Universities/colleges enforce professors to use the latest edition of books every 2 years. No buys the 5th edition if 6th edition is available because a) problem numbers are different b) chapters are shuffled around/w missing chapters
Although some profs are nice and give problem sets using old and new edition of text books.
When you are writing upgrades scripts or programs, you don't want to break ANYTHING. It is better to take the benefit of the doubt, than be like Windows and say, "fuck it, lets do this".
Biggest problems with upgrades is anticipating site-specific changes. What do you do if you make a change(i.e. install a new lib which is not compatible with sendmail?) and break you're programs. Happened to me when I did Ximian and it installed it's own versions of libraries and fucked up a lot of things. To the point KDE will say: missing function in dl library, etc.
Upgrades will always be a thorn and pain in the ass: for the users who have to do it and the guys who have to write and anticipate all the little changes. Even moreso: rolling back changes are a bigger nitemare.
The whole point of upgrading your system, IMO, is ensuring you avoid the multi-upgrade effect. To upgrade your CPU, you need to upgrade to a new mainboard. The new mainboard also needs new RAM, because your 512MB 133Mhz SDRAMs won't work on DDR-based boards(almost all today). And, you might also need more power-juice, so you gotta upgrade to a nice 350W or 400W power-supply.
This is what I'm facing right now: To upgrade my Athlon 1.2Ghz/w A7V & 512MB SDRAM, I gotta upgrade ALL three components! That sucks!
So:
- Make sure you get a good motherboard that can expand memory and CPU readily. You don't want to buy a motherboard that can only house a 2.4 Ghz, but not the top-of-the line 3.5 Ghz. This protects your investment down the line when 3Ghz hits the sub $100 range(canadian) and you want to upgrade.
- Memory - get the best you can. DDR400, so that when you upgrade 1 year or 2 from today, the new mainboards can still work with DDR400.
PDA and stagnant functionality are making it dead.
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Until they can create a PDA that is for everyone, the sexy and sleek PDAs will be only for those who want to shell out $400 dollars. Why don't everyone get a PDA? My personal reasons on how I felt:
- you look like a snob or a show-off at college/university when you pull it out of your pocket(believe me you get the 'looks' and it's not a nice feeling amongst your poor buddies)
- it's a good 'data model' for people that work with lots of appointments, TODOs, contacts, etc. I.e. for a programmer like me, it is nearly worthless. For a student, the best it could do is write down homework and chapters to read. But such 'data' comes in couple of weeks a time, so a diary or notepad is good enough. But for the business guy or the BOSS, it's wonderful. This is the #1 reason I find that people lose interest quickly after spending $$$ on it. If it's not going to help you, then you might as well trash it.
- extra features like web browsing, taking pictures, or playing mp3s are worthless. With the limited memory capacity, doing any of these things requires quite a bit of storage space. Managing expensive memory-cards sucks, just so that you can handle more info. Want pictures? Get a camera. Want to play mp3s? Get an iPOD. Every web-site talks about 'what if you could find out where you are on the road'. Who gives a flying fuck about such limited use feature? It's not like I'm playing GTA, and need to know where "Lenny Hideout" is located.
In a nutshell, PDA's just don't have much appeal to the mainstream market and it's just another expensive toy. If PDA's want to succeed, then it's going to have to be very multifunctional for a 'widerange' of audiences.
Hell, if I had a PDA/w 4GB+ of space(for mp3s, data, etc), has 'good' games, can read email/send text messages, easy internet via phone over wireless link(and cheap), ebook support, etc. then I might just buy it because of the mp3s + it gives me other features.
But at the end of the day, why buy a PDA? When a laptop could do the above and a lot more(though it costs double/triple the money).
There, you just described what e-voting should do. The 'ballot' represents 'data' that is easily examined which is checked by your finger. The only one in between a person and the ballot is his or her finger.
But e-voting software is a black box. You press, "select 1", and as the software registers your vote, it can shift your answer to mean 'select 2', and send the results to a registered server. And who knows what the registered server can do with the vote and record is as 'select 3'. How can it be recounted? It means you have to "trust" your government and 'commercial interests', which is not trust in my book.
The only way to protect yourself is this case, is have your identity mapped to the person you voted for and give out a receipt. Independent recounters can then verify your receipt and ensure the ballots all match up with +/- 2% difference.
From the 'Stategy' section of their website it says:
"BayStar Capital invests in a broad range of small and medium capitalization growth companies including, but not limited to: technology, telecommunications and life sciences. Capital needs of $5 to $50 million are targeted towards acquisitions, product development, marketing or sales expansion, or as a bridge to a public offering."
So from this bit we can see they are putting every penny they can into SCO. Also they now own 17.5% non-voting shares of SCO. Maybe these guys know something we don't...or are blowing their money into a bottomless pit. However, I smell a conspiracy theory. Would the UNIX market want to be dominated by Linux? A free operating system, that protects the rights and makes everyone even from the basement programmer to huge corporations.
Last time I checked, "industry" hated equality when it comes to money.
a) MSN Messenger b) Yahoo c) Trillian d) Gaim e) None of the above.
Funny options are left as an exercise to the reader:)
A phone should do one thing, and only thing...
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"Everybody spent so much time and money in the last few years on 2.5/3G networks that are completely unprofitable because it never occurred to them that surfing the web from your PHONE was going to suck."
This is what I was saying to everyone. Who the fuck wants to browse the shitty web(to see 'stocks' and 'sports scores') using a phone and a 'jog dial'? I have a nice computer at home that does web browing and gives me porn in living colours. Why would I want shitty 80-era style games on a monochrome screen, when I have a $400CDN game console at home?
One, use anonymous, public keys. Create a reputation system where anybody gives a personal rating to anyone else. (Sorta like Slashdot "friend or foe"). Reputations build over time, and some sources will be more reliable than others. You can decide who you will trust to tell you what's going on. You can rate sources, and you can see how others rate sources.
I thought we could all trust the network of news agencies to give us the lo-down everynite at 6 & 11pm? I mean, all the networks were yip-yapping about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and the US actually found after bombing away!
Seriously, give our news agencies a pat on the back for a job well done. Now I trust them to find nuclear weapons and info on harboring Osama's son, so that US can go in and bomb away again.
Why does there need to be a a bank of public keys again? All news agencies tell the truth! It's their job, no?
What if a game needs to stream data from CD(i.e. music,speech, etc)? I mean, unless you change the game intstructions to load data from the network, I don't see how you can load 1.5GB "into" a Gamecube with limited memory.
Isn't it simply awesome that a non-windows system can interoperate and participate fully within the Windows domain of networking?
It's not like the samba team has only reverse-engineered 25% of the protocol. They literally have 100% compliance minus the Windows proprietary RPC protocol running on top of SMB. And that has been attacked too; Samba can be a primary domain controller, be part of a domain, etc.
I think X is getting the blame, when honestly it's Linux's fault. I mean, the sluggish redraws and hiccups of mp3s + all interactivity(mouse+keyboard) go down whenever there is a lot of I/O to do(like copying or uncompressing or huge file).
I mean, I've played Quake3 and UT2003 under linux, and its fast(though UT2003 is faster on my WindowsXp box). So it must be all the layers + latency causing problems.
The only thing making X slow on modern distros is the advent of using AA *everywhere* for every font size. That shit IS causing slow redraws.
If anyone remembered, the Half Life "Alpha" binary build was "leaked" a couple of months prior to release. This helped to hype the game and people said the game was really good.
Now Gabe & Co. are complaining that code was stolen through worms, key loggers, Outlook viruses...I mean they are using every excuse to make it sound legitimate.
I think they are LYING and no code was actually leaked...the code floating around could be an experimental prototype(i.e. throw-away XP programming style).
Why are they lying? Increase publicity of Halflife2(i.e. CNN) and a justification to delay the games another 4 months becausing of having to rewrite the part that was lost. Bullshit. The only reason a person would rewrite code, is if the code lost was part of the networking subsystem(which would cause lotso cheats to be created).
and/or we eradicate the likes of Hammas, Islamic Jihad, the IRA, the ELF, and many other like groups
Yeah we muslims are the source of all your problems.Why don't you just take a bomb and drop it down in middle east, saying you're trying to catch osama or saddam's WMDs?
btw, did you fucking americans find the chemical weapons cache in Iraq? Or are you "fuck 'n bomb them first, then let our spin doctors answer questions later".
I wish I could call you by your proper first name, but how much experience or breadth of experience does consultancy require?
How does one, like yourself, get into a consultancy-based profession? Lots of hard work? How do you find services where you pay someone else to find you contracts?
You could say I'm interested going down this path maybe 2 to 5 years from now:)
There was a smiley at the end of my sentence after my phrase...
But if you look at it,
- It executes the all the programs in the "RunOnce" registry key - Windows connects to all your SMB shares after you login - It loads all the common internet apps after you login(i.e. messenger takes a long time to startup and connect). There should be a common backend server spawning a new messenger interface for each user instance - it reads a 2-5megabyte user profile file at startup - when you logout: all your processes are destroyed(when you logout in linux the background processes or processes not attached to a tty are left intact).
BTW, for what its worth I have a stock Windows 2000 Server on my Desktop and it takes a really loooooong time to boot and startup. Moreso than RH9.0 with "Everything Installed".
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Universities/colleges enforce professors to use the latest edition of books every 2 years. No buys the 5th edition if 6th edition is available because a) problem numbers are different b) chapters are shuffled around /w missing chapters
Although some profs are nice and give problem sets using old and new edition of text books.
So text-books have an EOL of 2 years.
When you are writing upgrades scripts or programs, you don't want to break ANYTHING. It is better to take the benefit of the doubt, than be like Windows and say, "fuck it, lets do this".
Biggest problems with upgrades is anticipating site-specific changes. What do you do if you make a change(i.e. install a new lib which is not compatible with sendmail?) and break you're programs. Happened to me when I did Ximian and it installed it's own versions of libraries and fucked up a lot of things. To the point KDE will say: missing function in dl library, etc.
Upgrades will always be a thorn and pain in the ass: for the users who have to do it and the guys who have to write and anticipate all the little changes. Even moreso: rolling back changes are a bigger nitemare.
The whole point of upgrading your system, IMO, is ensuring you avoid the multi-upgrade effect. To upgrade your CPU, you need to upgrade to a new mainboard. The new mainboard also needs new RAM, because your 512MB 133Mhz SDRAMs won't work on DDR-based boards(almost all today). And, you might also need more power-juice, so you gotta upgrade to a nice 350W or 400W power-supply.
/w A7V & 512MB SDRAM, I gotta upgrade ALL three components! That sucks!
This is what I'm facing right now: To upgrade my Athlon 1.2Ghz
So:
- Make sure you get a good motherboard that can expand memory and CPU readily. You don't want to buy a motherboard that can only house a 2.4 Ghz, but not the top-of-the line 3.5 Ghz. This protects your investment down the line when 3Ghz hits the sub $100 range(canadian) and you want to upgrade.
- Memory - get the best you can. DDR400, so that when you upgrade 1 year or 2 from today, the new mainboards can still work with DDR400.
Until they can create a PDA that is for everyone, the sexy and sleek PDAs will be only for those who want to shell out $400 dollars. Why don't everyone get a PDA?
/w 4GB+ of space(for mp3s, data, etc), has 'good' games, can read email/send text messages, easy internet via phone over wireless link(and cheap), ebook support, etc. then I might just buy it because of the mp3s + it gives me other features.
My personal reasons on how I felt:
- you look like a snob or a show-off at college/university when you pull it out of your pocket(believe me you get the 'looks' and it's not a nice feeling amongst your poor buddies)
- it's a good 'data model' for people that work with lots of appointments, TODOs, contacts, etc. I.e. for a programmer like me, it is nearly worthless. For a student, the best it could do is write down homework and chapters to read. But such 'data' comes in couple of weeks a time, so a diary or notepad is good enough. But for the business guy or the BOSS, it's wonderful. This is the #1 reason I find that people lose interest quickly after spending $$$ on it. If it's not going to help you, then you might as well trash it.
- extra features like web browsing, taking pictures, or playing mp3s are worthless. With the limited memory capacity, doing any of these things requires quite a bit of storage space. Managing expensive memory-cards sucks, just so that you can handle more info. Want pictures? Get a camera. Want to play mp3s? Get an iPOD. Every web-site talks about 'what if you could find out where you are on the road'. Who gives a flying fuck about such limited use feature? It's not like I'm playing GTA, and need to know where "Lenny Hideout" is located.
In a nutshell, PDA's just don't have much appeal to the mainstream market and it's just another expensive toy. If PDA's want to succeed, then it's going to have to be very multifunctional for a 'widerange' of audiences.
Hell, if I had a PDA
But at the end of the day, why buy a PDA? When a laptop could do the above and a lot more(though it costs double/triple the money).
There, you just described what e-voting should do. The 'ballot' represents 'data' that is easily examined which is checked by your finger. The only one in between a person and the ballot is his or her finger.
But e-voting software is a black box. You press, "select 1", and as the software registers your vote, it can shift your answer to mean 'select 2', and send the results to a registered server. And who knows what the registered server can do with the vote and record is as 'select 3'. How can it be recounted? It means you have to "trust" your government and 'commercial interests', which is not trust in my book.
The only way to protect yourself is this case, is have your identity mapped to the person you voted for and give out a receipt. Independent recounters can then verify your receipt and ensure the ballots all match up with +/- 2% difference.
From the 'Stategy' section of their website it says:
"BayStar Capital invests in a broad range of small and medium capitalization growth companies including, but not limited to: technology, telecommunications and life sciences. Capital needs of $5 to $50 million are targeted towards acquisitions, product development, marketing or sales expansion, or as a bridge to a public offering."
So from this bit we can see they are putting every penny they can into SCO. Also they now own 17.5% non-voting shares of SCO. Maybe these guys know something we don't...or are blowing their money into a bottomless pit. However, I smell a conspiracy theory. Would the UNIX market want to be dominated by Linux? A free operating system, that protects the rights and makes everyone even from the basement programmer to huge corporations.
Last time I checked, "industry" hated equality when it comes to money.
What IM do you use?
a) MSN Messenger
b) Yahoo
c) Trillian
d) Gaim
e) None of the above.
Funny options are left as an exercise to the reader:)
"Everybody spent so much time and money in the last few years on 2.5/3G networks that are completely unprofitable because it never occurred to them that surfing the web from your PHONE was going to suck."
This is what I was saying to everyone. Who the fuck wants to browse the shitty web(to see 'stocks' and 'sports scores') using a phone and a 'jog dial'? I have a nice computer at home that does web browing and gives me porn in living colours. Why would I want shitty 80-era style games on a monochrome screen, when I have a $400CDN game console at home?
Decepticon!
One, use anonymous, public keys. Create a reputation system where anybody gives a personal rating to anyone else. (Sorta like Slashdot "friend or foe"). Reputations build over time, and some sources will be more reliable than others. You can decide who you will trust to tell you what's going on. You can rate sources, and you can see how others rate sources.
I thought we could all trust the network of news agencies to give us the lo-down everynite at 6 & 11pm? I mean, all the networks were yip-yapping about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and the US actually found after bombing away!
Seriously, give our news agencies a pat on the back for a job well done. Now I trust them to find nuclear weapons and info on harboring Osama's son, so that US can go in and bomb away again.
Why does there need to be a a bank of public keys again? All news agencies tell the truth! It's their job, no?
What if a game needs to stream data from CD(i.e. music,speech, etc)? I mean, unless you change the game intstructions to load data from the network, I don't see how you can load 1.5GB "into" a Gamecube with limited memory.
And here I thought my 40gig + 14gig were more than enough for me.
'Secret Training' is nothing more than 'can you teach me this, while I fuck you?"
Isn't it simply awesome that a non-windows system can interoperate and participate fully within the Windows domain of networking?
It's not like the samba team has only reverse-engineered 25% of the protocol. They literally have 100% compliance minus the Windows proprietary RPC protocol running on top of SMB. And that has been attacked too; Samba can be a primary domain controller, be part of a domain, etc.
Kudos for the samba team for a job well done.
Technically, MSN messenger is different. If you stop typing for a while, the message at bottom saying you're typing, disappears.
whenever talk is greater than content, it called:
Bullshit. Which is what the patent is of course.
Even in Quake3 the bubble appeared everytime you typed to chat, so as to discourage people from getting cheap frags.
Of course, the low-lifes and 12-years and Me always snickered and went for the nice kill:)
Thanks Id!
I think X is getting the blame, when honestly it's Linux's fault. I mean, the sluggish redraws and hiccups of mp3s + all interactivity(mouse+keyboard) go down whenever there is a lot of I/O to do(like copying or uncompressing or huge file).
I mean, I've played Quake3 and UT2003 under linux, and its fast(though UT2003 is faster on my WindowsXp box). So it must be all the layers + latency causing problems.
The only thing making X slow on modern distros is the advent of using AA *everywhere* for every font size. That shit IS causing slow redraws.
Kashif
If anyone remembered, the Half Life "Alpha" binary build was "leaked" a couple of months prior to release. This helped to hype the game and people said the game was really good.
Now Gabe & Co. are complaining that code was stolen through worms, key loggers, Outlook viruses...I mean they are using every excuse to make it sound legitimate.
I think they are LYING and no code was actually leaked...the code floating around could be an experimental prototype(i.e. throw-away XP programming style).
Why are they lying? Increase publicity of Halflife2(i.e. CNN) and a justification to delay the games another 4 months becausing of having to rewrite the part that was lost. Bullshit. The only reason a person would rewrite code, is if the code lost was part of the networking subsystem(which would cause lotso cheats to be created).
I still smell a fish & rat...
and/or we eradicate the likes of Hammas, Islamic Jihad, the IRA, the ELF, and many other like groups
Yeah we muslims are the source of all your problems.Why don't you just take a bomb and drop it down in middle east, saying you're trying to catch osama or saddam's WMDs?
btw, did you fucking americans find the chemical weapons cache in Iraq? Or are you "fuck 'n bomb them first, then let our spin doctors answer questions later".
asshole
In other words, Apple defines itself sexy, powerful, and commands attention(i.e. *NIX based).
Windows is "too corporate" to be any of these. The only thing going to Windows is "market share" which isn't cool to anyone except shareholders.
"becoming very GNU-specific rather than UNIX-specific (I hope everyone can see this distinction)."
Hey! You ate your own words! Everyone knows that: GNU is GNU is Not Unix and UNIX is well, Unix. So the distiction is clearly within the ackronym.
Kashif
I wish I could call you by your proper first name, but how much experience or breadth of experience does consultancy require?
How does one, like yourself, get into a consultancy-based profession? Lots of hard work? How do you find services where you pay someone else to find you contracts?
You could say I'm interested going down this path maybe 2 to 5 years from now:)
There was a smiley at the end of my sentence after my phrase...
But if you look at it,
- It executes the all the programs in the "RunOnce" registry key
- Windows connects to all your SMB shares after you login
- It loads all the common internet apps after you login(i.e. messenger takes a long time to startup and connect). There should be a common backend server spawning a new messenger interface for each user instance
- it reads a 2-5megabyte user profile file at startup
- when you logout: all your processes are destroyed(when you logout in linux the background processes or processes not attached to a tty are left intact).
BTW, for what its worth I have a stock Windows 2000 Server on my Desktop and it takes a really loooooong time to boot and startup. Moreso than RH9.0 with "Everything Installed".
Kashif
In other words, it loads the kitchen sink AFTER you login...