Cable companies will never drop their prices until we start seeing small neighborhood WiFi ISPs as described by Bob Cringely in his past two PBS columns. I've thought about this for a few years now but, alas, I'm no entrepreneur.
But drop their prices to compete with dial-up? They don't even need to drop their prices to compete with DSL. Where I live, Cablevision gives me speeds of 5 Mbps down and 900 kbps up for $40/mo (with TV service; $50/mo a la carte). Verizon DSL is $50/mo and the best speed would be 625 kbps down. Cablevision could raise their price to $60, $70 per month; you name it; and my only alternative would be a dog slow DSL or dial-up connection.
I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I plan to purchase the full media. For ~$90, The documentation alone is worth that. It's a bargain in itself, plus the satisfaction of supporting the community.
I recently, for the first time, went looking for an SVG editor and found both Inkscape and Sodipodi. They seemed so similar and even seemed to share some of the same code (IANA programmer) and I couldn't figure out which project has the most critical mass. 'twould seem, Inkscape.
Just like thousands of lines of code that do nothing but obfuscate the surrounding code's function. Get a bunch of shiny new x86 boxes, put 'em in your supercomputing data center, and run Windows HPC on them. It'll confuse the shit out of people.
I think we generally agree. I played mostly outfield and infield w/ground balls is totaly different. The most extreme example is third base. Sometimes you don't have the time to take a single step. You have to just lunge for the ball; goalie mentality. I think everything between that and playing outfield is just a matter of degree.
I grew up playing (mostly) softball on city playgrounds of asphalt or concrete. So, I never acquired the skill of diving for a ball. When I got older, moved to the 'burbs and played mostly on grass, I'd get ragged about not diving for balls that were just barely out of reach. I began to practice it and while I became fairly proficient and overcame the initial fear of the simple maneuver, I couldn't bring myself to actually use it in a game; I still had the sense I my chances were better if I stayed on my feet and kept running.
Some years later I read in an article (by some scholar who probably never played the game) that diving for a ball is pure spectacle and is not the best chance to reach a fly ball. Basically, the moment you leave your feet, you begin to slow down. Your best chance is to take the last step or two maintain your speed, and perhaps catch the ball knee high rather than at the shoe-tops.
Maybe it was just affirmation of my belief, but it made sense to me.
Oh, BTW, I don't think Willie Mays or Joe DiMaggio ever dove for a ball.
They probably wouldn't or couldn't GPL everything, but it might be more than enough to keep existing Solaris customers from migrating to Linux, maybe keep upgrading to Sun hardware, and maintain revenue streams that would eventually dry up anyway. Not to mention creating a new OS development community for which a tremendous knowledge and talent base already exists.
It could be an absolutely brilliant strategic move.
Sun has been hammered relentlessly for the past 2 years by the tech media. I dare somebody point me to an article with a contrarian view: that Sun will emerge again. But notice they're all saying the same things over and over. In fact, they all seem to be repeating one another.
When conventional wisdom is 100% in the same direction, it usually ends up wrong. It's like just when everybody thinks the stock market is going up forever and all the amatures hop aboard,... CRASH!
He went to great lengths not to reveal much of anything. "XYZ distribution", "as mainstream as it gets",...
If you leave out all the technical details, nobody can question your findings. It could be the distribution, could be the hardware, could be the [L]user, or it could be 3 pages of pure, unadulterated,... uh, "creative writing".
(Disclaimer: No, I did not read every word, I skimmed. The article was tedious. If the technical details are present and I missed them, I apologize.)
The biggest pain in the ass, is that you have to log off and change desktops. I wouldn't mind running as a restricted user if I could run some things from a shell as administrator when needed.
A methodology; hardly an "invention". It's basically the principal on which the body cools itself. The link is currently/.'d, so I'm curious (and skeptical) about how much the temperature can be dropped. If it can chill a six-pack of Beck's to 43 degrees in shade on a warm day, I'm sold.
Get a Hagstrom street atlas, a copy of the local paper, turn on the radio, and call somebody on your cell. All that should be distracting enough to get you killed in short order. That's the whole point of this, isn't it?
When did operating a two-ton piece of machinery at high speeds become relegated to an afterthought?
... in ten years, it will probably be Solaris. And deservedly so. IBM, and HP will probably cool to further UNIX development but Sun can't. It's still their core and they'll win the battle of attrition. It won't be much of a win, but it will be a bigger win to Sun than a loss to IBM or HP.
The only versions of WP I've used were version 3 (on DOS) and versions 7 and 8 on Solaris (and never used any of them extensively). But I think WP now supports the OASIS Open Office XML Format. If so, what's to prevent me from moving seamlessly between OO.org and WP, depending on the job?
When the homeless lay around on the street and it snows, they get covered. But when they get up and walk away, that spot is clean. Wacker, I think you're on to something.
"Ironically, for such a high tech nation, there hasn't been a major quality improvement in TV broadcast images for a half-century until the 2006 changeover to HDTV."
I've always bought nothing but Sony TVs, and every one I've ever had did a better job than the last with the plain ol' composite video signal. It's like all the stuff that's been done with http that could never have been anticipated by TBL.
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Cable companies will never drop their prices until we start seeing small neighborhood WiFi ISPs as described by Bob Cringely in his past two PBS columns. I've thought about this for a few years now but, alas, I'm no entrepreneur.
But drop their prices to compete with dial-up? They don't even need to drop their prices to compete with DSL. Where I live, Cablevision gives me speeds of 5 Mbps down and 900 kbps up for $40/mo (with TV service; $50/mo a la carte). Verizon DSL is $50/mo and the best speed would be 625 kbps down. Cablevision could raise their price to $60, $70 per month; you name it; and my only alternative would be a dog slow DSL or dial-up connection.
I'm hooked on the fat pipe and they know it.
"In a free country you can certainly do that, but why mention it here?"
Because it is a free country.
I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I plan to purchase the full media. For ~$90, The documentation alone is worth that. It's a bargain in itself, plus the satisfaction of supporting the community.
I recently, for the first time, went looking for an SVG editor and found both Inkscape and Sodipodi. They seemed so similar and even seemed to share some of the same code (IANA programmer) and I couldn't figure out which project has the most critical mass. 'twould seem, Inkscape.
... is mentioned early in the article. But it doesn't mention the religous fascists that want me dead.
"We are in 2004 now, and someone suddenly discovered all this? Oh, my!"
What's this Linux thing I keep hearing about?
Just like thousands of lines of code that do nothing but obfuscate the surrounding code's function. Get a bunch of shiny new x86 boxes, put 'em in your supercomputing data center, and run Windows HPC on them. It'll confuse the shit out of people.
Took the test and it said I ... zzzzZZZZZ ZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZ (snore ... whistle ... snore ... whistle ...)
(... hey, is that coffee I smell?)
I think we generally agree. I played mostly outfield and infield w/ground balls is totaly different. The most extreme example is third base. Sometimes you don't have the time to take a single step. You have to just lunge for the ball; goalie mentality. I think everything between that and playing outfield is just a matter of degree.
I grew up playing (mostly) softball on city playgrounds of asphalt or concrete. So, I never acquired the skill of diving for a ball. When I got older, moved to the 'burbs and played mostly on grass, I'd get ragged about not diving for balls that were just barely out of reach. I began to practice it and while I became fairly proficient and overcame the initial fear of the simple maneuver, I couldn't bring myself to actually use it in a game; I still had the sense I my chances were better if I stayed on my feet and kept running.
Some years later I read in an article (by some scholar who probably never played the game) that diving for a ball is pure spectacle and is not the best chance to reach a fly ball. Basically, the moment you leave your feet, you begin to slow down. Your best chance is to take the last step or two maintain your speed, and perhaps catch the ball knee high rather than at the shoe-tops.
Maybe it was just affirmation of my belief, but it made sense to me.
Oh, BTW, I don't think Willie Mays or Joe DiMaggio ever dove for a ball.
A lot of people used to work for Nortel.
http://www.suse.com/en/private/products/suse_linux /prof/pers_prof.html
They probably wouldn't or couldn't GPL everything, but it might be more than enough to keep existing Solaris customers from migrating to Linux, maybe keep upgrading to Sun hardware, and maintain revenue streams that would eventually dry up anyway. Not to mention creating a new OS development community for which a tremendous knowledge and talent base already exists.
It could be an absolutely brilliant strategic move.
Sun has been hammered relentlessly for the past 2 years by the tech media. I dare somebody point me to an article with a contrarian view: that Sun will emerge again. But notice they're all saying the same things over and over. In fact, they all seem to be repeating one another.
... CRASH!
When conventional wisdom is 100% in the same direction, it usually ends up wrong. It's like just when everybody thinks the stock market is going up forever and all the amatures hop aboard,
"All this talk of "chicks" and making a "pass" is incomprehensible gobbledegook to the average Slashdot nerd."
Ah, you are forgetting about the technosexuals. But hopefully, only the dead ones read /.
Sales guy:
"All that stuff I told you when I was working for SuSE was BULLSHIT. But now, you can believe everything I say. We ... ah going to pump ... YOU up!"
He went to great lengths not to reveal much of anything. "XYZ distribution", "as mainstream as it gets", ...
... uh, "creative writing".
If you leave out all the technical details, nobody can question your findings. It could be the distribution, could be the hardware, could be the [L]user, or it could be 3 pages of pure, unadulterated,
(Disclaimer: No, I did not read every word, I skimmed. The article was tedious. If the technical details are present and I missed them, I apologize.)
"I even got a pen the other day, one of those giveaways with a company logo, and it has a blue LED on the top that lights up as you write."
Begs the question, could the light be sensed from a distance to determine what is being written?
The biggest pain in the ass, is that you have to log off and change desktops. I wouldn't mind running as a restricted user if I could run some things from a shell as administrator when needed.
A methodology; hardly an "invention". It's basically the principal on which the body cools itself. The link is currently /.'d, so I'm curious (and skeptical) about how much the temperature can be dropped. If it can chill a six-pack of Beck's to 43 degrees in shade on a warm day, I'm sold.
Get a Hagstrom street atlas, a copy of the local paper, turn on the radio, and call somebody on your cell. All that should be distracting enough to get you killed in short order. That's the whole point of this, isn't it?
When did operating a two-ton piece of machinery at high speeds become relegated to an afterthought?
... in ten years, it will probably be Solaris. And deservedly so. IBM, and HP will probably cool to further UNIX development but Sun can't. It's still their core and they'll win the battle of attrition. It won't be much of a win, but it will be a bigger win to Sun than a loss to IBM or HP.
The only versions of WP I've used were version 3 (on DOS) and versions 7 and 8 on Solaris (and never used any of them extensively). But I think WP now supports the OASIS Open Office XML Format. If so, what's to prevent me from moving seamlessly between OO.org and WP, depending on the job?
I think there's a market.
When the homeless lay around on the street and it snows, they get covered. But when they get up and walk away, that spot is clean. Wacker, I think you're on to something.
"Ironically, for such a high tech nation, there hasn't been a major quality improvement in TV broadcast images for a half-century until the 2006 changeover to HDTV."
I've always bought nothing but Sony TVs, and every one I've ever had did a better job than the last with the plain ol' composite video signal. It's like all the stuff that's been done with http that could never have been anticipated by TBL.