the problem is that they're getting away with saying bandwith is expensive. Bandwith is nearly free...its the cost of sending the signal across the lines. Cheap, ne? what needs to happen is for civilians and joe user to have a way to get into a backbone cheaply, not an easy task when the backbones are controlled by monopolists
I may use linux at home, but at work i'm stuck with recent rehash of Windows on a Xeon 1.7, and CPU Efficiency is horrible on it. it hangs. Frequently. daily. Multiple times per hour. With no apparent reason. Click a link in explorer...hang. Click to send an email...hang. switch over to Winamp to skip a track...hang. Click My Computer to get to my C drive? hang. No thanks...I'll stick with hugging Tux.
no it's not, and here's why: that car, and its ilk, are not the future of environmental transport. Hybrid, mass transit, and CNG are cleaner, more economical, have better range, and have greater usability than straight battery-electric. Personally, though, until they make a car that accelerates, has a top speed like, performs like, and has the safety rating of my Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (try this...wrecked one at 85+ MPH in a frontend collision with a guard rail due to nighttime electrical failure {the irony} and no injuries), then no thanks.
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that the americans who want to give up freedom only want to do so because they're so used to it that they don't appreciate it. They've never lived where they didn't have those freedoms, and can't realize that so many things they take for granted are excersizing those very freedoms they want to give up...
This'll never happen...the RIAA will never stand for that much music to be sold on one disk, since people won't pay the hundreds of dollars they'd demand for that much music...
i sure hope you weren't serious, cause that was friggin' funny.
and on to my reason for posting this: IIRC the Al Quaeda computer we captured early on was running some variant of NT (win2k IIRC), not Linux/BSD running KDE.
no matter how many times i hear arguements like this, the point is always missed. I'm gonna use an analogy here, so don't read the first sentence and think i'm offtopic. Near where I work, there's a freeway interchange being built. The thing will take 5 or more years. If it takes five or more years to build an interchange, how much longer will it take to build and debug a governmental unit? FISA is not strictly a president thing, in the same way that it's difficult to tell how a president did economically until after their first term ends, regardless of whether they are the one in office at the time or not.
Regardless of this detail, the homeland security crap going on is the fault (yes, it is sheer folly to think that it's gonna work) of the media and the Federal Government in tandem. Our present government is reactionary due to the media forcing them to react to situations after the fact rather than while they occur or before. It becomes so bogged down trying to get media coverage of "we're doing something about it" that nothing gets done save for whatever it takes to get enough positive media coverage to get reelected by showing that you're fixing the problems after the fact (or making people think things are fixed which they're usually just slapped together with spit and bailing wire, accomplishing nothign more than a PR department's dream and a totalian's wet dream). This however is different. Checks and balances show that they're working and the media tries to beat the crap out of them for it.
C'mon, people. This shows that things are working somewhat. Don't take infringements on your rights to mean more security.
To quote Thomas Jefferson: "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
your alleged arguement is completely wrong. you're implying that only children should be permitted to be protected from this crap. Any user should be able to be protected from this crap. Calling it "theft" is like calling unauthorized software copying "piracy". Either way it's wrong. the term "demonizing" comes to mind.
Also, since I don't feel like making two seperate posts, I would like to state at this time that if people are concerned with the bottom dropping out of TV if people don't watch commercials, then these same people need to find jobs that really help society, rather than just delivering alleged entertainment of dubious quality to millions of users with no sense of what their time is worth nor that the entertainment industry's actors, actresses, etc. are so outlandishly overpaid that they (and the politicians and judges) really need to understand that obviously if an industry is going to get greedy over something, they need to understand that obviously this industry needs to modify its payroll and business practices in general rather than clutching to their pipe dreams of insane amounts of money so disproportionate to everyone else's.
while I don't really see anything impressive coming out of the Space Program aside from satellite communications, I think it's impressive that the old-school Apollo crawlers are still in use for this. I mean, how many people reading this have cars that are more than 20 years old that they haven't restored and still run well? and the fact that, if my assumption is correct, the crawlers are far too large to garage (unless they have built special hangers, which i wouldnt doubt, actually) that the wear and tear from weather alone on these, plus the obvious forces of having the heat and force of rocket engines blasting down upon them, is just flat out impressive too. But aside from military/government/educational projects, NASA hasn't really made any notable advances in decades. Sure, we can now build an international space station. But hell, we coulda done that years ago if we'd really felt the need. The occasional probe to mars etc. doesn't change the fact that we're still no closer to setting foot there. Still, I gotta admit that the crawlers rock.
Actually, my wife refuses to participate in V-Day or other BS holidays. And I think things are better for it. That means anything I do on any day of the year is from my heart, rather than from my calendar...which makes the end result just that much more satisfying
I, fortunately, married a woman who hates gold, diamonds, and rings with stones...sterling silver all the way. and the cool thing about silver is if you pick a design that has raised stuff, it is brought out by tarnish behind and looks cool
for the average joe computer user (the kind who buys a prebuilt computer from a major OEM on purpose just because they want it from somewhere famous they "can trust", heavy on the quotes) won't do their own partitioning, and Red Hat will take care of partitioning for these. Partitioning windows isn't any easier than it is for red hat...in fact red hat is much easier to partition with than any version of windows, especially for custom setups like dual boot or seperate home or data directory or wtf you want. Partitioning is only going to be an issue for power users, who sadly are the only ones who are seriously looking at linux thse days unless they have a l33t linux friend who installs for them anyway...
you miss the point. Enron was basically a dead company at that point anyway. Microsoft gets away with it because they're alive and kicking. That is the difference.
hopefully, they'll focus on Linux compatibility. I don't need a bunch of flashy crap, i need an affordable card that can handle WindowMaker or KDE at 1024 or higher without being unstable if I swap back and forth to my virtual consoles. Riva TNT2 Ultra, as nice as it is for Half-Life on Win98, just doesn't offer me the same stability that my tried-and-true ISA Trident cards do (and that I still use in most of my boxes). And when it comes to servers, give me an antique Trident any day. Fortunately, affordability seems to be something they do have in mind...I just wish they'd come out with something that isn't trying to compete and put it out at sub-$50 levels so I can use a more stable card in my non-ISA boxen. Especially with how NVidia cards are with AMD's processors...
Linux in mind. That means that the person/persons designing it are trying to make it easy to run linux on it. This does not make it linux-specific. If I buy a NIC with a variety of OSes listed on the box from WinXP down to MS-DOS, Win3.1, SCO Unix, and Linux, it is still designed with Linux in mind because compatibility was considered in its development and it means that it will work under linux (supposedly). The reason it was used in such a manner on this article heading (the/. one) is that most people here frankly couldn't care less about whether it'll run Windows or such. Though a teraflop PS3 as a BeBox...that'd be cool
Win3 was not an operating system. It was a GUI. Linux follows this principle as well, with Linux being the operating system and having a host of available GUIs of various stripes and denominations. Technological advances should increase the number of options out there, not to make it easier to push whatever Ballmer wants to push. I was happy with a commandline word processor and DOS games like Quake and X-Wing. And I was pissed as hell when Win95 came out and took away my command line (if i had chosen to upgrade) default. This was the violation, If you ask me. MacOS has that too, but MacOS is a graphics-based box, not as much a work machine as a PC. And where Microsoft turned particularly evil was when they purposely did things to make the average user less likely to learn enough about computers to be able to handle simple tasks themselves, and by making it difficult for real tech/hacker types to deal with low-level things like manual device configuration rather than letting plug-and-pray systems FUBAR your entire setup. As a result, quality has heavily slipped, and yet it still finds its way into every box out there...sad, really
any software that's going to be open needs to be open. Part of the appeal is not having to click all those damned licenses. And if I'm not free to remove the clickthrough item, then it's obviously not free (As in freedom) enough for me.
that doesn't mean it makes sense, which was basically my point. Do you go out and buy a dump truck worth of scrap iron and accept a seller's restrictions on it? it's ridiculous to license a physical product. Any business model or product market that is based on a "clever" (note sarcasm) licensing strategy is fatally flawed.
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the problem is that they're getting away with saying bandwith is expensive. Bandwith is nearly free...its the cost of sending the signal across the lines. Cheap, ne? what needs to happen is for civilians and joe user to have a way to get into a backbone cheaply, not an easy task when the backbones are controlled by monopolists
I have a strong feeling that there's a reason that Compaq-controlled Compaq/HP is doing this under the HP label...
Let's not neglect Korea, who is also becoming more prominient in the MLB as time goes on,
I may use linux at home, but at work i'm stuck with recent rehash of Windows on a Xeon 1.7, and CPU Efficiency is horrible on it. it hangs. Frequently. daily. Multiple times per hour. With no apparent reason. Click a link in explorer...hang. Click to send an email...hang. switch over to Winamp to skip a track...hang. Click My Computer to get to my C drive? hang. No thanks...I'll stick with hugging Tux.
no it's not, and here's why: that car, and its ilk, are not the future of environmental transport. Hybrid, mass transit, and CNG are cleaner, more economical, have better range, and have greater usability than straight battery-electric. Personally, though, until they make a car that accelerates, has a top speed like, performs like, and has the safety rating of my Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (try this...wrecked one at 85+ MPH in a frontend collision with a guard rail due to nighttime electrical failure {the irony} and no injuries), then no thanks.
that the americans who want to give up freedom only want to do so because they're so used to it that they don't appreciate it. They've never lived where they didn't have those freedoms, and can't realize that so many things they take for granted are excersizing those very freedoms they want to give up...
This'll never happen...the RIAA will never stand for that much music to be sold on one disk, since people won't pay the hundreds of dollars they'd demand for that much music...
ok, nice flamebait...to return fire, here's one from Thomas Jefferson that actually applies:
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
i sure hope you weren't serious, cause that was friggin' funny. and on to my reason for posting this: IIRC the Al Quaeda computer we captured early on was running some variant of NT (win2k IIRC), not Linux/BSD running KDE.
no matter how many times i hear arguements like this, the point is always missed. I'm gonna use an analogy here, so don't read the first sentence and think i'm offtopic. Near where I work, there's a freeway interchange being built. The thing will take 5 or more years. If it takes five or more years to build an interchange, how much longer will it take to build and debug a governmental unit? FISA is not strictly a president thing, in the same way that it's difficult to tell how a president did economically until after their first term ends, regardless of whether they are the one in office at the time or not.
Regardless of this detail, the homeland security crap going on is the fault (yes, it is sheer folly to think that it's gonna work) of the media and the Federal Government in tandem. Our present government is reactionary due to the media forcing them to react to situations after the fact rather than while they occur or before. It becomes so bogged down trying to get media coverage of "we're doing something about it" that nothing gets done save for whatever it takes to get enough positive media coverage to get reelected by showing that you're fixing the problems after the fact (or making people think things are fixed which they're usually just slapped together with spit and bailing wire, accomplishing nothign more than a PR department's dream and a totalian's wet dream). This however is different. Checks and balances show that they're working and the media tries to beat the crap out of them for it.
C'mon, people. This shows that things are working somewhat. Don't take infringements on your rights to mean more security.
To quote Thomas Jefferson: "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
your alleged arguement is completely wrong. you're implying that only children should be permitted to be protected from this crap. Any user should be able to be protected from this crap. Calling it "theft" is like calling unauthorized software copying "piracy". Either way it's wrong. the term "demonizing" comes to mind.
Also, since I don't feel like making two seperate posts, I would like to state at this time that if people are concerned with the bottom dropping out of TV if people don't watch commercials, then these same people need to find jobs that really help society, rather than just delivering alleged entertainment of dubious quality to millions of users with no sense of what their time is worth nor that the entertainment industry's actors, actresses, etc. are so outlandishly overpaid that they (and the politicians and judges) really need to understand that obviously if an industry is going to get greedy over something, they need to understand that obviously this industry needs to modify its payroll and business practices in general rather than clutching to their pipe dreams of insane amounts of money so disproportionate to everyone else's.
"multi-pass!"
while I don't really see anything impressive coming out of the Space Program aside from satellite communications, I think it's impressive that the old-school Apollo crawlers are still in use for this. I mean, how many people reading this have cars that are more than 20 years old that they haven't restored and still run well? and the fact that, if my assumption is correct, the crawlers are far too large to garage (unless they have built special hangers, which i wouldnt doubt, actually) that the wear and tear from weather alone on these, plus the obvious forces of having the heat and force of rocket engines blasting down upon them, is just flat out impressive too. But aside from military/government/educational projects, NASA hasn't really made any notable advances in decades. Sure, we can now build an international space station. But hell, we coulda done that years ago if we'd really felt the need. The occasional probe to mars etc. doesn't change the fact that we're still no closer to setting foot there. Still, I gotta admit that the crawlers rock.
Actually, my wife refuses to participate in V-Day or other BS holidays. And I think things are better for it. That means anything I do on any day of the year is from my heart, rather than from my calendar...which makes the end result just that much more satisfying
I, fortunately, married a woman who hates gold, diamonds, and rings with stones...sterling silver all the way. and the cool thing about silver is if you pick a design that has raised stuff, it is brought out by tarnish behind and looks cool
for the average joe computer user (the kind who buys a prebuilt computer from a major OEM on purpose just because they want it from somewhere famous they "can trust", heavy on the quotes) won't do their own partitioning, and Red Hat will take care of partitioning for these. Partitioning windows isn't any easier than it is for red hat...in fact red hat is much easier to partition with than any version of windows, especially for custom setups like dual boot or seperate home or data directory or wtf you want. Partitioning is only going to be an issue for power users, who sadly are the only ones who are seriously looking at linux thse days unless they have a l33t linux friend who installs for them anyway...
anyone clicking this has probably already seen it, but...Hello Cthulhu!
you miss the point. Enron was basically a dead company at that point anyway. Microsoft gets away with it because they're alive and kicking. That is the difference.
the big problem with that would be making a bus that could handle it. And a cable. I don't think IDE is up to the challenge...
hopefully, they'll focus on Linux compatibility. I don't need a bunch of flashy crap, i need an affordable card that can handle WindowMaker or KDE at 1024 or higher without being unstable if I swap back and forth to my virtual consoles. Riva TNT2 Ultra, as nice as it is for Half-Life on Win98, just doesn't offer me the same stability that my tried-and-true ISA Trident cards do (and that I still use in most of my boxes). And when it comes to servers, give me an antique Trident any day. Fortunately, affordability seems to be something they do have in mind...I just wish they'd come out with something that isn't trying to compete and put it out at sub-$50 levels so I can use a more stable card in my non-ISA boxen. Especially with how NVidia cards are with AMD's processors...
Linux in mind. That means that the person/persons designing it are trying to make it easy to run linux on it. This does not make it linux-specific. If I buy a NIC with a variety of OSes listed on the box from WinXP down to MS-DOS, Win3.1, SCO Unix, and Linux, it is still designed with Linux in mind because compatibility was considered in its development and it means that it will work under linux (supposedly). The reason it was used in such a manner on this article heading (the /. one) is that most people here frankly couldn't care less about whether it'll run Windows or such. Though a teraflop PS3 as a BeBox...that'd be cool
Win3 was not an operating system. It was a GUI. Linux follows this principle as well, with Linux being the operating system and having a host of available GUIs of various stripes and denominations. Technological advances should increase the number of options out there, not to make it easier to push whatever Ballmer wants to push. I was happy with a commandline word processor and DOS games like Quake and X-Wing. And I was pissed as hell when Win95 came out and took away my command line (if i had chosen to upgrade) default. This was the violation, If you ask me. MacOS has that too, but MacOS is a graphics-based box, not as much a work machine as a PC. And where Microsoft turned particularly evil was when they purposely did things to make the average user less likely to learn enough about computers to be able to handle simple tasks themselves, and by making it difficult for real tech/hacker types to deal with low-level things like manual device configuration rather than letting plug-and-pray systems FUBAR your entire setup. As a result, quality has heavily slipped, and yet it still finds its way into every box out there...sad, really
any software that's going to be open needs to be open. Part of the appeal is not having to click all those damned licenses. And if I'm not free to remove the clickthrough item, then it's obviously not free (As in freedom) enough for me.
that doesn't mean it makes sense, which was basically my point. Do you go out and buy a dump truck worth of scrap iron and accept a seller's restrictions on it? it's ridiculous to license a physical product. Any business model or product market that is based on a "clever" (note sarcasm) licensing strategy is fatally flawed.