I know some Toyotas, some Audis, etc have bluetooth.
And frivolous? Yeah, I guess if the idea of having your cellphone patch into your car's audio system sounds frivolous to you. I guess if the idea of not having people fumbling with phones as they drive down the parkway sounds frivolous to you. To me, it sounds like a pretty good idea.
Give SUSE time... they usually wait a month or so until the newest version is available for FTP install. It's been like that for a while... Exactly how long, I don't know, because I'm not so cheap that I won't go out and pay for a very well put together distro.
Verizon actually let me out of my contract with no termination fee because I complained so much. I had been told last spring that bluetooth phones were "just on the horizon".
Cut to this November, still no phones. And the T61c isn't available in my market. And they officially don't support the 270c anymore (I went down both roads with their customer support). So I'm about to cut the cord and go with AT&T.
I'm sure I'm going to see a lot of "I've never seen anyone using bluetooth, so who cares" type comments, but this misses the larger point.
Bluetooth *is* spreading. You can buy cars now that are bluetooth enabled. And trust me, it'd be nice to have your calls come over your speakers and have your voice picked up by a mic in a car. This is the kind of stuff that makes people *want* this technology.
Most PDAs come with bluetooth. The idea of being able to pick up a palm, hit a button and check my email while my phone is sitting in my bag or coat is pretty cool. No more cables to fumble with or IR ports to line up. This is the kind of stuff that makes geeks want this technology.
And that's what's cool about bluetooth, IMO. It has geek appeal, and regular people can see the value in it too.
This product you point out is a version of SuSE that includes Codeweavers Crossover Office and a few other commercial goodies. It is *NOT* the regular SuSE that you can download and install.
If he's only shooting for 15,000 feet, why not just build a modern day ME163 rocket fighter? I seem to recall that it could fly at around 30,000 feet, and there was an improved B version that had enough fuel for 15 minutes of flying time.
If they just fixed the whole nasty "randomly exploding" problem it was prone to, it could be fun.
I don't know much about the lil rocket, but didn't the Russians also build a version? Anyone know anything about that?
Dude, I dunno. I downloaded mozilla, and applets work.
And unlike IE, it's smart enough to only download binary encoded stuff for plugins (ie, your applet, your PDF) once, unlike IE which will download it 2 or 3 times. Great if you're on a dialup.
I got flamed for saying this the other day, but you're right, the apps on the Zaurus simply blow.
Even the improved versions with the latest ROM (tkc, Sharp) aren't that great, altho the latest Sharp rom fixes a lot of the data sync problems. If you can get it to sync, that is.
I'm going to disagree with the last point. If you want small and linuxy, you can pick up a used thinkpad X20 for around 300 or so on ebay (last I checked at least). It's way more functional for less money. If you want a PDA, get a Palm.
Until PHP has some sort of pooling built in (does it? Last I used was PHP4), it's not going to be as robust or scalable as Java for enterprise server applications. Period.
Yes it could have been installshield, but mostly no, it wasn't.
You can extend installshield out with your own code, which I'd imagine they'd want to do to poke around the system config (burners, mp3 players, etc) and to install their DRM stuff. In fact, the fact that they said it was related to his older cd burner points directly to some sort of sniffing.
American help was very valuable, but the Battle *of* Britain was fought with Spitfires and Hurricanes, which at that point were produced entirely in the UK.
As an American, and someone with a good knowledge of history, let's take a look at two of your statements...
First of all, I can think of 1 major regional dispute that the UK was called in to settle in the last 2 years. Sierra Leone had the potential to be another Somalia, but it wasn't.
Second, if it wasn't for US, most of Europe would be communist, sure. But there were quite a few neutral countries (Sweden, Switzerland) that didn't participate in the war, at least officially. And some that weren't in any real danger of being conquered by Germany/Italy (UK).
Interesting point about France... isn't France a Christian nation in the same way that the United States is a Christian nation? Wonder why they're not as hated... maybe because they're semi-rational about the whole religion thing?
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I know some Toyotas, some Audis, etc have bluetooth.
And frivolous? Yeah, I guess if the idea of having your cellphone patch into your car's audio system sounds frivolous to you. I guess if the idea of not having people fumbling with phones as they drive down the parkway sounds frivolous to you. To me, it sounds like a pretty good idea.
Bluetooth, ya see, isn't going anywhere. How do I know this? Because when a "standard" is optional on a lot of new cars, it's entrenched.
I'd love to see them shove 802.11 into a car. But then again, that's not what it was designed for. It is a great application for bluetooth.
Give SUSE time... they usually wait a month or so until the newest version is available for FTP install. It's been like that for a while... Exactly how long, I don't know, because I'm not so cheap that I won't go out and pay for a very well put together distro.
Yeah....
Dunno about you, but I don't recall previous releases destroying CD-ROM drives firmware.
I'm pretty sure I didn't hear of SUSE or RedHat doing this.
Mandrake is, and always has been, buggy at best. It's good if you want an adventure.
kylix was using winelib
linux users don't like using apps which were half-ported using a windows emulator (see wordperfect, winamp3)
Bzzt! Wrong answer. Kylix used winelib. The applications themselves didn't. I've used kylix, and it was really barely noticable.
There were other issues however. It's a shame. JBuilder really didn't become usable until versions 4 and 5. Kylix should get the same chance.
Verizon actually let me out of my contract with no termination fee because I complained so much. I had been told last spring that bluetooth phones were "just on the horizon".
Cut to this November, still no phones. And the T61c isn't available in my market. And they officially don't support the 270c anymore (I went down both roads with their customer support). So I'm about to cut the cord and go with AT&T.
I hope they can hear me now.
AT&T's mlife service has bluetooth enabled phones that start at $50. Cingular has them as well.
I think Verizon is the *only* carrier who doesn't carry at least one BT phone here in the states.
I'm sure I'm going to see a lot of "I've never seen anyone using bluetooth, so who cares" type comments, but this misses the larger point.
Bluetooth *is* spreading. You can buy cars now that are bluetooth enabled. And trust me, it'd be nice to have your calls come over your speakers and have your voice picked up by a mic in a car. This is the kind of stuff that makes people *want* this technology.
Most PDAs come with bluetooth. The idea of being able to pick up a palm, hit a button and check my email while my phone is sitting in my bag or coat is pretty cool. No more cables to fumble with or IR ports to line up. This is the kind of stuff that makes geeks want this technology.
And that's what's cool about bluetooth, IMO. It has geek appeal, and regular people can see the value in it too.
What's your point zippy?
You attempted to point out that SUSE had some sort of licensing fee. I pointed out that the majority of that fee is for the commercial components.
End of story.
I was in no way mentioning RH Fedora. Just pointing out your misconceptions.
This product you point out is a version of SuSE that includes Codeweavers Crossover Office and a few other commercial goodies. It is *NOT* the regular SuSE that you can download and install.
Grow a clue.
If he's only shooting for 15,000 feet, why not just build a modern day ME163 rocket fighter? I seem to recall that it could fly at around 30,000 feet, and there was an improved B version that had enough fuel for 15 minutes of flying time.
If they just fixed the whole nasty "randomly exploding" problem it was prone to, it could be fun.
I don't know much about the lil rocket, but didn't the Russians also build a version? Anyone know anything about that?
Dude, I dunno. I downloaded mozilla, and applets work.
And unlike IE, it's smart enough to only download binary encoded stuff for plugins (ie, your applet, your PDF) once, unlike IE which will download it 2 or 3 times. Great if you're on a dialup.
I got flamed for saying this the other day, but you're right, the apps on the Zaurus simply blow.
Even the improved versions with the latest ROM (tkc, Sharp) aren't that great, altho the latest Sharp rom fixes a lot of the data sync problems. If you can get it to sync, that is.
I'm going to disagree with the last point. If you want small and linuxy, you can pick up a used thinkpad X20 for around 300 or so on ebay (last I checked at least). It's way more functional for less money. If you want a PDA, get a Palm.
What about my Newton Connection Kit for windows?
Altho, that was an awful piece of software. Not that different from Quicktime actually.
Dunno, maybe I want an mp3 player I can jog with, and I can't do that with a zaurus. I may as well tie a brick to my self and try to run.
Or maybe I want something with decent PIM applications, if I'm buying a PIM, and that's definetly not a Zaurus.
Depends on what you're doing...
If you're running a personal website or hobby site, or something like that, you can get a license waiver.
If you're running it in a business, they expect a license fee. Fair enough, really.
Bingo....
Until PHP has some sort of pooling built in (does it? Last I used was PHP4), it's not going to be as robust or scalable as Java for enterprise server applications. Period.
Tomcat is a reference implementation of a servlet engine....
If you want performance, use something like Resin (free). It will blow the socks off Tomcat.
People who complain that their java server app is too slow and then go on to mention that it's running on tomcat have no clue what they're doing.
You seem to have forgotten
Apple: Puts out semi-cool web browser based on code written by those non-innovatin linux folks. (Cough, KTHML)
Again, they received virtually no supplies that contributed to the battle.
Yes it could have been installshield, but mostly no, it wasn't.
You can extend installshield out with your own code, which I'd imagine they'd want to do to poke around the system config (burners, mp3 players, etc) and to install their DRM stuff. In fact, the fact that they said it was related to his older cd burner points directly to some sort of sniffing.
Gnutella is great, except it sucks. Seriously, it's hard to find a lot of stuff, stuff seems to only come thru partially, or never at all, etc.
Sad as it is, most of the good stuff is on kazaa.
No. And at least name the battle correctly, k?
American help was very valuable, but the Battle *of* Britain was fought with Spitfires and Hurricanes, which at that point were produced entirely in the UK.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
As an American, and someone with a good knowledge of history, let's take a look at two of your statements...
First of all, I can think of 1 major regional dispute that the UK was called in to settle in the last 2 years. Sierra Leone had the potential to be another Somalia, but it wasn't.
Second, if it wasn't for US, most of Europe would be communist, sure. But there were quite a few neutral countries (Sweden, Switzerland) that didn't participate in the war, at least officially. And some that weren't in any real danger of being conquered by Germany/Italy (UK).
Interesting point about France... isn't France a Christian nation in the same way that the United States is a Christian nation? Wonder why they're not as hated... maybe because they're semi-rational about the whole religion thing?
Sorry, couldn't resist.