with less detail on RedHat/Ximian/GNOME and more on SuSE/Mandrake/KDE.
You're never satisfied are you? "Geez, RedHat/Ximian/GNOME is so much better, I can't believe they wasted their time on S/M/K..." It's linux -- better yet, it's not Microsoft. So just be happy people are looking at open source, even if it's not your particular brew.
That's really funny. Here in Texas, I have had so many problems with Mapquest -- sending me on to streets that don't exist, saying to go too far, making you turn circles the last mile, etc. On the other hand, Yahoo maps work awesome. They consistently display several names of a single road (Mopac is Hwy 1 is Don King Blvd) and don't have the turns at the end of the trip.
Actually, the reason the N-Gage isn't doing well is because it sucks. Read every review about it and everyone says to wait a revision or so. Java on cellphones has been a huge hit, and don't forget games on the PDA. Nonetheless, text-entry on the cellphone is clunky at best, and until we start seeing some newer style of input (there are good ones out there) we won't see the cellphone take over. Also, the screen is another big point -- the cell phone must be big to have a decent screen, and then you've screwed the whole point of a cellphone -- highly mobile communication.
It will be interesting to see if these devices ever truly converge or if we will continue to see them seperated by the newest features that cannot be put on to a cellphone yet and are on a PDA.
Hate to keep bashing you, but there is some clarifaction that must be made. We have always had, and always will have an army. It was the War of 1812 when we got our asses handed to us at our burned out White House that we got serious about getting a kick-ass army. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt was so proud of his Navy that he had the White Fleet sail around the world just to show off.
There's no way you can tell me we're a peaceful nation. Sure, we've had our Isolationist moments, but those are not the rule and are usually followed by large military actions. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt's mantra was "Speak softy and carry a big stick."
I was back at home in L00siana and my dad was tellin me I should save my stuff. I think it was, like, 3 years ago. Anyways, I kept trying to save it, but it didn't work. Maaan, in linux everything works better. Even saving. So I wrote a script in PHP that pops up a window that reminds me to save my stuff. It's like 3 lines long but it took me all last week...
And this other time, I was with b0rck, and he didn't save the computer store image and I was like maaaan....maan, b0rck's gonna get me in trouble.......
Capitalism worships efficiency and with a sufficient capital outlay it its disposal, it is easy to see a massive influx of robots changing the picture of how the world works, either by completely destroying much of labor's value, or by freeing up huge numbers of people to dream and build and organize and create higher things.
This has been said several times before about different technologies. This was said during the Industrial Revolution about simple machines. "Now that it takes one person to do 20 people's work, what will they do?" In fact, they actually worried about people going insane becuase they'd have too much free time on their hands.
Look at us now. We move at a faster pace than ever, speeding up with the technology that we create. Indeed, we become slaves to the technology -- the e-mails I recieve serve as a constant reminder. We will always find ways to integrate technology in our lives -- such that we are able to move more resources to higher levels of science and production. It will always be a good thing to introduce technology because it spurs us on to bigger and better things.
It doesn't matter whether you've committed a crime, the Senate has now just said: "If enough people do one thing, then it's good enough for us."
If half the population wanted to marry their sister, the government would have nothing to do but make it legal.
I remember an inteview with Supreme Court Justice O'Connor, and she said that the whole goal of the Supreme Court is to simply reflect the current population's ideas. Politicians do it to keep votes.
So whether you are committing a crime today may change tomorrow -- remember the Prohibition? Remember abortion?
They created the direct-selling model for PCs. Everyone else had always sold their computers at Radio Shack or whatever electronics store they could, while Dell cut out the middlemen and used that cut to lower their costs. It's not an invention per se, but it's an innovative way to do business that had not been exploited in this market yet.
The theatre I go to has a picture out front of a pirate and talks about no pirates allowed. So a friend and I (while inebriated) dressed up as pirates and tried to get in. While using every pirate phrase we could ("Ahoy there bonnie lass, give us some tickets for the 9 o'clock showing or you'll not live to see another day") we got our way in and were able to see a movie! We asked a guy why pirates weren't allowed, that we felt it was disciminatory, and the guy just shook his head and said "No, the other kind of pirate." I still have no idea what he means by that.
That's some good security. "Hey network guy, here's my password, it doesn't work for me but maybe it will for you --" If I were the admin I would have revoked priveleges right then.
I second the request for pics/procedures. I do a lot of re-mapping buttons (my scroll button press is Alt+Tab, the other two are Copy and Paste) for my Microsoft mouse -- I like the width and the general feel of it better than Logitech.
Try 5000 boxes on a Residential Network at a University owned by kids who couldn't care less if BonziBuddy was on their machine. Now you start to see the nightmares that are going through my head.
What's interesting is that this does not apply to high school or middle school. In high school, if a teacher has any reason to believe that you might have pot in your bag, or whatever, they can search you and your bag even if you oppose it. (New Jersey vs T.L.O.)
Only becuase we are not minors are we able to have any expectation to privacy. Very bizarre if you ask me.
The biggest deal to me about this idea (which I've thought about on my own) is the device consolidation that this allows. I'm a college student and a nerd, so I carry around my PDA, my mp3 player, my digital camera, and cellphone. Each one of these devices has storage space built in, so that adds to the weight for each device.
If a personal file server (which fits in the whole bluetooth connectivity thing in theory) were available, my digital camera would only have to be the lens and a little bit of memory until the picture had been sent to the file server and then could be erased. My mp3 player could become little more than a streaming audio reciever -- heck I wouldn't really need it seperate from my digital camera. And, since we've seen this already, why couldn't the camera, mp3 player and cellphone all be in one? Or, and maybe this is stretching this a bit, couldn't it all be integrated with my PDA? the PDA would simply be the interface for the file server. It would be as thin as an lcd screen (no processor needed because it's a dummy client) and then a jack for headphones.
The biggest snag with my scenario is that bluetooth has never worked like it should due to proprietary communications etc. If that can ever get ironed out (a la Betamax vs. VHS) then maybe we can start to see this actually happening from a device consolidation point of view.
I was just thinking about what markets could possibly be adopting open-source solutions, and the two that I came up with straight away were OSes and Office Suites.
Linux is business-ready and with it's pricetag it seems to fit well. Sure training might be an issue, but many times the user won't even deal with the OS -- just the applications that run in it. In fact, I think that's something that Linux does very well -- it gets out of the way and allows the user to use the application of their choice. All Linux does, and should do, is to simply create an environment in which applications are available to the user in the most secure, transparent, and stable way.
openoffice.org is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with -- a few more revs and I think we'll start to see businesses adopting it, first on the Windows platform and then on a Linux (BSD, etc.) of their choice. If the open-source community can continue to bond and show that our products are more solid, customisable, and will continue to be in existence, then I think we will start to see Microsoft having to dig deeper and deeper into it's reserves.
Here's my journal entry where I discussed this very situation and why I think all will stay around. It has to do with which devices people use together.
no kidding, how did this get on slashdot? I've seen huge discussions of Tesla coils by people who design them for a living, and here we're talking about a cloud being heavy -- give me abreak.
Actually, I find myself thinking of a track, and instead of going to my living room to look in my CD collection it's easier to just jump on kazaa and download it right now. It's almost an on-demand channel.
Opera's M2 is perhaps the most simple yet effective e-mail system I have ever used. If this were a stand-alone feature, I'd definitely use it -- but that it's a part of (IMHO) the best browser out there is absolutely amazing.
Another great thing about M2 is that is keeps track of threads -- very handy for mailing lists, but also for those long back-and-forth discussions. Also, the built-in Bayesian spam filter does a good job of making sure your e-mail doesn't get too clogged up.
I'm sure someone will say something about how Mozilla does many of these things, and it's true they have copied this from Opera, but I am at least glad that they copied from someone other than Microsoft. I guess as they say, "Imitation is the highest form of flattery."
Is it just me or does it seem like there are more browsers out there? I use Opera pretty much exclusively, but I switch to Mozilla because some pages render better in Mozilla. If I have to use an IE-based browser, I go with MyIE2 which has the tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, etc. that Opera has made me addicted to. It just seems like there's more choices out there simply because IE is doing nothing new. Works for me.
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If you read on further, they don't have anything down for negative goodwill. I beg to differ...
We don't care, we just want our okama game sphere back.
You're never satisfied are you? "Geez, RedHat/Ximian/GNOME is so much better, I can't believe they wasted their time on S/M/K..." It's linux -- better yet, it's not Microsoft. So just be happy people are looking at open source, even if it's not your particular brew.
That's really funny. Here in Texas, I have had so many problems with Mapquest -- sending me on to streets that don't exist, saying to go too far, making you turn circles the last mile, etc. On the other hand, Yahoo maps work awesome. They consistently display several names of a single road (Mopac is Hwy 1 is Don King Blvd) and don't have the turns at the end of the trip.
Actually, the reason the N-Gage isn't doing well is because it sucks. Read every review about it and everyone says to wait a revision or so. Java on cellphones has been a huge hit, and don't forget games on the PDA. Nonetheless, text-entry on the cellphone is clunky at best, and until we start seeing some newer style of input (there are good ones out there) we won't see the cellphone take over. Also, the screen is another big point -- the cell phone must be big to have a decent screen, and then you've screwed the whole point of a cellphone -- highly mobile communication.
It will be interesting to see if these devices ever truly converge or if we will continue to see them seperated by the newest features that cannot be put on to a cellphone yet and are on a PDA.
There's no way you can tell me we're a peaceful nation. Sure, we've had our Isolationist moments, but those are not the rule and are usually followed by large military actions. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt's mantra was "Speak softy and carry a big stick."
And this other time, I was with b0rck, and he didn't save the computer store image and I was like maaaan....maan, b0rck's gonna get me in trouble.......
This has been said several times before about different technologies. This was said during the Industrial Revolution about simple machines. "Now that it takes one person to do 20 people's work, what will they do?" In fact, they actually worried about people going insane becuase they'd have too much free time on their hands.
Look at us now. We move at a faster pace than ever, speeding up with the technology that we create. Indeed, we become slaves to the technology -- the e-mails I recieve serve as a constant reminder. We will always find ways to integrate technology in our lives -- such that we are able to move more resources to higher levels of science and production. It will always be a good thing to introduce technology because it spurs us on to bigger and better things.
Sounds like my ex and me. We don't hate each other, we just don't talk unless it's an emergency.
If half the population wanted to marry their sister, the government would have nothing to do but make it legal.
I remember an inteview with Supreme Court Justice O'Connor, and she said that the whole goal of the Supreme Court is to simply reflect the current population's ideas. Politicians do it to keep votes.
So whether you are committing a crime today may change tomorrow -- remember the Prohibition? Remember abortion?
Kudos to Michael Dell.
The theatre I go to has a picture out front of a pirate and talks about no pirates allowed. So a friend and I (while inebriated) dressed up as pirates and tried to get in. While using every pirate phrase we could ("Ahoy there bonnie lass, give us some tickets for the 9 o'clock showing or you'll not live to see another day") we got our way in and were able to see a movie! We asked a guy why pirates weren't allowed, that we felt it was disciminatory, and the guy just shook his head and said "No, the other kind of pirate." I still have no idea what he means by that.
That's some good security. "Hey network guy, here's my password, it doesn't work for me but maybe it will for you --" If I were the admin I would have revoked priveleges right then.
how long before we see it ad-free on kazaa?
I second the request for pics/procedures. I do a lot of re-mapping buttons (my scroll button press is Alt+Tab, the other two are Copy and Paste) for my Microsoft mouse -- I like the width and the general feel of it better than Logitech.
Try 5000 boxes on a Residential Network at a University owned by kids who couldn't care less if BonziBuddy was on their machine. Now you start to see the nightmares that are going through my head.
Only becuase we are not minors are we able to have any expectation to privacy. Very bizarre if you ask me.
Or if you use Opera.
If a personal file server (which fits in the whole bluetooth connectivity thing in theory) were available, my digital camera would only have to be the lens and a little bit of memory until the picture had been sent to the file server and then could be erased. My mp3 player could become little more than a streaming audio reciever -- heck I wouldn't really need it seperate from my digital camera. And, since we've seen this already, why couldn't the camera, mp3 player and cellphone all be in one? Or, and maybe this is stretching this a bit, couldn't it all be integrated with my PDA? the PDA would simply be the interface for the file server. It would be as thin as an lcd screen (no processor needed because it's a dummy client) and then a jack for headphones.
The biggest snag with my scenario is that bluetooth has never worked like it should due to proprietary communications etc. If that can ever get ironed out (a la Betamax vs. VHS) then maybe we can start to see this actually happening from a device consolidation point of view.
Linux is business-ready and with it's pricetag it seems to fit well. Sure training might be an issue, but many times the user won't even deal with the OS -- just the applications that run in it. In fact, I think that's something that Linux does very well -- it gets out of the way and allows the user to use the application of their choice. All Linux does, and should do, is to simply create an environment in which applications are available to the user in the most secure, transparent, and stable way.
openoffice.org is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with -- a few more revs and I think we'll start to see businesses adopting it, first on the Windows platform and then on a Linux (BSD, etc.) of their choice. If the open-source community can continue to bond and show that our products are more solid, customisable, and will continue to be in existence, then I think we will start to see Microsoft having to dig deeper and deeper into it's reserves.
Here's my journal entry where I discussed this very situation and why I think all will stay around. It has to do with which devices people use together.
no kidding, how did this get on slashdot? I've seen huge discussions of Tesla coils by people who design them for a living, and here we're talking about a cloud being heavy -- give me abreak.
Actually, I find myself thinking of a track, and instead of going to my living room to look in my CD collection it's easier to just jump on kazaa and download it right now. It's almost an on-demand channel.
Another great thing about M2 is that is keeps track of threads -- very handy for mailing lists, but also for those long back-and-forth discussions. Also, the built-in Bayesian spam filter does a good job of making sure your e-mail doesn't get too clogged up.
I'm sure someone will say something about how Mozilla does many of these things, and it's true they have copied this from Opera, but I am at least glad that they copied from someone other than Microsoft. I guess as they say, "Imitation is the highest form of flattery."
Is it just me or does it seem like there are more browsers out there? I use Opera pretty much exclusively, but I switch to Mozilla because some pages render better in Mozilla. If I have to use an IE-based browser, I go with MyIE2 which has the tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, etc. that Opera has made me addicted to. It just seems like there's more choices out there simply because IE is doing nothing new. Works for me.