I was given one as a gift. Now what? Give it back? Thankfully, software easily available for Ubuntu allows me to sync with it. Just in the nick of time, Amazon.com started selling DRM-free MP3s, so I don't need iTunes. I guess it's Apple's choice not to support Linux. I guess they were forced to support Windows due to market share.
I admit that my knowledge and understanding of the iCal standard is extremely truncated. If it does everything the typical Outlook type user, then that would be sufficient. There must be some catch to it since nobody has developed a suitable Outlook replacement that I know of (whether a singular or dual app). I guess the back-end server has been the big hold up.
I believe the reason many people don't see the deep connection between emailing and calendaring is the way they use the two. If you use your calendar simply to schedule _your_ day and don't get involved with other people, then I can see where you wouldn't find integration useful.
Now let's say you are scheduling meetings with multiple people in multiple buildings. When you send a meeting request, doesn't email seem like the best place for that request to land? They click a button of some sort embedded in the message to accept (or reject) your meeting request. The sauce behind what happens next is what I think leads to a valid decision to marry the two. If you had a separate program for calendaring, how would the email client signal the calendaring solution of the acceptance?
I don't doubt workable solutions could be offered. I'm just suggesting the most _logical_ shortest path of least resistance is indeed to have them integrated.
To be more descriptive, I've always understood Stallman's idea of freedom with respect to the GPL as a transitive freedom. It seems to me that's the fundamental difference between the GPL and BSD licenses. And unless I have totally misunderstood what I've read, that was Stallman's whole purpose for the creation of the GPL.
I'm going to get setup on it tonight. I'm already shopping for a good and cheap Linux friendly MP3 player since the wife assumed control of the one we do have that does work well on Linux.
It seems to me that nerd is to geek is as jock is to athlete. While both carry similar semantical underpinnings, one sounds like and is most certainly meant as an insult and the other is merely a very descriptive adjective.
I seriously doubt it is by accident that he used the insult instead of the adjective here. He was made to look like a tool by us geeks and clearly isn't happy about it.
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm quite ambivalent towards Sun. They have a very mixed track record towards Linux and OSS. There were the SCO payments back in the early days of the lawsuit. Then there is the Microsoft deal. Then there was the JDS that was abandoned on Linux a year or two after they decided to combat Linux head on with opening Solaris.
Personally, I understand their mixed emotions towards OSS--especially Linux. I'm sure their market share saw some loss to Linux over the years. I'm thankful OO.o exists, no doubt about it. There have been instances where it has saved the day when MS Office failed. But it has a long way to go on some things and I worry that Sun won't consider some of them as important as an independent community might.
I wouldn't say that means Sun can't do anything right in my eyes. I would say that it means I'm going to keep an eye on Sun because they have sent mixed signals over the years.
Novell is not a creditor. The money SCOX (denies) they owe Novell was never theirs--hence the conversion charge by Novell. If the judge sides with Novell that SCOX is guilty of conversion and awards Novell their money, bankruptcy will not protect them at all because the money wouldn't belong to SCOX. It doesn't help SCOX at all that they don't have all the money Novell alleges they owe. It would be completely game over at that point.
If you are going to use an automobile as an example, let's do the proper analogy. Switching operating systems in a computer would be like changing the engine in your car. If, for example, you replace a 4 cylinder engine with a V8 (assuming it would fit) and it warped the axle, there's no reason the manufacturer should ever fix that.
In the example of the story, it would be like you replace the engine and the trunk lid broke.
There are four things going for cell signals that give them a big leg up on wifi:
1) The frequencies for cell signals are much lower in frequency giving them a better penetration of buildings and other objects 2) The equipment is, as I understand it, more powerful 3) The antennas are larger and directional 4) The antennas tend to be mounted higher and therefore cover more ground
Now, you could mount directional antennas for wifi on tall towers or buildings to help level the playing field for 3 and 4. You can also get amplifiers to help deal with 2, but amplification is generally bad since it amplifies noise as well. There are some pretty powerful wifi transmitters these days, so they might help. The laws of physics just won't allow you to overcome the first one.
And therein lies the problem of why wifi just isn't a great solution for trying to create a city-wide wifi network from the outside-in. You could try to put nodes on the inside of a building and blanket it with signal, but that adds quite a bit of cost and complexity to a project.
A simple (but not cheap) solution is aerogel. Woz has the money it would require to use aerogel to insulate his home, but most people wouldn't. The upside of aerogel is you could build an average home in Antarctica and heat it with a small space heater. The downside would be you would have to probably almost double the cost of building a home to insulate it with aerogel.
Moving beyond our planet is absolutely required for the survival of our species. Whether we get hit with a gargantuan comet or asteroid in the next 50 years or the planet gets swallowed up in a few billion years when the sun goes red giant, we are absolutely guaranteed that any and all life on earth will be destroyed at some point. It's just a matter of when. Personally, I'd prefer to start establishing self sustaining colonies on other planets and beyond ASAP.
Except that you didn't have to forklift upgrade the vast majority of your systems in order to implement XP. You also didn't have to buy beefy computers to run it acceptably either. As long as existing computers work and are under warranty, Vista won't make a lot of traction.
This gives businesses time to consider alternatives and also time for alternatives to mature even more than they already have.
I'm willing to bet if you created a training position, you could find someone that will train people in SO8. It isn't rocket science. You could probably find someone for a short term project to take existing training manuals and/or videos (assuming they exist) and create the functional equivalents for SO8.
All of those are related to our health in one way or another--even the extinction of species. Consider it the global equivalent of the canaries in mine shafts.
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The only exception is the deployment of Zimbra I'm going to do. It requires Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and NPTL
Last I checked, Zimbra runs on Ubuntu 6 just fine.
FTFA: The customer in the market place is dictating what we are doing, not my engineers
You are using a tremendous amount of software your engineers didn't write. I'd say that inevitably, the authors of that software will dictate what you are doing. You and the customers are just enjoying the ride with their permission. Try to remember that the next time you throw dirt in their eyes--assuming you get that chance.
The power of manipulation lies primarily in the gullibility of people, not in the validity of the basis of the manipulation. It doesn't matter whether it is science, religion or something else--manipulators will do what they do--manipulate. Gullible people will do what they do--fall for the scam.
To lay the fault at the feet of religion is to misdiagnose the problem completely. It's like banning beef when people get sick from an e. coli outbreak instead of going to the source of the problem--the meat factory.
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I was given one as a gift. Now what? Give it back? Thankfully, software easily available for Ubuntu allows me to sync with it. Just in the nick of time, Amazon.com started selling DRM-free MP3s, so I don't need iTunes. I guess it's Apple's choice not to support Linux. I guess they were forced to support Windows due to market share.
I admit that my knowledge and understanding of the iCal standard is extremely truncated. If it does everything the typical Outlook type user, then that would be sufficient. There must be some catch to it since nobody has developed a suitable Outlook replacement that I know of (whether a singular or dual app). I guess the back-end server has been the big hold up.
I believe the reason many people don't see the deep connection between emailing and calendaring is the way they use the two. If you use your calendar simply to schedule _your_ day and don't get involved with other people, then I can see where you wouldn't find integration useful.
Now let's say you are scheduling meetings with multiple people in multiple buildings. When you send a meeting request, doesn't email seem like the best place for that request to land? They click a button of some sort embedded in the message to accept (or reject) your meeting request. The sauce behind what happens next is what I think leads to a valid decision to marry the two. If you had a separate program for calendaring, how would the email client signal the calendaring solution of the acceptance?
I don't doubt workable solutions could be offered. I'm just suggesting the most _logical_ shortest path of least resistance is indeed to have them integrated.
To be more descriptive, I've always understood Stallman's idea of freedom with respect to the GPL as a transitive freedom. It seems to me that's the fundamental difference between the GPL and BSD licenses. And unless I have totally misunderstood what I've read, that was Stallman's whole purpose for the creation of the GPL.
I'm going to get setup on it tonight. I'm already shopping for a good and cheap Linux friendly MP3 player since the wife assumed control of the one we do have that does work well on Linux.
this is it just to see what ads come up.
1) Run it on any cellular network
2) Sync it to Linux (also add iTunes for Linux while you're at it)
3) 3G
Add all that and I'll consider buying it. If not, I'll never buy it.
It seems to me that nerd is to geek is as jock is to athlete. While both carry similar semantical underpinnings, one sounds like and is most certainly meant as an insult and the other is merely a very descriptive adjective.
I seriously doubt it is by accident that he used the insult instead of the adjective here. He was made to look like a tool by us geeks and clearly isn't happy about it.
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm quite ambivalent towards Sun. They have a very mixed track record towards Linux and OSS. There were the SCO payments back in the early days of the lawsuit. Then there is the Microsoft deal. Then there was the JDS that was abandoned on Linux a year or two after they decided to combat Linux head on with opening Solaris.
Personally, I understand their mixed emotions towards OSS--especially Linux. I'm sure their market share saw some loss to Linux over the years. I'm thankful OO.o exists, no doubt about it. There have been instances where it has saved the day when MS Office failed. But it has a long way to go on some things and I worry that Sun won't consider some of them as important as an independent community might.
I wouldn't say that means Sun can't do anything right in my eyes. I would say that it means I'm going to keep an eye on Sun because they have sent mixed signals over the years.
Novell is not a creditor. The money SCOX (denies) they owe Novell was never theirs--hence the conversion charge by Novell. If the judge sides with Novell that SCOX is guilty of conversion and awards Novell their money, bankruptcy will not protect them at all because the money wouldn't belong to SCOX. It doesn't help SCOX at all that they don't have all the money Novell alleges they owe. It would be completely game over at that point.
Does this mean I'll have to change my sig soon?
I just emailed Apple a few days ago asking for a Linux version of iTunes. No wonder I didn't hear back from them.
If you are going to use an automobile as an example, let's do the proper analogy. Switching operating systems in a computer would be like changing the engine in your car. If, for example, you replace a 4 cylinder engine with a V8 (assuming it would fit) and it warped the axle, there's no reason the manufacturer should ever fix that.
In the example of the story, it would be like you replace the engine and the trunk lid broke.
No. That was easy. Next troll post please dear editors.
There are four things going for cell signals that give them a big leg up on wifi:
1) The frequencies for cell signals are much lower in frequency giving them a better penetration of buildings and other objects
2) The equipment is, as I understand it, more powerful
3) The antennas are larger and directional
4) The antennas tend to be mounted higher and therefore cover more ground
Now, you could mount directional antennas for wifi on tall towers or buildings to help level the playing field for 3 and 4. You can also get amplifiers to help deal with 2, but amplification is generally bad since it amplifies noise as well. There are some pretty powerful wifi transmitters these days, so they might help. The laws of physics just won't allow you to overcome the first one.
And therein lies the problem of why wifi just isn't a great solution for trying to create a city-wide wifi network from the outside-in. You could try to put nodes on the inside of a building and blanket it with signal, but that adds quite a bit of cost and complexity to a project.
A simple (but not cheap) solution is aerogel. Woz has the money it would require to use aerogel to insulate his home, but most people wouldn't. The upside of aerogel is you could build an average home in Antarctica and heat it with a small space heater. The downside would be you would have to probably almost double the cost of building a home to insulate it with aerogel.
Moving beyond our planet is absolutely required for the survival of our species. Whether we get hit with a gargantuan comet or asteroid in the next 50 years or the planet gets swallowed up in a few billion years when the sun goes red giant, we are absolutely guaranteed that any and all life on earth will be destroyed at some point. It's just a matter of when. Personally, I'd prefer to start establishing self sustaining colonies on other planets and beyond ASAP.
Except that you didn't have to forklift upgrade the vast majority of your systems in order to implement XP. You also didn't have to buy beefy computers to run it acceptably either. As long as existing computers work and are under warranty, Vista won't make a lot of traction.
This gives businesses time to consider alternatives and also time for alternatives to mature even more than they already have.
I'm pretty sure Zimbra does this or something very close to it.
I'm willing to bet if you created a training position, you could find someone that will train people in SO8. It isn't rocket science. You could probably find someone for a short term project to take existing training manuals and/or videos (assuming they exist) and create the functional equivalents for SO8.
It could have something to do with how rising temperatures can cause death.
Or it could be related to fears that rising temperatures may cause higher rates of mosquito born illnesses.
There is also evidence pointing to more potent and prevalent poison ivy.
Let's not forget rising rates of asthma, food supply problems, increasing number and severity of natural disasters, mass extinction and global economic collapse.
All of those are related to our health in one way or another--even the extinction of species. Consider it the global equivalent of the canaries in mine shafts.
The only exception is the deployment of Zimbra I'm going to do. It requires Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and NPTL
Last I checked, Zimbra runs on Ubuntu 6 just fine.
Not a lot, but there was one very critical last year that had remote root capabilities:
http://lwn.net/Articles/176596/
FTFA: The customer in the market place is dictating what we are doing, not my engineers
You are using a tremendous amount of software your engineers didn't write. I'd say that inevitably, the authors of that software will dictate what you are doing. You and the customers are just enjoying the ride with their permission. Try to remember that the next time you throw dirt in their eyes--assuming you get that chance.
The power of manipulation lies primarily in the gullibility of people, not in the validity of the basis of the manipulation. It doesn't matter whether it is science, religion or something else--manipulators will do what they do--manipulate. Gullible people will do what they do--fall for the scam.
To lay the fault at the feet of religion is to misdiagnose the problem completely. It's like banning beef when people get sick from an e. coli outbreak instead of going to the source of the problem--the meat factory.