I think Time Warner/Road Runner is doing something like this well. Fire up bit torrent and the transfer speed starts fast then drops off within a few minutes and it will get to zero. The cable modem will show a connection but I wont be able to get online. Its frustrating.
When I was in the Navy, as part of my training, they told me how many ships where damaged by mines in the first Gulf War and that this information is still classified (circa 1997). I mean, wtf, who cares?
Prince released his album "Crystal Ball" via his website only in 1997. It sold 150,000 copies and he said it was the most money he had ever made from album up to that point.
If we reverse the tachyon field and reorient the warp field along a negative subspace axis, your still full of shit.
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You are correct; in the last six months or so its become a battle with long time editors and admins. Trying to get some stuff added to long stand articles becomes a struggle. Patrick Nielsen Hayden summed it up perfectly: The online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, so long as they're willing to devote hundreds of hours of energy to fighting people with autistically long attention spans.
I agree. This guy has made repeated promises and broken them. Most recent? ACK controls is making our new PPC hardware for 9/07 (and this was in 5/07). 9/07 has come and gone and guess what? nothing.
I have been here since 1999 or so and Slashdot has had its ups and downs (Back in those days every Linux kernel release was news, c'mon!) but overall I'd say its stayed solid all these years
The problem has been dupes, a lot in the last couple of years, intentionally inflammatory headlines/summaries and links to news stories that are clearly (even with a casual glance) non newsworthy (I mean does Zonk actually read the stories he posts?).
But I still love it and its my first stop in the AM.
Okay, it'll take until 2010 to finish the station then NASA will use it only for five years before pulling out. With all due respect NASA, are you fucking nuts?
My aunt for a while edited text books for Holt, Rhinehart and Winston and the profit margins on those books are eye popping. It varies but generally is a 60% mark up. That is why so many publihsers have text book divisions; you can't make that kind of money off a hardcover work of fiction (which generally has a 10-15% profit margin).
"While we are aware our core product, UnixWare, hasn't been updated since oh, 2002, runs X11R5 and CDE and comes with a GNU toolchain that was current in 1999 and we charge $699 per CPU for it, we maintain its all the fault of Linux. Now get off my lawn you miserable FOSS hackers!"
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Like maybe updating UnixWare? No major releases since 2004. No new enterprise apps released for it. Out dated userland tools. X11R5 (no R6, forget X.org. Yes you can run X11R6 via Linux emulation--the laughs never stop). Imagine millions poured into UnixWare instead of litigation.
That's one problem with RMS. He has strong views, which is fine, but he pushes them on others, which is not so fine.
Listen, I, and most people, probably agree that in principle, Free (as in freedom) software is a good thing. What I stop at is the notion you shouldn't use something just because it's non-free. I use the best tool for the job, Free or not (as Linus did with BK). That's what RMS doesn't get: people will always use the best tool that gets the job done in a way they expect.
Can calling someone a 'classic crackpot' in the face of such incorrect data have any chance at making it to court, or even winning the suit?"
No.
The standards for libel are very high. The author has to prove the reviewer knowingly and wilfully libelled him. This doesn't sound like the case at all.
PDF has always always been an open format. They just made it open-er. I'd like them to open source flash, that way every platform on the planet will have it and solidify its dominance in the market over MS's crap.
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I think Time Warner/Road Runner is doing something like this well. Fire up bit torrent and the transfer speed starts fast then drops off within a few minutes and it will get to zero. The cable modem will show a connection but I wont be able to get online. Its frustrating.
Okay, call me dumbo, but why is the Earth upside down in those pictures, I mean south pole up?
When I was in the Navy, as part of my training, they told me how many ships where damaged by mines in the first Gulf War and that this information is still classified (circa 1997). I mean, wtf, who cares?
Apple releases solid, tested upgrades reguarly. MS shoves half baked crap out the door. That's the difference.
Prince released his album "Crystal Ball" via his website only in 1997. It sold 150,000 copies and he said it was the most money he had ever made from album up to that point.
If we reverse the tachyon field and reorient the warp field along a negative subspace axis, your still full of shit.
You are correct; in the last six months or so its become a battle with long time editors and admins. Trying to get some stuff added to long stand articles becomes a struggle. Patrick Nielsen Hayden summed it up perfectly: The online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, so long as they're willing to devote hundreds of hours of energy to fighting people with autistically long attention spans.
I agree. This guy has made repeated promises and broken them. Most recent? ACK controls is making our new PPC hardware for 9/07 (and this was in 5/07). 9/07 has come and gone and guess what? nothing.
This guy is a sneak oil salesman.
I have been here since 1999 or so and Slashdot has had its ups and downs (Back in those days every Linux kernel release was news, c'mon!) but overall I'd say its stayed solid all these years
The problem has been dupes, a lot in the last couple of years, intentionally inflammatory headlines/summaries and links to news stories that are clearly (even with a casual glance) non newsworthy (I mean does Zonk actually read the stories he posts?).
But I still love it and its my first stop in the AM.
And will work only Internet Explorer, let me guess. This is will be competition, how?
Okay, it'll take until 2010 to finish the station then NASA will use it only for five years before pulling out. With all due respect NASA, are you fucking nuts?
My aunt for a while edited text books for Holt, Rhinehart and Winston and the profit margins on those books are eye popping. It varies but generally is a 60% mark up. That is why so many publihsers have text book divisions; you can't make that kind of money off a hardcover work of fiction (which generally has a 10-15% profit margin).
"While we are aware our core product, UnixWare, hasn't been updated since oh, 2002, runs X11R5 and CDE and comes with a GNU toolchain that was current in 1999 and we charge $699 per CPU for it, we maintain its all the fault of Linux. Now get off my lawn you miserable FOSS hackers!"
This is not a lightweight app.
Lotus Symphony supports both Microsoft Windows® and Linux® platforms. Note: Be sure your system meets these client system requirements: * Supported Windows platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista * Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5, Redhat5 * 900MB disk space minimum * 1GB RAM memory minimum * US English locale
No Mac OS X support.
GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?
No. Next question.
How about Gimp Is My Photoshop?
Chapter 11 reorganization provides the Company with an opportunity to protect its assets during this time while focusing on building our future plans
Like maybe updating UnixWare? No major releases since 2004. No new enterprise apps released for it. Out dated userland tools. X11R5 (no R6, forget X.org. Yes you can run X11R6 via Linux emulation--the laughs never stop). Imagine millions poured into UnixWare instead of litigation.
That's one problem with RMS. He has strong views, which is fine, but he pushes them on others, which is not so fine.
Listen, I, and most people, probably agree that in principle, Free (as in freedom) software is a good thing. What I stop at is the notion you shouldn't use something just because it's non-free. I use the best tool for the job, Free or not (as Linus did with BK). That's what RMS doesn't get: people will always use the best tool that gets the job done in a way they expect.
THREE uncompressed (CD-quality) DRM-free songs for $6? That's about $2.00 per song, not much higher than Apple's DRM-free pricing.
.99 cents vs 2.00. I'd say that's a lot higher...like double.
Not much higher?
Little things like this in the spec make it less than superb:
Table like Word95
Only Microsoft has that information. No one else can implement this "superb" standard like MS can.
It gets even better. The best outcome they can hope for is not to owe Novell $$$. Ah, being on the defensive must suck.
IE at one time ran on Solaris.
Can calling someone a 'classic crackpot' in the face of such incorrect data have any chance at making it to court, or even winning the suit?"
No.
The standards for libel are very high. The author has to prove the reviewer knowingly and wilfully libelled him. This doesn't sound like the case at all.
Its odd how business keep partnering with MS only to get screwed down the road later. They never learn.
PDF has always always been an open format. They just made it open-er. I'd like them to open source flash, that way every platform on the planet will have it and solidify its dominance in the market over MS's crap.