This is very welcome as we are looking to hire people with Open Source experience... but everyone we have talked to says, "I've been wanting to try that Linux thingie. I just downloaded Linux 9.0 and I hope to install it someday!"
Making inroads into higher-ed (and I'm not just talking in the server room, but the class room) is critical to Linux's wider adoption.
Its also $1800. The best way to make Myth cost effective is to use as many old parts as you have around. (You are a geek right? So you must have parts around).
And who cares if its loud? Just use a front-end (like a cheap soon-to-be obsolete Xbox)?
I setup three.ics files on a password protected FTP server. One for me, one for my wife, and one for both of us. I then setup Firefox w/ Calendar Extension on all of our computers (work, office, etc..).
With this setup, you can have remote and local access to shared family calendars relatively easily. Also, its all very portable without lockin. The files are just text files.
If the Moz team continues in this direction (making it easier, better PIM features, etc), this will be a killer OS app. If everone got on the same bandwagon of standards, you could actually have access to your calendar, to-do lists, email, and contacts from any device... on or off line.
p.s. I just started reading "Getting Things Done" by David Allen... Highly recommend it for managing said to-do lists.
Every time I ponder the implications of internet journalism I can't help but think of 1984. In George Orwell's classic dystopian tale, people are employed to change the newspapers to reflect the "truth" of the day. (ie. Iraq is our ally (1984), to Iraq has always been our enemy (2004)
Fast-forward to 2004 (or 2005 I guess), and we have an internet news/media that does not have to remain persistant (like paper). Despite the valiant efforts of the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, etc., the vision in Orwell's book can actually happen!
Although slightly off-topic, it is food for thought.....
Um, its definitely not realtime where I live. The map where I live is clearly several years old based on the construction (or lack of) in the images. I'm actually very surprised they would use images this old.
Our marketing guy always reminds us (the IT department), "How hard can it be to add this feature? They sent a rover to mars. Surely, this should be a snap!"
I then promptly remind him of Nasa's budget (HUGE) compared to our budget (non-existant).
This reminds me of a Salvador Dali art exhibit involving a mirrored wine bottle sitting on top of a abstract-looking canvas. When viewed at the right angle, you could see a very not-abstract image of a man or a woman.
It was very cool, but I've never been able to find a way to get a copy of this very cool image OR an explanation of how he did it.
Taking your argument to its logical consequence, you must agree then that it is morally OK that you are not allowed to sing happy birthday in public without paying a tribute to AOL Time Warner.
Sorry, something is very wrong with our copyright laws...
How long can open source software really last? Software dev tools cost money. Dev machines cost money. Offices cost money. Developers need to eat. I think it's a good idea, but just wondering where the funds are going to come from.
Amazing! One of the worst analogies I've ever read! And I've read a lot of bad analogies as a Slashdot regular. Why waste sarcasm in this manner???
(If I have to explain why, then you shouldn't reproduce.)
With close to 90% share of the market and a LARGE unsophisticated userbase (who will not change browsers when the one installed works on EVERY website that joe-nascar ever uses), I don't think Microsoft will be losing any sleep over this.
I walked out at Sam's Club one time without showing my receipt. They guy stopped me to see my receipt. I said, "no. what are you going to do about it?" He said he would call the police!! LOL! The stuff in my hands is MINE, because the money I gave them is now THEIRS. I think the police would laugh at him too!
But, as an executive of a medium-sized retail chain, I can tell you IBM retail have done a piss-poor job of selling Linux to me. And I want to use Linux!
They are basically forcing us to use IRES which provides nothing we need over the SLRS (Suse Linux Retail Solution). And they don't know what they are selling.
You're forgetting that Iraq was an ally pretty much until 1991. Of course we knew he had weapons programs--we helped him get them. Random link: http://www.counterpunch.org/blum0820.html
Your points are so 1984--"We are at war with Iraq--We've always been at war with Iraq."
Its nice that you drink the kool-aid and think this is about protecting the freedom's and liberties of others. Interestingly, we are very choosy about who's freedoms we protect. Could there be other interests?
Now Bill Gates is going to start refering to free software as the dangerous threat of WMDs (Weapons of Microsoft's Destruction).
Communism is so 80s. Terrorism is thr 'ism for the 2000s.
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Can you imagine a beowolf cluster of these?!
1.2.3.Profit!
I *am* a spider, you insensitive clod!
Please, oh PLEASE someone confirm that Jar-jar is less than 80 years old in the current prequels!!!!!
Works for me.... Does everything *have* to be XML??!??
Making inroads into higher-ed (and I'm not just talking in the server room, but the class room) is critical to Linux's wider adoption.
Here is one I like http://scavenger.contagiousmedia.org/ from a guy that is doing a cool adaptation http://phiffer.org/tiddly/ of Tiddly Wiki http://tiddlywiki.com/ --which is just plain cool.
And who cares if its loud? Just use a front-end (like a cheap soon-to-be obsolete Xbox)?
With this setup, you can have remote and local access to shared family calendars relatively easily. Also, its all very portable without lockin. The files are just text files.
If the Moz team continues in this direction (making it easier, better PIM features, etc), this will be a killer OS app. If everone got on the same bandwagon of standards, you could actually have access to your calendar, to-do lists, email, and contacts from any device... on or off line.
p.s. I just started reading "Getting Things Done" by David Allen... Highly recommend it for managing said to-do lists.
Fast-forward to 2004 (or 2005 I guess), and we have an internet news/media that does not have to remain persistant (like paper). Despite the valiant efforts of the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, etc., the vision in Orwell's book can actually happen!
Although slightly off-topic, it is food for thought.....
Which, iconically, is the same group photo displayed on the website for A.V.O.A.T. (the Association of Virgins Over the Age of 20)...
I really wish for shared calendaring to become standardised and commoditised soon.
Exactly! Where is the imap-postfix of the calendaring world?
Um, its definitely not realtime where I live. The map where I live is clearly several years old based on the construction (or lack of) in the images. I'm actually very surprised they would use images this old.
I then promptly remind him of Nasa's budget (HUGE) compared to our budget (non-existant).
It was very cool, but I've never been able to find a way to get a copy of this very cool image OR an explanation of how he did it.
Taking your argument to its logical consequence, you must agree then that it is morally OK that you are not allowed to sing happy birthday in public without paying a tribute to AOL Time Warner. Sorry, something is very wrong with our copyright laws...
Amazing! One of the worst analogies I've ever read! And I've read a lot of bad analogies as a Slashdot regular. Why waste sarcasm in this manner???
(If I have to explain why, then you shouldn't reproduce.)
With close to 90% share of the market and a LARGE unsophisticated userbase (who will not change browsers when the one installed works on EVERY website that joe-nascar ever uses), I don't think Microsoft will be losing any sleep over this.
Sad but true....
Standards compliance is for companies that don't have 90% or more of a market.
Next!
I walked out at Sam's Club one time without showing my receipt. They guy stopped me to see my receipt. I said, "no. what are you going to do about it?" He said he would call the police!! LOL! The stuff in my hands is MINE, because the money I gave them is now THEIRS. I think the police would laugh at him too!
All true...
But, as an executive of a medium-sized retail chain, I can tell you IBM retail have done a piss-poor job of selling Linux to me. And I want to use Linux!
They are basically forcing us to use IRES which provides nothing we need over the SLRS (Suse Linux Retail Solution). And they don't know what they are selling.
Your points are so 1984--"We are at war with Iraq--We've always been at war with Iraq."
Its nice that you drink the kool-aid and think this is about protecting the freedom's and liberties of others. Interestingly, we are very choosy about who's freedoms we protect. Could there be other interests?
http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htm
Now Bill Gates is going to start refering to free software as the dangerous threat of WMDs (Weapons of Microsoft's Destruction). Communism is so 80s. Terrorism is thr 'ism for the 2000s.
Scroll down for some real pictures of it in action.