"if everything costs less, you can buy more than you could before, even though you don't make any more money."
If you lost your job to outsourcing and there are no equivalent jobs you don't have any money. If you take a lower paying job, assuming you can beat the increased competition (because it's an easier job) you have less money to spend. In either case, one cannot sustain their purchasing power so really, you're not richer. On the other hand, your old boss who sold you out is raking in the cash.
When costs of living equal out in every country in the world things will be different, but how likely is that to happen?
At the most basic level the case has no merit for the simple reason that nobody forces system administrators to use Spamhaus. It is an opt-in service and represents a decision by the administrators of the e-mail servers that they do not want mail from hosts listed in said RBL. End of story!
Who is worse? The spammer or the lawyer that gives him the time of day?
Wise words! Just the other day I tried to VNC into a laptop on an NTL connection and had to literally wait about 2 minutes for the screen to draw. The laptop had nothing bandwidth intensive going on at all either.
Further to that NTL force proxy all their web traffic through a cache. Serious b/w issues there.
The owner of the laptop plugged into a BT ADSL connection at his other location and we tried VNC again. Nice and fast!
Using semi-colons instead of commas in formulas isn't a good way for OO Calc to supplant Excel! Try and create a CSV file with a formula in and make it work in both apps. You can't, and have to create two distinct versions of the file. I don't think the brainiac coder behind that decision considered that companies still have to exchange documents with those still using MS Office. It's stupid things like this that hamper adoption attempts.
The IE7 developers have really improved their printing options. This is an area the Firefox team should focus on.
e.g. In Firefox the scaling to fit the page just squeezes the content between wider margins rather than actually scaling the pages.
Just yesterday a work colleague was trying to print off a page that was split horizontally into two frames. The top one had a company logo, and the lower one the table of figures she actually wanted. Printing normally just output the first bit of the lower frame. I had to view that frame only to get the full table in the frame to print.
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How about a FORTRAN compiler plugin or a plugin to catalog the users collection of anal beads? Seriously, can we say feature bloat?
Doesn't that depend on how much of your bead collection you use at once?;)
1. Port successful OSS applications to Windows. 2. Exclaim loudly that there's no need to look beyond Windows as it supports both worlds of apps. 3. Using deep pockets and large marketing / propaganda dept, repeat step 2 as much as possible. 4. Profit!
If there are any problems along the way, throw chairs.
Microsoft wouldn't do the above unless they were going to profit from it or damage the competition. Anyone who thinks differently is very naive.
I had a lot of Beeb software but never stumbled across porn. It could have been mode 4 (2 colours, 320x256, 10k) or 5 (4 colours, 160x256, 10k). The only one using less ram was mode 7 (teletext, 1k) and somehow I don't think the pr0n would have looked too good in that, though I guess you'd have gotten plenty of frames.
I decided to give the Cox free for 3 months DVR trial a go and liked what I saw. That isn't to say it was without problems, which I'll detail below.
The unit in my market (OK) was a Motorola DCT6412. It has dual tuners, a 120GB HDD and HDTV support.
The first unit lasted only a month or so before the output would lock up. Initially it could be fixed by to a different channel and then back again but eventually it got too annoying. It would also reboot itself randomly. It got rather warm even with plenty of ventilation.
The second unit has been much better. It gets warm still, and the fan inside lets out a high pitched whine which although sometimes annoying isn't a show stopper. If you power off and on again it won't do it again for a couple of days. The analogue, digital and digital HD station playback have been perfectly acceptable.
The unit is loaded with ports, including 10/100 Ethernet, firewire and USB. I've never actually checked for output, mainly because the nearest PC with enough umph to deal with the signal is at the other end of the house. However I have read on various forums that the firewire port outputs raw data that you can capture with a couple of apps.
There are various engineer only menus you can get to which detail the specs, temperature, signal strength, etc even down to HDD brand, model and serial (mine's a Seagate).
Sometimes it'll forget to record a programme but this is rare, and easily fixable.
All in all, since the 2nd unit, I've been fairly happy with the Motorola.
Having moved from the UK to the midwest USA 5 years ago I feel I have sufficient insight here so I'll point out the decadent resource usage I see every day.
Indoors..
- The sun can be streaming in from outside, but still lights are left on all around homes and offices. - Incandescent bulbs are used too much, even though CF bulbs now are way better than they once were. - Televisions, radios, nightlights and aircon units are left running when there's nobody there.
Outdoors...
- SUV purchases are actively promoted every day in the media. Hybrids are rarely mentioned. - The civic planners don't even try to factor in pedestrian access to shopping and office areas. - There is little public transport, little investment in it, and people have this notion only undesirables travel on it.
Throw-away society
- Instead of fixing things, it's easier, and actively encouraged to throw them away and buy new ones. - Paper is used like crazy in many workplaces, often needlessly.
I know this is not the case everywhere in the US but I'm reporting what I've seen myself.
When you filter out the noise, an open source project comes down to...
- A handful of developers who know what they're doing. They, like everyone else, have a price. - A number of smaller developers who tinker with tiny bits of the code, but produce nothing meaningful. - The majority who just use it.
Of course closed source companies can't buy up all the OSS developers around a project, but they can definitely slow it down until new ones find their feet and continue the free development. It's that gap that allows the behemoths to breathe a bit longer, and at the end of the day that's all Ellison and his ilk can do, but they have deep enough pockets to keep doing it for some time to come. If all else fails there's always USPTO manipulation.
I was 6 when my dad bought me a BBC model B in 1982 from the local Dixons for £399. I was 6. I played games for a while, and was subjected to Logo and the floor turtle at school, but then one day in 1984 I started thumbing through the BBC BASIC user guide and tried the double height text program. It gave me the programming bug and the rest is history.
While infinitely more powerful than the 6502 1Mhz Beeb, I don't think PCs give quite the same experience from a hands on learning point of view.
"Most folks with (any, not necessarily geeky) skills don't like to work/live on the fringes of the law... unless they think they are fighting an immoral law."
I doubt the viagra peddlers would be able to set up the various backdoor routes needed to spam your grandmother about her ED problem without geeks.
1983 - BBC Model B 32k + tape deck + 5 Acornsoft games. 1985 - Added DFS ROMS + Opus 40/80 switchable 5.25 FDD. 1990 - Acorn A3000, 1MB RAM, RISCOS 2 1990 - Added RISCOS 3.1 ROMS. Still running. 1994 - 2nd hand 386SX/25Mhz, 4MB, died quickly. 1994 - 486DX4/100, 8MB, 540MB Quantum HDD. Shelved. 1996 - Cyrix 686, 16MB, same HDD. Cooked itself. 1997 - Pentium 166 @ 200Mhz, 32MB. Shelved. 1998 - Upgraded P166 to 128MB. Shelved. 1999 - Celeron 300A @ 450Mhz on Abit BH6, 128MB. 2002 - Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) on Soltek 75FRN-R2, 512MB.
The GeForce2 is no good for any current games. Next upgrade will likely be to add a GeForce 6600 AGP card and wait out a generation or so of PCI-E kit.
That's so true. At my workplace all the lights are on regardless of the fact there's sun pouring through the windows. I've managed to ditch the CRTs for LCDs, and have powersaving on all the PCs. If I could get my boss to spring for a couple of well placed skylights we could go all day with no lights on. If I can get digital thermostats installed that might help too, but things like solar water heaters and rooftop cells will never happen. The problem really is down to cost, and that there are few bosses that can see past their own financial gain and do something for the greater good regardless of the great publicity it produces.
On a larger scale, I think in the US government should follow Japan's example with things like the '70,000 roofs program', serious research funding. There's a lot of vacant roof space in downtown, malls, etc.
I don't see how it could be, because 99% of the tabs you'll find online are interpretations of the song by others rather than by the original artist, thus they are not the same.
Jefe> We have had many answers for the switch to Linux! El Guapo> How many answers? Jefe> Many answers, many! El Guapo> Jefe, would you say we have a plethora of answers? Jefe> Yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora. El Guapo> Jefe, what is a plethora?
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"if everything costs less, you can buy more than you could before, even though you don't make any more money."
If you lost your job to outsourcing and there are no equivalent jobs you don't have any money. If you take a lower paying job, assuming you can beat the increased competition (because it's an easier job) you have less money to spend. In either case, one cannot sustain their purchasing power so really, you're not richer. On the other hand, your old boss who sold you out is raking in the cash.
When costs of living equal out in every country in the world things will be different, but how likely is that to happen?
Spamhaus is based solely in the UK whereas said monopolist has a physical presence in numerous EU countries.
Microsoft
Microsoft Campus
Thames Valley Park
Reading Berkshire
RG6 1WG
Service Clients Microsoft France
18 avenue du Québec
91957 Courtaboeuf Cedex
France
Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Privatkundenbetreuung
Konrad-Zuse-Straße 1
85716 Unterschleißheim
I would say that puts them in the jurisdiction of the EU courts. This is not the case with Spamhaus and the USA.
Is this perhaps why there was pressure to separate the US government from ICANN? Maybe now we can see why.
US court
US spammer
UK RBL
Didn't anyone ever teach you GOTO is evil? ;)
10 REPEAT
20 PRINT "This news really sucks!"
30 UNTIL FALSE
(fyi, syntax is BBC Basic)
At the most basic level the case has no merit for the simple reason that nobody forces system administrators to use Spamhaus. It is an opt-in service and represents a decision by the administrators of the e-mail servers that they do not want mail from hosts listed in said RBL. End of story!
Who is worse? The spammer or the lawyer that gives him the time of day?
... log files?
Ok, I'll get my coat.
Don't use NTL.
Wise words! Just the other day I tried to VNC into a laptop on an NTL connection and had to literally wait about 2 minutes for the screen to draw. The laptop had nothing bandwidth intensive going on at all either.
Further to that NTL force proxy all their web traffic through a cache. Serious b/w issues there.
The owner of the laptop plugged into a BT ADSL connection at his other location and we tried VNC again. Nice and fast!
NTHell!
Using semi-colons instead of commas in formulas isn't a good way for OO Calc to supplant Excel! Try and create a CSV file with a formula in and make it work in both apps. You can't, and have to create two distinct versions of the file. I don't think the brainiac coder behind that decision considered that companies still have to exchange documents with those still using MS Office. It's stupid things like this that hamper adoption attempts.
The IE7 developers have really improved their printing options. This is an area the Firefox team should focus on.
e.g. In Firefox the scaling to fit the page just squeezes the content between wider margins rather than actually scaling the pages.
Just yesterday a work colleague was trying to print off a page that was split horizontally into two frames. The top one had a company logo, and the lower one the table of figures she actually wanted. Printing normally just output the first bit of the lower frame. I had to view that frame only to get the full table in the frame to print.
How about a FORTRAN compiler plugin or a plugin to catalog the users collection of anal beads? Seriously, can we say feature bloat?
;)
Doesn't that depend on how much of your bead collection you use at once?
Scratch-proof iPod screens of course!
Well they did it for pigs ;)
Sounds a bit like Outlook 2003 and IMAP4. Bloody personal folders! Anything to solidify the Exchange and Outlook lock in.
No problem mate. I'm off down the Winchester ;)
By the way, you've got red on you!
1. Port successful OSS applications to Windows.
2. Exclaim loudly that there's no need to look beyond Windows as it supports both worlds of apps.
3. Using deep pockets and large marketing / propaganda dept, repeat step 2 as much as possible.
4. Profit!
If there are any problems along the way, throw chairs.
Microsoft wouldn't do the above unless they were going to profit from it or damage the competition. Anyone who thinks differently is very naive.
I had a lot of Beeb software but never stumbled across porn. It could have been mode 4 (2 colours, 320x256, 10k) or 5 (4 colours, 160x256, 10k). The only one using less ram was mode 7 (teletext, 1k) and somehow I don't think the pr0n would have looked too good in that, though I guess you'd have gotten plenty of frames.
I decided to give the Cox free for 3 months DVR trial a go and liked what I saw. That isn't to say it was without problems, which I'll detail below.
The unit in my market (OK) was a Motorola DCT6412. It has dual tuners, a 120GB HDD and HDTV support.
The first unit lasted only a month or so before the output would lock up. Initially it could be fixed by to a different channel and then back again but eventually it got too annoying. It would also reboot itself randomly. It got rather warm even with plenty of ventilation.
The second unit has been much better. It gets warm still, and the fan inside lets out a high pitched whine which although sometimes annoying isn't a show stopper. If you power off and on again it won't do it again for a couple of days. The analogue, digital and digital HD station playback have been perfectly acceptable.
The unit is loaded with ports, including 10/100 Ethernet, firewire and USB. I've never actually checked for output, mainly because the nearest PC with enough umph to deal with the signal is at the other end of the house. However I have read on various forums that the firewire port outputs raw data that you can capture with a couple of apps.
There are various engineer only menus you can get to which detail the specs, temperature, signal strength, etc even down to HDD brand, model and serial (mine's a Seagate).
Sometimes it'll forget to record a programme but this is rare, and easily fixable.
All in all, since the 2nd unit, I've been fairly happy with the Motorola.
Having moved from the UK to the midwest USA 5 years ago I feel I have sufficient insight here so I'll point out the decadent resource usage I see every day.
Indoors..
- The sun can be streaming in from outside, but still lights are left on all around homes and offices.
- Incandescent bulbs are used too much, even though CF bulbs now are way better than they once were.
- Televisions, radios, nightlights and aircon units are left running when there's nobody there.
Outdoors...
- SUV purchases are actively promoted every day in the media. Hybrids are rarely mentioned.
- The civic planners don't even try to factor in pedestrian access to shopping and office areas.
- There is little public transport, little investment in it, and people have this notion only undesirables travel on it.
Throw-away society
- Instead of fixing things, it's easier, and actively encouraged to throw them away and buy new ones.
- Paper is used like crazy in many workplaces, often needlessly.
I know this is not the case everywhere in the US but I'm reporting what I've seen myself.
When you filter out the noise, an open source project comes down to...
- A handful of developers who know what they're doing. They, like everyone else, have a price.
- A number of smaller developers who tinker with tiny bits of the code, but produce nothing meaningful.
- The majority who just use it.
Of course closed source companies can't buy up all the OSS developers around a project, but they can definitely slow it down until new ones find their feet and continue the free development. It's that gap that allows the behemoths to breathe a bit longer, and at the end of the day that's all Ellison and his ilk can do, but they have deep enough pockets to keep doing it for some time to come. If all else fails there's always USPTO manipulation.
I was 6 when my dad bought me a BBC model B in 1982 from the local Dixons for £399. I was 6. I played games for a while, and was subjected to Logo and the floor turtle at school, but then one day in 1984 I started thumbing through the BBC BASIC user guide and tried the double height text program. It gave me the programming bug and the rest is history.
While infinitely more powerful than the 6502 1Mhz Beeb, I don't think PCs give quite the same experience from a hands on learning point of view.
"Most folks with (any, not necessarily geeky) skills don't like to work/live on the fringes of the law... unless they think they are fighting an immoral law."
I doubt the viagra peddlers would be able to set up the various backdoor routes needed to spam your grandmother about her ED problem without geeks.
1983 - BBC Model B 32k + tape deck + 5 Acornsoft games.
1985 - Added DFS ROMS + Opus 40/80 switchable 5.25 FDD.
1990 - Acorn A3000, 1MB RAM, RISCOS 2
1990 - Added RISCOS 3.1 ROMS. Still running.
1994 - 2nd hand 386SX/25Mhz, 4MB, died quickly.
1994 - 486DX4/100, 8MB, 540MB Quantum HDD. Shelved.
1996 - Cyrix 686, 16MB, same HDD. Cooked itself.
1997 - Pentium 166 @ 200Mhz, 32MB. Shelved.
1998 - Upgraded P166 to 128MB. Shelved.
1999 - Celeron 300A @ 450Mhz on Abit BH6, 128MB.
2002 - Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) on Soltek 75FRN-R2, 512MB.
The GeForce2 is no good for any current games. Next upgrade will likely be to add a GeForce 6600 AGP card and wait out a generation or so of PCI-E kit.
That's so true. At my workplace all the lights are on regardless of the fact there's sun pouring through the windows. I've managed to ditch the CRTs for LCDs, and have powersaving on all the PCs. If I could get my boss to spring for a couple of well placed skylights we could go all day with no lights on. If I can get digital thermostats installed that might help too, but things like solar water heaters and rooftop cells will never happen. The problem really is down to cost, and that there are few bosses that can see past their own financial gain and do something for the greater good regardless of the great publicity it produces.
On a larger scale, I think in the US government should follow Japan's example with things like the '70,000 roofs program', serious research funding. There's a lot of vacant roof space in downtown, malls, etc.
I don't see how it could be, because 99% of the tabs you'll find online are interpretations of the song by others rather than by the original artist, thus they are not the same.
Jefe> We have had many answers for the switch to Linux!
El Guapo> How many answers?
Jefe> Many answers, many!
El Guapo> Jefe, would you say we have a plethora of answers?
Jefe> Yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.
El Guapo> Jefe, what is a plethora?