1) The KDE team Produces a desktop environment overlayed on an existing operating system, not an entire turnkey solution as MS does.
2) You can pick and choose which components of KDE you want to use. It is my understanding that you don't even have to have Konquerer installed to use KDE, but I could be wrong.
3) KDE is free and open. You are in charge when using KDE and not the other way around.
4) The KDE team has never (to my knowledge) been responsible for signing OEM deals where the vendor is restricted from installing other software from competitors as MS has been.
I've been using FC2 T1 since it came out. Here are some points on the past test. Haven't checked out the latest:
-Sound hasn't worked ever. It used to not even detect my soundcard but now does (still no sound).
-X refused to start on kernel upgrades until I modified some settings to configuration files. That was just plain rediculous to have to do that.
-Double-clicking on PDF's has never worked. I have discovered that Gnome PDF Viewer doesn't work period. XPDF works great though.
-Occasionally Update has just plain refused to work. Could be issues with mirror sites.
-Occasionally GToaster locks the system up.
-Mozilla (1.6) occasionally flakes out for no apparent reason.
-By default, there are lots of CLI commands that just aren't there (such as ip). This is beyond annoying.
-My scroll weel on my PS/2 mouse does very strange and inexplicable things.
-Weather Report applet (2.5.6) no longer retrieves weather forecasts
-The clock occasionally reverts back to military time even though it is set not to
-To date, Linux has never correctly configured my HP PSC 750xi scanner (the printer part works great though by default). Installing HP's driver makes it work
-NTP time syncing has never worked
-CD drives behave strange in inexplicable ways occasionally
Overall? Usable but lots of issues. Not for faint of heart. Test 2 may be better. YMMV based on your hadware/software configuration.
Choice quote: "make sure that as soon as possible thereafter [that] consumers have plenty of choices" What do you think that means? I can tell you.
In Kentucky, they are pushing state deregulation of telcos to encourage new investment in broadband in new areas.
The result? They will charge competitors more thus pricing out competition allowing them to charge exhuberant prices to consumers.
I expect this is an announcement of similar steps on the federal level.
In the end, these are attacks on small startups and consumers in the form of ruthless monopolistic practices on the part of telcos and high prices for consumers.
But this is what big business is all about and Bush is a big business kind of guy. Thus I am perplexed why the common man would be so in favor of him but that is another discussion altogether.
"The fact which most knee-jerk anti-Microsoft ranters try to avoid is that the patches and technology exists to very adequately secure a Windows desktop."
What, like shut down almost all retarded services that come preinstalled and turned on like IIS?
"You want to see all hell break loose? Put Linux, which requires more clue to operate than Windows, on the desktops of 90% of the users."
As opposed to auto logging in as adminsitrator by default as almost all Windows XP machines come loaded from OEM's?
At least that lesson has been learned and Redhat et al should know better and make it extra difficult to set root to autologin and make root password requirements very strict while not so strict on the users so as to encourage them to use their non-root accounts.
Off topic? Maybe, but I feel compelled to respond.
Ok, while you don't directly quote the Christian Bible, I can only deduce that you are drawing your 7 day belief from it. Therefore, I feel it necessary to put into light that which you use to form your religious-scientific belief on the creation of Earth.
If you draw your creationism from the Old Testament, you should know that first and foremost where numbers such as seven appear, it has more to do with the symbolic nature of the number itself than with their actual belief that God created the world in seven days. You can do a little research to find out more about that if you like.
Secondly, you should also know that there is a quote in the Bible (2 Peter 3:8) that says one day to God is as a thousand years to man. I don't think that should be taken too literally except to say that time as we know it is not what time is to God.
Thirdly, I think if you dig into the message, you will find that the Bible is meant more as a spiritual guide and a guide to how to live your life more than it is to base your beliefs on how the universe was formed. Try not to get too wrapped around the axle of creationism.
Lastly, why would an omnipotent being take the time make the Earth look old? Sounds like an aim of deception to me. And while I am thining about it, why would an omnipotent being need to rest? Does He get tired? Does He take naps during the time He answers prayers? I am not trying to troll on that, I am just curious as I don't recall that ever being discussed.
Disclaimer: I am a Christian that is very alienated by my lack of agreement with virtually every preacher I have ever heard on their seemingly uneducated and misguided interpretation of the Bible.
Actually, measurements of carbon dioxide emissions taken from ice bubbles in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets show a huge increase in the ppm from pre-Industrial Revolution to now. From the Industrial Revolution to 1958, the ppm grew from 280 ppm to 315 ppm. From 1958 until now the ppm has grown from 315 to over 350 ppm in 1987 (1). Can that increase be justified by increased natural carbon dioxide production or could it be more closely tied to human production?
In case you aren't counting, from sometime in the 1700's to 1958, carbon monoxide rose 35 ppm. It took just 29 years for the same amount of increase to take place.
(1) U. Siegenthaler and H. Oeschger, "Biospherice CO2 Emissions during the Past 200 Years Reconstructed by Deconvolution of Ice Core Data," Tellus, vol. 39B (1987): 140-154
I know many schools that send LOTS of data upstream and are looking to do streaming video/audio to and from remote schools.
In the boonies this is especially important. In the mountains of Appalachia, for instance, it is not uncommon to have many remote elementary schools that might be seperated from the main office by 30 or 45 minutes on dangerous mountain roads.
They COULD pay someone to drive that distance a couple of times a week to teach a specialty class that is only taught once a week thereby risking their life (think coal trucks overloaded and running people off roads. It DOES happen) each trip subject to snow, ice, etc. OR they could pay that same person to teach it once from any location (whichever is closest) and stream it to all others on their handy T1 line (or better by this new proposal).
There are reasons to do it. That is a real life scenario that I was approached on a consulting basis for a feasibility study.
I used to work at a company that does storage and fulfillment for Toyota Motor Manufacturing. They have a contract that says for every hour they can't deliver product, they owe Toyota $100,000. So if a virus were to knock them offline for a 5 hour period, they would lose $500,000 on fines alone.
If IBM is an 800lb gorilla, and their lawsuit was their weapon, then they essentially are asking the gorilla for a stick to hit them with.
If Novell is the 400lb cousin of the 800lb gorilla, then SCO just shot it with a BB gun and is expecting it to drop.
If you locked John Grisham in a room blaring Rage Against the Machine and hooked him up to an IV drip with LSD filled in the bag and gave him some Nicotine gum to chew and no sleep for 10 days, he wouldn't come up with this mess in a million years.
I think you are sorely mistaken. Ask people in the radio business what strong RF will do to you. Ask how common cancer among those that work with transmitters and tower climbers is.
There is no debate about what strong RF signals will do. There might be room for argument about what low levels of RF will do.
Just as swallowing a teaspoon of Mercury every morning would be just plain dumb, eating fish with small amounts might never be a problem in a grown adult for their entire life.
I am speaking purley out of speculation so take this with a grain of salt.
It seems to me that in the past when cars were invented, there weren't many things other than conversation to occupy people's time.
Now we have every gizmo imaginable and you can even communitcate with others via cell phone and internet.
Thus it is that I say the automobile and road travel has reached a point where it is no longer viable with our daily habits. We need to either move our travel to trains or have auto-pilot for vehicles.
It would seem that with GPS and other technologies it shouldn't be that hard to automate automobile travel. The hard part of course would be to transition from the current system to an automated one. Tremendous amounts of computing power would be needed to monitor the system and of course security would be a concern.
Now that I think about it, automated driving would help reduce traffic jams and such as people would automatically be routed the most efficient way with current load.
But do they offer bulk sale or licensing options for large organizations with seperate office applications?
Most large organizations have like one install key for MS products that comes with their subscription. If they aren't offering these keys for individual products, then that is a problem.
If you reread my comment, you will find I never said they had a right to force you to watch commercials. I merely said they had a right to expect to make money.
Don't get so defensive about your rights. Free TV isn't one of them. It never was and probably never will be. My argument wasn't about your fair use rights under copyright law. It was about their right as a company to expect profit in return for a service.
If you are viewing their network programming they do. They provide you with programming for the low price of watching commercials. You have to pay extra for HBO and other non-commercial channels. For the life of me I can't figure out where people believe they should get TV for free. What makes you think they don't have a right to make money but you have the right to watch free TV?
Trust me when I say that I hate commercials as much as the next person. The does not mean that networks are in the wrong for showing them. That is how they make money.
If you want advertising to go away then you can kiss "free" publications goodbye with the exception of non-profits.
Everything has an associated cost somewhere unless those doing it are not getting paid.
Did you actually read those? The last one actually says, "These findings demonstrate a positive relationship between ozone exposure and the number of children living in Mexico City who were treated for asthma."
Thank you for finding statistical proof to back my claims and shatter yours. Wow, I advise you not ot pursue being a lawyer as a career.
Even if asthma is atopic then that could prove the point in and of itself. There may be many people that are very sensitive to air pollution and that may be triggering and worsening their asthma.
The domino effect is what people should be concerned about. Short term toxicity is probably not a problem but you are obviously more knowledgable about that than I am since I am not a chemist.
It isn't death from pesticides on food you should be concerned about. It is the huge and growing dead zone in Louisiana on the Mississippi Delta that you should be concerned about.
I have. I quit a company because the head of the company (small company) was using company profits to buy drugs. I quit without a another job. On the spot. Unequivocally and without remorse I left. I felt really really good about it.
You would be surprised at potential employers reactions when I gave a brief synopsis without being specific. They were impressed.
I work for myself now and would wish any of my employees quit if they have a moral issue with what the company is doing.
Or, as I suspect, as is the case with LOTR, make the movies with the meat and if there is demand afterwards, look to make the other books (or book as is the case with LOTR unless they do the Silmarillion).
Well, I was only partially wrong as I wrote from memory and it wasn't completely incorrect. They were indeed written at once but were not all published at once regardless of intent or purpose. They are ALL seperated into two individual books even if they are all included together.
As for Oscars--not one of your examples were all filmed at once as was LOTR. Avoid comparing apples to oranges as they are clearly different fruit.
As opposed to the many theaters that showed ALL THREE movies yesterday (or was it the day before?). They all sold out in hours from what I remember reading.
It would not have been that hard for them to offer two flavors--1) all at once and 2) one each day over different days (think a ticket book).
If I recall correctly, no effects beyond the filming were added to #2 and #3 until after FOTR was shown. The finishing of the other two depended on the success of the first.
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Easy:
1) The KDE team Produces a desktop environment overlayed on an existing operating system, not an entire turnkey solution as MS does.
2) You can pick and choose which components of KDE you want to use. It is my understanding that you don't even have to have Konquerer installed to use KDE, but I could be wrong.
3) KDE is free and open. You are in charge when using KDE and not the other way around.
4) The KDE team has never (to my knowledge) been responsible for signing OEM deals where the vendor is restricted from installing other software from competitors as MS has been.
Next!
I've been using FC2 T1 since it came out. Here are some points on the past test. Haven't checked out the latest:
-Sound hasn't worked ever. It used to not even detect my soundcard but now does (still no sound).
-X refused to start on kernel upgrades until I modified some settings to configuration files. That was just plain rediculous to have to do that.
-Double-clicking on PDF's has never worked. I have discovered that Gnome PDF Viewer doesn't work period. XPDF works great though.
-Occasionally Update has just plain refused to work. Could be issues with mirror sites.
-Occasionally GToaster locks the system up.
-Mozilla (1.6) occasionally flakes out for no apparent reason.
-By default, there are lots of CLI commands that just aren't there (such as ip). This is beyond annoying.
-My scroll weel on my PS/2 mouse does very strange and inexplicable things.
-Weather Report applet (2.5.6) no longer retrieves weather forecasts
-The clock occasionally reverts back to military time even though it is set not to
-To date, Linux has never correctly configured my HP PSC 750xi scanner (the printer part works great though by default). Installing HP's driver makes it work
-NTP time syncing has never worked
-CD drives behave strange in inexplicable ways occasionally
Overall? Usable but lots of issues. Not for faint of heart. Test 2 may be better. YMMV based on your hadware/software configuration.
Choice quote: "make sure that as soon as possible thereafter [that] consumers have plenty of choices" What do you think that means? I can tell you.
In Kentucky, they are pushing state deregulation of telcos to encourage new investment in broadband in new areas.
The result? They will charge competitors more thus pricing out competition allowing them to charge exhuberant prices to consumers.
I expect this is an announcement of similar steps on the federal level.
In the end, these are attacks on small startups and consumers in the form of ruthless monopolistic practices on the part of telcos and high prices for consumers.
But this is what big business is all about and Bush is a big business kind of guy. Thus I am perplexed why the common man would be so in favor of him but that is another discussion altogether.
"The fact which most knee-jerk anti-Microsoft ranters try to avoid is that the patches and technology exists to very adequately secure a Windows desktop."
What, like shut down almost all retarded services that come preinstalled and turned on like IIS?
"You want to see all hell break loose? Put Linux, which requires more clue to operate than Windows, on the desktops of 90% of the users."
As opposed to auto logging in as adminsitrator by default as almost all Windows XP machines come loaded from OEM's?
At least that lesson has been learned and Redhat et al should know better and make it extra difficult to set root to autologin and make root password requirements very strict while not so strict on the users so as to encourage them to use their non-root accounts.
Off topic? Maybe, but I feel compelled to respond.
Ok, while you don't directly quote the Christian Bible, I can only deduce that you are drawing your 7 day belief from it. Therefore, I feel it necessary to put into light that which you use to form your religious-scientific belief on the creation of Earth.
If you draw your creationism from the Old Testament, you should know that first and foremost where numbers such as seven appear, it has more to do with the symbolic nature of the number itself than with their actual belief that God created the world in seven days. You can do a little research to find out more about that if you like.
Secondly, you should also know that there is a quote in the Bible (2 Peter 3:8) that says one day to God is as a thousand years to man. I don't think that should be taken too literally except to say that time as we know it is not what time is to God.
Thirdly, I think if you dig into the message, you will find that the Bible is meant more as a spiritual guide and a guide to how to live your life more than it is to base your beliefs on how the universe was formed. Try not to get too wrapped around the axle of creationism.
Lastly, why would an omnipotent being take the time make the Earth look old? Sounds like an aim of deception to me. And while I am thining about it, why would an omnipotent being need to rest? Does He get tired? Does He take naps during the time He answers prayers? I am not trying to troll on that, I am just curious as I don't recall that ever being discussed.
Disclaimer: I am a Christian that is very alienated by my lack of agreement with virtually every preacher I have ever heard on their seemingly uneducated and misguided interpretation of the Bible.
Actually, measurements of carbon dioxide emissions taken from ice bubbles in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets show a huge increase in the ppm from pre-Industrial Revolution to now. From the Industrial Revolution to 1958, the ppm grew from 280 ppm to 315 ppm. From 1958 until now the ppm has grown from 315 to over 350 ppm in 1987 (1). Can that increase be justified by increased natural carbon dioxide production or could it be more closely tied to human production?
In case you aren't counting, from sometime in the 1700's to 1958, carbon monoxide rose 35 ppm. It took just 29 years for the same amount of increase to take place.
(1) U. Siegenthaler and H. Oeschger, "Biospherice CO2 Emissions during the Past 200 Years Reconstructed by Deconvolution of Ice Core Data," Tellus, vol. 39B (1987): 140-154
I know many schools that send LOTS of data upstream and are looking to do streaming video/audio to and from remote schools.
In the boonies this is especially important. In the mountains of Appalachia, for instance, it is not uncommon to have many remote elementary schools that might be seperated from the main office by 30 or 45 minutes on dangerous mountain roads.
They COULD pay someone to drive that distance a couple of times a week to teach a specialty class that is only taught once a week thereby risking their life (think coal trucks overloaded and running people off roads. It DOES happen) each trip subject to snow, ice, etc. OR they could pay that same person to teach it once from any location (whichever is closest) and stream it to all others on their handy T1 line (or better by this new proposal).
There are reasons to do it. That is a real life scenario that I was approached on a consulting basis for a feasibility study.
I would love to know the capacity on this technology. There are times that regular cell phones don't work because tower capacity is already maxed out.
Just like any 802.11a,b,g access point has a limit to the number of clients that can reasonably be supported, their spectrum is limited as well.
What good would it do to have broadband that you can't use all the time especially at peak times? Sounds a lot like glorified dial-up to me.
I used to work at a company that does storage and fulfillment for Toyota Motor Manufacturing. They have a contract that says for every hour they can't deliver product, they owe Toyota $100,000. So if a virus were to knock them offline for a 5 hour period, they would lose $500,000 on fines alone.
I wouldn't believe SCO was responsible for a worm in a hundred years. I don't take their programmers to be competent enough to make it.
I might be wrong, but somehow I would be willing to bet their best programmers left LONG ago.
If IBM is an 800lb gorilla, and their lawsuit was their weapon, then they essentially are asking the gorilla for a stick to hit them with.
If Novell is the 400lb cousin of the 800lb gorilla, then SCO just shot it with a BB gun and is expecting it to drop.
If you locked John Grisham in a room blaring Rage Against the Machine and hooked him up to an IV drip with LSD filled in the bag and gave him some Nicotine gum to chew and no sleep for 10 days, he wouldn't come up with this mess in a million years.
I think you are sorely mistaken. Ask people in the radio business what strong RF will do to you. Ask how common cancer among those that work with transmitters and tower climbers is.
There is no debate about what strong RF signals will do. There might be room for argument about what low levels of RF will do.
Just as swallowing a teaspoon of Mercury every morning would be just plain dumb, eating fish with small amounts might never be a problem in a grown adult for their entire life.
I am speaking purley out of speculation so take this with a grain of salt.
It seems to me that in the past when cars were invented, there weren't many things other than conversation to occupy people's time.
Now we have every gizmo imaginable and you can even communitcate with others via cell phone and internet.
Thus it is that I say the automobile and road travel has reached a point where it is no longer viable with our daily habits. We need to either move our travel to trains or have auto-pilot for vehicles.
It would seem that with GPS and other technologies it shouldn't be that hard to automate automobile travel. The hard part of course would be to transition from the current system to an automated one. Tremendous amounts of computing power would be needed to monitor the system and of course security would be a concern.
Now that I think about it, automated driving would help reduce traffic jams and such as people would automatically be routed the most efficient way with current load.
But do they offer bulk sale or licensing options for large organizations with seperate office applications?
Most large organizations have like one install key for MS products that comes with their subscription. If they aren't offering these keys for individual products, then that is a problem.
If you reread my comment, you will find I never said they had a right to force you to watch commercials. I merely said they had a right to expect to make money.
Don't get so defensive about your rights. Free TV isn't one of them. It never was and probably never will be. My argument wasn't about your fair use rights under copyright law. It was about their right as a company to expect profit in return for a service.
If you are viewing their network programming they do. They provide you with programming for the low price of watching commercials. You have to pay extra for HBO and other non-commercial channels. For the life of me I can't figure out where people believe they should get TV for free. What makes you think they don't have a right to make money but you have the right to watch free TV?
Trust me when I say that I hate commercials as much as the next person. The does not mean that networks are in the wrong for showing them. That is how they make money.
If you want advertising to go away then you can kiss "free" publications goodbye with the exception of non-profits.
Everything has an associated cost somewhere unless those doing it are not getting paid.
Did you actually read those? The last one actually says, "These findings demonstrate a positive relationship between ozone exposure and the number of children living in Mexico City who were treated for asthma."
Thank you for finding statistical proof to back my claims and shatter yours. Wow, I advise you not ot pursue being a lawyer as a career.
This is not the case - instead, asthma seems to be a first world disease.
Me thinks you spout opinion and nothing more. Here is a little reference to refute your assertions:
http://www.drgreene.com/21_884.html
Argue your points with this doctor. He apparently differs from your opninions greatly.
Asthma is an autoimmune disorder
Did you insert your IANAD disclaimer? You should have:
"The cause of asthma is unknown." (They do discuss a link between atopy and asthma)
Even if asthma is atopic then that could prove the point in and of itself. There may be many people that are very sensitive to air pollution and that may be triggering and worsening their asthma.
The domino effect is what people should be concerned about. Short term toxicity is probably not a problem but you are obviously more knowledgable about that than I am since I am not a chemist.
It isn't death from pesticides on food you should be concerned about. It is the huge and growing dead zone in Louisiana on the Mississippi Delta that you should be concerned about.
It isn't death from air pollution you should be concerned about. It is the rising rates of Asthma you should be worried about. Or the global dimming or how about the disappearing ice cap on Mount Kilimanjaro.
I have. I quit a company because the head of the company (small company) was using company profits to buy drugs. I quit without a another job. On the spot. Unequivocally and without remorse I left. I felt really really good about it.
You would be surprised at potential employers reactions when I gave a brief synopsis without being specific. They were impressed.
I work for myself now and would wish any of my employees quit if they have a moral issue with what the company is doing.
Or, as I suspect, as is the case with LOTR, make the movies with the meat and if there is demand afterwards, look to make the other books (or book as is the case with LOTR unless they do the Silmarillion).
GNOME was chosen because it allows the development and distribution of proprietary applications WITHOUT purchasing a license from Trolltech.
It isn't about if one is better than the other. He doesn't touch that argument with a 10 foot pole.
Read BP's white paper for his wording on it.
Well, I was only partially wrong as I wrote from memory and it wasn't completely incorrect. They were indeed written at once but were not all published at once regardless of intent or purpose. They are ALL seperated into two individual books even if they are all included together.
As for Oscars--not one of your examples were all filmed at once as was LOTR. Avoid comparing apples to oranges as they are clearly different fruit.
As opposed to the many theaters that showed ALL THREE movies yesterday (or was it the day before?). They all sold out in hours from what I remember reading.
It would not have been that hard for them to offer two flavors--1) all at once and 2) one each day over different days (think a ticket book).
If I recall correctly, no effects beyond the filming were added to #2 and #3 until after FOTR was shown. The finishing of the other two depended on the success of the first.
I could be mistaken.