It has a serial port, so if you want to use dialup, you can always attach a real modem. Those are well supported on Linux, far moreso than internals.
Yup. Besides, external modems are no longer supported out-of-the-box on Vista. I tried to hook up a serial-line US Robotics Sportster 56k on my dad's laptop lately. Windows Vista simply ignored it, and proposed no solution to try and detect it. Kubuntu, on the other hand, set it up immediately with KPPP. That was one more reason for my dad to abandon Windows and switch completely to Linux.
A clay tablet, eh ? Well Dennis Kucinich took it one step further than you : he came up with the pocket-sized Rosetta stone. (clip from the Colbert Show).
To sum up he said "they fight you", not "you fight them".
Sure. But, for instance, in the SCO vs. IBM case, which is crucial for the future of the FOSS movement (or maybe not so much now that Novell has just stomped SCO into the ground), you weren't expecting IBM to just sit on their asses while SCO was taking them to trial and punching them in the face with libelous press releases ?
That battle was clearly one of ours, and one of the FOSS-supporting parties (IBM) did fight back. It also turned out that Novell had a word to say in this too, but I am still awaiting the final judgment in SCO vs IBM. It ain't over till the fat man throws a chair, as someone else already said here.
There are older articles about this. For example, it's very important for a bird to pack up energy before crossing seas or deserts during their migration. But how do they guess when it's time for them to eat ? That's when their magnetic sense comes in handy:
My father use to joke that each five years we should vote for the most corrupt politician and hang him.
Well, is *is* a joke, but even then you should expect more voting fraud and twisted polls. With such a system, you can be pretty sure that lots of patsies would get hanged, but no real crook.
Well, as far as embedded software development is concerned, the rise of the Linux kernel was a huge blow to existing embedded OS kernels.
How many people still remember pSOS, VRTX, VxWorks (which was largely based on GNU development tools but with a proprietary real-time kernel) and a few others that were popular till the late 90s ? Of course, when you need a tiny, real-time kernel, Linux doesn't cut it yet, although that is also about to change.
But on the whole, you now have countless Linux-based embedded "solutions" on the market for various types of controllers, offering web servers or Java servlets for the user interface, at very affordable prices (forget about the $5000 per developer licence for proprietary systems), with a wealth of open-source software waiting to be ported to these new platforms. Guess who's happy ?
I'd hate to know how you'd feel if you were French and actually had to live with the knowledge that not only did your country surrender to Germany without a fight
If you really think France surrendered "without a fight" I'd recommend reading some more history.
Weeeeell, if the grand-parent were French I'm sure his ancestors who were among the 90,000 casualties or the 270,000 wounded would be glad to know that they died without a fight. Not to mention those 45,000-some dead or MIA Germans who probably died of avian flu about the same time, since nobody shot at them, eh ?
Despite the reputation, I bought a Packard-Bell notebook in January, and I've been quite happy with it so far. But then again, it's a notebook. No try to change various parts and therefore I did not hit compatibility problems with those parts. Linux (Mepis 6.0, Mandriva 2007, Fedora Core 6) installed flawlessly on that machine too.
So maybe they've gotten better after all... just my 2c anyway.
I just wanted to take a moment to thank the slashdot community, in advance, for what I am certain will be yet another discussion that will be the picture of decorum and civility. If there is anything I have learned about slashdot over the years, it is its ability to conduct a mature discussion about any topic, devoid of paranoia, rage, or ignorance.
You are absolutely right, and I think that Slashdot is an example of civility that should be taken as a model by LittleGreenFootball, the DailyKos, Alternet and so on.
As a former DVB engineer, having studied the terrestrial standards for digital broadcasting, I can tell you that this fear of interference is total bullshit. The level of signal redundancy (using Viterbi encoding) combined with the forward error correction (FEC) mechanisms introduced in the signal, practically reduce the risk of interference to none.
COFDM, the modulation used in Europe, may be more robust in that area than 8VSB used in the US, still I don't believe it would be a serious concern.
I think the biggest fear for those broadcasters is, as usual, money : if those bandwidths, which they are given free and exclusive access to by the FTC, were to be auctionned off to telco operators, they might eventually have to pay to remain on air.
Hmm, nope. I have the situation with both my parents following the same, HDL-rich and LDL-depleted diet. While my mother does indeed get a very favorable HDL to LDL ratio (like 60%-40%) my father still has the same ratio as before his diet, which he started after his heart attack 4 years ago (that is something like 35%-65%). His only way to reduce the risk is to reduce his consumption of lipids in general, and use pills. We are not genetically equal when facing cholesterol problems...
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Somebody wake up this chicken and tell him the foxes have taken over the henhouse while he was sleeping...
A clay tablet, eh ? Well Dennis Kucinich took it one step further than you : he came up with the pocket-sized Rosetta stone. (clip from the Colbert Show).
Or were they ?
Really ?
That battle was clearly one of ours, and one of the FOSS-supporting parties (IBM) did fight back. It also turned out that Novell had a word to say in this too, but I am still awaiting the final judgment in SCO vs IBM. It ain't over till the fat man throws a chair, as someone else already said here.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_18_160/ai_80344966 Well, imagine the applications that this might have on poultry farming : apply the correct magnetic field over the coop and your ducks or hens start overfeeding uncontrollably...
But are you makink fun of him ? Do not underestimate da might of der Panzerkardinal !
How many people still remember pSOS, VRTX, VxWorks (which was largely based on GNU development tools but with a proprietary real-time kernel) and a few others that were popular till the late 90s ? Of course, when you need a tiny, real-time kernel, Linux doesn't cut it yet, although that is also about to change.
But on the whole, you now have countless Linux-based embedded "solutions" on the market for various types of controllers, offering web servers or Java servlets for the user interface, at very affordable prices (forget about the $5000 per developer licence for proprietary systems), with a wealth of open-source software waiting to be ported to these new platforms. Guess who's happy ?
About time that mentalities evolved in upper management too, but it's good to see it, even if it took 10 years to get there...
So maybe they've gotten better after all... just my 2c anyway.
Oh and btw, I checked out the discussion tab on that Wikipedia page and it says :
Hmmm, this article must really be relevant and full of insight...Time to heat up the tar and gather a few old pillows for the feathers...
Wait... forget about that. They already did.
and you can even see the quotes going down in real time as the market opens ! 37 cents at 9:33 !
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX
Whoever bet that SCOX would be below 50 cents before noon has won, even before the market opened !The announcement this monday morning before the markets opened was:
I like that one. Really. ;-)
COFDM, the modulation used in Europe, may be more robust in that area than 8VSB used in the US, still I don't believe it would be a serious concern.
I think the biggest fear for those broadcasters is, as usual, money : if those bandwidths, which they are given free and exclusive access to by the FTC, were to be auctionned off to telco operators, they might eventually have to pay to remain on air.
Hmm, nope. I have the situation with both my parents following the same, HDL-rich and LDL-depleted diet. While my mother does indeed get a very favorable HDL to LDL ratio (like 60%-40%) my father still has the same ratio as before his diet, which he started after his heart attack 4 years ago (that is something like 35%-65%). His only way to reduce the risk is to reduce his consumption of lipids in general, and use pills. We are not genetically equal when facing cholesterol problems...
It's not exactly as if all those priests and nuns were breeding like rabbits, but still...