Sure doom looks nice but it is static. How about shooting at a wooden door. Can you then look through the bullet holes? Does concrete chip, not just as an effect but as something that is then reflected by shrapnel wich damages and subsequent bullets reacting differently perhaps even chipping away more until you shoot through the wall?
Does rain/snow/fog work as it does in real life? Have real depth. Affected by overhanging pipes? Strobe lights through rain show rainbows?
No?
Still some way to go then.
I am old enough to have played pong when it was fresh. I also at times indulge myself in a little playing of old games. Played a bit of jagged alliance recently. Once the graphics in that game looked fluid and detailed. After more recent games they hurt.
There is still a long way to go. One of the most obvious increases is size. We are stilling running in dungeon maps. Big dungeons but still square rooms where the rockets hit invisible walls. Operation Flashpoint gave us a big world but it was an empty world. On powerfull hardware it gives some stunning scenery shots but there is still someway to go.
Although to be honest I could live with the next game freezing the graphics and instead spending the CPU power on AI.
Sadly as the darpa race has shown, pretty pictures are a whole load easier then a good AI. Remind me never again to curse the AI coders of OFP when an AI controlled truck has trouble following the road again.
I think you missed it. The way you wrote that sentence you were saying: MS has full control over X, JABBER DOES NOT SO UNLIKE JABBER, when an MS server goes down for, X doesn't.
I could guess that is not what you meant. This is what you should have put:
Sure MS has full control over it, but unlike decentralised networks like jabber WHERE if one server goes down the entire network does not go down with it, MS network crumbles with the loss of a central server.
There are no doubt fancy words to describe the language error. Ask your english teacher:)
Unless I missed something this is just a matter of size and little else. It doesn't even really matter. Yes sedna is exactly the same as pluto except a few kilometers less so one is a planet and the other just a piece of rock?
come on. Live a little. We can have another whole planet. It is not like it is going to change anything. After all it always been there. We only discovered it recently. Not like it decided to join in orbit yesterday.
Shoemaker-levy 9 was a piece of space rock that hit a planet (jupiter) a few years ago.
Google for it.
I think Terry Pratchet had a bit in one of his books about. Talking about probabilty and how everything can exist somewhere. "Apparently there was an civilization that one day saw several thousand tons of rock collide with a planet nextdoor and then did nothing about it. It is however considered that is to unlikely to have really happened as any species that dumb would never have discovered sloot in the first place".
See the craters? What do you think caused them. I give you a hint. It isn't giant mice digging for cheeze.
Earth to has been pelted with rocks. Just that we got this thing called an eviroment wich tends to smooth everything over. There are still plenty of craters however. Ask the dinosaurs about the one they had hit. Oh wait. They died out didn't they. Mmmm.
You honor I claim my client is innocent of manslaughter and instead wish to claim that this so called victim is charged with delibaratly and maliciously dirtying my clients knife with his blood.
Anyway the latest planet is 2000km is diameter. I think if such an object is coming our way then there is nothing we can do.
The probability that an impact will occur within the decade is 50%. No more no less. It either happens or it doesn't happen. Saying anything else you are just the kinda person who plays the odds in the lottery. You either win or loose. All the other odds are only of intrest to the lotto company.
Anyway saying there are more important issues suggest you have a rather naive view of the world. We can put a man on the moon so why has noone stood on the bottom of the ocean? We can grow oranges in sweden so why can't we grow grain in the sahara?
Because we can do one thing doesn't mean we can do something else even if it sounds similar. And this is just with technilogical changes. Your disease example is just like that.
Hunger is a completly different problem from stopping a piece of rock (or indeed curing a disease). Most people here could probably draw up a plan or two to stop a small asteroid. Now try to do the same thing with hunger.
Smart people, caring people, good people have tried and failed. There are countless farming projects that have failed miserable. Hunger is a problem of human nature. And so far noone has been able to change it. Simple fact is that there would be no hunger in africa if africans learned to work together. They don't, each time a country slightly gets up it starts a war or is dragged into one. Europe did the same but we had better climate that allowed us to feed ourselves even when fighting a war. Africa and other hunger stricken regions do not have that luxury. They need constant peace to bring enough food in. We all seen farm aid. Do you know people are still starving in ethiopia? Why? Lack of food? WRONG. There is food. Plenty. Africa exports food. Until you solved that puzzle you can't even begin to think of a solution to solve hunger.
Stopping an asteroid is simple a tech and money problem. You can draw blueprints for the first and taxation for the latter. Stopping hunger requires us to change human nature. Tech has come a long way in the last few thousand years but are we as people really all that different from 5000 years or more ago?
Unless they changed there is no VIDCARD -> LCD like you have on a normal PC.
Possibly they use the same signalling as in a DVI interface but this is hardly a given. If you can figure out to connect wich wires to wich bits on the ribbon cord then you are sorted.
It wouldn't be hard to do provided someone else done it already and put it online.
And what are you going to loose? A screen on a dead laptop and perhaps an old vidcard. Not exactly staggering losses (althought as said above you probably need a dvi capable vidcard)
Seriously. It is like asking somebody wich series of Star Trek is the best, wich editor they like, wich news source is the most un-biased. Guess what? Everyone is going to give you a different answer and they are all WRONG.
The reason is that it is subjective. Does the review of CPU X favor price over stability? Heat over speed? Linux drivers over optimized for windows?
Intel fans will say that intel is more stable and has better support. AMD fans will say theirs give better performance for less money.
So wich angle does a review site take?
Don't even get into people who get offended because a site dares say that THEIR brand new video card is a bad buy.
No the only good source of reviews is to look at the other responses, bookmark the sites and then when you need a review visit them ALL. If 9 out of 10 sites say product X sucks then maybe, perhaps, just possibly, it does. If it is a split then stay away from it. If only 1 says it is bad try to figure out what they consider bad that all the others don't seem to find a problem.
Oh and if possible try to find the manufacturs site and the official press releases. This can help you weed out the reviews that are mere press release reprints.
Do you know anything about IT? Or are you one who think IT is only the million dollar projects? A small companie orderbook or a mere webshop don't count?
The stats on mysql showed that for simple setups mysql outperforms the big boys. Factor in price and oracly quickly becomes a terrible product. (A webmonkey can maintain mysql. Oracle needs a dbm)
BUT only on small/medium applications. That is what the benchmark showed. But oracle doesn't like that to be known. It shows people the medium to big benchmarks and how well it does and hopes everyone forgets that they suck at small and are not really good at the gigantic stuff either.
Check out the benchmarks at the top of the pyramid. No oracle.
But I can understand oracle agreeing. Isn't it against advertising standards to name your competitor? Not allowed to say, we are better then those guys? Wich is why in washing powder commercial they literally have brand X.
Anyway would you trust any product wich people are not allowed to test?
Screws up astrology and that can only be a good thing. Lets add one every 2-3 years and watch them squirm.
Anyway something 2000km in diameter is hardly small. Aren't astoroids that could kill earth just a couple of kilometers accross?
Anyway excluding it is sizeist. Can't have that. If you are going to classify keep it simple. Object larger then a rock orbetting the sun and being close to round. I think that is what most people consider a planet.
Typing in a four word password? Maybe it is bad translation but geepers, unless the gba in japan comes with a keyboard that is going to be hell. Especially since japanese has more letters. Reminds me of the GBA games whose saves was a whole string of letters. Guess thats the high-tech super advanced console stuff I missed while I was gaming on my PC:-) (games like that should come with a warning "C16 level technology inside").
You can also chat via the gba with people in range of the wireless station. Mmmm, you mean unlike simply shouting accross the room?
Still it seems like a nice idea. Put it in popular kid hangouts charge a few bucks an hour and just rake the money in.
I am confused however why only the pokemon games would work. There are plenty of multiplayer games for the GBA, surely anyone with 1 braincell would have made a wireless adapter that works with all of them?
Who would you want to pay for your junk. Yahoo a more or less innocent bystander (although for their front page they deserve to roast slightly) or MS the company that helped make spam what it is today?
Setting up a hotmail account wich you know is going to be spammed is poetic justice. Most of the spams come from rooted windows machines anyway. Let their servers deal with it.
Oh and for those who wonder where the story is? It is in the comments. You can see the windows zealots all fuming that/. dares print a story on MS having a screwup. The same people who say constantly linux sucks because it can't work with their $5 dollar noname soundcard (despite the fact that this is an old old old complaint) can't deal with others sniggering a bit about the fact that Hotmail was down for half a day.
Zealots are people who can never see the other guys point of view but it is important to remember that/. is not just Linux zealots. We got them all. Mac/Windows/BSD/Linux/Console/PC/etc.
In certain american states the record companies had to pay fines for price fixing. Since the same prices apply in europe this means the same price fixing is going on overhere just that our legal system is as bought and sold as the american states that did not pursue this.
I don't know about germany but in holland it is a legal right to make a copy. Copy protection denies that right so again it is the music industry that is acting against the law.
So why should I feel guilty when I download music?
Asnswer I don't. Poor musicians starving to death? Awh, best artists in history were poor. I am doing art a favor. I didn't see music artist protest when changing technology made miners unemployed or when thousands of factory workers lost their jobs to robots.
For years people have been making suggestions of how the music industry could easily sell its entire catalog without the expense of keeping cd's in stock by burning on demand. They didn't want it. Voting with your wallet is the only thing that works. Any who buy copyrighted cd's and then jump through hoops to get it to work on their player are pawns. You are sending the message that the current business model is fine with you.
Since in holland you pay a tax on dvd's and cassetes anyway that goes to the music industry I see that as my payment. No more wrong then them getting money for my linux install cd's.
One way or another this proves nothing. I am not even talking about the existence of bigfoot. I am talking about the shot being a hoax.
If bigfoot does not exist then that does not make the film a hoax. The filmer could have believed what he saw was real. Most people who see the Lochness monster ain't lying they just thought they saw something wich looked like the monster in their mind. A hoax is deliberate misleading.
And if the movie is a hoax or a honest mistake then this proves nothing about bigfoot. Sad thing is that it is really hard to prove a negative. Those who believe will simply say we haven't found it yet. Those who don't will be hard pressed to prove their is nothing to be found. In a way I think bigfoot is charming. It certainly is one of the less harmfull conspiracy theories you can follow.
I did this a lot but I didn't drill. That is insane. All the plastic gets inside the disk and screws it up in the worst way.
No an old soldering iron was the way to go.
But yeah it depended a lot on the quality of th disks. Good brands performed excellent. Cheap brands did not.
Perhaps the samething is possible with HD's but this would have to be done by taking the platters out of an old low capacity drive and put them under higher capacity heads. Then if the old platters are good enough the new heads can write more data then the old heads could.
Possibly you don't need to go so far if you can somehow convince the drive to operate at the edge of its capacity instead of the "safe guarenteed" way it comes from the factory.
Overclocking is possible with most components since hardware makers use safe limits to avoid problems. of course with HD's so cheap and basically limitless who cares. A CPU overclocked to 4ghz gives you hardware that can't be bought. a 200gb disk doubled to 400gb just safes you a 3.5 inch slot at the price of higher failure.
You see I have encountered numerous Dells wich has only a portion of their HD partioned. Not hidden or recovery partitions. Just 6gb of a 8gb disk used. Maybe the machine was sold as 6 but 8 was cheaper or they ran out of part but it still mean't an easy upgrade. (was the time of napster so everyone needed more HD space)
But yeah more then doubling the HD capacity sounds fishy and there are plenty of letters to the inquirer article explaining how and why it ain't true.
You are a CTO. You advised to buy the software assurance plan at first.
Now you have two choices. Recommended renewal and possible have to explain if your ceo is even aware that no the old subscription was perhaps not full value. (can easily be argued that instead you paid for the patches, god knows there been enougn for them. Also easy to show figures it is actually cheaper, MS salesrep can give you those).
OR you tell that you were wrong before and are responsible for wasting shitloads of money in a down economy for absolutly no return whatsoever.
Mmmm. Though choice ain't it? MS doesn't have to sell anything. All the people who bought it will sell it for them or be fired.
I think you put to much faith into CTO's. After all there has been plenty of warning this could happen. Did they listen? No. The kind of people that signed are the ****** who believe in "roadmaps". I have even seen them critize Linux for providing roadmaps/timelines and claiming this is why MS was better.
Small problem. There is a huge difference between publishing a roadmap/timeline and keeping it. Software is sadly a hugely complex product. Worse it is horribly interconnected meaning that it takes forever to properly test and you can bet the moment it is out someone comes accross a situation you never though off.
But this is well known. So nobody in their right mind counts on a software product being released on time or in a promised form. Like the real world you only trust what is actually right there in front of you.
Would you buy a car that during the testdrive fails the brake test but they promise they fix it in yours? Of course not. So why do you buy software that you tested as broken but they will fix it in a patch they are going to make?
This is even worse. This is like buying a car on the promise that if they come out with a better model in 3 years they will give you that one.
No the people who signed up for this are MS junkies of the worst kind. They will signup again cause it is easier then thinking. Worse if they don't signup again they will have to admit they weren't thinking the first time. Signup again and all they gotta do is gloss over the fact that nothing was received in return. That is easy.
Underling: "Oh yeah we got a lot of complaints about our decision to do X"
CEO: "Are they leaving? Refusing to pay? Looking at alternatives?"
Underling: "No"
CEO: "Then stop wasting my time".
Voting with your wallet. You are voting in favor. I can't really see any differently. Sending emails to them is like saying you hate bush but still vote for him. Your opinion don't count. Granted neither does mine as I am not a customer at all:)
If you are talking about the crap feature in outlook that executes code in an email when you open it then you are right. But this isn't what I was talking about. I am talking about the people who open.exe or.scr files. Even going around defences and saving the exe to their desktop then run it from there.
After all linux comes with plenty of scripting languages to send email. Trick is getting the idiot/user to execute the code. And that isn't fixed by linux. People can be idiots anywhere.
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Does rain/snow/fog work as it does in real life? Have real depth. Affected by overhanging pipes? Strobe lights through rain show rainbows?
No?
Still some way to go then.
I am old enough to have played pong when it was fresh. I also at times indulge myself in a little playing of old games. Played a bit of jagged alliance recently. Once the graphics in that game looked fluid and detailed. After more recent games they hurt.
There is still a long way to go. One of the most obvious increases is size. We are stilling running in dungeon maps. Big dungeons but still square rooms where the rockets hit invisible walls. Operation Flashpoint gave us a big world but it was an empty world. On powerfull hardware it gives some stunning scenery shots but there is still someway to go.
Although to be honest I could live with the next game freezing the graphics and instead spending the CPU power on AI.
Sadly as the darpa race has shown, pretty pictures are a whole load easier then a good AI. Remind me never again to curse the AI coders of OFP when an AI controlled truck has trouble following the road again.
I could guess that is not what you meant. This is what you should have put:
Sure MS has full control over it, but unlike decentralised networks like jabber WHERE if one server goes down the entire network does not go down with it, MS network crumbles with the loss of a central server.
There are no doubt fancy words to describe the language error. Ask your english teacher :)
come on. Live a little. We can have another whole planet. It is not like it is going to change anything. After all it always been there. We only discovered it recently. Not like it decided to join in orbit yesterday.
Google for it.
I think Terry Pratchet had a bit in one of his books about. Talking about probabilty and how everything can exist somewhere. "Apparently there was an civilization that one day saw several thousand tons of rock collide with a planet nextdoor and then did nothing about it. It is however considered that is to unlikely to have really happened as any species that dumb would never have discovered sloot in the first place".
Earth to has been pelted with rocks. Just that we got this thing called an eviroment wich tends to smooth everything over. There are still plenty of craters however. Ask the dinosaurs about the one they had hit. Oh wait. They died out didn't they. Mmmm.
You honor I claim my client is innocent of manslaughter and instead wish to claim that this so called victim is charged with delibaratly and maliciously dirtying my clients knife with his blood.
Anyway the latest planet is 2000km is diameter. I think if such an object is coming our way then there is nothing we can do.
Anyway saying there are more important issues suggest you have a rather naive view of the world. We can put a man on the moon so why has noone stood on the bottom of the ocean? We can grow oranges in sweden so why can't we grow grain in the sahara?
Because we can do one thing doesn't mean we can do something else even if it sounds similar. And this is just with technilogical changes. Your disease example is just like that.
Hunger is a completly different problem from stopping a piece of rock (or indeed curing a disease). Most people here could probably draw up a plan or two to stop a small asteroid. Now try to do the same thing with hunger.
Smart people, caring people, good people have tried and failed. There are countless farming projects that have failed miserable. Hunger is a problem of human nature. And so far noone has been able to change it. Simple fact is that there would be no hunger in africa if africans learned to work together. They don't, each time a country slightly gets up it starts a war or is dragged into one. Europe did the same but we had better climate that allowed us to feed ourselves even when fighting a war. Africa and other hunger stricken regions do not have that luxury. They need constant peace to bring enough food in. We all seen farm aid. Do you know people are still starving in ethiopia? Why? Lack of food? WRONG. There is food. Plenty. Africa exports food. Until you solved that puzzle you can't even begin to think of a solution to solve hunger.
Stopping an asteroid is simple a tech and money problem. You can draw blueprints for the first and taxation for the latter. Stopping hunger requires us to change human nature. Tech has come a long way in the last few thousand years but are we as people really all that different from 5000 years or more ago?
Possibly they use the same signalling as in a DVI interface but this is hardly a given. If you can figure out to connect wich wires to wich bits on the ribbon cord then you are sorted.
It wouldn't be hard to do provided someone else done it already and put it online.
And what are you going to loose? A screen on a dead laptop and perhaps an old vidcard. Not exactly staggering losses (althought as said above you probably need a dvi capable vidcard)
Seriously. It is like asking somebody wich series of Star Trek is the best, wich editor they like, wich news source is the most un-biased. Guess what? Everyone is going to give you a different answer and they are all WRONG.
The reason is that it is subjective. Does the review of CPU X favor price over stability? Heat over speed? Linux drivers over optimized for windows?
Intel fans will say that intel is more stable and has better support. AMD fans will say theirs give better performance for less money.
So wich angle does a review site take?
Don't even get into people who get offended because a site dares say that THEIR brand new video card is a bad buy.
No the only good source of reviews is to look at the other responses, bookmark the sites and then when you need a review visit them ALL. If 9 out of 10 sites say product X sucks then maybe, perhaps, just possibly, it does. If it is a split then stay away from it. If only 1 says it is bad try to figure out what they consider bad that all the others don't seem to find a problem.
Oh and if possible try to find the manufacturs site and the official press releases. This can help you weed out the reviews that are mere press release reprints.
The answers: Original, vi , no such thing.
Do you know anything about IT? Or are you one who think IT is only the million dollar projects? A small companie orderbook or a mere webshop don't count?
The stats on mysql showed that for simple setups mysql outperforms the big boys. Factor in price and oracly quickly becomes a terrible product. (A webmonkey can maintain mysql. Oracle needs a dbm)
BUT only on small/medium applications. That is what the benchmark showed. But oracle doesn't like that to be known. It shows people the medium to big benchmarks and how well it does and hopes everyone forgets that they suck at small and are not really good at the gigantic stuff either.
Check out the benchmarks at the top of the pyramid. No oracle.
But I can understand oracle agreeing. Isn't it against advertising standards to name your competitor? Not allowed to say, we are better then those guys? Wich is why in washing powder commercial they literally have brand X.
Anyway would you trust any product wich people are not allowed to test?
Anyway something 2000km in diameter is hardly small. Aren't astoroids that could kill earth just a couple of kilometers accross?
Anyway excluding it is sizeist. Can't have that. If you are going to classify keep it simple. Object larger then a rock orbetting the sun and being close to round. I think that is what most people consider a planet.
So welcome sedna.
You can also chat via the gba with people in range of the wireless station. Mmmm, you mean unlike simply shouting accross the room?
Still it seems like a nice idea. Put it in popular kid hangouts charge a few bucks an hour and just rake the money in.
I am confused however why only the pokemon games would work. There are plenty of multiplayer games for the GBA, surely anyone with 1 braincell would have made a wireless adapter that works with all of them?
I don't think that says what you think it says.
Oh and I know english is not the first language of many people. I myself make many a mistake but yours is big since it ruins your point.
Setting up a hotmail account wich you know is going to be spammed is poetic justice. Most of the spams come from rooted windows machines anyway. Let their servers deal with it.
Oh and for those who wonder where the story is? It is in the comments. You can see the windows zealots all fuming that /. dares print a story on MS having a screwup. The same people who say constantly linux sucks because it can't work with their $5 dollar noname soundcard (despite the fact that this is an old old old complaint) can't deal with others sniggering a bit about the fact that Hotmail was down for half a day.
Zealots are people who can never see the other guys point of view but it is important to remember that /. is not just Linux zealots. We got them all. Mac/Windows/BSD/Linux/Console/PC/etc.
I don't know about germany but in holland it is a legal right to make a copy. Copy protection denies that right so again it is the music industry that is acting against the law.
So why should I feel guilty when I download music?
Asnswer I don't. Poor musicians starving to death? Awh, best artists in history were poor. I am doing art a favor. I didn't see music artist protest when changing technology made miners unemployed or when thousands of factory workers lost their jobs to robots.
For years people have been making suggestions of how the music industry could easily sell its entire catalog without the expense of keeping cd's in stock by burning on demand. They didn't want it. Voting with your wallet is the only thing that works. Any who buy copyrighted cd's and then jump through hoops to get it to work on their player are pawns. You are sending the message that the current business model is fine with you.
Since in holland you pay a tax on dvd's and cassetes anyway that goes to the music industry I see that as my payment. No more wrong then them getting money for my linux install cd's.
Thank you I will be here all day. Try the veal.
If bigfoot does not exist then that does not make the film a hoax. The filmer could have believed what he saw was real. Most people who see the Lochness monster ain't lying they just thought they saw something wich looked like the monster in their mind. A hoax is deliberate misleading.
And if the movie is a hoax or a honest mistake then this proves nothing about bigfoot. Sad thing is that it is really hard to prove a negative. Those who believe will simply say we haven't found it yet. Those who don't will be hard pressed to prove their is nothing to be found. In a way I think bigfoot is charming. It certainly is one of the less harmfull conspiracy theories you can follow.
No an old soldering iron was the way to go.
But yeah it depended a lot on the quality of th disks. Good brands performed excellent. Cheap brands did not.
Perhaps the samething is possible with HD's but this would have to be done by taking the platters out of an old low capacity drive and put them under higher capacity heads. Then if the old platters are good enough the new heads can write more data then the old heads could.
Possibly you don't need to go so far if you can somehow convince the drive to operate at the edge of its capacity instead of the "safe guarenteed" way it comes from the factory.
Overclocking is possible with most components since hardware makers use safe limits to avoid problems. of course with HD's so cheap and basically limitless who cares. A CPU overclocked to 4ghz gives you hardware that can't be bought. a 200gb disk doubled to 400gb just safes you a 3.5 inch slot at the price of higher failure.
But yeah more then doubling the HD capacity sounds fishy and there are plenty of letters to the inquirer article explaining how and why it ain't true.
You are a CTO. You advised to buy the software assurance plan at first.
Now you have two choices. Recommended renewal and possible have to explain if your ceo is even aware that no the old subscription was perhaps not full value. (can easily be argued that instead you paid for the patches, god knows there been enougn for them. Also easy to show figures it is actually cheaper, MS salesrep can give you those).
OR you tell that you were wrong before and are responsible for wasting shitloads of money in a down economy for absolutly no return whatsoever.
Mmmm. Though choice ain't it? MS doesn't have to sell anything. All the people who bought it will sell it for them or be fired.
Small problem. There is a huge difference between publishing a roadmap/timeline and keeping it. Software is sadly a hugely complex product. Worse it is horribly interconnected meaning that it takes forever to properly test and you can bet the moment it is out someone comes accross a situation you never though off.
But this is well known. So nobody in their right mind counts on a software product being released on time or in a promised form. Like the real world you only trust what is actually right there in front of you.
Would you buy a car that during the testdrive fails the brake test but they promise they fix it in yours? Of course not. So why do you buy software that you tested as broken but they will fix it in a patch they are going to make?
This is even worse. This is like buying a car on the promise that if they come out with a better model in 3 years they will give you that one.
No the people who signed up for this are MS junkies of the worst kind. They will signup again cause it is easier then thinking. Worse if they don't signup again they will have to admit they weren't thinking the first time. Signup again and all they gotta do is gloss over the fact that nothing was received in return. That is easy.
Underling: "Oh yeah we got a lot of complaints about our decision to do X"
CEO: "Are they leaving? Refusing to pay? Looking at alternatives?"
Underling: "No"
CEO: "Then stop wasting my time".
Voting with your wallet. You are voting in favor. I can't really see any differently. Sending emails to them is like saying you hate bush but still vote for him. Your opinion don't count. Granted neither does mine as I am not a customer at all :)
Windows nothing else. Granted I never had a virus or worm on MY windows machine but spent plenty of time fixing other peoples machines.
Personally I have a hard time believing in statistics. I go from personal experience. Your personal experience will be different.
Remind me I should try Eterm again. Apparently it got extra support for screen.
After all linux comes with plenty of scripting languages to send email. Trick is getting the idiot/user to execute the code. And that isn't fixed by linux. People can be idiots anywhere.