amendment system, and a system of laws that allow for an "adjusting government". Why have we lost sight of this single most important element residing at the core of our foundation?
There seems to be so much concern given to "what will happen to artists if IP laws are revoked". (Replace artist with whatever term you desire that produces IP) Won't the artist figure that out?
Do you deserve to be raised up on a pedestal, paraded around, and given all the luxuries the world has to offer because you've provided a song I like, or you gave a good performance on screen, or because you've provided a piece of software I've found useful?
The balance of compensation and action has been tremendously skewed. Greed is only one ingredient. Society is so entrenched in the process it's created; it's difficult to imagine a different way. Julia Roberts might have to settle for one or two fewer homes east of the Atlantic. MGM might not be able to hand out millions per year in bonuses.
This is could get long so I'll make my point. TO HELL WITH IT. Will society fall apart if we revoke IP laws? No. Will it change? Most definitely. But if anyone tells you that a society based on the free exchange of ideas and information is doomed to fail, they are in the entertainment business or the software industry.
"Free exchange of ideas and information." Wow. Sounds like a paradise I once read about in school.
You know... with all the concern we have over Hollywood, and the corporate giants of today... what will happen to them if the world progresses and evolves... maybe we should as one of our worldly neighbors who's been at this for more than a couple of centuries. Maybe we could learn something from history.
I know. Let's ask the Egyptians how they ever managed to get along without the pyramid builders. Or, let's ask Italy how they managed to survive without live bloodshed and chariot races in the coliseum. Or castles in Europe, temples in South America.
Societies change and evolve. Nations change. Laws change. Entire industries rise and fall. They've done so throughout history. People survive. Hell, sometimes quality of life even improves.
Yes. It works under VMWare (The 3.0 linux version at least).
Jee Tee Kay
Wild guess. What the hell.
2001-04-08 18:30:00
But what application of the net does not consume resources on a machine other than you're own? Someone needs to tell this judge to shut down the net. It's EVIL.
> Stop using flat files for .conf, Use XML as standard configuration format.
Hm. How are you going to store the XML if not in a flat file?
No, they don't *make* you pay for a subscription. You have the *option* of getting one, but you can do the automagic updates without the thing. All the subscription gets you is gauranteed priority access... the benefit of NEVER seeing "Anonymous user limit reached"... etc. Not very worth it to most of us, but perhaps to some. The only way that I see that differing from Debian, is that debian only gives you the non-subscription option... which doesn't matter to me in the least, but I don't see why RH would be condemed for giving that option.
What Vampire game? If there's a Vampire game shipping for linux in the future... I'd love to know about it :)
Drop me a line at chardros@nospam.linuxkb.org (drop the nospam) and I'll post it.
Rarely used? I know many people using this feature... including myself, most importantly :). I have twin 21"ers and a G400 max just begging XFree to support it... until then I'm stuck, painfully using AccelX which sux (imho) and I had to shell out the $ for... *sigh*
But XFree 4.0 is looking very sweet. These guys are awsome.
I work all the time, day and night, weekends, etc. But "who" I am working for is the question. The hi-tech firm I'm employed at is actually pretty good about hrs. I probably work an average of 40 - 45 hrs/week for them. I telecommute most of the time doing remote development and go on-site for system implimentations.
:).
But as an active developer in the Linux community I volunteer MANY more hrs per week... probably another 30 or so. This in-directly helps my employer as well, as a sponser of the project they benefit. It's hard to say...
All in the name of world-domination