I have never been one to donate money to anything, but I just joined the EFF with a nice donation and wish I could give even more. This BNETD thing was the last straw. Please support the EFF, and write to Blizzard telling them why they should not pursue this avenue.
Blizzard Entertainment P.O. Box 18979 Irvine, CA 92623
Well, I will continue to use my FREE NAVSTAR GPSR, and you can PAY for your European copy.
I will continue to use my FREE NAVSTAR GPSR as the US DOT, DOD, and FAA continue upgrade its reloability and accuracy, and you can PAY for your European copy.
At least Europeans will have to PAY to snub the US instead of just doing it for free.
Oh, and when the Galileo satellites "happen" to collide with some "space junk"... well, we had nothing to do with that:)
NOTE TO ALL: "GPS" is a generic term. The US GPS system is NAVSTAR. The Russian system is GLONASS. The proposed Eurotrash system is Galileo.
Let me assure you of one thing. If the US military decides that Europe is a problem and they need to disrupt GPS operations, they will disrupt GPS operations no matter how many systems are available. The only reason SA was turned off is because the military demonstrated the ability to selectively deny NAVSTAR (and possibly other) service to a more localized area.
Simply put: if they don't want you to have it, you won't have it.
Why are we forced to rely on testimony from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer that "IE cannot be removed"??? Subpoena the whole damn windows / IE programming team, grill the hell out of them and get the TRUTH. I doubt either Gates or Ballmer are even qualified to answer the question of separation.
Most of the clients have network printers, ours have both local and network. Printing is still a difficulty. Heck, even the clipboard doesn't work from citrix to the outside (that is probably a setup issue though). I wonder whether working through the compromises that must be made to use citrix is worth the "lower TCO" (on paper).
Not when you are running 5 labs with the same setup. That would entail either setting up servers all over and increasing the admin duties or a dedicated parallel backbone that would cost much more.
Plus, you cannot always count on the clients remaining right next to the server. Students would most certainly want to use their own PCs to connect the same as the lab PCs, as may the faculty members and other staff.
Gee I guess you haven't read any of the recent stories about campus backbones being strained just carrying internet traffic. I can't find it or I would link to it... But search the archives.
I work at a General Electric facility where we recently changed MMS systems to a citrix-driven system, and let me tell you that it is SLOW. A big honking Sun machine powers the Oracle backend, but the user interface runs on Win2k advanced server. On a p2-3xx with 64mb ram and win95, the interface is visibly slow. Another problem we have had is with printing -- the server is supposed to map your printers, but we find that PCs with more than one available printer either won't print, or print to random destinations.
My understanding is that the "thin client" is supposed to save in hardware costs, which it MIGHT. The software costs, however, can't be that much lower unless you use the Linux citrix client. You still have to pay your Microsoft tax for the OS, and then you need NT CALs, and licenses for Office (which I assume will be the major app used). I just don't see the benefit. Citrix is selling buzzwords and hype with terrible performance.
Universities have enough problems with bandwidth, imagine having to share all your applications over that pipe with all the mp3s and video traffic!
The last sentence of the article sums it all up, and is typical crappy journalism:
The company has been listing results from advertisers under a similar format since 2000, but it previously sold space under a fixed pricing system, which prevented sites from boosting their rankings with more money.
Sounds to me like excite is just jealous because their business model failed.
Every use a Bilo "Bonus Card"? Or the various other incarnations at other grocery stores? Every item you purchase goes into their computer. In return they give you a token savings, and you are now a commodity for them to sell. Consumers don't seem to have a problem with this now, what makes you think they will give a damn about it being used everywhere.
As a regular Slashdot reader, and avid FreeBSD user, I really really find these announcements to be useless spam. I can't turn off the LINUX category because there is interesting stuff there, but it is really necessary to annouce each DEVELOPMENT kernel? I can see announcing a new stable release, or a release with some really serious changes... But this is a bit excessive.
No kidding. You would think they were starved for stories. I don't submit a story every time Kirk McKusick makes a commit to the FreeBSD tree, or every time some feature is MFC'd. Ridiculous.
Could be worse though, linuxtoday announces every prepatch to every "tree" maintained by every kernel hacker out there.
I think not. Microsoft makes a billion in cash every month. Plus they would probably figure out some way to take a big tax credit and it would end up costing them ZIP. The fine should be in proportion to the revenue they gouged from the consumers for all those years. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 billion.
And the answer is YES. The adage of "no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" applies here, only this time without any argument. I can't tell you how much trouble it is just to get people at work to accept PDF as a "document". They always WHINE and say "can't you put this in word?". All the marketing research says that when you need to be sure, it needs to be office. Period. We _NEED_ office. Maybe YOU dont. Maybe I dont. But the collective WE does.
For free operating systems to make inroads anywhere other than fringe, dual-boot systems, Office is needed.
This is the same reason why HP Laser printers are so popular in the business world. When you hit PRINT and you have an HP 4500 Laserjet, you are damn sure it will print and look good. I don't trust my work to anything less.
The same reason applies to Office. When I have customers that send me data, and I send my suppliers/customers data, I need to know that they can open it no questions asked. Not "save as text" or "save as html". OPEN. Regardless. Unless I have that confidence, I will never EVER use StarOffice, KOffice, or anything else. It is more than just READING those formats, you must be able to WRITE them as well. And so far, Office is the only thing that does it.
Plus, I don't think that OSS Community is capable of duplicating Office in a stable environment. Look at mozilla, you have dozens of people coding useless features into Mozilla that did nothing but slow it down and add bugs. The same thing applies to the office clones. I see all these people submitting features and then losing interest and letting it fall into complete bugginess. They just don't have the drive and motivation to do it with efficiency, timeliness, and stability.
I was a Charter@home subscriber before, and now I have been switched to Charter Pipeline. Let me say that I am completely unsatisfied so far. This is not a new service that they are throwing together as a stop-gap, but it sure seems that way. I am experiencing major problems with lag, disconnects, and what can best be described as some type of arp expiration. I have to periodically kill and rerun dhclient to get the service to start working decently again.
All this for less bandwidth than before -- and oh yes, for $5 more a month. If @home survives and continues to offer service in my area, I will definitely be going back to them. Just to spite the cable companies if necessary.
I think everyone should try to use @home or other non-cable-operated systems. Don't let the greedy cable monopolies become the exclusive providers of this service or else you will see them raising your cable modem rates as fast as the raise the cable rates.
HI. DGPS does not by itself give centimeter accuracy. It requires postprocessing of the pseudo-range data etc., either with a very gulky GPS receiver or over a cellphone link to stations that have very accurate atmospheric delay and orbit jitter data.
Also, this is not the first time this story has been on Slashdot. However, I follow alt.geo.satellite-nav, and the general opinion there is that the EU is not actually going through with this system.
From the same people who thought you should pay a per-tv fee for cable. Duh, what else would they want? Cable-ready TVs ate into their box rental revenues. Ever wonder why they want you to move to digital cable so badly? That 4.95/month box rental of course! It's all a scam. "We'll rent you the cable modem for $4.95/month, or sell it to you for $300". Bleh. I'm so sick of monthly fees. The holy grail of all software companies is the same thing - that big $19.95 monthly fee in the sky. Sick sick sick. Everyone should use free software.
I followed the development of rioutil for a while and last I checked, the author had determined a way to allow downloading the tracks on a rio by sending a "dummy" track that had the same name etc and pointed to the same data, but was altered in some subtle way that made it invisible to the player yet downloadable. Now, I have never actually tried to download, but I think it was theoretically possible.
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I have never been one to donate money to anything, but I just joined the EFF with a nice donation and wish I could give even more. This BNETD thing was the last straw. Please support the EFF, and write to Blizzard telling them why they should not pursue this avenue.
Blizzard Entertainment
P.O. Box 18979
Irvine, CA 92623
Well, I will continue to use my FREE NAVSTAR GPSR, and you can PAY for your European copy.
:)
I will continue to use my FREE NAVSTAR GPSR as the US DOT, DOD, and FAA continue upgrade its reloability and accuracy, and you can PAY for your European copy.
At least Europeans will have to PAY to snub the US instead of just doing it for free.
Oh, and when the Galileo satellites "happen" to collide with some "space junk"... well, we had nothing to do with that
NOTE TO ALL: "GPS" is a generic term. The US GPS system is NAVSTAR. The Russian system is GLONASS. The proposed Eurotrash system is Galileo.
Let me assure you of one thing. If the US military decides that Europe is a problem and they need to disrupt GPS operations, they will disrupt GPS operations no matter how many systems are available. The only reason SA was turned off is because the military demonstrated the ability to selectively deny NAVSTAR (and possibly other) service to a more localized area.
Simply put: if they don't want you to have it, you won't have it.
Why are we forced to rely on testimony from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer that "IE cannot be removed"??? Subpoena the whole damn windows / IE programming team, grill the hell out of them and get the TRUTH. I doubt either Gates or Ballmer are even qualified to answer the question of separation.
Most of the clients have network printers, ours have both local and network. Printing is still a difficulty. Heck, even the clipboard doesn't work from citrix to the outside (that is probably a setup issue though). I wonder whether working through the compromises that must be made to use citrix is worth the "lower TCO" (on paper).
Not when you are running 5 labs with the same setup. That would entail either setting up servers all over and increasing the admin duties or a dedicated parallel backbone that would cost much more.
Plus, you cannot always count on the clients remaining right next to the server. Students would most certainly want to use their own PCs to connect the same as the lab PCs, as may the faculty members and other staff.
Gee I guess you haven't read any of the recent stories about campus backbones being strained just carrying internet traffic. I can't find it or I would link to it... But search the archives.
I work at a General Electric facility where we recently changed MMS systems to a citrix-driven system, and let me tell you that it is SLOW. A big honking Sun machine powers the Oracle backend, but the user interface runs on Win2k advanced server. On a p2-3xx with 64mb ram and win95, the interface is visibly slow. Another problem we have had is with printing -- the server is supposed to map your printers, but we find that PCs with more than one available printer either won't print, or print to random destinations.
My understanding is that the "thin client" is supposed to save in hardware costs, which it MIGHT. The software costs, however, can't be that much lower unless you use the Linux citrix client. You still have to pay your Microsoft tax for the OS, and then you need NT CALs, and licenses for Office (which I assume will be the major app used). I just don't see the benefit. Citrix is selling buzzwords and hype with terrible performance.
Universities have enough problems with bandwidth, imagine having to share all your applications over that pipe with all the mp3s and video traffic!
Sounds to me like excite is just jealous because their business model failed.
Every use a Bilo "Bonus Card"? Or the various other incarnations at other grocery stores? Every item you purchase goes into their computer. In return they give you a token savings, and you are now a commodity for them to sell. Consumers don't seem to have a problem with this now, what makes you think they will give a damn about it being used everywhere.
They could have at LEAST used pdflatex and got some good formatting, indexes, a TOC, and provided us with the source.
As a regular Slashdot reader, and avid FreeBSD user, I really really find these announcements to be useless spam. I can't turn off the LINUX category because there is interesting stuff there, but it is really necessary to annouce each DEVELOPMENT kernel? I can see announcing a new stable release, or a release with some really serious changes... But this is a bit excessive.
No kidding. You would think they were starved for stories. I don't submit a story every time Kirk McKusick makes a commit to the FreeBSD tree, or every time some feature is MFC'd. Ridiculous.
Could be worse though, linuxtoday announces every prepatch to every "tree" maintained by every kernel hacker out there.
I think not. Microsoft makes a billion in cash every month. Plus they would probably figure out some way to take a big tax credit and it would end up costing them ZIP. The fine should be in proportion to the revenue they gouged from the consumers for all those years. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 billion.
And the answer is YES. The adage of "no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" applies here, only this time without any argument. I can't tell you how much trouble it is just to get people at work to accept PDF as a "document". They always WHINE and say "can't you put this in word?". All the marketing research says that when you need to be sure, it needs to be office. Period. We _NEED_ office. Maybe YOU dont. Maybe I dont. But the collective WE does.
For free operating systems to make inroads anywhere other than fringe, dual-boot systems, Office is needed.
This is the same reason why HP Laser printers are so popular in the business world. When you hit PRINT and you have an HP 4500 Laserjet, you are damn sure it will print and look good. I don't trust my work to anything less.
The same reason applies to Office. When I have customers that send me data, and I send my suppliers/customers data, I need to know that they can open it no questions asked. Not "save as text" or "save as html". OPEN. Regardless. Unless I have that confidence, I will never EVER use StarOffice, KOffice, or anything else. It is more than just READING those formats, you must be able to WRITE them as well. And so far, Office is the only thing that does it.
Plus, I don't think that OSS Community is capable of duplicating Office in a stable environment. Look at mozilla, you have dozens of people coding useless features into Mozilla that did nothing but slow it down and add bugs. The same thing applies to the office clones. I see all these people submitting features and then losing interest and letting it fall into complete bugginess. They just don't have the drive and motivation to do it with efficiency, timeliness, and stability.
Excuse me, but that is WAPORIZE.
Has anyone run any statistics on the frequency of these worms? Seems like it's a very regular basis.
Also, I suggest someone start a sourceforge project for a "email virus subject generator" to make it easier on these guys!
Haven't you seen those CDW commercials.. "I opened that email virus JUST like you told us not to.
:)
Those commercials aren't funny to you and me because they aren't true
I was a Charter@home subscriber before, and now I have been switched to Charter Pipeline. Let me say that I am completely unsatisfied so far. This is not a new service that they are throwing together as a stop-gap, but it sure seems that way. I am experiencing major problems with lag, disconnects, and what can best be described as some type of arp expiration. I have to periodically kill and rerun dhclient to get the service to start working decently again.
All this for less bandwidth than before -- and oh yes, for $5 more a month. If @home survives and continues to offer service in my area, I will definitely be going back to them. Just to spite the cable companies if necessary.
I think everyone should try to use @home or other non-cable-operated systems. Don't let the greedy cable monopolies become the exclusive providers of this service or else you will see them raising your cable modem rates as fast as the raise the cable rates.
oops its sci.geo.satellite-nav
HI. DGPS does not by itself give centimeter accuracy. It requires postprocessing of the pseudo-range data etc., either with a very gulky GPS receiver or over a cellphone link to stations that have very accurate atmospheric delay and orbit jitter data.
Also, this is not the first time this story has been on Slashdot. However, I follow alt.geo.satellite-nav, and the general opinion there is that the EU is not actually going through with this system.
From the same people who thought you should pay a per-tv fee for cable. Duh, what else would they want? Cable-ready TVs ate into their box rental revenues. Ever wonder why they want you to move to digital cable so badly? That 4.95/month box rental of course! It's all a scam. "We'll rent you the cable modem for $4.95/month, or sell it to you for $300". Bleh. I'm so sick of monthly fees. The holy grail of all software companies is the same thing - that big $19.95 monthly fee in the sky. Sick sick sick. Everyone should use free software.
I followed the development of rioutil for a while and last I checked, the author had determined a way to allow downloading the tracks on a rio by sending a "dummy" track that had the same name etc and pointed to the same data, but was altered in some subtle way that made it invisible to the player yet downloadable. Now, I have never actually tried to download, but I think it was theoretically possible.
NOT OSI APPROVED? SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!
I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW SICK I AM OF PEOPLE ARGUING OVER THESE STUPID SIMPLE SEMANTICS.
If I have the source code it is OPEN SOURCE. I don't care what 12 white men living under a rockthink about the license!
AAAAAARRRRGHG!!!!
I feel better.