Correct, in order to be insured by FDIC the way a bank is insured, the company would have to classified as a bank. But, according to the article, if PayPal deposits a users money into an ACTUAL bank, then the money will be insured by FDIC.
If this happened, it would bring AutoCAD and other AutoDesk programs that much closer to Linux seeing as how AutoDesk has linked some of their funtionality to MS Office. I would love to switch my department to Linux desktops running Mechanical Desktop and would in a heartbeat if it became available.
Yes, I know there's open source versions of CAD programs out there, but they don't have anywhere near the functionality we get in MDT and ACAD.
But how can you prevent it? If you can't see the source code for the proprietary program, how do you know it hasn't happened? All we have to rely on are the ethics of programmers. But what about the ones that arn't ethical?
If you read the article, their talking about how it could be causing problems with the penguins, yet, their going to do fly over repeatedly to find out for sure. So if it does cause problems, their just going to be making it worse. Now, if it does cause problems, how are they going to handle it. Would they try to make a no flying zone over penguins like they have for the whitehouse?
Now we need distribution specific policy files, currently the policy files are only for redhat. It would be nice to see policy files for suse, debian, turbo, caldera, etc.. as they apply to that particular disribution.
For example, alot of the files in the default policy file (setup for redhat) don't exist on my system (suse) and if they do exist, their in different locations. I can guess that this will be pretty much the same with debian, turbo, caldera and others as well.
Of course it's linux's fault, I mean , after all, we all need someone to blames, so lets blame the OS itself since, god forbid, the IT staff has to be infaliable.
What a moronic statement that was, thats like blameing Chevrolet because your car can run out of gas.
Definately neat to see all these various systems migrating to linux from either unix or windows systems. Especially nice to see that computer companies like IBM are helping to spread this migration.
I thought the same thing when I first noticed that as well, "what the hell does mozilla have to do with this???" That'll probably be the same response from many others at first glance.
Well it was bound to happen, now it's just a matter of time before more countries follow suit. PGP is looking better and better all the time. Now we need to start educating people quicker and more often on the advantages of PGP so we don't make it as easy for the governments to read our e-mails.
If you take a look at the moderation rules, you'll see the explanation for this, but I'll try to explain it here. Any post received by a user who is logged on, in this case, Valdrax, is automatically moderated as a 1, even before the moderators get to it, while any AC post is automatically moderated as a 0. So since he's logged on to/. as Valdrax, his post automatically receives a 1 whereas your AC post and the others before you received a 0. So its moderation was automatic rather then moderated up by an individual as you may have thought.
I think this is great, I have it on windows now and have been wanting to play it across a network with my brothers, so I'll just have to give them my windows version and buy the Linux version so we can all play together. The more games that Loki ports and sells, the more likely many other vendors will do the same. I can't wait to see the day when I can walk into CompUSA or Best Buy and see just as many programs on the shelf for linux as there are for windows. Even if it's just games, I'll settle for that.
Same here, I downloaded the entire site as soon as I heard mattel was acting like this and I've sent it to everyone I know who was interested in it and didn't have a chance to get it themselves.
Personally, I can't wait for the free speech advocates to get involved, this is definately a violation of free speech if ever there was one. Well I guess this goes to show you, Barbie is a bitch after all. Well we could all boycott mattel products from now on, tell all your family members and friends not to buy anymore. Probably wouldn't do much damage in the long run, but even if word got out that something like that was happening, theres a chance the public would take notice, even those who have no idea what the CPhack was all about in the first place.
I currently use StarOffice without any major problems, though I can't stand the all in one app, probably because I'm just not used to it from so many years of the other office packages. Anyway, back to the point, the more choice we have for office suites the better chance we have of gettign a very robust and easy to use program as now they compete to get us to use it which is always good for us.
For that matter, like the article points out and anyone who's been using linux for a while can remember. We have already seen one major fork in the distros, and that was the glibc and libc fiasco. Which if you can recall had created some incompatibilities with early adopters of the glibc libraries.
Luckily though for all of us, these have all been worked out and things are better for it. But there were many times that I can recall numerous posts to various lists complaining and bitching about this or that not working with such and such.
I've always had a running banter with a friend of mine who uses RH. I tell him RH sucks he tells me SW sucks. He likes the configuration ability of RH were as I have always like the command line way of configuring things. I now use SuSE on a desktop system but on my testbed system and one of my servers, I only use SW as I seem to get more for my buck so to speak, without all the glitter the other distros have. I would be greatly impressed with an FTP install in the future, which in my opinion would probably be one of the best things that SW could add.
The school I went to was strictly a dos dominated enviroment, but then, this was a CAD class rather then an actual computer class. Though there were a few unix stations at that time, linux wasn't an option (showing my age) till a couple years later. I'd be interested in seeing if its become more open or if the unix stations have been tossed out or not.
The way I understood it, they are considered very unstable and can cause frequent crashes on your system. So use at your own risk. Anyone know of any major success stories?
Nested is good, but it does the entire set of comments and replies, what I'm talking about is selecting a particular thread and that thread becomes nested while the rest of the comments stay threaded.
I like the various customizations that are appearing, but every once in a while I still wish for one particular feature with the thread flattening. Instead of the entire section of comments flattening, what about an option to flatten a particular thread within that group of comments? So if you see a comment with 15 replies and you want to read those replies all at once, click a flatten toggle within the header of that comment to see a flattened reply list consisting of only those comments and replies. Hope that makes sense, any comments??
When will they just let it die?
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I've been using Slack for a few years now, and recently installed RH, debian, caldera, etc.. and found that I can't stand the file structures of any of them, the only one I've found thats close is SuSE, and thats because it was originally based on Slack when it first started out. So now I'm running one Slack box (this one) and another SuSE box for playing.
Slackware won't die as long as distros like the above are still treating the users like MS has been for years. RPM's are better left for the MS migraters rather then the user who wants to actually learn Linux.
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So with a 3gig cpu running with 1gig memory and a 100gig of harddrive space. Is this something we can expect?
User 1 "Did my computer just crash?"
User 2 "Couldn't tell, happened to fast."
Correct, in order to be insured by FDIC the way a bank is insured, the company would have to classified as a bank. But, according to the article, if PayPal deposits a users money into an ACTUAL bank, then the money will be insured by FDIC.
If this happened, it would bring AutoCAD and other AutoDesk programs that much closer to Linux seeing as how AutoDesk has linked some of their funtionality to MS Office. I would love to switch my department to Linux desktops running Mechanical Desktop and would in a heartbeat if it became available.
Yes, I know there's open source versions of CAD programs out there, but they don't have anywhere near the functionality we get in MDT and ACAD.
But how can you prevent it? If you can't see the source code for the proprietary program, how do you know it hasn't happened? All we have to rely on are the ethics of programmers. But what about the ones that arn't ethical?
If you read the article, their talking about how it could be causing problems with the penguins, yet, their going to do fly over repeatedly to find out for sure. So if it does cause problems, their just going to be making it worse.
Now, if it does cause problems, how are they going to handle it. Would they try to make a no flying zone over penguins like they have for the whitehouse?
Now we need distribution specific policy files, currently the policy files are only for redhat. It would be nice to see policy files for suse, debian, turbo, caldera, etc.. as they apply to that particular disribution.
For example, alot of the files in the default policy file (setup for redhat) don't exist on my system (suse) and if they do exist, their in different locations. I can guess that this will be pretty much the same with debian, turbo, caldera and others as well.
Of course it's linux's fault, I mean , after all, we all need someone to blames, so lets blame the OS itself since, god forbid, the IT staff has to be infaliable.
What a moronic statement that was, thats like blameing Chevrolet because your car can run out of gas.
looks like that CAD site was slashdotted or something :) Got really slow all of a sudden.
Definately neat to see all these various systems migrating to linux from either unix or windows systems. Especially nice to see that computer companies like IBM are helping to spread this migration.
I thought the same thing when I first noticed that as well, "what the hell does mozilla have to do with this???" That'll probably be the same response from many others at first glance.
Well it was bound to happen, now it's just a matter of time before more countries follow suit. PGP is looking better and better all the time. Now we need to start educating people quicker and more often on the advantages of PGP so we don't make it as easy for the governments to read our e-mails.
I'd like to hear for sure that Tansmeta and AMD really get to use it rather then it just being a 'what if'.
If you take a look at the moderation rules, you'll see the explanation for this, but I'll try to explain it here. Any post received by a user who is logged on, in this case, Valdrax, is automatically moderated as a 1, even before the moderators get to it, while any AC post is automatically moderated as a 0. So since he's logged on to /. as Valdrax, his post automatically receives a 1 whereas your AC post and the others before you received a 0. So its moderation was automatic rather then moderated up by an individual as you may have thought.
I think this is great, I have it on windows now and have been wanting to play it across a network with my brothers, so I'll just have to give them my windows version and buy the Linux version so we can all play together.
The more games that Loki ports and sells, the more likely many other vendors will do the same. I can't wait to see the day when I can walk into CompUSA or Best Buy and see just as many programs on the shelf for linux as there are for windows. Even if it's just games, I'll settle for that.
Same here, I downloaded the entire site as soon as I heard mattel was acting like this and I've sent it to everyone I know who was interested in it and didn't have a chance to get it themselves.
Personally, I can't wait for the free speech advocates to get involved, this is definately a violation of free speech if ever there was one. Well I guess this goes to show you, Barbie is a bitch after all.
Well we could all boycott mattel products from now on, tell all your family members and friends not to buy anymore. Probably wouldn't do much damage in the long run, but even if word got out that something like that was happening, theres a chance the public would take notice, even those who have no idea what the CPhack was all about in the first place.
I currently use StarOffice without any major problems, though I can't stand the all in one app, probably because I'm just not used to it from so many years of the other office packages.
Anyway, back to the point, the more choice we have for office suites the better chance we have of gettign a very robust and easy to use program as now they compete to get us to use it which is always good for us.
Well, wasn't it Al Gore who invented Linux?? I mean, he invented the internet. Maybe he has stock shares in Corel.
For that matter, like the article points out and anyone who's been using linux for a while can remember. We have already seen one major fork in the distros, and that was the glibc and libc fiasco. Which if you can recall had created some incompatibilities with early adopters of the glibc libraries.
Luckily though for all of us, these have all been worked out and things are better for it. But there were many times that I can recall numerous posts to various lists complaining and bitching about this or that not working with such and such.
I've always had a running banter with a friend of mine who uses RH. I tell him RH sucks he tells me SW sucks. He likes the configuration ability of RH were as I have always like the command line way of configuring things. I now use SuSE on a desktop system but on my testbed system and one of my servers, I only use SW as I seem to get more for my buck so to speak, without all the glitter the other distros have.
I would be greatly impressed with an FTP install in the future, which in my opinion would probably be one of the best things that SW could add.
The school I went to was strictly a dos dominated enviroment, but then, this was a CAD class rather then an actual computer class. Though there were a few unix stations at that time, linux wasn't an option (showing my age) till a couple years later. I'd be interested in seeing if its become more open or if the unix stations have been tossed out or not.
The way I understood it, they are considered very unstable and can cause frequent crashes on your system. So use at your own risk. Anyone know of any major success stories?
Nested is good, but it does the entire set of comments and replies, what I'm talking about is selecting a particular thread and that thread becomes nested while the rest of the comments stay threaded.
I like the various customizations that are appearing, but every once in a while I still wish for one particular feature with the thread flattening. Instead of the entire section of comments flattening, what about an option to flatten a particular thread within that group of comments? So if you see a comment with 15 replies and you want to read those replies all at once, click a flatten toggle within the header of that comment to see a flattened reply list consisting of only those comments and replies. Hope that makes sense, any comments??
I've been using Slack for a few years now, and recently installed RH, debian, caldera, etc.. and found that I can't stand the file structures of any of them, the only one I've found thats close is SuSE, and thats because it was originally based on Slack when it first started out. So now I'm running one Slack box (this one) and another SuSE box for playing.
Slackware won't die as long as distros like the above are still treating the users like MS has been for years. RPM's are better left for the MS migraters rather then the user who wants to actually learn Linux.