Cable TV is worth the money because it is advert free! The picture is much better too, especially since they've gone digital.
Why should I complain? Look at all the great stuff that would not exist if companies were not permitted to shove stuff down our throats all day. Highway billboards, McDonalds, top 40 music, alternative top 40 music, Hollywood, children's cereal that cost more per pound than steak, three large and valuable TV fanchises owned by GE, Westinghouse and Disney, artificial grape flavor, the list of quality additions to all our lives goes on and on. With databases they can target those of us who don't buy such shit for extermination. This is a great day and we are one step closer to thar really cool car, Kit pimp addition. Thank you OnStar for proving that there will be one less place to hide.
I can't wait for the new home emergency service with opt in adverts. Just imagine your $400/year burgalar alarm shouting things at you. I'm over awed. I can't wait for it's integration into the Homaland Security sytem so the Federal Government can make sure I'm safe too. This is all so cool. Gadget future, just like predicted in 1984.
"Despite the restrictions and the things in this settlement, having the uncertainty removed and the resource-drain removed we think is very positive, not only for Microsoft but for the industry," Gates said in an interview. "We're hopeful to get it put behind us."
Babelfish translation, BORG -> ENGLISH
"That was cheap, not just for us but for all the collective", speaker Gates said, "We will soon forget it." 4LL UR BASE R B3LL0N6 2 US. END TRANSMISION yyyyyyyyyy!?????? -TCP/MSXML CONTAINER zzzt - error 2012867 -
yes, I have a job where I have to use M$ crapware whether I like it or not. The roll out of Win2k and XP is breaking everything there again. Print methods, macros, the whole suck works. The resentment is large. M$ is dead because everyone knows they suck. It's only a matter of time before people get around them so that they can spend less time fooling with computer shit and more time doing their jobs.
Apple is one of those companies that could displace M$. One way for them to do it is to just get free software. Trade software revenue for hardware and service revenue. The potential is as vast as M$ dissatisfaction.
The fact that all this effort is not rewarded with money is the major shortcoming of the free software process. There have been quite a number of attempts to fix this, but few have been successful, and of those that have, most don't seem to generalize.
No, it's not about money. Those who think it is and try to squeeze money out of their neighbors by giving away booby traps are doomed to fail. Sorry, it's about sharing common tasks and making things that don't suck. Communities that are bassed on anything else will go the way of M$ eventually.
The evanescent rewards of free software are a major factor in the relatively high turnover in projects.
Not all projects have high turnover.
I'll just call attention to the current drought of leaders. Many of the "big names" who would have been listed as leaders a couple of years ago are no longer very active in actual free software development, and there isn't much in the way of new blood. Thank God we've still got Linus.
Huh? What's a big name? While peer recognition is nice, once again, that's not what it's about. The folks making things like NE2000 drivers out at NASA are just as important to me as anyone else. I appreciate their efforts, but I have a small brain and I'll never be able to remember all the names. Why should I expect anything more of anyone else?
Mac OS X gives an excellent example of why leadership is so badly needed. Apple could easily have taken a leadership role, and presented a compelling vision of how software should be packaged for OS X. Instead, its own efforts are very weak.... Apple also provides some links to Unix software, but as far as I can tell makes no effort to ensure that any of it is integrated nicely.
Apple does not seem to get it yet, and that is too bad. They have a great deal of tallent at work and they have produced some outstanding hardware. If they ever get what free sofware is all about they will sell much more of it. Perversly, by giving their users freedom they will save themselves from working for someone else, like Bill Gates. Propriatory junk never communicates well and will never "integrate". Apple is in a good position to do great things. I'm waiting for them to get it.
If you had the source code then they would have no control over the experiment, which would make it worthless and unlike seti@home the work that your computer does has an effect on the work that is done by all of the other computers in the project.
I have to dissagree. You assume that there is no other way for a malicious party to send bogus information. This is not true, so other means must be used to verify the integrity of the answers, such as registration and agreement. The server should remember what machines it has distributed code to and this would form a registration. This breaks down for large networks behind a firewall, so the same information must be sent to different machines. Agreement between different clients is reassuring. Answers that dissagree can be checked by the researchers themselves and bogus answers can be rejected in the future. The internet is not to be trusted any more than strangers are. If they don't know that, their answers are not to be trusted.
These guys are not sharing their work because they don't want to right now. As I said before, that's an odd position to beg from.
I got 5 of 100 frames done before I left work yesterday and had to close the connection used to start the work. I bet my spare machine can finish the rest over the weekend.
The milspec for packing most things is the ability to survive a 20 foot fall (6 meter). The packge most cases come in is a good start, but don't use it if it's too old as acid paper deteriorates and looses it's strength. New boxes are better. Never try to fit two things in one box. They will collide. Make crush space around the inside box fill it with foam of some sort. Peanuts, the blue stuff that goes on walls, crumpled newspaper. Use judgement here and don't go too tight exept in the corners. Use good tape. Tape every edge and corner, many times and wrap the centers too. The tape will stretch out before yielding and hopefully keep the contents in.
Having worked for RPS, I can vouch for it. Shipping is not done by angles, it's done by $5.00/hour strongbacks. They hum stuff from trucks to conveyor belts. They hate heavy boxes they can't get their hands around. Big light boxes are a joy to them. Sometimes things fall down. Yes, I was a stong back for two or three years. The worst boxes were from a beauty shop. They broke every time, sending sheen and other goo onto the floor! Did I mention plastic wraps inside?
Your boxes look like they recieved significant drops. It's hard to tell how those boxes were packed, and if indeed you used more than one. The cardboard, however, is clearly old and the box should have been discarded.
Thank you for posting the pictures. They are good examples of what can happen. My condolenses for your parts. The folks who did this, I'm sure, cursed when it happened but did not waste too much time with it.
Thanks, got it, running it, but I have my worries about the authors. Specifically, their license is strangly restrictive and no source is available. How do I know what it is really doing? While it only has my user privalidges, it might use them to exploit some known flaw to elevate itself. In any case, the decision to withhold useful information from the world at large makes me worry about the intentions of the copyright holders:
TINKER: Software Tools for Molecular Design
Version 3.8 October 2000
Copyright (c) Jay William Ponder 1990-2000
portions Copyright (c) Michael Shirts 2001
portions Copyright (c) Vijay S Pande 2001
What gives? Why so tight guys? Your attitude might get you through now, but the increasing awareness of computer security and user rights will leave you with few clients. It's strange to expect strangers to do things for you when you are not willing to share something so small as a distributed client source code.
That said, my machine will be sending results anyway. Better that they are used before they hit the scrap heap.
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Um, XBox is also the first system to include a bonefide headset in the works for talking to other game players during games. I assume that voice recognition is just around the corner.
Gee Fiz, a bone-a-fido headset? Like the ones people have been plugging into the back of their home computers since i486? So why is this just "in the works"? I'm not sure my mom want's to play half life, but I am sure I don't want a head set. M$ is never going to get there.
The privacy invasion design, if it's anything like their other OS, is ready to go!
Where did you want to go yesterday? Don't bother to answer, we already know.
The problem here is that people instantly lambash the box without thinking of the ramifications- It's a strong PC with great graphics. In the living room. The centerpiece of the family community.
Umm, it's the ramifications that bother people. No one really cares too much about the sub standard, non standard, hardware.
Fireplace > Radio > TV > M$ borg box. It's not evolution. I don't plan this or any other game console as the "center" of my family space. Technology should be unobtrusive and helpful. The X-Box is just another game, with M$ spy hooks. No thanks. I'm going to do better with systems with voice recognition, message relaying from internet so I can talk to my mom in another town, and basic home automation with security. M$ has not and will not deliver.
Credit is not really the issue. It's strange that Jeshua would not have a little page on how his software works and that it would include Fink. It may not be required, but it can't hurt. After all, user understanding of software so that they might then use, change and share it to suit their purposes is the whole point of the GPL.
What looks more sinister from the letters is that Jeshua's derivative work may not be GPL. While he claims, "Further more, our products are distributed under the GNU GPL, so our products may be freely copied and distributed.", he also claims to not understand Fink. I'm an honesty bigot and something here does not add up.
Jeshua Lacock is a fink, but he either does not know it or he does not care. It would seem he does not care, as he used "fink install". That makes him a rat to me. If there is a real GPL violation, we will hear of it.
... when this kind of thing gets serious consideration on slashdot. Must be that VA Systems thing.
Every one of you is paying dearly for your web already. You pay the phone/cable ISP company at home and you don't want to know what your company pays.
Well, I suppose that per byte charges would be a good way to kill free software. I mean, just long enough so that Bill Gates owns you all and the MPAA can start streaming movies at you for more than you'd pay a theater. Think about it, begging for new and better ways to give your money away is stupid.
It is unfair and unrealistic that a large part of the cost of transfer should fall on the publisher, rather than the person who benefits from the transfer.
1. The average publisher benefits from the transfer more than the reader. That is because the average user spends most of their time at a few commerical sites that seek to change opinions and advertise. They will continue to make "content" available. If they don't, too bad.
2. The average user is already paying for the physical network. They pay phone bills, complete with new internet taxes, and they also pay ISP fees. This is where the money for the physical network comes from. At my house the combination is about $200/month, enough to buy a small car.
3. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I'd never charge people to look at my site.
Should the CIA and other international organizations use full exposure? Should they publish something titled, "This is the vulnerability of our Nuclear Piles"? "This is where you can cross the border undetected", "This is how to make a Fake ID?"
Wow, what a troll. The CIA being an "international organization" is a dead give away. The other is the fantastic false analogy between buggy PC software and nuclear bombs. No orgainization currently mass produces nuclear weapons for daily use on every desktop. No one here would recomend such things.
At the same time, some countries like the USA, recognize that free thought is needed for scientific development and that full disclosure and broad education are in the public interest. While the particular techincal details of how to build bombs is kept secret, the physical priciples are trumpeted and encouraged. Indeed public debate on priciples are encouraged as free dicourse leads to knowledge. "Freedom is the ability to say two plus two is four, all else follows", said George Orwells sad character in 1984. While the Department of Energy and their employees might not tell us details, they will not keep you or me from talking about it. With sufficient study at any good US University, a person can learn all they need to know about bomb design. Knowledge is not yet viewed as evil. The truth will set you free and only the free can be sure they know the truth.
M$, Adobe, RIAA, MPAA and other private interests are going a step further than cold warriors with their "information anarchy" campaign. Such blatant censorship is un-American and against the public interest. They will be defeated in the long run, as will trolls like you.
I am a typical "power-user" and have cycled through many laptops and machines but it seems I am settling on my laptop just for mail...
I used to love my Linux laptop about 2 years ago, I felt so sophisticated. Tell you the truth I am running w2k on it now (A Sony Vaio)
Rooten tooten, you sound like my boss! 6.9E9 HZ, 1E9 RAM, DVD, HDTV screen and surround sound to read email. Hmmmm, he's sophistic too. Let me know if you can keep the W2K virus stable long enough to run SSH -X to that fab desktop.
It should be obvious that the international physics community has joined fucked company. What were they thinking? There is absolutly no way to expect a neutron detector company will be proffitable. I mean, you can't see, hear, touch or eat neutrinos, what market share could they ever have? It never worked very well and it's just broken. Now that billions of dollars and a perfectly good lead mine has been wasted, only dedicated hobiest, terrorists and other inverts will ever reap the rewards of learning and intellectual achievement. Let this be a lesson to all you hippie scientists.
76OLD AOK with Debian. 150 MHz 586, 24M RAM, 5Gig hard drive swapable CD floppy, PCIMCIA network/modem card. The CD floppy thing was a pain and I actually coppied the 15 or so base system floppies to get Debian on it. I'm told it can boot off the CD, but floppies were quicker than finding the info at the time. Modem works, ethernet works, have not fooled with sound and don't know.
It works great. The screen is small but better than new cheapies. VI works like a champ so editing is easy. It also makes a nice terminal with ssh NAME -X to the rescue. Put Proftp on it for file transfer. It's a little slow on compiling large codes, but every large project is made of small chunks.
If I ever feel like it's inadequate, the modular design makes it a natural shell for a home built monster. The keyboard tilts up and all the guts are right there. I've seen other laptops with tiny screws, and wires that come popping out like a dis-emboweled cow when you open it, yuck.
I have no sympathy for all the losers on/. who whine about the spyware on their Windows machines. GO AWAY!
It's important to point the about out. Not having any M$ junk, I'm oblivious to the new stupid tricks. When someone asks, now I know. Sure, the conversations can be tiresome. Trolls post all sorts of stupid thing along the lines of, "you have no choice", "see, even open source is greedy", blah blah blah. Hopefully, the M$ and music articles will keep them all busy. To compensate for them, the whiners come back to tell us that other software plays the same game. Sometimes someone even mentions something useful like QTella, and that's what this place is all about. Hell, they might even recomend an OS built on the concept of free software like Debian. Thanks! but be kind.
I don't want to build a server to share comercial junk. I want to share my own work.
Of course, if they charged for their software, then there would be no need for ads or spyware.
You presume too much. Peer networks will continue to evolve because there are people who don't NEED income from software. They will continue to work as their reward is the product. "Services" that use adverts will die as they are replaced by free versions. When the greed heads try to impose tolls, freedom loving people will leave them behind everytime.
It's not news that slashdot and the register are anti-Microsoft, but they both lose credibility when they manipulate the words that they attribute as quotes from someone else.
While I hate to respond to a sub-troll that's designed to fill up Slashdot with useless garbage, I'd like to make a point to all the people whining about how unfair it is that Slashdot has the nuts to reference the truth. Show me a page hosted by MS, MSNBC, or any other traditional media outlet that works as well as Slashdot. The news is here, user posted and moderated. The only abuse comes from MicroTurd appologists and others who manipulate multiple accounts to self moderate offtopic and inflamitory blither up. The truth shall set you free, and it is only revealed by free dialog.
Slashdot's confidence in it's readers, freedom and the truth have show it's strength. M$'s closed source garbage, Astroturfing, massive advertising budget, and fear of their users shows weakness.
The developer site, however, does not look as promissing as it could be. They seem to have their own little development environment and make no mention of source codes and compilers outside of JAVA. From their develpor's site:
Download development documentation and tools.
Any Java applications that run in this environment will also run on the models that will be introduced for international markets, starting with the US market. There is an added business benefit for developers in that Java applications developed in this fashion will extend your business opportunities in the Japanese market.
While this is nice, and the PDA itself is stellar looking, it's not exactly free. If I can't download and compile newer versions of BASH, for example, Sharp is taking less than full advantage of freedom's blessings. The same thing can be said of all the software that runs the platform itself. I'd like someone to tell me that I've overlooked something. If not, Sharp has failed to grasp how free software works.
I'm sure I'll figure it out, but I have a background in computers, it shouldn't take that to get a computer to work. That's the main problem right now with Linux, it's just not that easy to get everything up and running.
The problem is with the devices, not the software. When device makers are pressured to adopt goofey "standards" without adopting reasonable communications protocals the user suffers. A prime example of this is the WinModem. Every try to figure one of them out? You won't because they are all different. It's a pain for the device maker too as they have to keep up a bunch of software for each new device. Parallel scanners have the same sorts of problems, but parallel printers don't. Go figure, in one case device makers decided it would be easier to follow the leader, in the other they did not. It might have something to do with M$'s power and influence when each became commodity devices. Ever see a stupid M$ flag on an old printer? It sucks hard, but the end is near.
The problem would be quickly resolved if larger computer vendors would loose their fear of using alternate OS and advertise like they did for M$ once. In the mean time, happy hacking with that HomePNA!
For ease of software install and upkeep look into Debian dselect and apt-get.
normally I strenuously object to allowing government interference in business-related arenas, but this is no good at all for Joe Consumer
It's hard to figure out what you are saying. If you want government out of the way, then you should lowwer boundaries for entry and set up reasonable rules of resource sharing. The internet should be expanded by wireless nets.
Here's an analogy that's more fitting: Public roads. Imagine if only "comercial transporters" were allowed access to the public roads. It could be argued that the public right of way is a limited resource and that irresponsible and unprofesional use of them leads to frequent collisions and great loss of life every year. To remedy the problem, the federal government issues
strict licenses to a few companies in each city for about 500,000/year per transpertatin capacity. As it would be impossible to directly fund the effort with riding and shipping fees, advertisement is used to fund all but luxury rides, but eventually the luxury rides give in. Barf.
Think bandwith is limited? Check out the 72 empty channels on an old TV tuner.
That's strange, why would 98Lite be so popular if it killed Windows?
Search me. I'm still trying to figure out why Windows is so popular when it kills computers. Games, oh yeah, I forgot again. IERadicator is interesting, but is seems to leave two big honking dll so that Outlook can still work. Hmmm, something funny there. M$ without M$?
M$ lost my trust years ago. With so many alternatives available, I've quit trying to keep up the M$ junk. When it dies, it gets replaced. Yes, it's taking me time to figure out things like sound and what not. Too bad they screwed the pooch.
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Why should I complain? Look at all the great stuff that would not exist if companies were not permitted to shove stuff down our throats all day. Highway billboards, McDonalds, top 40 music, alternative top 40 music, Hollywood, children's cereal that cost more per pound than steak, three large and valuable TV fanchises owned by GE, Westinghouse and Disney, artificial grape flavor, the list of quality additions to all our lives goes on and on. With databases they can target those of us who don't buy such shit for extermination. This is a great day and we are one step closer to thar really cool car, Kit pimp addition. Thank you OnStar for proving that there will be one less place to hide.
I can't wait for the new home emergency service with opt in adverts. Just imagine your $400/year burgalar alarm shouting things at you. I'm over awed. I can't wait for it's integration into the Homaland Security sytem so the Federal Government can make sure I'm safe too. This is all so cool. Gadget future, just like predicted in 1984.
Babelfish translation, BORG -> ENGLISH
"That was cheap, not just for us but for all the collective", speaker Gates said, "We will soon forget it." 4LL UR BASE R B3LL0N6 2 US. END TRANSMISION yyyyyyyyyy!?????? -TCP/MSXML CONTAINER zzzt - error 2012867 -
Apple is one of those companies that could displace M$. One way for them to do it is to just get free software. Trade software revenue for hardware and service revenue. The potential is as vast as M$ dissatisfaction.
No, it's not about money. Those who think it is and try to squeeze money out of their neighbors by giving away booby traps are doomed to fail. Sorry, it's about sharing common tasks and making things that don't suck. Communities that are bassed on anything else will go the way of M$ eventually.
The evanescent rewards of free software are a major factor in the relatively high turnover in projects.
Not all projects have high turnover. I'll just call attention to the current drought of leaders. Many of the "big names" who would have been listed as leaders a couple of years ago are no longer very active in actual free software development, and there isn't much in the way of new blood. Thank God we've still got Linus.
Huh? What's a big name? While peer recognition is nice, once again, that's not what it's about. The folks making things like NE2000 drivers out at NASA are just as important to me as anyone else. I appreciate their efforts, but I have a small brain and I'll never be able to remember all the names. Why should I expect anything more of anyone else?
Mac OS X gives an excellent example of why leadership is so badly needed. Apple could easily have taken a leadership role, and presented a compelling vision of how software should be packaged for OS X. Instead, its own efforts are very weak. ... Apple also provides some links to Unix software, but as far as I can tell makes no effort to ensure that any of it is integrated nicely.
Apple does not seem to get it yet, and that is too bad. They have a great deal of tallent at work and they have produced some outstanding hardware. If they ever get what free sofware is all about they will sell much more of it. Perversly, by giving their users freedom they will save themselves from working for someone else, like Bill Gates. Propriatory junk never communicates well and will never "integrate". Apple is in a good position to do great things. I'm waiting for them to get it.
I have to dissagree. You assume that there is no other way for a malicious party to send bogus information. This is not true, so other means must be used to verify the integrity of the answers, such as registration and agreement. The server should remember what machines it has distributed code to and this would form a registration. This breaks down for large networks behind a firewall, so the same information must be sent to different machines. Agreement between different clients is reassuring. Answers that dissagree can be checked by the researchers themselves and bogus answers can be rejected in the future. The internet is not to be trusted any more than strangers are. If they don't know that, their answers are not to be trusted.
These guys are not sharing their work because they don't want to right now. As I said before, that's an odd position to beg from.
I got 5 of 100 frames done before I left work yesterday and had to close the connection used to start the work. I bet my spare machine can finish the rest over the weekend.
Having worked for RPS, I can vouch for it. Shipping is not done by angles, it's done by $5.00/hour strongbacks. They hum stuff from trucks to conveyor belts. They hate heavy boxes they can't get their hands around. Big light boxes are a joy to them. Sometimes things fall down. Yes, I was a stong back for two or three years. The worst boxes were from a beauty shop. They broke every time, sending sheen and other goo onto the floor! Did I mention plastic wraps inside?
Your boxes look like they recieved significant drops. It's hard to tell how those boxes were packed, and if indeed you used more than one. The cardboard, however, is clearly old and the box should have been discarded.
Thank you for posting the pictures. They are good examples of what can happen. My condolenses for your parts. The folks who did this, I'm sure, cursed when it happened but did not waste too much time with it.
TINKER: Software Tools for Molecular Design
Version 3.8 October 2000
Copyright (c) Jay William Ponder 1990-2000
portions Copyright (c) Michael Shirts 2001
portions Copyright (c) Vijay S Pande 2001
What gives? Why so tight guys? Your attitude might get you through now, but the increasing awareness of computer security and user rights will leave you with few clients. It's strange to expect strangers to do things for you when you are not willing to share something so small as a distributed client source code.
That said, my machine will be sending results anyway. Better that they are used before they hit the scrap heap.
Gee Fiz, a bone-a-fido headset? Like the ones people have been plugging into the back of their home computers since i486? So why is this just "in the works"? I'm not sure my mom want's to play half life, but I am sure I don't want a head set. M$ is never going to get there.
The privacy invasion design, if it's anything like their other OS, is ready to go!
Where did you want to go yesterday? Don't bother to answer, we already know.
Umm, it's the ramifications that bother people. No one really cares too much about the sub standard, non standard, hardware.
Fireplace > Radio > TV > M$ borg box. It's not evolution. I don't plan this or any other game console as the "center" of my family space. Technology should be unobtrusive and helpful. The X-Box is just another game, with M$ spy hooks. No thanks. I'm going to do better with systems with voice recognition, message relaying from internet so I can talk to my mom in another town, and basic home automation with security. M$ has not and will not deliver.
What looks more sinister from the letters is that Jeshua's derivative work may not be GPL. While he claims, "Further more, our products are distributed under the GNU GPL, so our products may be freely copied and distributed.", he also claims to not understand Fink. I'm an honesty bigot and something here does not add up.
Jeshua Lacock is a fink, but he either does not know it or he does not care. It would seem he does not care, as he used "fink install". That makes him a rat to me. If there is a real GPL violation, we will hear of it.
Every one of you is paying dearly for your web already. You pay the phone/cable ISP company at home and you don't want to know what your company pays.
Well, I suppose that per byte charges would be a good way to kill free software. I mean, just long enough so that Bill Gates owns you all and the MPAA can start streaming movies at you for more than you'd pay a theater. Think about it, begging for new and better ways to give your money away is stupid.
1. The average publisher benefits from the transfer more than the reader. That is because the average user spends most of their time at a few commerical sites that seek to change opinions and advertise. They will continue to make "content" available. If they don't, too bad.
2. The average user is already paying for the physical network. They pay phone bills, complete with new internet taxes, and they also pay ISP fees. This is where the money for the physical network comes from. At my house the combination is about $200/month, enough to buy a small car.
3. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I'd never charge people to look at my site.
No I would not. The whole purpose of my writings is to share information. I don't want to make a living on it.
Enough others will not. They write to change oppinions or sell goods.
I already pay for the freaking net with ISP fees, I'm not going to pay for content. You greed heads can go home now.
Wow, what a troll. The CIA being an "international organization" is a dead give away. The other is the fantastic false analogy between buggy PC software and nuclear bombs. No orgainization currently mass produces nuclear weapons for daily use on every desktop. No one here would recomend such things.
At the same time, some countries like the USA, recognize that free thought is needed for scientific development and that full disclosure and broad education are in the public interest. While the particular techincal details of how to build bombs is kept secret, the physical priciples are trumpeted and encouraged. Indeed public debate on priciples are encouraged as free dicourse leads to knowledge. "Freedom is the ability to say two plus two is four, all else follows", said George Orwells sad character in 1984. While the Department of Energy and their employees might not tell us details, they will not keep you or me from talking about it. With sufficient study at any good US University, a person can learn all they need to know about bomb design. Knowledge is not yet viewed as evil. The truth will set you free and only the free can be sure they know the truth.
M$, Adobe, RIAA, MPAA and other private interests are going a step further than cold warriors with their "information anarchy" campaign. Such blatant censorship is un-American and against the public interest. They will be defeated in the long run, as will trolls like you.
I used to love my Linux laptop about 2 years ago, I felt so sophisticated. Tell you the truth I am running w2k on it now (A Sony Vaio)
Rooten tooten, you sound like my boss! 6.9E9 HZ, 1E9 RAM, DVD, HDTV screen and surround sound to read email. Hmmmm, he's sophistic too. Let me know if you can keep the W2K virus stable long enough to run SSH -X to that fab desktop.
It should be obvious that the international physics community has joined fucked company. What were they thinking? There is absolutly no way to expect a neutron detector company will be proffitable. I mean, you can't see, hear, touch or eat neutrinos, what market share could they ever have? It never worked very well and it's just broken. Now that billions of dollars and a perfectly good lead mine has been wasted, only dedicated hobiest, terrorists and other inverts will ever reap the rewards of learning and intellectual achievement. Let this be a lesson to all you hippie scientists.
It works great. The screen is small but better than new cheapies. VI works like a champ so editing is easy. It also makes a nice terminal with ssh NAME -X to the rescue. Put Proftp on it for file transfer. It's a little slow on compiling large codes, but every large project is made of small chunks.
If I ever feel like it's inadequate, the modular design makes it a natural shell for a home built monster. The keyboard tilts up and all the guts are right there. I've seen other laptops with tiny screws, and wires that come popping out like a dis-emboweled cow when you open it, yuck.
It's important to point the about out. Not having any M$ junk, I'm oblivious to the new stupid tricks. When someone asks, now I know. Sure, the conversations can be tiresome. Trolls post all sorts of stupid thing along the lines of, "you have no choice", "see, even open source is greedy", blah blah blah. Hopefully, the M$ and music articles will keep them all busy. To compensate for them, the whiners come back to tell us that other software plays the same game. Sometimes someone even mentions something useful like QTella, and that's what this place is all about. Hell, they might even recomend an OS built on the concept of free software like Debian. Thanks! but be kind.
I don't want to build a server to share comercial junk. I want to share my own work.
You presume too much. Peer networks will continue to evolve because there are people who don't NEED income from software. They will continue to work as their reward is the product. "Services" that use adverts will die as they are replaced by free versions. When the greed heads try to impose tolls, freedom loving people will leave them behind everytime.
There never was a need for adverts and spyware.
While I hate to respond to a sub-troll that's designed to fill up Slashdot with useless garbage, I'd like to make a point to all the people whining about how unfair it is that Slashdot has the nuts to reference the truth. Show me a page hosted by MS, MSNBC, or any other traditional media outlet that works as well as Slashdot. The news is here, user posted and moderated. The only abuse comes from MicroTurd appologists and others who manipulate multiple accounts to self moderate offtopic and inflamitory blither up. The truth shall set you free, and it is only revealed by free dialog.
Slashdot's confidence in it's readers, freedom and the truth have show it's strength. M$'s closed source garbage, Astroturfing, massive advertising budget, and fear of their users shows weakness.
M$ is dying.
Download development documentation and tools.
Any Java applications that run in this environment will also run on the models that will be introduced for international markets, starting with the US market. There is an added business benefit for developers in that Java applications developed in this fashion will extend your business opportunities in the Japanese market.
While this is nice, and the PDA itself is stellar looking, it's not exactly free. If I can't download and compile newer versions of BASH, for example, Sharp is taking less than full advantage of freedom's blessings. The same thing can be said of all the software that runs the platform itself. I'd like someone to tell me that I've overlooked something. If not, Sharp has failed to grasp how free software works.
The problem is with the devices, not the software. When device makers are pressured to adopt goofey "standards" without adopting reasonable communications protocals the user suffers. A prime example of this is the WinModem. Every try to figure one of them out? You won't because they are all different. It's a pain for the device maker too as they have to keep up a bunch of software for each new device. Parallel scanners have the same sorts of problems, but parallel printers don't. Go figure, in one case device makers decided it would be easier to follow the leader, in the other they did not. It might have something to do with M$'s power and influence when each became commodity devices. Ever see a stupid M$ flag on an old printer? It sucks hard, but the end is near.
The problem would be quickly resolved if larger computer vendors would loose their fear of using alternate OS and advertise like they did for M$ once. In the mean time, happy hacking with that HomePNA!
For ease of software install and upkeep look into Debian dselect and apt-get.
It's hard to figure out what you are saying. If you want government out of the way, then you should lowwer boundaries for entry and set up reasonable rules of resource sharing. The internet should be expanded by wireless nets.
Here's an analogy that's more fitting: Public roads. Imagine if only "comercial transporters" were allowed access to the public roads. It could be argued that the public right of way is a limited resource and that irresponsible and unprofesional use of them leads to frequent collisions and great loss of life every year. To remedy the problem, the federal government issues strict licenses to a few companies in each city for about 500,000/year per transpertatin capacity. As it would be impossible to directly fund the effort with riding and shipping fees, advertisement is used to fund all but luxury rides, but eventually the luxury rides give in. Barf.
Think bandwith is limited? Check out the 72 empty channels on an old TV tuner.
Oh well, such is the world we live in.
Search me. I'm still trying to figure out why Windows is so popular when it kills computers. Games, oh yeah, I forgot again. IERadicator is interesting, but is seems to leave two big honking dll so that Outlook can still work. Hmmm, something funny there. M$ without M$?
M$ lost my trust years ago. With so many alternatives available, I've quit trying to keep up the M$ junk. When it dies, it gets replaced. Yes, it's taking me time to figure out things like sound and what not. Too bad they screwed the pooch.