So basically they just spent $5.5 million built the worlds most expensive intranet? Man with that kind of money I would've rather had the government buy 2 more toilet seats.
My argument was merely that the economy may not have collapsed so quickly so dramatically if we were actually producing the products that consumers want to buy.
What index do you think caused analysts to say (for the millionth time in 2 years) the economy is on the up again? Consumer spending that's what. The trick is getting them to spend. Instead of devious marketting, hidden fees, and shady accounting if the companies would sell things people wanted to buy in the first place we'd be much better off.
Might not bring about world peace and an end to all oppression, but there'd be more jobs.
I checked out Debian's site once before but was confused about what exactly the differences are/were. I would love to see a side by side feature type comparison listing things like apt-get vs. RPM.
By that I don't mean which is better, I just mean they could say Debian uses apt-get like Red Hat uses RPM kinda sorta or something like that. Something that lets me migrate and not be completely in the dark and have to start over from scratch. Is there such a reference or resource?
Damn it! I was bummed before and now I'm just pissed. I literally justfinished ranting about this in the Red Hat thread!
Corporations have destroyed our dream and our hobby that was technology. New ways to do new cool stuff whenever and however the hell we wanted.
Gee I wonder why music sales are down and the economy is tanking. They get what they deserve.
We handed them something great, tore down communication beariers around the world, toiled for decades building more and more for them, and they kicked us in the nuts, handed us the bill, and then told us we weren't patriotic because we didn't smile but that's okay because we are all just evil sons of bitches anyways.
I've used Red Hat since 5.2, still maintain several Red Hat servers at work. You can be sure I won't be using or recommending Red Hat any more be it for personal or corporate use.
Looks like my Mandrake 9.1 discs are going to get much more use. Of course there's an issue with those as well what with Mandrake moving to ads in 9.2:/
I saw a poster in another thread earlier that said the only reason he sticks with a mainstream distro like Red Hat or Mandrake is for their software update and packaging services. I think that's right on the money. If it weren't for the need to constantly be up to date I could ditch mainstream distros completely. These companies are starting to cause more trouble than their worth.
When I see news like this it just makes me wish we could put the Linux geenie back in the bottle, get these corporate types out of our hobby, and for once have something for ourselves that doesn't get corrupted and then suffocated by the greed and ignorance that permeates business culture today. As an example the Internet could've been great. Heck, computers could've been great.
Now when I code I spend more time wondering if someone has a patent and will sue me, if I still have the CD I ripped the MP3 I'm listening to from in case the RIAA police come knocking, if tomorrow I'll be able to use my non-broadcast flag television set, etc. etc.
What I haven't seen mentioned here is that the number of new public IP address requests is not a constant. Sure at the current rate of consumption we may have 20+ years.
However, more and more I see new devices popping up and old devices being retrofitted (insert obligatory internet fridge/toaster comment here) and I can see the number of nedded IPs increasing exponentially. Especially as the US economy heats back up (if/when) and we all go buy our new internet enabled toys.
Couple that with migration to VoIP and other IP encroaching and the number when we run out may be more like 10 years.
The people they're sueing all have literally billions of dollars to spare
Since when does NASA have billions of dollars? Heck since when does NASA even have millions of dollars? Especially to spend on lawsuits. Come on, NASA is spread to thin as it is. There is no way NASA can afford to drag this one out.
Sure it's always possible a higher power in the government will step in on NASA's behalf, but probably what's more likely is the military will hang NASA out to dry. Might be a way to kill off NASA for good and bring the US space program fully and solely under control of the Military.
How's that for a Sci-fi channel conspiracy special?
Think about it, if MS wanted to stick it to the other browsers they really SHOULD use them everywhere like with Media Player and Messenger launches, etc.
With all of the proprietary crud that IE uses to make those things work the third party browsers would crash and burn (assuming MS only changed which browser gets launched and not anything else about the technology to actually support them).
Then MS could say "See judge, we told you other browsers were crap. Let us switch back to IE for the poor helpless users and all of their troubles will be over..."
While I struggle to cope with my KDE and my Gnome day in and day out I hold out hope that maybe today will be the day that I see E17 released un to the world...
Dang. I guess now I can't kink the fiber up and hold it till the IT guy looks down the end and gets packets sprayed all over his face as I drop it and run...
At least they picked a name that should strike the proper level of fear into joe citizen. When it was TIA no one had a clue, it was almost as good as the PATRIOT Act (who could vote against being a patriot right?). But with a name like MATRIX thanks to the media machine people will naturally associate it with total helpless control and loss of basic rights.
This program will be quickly dropped, the politicians will say it was all that guys idea *point long finger* and it'll come up again under the name "USA FLUFFY BUNNIES AND PEACE ON EARTH FOR EVERYONE Act"
Vote no on USA FLUFFY BUNNIES AND PEACE ON EARTH FOR EVERYONE!
Could you imagine an implementation of something like that? There'd be this bizzare picture on your screen and before the computer would let you in you'd have to write an essay about what it looked like to you and then how you hate your father and it's all your mothers fault because she never hugged you.
That computer better come with a tissue dispenser. Call it the iQuack.
MyDevice uses haptic feedback as a way of improving the experience of using the touchscreen. This means that the screen vibrates slightly every time the user presses it, which MyOrigo says makes it easier to type.
Has anyone else done that? That seems like a bigger improvement to me than the tilting interface. I remember when those fingerboard keyboards and some other flat panel device (don't recall the name) came out. The only thing that stopped me from adopting stuff like that was the no feedback when you pressed it.
Give me a programmable flat panel display with this technology and I'll be set.
This seems like the holy grail of buttonless touchscreen devices no?
These are not the 64-bit procs right? Still 32? Can someone clarify that?
I've been reading that there would be a 970 that would run at 64, but surely if this was it they'd be hyping that right? So is there no 64-bit 970 or are these just not it or ?
And just wait for the first time some idiot CFO accidentally locks himself out of his own files...
Heck, the CFO could just circumvent the copy protection on those files. What's a DMCA violation on the criminal record of a CFO these days anyways? It wouldn't even show up until the 8th or 9th page.
Gosh they sure complain a lot. It seems like the RIAA/MPAA's big problem is those damn consumers. Always wanting to actually use what they paid for. Tsk Tsk. So demanding.
Ravaged by piracy, movie studios and recording labels have been fitting new CD and DVD releases with layers of computer code with the aim of preventing or limiting users' ability to copy, or "rip," them onto a blank disc and trade online
Right, because as we all know CDs and DVDs are indestructible and never scratch or degrade. There's no other possible reason anyone would ever want or need a copy of the music or movie they paid $25 for nope. Heck just buy it again right? Prop up the ol' economy, it's the patriotic thing to do. Fair use anyone? Hello?
but is making it mandatory going too far? It would seem wiser to support a solution that favors the best tool for the job, which may not always be an open source product.
I don't mean to troll but did those lines stick out like a sore thumb to anyone else?
Stop pretending you're unbiased or have any shred of journalistic integrity/sense Taco, at this point it just comes across as majorly lame. Stick to posting dupes and working on your grahmer.
What surprises me is that they went for 2 years developing this project "in secret"... why would they want to do that? It's neat to see that they've already done some rocket testing and all, but why announce now after two years when they don't even have a full scale version done? What did they get by waiting to announce?
I could understand the secrecy if they wanted to develop the whole thing first to avoid the vaporware critiques, and then bam they come out with a ready-to-use orbiter, man that'd be sweet huh? But why announce in the middle of it? Need funding? Sick of keeping it quiet? Poor planning? Any ideas?
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So basically they just spent $5.5 million built the worlds most expensive intranet? Man with that kind of money I would've rather had the government buy 2 more toilet seats.
My argument was merely that the economy may not have collapsed so quickly so dramatically if we were actually producing the products that consumers want to buy.
What index do you think caused analysts to say (for the millionth time in 2 years) the economy is on the up again? Consumer spending that's what. The trick is getting them to spend. Instead of devious marketting, hidden fees, and shady accounting if the companies would sell things people wanted to buy in the first place we'd be much better off.
Might not bring about world peace and an end to all oppression, but there'd be more jobs.
I checked out Debian's site once before but was confused about what exactly the differences are/were. I would love to see a side by side feature type comparison listing things like apt-get vs. RPM.
By that I don't mean which is better, I just mean they could say Debian uses apt-get like Red Hat uses RPM kinda sorta or something like that. Something that lets me migrate and not be completely in the dark and have to start over from scratch. Is there such a reference or resource?
Damn it! I was bummed before and now I'm just pissed. I literally just finished ranting about this in the Red Hat thread!
Corporations have destroyed our dream and our hobby that was technology. New ways to do new cool stuff whenever and however the hell we wanted.
Gee I wonder why music sales are down and the economy is tanking. They get what they deserve.
We handed them something great, tore down communication beariers around the world, toiled for decades building more and more for them, and they kicked us in the nuts, handed us the bill, and then told us we weren't patriotic because we didn't smile but that's okay because we are all just evil sons of bitches anyways.
Yup. Now I'm pissed.
Wow. This hurts.
:/
I've used Red Hat since 5.2, still maintain several Red Hat servers at work. You can be sure I won't be using or recommending Red Hat any more be it for personal or corporate use.
Looks like my Mandrake 9.1 discs are going to get much more use. Of course there's an issue with those as well what with Mandrake moving to ads in 9.2
I saw a poster in another thread earlier that said the only reason he sticks with a mainstream distro like Red Hat or Mandrake is for their software update and packaging services. I think that's right on the money. If it weren't for the need to constantly be up to date I could ditch mainstream distros completely. These companies are starting to cause more trouble than their worth.
When I see news like this it just makes me wish we could put the Linux geenie back in the bottle, get these corporate types out of our hobby, and for once have something for ourselves that doesn't get corrupted and then suffocated by the greed and ignorance that permeates business culture today. As an example the Internet could've been great. Heck, computers could've been great.
Now when I code I spend more time wondering if someone has a patent and will sue me, if I still have the CD I ripped the MP3 I'm listening to from in case the RIAA police come knocking, if tomorrow I'll be able to use my non-broadcast flag television set, etc. etc.
Now I'm just bummed. Damn.
What I haven't seen mentioned here is that the number of new public IP address requests is not a constant. Sure at the current rate of consumption we may have 20+ years.
However, more and more I see new devices popping up and old devices being retrofitted (insert obligatory internet fridge/toaster comment here) and I can see the number of nedded IPs increasing exponentially. Especially as the US economy heats back up (if/when) and we all go buy our new internet enabled toys.
Couple that with migration to VoIP and other IP encroaching and the number when we run out may be more like 10 years.
At least that's always been my impression.
For the record KDevelop is not a new application. Maybe the submitter was referring to the newest beta version being included in the KDE 3.2 beta?
I have a client who's willing to pay one meelion dollars to the man who makes this robot look like a shark...
The people they're sueing all have literally billions of dollars to spare
Since when does NASA have billions of dollars? Heck since when does NASA even have millions of dollars? Especially to spend on lawsuits. Come on, NASA is spread to thin as it is. There is no way NASA can afford to drag this one out.
Sure it's always possible a higher power in the government will step in on NASA's behalf, but probably what's more likely is the military will hang NASA out to dry. Might be a way to kill off NASA for good and bring the US space program fully and solely under control of the Military.
How's that for a Sci-fi channel conspiracy special?
Think about it, if MS wanted to stick it to the other browsers they really SHOULD use them everywhere like with Media Player and Messenger launches, etc.
With all of the proprietary crud that IE uses to make those things work the third party browsers would crash and burn (assuming MS only changed which browser gets launched and not anything else about the technology to actually support them).
Then MS could say "See judge, we told you other browsers were crap. Let us switch back to IE for the poor helpless users and all of their troubles will be over..."
While I struggle to cope with my KDE and my Gnome day in and day out I hold out hope that maybe today will be the day that I see E17 released un to the world...
Dang. I guess now I can't kink the fiber up and hold it till the IT guy looks down the end and gets packets sprayed all over his face as I drop it and run...
At least they picked a name that should strike the proper level of fear into joe citizen. When it was TIA no one had a clue, it was almost as good as the PATRIOT Act (who could vote against being a patriot right?). But with a name like MATRIX thanks to the media machine people will naturally associate it with total helpless control and loss of basic rights.
This program will be quickly dropped, the politicians will say it was all that guys idea *point long finger* and it'll come up again under the name "USA FLUFFY BUNNIES AND PEACE ON EARTH FOR EVERYONE Act"
Vote no on USA FLUFFY BUNNIES AND PEACE ON EARTH FOR EVERYONE!
"Hey, Have you guys ever been to Uranus?"
-- Ashton Kutcher, Dude Where's My Car
Could you imagine an implementation of something like that? There'd be this bizzare picture on your screen and before the computer would let you in you'd have to write an essay about what it looked like to you and then how you hate your father and it's all your mothers fault because she never hugged you.
That computer better come with a tissue dispenser. Call it the iQuack.
MyDevice uses haptic feedback as a way of improving the experience of using the touchscreen. This means that the screen vibrates slightly every time the user presses it, which MyOrigo says makes it easier to type.
Has anyone else done that? That seems like a bigger improvement to me than the tilting interface. I remember when those fingerboard keyboards and some other flat panel device (don't recall the name) came out. The only thing that stopped me from adopting stuff like that was the no feedback when you pressed it.
Give me a programmable flat panel display with this technology and I'll be set.
This seems like the holy grail of buttonless touchscreen devices no?
These are not the 64-bit procs right? Still 32? Can someone clarify that?
I've been reading that there would be a 970 that would run at 64, but surely if this was it they'd be hyping that right? So is there no 64-bit 970 or are these just not it or ?
And just wait for the first time some idiot CFO accidentally locks himself out of his own files...
Heck, the CFO could just circumvent the copy protection on those files. What's a DMCA violation on the criminal record of a CFO these days anyways? It wouldn't even show up until the 8th or 9th page.
Gosh they sure complain a lot. It seems like the RIAA/MPAA's big problem is those damn consumers. Always wanting to actually use what they paid for. Tsk Tsk. So demanding.
If they could just not sell to consumers...
Ravaged by piracy, movie studios and recording labels have been fitting new CD and DVD releases with layers of computer code with the aim of preventing or limiting users' ability to copy, or "rip," them onto a blank disc and trade online
Right, because as we all know CDs and DVDs are indestructible and never scratch or degrade. There's no other possible reason anyone would ever want or need a copy of the music or movie they paid $25 for nope. Heck just buy it again right? Prop up the ol' economy, it's the patriotic thing to do. Fair use anyone? Hello?
but is making it mandatory going too far? It would seem wiser to support a solution that favors the best tool for the job, which may not always be an open source product.
I don't mean to troll but did those lines stick out like a sore thumb to anyone else?
Stop pretending you're unbiased or have any shred of journalistic integrity/sense Taco, at this point it just comes across as majorly lame. Stick to posting dupes and working on your grahmer.
How can you take the guy seriously when on his resume his email address is nugget@slacker.com?
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"Looks like someone has a case of the Mooondays"
What surprises me is that they went for 2 years developing this project "in secret"... why would they want to do that? It's neat to see that they've already done some rocket testing and all, but why announce now after two years when they don't even have a full scale version done? What did they get by waiting to announce?
I could understand the secrecy if they wanted to develop the whole thing first to avoid the vaporware critiques, and then bam they come out with a ready-to-use orbiter, man that'd be sweet huh? But why announce in the middle of it? Need funding? Sick of keeping it quiet? Poor planning? Any ideas?