Seriously though, I think that we should not forget what it is that they are selling, they don't sell a basic all purpose linux for your 500$ server anymore... they decided to go for big-iron and that's what they do, so if you don't have big iron you should probably think about:
1. Running Fedora and supporting via community
2. Purchase an alternative like SuSE
If you really are running Big Iron and want linux you will take option 2 - it's what IBM support on their mainframes.
Yes, I mean it's so inconvenient to have to keep to agreements that were made before. Why shouldn't a company be allowed to ignore anything that stops them doing what they want to?
Read sci.physics and sci.physics.relativity, but take care your brain doesn't explode. Those newsgroups (and the fusion ones) are great for kook-watching. I should add that there are some people who really do know their stuff and will try to explain the errors of the loonies. Some even manage to stay calm (afaics) while doing it.
The next thing (I fear) is pop-up ads for TV - you're watcing Homer walk into Moe's Bar and a window pops-up in the program advertising Bud (or whatever).
Or they could try overlay ads - you have a translucent ad superimposed on the real program - anybody fancy seeing a ghostly car salesman on top of SG1 fighting their way back to the Stargate?
If the ad and the program are intermixed you have to watch one to see the other. It could be done at the station so that syndication would still work the same.
There may be too may lawyers, but there are way too many admen.
if they can survive 3 weeks in Jersey they can take anything else the Universe can dish out.
What's wrong with the
channel islands other than you have to be stinking rich (or born there) to live there? It'd be nice not to pay much in the way of taxes.
<\deadpan>
I don't hate or even dislike either technology.
All I am saying is that there exists no technology to make either type of screen blacker when it is on than when it is off. A switched off monitor is as black as it can get.
Now an LCD may have more problems producing a grey near to black than a crt, so the range of tonal values produced is not be even. This could be true for crt also (unklikely but there some bad crts) but worse for LCD at this part of the tonal range. This doesn't affeect my point that black, ie rgb 0:0:0 for any monitor is the colour it is when it's switched off. And a lot of monitors are dark grey when off, which due to the way the human eye/brain combination works is seen as black. This is one of the reasons why CRT are (according to your link) not recommended for brightly lit conditions - the black appears as the grey shade it really is amongst other factors. Etc.
there's absolutely no contesting that CRT technology provides the best picture.
In a brightly lit enironment at it's native resolution using a dvi connection with an appropriate image there's absolutely no contesting that LCD technology provides the best picture.
In other situations a CRT may be the best choice, it's better not to be too dogmatic.
I'm suprised no one's mentioned on of the big drawbacks of LCD - Contrast Ratio. You just won't get the true deep, rich black levels that you would on a CRT.
You can't get any blacker than when it's switched off, for either sort. Look at a powered off monitor and that's as black as it gets.
Your brain sees the monitor as blacker than it really is in relation to other parts of the picture - you don't perceive the LCD as being as black as the CRT because it isn't as bright.
Try having a CRT on in a darkened room - you don't really need a lamp, a LCD won't do as good a job.
In summary: CRTs aren't blacker than LCDs, they're brighter.
I'm a much better ReXX pregrammer than a Perl one. I suppose 10-15 years serious ReXX hacking v 2-3 years part time Perl is why. Perl is very flexible, but then most IBM systems programming is done in ReXX so it's very powerful too.
If you want an easier start than ObjectReXX Regina ReXX runs on Windows and Linux, and isn't a bad implementation, I just took a while to get round wanting to use EXECIO everywhere - the main problem with ReXX portability is the different ways I/O is done on different platforms.
Now if I can find a way to re-impement the CMS FILELIST utility on a PC, probably with Regina and T.H.E. i'll be happier.
Tidal forces from the sun and moon (mainly).
These cause braking, like the oceans.
I wouldn't be too surprised if there was a (smallish?) frictional component caused by the Earth's precession - it is moving away from part of the atmosphere and pushing some of it ahead.
These would probably be relatively small but continuous, so I would expect some retardation on the upper atmosphere.
It just struck me that maybe you could do both at the same time - imagine GWB and Kerry (add Badnarik etc if you want) on Jerry Springer.
We could expose the lies etc and boy would it be entertaining.
Not to criticize uberjoe but SuSE can't win here - and neither can anyone else. Some people (like uberjoe) think SuSE is too easy to use and on the other hand there are always people hammering on about "when will linux be ready for the desktop?".
What's a distro to do?
I use SuSE on my workstation, as I want an OS that *works* - and I like KDE. I'm starting to set up a server box for the fun/learning factor and I'll probably go for gentoo. I might even try debian or BSD, even if it is dying...
BTW In older versions of SuSE I had to get my wheelmouse working myself too - give slackware a few years:-)
Now, if the US were at war with N.Korea right now, it would be so politically incorrect to say that.
Technically the Korean War is not over, there was a cease-fire but the war didn't officially end.
I can't remember if the US was actually at war or 'just' part of a UN force - not that that would matter to the 37k+ US solders who died there - along with many more from other countries.
Why is it I take the SAME exact machine and place Fedora/Debian/Mandrake and it runs SLOWER out of the box then
(sic) using Windoze?
It may depend upon quite what you mean.
Are you comparing a linux install you've done yourself with a Windows installation that came pre-installed? A lot of the fiddling and adjustments for Windows is done by the OEM.
When I have to install Windows it ususally takes longer than a linux install on the same box - both elapsed and my attention required. Windows needs about ten reboots and a few CDs (os+drivers) for a basic install before any office or dev tools go on. With SuSE its ten minutes booting the DVD and configuring the install, then everything including three different types of kitchen sink is installed and working while I do something else.
Linux isn't perfect but I don't blame 'linux' for the newest hardware not always being supported - it's not a technical problem if manufacturers don't support linux but it is a royal pain. I would like to be able to use my Stylus Photo R300 in linux one day - it would be one less reason to have Windows.
I introduced my step-daughter's girl friend to Firefox when she was complaining about all the pop-ups in IE, but after about 5 minutes she switched back to IE. The only reason: In IE you can copy an image to the clip buffer and paste it into Photoshop or some other graphic program (she was grabbing pictures to make her Livejournal icons), but in Firefox (and Mozilla) you have to save the image and then open it in Photoshop as an extra step. Evidently managing all those little files was more effort to her than dismissing all the popups.
It may be a case of a company changing the API from LGPL to GPL to 'encourage' people to buy a commercial license. If the API/libraries were still LGPL we wouldn't be having this discussion.
They didn't like that when Shell wanted to sink the Brent Spar to make an artificial reef.
Eventually even Greenpeace admitted that sinking the thing would have been better for the environment than dismantling it. Of course they din't make anything like as much fuss saying they were wrong as they did opposing what was a carefully considered decision.
NB I don't think any company is inherently good, just if the costs are close etc it pays in PR to do the right thing, which for Shell in this case was screwed by GP.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I mean it's so inconvenient to have to keep to agreements that were made before.
Why shouldn't a company be allowed to ignore anything that stops them doing what they want to?
"obviously rumours" will probably go down in court about as well as a Chewbacca defense.
Read sci.physics and sci.physics.relativity, but take care your brain doesn't explode. Those newsgroups (and the fusion ones) are great for kook-watching. I should add that there are some people who really do know their stuff and will try to explain the errors of the loonies. Some even manage to stay calm (afaics) while doing it.
Or they could try overlay ads - you have a translucent ad superimposed on the real program - anybody fancy seeing a ghostly car salesman on top of SG1 fighting their way back to the Stargate?
If the ad and the program are intermixed you have to watch one to see the other. It could be done at the station so that syndication would still work the same.
There may be too may lawyers, but there are way too many admen.
<\deadpan>
That sounds familiar too - was Babbage then the first IT Project manager?
All I am saying is that there exists no technology to make either type of screen blacker when it is on than when it is off. A switched off monitor is as black as it can get.
Now an LCD may have more problems producing a grey near to black than a crt, so the range of tonal values produced is not be even. This could be true for crt also (unklikely but there some bad crts) but worse for LCD at this part of the tonal range. This doesn't affeect my point that black, ie rgb 0:0:0 for any monitor is the colour it is when it's switched off. And a lot of monitors are dark grey when off, which due to the way the human eye/brain combination works is seen as black. This is one of the reasons why CRT are (according to your link) not recommended for brightly lit conditions - the black appears as the grey shade it really is amongst other factors. Etc.
In a brightly lit enironment at it's native resolution using a dvi connection with an appropriate image there's absolutely no contesting that LCD technology provides the best picture.
In other situations a CRT may be the best choice, it's better not to be too dogmatic.
Your brain sees the monitor as blacker than it really is in relation to other parts of the picture - you don't perceive the LCD as being as black as the CRT because it isn't as bright. Try having a CRT on in a darkened room - you don't really need a lamp, a LCD won't do as good a job.
In summary: CRTs aren't blacker than LCDs, they're brighter.
ReXX was written by Mike Cowlishaw, at IBM Hursley Park, near Winchester, in the U.K. sometime in the '70s iirc.
I'm a much better ReXX pregrammer than a Perl one. I suppose 10-15 years serious ReXX hacking v 2-3 years part time Perl is why. Perl is very flexible, but then most IBM systems programming is done in ReXX so it's very powerful too.
If you want an easier start than ObjectReXX Regina ReXX runs on Windows and Linux, and isn't a bad implementation, I just took a while to get round wanting to use EXECIO everywhere - the main problem with ReXX portability is the different ways I/O is done on different platforms.
Now if I can find a way to re-impement the CMS FILELIST utility on a PC, probably with Regina and T.H.E. i'll be happier.
Rexx is good.
These cause braking, like the oceans.
I wouldn't be too surprised if there was a (smallish?) frictional component caused by the Earth's precession - it is moving away from part of the atmosphere and pushing some of it ahead.
These would probably be relatively small but continuous, so I would expect some retardation on the upper atmosphere.
The solar wind may even have a slight effect.
You could tell the pickpockets - they had hernias and bad backs. I'm suprised Terry Pratchett hasn't used this yet.
It's a funny old world.
We could expose the lies etc and boy would it be entertaining.
Shame it won't happen but I can dream.
Some people (like uberjoe) think SuSE is too easy to use and on the other hand there are always people hammering on about "when will linux be ready for the desktop?".
What's a distro to do?
I use SuSE on my workstation, as I want an OS that *works* - and I like KDE.
I'm starting to set up a server box for the fun/learning factor and I'll probably go for gentoo.
I might even try debian or BSD, even if it is dying...
BTW In older versions of SuSE I had to get my wheelmouse working myself too - give slackware a few years :-)
I can't remember if the US was actually at war or 'just' part of a UN force - not that that would matter to the 37k+ US solders who died there - along with many more from other countries.
Hmm, maybe we should call him "David Brent" from now on?
Because Apple say so?
Are you comparing a linux install you've done yourself with a Windows installation that came pre-installed? A lot of the fiddling and adjustments for Windows is done by the OEM.
When I have to install Windows it ususally takes longer than a linux install on the same box - both elapsed and my attention required. Windows needs about ten reboots and a few CDs (os+drivers) for a basic install before any office or dev tools go on. With SuSE its ten minutes booting the DVD and configuring the install, then everything including three different types of kitchen sink is installed and working while I do something else.
Linux isn't perfect but I don't blame 'linux' for the newest hardware not always being supported - it's not a technical problem if manufacturers don't support linux but it is a royal pain. I would like to be able to use my Stylus Photo R300 in linux one day - it would be one less reason to have Windows.
If the API/libraries were still LGPL we wouldn't be having this discussion.
How much are you paying the devs to do what you want?.
You could always start hacking the source to provide this feature and submit it yourself...
Eventually even Greenpeace admitted that sinking the thing would have been better for the environment than dismantling it. Of course they din't make anything like as much fuss saying they were wrong as they did opposing what was a carefully considered decision.
NB I don't think any company is inherently good, just if the costs are close etc it pays in PR to do the right thing, which for Shell in this case was screwed by GP.