What kind of Mac do you have ? It runs fine on my 3.5 year old G4/450 AGP. And since Panther I am not constantly crying because I don't have the money for a new Mac. It's really amazing.
Regarding XP vs. KDE I had the experience that I swapped Linux to XP on one of my older machines as KDE really was painful there is many respects (Duron 850 with 512 MB RAM). XP just runs fine. I know there are desktop environments for Linux with much smaller footprint, but they are, well, let's say conservative in their feature sets.
I think I see a new class split. The do-it-yourselfers that appreciate the quality and flexibility of open source vs. the people who just want a working computer without configuration woes. Guess which one will spawn the new millionairs and monarchs?
The thing about cologne is correct, and there are also some other pilot projects for e-voting under way. However, all state and federal elections are still done the traditional way, apart from very few experimental e-voting districts (also I am not sure if they have been used on state and federal level yet and not only in local elections).
To be able to provide fast and comparatively accurate predictions certainly an efficient infrastructure has to be able to collect intermediate results as well as to do the statistics, but it has been that way long before e-voting could even be considered over here. Certainly increased use of e-voting might even improve the efficiency of the whole system, but AFAIK it is by far not widespread enough to really make a difference at the moment.
Your objections are certainly justified; on the other hand Germany where I am living is doing all of its voting the traditionall pen-and-paper-ballot way, and we get first projections minutes after the voting closes, more and more reliable projections shortly after and very accurate (usually 0,x % to the official final results) inofficial final results the same evening (usually our voting booths close at 6 pm). The official results are available IIRC about 2-3 days after the vote.
The people staffing the voting booths and counting the votes are usually volunteers who get a small payment for their troubles. All in all our systems seems to work quite well.
And even if Germany is far smaller than the US it has still a not too small voting population.
Sorry, I would rather shell out 175$ for a car that will consistantly perform decent across the whole spectrum, than pay 300$ for a card that is sometimes great and sometimes sucks.
Hell, for 175$ I would even take a car that only works every second day ! For that price one could take a cab the other days and still save money !
While this is true for the US, at least in Germany (at most likely also in other European countries) SuSE has a strong support and consulting presence.
It's not accidential that the Munich Linux project as well as other larger Linux migration projects are backed by SuSE among others like IBM. Also in Germany large vendors like IBM or Fujitsu-Siemens work closely with SuSE. While Redhat still has a strong presence in Germany, SuSE is a premium choice for large Linux projects over here.
So you push your car out of the filling station by hand to not ignite something when starting your engine ?
I fully understand that one should not smoke in a filling station and perhaps it is also not a good idea to phone during actually filling the car, but afterwards there shouldn't be any risk.
I am still using a trusty, about 10 years old (got it from eBay) Macintosh LC III with an 68030, System 7.5.5 and the old pre-Open Transport Network stack (because of the Apple Internet Router (not related with the big Internet coming out of your network socket)) at my company to control a series of Mac-only DNA synthesizers. Works like a charm (nevertheless I have four other Macs sitting in the closet in case this one cries for retirement. Old Macs are sooo cheap on eBay nowadays, who said Macs cost more than PCs;-) ?)
Of course, if you're lucky enough to have a company with a Citrix server, there's a native OS X client for that.
You even don't need that, a W2K server licensed as Terminal Services Application server (still costs some money, but considerably less than Citrix) is fully sufficient as MS has been offering a RDP client for OSX for quite some time.
Everybody and their dog use systems without ECC ram, yet the world has not come to an end yet. I would be more concerned of programming errors than flipping bits.
Why is it that every time any company that is even remotely associated with Open Source gets into any kind of trouble that everyone and his dog want IBM to buy them ? Over the longest time of its existence, IBM was one of the largest and most evil monopolies one can imagine, and nevertheless people demand such things.
As i said before, as long as you are "just" treating patients you won't have too much IP issues on your hand. But frankly, the really interesting things in modern medicine are happening at the academic institutions and in industrial research. And especially academia has changed drastically over the last couple of years: Some years ago the main goal was "publish or perish". Today everybody is first trying to find out if the findings might be patentable before publishing; by doing so, lots and lots of companies are spun off from academic institutions everywhere, building their business mostly on IP to sell or licence.
Well, being an ex-doctor myself and now being active in the biotech area: If you just plan to be a humble practitioner treating patients you might get around all that IP stuff, but life sciences and medicine are that plastered with patents that IT looks like paradise in comparison. So it might be worth reconsidering.
In WWII in Germany (but AFAIK in the Soviet Union as well) there was a similar thing called Sippenhaft. That meant: If the ruling powers had the feeling that a soldier or an officer was not showing enough courage or even was lacking enthusiasm (which also could be an euphenism for people voicing dissent with the respective regime), not only he was shot but also all of his family was arrested and often put into concentration camps. Family was often interpreted in a very far-reaching way: If a more or less distant relative was the evildoer, but the regime's thirst for revenge was big enough or no one else was there you still would lose your job, put into prison etc.
I think they use the same line of thought you are using here.
Well, yesterday evening I installed SuSE 8.2. The online update after the install also needed around half an hour on a DSL connection. So what's your point again ?
What does the IT spin-off of an airline (even if it has been a state-run one until some years ago but no longer is) to do with IT in government ? Wrong thread ?
Try to create a modified OS environment that does some specific function with any other OS other than Linux.
Ever heard of the BSDs ? (I know what you want to say, but Linux enthusiasts tend to overlook that there is a wealth of free software our there beyond Linux)
Yes, it indeed is like that. If you feel that you have been misrepresented in e.g. a newspaper article they have to print your counterstatement. Usually it is headed by a more or less boilerplate intro of: "The press laws require us to print this, this does not mean it is true, correct etc."
You can either define a proper email address under the t-online domain using the t-online Web site (however, I don't know if they offer it in English) or use the T-Online smtp relay server which regrettably costs 2,90 EUR/month since March 1st, 2003 (before it was for free).
But you can also use any other freemail or payed email provider of your choice with T-Online, popular in Germany are GMX and web.de, and certainly the usual suspects like hotmail or AOL.
Well, both Britain and France did indeed care... they declared war against Germany two days after the invasion of Poland. Britain moved a large contingent of troops to France, but when Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940 both the French army and the British Expeditionary Force to France didn't stand a chance. The British managed to evacuate a large part of their troops via Dunkirk to Britain and fought on, even when most parts of the world including large groups in the US thought that the war was over and that they just should surrender their powerful fleet to the USA and surrender to Germany.
Without Roosevelt helping the Britons more or less unofficially while still a lot of people in the US wanted to stay out of Europe indeed also the UK would most likely had fallen, but one really cannot say they didn't care or didn't fight.
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What kind of Mac do you have ? It runs fine on my 3.5 year old G4/450 AGP. And since Panther I am not constantly crying because I don't have the money for a new Mac. It's really amazing.
Regarding XP vs. KDE I had the experience that I swapped Linux to XP on one of my older machines as KDE really was painful there is many respects (Duron 850 with 512 MB RAM). XP just runs fine. I know there are desktop environments for Linux with much smaller footprint, but they are, well, let's say conservative in their feature sets.
I think I see a new class split. The do-it-yourselfers that appreciate the quality and flexibility of open source vs. the people who just want a working computer without configuration woes. Guess which one will spawn the new millionairs and monarchs?
;->
According to Dilbert the latter.
The thing about cologne is correct, and there are also some other pilot projects for e-voting under way. However, all state and federal elections are still done the traditional way, apart from very few experimental e-voting districts (also I am not sure if they have been used on state and federal level yet and not only in local elections).
To be able to provide fast and comparatively accurate predictions certainly an efficient infrastructure has to be able to collect intermediate results as well as to do the statistics, but it has been that way long before e-voting could even be considered over here. Certainly increased use of e-voting might even improve the efficiency of the whole system, but AFAIK it is by far not widespread enough to really make a difference at the moment.
Your objections are certainly justified; on the other hand Germany where I am living is doing all of its voting the traditionall pen-and-paper-ballot way, and we get first projections minutes after the voting closes, more and more reliable projections shortly after and very accurate (usually 0,x % to the official final results) inofficial final results the same evening (usually our voting booths close at 6 pm). The official results are available IIRC about 2-3 days after the vote.
The people staffing the voting booths and counting the votes are usually volunteers who get a small payment for their troubles. All in all our systems
seems to work quite well.
And even if Germany is far smaller than the US it has still a not too small voting population.
Sorry, I would rather shell out 175$ for a car that will consistantly perform decent across the whole spectrum, than pay 300$ for a card that is sometimes great and sometimes sucks.
Hell, for 175$ I would even take a car that only works every second day ! For that price one could take a cab the other days and still save money !
While this is true for the US, at least in Germany (at most likely also in other European countries) SuSE has a strong support and consulting presence.
It's not accidential that the Munich Linux project as well as other larger Linux migration projects are backed by SuSE among others like IBM. Also in Germany large vendors like IBM or Fujitsu-Siemens work closely with SuSE. While Redhat still has a strong presence in Germany, SuSE is a premium choice for large Linux projects over here.
So you push your car out of the filling station by hand to not ignite something when starting your engine ?
I fully understand that one should not smoke in a filling station and perhaps it is also not a good idea to phone during actually filling the car, but afterwards there shouldn't be any risk.
I am still using a trusty, about 10 years old (got it from eBay) Macintosh LC III with an 68030, System 7.5.5 and the old pre-Open Transport Network stack (because of the Apple Internet Router (not related with the big Internet coming out of your network socket)) at my company to control a series of Mac-only DNA synthesizers. Works like a charm (nevertheless I have four other Macs sitting in the closet in case this one cries for retirement. Old Macs are sooo cheap on eBay nowadays, who said Macs cost more than PCs ;-) ?)
Of course, if you're lucky enough to have a company with a Citrix server, there's a native OS X client for that.
You even don't need that, a W2K server licensed as Terminal Services Application server (still costs some money, but considerably less than Citrix) is fully sufficient as MS has been offering a RDP client for OSX for quite some time.
Everybody and their dog use systems without ECC ram, yet the world has not come to an end yet. I would be more concerned of programming errors than flipping bits.
Yeah, I also think 1098 should be more than enough.
odd considering I bought my iBook in April 2002 and it came with Jaguar. got home and updated to 10.2.2 that same day
May I borrow your time machine ? I want to put OS XI , Linux 5 and Windows XP 2010 on my machines.
Why is it that every time any company that is even remotely associated with Open Source gets into any kind of trouble that everyone and his dog want IBM to buy them ? Over the longest time of its existence, IBM was one of the largest and most evil monopolies one can imagine, and nevertheless people demand such things.
"All" would have been much better than "most or all" though. :-/
> I don't know about java, but I can see anything as being a good alternative to .NET.
So this anything must be pretty awesome. Where can I get it ?
As i said before, as long as you are "just" treating patients you won't have too much IP issues on your hand. But frankly, the really interesting things in modern medicine are happening at the academic institutions and in industrial research. And especially academia has changed drastically over the last couple of years: Some years ago the main goal was "publish or perish". Today everybody is first trying to find out if the findings might be patentable before publishing; by doing so, lots and lots of companies are spun off from academic institutions everywhere, building their business mostly on IP to sell or licence.
Well, being an ex-doctor myself and now being active in the biotech area: If you just plan to be a humble practitioner treating patients you might get around all that IP stuff, but life sciences and medicine are that plastered with patents that IT looks like paradise in comparison. So it might be worth reconsidering.
In WWII in Germany (but AFAIK in the Soviet Union as well) there was a similar thing called Sippenhaft. That meant: If the ruling powers had the feeling that a soldier or an officer was not showing enough courage or even was lacking enthusiasm (which also could be an euphenism for people voicing dissent with the respective regime), not only he was shot but also all of his family was arrested and often put into concentration camps. Family was often interpreted in a very far-reaching way: If a more or less distant relative was the evildoer, but the regime's thirst for revenge was big enough or no one else was there you still would lose your job, put into prison etc.
I think they use the same line of thought you are using here.
Well, yesterday evening I installed SuSE 8.2. The online update after the install also needed around half an hour on a DSL connection. So what's your point again ?
What does the IT spin-off of an airline (even if it has been a state-run one until some years ago but no longer is) to do with IT in government ? Wrong thread ?
Try to create a modified OS environment that does some specific function with any other OS other than Linux.
Ever heard of the BSDs ? (I know what you want to say, but Linux enthusiasts tend to overlook that there is a wealth of free software our there beyond Linux)
Replying to myself... *blush*: The stuff I wrote is valid for Germany where I am living, other EU countries may have different laws
Yes, it indeed is like that. If you feel that you have been misrepresented in e.g. a newspaper article
they have to print your counterstatement. Usually it is headed by a more or less boilerplate intro of: "The press laws require us to print this, this does not mean it is true, correct etc."
You can either define a proper email address under the t-online domain using the t-online Web site (however, I don't know if they offer it in English) or use the T-Online smtp relay server which regrettably costs 2,90 EUR/month since March 1st, 2003 (before it was for free).
But you can also use any other freemail or payed email provider of your choice with T-Online, popular in Germany are GMX and web.de, and certainly the usual suspects like hotmail or AOL.
Well, both Britain and France did indeed care... they declared war against Germany two days after the invasion of Poland. Britain moved a large contingent of troops to France, but when Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940 both the French army and the British Expeditionary Force to France didn't stand a chance. The British managed to evacuate a large part of their troops via Dunkirk to Britain and fought on, even when most parts of the world including large groups in the US thought that the war was over and that they just should surrender their powerful fleet to the USA and surrender to Germany.
Without Roosevelt helping the Britons more or less unofficially while still a lot of people in the US wanted to stay out of Europe indeed also the UK would most likely had fallen, but one really cannot say they didn't care or didn't fight.