I thought this was a war for oil, now I realise, it was a war for a TLD! But seriously, Iraq should have it's own TLD, they could always sell it like Tuvalu did (.tv)
To many, flexibility doesn't matter, size and portability do. I learned this when my predictions regarding sales of the iPod mini proved false, I thought it would not sell, but it has, so much that you can't buy one.
First of all, Sony is merely out of the market FOR NOW. They will be back next year with new offerings. Second,/. editors, these ____ is dead articles HAVE TO STOP. They are not constructive. We are not C|Net, you are not Rob Enderle. Third, I think the PDA market is poised to take off. Most people I talk to don't want their cell phone integrated with their PDA, if anything they are happy with a wireless card so they can get stuff done wherever they can get on the internet. The cell phones/PDAs are big and clunky, most people want a PDA that is small and compact. PDAs are not dying.
Didn't Diebold promise to deliver certain states to the Bush camp? Aren't they against verified e-voting? Huge conflict of interests abound, but no one will listen or do anything about it. The only place I have seriously seen this issue covered is on the internet, the only place that isn't owned by some big multinational that owns every news outlet, a l a Newscorp, Clear Channel, Viacom, etc. These past 4 years have seen more media consolidation than in the previous 100, IMHO. I bought a Palm Beach, Florida voting machine off of Ebay, when I got it, it looks exactly like our Virginia Beach voting machines. One badly designed ballot and suddenly we need to implement a whole electronic voting initiative? Sounds like fixing a symptom rather than the problem, non intuitive user interfaces. An electronic machine could just as easily create a confusing picture of the voting process.
You would think that eventually the frog would think "fuck that's hot, that's where I draw the line, then jump out." I think the closest we have come to the "mark of the beast" was the Larry Ellison backed national ID card plan. This is the reason I dislike Larry Ellison, he would steal our liberty and anonymity for profit. I think most people will draw the line somewhere.
Read my post again, sparky. I said "I can identify with most (in fact, nearly all) of the post, but I don't burden others with my feelings of superiority, and toot my own horn about how bloody different and smart I am."
RSS does not necessarily need to be standardised, if you have readers that can parse the information of all types. I use netnewswire and never have any problems with all manner of feeds. Some standards are just ways for ISO to make money. In my experience, ISO loves money. I personally think the organisation is antiquated and money-hungry. Sorry to go offtopic.
Sounds to me like you are a borderline sociopath. I can identify with most (in fact, nearly all) of the post, but I don't burden others with my feelings of superiority, and toot my own horn about how bloody different and smart I am. That is being an asshole. If you are looking for validation about how smart you are and how you have broad tastes and interests, look elsewhere.
Like another Shakespeare line "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" Which comes from a play which upholds pretty much every negative stereotype people have held towards Jews (The Merchant of Venice). Out of context quotes are so passé.
The whole point of Linux is that you can make it as bloated or as sparse as possible. You do not need to have a window environment if you do not want one.
VOIP over WLAN is not DOA. If you tweak the QOS etc settings and don't just throw things together haphazardly, then it works beautifully. Personally, I just wire VOIP to a cordless phone, then let the phone handle the wireless part. Enough of the ____ is dead articles.
You can sell it, there is nothing in the GPL that prohibits selling your variations of Linux, it is actually encouraged. You have to leave the source code open. It is free as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer. People have been selling distros for years. Linus dispelled this myth in his interview on Fresh Air, and in his book.
My sister uses my XP PC more than I do. I removed any mention of IE from the system. Even she likes Firefox. Every once in a while, I have to allow certain sites to spawn pop-ups, but this is less of a pain than having to deworm the thing and waste countless hours figuring out which piece of spyware garbage it is infected with now. Automatic updates, Zonealarm, AVG antivirus. I use the PC to play the occasional game. Like the poster said, turn box on, play game, turn box off.
1) Non-standards compliant.
2) Lack of control.
3) Insecure, buggy code.
4) Homogenisation of the computer market.
5) Acceptance of subpar performance.
6) On or off, it either works, or it doesn't.
7) Too expensive, lack of support.
8) Three words: Vendor Lock In.
9) Programming/scripting for it is a bitch.
10)Too slow, even with good hardware.
11) Buggy wireless networking.
12) Nagging and bloat with a fresh install. FULL DISCLOSURE:
(I do have an XP desktop, for games of course, a 12" Powerbook 1GHZ, and a P3 450 with Debian and the 2.6 kernel.)
What a surprise, a C|net article declaring something is dead/dying/should die. I could write an article citing only facts that support my case to make my point. The FCC is necessary, the airwaves would go nucking futs without any regulation or order. They could police themselves, but why would they, and how could they enforce their policies? If the FCC could get their stuff together regarding Clear Channel and Viacom owning every f'ing media outlet, protecting the telco monopolies by trying to regulate VOIP out of existence, and chastising Howard Stern and CBS while leaving Oprah alone when the Oprah segment has to be the most graphic description of sexual acts during daytime ever, I would be happy. (Because if there is one thing I do not want to hear about at 4 in the afternoon it is rimjobs and "rainbow parties".)
A little off topic, but does anyone remember thinking that one floppy was "a lot of data"? Then 1 CD? Now 1 DVD?
I don't flinch when I back up my files to 2 DVDs and 1 CD. (No pr0n either)
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I thought this was a war for oil, now I realise, it was a war for a TLD! But seriously, Iraq should have it's own TLD, they could always sell it like Tuvalu did (.tv)
It turned into what seems like one giant advertisement about a year ago. Could someone who reads the article tell me if it is?
To many, flexibility doesn't matter, size and portability do. I learned this when my predictions regarding sales of the iPod mini proved false, I thought it would not sell, but it has, so much that you can't buy one.
First of all, Sony is merely out of the market FOR NOW. They will be back next year with new offerings. Second, /. editors, these ____ is dead articles HAVE TO STOP. They are not constructive. We are not C|Net, you are not Rob Enderle. Third, I think the PDA market is poised to take off. Most people I talk to don't want their cell phone integrated with their PDA, if anything they are happy with a wireless card so they can get stuff done wherever they can get on the internet. The cell phones/PDAs are big and clunky, most people want a PDA that is small and compact. PDAs are not dying.
Didn't Diebold promise to deliver certain states to the Bush camp? Aren't they against verified e-voting? Huge conflict of interests abound, but no one will listen or do anything about it. The only place I have seriously seen this issue covered is on the internet, the only place that isn't owned by some big multinational that owns every news outlet, a l a Newscorp, Clear Channel, Viacom, etc. These past 4 years have seen more media consolidation than in the previous 100, IMHO. I bought a Palm Beach, Florida voting machine off of Ebay, when I got it, it looks exactly like our Virginia Beach voting machines. One badly designed ballot and suddenly we need to implement a whole electronic voting initiative? Sounds like fixing a symptom rather than the problem, non intuitive user interfaces. An electronic machine could just as easily create a confusing picture of the voting process.
You would think that eventually the frog would think "fuck that's hot, that's where I draw the line, then jump out." I think the closest we have come to the "mark of the beast" was the Larry Ellison backed national ID card plan. This is the reason I dislike Larry Ellison, he would steal our liberty and anonymity for profit. I think most people will draw the line somewhere.
Read my post again, sparky. I said
"I can identify with most (in fact, nearly all) of the post, but I don't burden others with my feelings of superiority, and toot my own horn about how bloody different and smart I am."
That's slander, get out your checkbook!
<obscure Simpson's reference>
RSS does not necessarily need to be standardised, if you have readers that can parse the information of all types. I use netnewswire and never have any problems with all manner of feeds. Some standards are just ways for ISO to make money. In my experience, ISO loves money. I personally think the organisation is antiquated and money-hungry. Sorry to go offtopic.
Sounds to me like you are a borderline sociopath. I can identify with most (in fact, nearly all) of the post, but I don't burden others with my feelings of superiority, and toot my own horn about how bloody different and smart I am. That is being an asshole. If you are looking for validation about how smart you are and how you have broad tastes and interests, look elsewhere.
afuckingmen!
Like another Shakespeare line "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" Which comes from a play which upholds pretty much every negative stereotype people have held towards Jews (The Merchant of Venice). Out of context quotes are so passé.
He will declare this dead.
The whole point of Linux is that you can make it as bloated or as sparse as possible. You do not need to have a window environment if you do not want one.
VOIP over WLAN is not DOA. If you tweak the QOS etc settings and don't just throw things together haphazardly, then it works beautifully. Personally, I just wire VOIP to a cordless phone, then let the phone handle the wireless part. Enough of the ____ is dead articles.
You can sell it, there is nothing in the GPL that prohibits selling your variations of Linux, it is actually encouraged. You have to leave the source code open. It is free as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer. People have been selling distros for years. Linus dispelled this myth in his interview on Fresh Air, and in his book.
My sister uses my XP PC more than I do. I removed any mention of IE from the system. Even she likes Firefox. Every once in a while, I have to allow certain sites to spawn pop-ups, but this is less of a pain than having to deworm the thing and waste countless hours figuring out which piece of spyware garbage it is infected with now. Automatic updates, Zonealarm, AVG antivirus. I use the PC to play the occasional game. Like the poster said, turn box on, play game, turn box off.
I would personally blame society. Or the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Well nevermind, they fixed the headline.
You know, there are signs on pools for this very reason.
1) Non-standards compliant.
2) Lack of control.
3) Insecure, buggy code.
4) Homogenisation of the computer market.
5) Acceptance of subpar performance.
6) On or off, it either works, or it doesn't.
7) Too expensive, lack of support.
8) Three words: Vendor Lock In.
9) Programming/scripting for it is a bitch.
10)Too slow, even with good hardware.
11) Buggy wireless networking.
12) Nagging and bloat with a fresh install.
FULL DISCLOSURE:
(I do have an XP desktop, for games of course, a 12" Powerbook 1GHZ, and a P3 450 with Debian and the 2.6 kernel.)
It is not "Canadian English", it is "The Queen's English" that pretty much every other English-speaking country other than the US uses.
What a surprise, a C|net article declaring something is dead/dying/should die. I could write an article citing only facts that support my case to make my point. The FCC is necessary, the airwaves would go nucking futs without any regulation or order. They could police themselves, but why would they, and how could they enforce their policies? If the FCC could get their stuff together regarding Clear Channel and Viacom owning every f'ing media outlet, protecting the telco monopolies by trying to regulate VOIP out of existence, and chastising Howard Stern and CBS while leaving Oprah alone when the Oprah segment has to be the most graphic description of sexual acts during daytime ever, I would be happy. (Because if there is one thing I do not want to hear about at 4 in the afternoon it is rimjobs and "rainbow parties".)
I hope this is not connected to the insecure computer systems that have been shut down twice. IIRC, that was the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs).
Ahh, but then the machine causing the naughty traffic would have to crash the hardest a machine has ever crashed in the history of computers.
A little off topic, but does anyone remember thinking that one floppy was "a lot of data"? Then 1 CD? Now 1 DVD?
I don't flinch when I back up my files to 2 DVDs and 1 CD. (No pr0n either)