PDAs suck. I have yet to find one that doesn't come with useless crap like a day planner/contact list. I don't need that functionality and it's a waste of space for me. What I really want is a device that I can make do pretty much anything. If I want the device to be a thin client to my application server at home, then it should be able to do that. If I want it to be a media player, then it should be able to do that just by loading different software. Anything else just plain sucks.
Ummm... my iPaq has Linux on it right now. Basically it can do anything a computer can do... Within reason of course, due to the fact that I'm a cheapass and only have a limited amount of RAM. I even went as far as using my PDA as a wireless network sniffer once, capturing packets as I walked around and dumping networks to a file.
I still shake my head in wonder at the people who walk around with a cell phone, a PDA, a digital camera, a laptop or tablet PC, and an MP3 player all strapped to them at once. They look like present day court jesters or something
I'd have to agree. The worst part is that we just don't have the technology to build a PDA/CellPhone/Digital Camera/laptop-or-tablet-pc in something that would be easily carried in the palm of your hand. Sure, we have phones with cameras, or phones with pda, and java running on phones, but we're just not to the point that we can put that much functionality into a single device without it taking a significant amount of power and space. Not to mention that in todays world, things are not priced on what the actual item is, but on how much entertainment it will bring you, or how much money it will save you.... so imagine how much a PDA/CellPhone/Digital Camera/laptop-or-tablet-pc would cost you...
So in other words, you don't have a clue either?:)
Although possible, everything you said is about on the fringe of possible. If you have a house, you either rent or have a mortgage at his age. 140 days is alot of time...I guess he could just turn off all utilities, and uninsure his car temporarily. That would mean he only has to pay 3 months rent/mortgage....
Personally untill Linux can have simple installation of programs it'll be a while before the general web user will switch.
It's not that hard with other distributions. Gentoo: emerge firefox-bin Debian: apt-get install firefox Redhat: rpm -Uvh firefox-*.rpm Mandrake: See Redhat
The way Firefox works, it's not really "installed", anyway. You just drop it into a directory and run it. Unlike on Windows where you run an installer which makes the directory, dumps it in there, for you to run it;) (firefox that is)
There is nothing inherent to CMSs that cause this CPU hit you are talking about
The "cpu hit" that the person was referring to is basically a query against a database. That's all.... Somehow people seem to think that if you do anything more than snag something from disk your going to bog the system down. Hell, disk I/O is not as scalable as CPU time. I can *always* throw more CPU at a database... besides, in nearly every case I have seen, reducing disk I/O by pulling things from a database makes a site run faster.
Not arguing with the guy I'm responding to:) I'm backing him up.
For the price of VMWare you can pick up another computer.... Especially considering even after buying VMWare you need to buy that software that runs on it.. windows I think it's called....
If you already *have* VMWare, that's great.. but for this purpose it's a total waste. It's essentially using Windows without rebooting.
It's not all or nothing. Windows is great for stuff like this. Don't let your ideology get in the way of cheap, efficient, widely avaiable software that'll make your life easier.
I'd rather not pay $89+$30 to do my taxes, but thanks anyway:) Windows isn't great for stuff like this, it just has the software available on the commercial market.
Hell, I'd rather not PAY. My taxes are straight forward, you'd think they'd have an interface for that. I make more than the "free filing" places allow, and I only use Linux. <sarcasm>OH yes, I keep forgetting, I guess I need to give up some of my hordes of cash to file. </sarcasm> I've done my own taxes easily, where can I e-file it for free?
If the IRS wants us to e-file, make it free if we fill our own forms out. EOF.
Probably because even the UN frowns upon guns. It's trendy now to think we're near some utopian world where the need for "legacy" weapons is unnecessary.
We can't have our children being brainwashed by the minority terrorists. </tongue-in-cheek>
That's all very interesting about chatrooms and stuff being blocked, except for the fact that I was communicating with people on yahoo chat from all over the world at that time.:P
I live in a pretty good area, myself. (North Phoenix, AZ) Not posh by any stretch of the imagination, but by far not a ghetto. The people living around the area do take the carts home and leave them by the side of the street after they get to their house. (my wife and I joke around about the carts populating/dieing/falling over from dehydration in hot weather/etc)
It's a problem everywhere I've been, from Scottsdale AZ to downtown Phoenix. (yes, been more places, just two extremes) I like how some stores handle it. They make (decorative) barriers that are close enough where the cart can't go through. It keeps the cart within those confines, and no dinged cars.
Aldi does business in America, also. Doing something like that in America would require a significant investment in existing infrastructure, unfortunately. While I think it's an excellent idea (hey, works at the airports) I don't think I'll be seeing it anytime soon at Fry's/Safeway/Costco/Walmart/SuperFresh/Southwest/ etc.
I hear you there. At least the games... everything else I've managed to get working under either Wine or Crossover Office. Heck, even IE works under Wine...
I haven't tried VS.net, though I'm going to try VC++ 6.0 soon.
Why would you find that interesting? America was colonized from the east to the west. It's only logical that the east would be more lit, while the more sensible are less lit towards the sky.
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Not everyone has filler laying around.
I used white-out because it was right there... and it cost me nothing because I had it in my laptop case.
PDAs suck. I have yet to find one that doesn't come with useless crap like a day planner/contact list. I don't need that functionality and it's a waste of space for me. What I really want is a device that I can make do pretty much anything. If I want the device to be a thin client to my application server at home, then it should be able to do that. If I want it to be a media player, then it should be able to do that just by loading different software. Anything else just plain sucks.
Ummm... my iPaq has Linux on it right now. Basically it can do anything a computer can do...
Within reason of course, due to the fact that I'm a cheapass and only have a limited amount of RAM.
I even went as far as using my PDA as a wireless network sniffer once, capturing packets as I walked around and dumping networks to a file.
I still shake my head in wonder at the people who walk around with a cell phone, a PDA, a digital camera, a laptop or tablet PC, and an MP3 player all strapped to them at once. They look like present day court jesters or something
I'd have to agree. The worst part is that we just don't have the technology to build a PDA/CellPhone/Digital Camera/laptop-or-tablet-pc in something that would be easily carried in the palm of your hand. Sure, we have phones with cameras, or phones with pda, and java running on phones, but we're just not to the point that we can put that much functionality into a single device without it taking a significant amount of power and space. Not to mention that in todays world, things are not priced on what the actual item is, but on how much entertainment it will bring you, or how much money it will save you.... so imagine how much a PDA/CellPhone/Digital Camera/laptop-or-tablet-pc would cost you...
So in other words, you don't have a clue either? :)
Although possible, everything you said is about on the fringe of possible.
If you have a house, you either rent or have a mortgage at his age. 140 days is alot of time...I guess he could just turn off all utilities, and uninsure his car temporarily. That would mean he only has to pay 3 months rent/mortgage....
It's nice to see someone actually caught that a grammar nazi was wrong for once.
Quiet Saddam.. back into your cell. Computer time is over.
AA is a lot better, but I gave up playing when it got saturated with teenage idiots.
Ahhh, so it *does* emulate the Army very well, then!
I don't know where you shop, but where I shop ammunition is cheaper than car paint :)
You can buy a new computer for $189? Wow, that's great! (It's also what VMWare Workstation costs....)
No, but for ~$300 you can. Include the Microsoft tax.
Personally untill Linux can have simple installation of programs it'll be a while before the general web user will switch.
;) (firefox that is)
It's not that hard with other distributions.
Gentoo: emerge firefox-bin
Debian: apt-get install firefox
Redhat: rpm -Uvh firefox-*.rpm
Mandrake: See Redhat
The way Firefox works, it's not really "installed", anyway. You just drop it into a directory and run it. Unlike on Windows where you run an installer which makes the directory, dumps it in there, for you to run it
*/15 * * * * /etc/init.d/apache2 restart 2>&1 > /dev/null
OH... you didn't mean the Apache FP extensions...?
There is nothing inherent to CMSs that cause this CPU hit you are talking about
:) I'm backing him up.
The "cpu hit" that the person was referring to is basically a query against a database. That's all....
Somehow people seem to think that if you do anything more than snag something from disk your going to bog the system down. Hell, disk I/O is not as scalable as CPU time. I can *always* throw more CPU at a database... besides, in nearly every case I have seen, reducing disk I/O by pulling things from a database makes a site run faster.
Not arguing with the guy I'm responding to
For the price of VMWare you can pick up another computer....
Especially considering even after buying VMWare you need to buy that software that runs on it.. windows I think it's called....
If you already *have* VMWare, that's great.. but for this purpose it's a total waste. It's essentially using Windows without rebooting.
Not everyone thinks the earth is round either.
Food for thought.
It's not all or nothing. Windows is great for stuff like this. Don't let your ideology get in the way of cheap, efficient, widely avaiable software that'll make your life easier.
:) Windows isn't great for stuff like this, it just has the software available on the commercial market.
I'd rather not pay $89+$30 to do my taxes, but thanks anyway
Hell, I'd rather not PAY. My taxes are straight forward, you'd think they'd have an interface for that. I make more than the "free filing" places allow, and I only use Linux. <sarcasm>OH yes, I keep forgetting, I guess I need to give up some of my hordes of cash to file. </sarcasm> I've done my own taxes easily, where can I e-file it for free?
If the IRS wants us to e-file, make it free if we fill our own forms out. EOF.
Well if it helps out any, Pep Boys is now using Linux.
Probably because even the UN frowns upon guns.
It's trendy now to think we're near some utopian world where the need for "legacy" weapons is unnecessary.
We can't have our children being brainwashed by the minority terrorists.
</tongue-in-cheek>
That's all very interesting about chatrooms and stuff being blocked, except for the fact that I was communicating with people on yahoo chat from all over the world at that time. :P
I live in a pretty good area, myself. (North Phoenix, AZ) Not posh by any stretch of the imagination, but by far not a ghetto. The people living around the area do take the carts home and leave them by the side of the street after they get to their house. (my wife and I joke around about the carts populating/dieing/falling over from dehydration in hot weather/etc)
It's a problem everywhere I've been, from Scottsdale AZ to downtown Phoenix. (yes, been more places, just two extremes)
I like how some stores handle it. They make (decorative) barriers that are close enough where the cart can't go through. It keeps the cart within those confines, and no dinged cars.
Aldi does business in America, also./ etc.
Doing something like that in America would require a significant investment in existing infrastructure, unfortunately. While I think it's an excellent idea (hey, works at the airports) I don't think I'll be seeing it anytime soon at Fry's/Safeway/Costco/Walmart/SuperFresh/Southwest
On a home network.
Once you go beyond just you, you have to worry about security concerns.
I hear you there. At least the games... everything else I've managed to get working under either Wine or Crossover Office. Heck, even IE works under Wine...
I haven't tried VS.net, though I'm going to try VC++ 6.0 soon.
Stalkers target whoever they want... you only hear about stalkers who target celebs because the news talks more about them then anything important.
He must not have had anything to do with the friggin cow paths that make up the east coast. (Especially Northern Virginia/Washington DC)
argh...
heh... I know how ya feel. I grew up in maryland, moved to VA for the jobs after graduating, and from that point on I told people I was from virginia.
Alot better than people associating me with baltimore in any aspect. Would rather be known as a ridge-runner than from there....
Why would you find that interesting?
America was colonized from the east to the west. It's only logical that the east would be more lit, while the more sensible are less lit towards the sky.