Go listen to "Don't Drink the Water" by the Dave Matthews Band (sorry I can't include a link to the audio file, you know how it is, but the text is on-line) and think about how the words apply here. Chilling.
... the best use I saw for computers was reducing the amount of time it took teachers and staff to take attendance and collate grades...
Ah yes, I've seen this a lot. Rejecting computers as being helpful to students, while embracing them as helpful to teachers. And to think this was written by someone who uses a computer to access the Internet. I wonder how much money they contributed to studies to determine if their time was being put to good use.
I agree completely with the parent, and add to that a reminder that the open-source process has proven to be a better development model than the proprietary model. If hardware makers would publish interface specs and leave the software -- the drivers -- to the FOSS community, the result would be far better than what the manufacturers could do themselves. Better drivers mean more sales. esr makes this point in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
I can't tell from the product descriptions if it does handwriting recognition, but the UX180P does have a touch screen and ships with a stylus. According to Microsoft the handwriting engine can be added, if not already there, by installing Office XP. Which are just about the only applications that can be used with handwriting recognition.
Can this thing take the place of a cell phone? Here's what I want:
Digital ink notepad, for taking notes in meetings, classes, etc. where text recognition is intrusive.
Ability to enter text with a pen, such as what I am writing in this post... could be text of a mail message, for example.
Cell phone.
A really smart calendar that will take the system out of stand-by to announce an appointment.
Web browser, mail client, all the usual PC stuff.
After that, I wish it could run Linux or FreeBSD and that there was something like Gnome for tablets, with a useful hardwriting recognition system available to all Gnome apps. I know, I sound like a beauty pagent contestent wishing for world peace.
That would be "Amuracun," thank you. Real immigrants pronounce it this way. The best way to achieve the effect is to stuff your cheeks with hotdogs and chug a beer. Native speakers have no special pronunciation, because this word was not in their language.
Multics running on an Apple ][, now that would be something to brag about!
I learned to program in BASIC on a North Star Horizon. It was a Z-80 box. The hi-lite was North Star Basic, which the machine booted into directly. Possibly the first built-in support for 5 1/4" floppy disks, at a time when Apple was limited to audio cassette tape.
IMSAI had some nice looking equipment, with lots of toggle switches. Always wanted one of those, because it LOOKED like a computer. But that beautiful hardwood case on the Horizon, nothing like it today unless you build it yourself.
I have yet to find a linux distribution or any alternative operating system (besides BeOS and Mac OS X) that didn't run Gnome or KDE, had a functional desktop, and could run nicely under 256mb of ram. X and Firefox alone use ~100mb of ram on my machine AND i don't get an accelerated desktop. Looks like Windows has the desktop market in the bag with Apple looking for a piece. Linux is still the red-headed stepchild that has to eat in the basement. Not bashing, just laying the facts on the table.
Linux is okay for small-to-mid server environments and making headway into the enterprise market. Desktop, it is not.
I am very happy with my Gnome desktop. The ONLY limitation I run into is with processes entangled with proprietary software. Other people claim to be able to play DVDs but I still have not solved the codec problem. Many web sites falter or go blank due to their reliance on IE. I can't open signed or encrypted mail from Outlook. I can read most MS Office files, but not all, and working interactively is chancy. And you are mostly correct in that hot video drivers are created by the video card makers and except for nVidia they only support Windows. In other words, my troubles stem from the locks Microsoft and a few others place on their rechnology.
Your 256MB RAM limit is artificial. Any system expected to run XP ought to have 512MB anyway. Besides, RAM is cheap.
BTW, my OS is FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. You have to be willing to invest a little time, but it works great.
There was a Windows 1.4, but we never saw 2.2 or 3.2. Over on the NT side we had 3.51, 4.0, then 5.0. It appears that the development teams are willing to follow traditional numbering, but the marketing guys are not. Salespeople prefer something NEW, BIGGER, and B E T T E R T H A N E V E R. An n.2 or n.3 has no sex appeal.
Look at this this way: n.0 = NEW, n.1 = IMPROVED, n.(>1) = OLD. Only whiskey, wine, and jade are better old.
It is where the identity is indented, rather than embossed or printed. Often used on automobile engine blocks and, according to Law & Order, the little screws used to repair broken bones.
... I'm willing to bet the situations arising from Microsoft's "free" offerings and the "Free" Software movement look the same in the minds of certain lawmakers/enforcers...
I believe that most politicians can distinguish between free as in speach and free as in heroine. They just need some political motivation for caring, which is our job.
The fact that vista may incorporate an anti-virus function that threatrens to kill off yet another U.S. tech sector just might get the attention of the current administration. Talk about strange bedfellows!
Extreme far right is usually taken to be fascism, which state-controlled means of production is a far cry from the libertarian ideal of free markets and contracts for everything.
One extreme right-wing path leads to fascism, the path of politics. The economic path leads to a far different conclusion, with as little state control of anything other than moral behavior. Individuals are encouraged to accumulate wealth, which includes owning the means of production. In old-school conservatism, government should not get involved with business. In the new conservatism, as seen in the current administration, government is treated as a market.
State-controlled means of production is more typical of a communist, or at least socialist, economy.
It is true that many libertarians prefer a free market with minimal goverment regulation. However, they also prefer a smaller government, and contracting work out does not *really* make the government smaller. So, contracting out work is typical of the new conservatism, in the sense that government services become a market. A libertarian would rather curtail or eliminate the service.
Good job demonstrating the concept of "Tyranny of the Majority." This is why we have the Bill of Rights. Today, too many Americans trust their government. There really are certain rights that belong to people and cannot be denied, no matter how many people vote in favor.
Lately I've been getting the feeling that Microsoft has assigned a band of freshmen the job of defending their products in forums such as Slashdot. Just because the original story failed to mention FOSS does not make it off limits. Attacking someone's valid point of view actually makes Windows look bad ("See, those Windows guys are mean!") Ending with an apology does not make what came before acceptable, and smells of adolescent thinking.
As a matter of fact, bringing up the idea of abandoning Windows in favor of Linux as a better alternative to patching Windows is old hat around here. I have done just that, except I went with FreeBSD amd Gnome. Now I laugh a lot more.
There is NOTHING in the constitution that guarantess you can "travel anonymously". It isn't even implied.
Same logic put forth by Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the subject of abortion rights. "The Constitution does not guarentee a woman's right to an abortion," or words to that effect.
What frustrates me is that so many Americans subscribe to this view, turning their backs on a couple hundred years of case law, and a few amendments as well. These people are convinced that their views -- really the opinions of their religious leaders -- are right for everyone. Those of us who have different views are not patriots and do not deserve the wealth and advantages this great country has to offer.
The challenge is to point out their "them vs. us" attitude without sliding into that swamp ourselves.
... cars are potentially very dangerous and pose a hazard to others, and therefore require a license to operate.
As long as you drive within the law there is no basis for revealing your identity. You can drive from California to New York and never show your license. The point of this case is that you are required to present ID just to board the plane.
If this were simply a company policy you might be able to avoid it by flying on another airline. Apparently all airlines do this because they believe it is a requirement. Is it?
Thank you for making the connection between the WMF vulnerability and the Windows undocumented API mess. Of course, the API issue was just one of many. Remember how Windows Media Player would silently cripple Real Networks player? Or how Kodak sued over the digital camera plug-n-play response?
As I recall, and these old brain cells are starting to fail, the undocumented API mess began before Windows was out, back in the DOS days. There was at least one book devoted to the topic, Andrew Schulman's
Undocumented DOS, published in 1990. And a related issue was how to make re-entrant pop-up applications, like Sidekick.
This road of bad behavior is long. I agree that when Windows first came out Microsoft worked hard to help programmers migrate their applications, and that the cheating began when Microsoft entered the application field with Excel and Word.
I wonder how many readers are too young to know these stories?
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Double-check the date of RFC-3514. Look closely. Think. Then read the RFC again. Get it?
Go listen to "Don't Drink the Water" by the Dave Matthews Band (sorry I can't include a link to the audio file, you know how it is, but the text is on-line) and think about how the words apply here. Chilling.
Please! I'm China Finnish this.
I find it reassuring that Zonk is not intimate with the details of Windows. This is not to imply that Zonk is intimate with anything ...
The feature described appears to be just another way for Microsoft to sell lots of servers.
Ah yes, I've seen this a lot. Rejecting computers as being helpful to students, while embracing them as helpful to teachers. And to think this was written by someone who uses a computer to access the Internet. I wonder how much money they contributed to studies to determine if their time was being put to good use.
I agree completely with the parent, and add to that a reminder that the open-source process has proven to be a better development model than the proprietary model. If hardware makers would publish interface specs and leave the software -- the drivers -- to the FOSS community, the result would be far better than what the manufacturers could do themselves. Better drivers mean more sales. esr makes this point in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
Can this thing take the place of a cell phone? Here's what I want:
- Digital ink notepad, for taking notes in meetings, classes, etc. where text recognition is intrusive.
-
Ability to enter text with a pen, such as what I am writing in this post
... could be text of a mail message, for example.
-
Cell phone.
-
A really smart calendar that will take the system out of stand-by to announce an appointment.
-
Web browser, mail client, all the usual PC stuff.
After that, I wish it could run Linux or FreeBSD and that there was something like Gnome for tablets, with a useful hardwriting recognition system available to all Gnome apps. I know, I sound like a beauty pagent contestent wishing for world peace.Are you suggesting that we table this discussion?
That would be "Amuracun," thank you. Real immigrants pronounce it this way. The best way to achieve the effect is to stuff your cheeks with hotdogs and chug a beer. Native speakers have no special pronunciation, because this word was not in their language.
Multics running on an Apple ][, now that would be something to brag about!
I learned to program in BASIC on a North Star Horizon. It was a Z-80 box. The hi-lite was North Star Basic, which the machine booted into directly. Possibly the first built-in support for 5 1/4" floppy disks, at a time when Apple was limited to audio cassette tape.
IMSAI had some nice looking equipment, with lots of toggle switches. Always wanted one of those, because it LOOKED like a computer. But that beautiful hardwood case on the Horizon, nothing like it today unless you build it yourself.
Linux is okay for small-to-mid server environments and making headway into the enterprise market. Desktop, it is not.
I am very happy with my Gnome desktop. The ONLY limitation I run into is with processes entangled with proprietary software. Other people claim to be able to play DVDs but I still have not solved the codec problem. Many web sites falter or go blank due to their reliance on IE. I can't open signed or encrypted mail from Outlook. I can read most MS Office files, but not all, and working interactively is chancy. And you are mostly correct in that hot video drivers are created by the video card makers and except for nVidia they only support Windows. In other words, my troubles stem from the locks Microsoft and a few others place on their rechnology.
Your 256MB RAM limit is artificial. Any system expected to run XP ought to have 512MB anyway. Besides, RAM is cheap.
BTW, my OS is FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE. You have to be willing to invest a little time, but it works great.
There was a Windows 1.4, but we never saw 2.2 or 3.2. Over on the NT side we had 3.51, 4.0, then 5.0. It appears that the development teams are willing to follow traditional numbering, but the marketing guys are not. Salespeople prefer something NEW, BIGGER, and B E T T E R T H A N E V E R. An n.2 or n.3 has no sex appeal.
Look at this this way: n.0 = NEW, n.1 = IMPROVED, n.(>1) = OLD. Only whiskey, wine, and jade are better old.
spell - spelled | spelt
bell x belled, x belt
dell x delled, x delt
fell - felled, x felt
hell x helled, x helt, (x held)
pell x pelled, ~ pelt
sell x selled, x selt, (- sold)
tell x telled, x telt, (- told)
vell - velled, x velt
well - welled, x welt
yell - yelled, x yelt
"Brakes? We don't need no stinkin' brakes!"
It is where the identity is indented, rather than embossed or printed. Often used on automobile engine blocks and, according to Law & Order, the little screws used to repair broken bones.
I believe that most politicians can distinguish between free as in speach and free as in heroine. They just need some political motivation for caring, which is our job.
The fact that vista may incorporate an anti-virus function that threatrens to kill off yet another U.S. tech sector just might get the attention of the current administration. Talk about strange bedfellows!
One extreme right-wing path leads to fascism, the path of politics. The economic path leads to a far different conclusion, with as little state control of anything other than moral behavior. Individuals are encouraged to accumulate wealth, which includes owning the means of production. In old-school conservatism, government should not get involved with business. In the new conservatism, as seen in the current administration, government is treated as a market.
State-controlled means of production is more typical of a communist, or at least socialist, economy.
It is true that many libertarians prefer a free market with minimal goverment regulation. However, they also prefer a smaller government, and contracting work out does not *really* make the government smaller. So, contracting out work is typical of the new conservatism, in the sense that government services become a market. A libertarian would rather curtail or eliminate the service.
TALK SHOW HOST
(to the drummer)
Hey, give that man a RIM-shot!
KER-CHAK!
Good job demonstrating the concept of "Tyranny of the Majority." This is why we have the Bill of Rights. Today, too many Americans trust their government. There really are certain rights that belong to people and cannot be denied, no matter how many people vote in favor.
Lately I've been getting the feeling that Microsoft has assigned a band of freshmen the job of defending their products in forums such as Slashdot. Just because the original story failed to mention FOSS does not make it off limits. Attacking someone's valid point of view actually makes Windows look bad ("See, those Windows guys are mean!") Ending with an apology does not make what came before acceptable, and smells of adolescent thinking.
As a matter of fact, bringing up the idea of abandoning Windows in favor of Linux as a better alternative to patching Windows is old hat around here. I have done just that, except I went with FreeBSD amd Gnome. Now I laugh a lot more.
Same logic put forth by Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the subject of abortion rights. "The Constitution does not guarentee a woman's right to an abortion," or words to that effect.
What frustrates me is that so many Americans subscribe to this view, turning their backs on a couple hundred years of case law, and a few amendments as well. These people are convinced that their views -- really the opinions of their religious leaders -- are right for everyone. Those of us who have different views are not patriots and do not deserve the wealth and advantages this great country has to offer.
The challenge is to point out their "them vs. us" attitude without sliding into that swamp ourselves.
As long as you drive within the law there is no basis for revealing your identity. You can drive from California to New York and never show your license. The point of this case is that you are required to present ID just to board the plane.
If this were simply a company policy you might be able to avoid it by flying on another airline. Apparently all airlines do this because they believe it is a requirement. Is it?
As I recall, and these old brain cells are starting to fail, the undocumented API mess began before Windows was out, back in the DOS days. There was at least one book devoted to the topic, Andrew Schulman's Undocumented DOS, published in 1990. And a related issue was how to make re-entrant pop-up applications, like Sidekick.
This road of bad behavior is long. I agree that when Windows first came out Microsoft worked hard to help programmers migrate their applications, and that the cheating began when Microsoft entered the application field with Excel and Word. I wonder how many readers are too young to know these stories?
I call dibs on the first Release Candidate!
Mag tape? You gotta be kidding. For true fidelity you can't beat a kinescope. It's all about light, baby.