Come on, a drivers rating system? who even looks for the Windows Logo testing? Fact is that people don't much think/care when they pick up a $15 webcam at wal-mart.
Is it also possible that some sysadmins - despite being employed by Uncle Sam - are competent and capable of considering the costs, benefits, and risks associated with different patch management strategies?
I never said that all of them didn't know what they were doing. It's just the ones who chose to use Windows, and didn't bother patching.
It's raw in the sense that this is the "raw" data from the CCD sensor in the camera. Normally, a digital camera does color correction and other preprocessing on an image before it saves it to its memory.
This was a hardly a study. I don't see any data presented here, and certainly no methodology used to gather the data. Sorry, but the scientific method always wins.
Are you using good audio cables? for example, balanced instead of unbalanced? Are you using good quality connectors? Is all of your equipment properly shielded and grounded? These would be the first things I'd check.
Oh, I believe IBM is doing some important things, and is not irrelevant. However, IBM is *more* irrelevant now than they were 20 years ago, when they were the *only* choice for a lot of products. IBM competes with everyone now, in all of their industries.
Contrast that with how MS is. They compete with very few companies, because their basic mode of operation is anti-competitive.
MS is relevant even if you don't even use or purchase their products. They control almost everything.
Although there is some truth to the fact that Linux is a huge threat to Microsoft, predictions of the Redmond company's demise are, to say the least, premature. Microsoft has an incredible amount of cash money in the bank and is still incredibly profitable. It has a long way to fall. It could do everything wrong for a decade before it started to be in remote danger, and you never know... they could reinvent themselves as a shaved-ice company at the last minute. So don't be so quick to write them off.
MS may have a long way to fall, but they will become increasingly irrelevant like IBM has.
As far as I am concerned, they don't need to go out of business to have fallen. They just need to lose most of the influence and power they have gained through their illegal and unethical business practices.
At the conference, Microsoft also unveiled a study on the effectiveness of online advertising. The company is using the study as the basis for an argument that companies spending about 1 percent of their advertising budget online should consider increasing that to 4 percent or 5 percent because people are spending more time online.
Great. More ads. Is it just me, or is the amount of spam, and popup advertising already bad enough? And Microsoft wants more of this? Give me a break. Also, consider that spyware is a type of online advertising. Microsoft must want more of this too. Look how they make windows so easily infected by this crap through IE.
You know, I kinda feel sorry for SCO's employees. I am sure many of them have little to do with this litigation against IBM, and all of the nonsense that has gone along with it, as this crap is the doing of SCO's administration.
SCO has certainly earned quite a reputation. I am sure it will be very difficult for SCO employees to find work elsewhere because employers will fear that SCO will go after them for absurd acusations of IP theft.
and until there is a Linux distro that "just works" it won't be.
Consider: The lack of good font support in X. But it's not just X. It's applications too. There's no unified way to use fonts, or to use the "right" fonts.
Lack of good clipboard support in X: Perhaps it isn't X that's the problem. But most applications cannot agree on what clipboard format they are using. Forget about copying an image in Konqueror or Mozilla and pasting it into OpenOffice. Or even formatted text for that matter. Sheesh!
Number of Linux distributions: There's no way to make a good installer that will install a commercial app on Linux and have everything work. There are too many dependencies for specific versions of libraries and things that would make this sort of thing worse than any kind of Windows DLL hell.
Drivers: Linux intentionally makes it difficult for people to release binary-only drivers. Of course, Binary only drivers are a bad idea anyway, some vendors will insist on it such as NVidia.
Games: Linux would make an ideal game platform IF games were released for it. Now I realize this is a chicken/egg problem of course, but you have to factor it in when thinking about if Linux is really ready for the Desktop...
All of this being said, I do use Linux as a desktop. I feel comfortable with its limitations. I'm not an average user though, and I wouldn't expect any average user to figure out how to make Linux do what it can do.
Now, where I disagree with Red Hat is that you should _not_ use Windows. Use Mac OS X. It's way better than windows in design, and just works.
I mean. It's not a laptop. You can't type on it. It's not a PDA. You can't put it in your pocket. It relies on recognizing your handwriting with this pen.
I dunno about the rest of the geeks out there, but I would *much* rather type than write. Typing is faster and more accurate (vs recognition).
How much longer can we see OS X support for the last generation of iBooks with G3 processors? The current version of OS X 10.3 (Panther) does not support the beige G3 model.
The Apple//e was the first Apple// to support the control-openapple-reset sequence to restart the machine... This machine came out in 1983.
IIRC, the//e was the first Apple// to have an "apple" key on the keyboard.
on the//e, functionally, the "closed" and "open" Apple keys did the same thing that the two joystick buttons did, so they weren't really used as modifiers at the time since they would have had to been handled differently. I might be wrong, though.
I think that Apple released a second version of the//e that had a completely different keyboard, complete with numeric keypad, and "command" and "option" keys identical to the keyboard of a Macintosh or//c instead of the regular closed and open apple keys.
And as more and more IT and programming jobs are relocated to foreign people in India, I am sure we can look forward to an increase in professionalism and the formation of certified independant bodies.
Wine only translates from the Windows APIs into X11 and other such things. There is no x86 emulation done, which is one of the reasons Wine is so fast. In order for this to work on a Macintosh system, you'd either have to be using PowerPC Windows binaries (which there are few of) or you'd have to include an x86 emulation engine in Wine.
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Come on, a drivers rating system? who even looks for the Windows Logo testing? Fact is that people don't much think/care when they pick up a $15 webcam at wal-mart.
I never said that all of them didn't know what they were doing. It's just the ones who chose to use Windows, and didn't bother patching.
If it's border security we're talking about, I'd sure as hell rather have a *broken* system than an *insecure* and *vulnerable* system.
These people don't know what they're doing.
Shouldn't the voltage regulators on the motherboard offer protection from circumstances like this?
In Bittornado, and possibly other clients, there's an option you can check that will ban peers that do this.
prefs -> check [Kick/ban clients that send you bad data]
After at least one failed hash check, the client won't eat any more poison, so to speak.
Not necessarily military, however, this sort of idea can be used for surveillance of CRT displays...
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-57
More can be found here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Optical+Time-Domai
It's raw in the sense that this is the "raw" data from the CCD sensor in the camera. Normally, a digital camera does color correction and other preprocessing on an image before it saves it to its memory.
This was a hardly a study. I don't see any data presented here, and certainly no methodology used to gather the data. Sorry, but the scientific method always wins.
Sorry, but this "study" is not a study.
Why was this even posted?
Are you using good audio cables? for example, balanced instead of unbalanced? Are you using good quality connectors?
Is all of your equipment properly shielded and grounded?
These would be the first things I'd check.
Oh, I believe IBM is doing some important things, and is not irrelevant. However, IBM is *more* irrelevant now than they were 20 years ago, when they were the *only* choice for a lot of products. IBM competes with everyone now, in all of their industries.
Contrast that with how MS is. They compete with very few companies, because their basic mode of operation is anti-competitive.
MS is relevant even if you don't even use or purchase their products. They control almost everything.
I can mostly ignore IBM.
MS may have a long way to fall, but they will become increasingly irrelevant like IBM has.
As far as I am concerned, they don't need to go out of business to have fallen. They just need to lose most of the influence and power they have gained through their illegal and unethical business practices.
You know, I kinda feel sorry for SCO's employees. I am sure many of them have little to do with this litigation against IBM, and all of the nonsense that has gone along with it, as this crap is the doing of SCO's administration.
SCO has certainly earned quite a reputation. I am sure it will be very difficult for SCO employees to find work elsewhere because employers will fear that SCO will go after them for absurd acusations of IP theft.
and until there is a Linux distro that "just works" it won't be.
Consider:
The lack of good font support in X. But it's not just X. It's applications too. There's no unified way to use fonts, or to use the "right" fonts.
Lack of good clipboard support in X: Perhaps it isn't X that's the problem. But most applications cannot agree on what clipboard format they are using. Forget about copying an image in Konqueror or Mozilla and pasting it into OpenOffice. Or even formatted text for that matter. Sheesh!
Number of Linux distributions: There's no way to
make a good installer that will install a commercial app on Linux and have everything work. There are too many dependencies for specific versions of libraries and things that would make this sort of thing worse than any kind of Windows DLL hell.
Drivers: Linux intentionally makes it difficult for people to release binary-only drivers. Of course, Binary only drivers are a bad idea anyway, some vendors will insist on it such as NVidia.
Games: Linux would make an ideal game platform IF games were released for it. Now I realize this is a chicken/egg problem of course, but you have to factor it in when thinking about if Linux is really ready for the Desktop...
All of this being said, I do use Linux as a desktop. I feel comfortable with its limitations. I'm not an average user though, and I wouldn't expect any average user to figure out how to make Linux do what it can do.
Now, where I disagree with Red Hat is that you should _not_ use Windows. Use Mac OS X. It's way better than windows in design, and just works.
I mean. It's not a laptop. You can't type on it.
It's not a PDA. You can't put it in your pocket.
It relies on recognizing your handwriting with this pen.
I dunno about the rest of the geeks out there, but I would *much* rather type than write. Typing is faster and more accurate (vs recognition).
How much longer can we see OS X support for the last generation of iBooks with G3 processors? The current version of OS X 10.3 (Panther) does not support the beige G3 model.
True. However, I meant that it was similar in concept, not necessarily the same thing in function.
Sounds sorta similar to GNU Radio. :-)
It's cool that as computers get faster, you can have software replace hardware
The Apple //e was the first Apple // to support the control-openapple-reset sequence to restart the machine... This machine came out in 1983.
//e was the first Apple // to have an "apple" key on the keyboard.
//e, functionally, the "closed" and "open" Apple keys did the same thing that the two joystick buttons did, so they weren't really used as modifiers at the time since they would have had to been handled differently. I might be wrong, though.
//e that had a completely different keyboard, complete with numeric keypad, and "command" and "option" keys identical to the keyboard of a Macintosh or //c instead of the regular closed and open apple keys.
IIRC, the
on the
I think that Apple released a second version of the
How is this like rubberhose?
Just in case someone doesn't understand this and wants to know more about what "shorting" a stock means:
http://www.fool.com/FoolFAQ/FoolFAQ0033.htm
And as more and more IT and programming jobs are relocated to foreign people in India, I am sure we can look forward to an increase in professionalism and the formation of certified independant bodies.
Wine only translates from the Windows APIs into X11 and other such things. There is no x86 emulation done, which is one of the reasons Wine is so fast. In order for this to work on a Macintosh system, you'd either have to be using PowerPC Windows binaries (which there are few of) or you'd have to include an x86 emulation engine in Wine.
I meant to link to this comment
It's starting to become painfully obvious that indeed SCO is completely full of shit, and will stop at no ends to destroy Linux's image.
I think at this point it would be a good idea for the slashdot community as well as everyone else in open source to start contacting the FTC