My experience was the same as the author's. In 1998 or 1999 I'd heard a lot about Linux so I decided to do my own install. I used a Suse disk that a friend had at work. It took a while to get through the install, and once I did I looked at the desktop, said, "This is kind of ugly" and then tried to figure out what I wanted to do next. I didn't have a good answer.
At the time I think a lot of people were curious about what Linux could do, but didn't have a real good idea of what they wanted to do with it, and for me at least it wasn't ready for the desktop. Flash forward a year or two and I had a need for a NAT box, and Windows wasn't cutting it. My previous Linux install experience gave me the confidence to try Linux in that capacity, as I got more comfortable with it I started using it in more places.
Traffic in Chicago is bad enough that many people (regardless of income) take trains (either commuter trains or the L) and walk to work. My father walks 20 minutes to and from the train every day, even when it's cold. Those in the know avoid the cold by taking the Pedway (a series of loosely connected underground walkways downtown).
The point is, it might be cold and Americans might be lazy, but hundreds of thousands of people walk to and from the train to get to work every day.
Right, Google's afraid that people *will* move to another state, thus hurting their ability to hire talent, thus putting them at a competitive disadvantage... hence the lawsuit.
I know, I know. In Mozilla's defense, though, they do provide you with an interface to make the change (even if it's not quite user friendly), and because of limited real estate they have to keep the number of preferences to a minimum. I'm not a fanboy (see my criticism below of their removal of the forward/back buttons from the interface), I just understand their reasoning in this case. It's not too onerous to open up "about:config" type "proxy" and googling the results if it's not obvoius.
It seems like a big mistake to hide the back and forward buttons, the buttons that users are frequently going to want to use. I'd much prefer that they hide the Bookmarks button and put the forward and back buttons on the main screen so I can get to them without having to move the screen to the left first.
There are proxy settings but they're hidden in about:config.
Set network.proxy.type to 1 and then set network.proxy.http to whatever IP address you prefer and set network.proxy.http_port to the port number. They may choose to keep these settings hidden, as most people probably won't need them, so long as they keep these settings available in about:config, those users that need them will be able to use them.
As of 2006 Mexico produced almost twice as much oil as it used (3.7 million barrels per day produced vs. 2.0 barrels per day consumed), which means that controls on foreign investment don't explain why it imports gas... even if those caps mean reduced efficiency, Mexico produces enough to meet local demand.
I'd guess the reason why Mexico imports 25% of its gas from the US is either a) it doesn't have enough refineries to meet local demand (gas!=oil) or if you meant that it imports 25% of its oil from the US b) it can sell its oil on the market for more than it costs to import oil from the US.
Either way, I'd say you should take Economics 201.
My criteria for buying a laptop: 15" widescreen, relatively high resolution (somewhere near 1680x1050), 7200rpm hard drive, lots of ram (2gb), built in WiFi, DVD burner. The processor speed isn't quite so important because I don't do a lot of processor-intensive work, and I don't game on my laptop so the built-in graphics are fine. In a 15" widescreen Apple offers the following:
2.2ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1440x900 resolution, 2gb memory, DVD burner, 120gb 5400rpm hard drive: $1999 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1440x900 resolution, 2gb memory, DVD burner, 160gb 5400rpm hard drive: $2499
I can add a 7200rpm hard drive for $175 more and $150 more respectively.
If I opt to buy a Thinkpad I can get this:
2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1680x1050, 2gb memory, DVD burner, 100gb 7200rpm hard drive: $1449
Yes, I know the processor isn't as good, but I guess that's the point, Apple offers you much less in the way of choice. The cheapest price I pay for the machine I want from Apple is $2174 (because I'd pay for the hard drive upgrade), I pay much less than that for the PC laptop because I can leave off some of the garbage I don't need.
I'm sure that there are situations--especially on the extreme high end--where Apple competes, but for me it's still the case that buying an Apple costs quite a bit more than buying a PC.
till1/tl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[til] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-preposition 1. up to the time of; until: to fight till death. 2. before (used in negative constructions): He did not come till today. 3. near or at a specified time: till evening. 4. Chiefly Midland, Southern, and Western U.S.. before; to: It's ten till four on my watch. 5. Scot. and North England. a. to. b. unto.
-conjunction 6. to the time that or when; until. 7. before (used in negative constructions).
You're right, CEO's aren't known for their technical knowledge, but by "ready for the desktop" I think he means "ready for the average person to use", if that's the case I think he's more qualified than someone with technical knowledge to make that proclamation.
The perceived advantages of Linux are: 1) stability and 2) cost.
RedHat is moving towards giving you one or the other, you want it cheap, then you lose stability (updating once a year in my opinion would result in a marked lack of stability). You want it stable you pay for it.
I tried to get my company to move from Exchange to Sendmail, my boss was totally on board with the move so long as we used the commercial version. The problem was that commercial Sendmail ended up costing about $2000 more than Exchange, the result was it was easier to upgrade to the newer version of Exchange and it was cheaper to do so, so we stuck with Exchange.
So I guess my point is that if RedHat keeps travelling down the road it's travelling down people who know and like Linux will switch to another distro (myself among them), and people looking to move from Microsoft to Linux will have a harder time making their case.
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SQL Server 2000 SP3 automatically upgrades MDAC to 2.7(sp1, I think), which could possibly break applications that are based on earlier versions of MDAC.
Microsoft says that it shouldn't break anything, but a developer I know swears that an application of his broke after MDAC upgrade, so you may end up getting stuck applying all of the hotfixes instead.
I think the more pressing issue is making open source developers understand that end users are valuable. Mozilla for instance has pretty active forums (as well as newgroups on usenet), but frequently when someone posts a feature request the result is "nobody's working on that, code it yourself:)".
I definitely don't think that the user is always right, but I do think that if you're going to give the end user a voice you'd better take their opinions to heart.
Why not just use a Jabber server that has all of the transports you need?
Jabber allows you to communicate with all 4 of the major IMs: Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and MSN. Due to some trouble AIM has made you can't use Jabber.org's servers to connect to AIM, but there is a list of all the public servers and the transports they have here: http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php.
I've run my own Jabber server for a while now (and with the exception of a brief problem with Yahoo this year (down 1 week) and AIM last year (less than a day)... it's a great way to stay in touch with everyone on a variety of IM services but it's also a great way to get your friends using Jabber.
If you take the Dell laptop down to the 1 year warranty that Apple uses it saves you $180. I'd personally rather have the 3 year rather than 1 year warranty, but that option exists if you want to compare apples to Apples.
If you buy your memory from crucial.com rather than through apple you save an additional $240. You can do that same trick with the iBook but Apple's running a promotion for 640mb memory so $1839 is actually cheaper than what it would be if you bought a 512mb dimm somewhere else. So now it's $1839 vs $1300.
Aim-t works on the server by including the binary with the transport so when aol does a hash on a part of the binary aim-t can return the proper result.
Aim-t still doesn't work on jabber.org or jabber.com because AOL has done an IP ban on their server. My own private Jabber server works with all four major IM services (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and AIM), I've got friends on each so it's important that they're all working.
If you're interested in using Jabber again you should try joining a non-jabber.org/jabber.com jabber server (try myjabber.com or black9.net maybe?). In addition if you use windows I heartily recommend Rival (rival.chote.net), it's really an excellent client.
Quantum Cryptography can be a bit hard to get your head around, if you're interested at all in the topic you can take a look at this page for the some of the basic ideas and history behind QC.
If you read Tom's Hardware fairly regularly you should know that the Pentium IV is not up to snuff yet. I think that, just like the Pentium Pro, the Pentium IV is just the first iteration of what will eventually be a great CPU.
Of course, I'm really rooting for AMD here, they're pushing Intel to its limits and the consumer is benefitting.
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The text on the page you linked to says:
"Big areas of the SVG specification where we're still lacking include filters, svg defined fonts, and declarative animations."
My experience was the same as the author's. In 1998 or 1999 I'd heard a lot about Linux so I decided to do my own install. I used a Suse disk that a friend had at work. It took a while to get through the install, and once I did I looked at the desktop, said, "This is kind of ugly" and then tried to figure out what I wanted to do next. I didn't have a good answer.
At the time I think a lot of people were curious about what Linux could do, but didn't have a real good idea of what they wanted to do with it, and for me at least it wasn't ready for the desktop. Flash forward a year or two and I had a need for a NAT box, and Windows wasn't cutting it. My previous Linux install experience gave me the confidence to try Linux in that capacity, as I got more comfortable with it I started using it in more places.
Traffic in Chicago is bad enough that many people (regardless of income) take trains (either commuter trains or the L) and walk to work. My father walks 20 minutes to and from the train every day, even when it's cold. Those in the know avoid the cold by taking the Pedway (a series of loosely connected underground walkways downtown).
The point is, it might be cold and Americans might be lazy, but hundreds of thousands of people walk to and from the train to get to work every day.
Right, Google's afraid that people *will* move to another state, thus hurting their ability to hire talent, thus putting them at a competitive disadvantage... hence the lawsuit.
I know, I know. In Mozilla's defense, though, they do provide you with an interface to make the change (even if it's not quite user friendly), and because of limited real estate they have to keep the number of preferences to a minimum. I'm not a fanboy (see my criticism below of their removal of the forward/back buttons from the interface), I just understand their reasoning in this case. It's not too onerous to open up "about:config" type "proxy" and googling the results if it's not obvoius.
It seems like a big mistake to hide the back and forward buttons, the buttons that users are frequently going to want to use. I'd much prefer that they hide the Bookmarks button and put the forward and back buttons on the main screen so I can get to them without having to move the screen to the left first.
There are proxy settings but they're hidden in about:config.
Set network.proxy.type to 1 and then set network.proxy.http to whatever IP address you prefer and set network.proxy.http_port to the port number. They may choose to keep these settings hidden, as most people probably won't need them, so long as they keep these settings available in about:config, those users that need them will be able to use them.
FWIW, the Obamaites investigating Troopergate are mostly Republican.
As of 2006 Mexico produced almost twice as much oil as it used (3.7 million barrels per day produced vs. 2.0 barrels per day consumed), which means that controls on foreign investment don't explain why it imports gas... even if those caps mean reduced efficiency, Mexico produces enough to meet local demand.
I'd guess the reason why Mexico imports 25% of its gas from the US is either a) it doesn't have enough refineries to meet local demand (gas!=oil) or if you meant that it imports 25% of its oil from the US b) it can sell its oil on the market for more than it costs to import oil from the US.
Either way, I'd say you should take Economics 201.
My criteria for buying a laptop: 15" widescreen, relatively high resolution (somewhere near 1680x1050), 7200rpm hard drive, lots of ram (2gb), built in WiFi, DVD burner. The processor speed isn't quite so important because I don't do a lot of processor-intensive work, and I don't game on my laptop so the built-in graphics are fine. In a 15" widescreen Apple offers the following:
2.2ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1440x900 resolution, 2gb memory, DVD burner, 120gb 5400rpm hard drive: $1999
2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1440x900 resolution, 2gb memory, DVD burner, 160gb 5400rpm hard drive: $2499
I can add a 7200rpm hard drive for $175 more and $150 more respectively.
If I opt to buy a Thinkpad I can get this:
2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1680x1050, 2gb memory, DVD burner, 100gb 7200rpm hard drive: $1449
Yes, I know the processor isn't as good, but I guess that's the point, Apple offers you much less in the way of choice. The cheapest price I pay for the machine I want from Apple is $2174 (because I'd pay for the hard drive upgrade), I pay much less than that for the PC laptop because I can leave off some of the garbage I don't need.
I'm sure that there are situations--especially on the extreme high end--where Apple competes, but for me it's still the case that buying an Apple costs quite a bit more than buying a PC.
from dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=till
/tl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[til] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
till1
-preposition
1. up to the time of; until: to fight till death.
2. before (used in negative constructions): He did not come till today.
3. near or at a specified time: till evening.
4. Chiefly Midland, Southern, and Western U.S.. before; to: It's ten till four on my watch.
5. Scot. and North England.
a. to.
b. unto.
-conjunction
6. to the time that or when; until.
7. before (used in negative constructions).
You're right, CEO's aren't known for their technical knowledge, but by "ready for the desktop" I think he means "ready for the average person to use", if that's the case I think he's more qualified than someone with technical knowledge to make that proclamation.
The perceived advantages of Linux are: 1) stability and 2) cost.
RedHat is moving towards giving you one or the other, you want it cheap, then you lose stability (updating once a year in my opinion would result in a marked lack of stability). You want it stable you pay for it.
I tried to get my company to move from Exchange to Sendmail, my boss was totally on board with the move so long as we used the commercial version. The problem was that commercial Sendmail ended up costing about $2000 more than Exchange, the result was it was easier to upgrade to the newer version of Exchange and it was cheaper to do so, so we stuck with Exchange.
So I guess my point is that if RedHat keeps travelling down the road it's travelling down people who know and like Linux will switch to another distro (myself among them), and people looking to move from Microsoft to Linux will have a harder time making their case.
SQL Server 2000 SP3 automatically upgrades MDAC to 2.7(sp1, I think), which could possibly break applications that are based on earlier versions of MDAC.
Microsoft says that it shouldn't break anything, but a developer I know swears that an application of his broke after MDAC upgrade, so you may end up getting stuck applying all of the hotfixes instead.
I think the more pressing issue is making open source developers understand that end users are valuable. Mozilla for instance has pretty active forums (as well as newgroups on usenet), but frequently when someone posts a feature request the result is "nobody's working on that, code it yourself :)".
I definitely don't think that the user is always right, but I do think that if you're going to give the end user a voice you'd better take their opinions to heart.
Why not just use a Jabber server that has all of the transports you need?
Jabber allows you to communicate with all 4 of the major IMs: Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and MSN. Due to some trouble AIM has made you can't use Jabber.org's servers to connect to AIM, but there is a list of all the public servers and the transports they have here: http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php.
I've run my own Jabber server for a while now (and with the exception of a brief problem with Yahoo this year (down 1 week) and AIM last year (less than a day)... it's a great way to stay in touch with everyone on a variety of IM services but it's also a great way to get your friends using Jabber.
If you take the Dell laptop down to the 1 year warranty that Apple uses it saves you $180. I'd personally rather have the 3 year rather than 1 year warranty, but that option exists if you want to compare apples to Apples.
If you buy your memory from crucial.com rather than through apple you save an additional $240. You can do that same trick with the iBook but Apple's running a promotion for 640mb memory so $1839 is actually cheaper than what it would be if you bought a 512mb dimm somewhere else. So now it's $1839 vs $1300.
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Aim-t works on the server by including the binary with the transport so when aol does a hash on a part of the binary aim-t can return the proper result.
Aim-t still doesn't work on jabber.org or jabber.com because AOL has done an IP ban on their server. My own private Jabber server works with all four major IM services (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and AIM), I've got friends on each so it's important that they're all working.
If you're interested in using Jabber again you should try joining a non-jabber.org/jabber.com jabber server (try myjabber.com or black9.net maybe?). In addition if you use windows I heartily recommend Rival (rival.chote.net), it's really an excellent client.
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So in other words, what you're saying is that if Apple were a person they'd be my ex-girlfriend.
Time to throw away my G4.
If you read Tom's Hardware fairly regularly you should know that the Pentium IV is not up to snuff yet. I think that, just like the Pentium Pro, the Pentium IV is just the first iteration of what will eventually be a great CPU.
Of course, I'm really rooting for AMD here, they're pushing Intel to its limits and the consumer is benefitting.