i had a similar problem while in on a friend's computer one day trying to research essex-class aircraft carriers, and on another trying to find information on oral surgery...
with all the shit industry's been known to pull, i wouldn't want engineered corn with a patent on it either. What kills me is that they could probably get away with patenting and licensing this corn despite the fact that in logical, sense-making thought, once you've sold the corn, it should be the right of the user to do what they will with the corn. i don't think you can sell corn under a license, and i'm damn sure you can't click-wrap it with an EULA. As much as I can go on about the evils of patents and EULAs, this whole debacle doesn't make any sense at all...you could chase it in legal/logical circles from here to eternity.
its about time somebody high-profile in government used the real, original meaning of hacker. Maybe someone in the media will pick up on that and show us in a postive light...wait...nevermind. we're trying to be realistic here
RoleMaster's great...if you love buying paper and pencils, and if you're a huge fan of math and complex linked spreadsheets. I remember my brother running a LotR RPG game once... they spent the first three sessions just rolling up their characters. IIRC, I think you have to even take a special skill to know how to run at all...
how stupid. That implies standards. i have little belief in the claim that linux is just as likely to have such problems. The reason for Windows decay is mainly a few things (aside from thousands or millions of vital bugs that Microsoft is unlikely to ever fix): Temporary/modified files the user doesn't know about, lots of programs installed, gradual decay of the registry, multiple un/re installs, and so on. Linux, on the other hand, if you're having problems like that, you were being an idiot when you recompiled your kernel, you screwed up your desktop environment by doing something unknowledgeable, or you installed something stupidly. The only accountability for a decayed linux install is one of two things: lack of experience or stupidity. And either way, unless you screw it up as root, you're not going to cause deep issues like Windows has, and even that would take more effort than it would in windows. The closest thing you could come to a port of this thing is a user condition scanner, that would check the configs etc. of one user and say how they're performing. And even that would be pointless, because on a PII+ with enough RAM, odds are you'll never notice a small performance hit since Linux is so much more efficient and less crufty than Windows, especially if you custom install instead of default (with a billion programs you never use or know exist...how many people have environments for languages they never knew existed installed? How many average users do Ruby, for example, or use VI? not of course to deride either of these, but new users won't even know to look for Pine, either, unless someone tells them). Default windows install as soon as it's new will crufitify your system way more than two years of normal linux use.
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I'm on a dialup, and it works for me. Think about it this way: compare downloading a full set of two ISOs for Red Hat or God knows how many for Debian, depending on what route you take, to downloading a single image for Gentoo and using Gentoo's download/compile program. What you say is true...for people who go down to the store and buy cds of Red Hat or such. But what you're referring to is initial setup, not everyday installs. I'd rather take a little extra time with my initial install and save my downloaded files in case i ever want to reinstall than to use RPMs (if i can help it). Keep in mind: this is a speculative thread concerning the future, not a thread about current practicality.
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All this insistence upon binary packaging...have you tried Gentoo? Why bother with a binary package when you can just as easily do it with a source package that compiles itself? I'll grant Gentoo is a bit green for the moment, but it's making rapid progress and personally, I think that once it's been around a little longer, Gentoo and Gentoo-style source and local compilation systems will get more reliable interop than RPM files compiled by 8 million different users...
Most of the keyboards i've had you can pull off the keys and put them in the other spots without any trouble. I don't see how that makes just having a cap over the key any better than being able to move the whole (identically shaped) key over to the other spot. I'll admit that older hardware in its entirety is more fun than these glorified case mods. Hell, I have 15 computers of various degrees of antiquity. But that doesn't mean that as I type here on my Duron 900 that the old boxen are better just by being "aged to perfection".
somebody using the 'net to profit off the content creators rather than the viewers. Sounds like they're being paid for for exposure rather than the content posting itself. Well done, I say!
to clarify: the disk drives on the//e's were marked apple ][ or something like that. external jobs. probably cobbled together with various semi-compatible bits of hardware...i didnt know at the time. And concerning the C64, that thing was cool because it did more than play Oregon Trail (which was all they ever ran on those apples we had at the school)
When I was in kindergarten, every computer I ever saw was an Apple ][E. At the time, I thought it was a pretty rockin' little box. When you said computer, at the time it was pretty much synonymous with the ][e. Later, I found out about Commodore 64 and thought it was cool. However, IBM PC came around and killed them both, and Microsoft became dominant.
The point: Just because something seems hopelessly ubiquitous doesn't mean that the right situation can't come around and kill what seemed like such a stable position at the top.
Javascript has been typecast. There are a lot of useful things you can do with it if you want to, but it definitely gets a bad rap for all the popup functions and such. This isn't to say it's a particularly good language, just that it does have its uses.
Actually, the military should have revolted by now. it's their sworn duty to defend the constitution, not the current regime. unfortunately it'll never happen due to the fact that they depend on congress to give their generals more stars for their shoulders...
if linux won't run on PCs made after a certain point in time, I'll switch to Mac hardware. After all, I can still run Linux on a PPC if none of the PC cloneboard companies make non-palladium boards. Same goes for internet services. If none of the sites i want to use will let me do it without palladium/.net/other bullshit, i'll go to different sites. And while i'm ranting and killing my karma, when i bought my domain, i had intended to get it.net till Microsoft rolled out their.NET scheme. then i changed my plans and bought a.org.
"My point is that.NET is just another step on the road to ease of integration."
...yes. integration into proprietary and, dare i say, Microsoft, licensing. I think i'd rather keep my soul than click that EULA. Personally, I've been doing just fine on existing, open technological standards...and I think that most things that "need".net can be done other ways, it's just a matter of taking the time to figure out how or for someone to write the code to do it and GPL it (and hell, maybe even make it secure). I think i'll stay free, thanks
but what i'd like to see is a way that anyone who makes a truly good movie will actually get attention for it without becoming the MPAA's bitch or getting slammed for so much bandwith that they have to take it offline.
i'm not saying that to be a pro-linux preacher, but one thing they could certainly accomplish with this system is a) more easily downloading ISOs to install from and b) mirroring bottlenecked servers' projects. Of course realistically it'll be used mostly for gaming, pr0n, and war3z...
I hope they're using something a little more stable than hard disks...taking off, landing, and other high-G maneuvering would wreak havoc on a hard disk. Not to mention jostling if hit by flying debris or enemy bullets...
no...the fact that Code Red is still running around proves that 1) people didn't learn from this and use something more secure, and 2) unless people actually install working service packs (if they ever release), it won't matter in the end whether they get patched anyway since the average windows server is usually run by someone echelons below the average professional Unix admin.
Apt with your favorite distribution. Now you can have our beloved Apt on Red Hat, till they come up with a more recent Debian. This will probably be marked offtopic, but for my $.02, Debian's an excellent system, but Potato's desktops aside from WindowMaker (which isn't that recent a version to begin with) are a bit dated, and the software versions on potato are a bit old as well. Still valid for use, but for now I'll stick with Gentoo for desktops, potato with a bit of customizing and hand-compiling for servers.
"When the small business version of quicken has menu items for "Encrypt my records so the IRS cannot read them" and "untraceably and exchange digital cash with this anonymous correspondent" it will be a bigger threat to the state than all the nukes the USSR ever had."
Maybe then the government could make good on those promises they made so frequently during war, "when the war is over, you'll never be taxed again!" Then again, who believes such BS?
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yes...but how many people try to write a book, poem, or song and don't finish? it's like any other creative process
i had a similar problem while in on a friend's computer one day trying to research essex-class aircraft carriers, and on another trying to find information on oral surgery...
with all the shit industry's been known to pull, i wouldn't want engineered corn with a patent on it either. What kills me is that they could probably get away with patenting and licensing this corn despite the fact that in logical, sense-making thought, once you've sold the corn, it should be the right of the user to do what they will with the corn. i don't think you can sell corn under a license, and i'm damn sure you can't click-wrap it with an EULA. As much as I can go on about the evils of patents and EULAs, this whole debacle doesn't make any sense at all...you could chase it in legal/logical circles from here to eternity.
its about time somebody high-profile in government used the real, original meaning of hacker. Maybe someone in the media will pick up on that and show us in a postive light...wait...nevermind. we're trying to be realistic here
RoleMaster's great...if you love buying paper and pencils, and if you're a huge fan of math and complex linked spreadsheets. I remember my brother running a LotR RPG game once ... they spent the first three sessions just rolling up their characters. IIRC, I think you have to even take a special skill to know how to run at all...
how stupid. That implies standards. i have little belief in the claim that linux is just as likely to have such problems. The reason for Windows decay is mainly a few things (aside from thousands or millions of vital bugs that Microsoft is unlikely to ever fix): Temporary/modified files the user doesn't know about, lots of programs installed, gradual decay of the registry, multiple un/re installs, and so on. Linux, on the other hand, if you're having problems like that, you were being an idiot when you recompiled your kernel, you screwed up your desktop environment by doing something unknowledgeable, or you installed something stupidly. The only accountability for a decayed linux install is one of two things: lack of experience or stupidity. And either way, unless you screw it up as root, you're not going to cause deep issues like Windows has, and even that would take more effort than it would in windows. The closest thing you could come to a port of this thing is a user condition scanner, that would check the configs etc. of one user and say how they're performing. And even that would be pointless, because on a PII+ with enough RAM, odds are you'll never notice a small performance hit since Linux is so much more efficient and less crufty than Windows, especially if you custom install instead of default (with a billion programs you never use or know exist...how many people have environments for languages they never knew existed installed? How many average users do Ruby, for example, or use VI? not of course to deride either of these, but new users won't even know to look for Pine, either, unless someone tells them). Default windows install as soon as it's new will crufitify your system way more than two years of normal linux use.
I'm on a dialup, and it works for me. Think about it this way: compare downloading a full set of two ISOs for Red Hat or God knows how many for Debian, depending on what route you take, to downloading a single image for Gentoo and using Gentoo's download/compile program. What you say is true...for people who go down to the store and buy cds of Red Hat or such. But what you're referring to is initial setup, not everyday installs. I'd rather take a little extra time with my initial install and save my downloaded files in case i ever want to reinstall than to use RPMs (if i can help it). Keep in mind: this is a speculative thread concerning the future, not a thread about current practicality.
All this insistence upon binary packaging...have you tried Gentoo? Why bother with a binary package when you can just as easily do it with a source package that compiles itself? I'll grant Gentoo is a bit green for the moment, but it's making rapid progress and personally, I think that once it's been around a little longer, Gentoo and Gentoo-style source and local compilation systems will get more reliable interop than RPM files compiled by 8 million different users...
Most of the keyboards i've had you can pull off the keys and put them in the other spots without any trouble. I don't see how that makes just having a cap over the key any better than being able to move the whole (identically shaped) key over to the other spot. I'll admit that older hardware in its entirety is more fun than these glorified case mods. Hell, I have 15 computers of various degrees of antiquity. But that doesn't mean that as I type here on my Duron 900 that the old boxen are better just by being "aged to perfection".
somebody using the 'net to profit off the content creators rather than the viewers. Sounds like they're being paid for for exposure rather than the content posting itself. Well done, I say!
to clarify: the disk drives on the //e's were marked apple ][ or something like that. external jobs. probably cobbled together with various semi-compatible bits of hardware...i didnt know at the time. And concerning the C64, that thing was cool because it did more than play Oregon Trail (which was all they ever ran on those apples we had at the school)
When I was in kindergarten, every computer I ever saw was an Apple ][E. At the time, I thought it was a pretty rockin' little box. When you said computer, at the time it was pretty much synonymous with the ][e. Later, I found out about Commodore 64 and thought it was cool. However, IBM PC came around and killed them both, and Microsoft became dominant.
The point: Just because something seems hopelessly ubiquitous doesn't mean that the right situation can't come around and kill what seemed like such a stable position at the top.
Javascript has been typecast. There are a lot of useful things you can do with it if you want to, but it definitely gets a bad rap for all the popup functions and such. This isn't to say it's a particularly good language, just that it does have its uses.
Actually, the military should have revolted by now. it's their sworn duty to defend the constitution, not the current regime. unfortunately it'll never happen due to the fact that they depend on congress to give their generals more stars for their shoulders...
if linux won't run on PCs made after a certain point in time, I'll switch to Mac hardware. After all, I can still run Linux on a PPC if none of the PC cloneboard companies make non-palladium boards. Same goes for internet services. If none of the sites i want to use will let me do it without palladium/.net/other bullshit, i'll go to different sites. And while i'm ranting and killing my karma, when i bought my domain, i had intended to get it .net till Microsoft rolled out their .NET scheme. then i changed my plans and bought a .org.
first let's see someone make use of the broadband capabilities of consoles to begin with
I payed Linus the full price of $0 for every copy of Linux I've ever installed!
"Contracts will be awarded on a value for money basis. "
This is somewhat contradictory in a sense.
Some math:
Windows + $ = contract
Linux + ? = contract
Windows value/$=x
Linux/0 = windows error
linux + commercial distribution = contract
linux + consultant = contract
Linux + inhouse IT = Windows usefulness in most gov't applications
linux value per money > windows value per money
"My point is that .NET is just another step on the road to ease of integration."
...yes. integration into proprietary and, dare i say, Microsoft, licensing. I think i'd rather keep my soul than click that EULA. Personally, I've been doing just fine on existing, open technological standards...and I think that most things that "need" .net can be done other ways, it's just a matter of taking the time to figure out how or for someone to write the code to do it and GPL it (and hell, maybe even make it secure). I think i'll stay free, thanks
but what i'd like to see is a way that anyone who makes a truly good movie will actually get attention for it without becoming the MPAA's bitch or getting slammed for so much bandwith that they have to take it offline.
i'm not saying that to be a pro-linux preacher, but one thing they could certainly accomplish with this system is a) more easily downloading ISOs to install from and b) mirroring bottlenecked servers' projects. Of course realistically it'll be used mostly for gaming, pr0n, and war3z...
I hope they're using something a little more stable than hard disks...taking off, landing, and other high-G maneuvering would wreak havoc on a hard disk. Not to mention jostling if hit by flying debris or enemy bullets...
no...the fact that Code Red is still running around proves that 1) people didn't learn from this and use something more secure, and 2) unless people actually install working service packs (if they ever release), it won't matter in the end whether they get patched anyway since the average windows server is usually run by someone echelons below the average professional Unix admin.
Apt with your favorite distribution. Now you can have our beloved Apt on Red Hat, till they come up with a more recent Debian. This will probably be marked offtopic, but for my $.02, Debian's an excellent system, but Potato's desktops aside from WindowMaker (which isn't that recent a version to begin with) are a bit dated, and the software versions on potato are a bit old as well. Still valid for use, but for now I'll stick with Gentoo for desktops, potato with a bit of customizing and hand-compiling for servers.
"When the small business version of quicken has menu items for "Encrypt my records so the IRS cannot read them" and "untraceably and exchange digital cash with this anonymous correspondent" it will be a bigger threat to the state than all the nukes the USSR ever had."
Maybe then the government could make good on those promises they made so frequently during war, "when the war is over, you'll never be taxed again!" Then again, who believes such BS?