I agree. I use Macs at school for video editing (Final Cut Pro, not that iMovie stuff), and the footage captured is exactly like the real deal. Granted, thats just raw footage, and takes up an obscene amount of space. However, when we need to use cameras without FireWire ports, it becomes a pain in the arse to import it. From camera to DV tape to Mac, and there is a quality loss, since the camera is analog. This would be awesome, but MPEG-1? Granted, its for a PVR function, but still. If they made it FireWire, it'd give the option of importing the raw footage. Yet another cool gadget for a Mac that fails because it doesn't use the Macs full potential.
Now, if only I could convince them to put OS X on the machines...Then I'd be really happy. No more crappy OS 9!
That was probably the most interesting part of the entire document. What happened to that? I mean, XP (Win2000 derivative) crashes because of problems XP has with ACPI and my CD-RW. Its definitely not my hardware, because my PC works 100% under Linux. XP isn't extensible. What POSIX compatability? And MS really only cared about speed in XP, it seems.
Its bad, especially in Tucson. We had our very nice well water for a while, and then they brought in the CAP project. Our water turned BROWN, destroyed our cooler pads, and some other nasty stuff. They got rid of the experiment for several years, but they just started a blended water program a year ago, and it doesn't taste as good as the old well water. Now, I drink bottled water. And its always cold!
Its all in how you analyze the results. One researcher could say that video games make us dumb, while another could say the exact opposite. I love statistics:).
My friend, I hate to flame you, but that is the stupidest thing I've ever read. Think that the government is going to inflitrate garages and add the ability to monitor you to your car? Move out of the US. I'm sure Socialists will be sure to love your idea.
Now, its time to be on topic: Its probably stated very clearly in the contract. If it isn't, then sue their asses off.
As nice as this article is, I still don't respect the paper. Too biased in its Letter to the Editor. They publish way to many outlandish, uncommon opinions. If 100 letters about a topic get sent in, and 95 of those are against the idea, 4 for the whatever the idea is will be published, and 1 for the opposing side. Pretty damn biased.
Actually, it could kill Linux, if M$ decided to disallow some basic GNU tools. And, MS could do that, saying bash has a gaping security hole that makes it "untrusted," or by saying that Mozilla can't run, since its code doesn't include Palladium. Thats why its bad. If Mozilla was trusted, it could send information to MS, on what websites you view. It could even block, say,/. because its anti-MS. Thats not what they would say, of course. Imagine corporate censorship, and how powerful MS would become if they could prevent me from doing things which are totally legal, but MS thinks is subversive to its well-being.
Its built in directly to the processor. Microsoft wants people to adopt Palladium for online transfers, content, and applications. Palladium code must be approved by MS. So, if RH goes to MS, and asks them to approve the Kernel source they want to use, and its Palladium compatiable> IF MS approves it, it would have to be compiled with a proprietary compiler, which understands the Palladium calls. If you compile the source, it will not have Palladium enabled. So, if a RH PC goes to buy something online, they can. Provided you use a Palladium-enabled web browser, and use the stock kernel that came with RH. If you had hardware that needed to be compiled in to the kernel, tough cookies. Messing with the kernel code would be allowed, just compiling it wouldn't do crap. Now, if MS approves the RH Kernel, they gain the ability to disallow "untrusted" applications. What if bash was untrusted? What if X was untrusted? Better yet, what if LILO/GRUB was untrusted?
Ahh, spam is different than advertisments. Spam involves deception, like, and fraud. Its not advertising, its a waste of space/time. An ad would be something like this: Mutual Funds from Merril-Lynch, from advertisments@merril-lynch.com. The spam is usually like, as you said, re: that thing you wanted, or spam where you think, "Where the hell did I say I wanted that, or was even slightly interested in it?" Thats spam. Intrusive, offensive, and a waste of time.
Or, if I'm watching Fox News, or CNBC, I'd expect to see ads for eTrade, Merril-Lynch, Fidelity, Prudential, etc. If I sign up for a web service related to technology, and don't opt-out, since I'm interested in products, and all I get is technology ads, I'm happy. If I start getting e-mails about vacations, credit cards, loans, etc., its bad. I'm NOT interested in it. If I watch a TV show, I expect to see ads that may interest the audience, not ads for something I wouldn't care about. Why should e-mail be different?
In the eternal fight against spam, someone needs to design a method for seeing past masked emails, spoofed emails, and you'll eliminate most spam, period. I won't look at a product from "joe59qa1314@hotmail.com," but I may look at an ad from "ibm-mailer@ibm.com," since its from a real corporate email.
Ok here we are playing LPairs, the memory game where you have to match pairs. Notice the Linux Devil is one of the playing cards. (You will also find the UNIX Penguin as well!)
Wow! I never knew that Linux had a devil for a mascot! Or that the UNIX mascot is a penguin! Or even that UNIX had a mascot! You learn something new every day!
Or, the author of the review needs to do some research. You decide.
Auto Update? I decide what patches I want. I choose patches that fix security holes, which I make sure if they could be problems, and install bugfixes that I choose. Just turn off auto-update.
In XP, permissions are a pain in the ass. Most older programs don't run properly. Compatiability Mode must be run as an admin. MS screwed up their User/Admin structure in XP. There are no groups like in Linux. Oh, I run my XP as admin, and my Linux as user. Its a neccessity to run XP as admin, until the coders catch up.
Well said! Linux is advancing as people become frustrated with MicroSoft's new policies. And, you are right, most people know what Linux is. Now, advertising with commercials like:
RED HAT: Where do you not want to crash today?
Sorta like the new Apple commercials. Very good advertising on their part, Linux can do the same.
What do you mean? If you buy the Windows client, the Linux client is free. I'm getting it, and so are many other people. This is just another misguided AC...
Seriously! Couldn't some evil cracker crack the network and use it to create wireless broadband for himself? Or even worse: A spam fest where the guy hacks the phones and they all call numbers.
The best part is that people could use Internet enabled phones to create DoS attacks. Great idea, a disaster waiting to happen.
I don't really run an anti-virus, since I do know what to avoid. But if your user is a multi-user machine(not OS), its particularly bad. My mom had infected our system once by opening an attachment. It was opened in NS4 Mail, by the way, not Outlook. I have a virus-scanner, its just that I'm to lazy to install it. Viruses effect those who aren't careful. Not those who don't have anti-virus software.
When taking a class like "Geometry with an idiot for a Teacher," who gives you 30+ problems that are the EXACT same damn thing every night, a calculator comes in handy. Who says I'm not learning by using a calculator. Learning basic algebra should be done the hard way, but I had learned that and most geometry by 6th grade. Doing it again was rote and boring. My calculator helped me bypass the roteness of it all and jog my memory. Besides, doing trig by hand is no fun.
Once you pass a certian point(algebra 1) calculators help a great deal by eliminating the rote work and getting the gritty parts exposed.
They will. Its been a major focus for them. The editor is the in-house editor they used; nothing more. BioWare's focus, according to them, has been a solid single-player adventure. Besides, don't you think the creators of Baldur's Gate can create an awesome SP game?
Wouldn't it have been better to be compatiable with all the RPMs that are all Red Hat compatiable? Isn't that defeating the purpose of United Linux? It'll be a while before people recompile all their packages into United Linux-compatiable RPMs.
Neither philosophy will beat the other in the end. Open Source is good for OSes, web browsers, development tools, servers, and GUIs. Closed Source is good for office suites, games, and image editors. Face it, GIMP and OpenOffice can't hold candles to Photoshop and MS Office. I have no problem using closed source, as long as its good. Open source is good if it works better than its alternatives. I'm not militant about open source; as long as it works.
Open source can make money, since many people are willing to buy the product and the manuals, along with the support.
Remember that Itanium is vastly different from previous processors, even moreso than the difference between the Pentium and the 80486. The Itanium doesn't even use a conventional BIOS, I believe. Its a vastly different architecture, which is why its so damn expensive. x86-64 processors are extensions to the existing 80x86 architecture. Granted, x86-64 may be very different than Pentiums, but nowhere near as alien as Itanium.
If MS splits into two companies, I will be one happy guy. This way, MS' OS side, the one without Gates, would go happily on its way, migrating towards the future of Unix systems, while application-based MS would be left in the dust as the Unix revolution begins! Of course, the OS war would be something like: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Hurd, Solaris, OpenUNIX, HP-UX, and OS X/Darwin. But, since source code is wholly compatiable between these OSes, your choice won't matter, unless they don't use GCC or ICC. Meanwhile, Gates will try catching up with his applications, and would release, say, IE for MS-UX, binary only. Well, well, well, you just left out everyone running all the other sorts of Unix. Then Bill would have killed his own company. Granted, MS did create some standards, albeit crappy standards, but its time to move on to more powerful OSes.
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I agree. I use Macs at school for video editing (Final Cut Pro, not that iMovie stuff), and the footage captured is exactly like the real deal. Granted, thats just raw footage, and takes up an obscene amount of space. However, when we need to use cameras without FireWire ports, it becomes a pain in the arse to import it. From camera to DV tape to Mac, and there is a quality loss, since the camera is analog. This would be awesome, but MPEG-1? Granted, its for a PVR function, but still. If they made it FireWire, it'd give the option of importing the raw footage. Yet another cool gadget for a Mac that fails because it doesn't use the Macs full potential.
Now, if only I could convince them to put OS X on the machines...Then I'd be really happy. No more crappy OS 9!
That was probably the most interesting part of the entire document. What happened to that? I mean, XP (Win2000 derivative) crashes because of problems XP has with ACPI and my CD-RW. Its definitely not my hardware, because my PC works 100% under Linux. XP isn't extensible. What POSIX compatability? And MS really only cared about speed in XP, it seems.
Its bad, especially in Tucson. We had our very nice well water for a while, and then they brought in the CAP project. Our water turned BROWN, destroyed our cooler pads, and some other nasty stuff. They got rid of the experiment for several years, but they just started a blended water program a year ago, and it doesn't taste as good as the old well water. Now, I drink bottled water. And its always cold!
Its all in how you analyze the results. One researcher could say that video games make us dumb, while another could say the exact opposite. I love statistics :).
My friend, I hate to flame you, but that is the stupidest thing I've ever read. Think that the government is going to inflitrate garages and add the ability to monitor you to your car? Move out of the US. I'm sure Socialists will be sure to love your idea.
Now, its time to be on topic: Its probably stated very clearly in the contract. If it isn't, then sue their asses off.
As nice as this article is, I still don't respect the paper. Too biased in its Letter to the Editor. They publish way to many outlandish, uncommon opinions. If 100 letters about a topic get sent in, and 95 of those are against the idea, 4 for the whatever the idea is will be published, and 1 for the opposing side. Pretty damn biased.
Does anyone know if Pima County has similar policies?
Actually, it could kill Linux, if M$ decided to disallow some basic GNU tools. And, MS could do that, saying bash has a gaping security hole that makes it "untrusted," or by saying that Mozilla can't run, since its code doesn't include Palladium. Thats why its bad. If Mozilla was trusted, it could send information to MS, on what websites you view. It could even block, say, /. because its anti-MS. Thats not what they would say, of course. Imagine corporate censorship, and how powerful MS would become if they could prevent me from doing things which are totally legal, but MS thinks is subversive to its well-being.
Its built in directly to the processor. Microsoft wants people to adopt Palladium for online transfers, content, and applications. Palladium code must be approved by MS. So, if RH goes to MS, and asks them to approve the Kernel source they want to use, and its Palladium compatiable> IF MS approves it, it would have to be compiled with a proprietary compiler, which understands the Palladium calls. If you compile the source, it will not have Palladium enabled. So, if a RH PC goes to buy something online, they can. Provided you use a Palladium-enabled web browser, and use the stock kernel that came with RH. If you had hardware that needed to be compiled in to the kernel, tough cookies. Messing with the kernel code would be allowed, just compiling it wouldn't do crap. Now, if MS approves the RH Kernel, they gain the ability to disallow "untrusted" applications. What if bash was untrusted? What if X was untrusted? Better yet, what if LILO/GRUB was untrusted?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Ahh, spam is different than advertisments. Spam involves deception, like, and fraud. Its not advertising, its a waste of space/time. An ad would be something like this: Mutual Funds from Merril-Lynch, from advertisments@merril-lynch.com. The spam is usually like, as you said, re: that thing you wanted, or spam where you think, "Where the hell did I say I wanted that, or was even slightly interested in it?" Thats spam. Intrusive, offensive, and a waste of time.
Or, if I'm watching Fox News, or CNBC, I'd expect to see ads for eTrade, Merril-Lynch, Fidelity, Prudential, etc. If I sign up for a web service related to technology, and don't opt-out, since I'm interested in products, and all I get is technology ads, I'm happy. If I start getting e-mails about vacations, credit cards, loans, etc., its bad. I'm NOT interested in it. If I watch a TV show, I expect to see ads that may interest the audience, not ads for something I wouldn't care about. Why should e-mail be different?
In the eternal fight against spam, someone needs to design a method for seeing past masked emails, spoofed emails, and you'll eliminate most spam, period. I won't look at a product from "joe59qa1314@hotmail.com," but I may look at an ad from "ibm-mailer@ibm.com," since its from a real corporate email.
Actually, there is a slide feeder that holds 50 of them, the SF-220. It works fairly well, when it doesn't jam. Just expensive.
Ok here we are playing LPairs, the memory game where you have to match pairs. Notice the Linux Devil is one of the playing cards. (You will also find the UNIX Penguin as well!)
Wow! I never knew that Linux had a devil for a mascot! Or that the UNIX mascot is a penguin! Or even that UNIX had a mascot! You learn something new every day!
Or, the author of the review needs to do some research. You decide.
Auto Update? I decide what patches I want. I choose patches that fix security holes, which I make sure if they could be problems, and install bugfixes that I choose. Just turn off auto-update.
In XP, permissions are a pain in the ass. Most older programs don't run properly. Compatiability Mode must be run as an admin. MS screwed up their User/Admin structure in XP. There are no groups like in Linux. Oh, I run my XP as admin, and my Linux as user. Its a neccessity to run XP as admin, until the coders catch up.
Well said! Linux is advancing as people become frustrated with MicroSoft's new policies. And, you are right, most people know what Linux is. Now, advertising with commercials like:
RED HAT: Where do you not want to crash today?
Sorta like the new Apple commercials. Very good advertising on their part, Linux can do the same.
Their website works fine in Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror for me. Something is wrong on your end.
What do you mean? If you buy the Windows client, the Linux client is free. I'm getting it, and so are many other people. This is just another misguided AC...
Seriously! Couldn't some evil cracker crack the network and use it to create wireless broadband for himself? Or even worse: A spam fest where the guy hacks the phones and they all call numbers.
The best part is that people could use Internet enabled phones to create DoS attacks. Great idea, a disaster waiting to happen.
I don't really run an anti-virus, since I do know what to avoid. But if your user is a multi-user machine(not OS), its particularly bad. My mom had infected our system once by opening an attachment. It was opened in NS4 Mail, by the way, not Outlook. I have a virus-scanner, its just that I'm to lazy to install it. Viruses effect those who aren't careful. Not those who don't have anti-virus software.
When taking a class like "Geometry with an idiot for a Teacher," who gives you 30+ problems that are the EXACT same damn thing every night, a calculator comes in handy. Who says I'm not learning by using a calculator. Learning basic algebra should be done the hard way, but I had learned that and most geometry by 6th grade. Doing it again was rote and boring. My calculator helped me bypass the roteness of it all and jog my memory. Besides, doing trig by hand is no fun.
Once you pass a certian point(algebra 1) calculators help a great deal by eliminating the rote work and getting the gritty parts exposed.
They will. Its been a major focus for them. The editor is the in-house editor they used; nothing more. BioWare's focus, according to them, has been a solid single-player adventure. Besides, don't you think the creators of Baldur's Gate can create an awesome SP game?
Good job Bio! Its about time, after waiting for four years. Here goes my summer...
Wouldn't it have been better to be compatiable with all the RPMs that are all Red Hat compatiable? Isn't that defeating the purpose of United Linux? It'll be a while before people recompile all their packages into United Linux-compatiable RPMs.
Neither philosophy will beat the other in the end. Open Source is good for OSes, web browsers, development tools, servers, and GUIs. Closed Source is good for office suites, games, and image editors. Face it, GIMP and OpenOffice can't hold candles to Photoshop and MS Office. I have no problem using closed source, as long as its good. Open source is good if it works better than its alternatives. I'm not militant about open source; as long as it works.
Open source can make money, since many people are willing to buy the product and the manuals, along with the support.
Remember that Itanium is vastly different from previous processors, even moreso than the difference between the Pentium and the 80486. The Itanium doesn't even use a conventional BIOS, I believe. Its a vastly different architecture, which is why its so damn expensive. x86-64 processors are extensions to the existing 80x86 architecture. Granted, x86-64 may be very different than Pentiums, but nowhere near as alien as Itanium.
If MS splits into two companies, I will be one happy guy. This way, MS' OS side, the one without Gates, would go happily on its way, migrating towards the future of Unix systems, while application-based MS would be left in the dust as the Unix revolution begins! Of course, the OS war would be something like: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Hurd, Solaris, OpenUNIX, HP-UX, and OS X/Darwin. But, since source code is wholly compatiable between these OSes, your choice won't matter, unless they don't use GCC or ICC. Meanwhile, Gates will try catching up with his applications, and would release, say, IE for MS-UX, binary only. Well, well, well, you just left out everyone running all the other sorts of Unix. Then Bill would have killed his own company. Granted, MS did create some standards, albeit crappy standards, but its time to move on to more powerful OSes.